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Our reruns this week are about loving people like God love!
Until the launch of the Speak Lord podcast feed in September 2022 we are bringing back past episodes.
Our reruns this week are about the second coming!
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Our reruns this week are about spiritual war!
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Our reruns this week are about beauty!
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Our reruns this week are about vision!
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Our reruns this week are about endurance!
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Our reruns this week are about spiritual growth!
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Our reruns this week are about prayer!
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Our reruns this week are about freedom!
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Our reruns this week are about discipline!
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Our reruns this week are about getting spirituality wrong!
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Our reruns this week are about miracles!
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Our reruns this week are about hope with Samson and Moses!
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Our reruns this week are about influence!
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A BETTER FAITH DOES NOT DEPEND ON DOING BETTER AT FAITH. IT IS ABOUT PUTTING OUR FAITH IN SOMETHING BETTER. IT IS THE OBJECT OF OUR FAITH, NOT THE EFFORT, THAT MAKES IT GREAT. PUT YOUR FAITH IN A GOD OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND DIVINE AUTHORITY.
https://pastorryanrogers.com/galilee-faith/
Our reruns this week are about weariness!
Until the launch of the Speak Lord podcast feed in September 2022 we are bringing back past episodes.
A Nebo promise is not a broken promise but a promise that lives in brokenness.
Nebo is the experience of being torn. It is a tension between death and life, bitter endings and new beginnings, reward and punishment, success and failure, God’s faithfulness and our faithlessness, victory, and defeat, hope and disappointment. That is all there is this side of the Jordan.
If we insist on only receiving the sweet, we will be blindsided by the bitter. If we fixate on the bitter, we will no longer taste the sweet. The challenge is not to resist the Nebo Promise but to accept it, to learn to related to both the bitter and the sweet in faith.
https://pastorryanrogers.com/nebo-promise/
Rabbah honor is obsessed with how self looks, but not in the prideful way. It cares about how self looks in the eyes of God. We will always care about how we look in the eyes of other people. If you don’t, you might be a sociopath. But if you have Rabbah honor you care more about how God sees you than how other people see you. And God sees it all. Covering up our shameful secrets will not defend our honor, it will only bury it. This message takes us to a place called Rabbah and explores the kind of honor that pleases God! https://pastorryanrogers.com/rabbah-h...
Our reruns this week are about gospel basics!
Until the launch of the Speak Lord podcast feed in September 2022 we are bringing back past episodes.
Our reruns this week are about the heart of Speak Lord!
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Our reruns this week are about Gods leading with still waters and mountain tops!
Until the launch of the Speak Lord podcast feed in September 2022 we are bringing back past episodes.
The miracle is not the main point of the miracle. You are! Your heart turning to God is the main point.
Matthew 11:20 Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.
This is the final message in our study about the Sabbath. The Sabbath is not duty, it is delight! https://pastorryanrogers.com/sabbathworthkeeping/
This is part 4 of our study about the Sabbath. One way to practice the Sabbath is to serve others! https://pastorryanrogers.com/sabbathworthkeeping/
At all times there are at least three voices trying to get our attention.
When you hear the voice of Satan, reject it.
When you hear your own voice, be skeptical.
When you hear the voice of God, trust it.
As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating, and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking, and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Isaiah 29:8
Sabbath is the original holiday. On it we celebrate our God. He is worthy of worship continually, but one day a week there is a special occasion for worship. A Sabbath worth keeping is a call to worship. https://pastorryanrogers.com/sabbathworthkeeping/
When we don’t trust we have a hard time relaxing. A Sabbath worth keeping is an invitation to trust!
https://pastorryanrogers.com/sabbathworthkeeping/
Why is it that we get tired of doing the right thing? Galatians 6 points us to three reasons that are all to relatable.
We get it all messed up. We try to open what God has shut and shut what God has opened. There is one door for you to open. It is the door to your heart. Stop messing with God's doors! He has them under control. Pay attention to your door! He is waiting to come in.
Sabbath Practice #1: Rest Sabbath Worth Keeping is a 5-week journey that pursues a fresh view of the value of Sabbath. Take the journey! See where God takes you! https://pastorryanrogers.com/sabbathworthkeeping/
If God has opened a door of opportunity, nothing can shut it. We can only choose to not walk through it.
If God has closed a door opportunity, nothing can open it. We can only choose to slam our heads against it.
Our great pursue is not to tell God what to open and close but to learn from God what he has opened and closed and walk in that path.
What should we do when we look like we are ok, but we're not? Jesus has clear and helpful answers. He calls us to wake up and strengthen what remains.
What lies do you tolerate? Maybe they aren’t big bad things. But are there impure or untrue things that you allow to hang around and influence what messages go into your brain? God really cares about that.
As we grow in our intolerance of Satan’s lies, we are better able to hear what God has to say to us!
Have you ever felt like God is fighting against you?
God is for us! He is fighting against sin. He loves us enough to not stop fighting against sin when that sin is in our lives. Let’s be careful to not misinterpret God’s discipline as rejection.
Have you ever noticed that the Bible can say the scariest of things, and then tell us to not be afraid about it?
Well, there are good reasons why we don’t need to fear the scariest of things.
We don’t have to fear death when the one who is telling us to not be afraid has conquered the grave.
We don’t have to fear death when we have the promise that the second death will not hurt us.
We don’t have to fear death when we have the promise that on the other side we receive the crown of life.
Our light to the world dims as our love for God fades. Don't let Satan blow it out!
It is a danger to shine something other than love in the name of Christ. If the world sees that light and desires it they will be drawn to a loveless experience of God. It would be better to not shine.
The day Jesus comes back will change every day after it, for eternity. It has the potential to do more than this. It could change every day we live on this earth, starting now.
2 Peter 3:11-12 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God.
How will you let that day change the way you live this day?
This is Part 3 of the Neighboring Well sermon Series. There are more resources for this sermon at https://pastorryanrogers.com/who-is-my-neighbor/
The lawyer in Luke 10 asked Jesus a dangerous question, “Who is my neighbor?”. It is not a bad question, it’s just dangerous when it is asked with the intention of disassociating ourselves from the people God has called us to love. The question seeks minimal neighboring. The response calls us to maximal neighboring.
We have a problem of making things into rocks. We make employment into a rock of stability. We turn our entertainment into a rock of pleasure. We lean on people around us as our rocks of support. We imagine that our health, our intelligence, and our ability are rock solid. God reminds us that there is no other rock. God is not just a better foundation; God is the only true foundation. When we hold to these other things we hold to an illusion of security. Stop making things into rocks. God is our rock.
What are we called to do to our neighbor? Love them! How much? As ourselves! This is the second in our Neighboring Well study series. You can find the message in video, audio, and written form at https://pastorryanrogers.com/love-your-neighbor-as-yourself/
What do you need saved from?
Where are you looking for salvation?
Isaiah 43:11 I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.
What is the relationship between our view of justification and our practice of justice? It is worth exploring because it impacts Neighboring Well in a big way! This is the first message in a series called Neighboring Well. You can find the audio and written resources for this message at https://pastorryanrogers.com/2193-2/
There is no other God. So, there is nothing else worthy of worship.
When we give our best affection to anything else, that thing is stealing from God the praise that belongs to him alone. It is also stealing from us the gracious privilege of connecting with the only God in worship.
Worship is not limited to liturgical activity such as song and prayer. Worship is any response to God that treasures his sovereignty. We respond to his sovereignty with adoration, surrender, repentance, submission, reverence, joy, serving our neighbor, loving our family, anything that is in line with his value, and it is all worship.
Do you have to go grocery shopping today, clean your house, have a difficult conversation? Do those things in a way that values God and you will be worshipping him.
Deuteronomy 4:39 Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.
This is an incredible truth!
Many Biblical miracles and symbols have to do with water. It is not about the axe head floating or the waters of the Jordan having some healing power. It was just water. But the power of God made that water do something really special. What’s in the water? Jesus is! In this new year God will use all kinds of stuff to do great things. Let’s remember it is not about the stuff. It is about Jesus.
Jesus didn't need Peter to build shelters. He didn't need Peter to do anything for him. He wanted him to experience his presence.
When God brings us to a holy moment in his presence, we don't need to produce stuff for God. We need to experience him! It is good for us to be there!
That is revolutionary! A revolution is the overthrow one government in favor of another. It is a fundamental change in the way of thinking. The nativity is a scene of selflessness calculated to revolutionize the established system of selfishness. Every decorative nativity scene is an illustration of counter cultural, revolutionary love. The selfless king stepped into the kingdom of selfishness. All was calm. All was bright. While baby Jesus quietly and humbling attacked the governing system of our sinful world. A selfless revolution in a selfish world.
Join the revolution!
https://pastorryanrogers.com/revolutionary-love/
There are so many ways to use money. There are the basic large expenses like the house, the car and the food. Then there are those smaller nonessentials that add up like the $5 coffee, ATM fees, interest, the food that we let go bad, the thrift store treasures, the impulse by, or the mistake of taking the kids shopping. There are so many ways to use money!
What are the best ways to use it?
Jesus confused the woman at the well by asking her to give him a drink. Jesus added shock to the confusion by responding, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” (John 4:10)”
Oh, how different life can be when we know the gift of God!
Like a little child staring at the boxes under the Christmas tree, trying to imagine what might be inside, let you mind explore the limitless possibilities of the gifts God has for you. What is the gift of God? Read more...
The human experience is one of exile (Hebrews 11:13). This world is not our home. The book of Daniel tells a story of exile that serves as an insightful mini-narrative of the general human condition of exile. The problems and prayers from Babylon give insight into our exile experience. Read More...
Jesus did so much in his short life of 33 year. This past October I turned 34. For the first time I can say of my earthly life, “I am older than Jesus”. James 4:14 isn’t very comforting when it says, “What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” How do we make the most of the little time we have? Read more at Read More
When the host of angels appeared to the shepherds, the lyrics of their song described a sacred rhythm of eternity: glory to God, peace to men. Forever, God gets the glory. Forever, he gives us peace. When we choose not to live in this rhythm, it hurts. When we seek the glory for ourselves or give it to something other than God, it never ends in peace. The truest, deepest, and most wonderful peace is experienced when we give all the glory to God.
God's Word has power to shape our lives in the best possible ways. Don't just read, live it!
How do you prepare to be amazed? Start with the expectation that God does amazing things. Then let him consecrate you so that you can experience those amazing things.
The worst of situations can be hopeful when they are followed with the words “But God”.
Go ahead, think of the worst of you sinful nature, the thing you are most ashamed of, that thing you’ve worried is never going to change, and hold that before God. And then, hear the words, “But God”!
If there is anything that makes us feel alive that is not Christ, it is not really life!
Ephesians 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your trespasses and sins...
This sermon is part of a series on the Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs. Access the full series at https://pastorryanrogers.com/fundamentals-series/
This sermon is part of a series on the Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs. Access the full series at https://pastorryanrogers.com/fundamentals-series/
This sermon is part of a series on the Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs. Access the full series at https://pastorryanrogers.com/fundamentals-series/
This sermon is part of a series on the Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs. Access the full series at https://pastorryanrogers.com/fundamentals-series/
This sermon is part of a series on the Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs. Access the full series at https://pastorryanrogers.com/fundamentals-series/
This sermon is part of a series on the Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs. Access the full series at https://pastorryanrogers.com/fundamentals-series/
This sermon is part of a series on the Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs. Access the full series at https://pastorryanrogers.com/fundamentals-series/
How do we live well when we live in a spiritual war? By believing that Jesus is who he says he is!
How do we live well when we live in a spiritual war?
By being continually shaped by God's love into a passionate lover of God who trusts that God's way is the best way and chooses it every time!
We seek God in determination, with all our heart! But determination won't save us! We must also seek him in dependence!
God is looking for something that he often doesn't find, a heart that seeks him. May he find what he is looking for in us.
God does not motivate us with threats. He doesn't need to. His promises awaken our desire.
It matters what we love because it shapes who we are. It is formation by affection. So make the object of your love the perfect character of God.
It's a pretty simple formula. God acts, we respond. God pours out his love and we respond with praise.
When our eyes are opened to God's presence we realize that there are more with us than against us.
Jesus said, “Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you” (John 5:14). These words are not a coercive threat, they were a gracious invitation.
When God looks at you and says, "Well done my good and faithful servant!", in that moments we're not worried about life being fair anymore. We're not stressed about injustice. We're just grateful that we were faithful. Maybe the short view in your life right now is really frustrating and it makes you just want to give up. Take the long view!
So here's the problem with having 100 kids, at least one of the problems, ultimate success cannot be found in what we produce. We can't keep it. Even if you have a great legacy of children they grow up and they move out. They make their own decisions. If we have the highest achievements, they are temporary. The answer, then, to fix this problem would be to stop measuring success by what we can produce.
The horrible rank is the impulse to rank ourselves against everyone else. I’m smarter, she’s prettier, I am less educated, he’s less motivated, I’m above them, they are so far above me… We obsessively assess how we stack up with those around us. The horrible rank doesn’t do us any good. It traps us in a hot, slow, stinky existence. Our constant struggle with feelings of inferiority and superiority is exhausting. Imagine, what could life be like without the horrible rank? https://pastorryanrogers.com/1729-2/
If God has given you a position of leadership or an influential role, take it seriously!
Is there a particular example of something wrong in this world that is especially difficult for you right now? I invite you to dwell on that broken thing for just a moment and remember the truth that the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord. Everything that is currently under the leadership of a sinful human or a satanic power will one day either be destroyed because it has no place in God’s kingdom or it will be ruled by its rightful king.
Revelation 11:15-18
It turns out that the way we treat people actually influences the level of peace we enjoy with them. Reverse the river of your toxic relationships.
Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Did you know that nearsightedness will stunt your growth? Don’t think so? Check out 2 Peter 1:9. If we forget what God has done in us already we have less desire for him to do more. He has more and it’s good!
Hear more from 2 Peter 1 by listening to my message at Camp Meeting on July 23.
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Life is noisy! Turn it down!
Follow 10 Weeks of Summer at https://pastorryanrogers.com/1729-2/
Would it change your life if Jesus showed up at your house tonight and spoke to you? Do you feel that level of privilege when you read the words of the Bible? We have insider information that should change our lives!
It's week "free"(I mean "three")! The week we celebrate freedom in our nation. Let's experience true freedom in Jesus!
Join us in seeking restoration these 10 weeks of Summer @ RYAN ROGERS (pastorryanrogers.com)
When we are exhausted should we keep going or rest? Well, it depends. Sometimes we can't rest until we find the thing we are pursuing. And sometimes we can't pursue until we rest.
This is the message for week 2 of our 10 Weeks of Summer. Rest is not automatic. It is not as simple at taking time off. It requires an active intentional effort. It requires coming to Jesus, taking his yoke, and learning from him.
Join us in seeking restoration these 10 weeks of Summer @ RYAN ROGERS (pastorryanrogers.com)
If you could ask for anything and get it, what would you ask for? If you think it is something that would honor God, have you tried asking him for it?
Our hope is not about our faithfulness to God but about God's faithfulness to us. Maybe one reason why God allows us to hear bad news is to remind us that this failing world is not the foundation of our hope!
The Bible talks about money so much because it so often competes with the things that are more important. It’s not about the money. So, what it is about?
Instead of arguing with God, experience him!
Instead of arguing about God, tell your story!
Keep doing those routine things you know to be good! This positions you for extraordinary experiences!
Look for weekly episodes to come out every Sunday, beginning on April 18, 2021. Help us make this relaunch a success!
Listen and share!
Learn more at PastorRyanRogers.com/podcast
We are relaunching Speak Lord! Episode 95 was posted on October 2, 2020. Since then… nothing! It’s coming back because hearing God speak through the words of the Bible is worth it! Look for weekly episodes to come out every Sunday, beginning on April 18, 2021. Help us make this relaunch a success!
Listen and share!
Learn more at PastorRyanRogers.com/podcast
I Was Afraid of That Part 5
We don't need to be enough when we are surrendered to the God who is enough! Access the full series at https://pastorryanrogers.com/i-was-afraid-of-that/
I Was Afraid of That PART 3
Peace is not the absence of trouble but the presence of Jesus!
I Was Afraid of Religious Persecution – RYAN ROGERS (pastorryanrogers.com)
I Was Afraid of That PART 2
There is so much good in the future you're afraid of!
Go to https://pastorryanrogers.com/i-was-afraid-of-the-future-2/ to access the full video message and the sermon blog!
I Was Afraid of That PART 1
An appropriate fear of God conquers our fear of everything else!
Go to https://pastorryanrogers.com/fear-paradox/ to access the full video message and the sermon blog!
Praying for others is connecting with others!
God is calling us forward! We can only go there on our knees. Join us in this spiritual growth journey as we move forward on our knees, January 9-30.
God is calling us forward! We can only go there on our knees. Join us in this spiritual growth journey as we move forward on our knees, January 9-30.
God is calling us forward! We can only go there on our knees. Join us in this spiritual growth journey as we move forward on our knees, January 9-30.
God is calling us forward! We can only go there on our knees. Join us in this spiritual growth journey as we move forward on our knees, January 9-30.
God is calling us forward! We can only go there on our knees. Join us in this spiritual growth journey as we move forward on our knees, January 9-30.
God is calling us forward! We can only go there on our knees. Join us in this spiritual growth journey as we move forward on our knees, January 9-30.
God is calling us forward! We can only go there on our knees. Join us in this spiritual growth journey as we move forward on our knees, January 9-30.
Hindsight is 2020… or is it? Now that 2020 is hindsight, are we really able to make sense of it all? No, the year is over but the struggles are not resolved. We don’t know what 2021 will bring but we know that it will be hard too.
Join us for a look at Ephesians 5:15-21 where we find principles of wisdom, four ways that hindsight can be 2020. Apply these principles of wisdom to our experiences from the past year and carry some of that wisdom into the year to come.
https://pastorryanrogers.com/hindsight-is-2020-3/
There are some amazing gospel messages in Christmas Carols!
This is the second part of a message shared at the Palmer SDA Church on December 26, 2020.
There are some amazing gospel messages in Christmas Carols!
This is the first part of a message shared at the Palmer SDA Church on December 26, 2020.
Jesus is joy to the world! This message jumps into the backstory of the Christmas favorite, Joy to the World, to expose the risk of confusing the blessings of today with the promises of the future. We are called to live in present joy and hope in future joy.
Revolution! That is an exhilarating word.
The Christmas story is charged with the revolutionary spirit. “And the Word became flesh.” John 1:14
That is revolutionary! Remember a revolution is the overthrow one government in favor of another. It is a fundamental change in the way of thinking. The nativity is a scene of selflessness calculated to revolutionize the established system of selfishness. Every decorative nativity scene is an illustration of counter cultural, revolutionary love. The selfless king stepped into the kingdom of selfishness. All was calm. All was bright. While baby Jesus quietly and humbling attacked the governing system of our sinful world. A selfless revolution in a selfish world.
That is revolutionary love! Join the revolution!
After the rescue of the second coming there is still a mess of sin for God to resolve. But He won’t just end it. He will be just in the way He ends it. To bring a loving end to sin, God has planned to take some time, 1000 years, to display perfect love and justice before executing final judgement.
One day soon this battle will be over. Our struggle in this sin sick world will come to an end. And not because of any human accomplishment but because our Savior is coming back. It's love that brings Him back. He is coming to gather those who love Him and take them home!
Part 1:The Church was God’s idea! He established the Church! Why? Why not just take His people home? He has a love reason for the Church!
The church exists to be a community that experiences and expresses God’s love!
Part 2: God has called His Church to remain in His love. (John 15:9) But we struggle to do that! (Revelation 2:4) In fact, there is a war against love. (Revelation 12:17) The devil is doing all he can to pull God’s people out of a love relationship.
In love, God has warned us of the agenda to pull us out of love and He has warned of the judgment against it. And, in love, God has told us exactly how to remain in His love! (Revelation 14:12)
Part 1: Love desires a restored relationship. So love sent Christ!
Part 2: God offers salvation as a gift. Within this gift are two necessary miracles!
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Christ became sin!
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In Him, we might become the righteousness of God!
When humanity chose to step out of love, God started making promises! We see love in God's covenantal faithfulness! And the covenants themselves are promises that relational love will be fully restored.
The Old Covenant was a promise made. The New Covenant is a promise kept! What's new is the cross. It's the same love but a deeper experience! In the New Covenant God declares an emphatic "yes" to all His promises!
Sermon Blog https://pastorryanrogers.com/crisis/ The story of love sounds really good, until the story experiences a major crisis. Humanity chose sin. We have fallen out of love. And the atmosphere outside of love is death.
The purpose of miracles is to turn hearts to God. We experience the miraculous work of God every time we see hearts turned to Him and people believing in Him.