Jesus Famous Youth Teachings Podcast: Recent Episodes
Calvary Monterey
Scripture: John 14:7
Title: [Jesus] Loves me this I know: For the Bible tells me so
Speaker: Austin Kava
Scripture: John 14:7
Title: [Jesus] Loves me this I know: For the Bible tells me so
Speaker: Matt Kehler
Scripture: Acts 19
Title: Ephesus: Conflict and Triumph of the Gospel
Speaker: Nate Holdridge
Scripture: Acts 18
Title: Priscilla and Aquila: Partners in Ministry
Speaker: Nate Holdridge
Scripture: Acts 14
Title: Perseverance and Power: Signs of the Apostles
Speaker: Matt Kehler
Scripture: Acts 13
Title: Paul's First Missionary Journey: Proclaiming to the Nations
Speaker: Nate Holdridge
Scripture: Colossians 4:2-18
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Ch 4. The Truth about Spirituality and Service
Main Idea: Knowing the truth about spirituality and service calls us to live lives of prayer, wisdom, and faithfulness.
**“The most important question is not how much work is being done but how much Jesus is doing through you. Look up; God’s ceiling is unlimited. Learn to look on Jesus, and more and more you will find that Jesus is directing your wandering look toward the Holy Spirit.”
Corrie Ten Boom
In a Nutshell**
In chapter 4, Paul tells the Colossian believers: Fellow believers in Colosse, be diligent and alert in your prayers.
Please pray that God will give me opportunities to share clearly the message of Christ even while I’m in this prison.
In your own dealings with unbelievers, may you be wise with your lives and winsome with your words.
All of the men and women who assist me and who are such a comfort to me send you their greetings. I am sending a letter to the Laodicean believers, and I want the two churches to exchange and read one another’s letter. May God’s grace sustain you all.
Scripture: Colossians 3:18-4:1
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Main Idea: Knowing the truth about Christian living invites us to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary way.
Supporting Idea: Genuine spiritual living is bringing relationships into compliance with the example of Christ.
Principles:
• Jesus Christ has the position of highest honor and authority.
• All believers are identified with Christ and given new life.
• A heavenly perspective impacts our earthly activities.
• Jesus Christ indwells all believers.
• Christ is our model of love and obedience in our relationships with others.
• The categories of “spiritual” and “nonspiritual” are false. All of life is spiritual.
• Spirituality is obedience in the ordinary.
Title: The Transformation of Christian Living
Scripture: Colossians 3:5-17
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Supporting Idea: Genuine spiritual living is behaving in accordance with the character of Christ The life transformation process is to include any and all areas and activities of life. In all places, in all ways, the believer is to honor the name of the Lord Jesus. Genuine spirituality is not found by following false teaching which leads away from Christ. Genuine spirituality is found in having our lives transformed into the character of Christ.
Title: The Foundation of Christian Living
Scripture: Colossians 3:1-4
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Supporting Idea: Genuine spiritual living is built on the believer’s association with the risen Christ. Genuine spiritual experience begins with understanding our identification with Christ.
Title: The Truth about Christ and Christians
Scripture: Colossians 2:1-23
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Breakdown:
Col 2:1-10 Our Absolute Fullness in Christ
Supporting Idea: Jesus is fully God, and we are given fullness in him.
Col 2:11-15 Our Total Forgiveness in Christ
Supporting Idea: Jesus is our crucified conqueror, and we are forgiven by him.
Col 2:16-23 Our Complete Freedom in Christ (vv. 16–23)
Supporting Idea: Jesus is our life source, and we are free through him.
Title: The Truth about Ministry
Scripture: Colossians 1:24-29
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Main Idea: Ministry is the hard work of bringing all believers to maturity in Christ.
Title: The Truth About Jesus
Scripture: Colossians 1:15-23
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Main Idea: Jesus is the visible manifestation of God and our eternal Creator and Reconciler, who has supremacy in the universe and the church.
Title: The Truth about the Gospel and Christ
Scripture: Colossians 1:1-14
Speaker: Joshua Shively
“It is not until a man finds his faith opposed and attacked that he really begins to think out the implications of that faith. It is not until the Church is confronted with some dangerous heresy that she begins to realize the riches and the wonder of orthodoxy.”
William Barclay
Main Idea: Knowing the truth about the power of the gospel and the person of Christ is the believer’s best protection against deception.
Title: The Rich and the Kingdom of God
Scripture: Mark 10:17-31
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Mark's lesson cuts deep, no veneer,
Rich youth's choice mirrored in fear.
Christ demands all, holds nothing back,
A raw ultimatum, no middle track.
"Renounce it all," the Savior's plea,
Embrace the cross, let your old self flee.
The ruler clung tight, his heart grew cold,
His choice was made, his fate was told.
Now the question remains, stark and wide,
In this story's grip, where do you reside?
Will you cling to comfort, the riches that bind,
Or rawly surrender, your true self find?
No more evasion, no space to hide,
The moment is now, the cross to ride.
What do you decide, in this rawest of calls?
Choose Christ or the world, as your heart's walls fall.
Title: A Call To Faith
Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-2
Speaker: Joshua Shively
This verse is often interpreted as a call to faith, endurance, and perseverance in the Christian journey of faith. The "cloud of witnesses" refers to the faithful individuals mentioned in the previous chapter (Hebrews 11), often called the "Hall of Faith," who endured trials and challenges by trusting in God.
The verse encourages believers to let go of anything that hinders their spiritual growth and to resist the entangling power of sin. It uses the metaphor of a race to convey the idea of diligently pursuing one's faith, not giving up when facing difficulties, and staying focused on the goal of spiritual maturity.
In summary, Hebrews 12:1-2 encourages believers to persevere in their faith, remove obstacles that hinder their spiritual progress, and keep their gaze fixed on Jesus as the ultimate example of endurance and faithfulness, even in the face of challenges and suffering.
Title: Can You Handle This Kind Of Love?
Scripture: John 15:12-17
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Title: Be Content And Stop Complaining
Scripture: Philippians 4
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview:
“Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: yesterday’s regret and tomorrow’s worries.”
Warren Wiersbe
In chapter 4, Paul charges the Philippian Christians: Do not worry about the future, but pray about your concerns.
Only think about good things, and God will give you peace.
Even though I have learned to be content with little, I am grateful for your gift to me, and I am happy that God will bless you for it. God will take care of you.
Title: No Power In Our Flesh
Scripture: Philippians 3
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview:
In chapter 3, Paul encourages the Philippian Christians: Have no confidence in gaining merit in God’s eyes through things that you do. Righteousness is found only by faith in Christ. I forsake all things just to know him and press toward the goal of spiritual maturity. Follow me, not the people who have set their minds on earthly things.
Setting the mind on the flesh and what we have earned or accomplished, only steals the Joy that comes with resting in what Jesus has done and accomplished for us.
“Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
C. S. Lewis
Title: Imitating Christ’s Humility
Scripture: Philippians 2
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview:
In chapter 2, Paul admonishes the Philippian Christians: Live unselfishly, as Jesus did, who gave up trying to advance himself. Instead, he lived to help others.
When he humbled himself, God highly exalted him, and he will do the same with you.
This truly is a kingdom in reverse and there is no room for Pride: Put slide up
“Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched.”
C. S. Lewis
Title: Having A God level Perspective
Scripture: Philippians 1
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview:
In chapter 1, Paul tells the Philippian believers: Greetings, Philippians. Timothy and I thank you for your fellowship and pray that you may be filled with the fruits of righteousness. Don’t be concerned about me. My imprisonment has actually helped further the gospel here, and I know that my afflictions will exalt the Lord. Even though you, too, suffer, I want to encourage you, in your conduct, to be worthy of the gospel of the Lord.
Getting God’s big picture, vantage point, on your problems and adversities can help give you a sense of joy and peace. Philippians 1 will challenge you to rejoice in the midst of adversity by seeing God’s perspective. Then like Paul you can rejoice in troubling circumstances.
Title: It takes great courage to be a witness for Jesus in dark places
Scripture: Revelation 2:18-29
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview:
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.” -Mark Twain
Main Points:
(About God: He cares deeply about us and how we give yourself away.)
What are some ways you sell yourself short?
(About God: He allows real and practical consequences for the choices we make.)
Why is it so important to understand and take seriously the choices we
(About God: He knows you and how much you can handle in this life.)
How do you and I trust God to give us what we can handle in our daily lives?
(About Man: As victorious christians, God will give us the ability to overcome this present age.)
What are some ways we overcome our present age?
Title: To the Church in Laodicea, called to be so much more!
Scripture: Revelation 3:14-22
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview: Within Jesus Character and all that He is, is an agreement (amen) with all that is faithful and true. His very existence that has always been and will always be proves His faithfulness and foundation in what is true.
God's creation testifies and bears evidence in His absolute faithfulness and truth to who He is and what He has said.
Jesus’ example to us is one of agreement to the faithful and true things of life, and not compromise and be lukewarm.
The call was to the church in Laodicea and to us today
Title: Never Forget, Never Surrender
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview: Make sure the trail you are on leads to Jesus, His death, and resurrection. This path leads to life. All other paths lead to death.
Title: Hold Fast Jesus Has A Plan
Scripture: Revelation 3:7-13
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview: Even in a dark place spiritually and a secular culture, You can start to see the open doors Jesus has for you to be light. In the same way Jesus calls the church in Philadelphia to walk through these open doors, He is calling us to see and walk through in faith the open doors in front of us.
Title: Don't Be A Zombie Christian
Scripture: Revelation 3:1-6
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview: The saying, "your reputation precedes you" works on our society and those we encounter on any given day. But Jesus, sees past our reputations and gets to the heart of every matter. He sees what is living and evident in us, but He also sees the zombified areas that need to "wake up"!
Title: Don't Be Stupid! Compromise Will Kill Your Faith!
Scripture: Revelation 2:12-17
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview: Be encouraged and daily courageous as Jesus knows you and has you in every and all storms of life.
Title: Do Not Let Fear Consume You JFY
Scripture: Revelation 2:8-11
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview: Be encouraged and daily courageous as Jesus knows you and has you in every and all storms of life.
Title: Keep on Keeping on
Scripture: Revelation 2:1-7
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview: As we study through Revelation 1-3 and the Seven letters to the churches, do not forget Jesus is in our midst and His Spirit is always at work within His Church.
Title: A Jesus Famous Youth Calling to Praise, Repent, and Grow
Scripture: Revelation 1
Speaker: Joshua Shively
Overview: As we study through Revelation 1-3 and the Seven letters to the churches, do not forget Jesus is in our midst and His Spirit is always at work within His Church.