More than a play on words in that title, I assure you.
As you will hear in this PODCAST, when we refuse to refuse? Well, let’s just say that that never ends well. Ever.
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You know what? If you were going to listen to one and only one of my PODCASTS, this is the one I would want you to hear.
A rather bold statement. But one that is true.
Get ready to be massively encouraged, uplifted, and liberated.
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As you will hear in this PODCAST, Habakkuk’s psalm of praise fits our current circumstances as perfectly as they fit his. A more timely prayer could not be offered.
Want to know how to pray during a pandemic? Here’s a prayer-clinic, courtesy of Habakkuk, and of Paul who quoted him.
Enjoy!!!
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As you will hear in this PODCAST, it all comes down to one phrase, three simple, yet-when-taken-together profound words.
Get ready for you weekly dose of enriching encouragement. All courtesy of Peter, of course.
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As you are about to hear in this PODCAST…
It is today as it was then.
Sadly so.
Tragically so.
Abusively so.
BUT (I am thrilled to say) UNNECESSARILY so.
May this much-needed change begin right here, right now, with us.
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His name was Pontius Pilate. And as you will hear in this PODCAST, he was not a nice man.
This is the man to whom Jesus was handed over to be crucified.
This is the man who will live long in infamy.
This is the man who caved to political pressure in order to preserve his position of power, even if it meant crucifying an innocent man who though He was God, held no position.
This is the man who metaphorically drove the nails into Jesus’ hands and feet, and a stake through the heart of Peter. Peter, whose faith would fail spectacularly in the face of Jesus’ trumped-up charges.
There is a lot going on here, every salient detail of which will enhance your Easter season enormously.
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The Christmas story is without a doubt #QuiteAStory.
A familiar story. A profound story. An oft-repeated story.
So familiar is this story that I really do not need to comment on it.
Or do I?
As you will hear in this PODCAST, the principal parts of the story are well-known. The principal players in this biblical drama are names everyone has heard — Mary, Joseph, Jesus.
Yet, with all of that familiarity, there is one little tidbit of information — one word, really — that absolutely jumps off the page at me.
One word…
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His legacy is forever set in stone, indelibly etched in granite as Simon the Sorcerer.
As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, Simon the Sorcerer is the very first person we meet outside of the cozy confines of the Holy City, Jerusalem. #ThisIsHuge!
You talk about a guy who had the deck stacked against him, meet this Simon the Samaritan Sorcerer.
That gasp you just heard was the rush of disbelieving air exploding out of the collapsing lungs of Luke’s original readers.
Trust me: We should gasp too!
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As you are about to hear in this new PODCAST, a new day dawned upon these first committed Christ-followers.
If that metaphor of a new day seemingly overstates the case, then at least we can say that a dark cloud now-shadowed the sun for these first committed Christ-followers. Not quite on the level of our eclipse; but portentous just the same. An ominous bellwether that signaled for these early believers a change in the temperature of Holy City.
For the first eight-12 weeks following Crucifixion and Resurrection, these early believers were able to bask in the glow of their newfound faith unmolested.
Not any more.
Persecution was about to break out for first time in the now-2000 year history of Church. Relatively mild at first. No one died. No one was beaten. It was limited to Peter and John.
But as you will hear, it did involve intimidation, incarceration, and threats of greater reprisals if the apostles refused to cease and desist as far as their preaching in Jesus’ name was concerned.
Refuse they did.
This was a harbinger of things to come. A dark cloud heralding a storm. A storm that continues to rage unabated to our day. Not here in America so much. But certainly in many parts of our troubled world, where committed Christ-followers today attend gatherings at great risk of life-threatening peril to themselves and their families.
As is becoming increasing clear in our ongoing study of Peter in HD, we stand in awe at the strength and resilience of these very first believers—our ancestors in faith, to whom we owe so much, and who have SO MUCH to teach us. As they will do here in this week’s study.
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Such incredibly dramatic moment, on multiple levels. That is what you are about to hear in this PODCAST.
Finally, the time had come for Jesus to go home.
He had been away from home, more specifically, away from His beloved Father, for some thirty-three years.
Jesus, who from eternity past was according to John 1:1 face-to-face with His Father, enjoying from eternity past an unbroken, undiminished intimacy with His Father that eclipses every possible human relationship.
Thirty-three years prior to this moment, Jesus left His Father to embark upon a rescue mission of immeasurable importance and eternal consequence. A rescue mission defined by Jesus Himself as His coming “to seek and to save those who are lost” Luke 19:10.
That mission was now completed. Now, it was time. Time for Jesus to go home.
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