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Today’s guest is writer, editor, and host of the New Mercies Podcast, Raeanne Newquist. Raeanne, her husband, and three children joined Mercy Ships in 2019. Leaving everything behind in Southern California, they boarded the Africa Mercy in Las Palmas, and made their way to Dakar, Senegal, for their first field service. Hear her inspiring story on The Walk.
Mercy Ships is an international Christian charity bringing hope and healing in Africa. Their state-of-the-art hospital ships are the most efficient way to deliver free medical care to those in need. Mercy Ships are crewed by selfless volunteer medical professionals, providing surgical care and surgical education, community development projects, health education and mental health programs, and much more.
Visit mercyships.org for more info.
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“What would the Bible look like if God spoke through Moses, David, and Paul today?”
Today’s guest got his idea while browsing an airport bookstore. He realized that all the nonfiction books were formatted differently from his Bible and he started thinking about what would make the Scriptures easier for modern readers to understand. And so, the Readable Bible came came to life. Its unique format reveals concepts in Scripture that you may never have noticed before.
Find out more at readablebible.com.
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Father Joseph Brennan was an icon in the small North Dakota town of New London between 1953 and 1973. Brennan built a high school sports empire that won state championships and strengthened a sense of pride among the town’s thousand residents. But alongside the success story, another much darker tale was being written and ruthlessly suppressed. Sexual assault, theft, drug distribution, and blackmail ran rampant in Brennan’s secret life.
Today, we discuss the book ROMAN COLLAR CRIME: The Transgressions of a Small-Town Priest. The book is based on the controversial true story of one priest who held an entire community hostage for twenty years and the curious sportswriter who finally exposed two decades of heinous actions in small-town America.
Our guest is Charles Utter, an author on a mission to create a healthy, honest, and trustworthy faith environment for churches everywhere. Charles spent seven years teaching and coaching at the high school level before beginning a career in finance that would span nearly four decades. He shares his faith story with us today.
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“In an age of skepticism, what is truth?”
Dr. John Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, stands firm in the view that “properly understood, the evidence inexorably points to the existence of a creator God.” A film about his amazing life and career called Against the Tide is about to be released. Against the Tide is the story of one man’s stand against the tide of contemporary atheism and its drive to relegate belief in God to society’s catalogue of dead ideas. Find out more at againstthetide.movie.
Dr. Lennox is an internationally renowned speaker, and author of many books. He’s the go-to person on science and faith and has debated some of the world’s most prominent atheists, including Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Peter Singer. In today’s episode, Lennox shares how his faith walk was shaped and discusses his upcoming film.
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Today’s guest says that she fell into the movie business, a move that has resulted in the industry’s transformation. Starting as an international salesperson, speaking multiple languages, she introduced moral values into all genres of movies – from action movies to mysteries, love stories, animated films, and more. She has succeeded in cleaning up a large segment of the movie world by creating inspirational and exciting films that the whole family can watch together. Her life illustrates how God directs us in ways we could never imagine, bringing hope and joy to the silver screen. Chevonne O’Shaughnessy discusses her outstanding career with us on The Walk today.
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Have you ever felt the tide of your faith ebb away? Do you feel that God has abandoned you, or that he doesn’t hear you anymore? In this sermon Dr. John I. Snyder discusses the long history of heroes of faith who have felt the same in their faith walks. Discover how to speak to God in these times of low tide, and understand what he is doing behind the scenes.
Preached in Starnberg, Bavaria.
Photo by Giovanni Arechavaleta on Unsplash
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Dr. Nancy Meyer is an extraordinary writer, speaker, licensed chiropractic physician, and an iron man triathlete. Her best-selling book Defying Fear: Finding the Courage to Embrace Your True Value isn’t just a story—it’s a beacon of hope for those navigating through the shadows of doubt and adversity. Through the captivating tale of Lila, a composite character born from the resilience of real women, Meyer masterfully intertwines personal experiences, biblical truths, and profound insights to illuminate the path to unwavering self-worth.
This fictional story, inspired by a compilation of true events, will inspire people to defy fear in their own lives by embracing their true value through a focus on spiritual, emotional, and physical practices. Hear about Dr. Nancy Meyer’s faith walk in this episode of The Walk Podcast with John I. Snyder, and find out more on her website: drnancymeyer.com.
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At some point, you’ve probably heard that faith and science are enemies and that you have to choose between one and the other. But you rarely hear that the modern scientific movement was led by believers in God, Jesus Christ and the Bible. Dr. Greg Cootsona is dedicated to bringing science and faith together, where they belong, and allowing science to grow our faith. He is a lecturer in comparative religion and humanities at California State University, Chico, and co-directs Science for the Church, a project designed to bring science to Christian congregations as a resource for spiritual growth. Find out more at gregcootsona.com.
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“Sometimes life gets tough. It can look hopeless. That’s where you find Invincible Joy!”
-Oliver Asher
Today’s guest presents us with one of the most amazing, gripping life stories we have had on our show. His struggles gave him plenty of reasons to be hopeless about life, yet he has written a book about the miraculous power Jesus Christ gives to rise above the worst of circumstances. Oliver Asher tells us about his faith journey and his joy-fueled mission.
You can find his book, Invincible Joy: Chasing God’s Dreams For Your Life, on Amazon, or read more at oliverasher.com.
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Have you ever wondered how a book written 2000 years ago in a very different culture can still be completely relevant today?
Today’s guest is author, speaker, and podcast host Carol McLeod, the best-selling author of 16 books, and she inspires women to learn and love the Scriptures. Her latest book is called TIMELESS: The Living and Enduring Word of God. This 9-week Bible study is a personal and rich conversation filled with theology, practical application, and hope.
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Tim Mahoney is the award-winning director of six feature films and has spent almost 20 years exploring some of the Bible’s biggest questions and what they mean for us today. Tim is the creator of Thinking Man Films and the Bible Cinema Roadshow, bringing Biblical truth to communities via theaters all year long. His new project, and first film in the Bible Cinema Roadshow, is God of Heaven and Earth, in theaters November 5th and 6th. It dives into compelling evidence about the Star of Bethlehem, and the earthquake in Jerusalem so powerful that the Centurion nearby declared: “Surely, this was the Son of God.”
Find out more at thinkingmanfilms.com.
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Today’s guest has worked in the film business for over 20 years. He is the founder of Edify Media, specializing in promoting family, faith-friendly, and faith-based films.
He says: “Movies are the most powerful art form ever created by man. There’s nothing like it when you’re able to lose your very identity for 90 minutes and leave a movie theater inspired to change your life.”
Elliott Wallach is here to talk with us about his first theatrical release, God of Heaven and Earth, hitting theaters November 5th and 6th. The film explores compelling evidence about the Star of Bethlehem and what the Magi saw that caused them to travel more than 700 miles in search of Jesus.
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Today, we are taking a rare inside look at one of Jerusalem’s most beautiful yet controversial landmarks, the Dome of the Rock, also known as the Temple Mount.
National Geographic Magazine was granted unprecedented access to this site from the cave below to the Dome above. We are privileged to welcome as today’s guest the writer of National Geographic’s September cover story, who will discuss what has been a mystery for archeologists and historians for many centuries.
He has published numerous books and articles in scientific journals, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.
We are talking today with best-selling author Andrew Lawler.
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Are you a hopeful or experienced writer, trying to navigate your way through the maze of publishing? Today’s guests are author coaches with a combined 30-plus years of experience in publishing, and they’re here to give their best advice for Christian writers today.
Diana Flegal and Eddie Jones are here to share their journey and answer writers’ questions about the craft and the industry. Find out more at at writerscoach.us.
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Are you going through such a great struggle right now that you wonder why God is even allowing it to happen? Aaron Burke takes this question head-on, discussing his book, The Unfair Advantage: 7 Keys from the Life of Joseph for Transforming Any Obstacle into an Opportunity.
In The Unfair Advantage, pastor Aaron Burke takes a closer look at the seven unfair seasons Joseph endures in the book of Genesis and reveals how Joseph’s struggles are not unlike the battles readers face today.
The surprising reality revealed by the story of Joseph is that unfair moments and seasons of difficulty–if handled wisely–can actually be used by God for our advantage.
In The Unfair Advantage, readers who are walking through a season that seems unfair will be reminded of God’s ultimate gift of favor. While their situation may seem hopeless now, they can trust that God is forging something beautiful out of the brokenness, putting purpose to their pain, righting every wrong, and building a destiny better than their greatest dreams.
Order The Unfair Advantage here.
Aaron Burke is a pastor with a passion to love God, love people and build the Church. Since being called into ministry at sixteen years old, Aaron has traveled to more than forty countries sharing the hope that is found in Christ. In 2013, Aaron and his wife, Katie, started Radiant Church, which has multiple locations across Tampa Bay. Aaron loves to keep his life full and active with CrossFit, travel and plenty of family time with his wife, five kids, and Georgie (the best cavapoo on the planet).
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God knows who you are, the enemy knows who you are…but do you know who you are? This is what author and producer Kat Vazquez set out to discover, culminating in her incredible journal REIGN: Restoring Identity—a 40-day quest discovering who God made you to be.
Kat is an award winning journalist, author, TV host, producer, and speaker, whose work has turned into into a global outreach. With 100 million homes in America and 250 million worldwide, Kat Vazquez and her husband created Revolution TV, now a spearhead of Gospel communication around the world. Understanding our true identity as sons and daughters of God is a game changer, and today Kat shares with us how God transformed her dream for Gospel ministry into a reality that exceeded all expectations. Watch The Revolution TV and read her 40-day devotional, Reign: Restoring Identity.
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One of any parent’s greatest nightmares is their beloved child developing a serious problem of body or mind.…
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Andrea and Gabe Olson are parents, authors, entrepreneurs, and a homeschooling family of 5. Today, they’re sharing their…
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As Christians, God desires to align our heart’s desires with his will for us. Today’s guest is a classic example of this. Filmmaker David Helling brings to the big screen a film depicting the titanic spiritual struggle of Abram (Abraham) in Genesis. “His Only Son” tackles perhaps one of the most difficult of all biblical accounts—God’s command to sacrifice his son Isaac to test his obedience. A mystery and stumbling block to so many believers and skeptics alike, he draws a direct line from this troubling account to the cross of Jesus Christ, equally difficult for the human mind to grasp.
David is here with us to discuss the film now being released in over 1,800 theaters across America and internationally, as well as his own personal faith walk.
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Today’s guest had it all: Hollywood stardom, a prosperous life, everything many only dream about. But as a Christian, the day came for him to take a stand on a moral issue, and suddenly everything changed. Virtually overnight, his life was turned upside-down, and he lost everything and everyone. He found himself absolutely alone in the world except for the God he loved. He shares his amazing story with us today.
Actor Cameron Arnett is with us today to talk about how life can unravel before our eyes, and how losing everything set him on a two-decade adventure into God’s highest and best. Visit him online at cameronarnett.com.
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Believe it or not, your kids WANT to talk to you about the social and health challenges they’re facing. But are you ready? Jessica Peck, a pediatric nurse practitioner and mom of four, helps parents escape the secrecy and shame surrounding tough conversations and approach them from a Christian foundation.
With over 20 years as a pediatric nurse practitioner, our guest today comes to us with high credentials and an equally high commitment to the welfare of children and teens. She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice and is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, with a passion for vulnerable children and anti-trafficking. A clinical professor at Baylor University school of nursing, wife of a rocket scientist, and a mom of four teens, she is here to talk about her new book, Behind Closed Doors: A Guide to Help Parents and Teens Navigate Through Life’s Toughest Issues.
Dr. Jessica Peck has a lot to say about teens and their parents facing a tsunami of physical, mental, and emotional health problems, with practical advice on how to create the kind of healthy, happy family lives we all seek. It is a great privilege to speak with her today on The Walk.
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What if you wrote your first devotional and it sold 11 million copies? You might be tempted to write another book. Jack Countryman did, and he never looked back. This is John Snyder for The Walk. Our guest today is the Vice President and Publisher Emeritus of Thomas Nelson Publishers, and essentially the creator of the Christian gift book business.
Jack Countryman, now 93, is a widely recognized name in the field of Christian publishing. He joins us today to share his faith journey and talk about his spectacular writing career.
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“Salt without prescribing how much.” -Ezra 7:22
Salt was used in every offering made by fire unto the Lord, and from its preserving and purifying properties it was the grateful emblem of divine grace in the soul. It is worthy of our attentive regard that, when Artaxerxes gave salt to Ezra the priest, he set no limit to the quantity, and we may be quite certain that when the King of kings distributes grace among his royal priesthood, the supply is not cut short by him. Often are we straitened in ourselves, but never in the Lord. He who chooses to gather much manna will find that he may have as much as he desires. There is no such famine in Jerusalem that the citizens should eat their bread by weight and drink their water by measure. Some things in the economy of grace are measured; for instance our vinegar and gall are given us with such exactness that we never have a single drop too much, but of the salt of grace no stint is made, “Ask what thou wilt and it shall be given unto thee.” Parents need to lock up the fruit cupboard, and the sweet jars, but there is no need to keep the salt-box under lock and key, for few children will eat too greedily from that. A man may have too much money, or too much honour, but he cannot have too much grace. When Jeshurun waxed fat in the flesh, he kicked against God, but there is no fear of a man’s becoming too full of grace: a plethora of grace is impossible. More wealth brings more care, but more grace brings more joy. Increased wisdom is increased sorrow, but abundance of the Spirit is fulness of joy. Believer, go to the throne for a large supply of heavenly salt. It will season thine afflictions, which are unsavoury without salt; it will preserve thy heart which corrupts if salt be absent, and it will kill thy sins even as salt kills reptiles. Thou needest much; seek much, and have much.
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“Whose heart the Lord opened.” -Acts 16:14
In Lydia’s conversion there are many points of interest. It was brought about by providential circumstances. She was a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, but just at the right time for hearing Paul we find her at Philippi; providence, which is the handmaid of grace, led her to the right spot. Again, grace was preparing her soul for the blessing–grace preparing for grace. She did not know the Saviour, but as a Jewess, she knew many truths which were excellent stepping-stones to a knowledge of Jesus. Her conversion took place in the use of the means. On the Sabbath she went when prayer was wont to be made, and there prayer was heard. Never neglect the means of grace; God may bless us when we are not in his house, but we have the greater reason to hope that he will when we are in communion with his saints. Observe the words, “Whose heart the Lord opened.” She did not open her own heart. Her prayers did not do it; Paul did not do it. The Lord himself must open the heart, to receive the things which make for our peace. He alone can put the key into the hole of the door and open it, and get admittance for himself. He is the heart’s master as he is the heart’s maker. The first outward evidence of the opened heart was obedience. As soon as Lydia had believed in Jesus, she was baptized. It is a sweet sign of a humble and broken heart, when the child of God is willing to obey a command which is not essential to his salvation, which is not forced upon him by a selfish fear of condemnation, but is a simple act of obedience and of communion with his Master. The next evidence was love, manifesting itself in acts of grateful kindness to the apostles. Love to the saints has ever been a mark of the true convert. Those who do nothing for Christ or his church, give but sorry evidence of an “opened” heart. Lord, evermore give me an opened heart.
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“So shall we ever be with the Lord.” -1 Thessalonians 4:17
Even the sweetest visits from Christ, how short they are–and how transitory! One moment our eyes see him, and we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, but again a little time and we do not see him, for our beloved withdraws himself from us; like a roe or a young hart he leaps over the mountains of division; he is gone to the land of spices, and feeds no more among the lilies.
“If today he deigns to bless us
With a sense of pardoned sin,
He to-morrow may distress us,
Make us feel the plague within.”
Oh, how sweet the prospect of the time when we shall not behold him at a distance, but see him face to face: when he shall not be as a wayfaring man tarrying but for a night, but shall eternally enfold us in the bosom of his glory. We shall not see him for a little season, but
“Millions of years our wondering eyes,
Shall o’er our Saviour’s beauties rove;
And myriad ages we’ll adore,
The wonders of his love.”
In heaven there shall be no interruptions from care or sin; no weeping shall dim our eyes; no earthly business shall distract our happy thoughts; we shall have nothing to hinder us from gazing forever on the Sun of Righteousness with unwearied eyes. Oh, if it be so sweet to see him now and then, how sweet to gaze on that blessed face for aye, and never have a cloud rolling between, and never have to turn one’s eyes away to look on a world of weariness and woe! Blest day, when wilt thou dawn? Rise, O unsetting sun! The joys of sense may leave us as soon as they will, for this shall make glorious amends. If to die is but to enter into uninterrupted communion with Jesus, then death is indeed gain, and the black drop is swallowed up in a sea of victory.
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“Thou hast made summer and winter.” -Psalm 74:17
My soul begin this wintry month with thy God. The cold snows and the piercing winds all remind thee that he keeps his covenant with day and night, and tend to assure thee that he will also keep that glorious covenant which he has made with thee in the person of Christ Jesus. He who is true to his Word in the revolutions of the seasons of this poor sin-polluted world, will not prove unfaithful in his dealings with his own well-beloved Son.
Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season, and if it be upon thee just now it will be very painful to thee: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it. He sends the sharp blasts of adversity to nip the buds of expectation: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes over the once verdant meadows of our joy: he casteth forth his ice like morsels freezing the streams of our delight. He does it all, he is the great Winter King, and rules in the realms of frost, and therefore thou canst not murmur. Losses, crosses, heaviness, sickness, poverty, and a thousand other ills, are of the Lord’s sending, and come to us with wise design. Frosts kill noxious insects, and put a bound to raging diseases; they break up the clods, and sweeten the soil. O that such good results would always follow our winters of affliction!
How we prize the fire just now! how pleasant is its cheerful glow! Let us in the same manner prize our Lord, who is the constant source of warmth and comfort in every time of trouble. Let us draw nigh to him, and in him find joy and peace in believing. Let us wrap ourselves in the warm garments of his promises, and go forth to labours which befit the season, for it were ill to be as the sluggard who will not plough by reason of the cold; for he shall beg in summer and have nothing.
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Our children are being rapidly hypnotized by digital entertainment, and controlled by their cell phones, iPads, and TV, and the dangerous side effects are becoming more and more obvious. Author Molly DeFrank is here to talk about her book, Digital Detox, and has devised a practical program to detox your children and return them to a normal, happy family life—in just two weeks. Molly DeFrank has a degree in International relations, and was a press secretary to Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, […]
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Today’s guest comes with extensive life experience from fighter pilot, to businessman, to specialist in Christian discipleship. He has been CEO of national and international enterprises, as well as elder, deacon, and teacher in start-up churches, now lecturing widely in the discipleship of believers. Dennis Allen is talking today about his new book, The Disciple Dilemma, a no-nonsense, biblical approach to growing mature and effective Christians in today’s spiritually disoriented, and theologically confused church. He’s the real deal, cutting through the glitzy […]
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Major General John Gronski has spent over 40 years gaining experience of leading people in combat, and now in the field of business. Oliver North has hosted him on his American Heroes program celebrating his extraordinary military service. It’s a great privilege to have him with us today to talk about his faith, his leadership philosophy, and his newest book, Iron-Sharped Leadership. This book is a must-read for any leader.
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Today’s guest has an incredible story to tell. Born with a number of rare disabilities, spending 250 days in the hospital and enduring 16 surgeries in the first three years of life, he has gone on to become an experienced mountaineer, extreme skier, boater, hunter, and adventurer—even conquering Mount Kilimanjaro, among other amazing accomplishments. Now a best-selling author, motivational speaker, and Podcaster, JT Jester is with us today to tell us about his newest book, No Bad Days: How to Find […]
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What do you know about the economics of a Zombie Apocalypse? Today’s guest leverages cultural topics and familiar storylines to bring home economic concepts to his students. Dr. Brian Hollar is a professor of economics at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, and he has lived the remarkable life of both an engineer and an attorney. He is also a co-leader for the Munich Bible Study. Brian has traveled widely, guiding his students through the complex issues of economics, and as […]
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Billie Jauss is as busy with major league baseball as she is traveling and speaking. She is an author, speaker, and podcaster, encouraging women to discover the emotional barriers that distract from living a full life of faith, and to value the significance of small beginnings. Billie and her husband, Dave, a professional baseball coach, spend their off-season in Florida. Together they have served the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, and the […]
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“And I will give you an heart of flesh.”-Ezekiel 36:26 A heart of flesh is known by its tenderness concerning sin. To have indulged a foul imagination, or to have allowed a wild desire to tarry even for a moment, is quite enough to make a heart of flesh grieve before the Lord. The heart of stone calls a great iniquity nothing, but not so the heart of flesh. “If to the right or left I stray, That moment, Lord, […]
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“Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide.”-Genesis 24:63 Very admirable was his occupation. If those who spend so many hours in idle company, light reading, and useless pastimes, could learn wisdom, they would find more profitable society and more interesting engagements in meditation than in the vanities which now have such charms for them. We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud […]
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“Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work.”-Psalm 92:4 Do you believe that your sins are forgiven, and that Christ has made a full atonement for them? Then what a joyful Christian you ought to be! How you should live above the common trials and troubles of the world! Since sin is forgiven, can it matter what happens to you now? Luther said, “Smite, Lord, smite, for my sin is forgiven; if thou hast but forgiven me, smite as […]
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“You can always see the scars.” In today’s episode of The Walk, producer and director Norman Stone discusses his journey of faith and his most recent film, The Most Reluctant Convert, the life of C.S. Lewis, starring Max McLean. Hear Norman Stone describe the behind the scenes of this film and more, tracing God’s power through his career in the incredible story he shares on The Walk. Stream The Most Reluctant Convert today at cslewismovie.com.
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We’re starting Season 3 of The Walk with an incredible episode from a very special guest, Max McLean. Max McLean is an award-winning actor and founder of New York City based Fellowship for Performing Arts. He adapted for the stage The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis Onstage, The Great Divorce, Genesis, and Mark’s Gospel. His recent writing and producing credits include Martin Luther on Trial. Max McLean is a leading actor and star of the current film, The Most Reluctant Convert, the life of C.S. […]
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Deb Wolf is the writer of Counting My Blessings: At the Intersection of Faith and Life. Deb grew up in a church. The doors were open; her family was there. She became a church organist as a teen, went to Bible college, married a minister and raised preacher’s kids. On the outside, life looked perfect. But on the inside, she was a mess. God allowed a series of painful circumstances to help her realize her overwhelming need for a closer […]
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Have you ever imagined tossing your sleeping bag in the back seat of your car and driving to Los Angeles to get involved in acting and filmmaking? That’s exactly what The Walk’s guest Jason Mac has done. He has now directed his first feature film, A Father’s Legacy, which he calls his love letter to his own father. It explores ideas of legacy, redemption and faith. His film premiered on June 17, 2021, in over 700 theaters in the United […]
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Author, pastor, English teacher…how do you do all of that at once? Martin Wiles comes to us with a wealth of life and faith experience, including a long list of publication—books, articles, devotionals, you name it. Any aspiring writer will want to check out the work of Martin Wiles. He knows the rough and tumble life of a writer well, and discusses what you will face when you take your first steps into it. Martin is founder of Love Lines […]
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A special Easter Sunday message from Dr. John I. Snyder, preached Easter Sunday 2022 in Bavaria, Germany. “He tells us, ‘It’s this way!’ And he says, ‘Pursue it. It’s waiting for you, and for anyone who wants it more than anything else.'”
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Dr. Judith Briles is the highly successful author of 37 books, including When God Says No. She is a widely known book publishing expert, and has the reputation of being “The Book Shepherd,” guiding 1,000 authors to publication and creating 500 bestsellers. In this episode, Judith discusses her book, When God Says No: Revealing the Yes When Adversity and Pain Are Present; her amazing, unique life; and her victory over struggle.
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What separates you from God? We know, intellectually, that nothing can separate us. But fears, failures, and our daily battle with sin can make us wonder if we are the exception to the rule. What about that addiction? That divorce? The terrible things I had to do in the war? That bad financial decision? Those personal failures that you don’t want to talk about? Even though we know there is nothing that separates, these things often make us feel separation […]
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“My prayer life stinks!” Ever said that? Whether old saint or new Christian, prayer is one of the most mysterious and difficult things to learn and practice consistently. Mike Novotny has written extensively on anxiety, sexuality, depression, divorce, suicide, addiction, abuse, abortion, pornography, and more. Today he is talking about The Power of Devoted Prayer, offering hope to all of us who have struggled with it. Mike Novotny is the host of Time of Grace, a ministry of encouragement to Christians who struggle […]
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One of the first things that invades our minds when God calls us to some new ministry or way of life is self-doubt, the haunting feeling that what God wants is just too far beyond us. Moses is the classic biblical case, told to become the instrument of God’s deliverance of the Hebrews in Egypt. Excuses flowed from his lips: “I can’t do it!” “I’m not qualified!” “I can’t speak well!” “Just send someone else!” Sound familiar? Been there? Well, […]
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One thing this current pandemic has done for us is to cause us to examine carefully just how fulfilling our life’s work is. Today, a high number of people have reevaluated their lives and concluded that it just isn’t good enough. Maybe you’re searching for something real right now—a totally different kind of life that matches all those dreams you used to have. That’s the way it was for today’s guest, Rory Groves. He examined hundreds of occupations that have […]
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“Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels.” -Revelation 12:7 War always will rage between the two great sovereignties until one or other be crushed. Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness. Michael will always fight; his holy soul is vexed with sin, and will not endure it. Jesus will always be the dragon’s foe, and […]
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“And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.” -2 Chronicles 25:9 A very important question this seemed to be to the king of Judah, and possibly it is of even more weight with the tried and tempted O Christian. To lose money is at no […]
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“Spices for anointing oil.”-Exodus 35:8 Much use was made of this anointing oil under the law, and that which it represents is of primary importance under the gospel. The Holy Spirit, who anoints us for all holy service, is indispensable to us if we would serve the Lord acceptably. Without his aid our religious services are but a vain oblation, and our inward experience is a dead thing. Whenever our ministry is without unction, what miserable stuff it becomes! nor […]
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“Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people … Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.” -Leviticus 19:16-17 Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told. Whether the report be true or false, we are by this precept of God’s Word forbidden to spread it. The reputations of the Lord’s people should be very precious […]
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“Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.” -John 12:2 He is to be envied. It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune. There are times for each purpose, and each is comely in its season, but none of the trees of the garden yield such clusters as the vine of fellowship. To sit with Jesus, to hear his words, to mark his acts, and receive his smiles, was […]
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“Grieve not the Holy Spirit.”-Ephesians 4:30 All that the believer has must come from Christ, but it comes solely through the channel of the Spirit of grace. Moreover, as all blessings thus flow to you through the Holy Spirit, so also no good thing can come out of you in holy thought, devout worship, or gracious act, apart from the sanctifying operation of the same Spirit. Even if the good seed be sown in you, yet it lies dormant except […]
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“The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.”-Proverbs 30:26 Conscious of their own natural defencelessness, the conies resort to burrows in the rocks, and are secure from their enemies. My heart, be willing to gather a lesson from these feeble folk. Thou art as weak and as exposed to peril as the timid cony; be as wise to seek a shelter. My best security is within the munitions of an immutable Jehovah, where […]
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“O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul.”-Lamentations 3:58 Observe how positively the prophet speaks. He doth not say, “I hope, I trust, I sometimes think, that God hath pleaded the causes of my soul;” but he speaks of it as a matter of fact not to be disputed. “Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul.” Let us, by the aid of the gracious Comforter, shake off those doubts and fears which so much mar our peace […]
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“O that I knew where I might find him!” –Job 23:3 In Job’s uttermost extremity he cried after the Lord. The longing desire of an afflicted child of God is once more to see his Father’s face. His first prayer is not “O that I might be healed of the disease which now festers in every part of my body!” nor even “O that I might see my children restored from the jaws of the grave, and my property once […]
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“Avoid foolish questions.” –Titus 3:9 Our days are few, and are far better spent in doing good, than in disputing over matters which are, at best, of minor importance. The old schoolmen did a world of mischief by their incessant discussion of subjects of no practical importance; and our Churches suffer much from petty wars over abstruse points and unimportant questions. After everything has been said that can be said, neither party is any the wiser, and therefore the discussion […]
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“Thou art from everlasting.” -Psalm 93:2 Christ is Everlasting. Of him we may sing with David, “Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.” Rejoice, believer, in Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Jesus always was. The Babe born in Bethlehem was united to the Word, which was in the beginning, by whom all things were made. The title by which Christ revealed himself to John in Patmos was, “Him which is, and which was, and which is […]
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“A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.” -Song of Solomon 4:12 In this metaphor, which has reference to the inner life of a believer, we have very plainly the idea of secrecy. It is a spring shut up: just as there were springs in the East, over which an edifice was built, so that none could reach them save those who knew the secret entrance; so is the heart of a believer when it is renewed by grace: there is […]
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“He that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.” -Ecclesiastes 10:9 Oppressors may get their will of poor and needy men as easily as they can split logs of wood, but they had better mind, for it is a dangerous business, and a splinter from a tree has often killed the woodman. Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and he is mighty to avenge his beloved ones. Success in treading down the poor and needy is a thing to be […]
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“To whom be glory forever. Amen” –Romans 11:36 “To whom be glory forever.” This should be the single desire of the Christian. All other wishes must be subservient and tributary to this one. The Christian may wish for prosperity in his business, but only so far as it may help him to promote this–“To him be glory forever.” He may desire to attain more gifts and more graces, but it should only be that “To him may be glory forever.” […]
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“Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty.” -Isaiah 33:17 The more you know about Christ the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of him; and the more deeply you study his transactions in the eternal covenant, his engagements on your behalf as the eternal Surety, and the fulness of his grace which shines in all his offices, the more truly will you see the King in his beauty. Be much in such outlooks. Long more and […]
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“The Lord is my portion, saith my soul.” -Lamentations 3:24 It is not “The Lord is partly my portion,” nor “The Lord is in my portion”; but he himself makes up the sum total of my soul’s inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not his grace merely, nor his love, nor his covenant, but Jehovah himself. He has chosen us for his portion, and we have chosen […]
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“Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.” –Psalm 68:28 It is our wisdom, as well as our necessity, to beseech God continually to strengthen that which he has wrought in us. It is because of their neglect in this, that many Christians may blame themselves for those trials and afflictions of spirit which arise from unbelief. It is true that Satan seeks to flood the fair garden of the heart and make it a scene of desolation, […]
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“The Lord’s portion is his people.” –Deuteronomy 32:9 How are they his? By his own sovereign choice. He chose them, and set his love upon them. This he did altogether apart from any goodness in them at the time, or any goodness which he foresaw in them. He had mercy on whom he would have mercy, and ordained a chosen company unto eternal life; thus, therefore, are they his by his unconstrained election. They are not only his by choice, […]
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And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.” –Genesis 29:26 We do not excuse Laban for his dishonesty, but we scruple not to learn from the custom which he quoted as his excuse. There are some things which must be taken in order, and if we would win the second we must secure the first. The second may be the more lovely in our eyes, but the rule of […]
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“I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham.” –Zephaniah 1:5 Such persons thought themselves safe because they were with both parties: they went with the followers of Jehovah, and bowed at the same time to Malcham. But duplicity is abominable with God, and hypocrisy his soul hateth. The idolater who distinctly gives himself to his false god, has one sin less than he who brings his polluted and detestable sacrifice […]
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“Men ought always to pray.” –Luke 18:1 If men ought always to pray and not to faint, much more Christian men. Jesus has sent his church into the world on the same errand upon which he himself came, and this mission includes intercession. What if I say that the church is the world’s priest? Creation is dumb, but the church is to find a mouth for it. It is the church’s high privilege to pray with acceptance. The door of […]
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“The branch cannot bear fruit of itself.” –John 15:4 How did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus and cast yourselves on his great atonement, and rested on his finished righteousness. Ah! what fruit you had then! Do you remember those early days? Then indeed the vine flourished, the tender grape appeared, the pomegranates budded forth, and the beds of spices gave forth their smell. Have you declined since then? If you have, we charge […]
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“And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.” -Luke 6:12 If ever one of woman born might have lived without prayer, it was our spotless, perfect Lord, and yet none was ever so much in supplication as he! Such was his love to his Father, that he loved much to be in communion with him: such his love for his people, that he […]
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“The trial of your faith.” -1 Peter 1:7 Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her: tempests are her trainers, and lightnings are her illuminators. When a calm reigns on the sea, spread the sails as you will, the ship moves not to its harbour; for on a […]
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“He shall choose our inheritance for us.” –Psalm 47:4 Believer, if your inheritance be a lowly one you should be satisfied with your earthly portion; for you may rest assured that it is the fittest for you. Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. A ship of large tonnage is to be brought up the river; now, in one part of the stream there is a sandbank; should some one ask, “Why does […]
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“Underneath are the everlasting arms.” –Deuteronomy 33:27 God–the eternal God–is himself our support at all times, and especially when we are sinking in deep trouble. There are seasons when the Christian sinks very low in humiliation. Under a deep sense of his great sinfulness, he is humbled before God till he scarcely knows how to pray, because he appears, in his own sight, so worthless. Well, child of God, remember that when thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet […]
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What the world needs more of are men who are spiritually equipped to enter the battlefield of life with the same commitment and strength they would in major conflict. Today’s guest is David Dusek. David is an author and popular speaker to the military, to men’s groups, and to men’s conventions around the world. He is the author of the book, Rough Cut Men: A Man’s Battle Guide to Building Relationships with Each Other and with Jesus. David travels the world […]
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“The eternal God is thy refuge.” –Deuteronomy 33:27 The word refuge may be translated “mansion,” or “abiding- place,” which gives the thought that God is our abode, our home. There is a fulness and sweetness in the metaphor, for dear to our hearts is our home, although it be the humblest cottage, or the scantiest garret; and dearer far is our blessed God, in whom we live, and move, and have our being. It is at home that we feel […]
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“His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.” –Isaiah 33:16 Do you doubt, O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God will fulfil his promise? Shall the munitions of rock be carried by storm? Shall the storehouses of heaven fail? Do you think that your heavenly Father, though he knoweth that you have need of food and raiment, will yet forget you? When not a sparrow falls […]
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“So walk ye in him.” –Colossians 2:6 If we have received Christ himself in our inmost hearts, our new life will manifest its intimate acquaintance with him by a walk of faith in him. Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our closet; we must carry out into practical effect that which we believe. If a man walks in Christ, then he so acts as Christ would act; for Christ being in him, his hope, his […]
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“The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?” –Mark 14:14 Jerusalem at the time of the passover was one great inn; each householder had invited his own friends, but no one had invited the Saviour, and he had no dwelling of his own. It was by his own supernatural power that he found himself an upper room in which to keep the feast. It is so even to this day–Jesus is not […]
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“As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord.” –Colossians 2:6 The life of faith is represented as receiving–an act which implies the very opposite of anything like merit. It is simply the acceptance of a gift. As the earth drinks in the rain, as the sea receives the streams, as night accepts light from the stars, so we, giving nothing, partake freely of the grace of God. The saints are not, by nature, wells, or streams, they are but cisterns […]
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“And ye shall be witnesses unto me.” –Acts 1:8 In order to learn how to discharge your duty as a witness for Christ, look at his example. He is always witnessing: by the well of Samaria, or in the Temple of Jerusalem: by the lake of Gennesaret, or on the mountain’s brow. He is witnessing night and day; his mighty prayers are as vocal to God as his daily services. He witnesses under all circumstances; Scribes and Pharisees cannot shut […]
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“Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.” -Isaiah 49:16 No doubt a part of the wonder which is concentrated in the word “Behold,” is excited by the unbelieving lamentation of the preceding sentence. Zion said, “The Lord hath forsaken me, and my God hath forgotten me.” How amazed the divine mind seems to be at this wicked unbelief! What can be more astounding than the unfounded doubts and fears of God’s favoured people? The Lord’s loving […]
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“Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.” –Hebrews 9:20 There is a strange power about the very name of blood, and the sight of it is always affecting. A kind heart cannot bear to see a sparrow bleed, and unless familiarized by use, turns away with horror at the slaughter of a beast. As to the blood of men, it is a consecrated thing: it is murder to shed it in wrath, it […]
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“I will pour water upon him that is thirsty.” –Isaiah 44:3 When a believer has fallen into a low, sad state of feeling, he often tries to lift himself out of it by chastening himself with dark and doleful fears. Such is not the way to rise from the dust, but to continue in it. As well chain the eagle’s wing to make it mount, as doubt in order to increase our grace. It is not the law, but the […]
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“Be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” –Psalm 100:4 Our Lord would have all his people rich in high and happy thoughts concerning his blessed person. Jesus is not content that his brethren should think meanly of him; it is his pleasure that his espoused ones should be delighted with his beauty. We are not to regard him as a bare necessary, like to bread and water, but as a luxurious delicacy, as a rare and ravishing delight. To […]
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“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.” –Isaiah 54:17 This day is notable in English history for two great deliverances wrought by God for us. On this day the plot of the Papists to destroy our Houses of Parliament was discovered, 1605. “While for our princes they prepare In caverns deep a burning snare, He shot from heaven a piercing ray, And the dark treachery brought to day.” And secondly–today is the anniversary of the landing of King […]
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“In thy light shall we see light.” -Psalm 36:9 No lips can tell the love of Christ to the heart till Jesus himself shall speak within. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power; till our Immanuel reveals himself within, the soul sees him not. If you would see the sun, would you gather together the common means of illumination, and seek in that way to behold the orb of day? No, […]
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“For my strength is made perfect in weakness.” –2 Corinthians 12:9 A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God’s work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God’s warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he boasts, “I know that I shall conquer, my own right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory,” defeat is not far distant. God will not […]
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“Their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.” 2 Chronicles 30:27 Prayer is the never-failing resort of the Christian in any case, in every plight. When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order. Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but […]
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“Behold, he prayeth.” Acts 9:11 Prayers are instantly noticed in heaven. The moment Saul began to pray the Lord heard him. Here is comfort for the distressed but praying soul. Oftentimes a poor broken-hearted one bends his knee, but can only utter his wailing in the language of sighs and tears; yet that groan has made all the harps of heaven thrill with music; that tear has been caught by God and treasured in the lachrymatory of heaven. “Thou puttest […]
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“Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.” –Psalm 119:53 My soul, feelest thou this holy shuddering at the sins of others? for otherwise thou lackest inward holiness. David’s cheeks were wet with rivers of waters because of prevailing unholiness, Jeremiah desired eyes like fountains that he might lament the iniquities of Israel, and Lot was vexed with the conversation of the men of Sodom. Those upon whom the mark was set in Ezekiel’s […]
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“I am the Lord, I change not.” –Malachi 3:6 It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows. All things else have changed–all things are changing. The sun itself grows dim with age; the world is waxing old; the folding up of the worn-out vesture has commenced; the heavens and earth must soon pass away; […]
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“And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away: so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” -Matthew 24:39 Universal was the doom, neither rich nor poor escaped: the learned and the illiterate, the admired and the abhorred, the religious and the profane, the old and the young, all sank in one common ruin. Some had doubtless ridiculed the patriarch–where now their merry jests? Others had threatened him for his zeal which they counted […]
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“The church in thy house.” Philemon 2 Is there a Church in this house? Are parents, children, friends, servants, all members of it? or are some still unconverted? Let us pause here and let the question go round—Am I a member of the Church in this house? How would father’s heart leap for joy, and mother’s eyes fill with holy tears if from the eldest to the youngest all were saved! Let us pray for this great mercy until the […]
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“I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.”-Hosea 13:5 Yes, Lord, thou didst indeed know me in my fallen state, and thou didst even then choose me for thyself. When I was loathsome and self-abhorred, thou didst receive me as thy child, and thou didst satisfy my craving wants. Blessed forever be thy name for this free, rich, abounding mercy. Since then, my inward experience has often been a wilderness; but thou hast owned me […]
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“Renew a right spirit within me.”-Psalm 51:10 A backslider, if there be a spark of life left in him will groan after restoration. In this renewal the same exercise of grace is required as at our conversion. We needed repentance then; we certainly need it now. We wanted faith that we might come to Christ at first; only the like grace can bring us to Jesus now. We wanted a word from the Most High, a word from the lip […]
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“Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.”-Song of Solomon 8:13 My sweet Lord Jesus remembers well the garden of Gethsemane, and although he has left that garden, he now dwells in the garden of his church: there he unbosoms himself to those who keep his blessed company. That voice of love with which he speaks to his beloved is more musical than the harps of heaven. There is a depth […]
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“I will praise thee, O Lord.”-Psalm 9:1 Praise should always follow answered prayer; as the mist of earth’s gratitude rises when the sun of heaven’s love warms the ground. Hath the Lord been gracious to thee, and inclined his ear to the voice of thy supplication? Then praise him as long as thou livest. Let the ripe fruit drop upon the fertile soil from which it drew its life. Deny not a song to him who hath answered thy prayer […]
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“But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.”-Luke 24:16 The disciples ought to have known Jesus, they had heard his voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is wonderful they did not discover him. Yet is it not so with you also? You have not seen Jesus lately. You have been to his table, and you have not met him there. You are in a dark trouble this evening, and though […]
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“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, etc.”-Matthew 6:9 This prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit of adoption, “Our Father.” There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, “I will arise, and go unto my Father.” This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father “in heaven,” and ascends to devout adoration, “Hallowed be thy name.” The child lisping, “Abba, Father,” grows into the cherub crying, “Holy, Holy, […]
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“His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.”-Song of Solomon 5:11 Comparisons all fail to set forth the Lord Jesus, but the spouse uses the best within her reach. By the head of Jesus we may understand his deity, “for the head of Christ is God” and then the ingot of purest gold is the best conceivable metaphor, but all too poor to describe one so precious, so pure, so dear, […]
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“I have chosen you out of the world.”-John 15:19 Here is distinguishing grace and discriminating regard; for some are made the special objects of divine affection. Do not be afraid to dwell upon this high doctrine of election. When your mind is most heavy and depressed, you will find it to be a bottle of richest cordial. Those who doubt the doctrines of grace, or who cast them into the shade, miss the richest clusters of Eshcol; they lose the […]
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“We are all as an unclean thing.”-Isaiah 64:6 The believer is a new creature, he belongs to a holy generation and a peculiar people—the Spirit of God is in him, and in all respects he is far removed from the natural man; but for all that the Christian is a sinner still. He is so from the imperfection of his nature, and will continue so to the end of his earthly life. The black fingers of sin leave smuts upon […]
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“It is a faithful saying.”-2 Timothy 2:11 Paul has four of these “faithful sayings.” The first occurs in 1 Timothy 1:15, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” The next is in 1 Timothy 4:6, “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation.” […]
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“All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”-Ecclesiastes 1:7 Everything sublunary is on the move, time knows nothing of rest. The solid earth is a rolling ball, and the great sun himself a star obediently fulfilling its course around some greater luminary. Tides move the sea, winds stir the airy ocean, friction wears the rock: change and death rule everywhere. The sea is […]
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“Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.”-Haggai 1:9 Churlish souls stint their contributions to the ministry and missionary operations, and call such saving good economy; little do they dream that they are thus impoverishing themselves. Their excuse is that they must care for their […]
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“She gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.”-Ruth 2:3 Her hap was. Yes, it seemed nothing but an accident, but how divinely was it overruled! Ruth had gone forth with her mother’s blessing, under the care of her mother’s God, to humble but honourable toil, and the providence of God was guiding her every step. Little did she […]
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“For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us forever.”-2 John 2 Once let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart and subdue the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal can dislodge it. We entertain it not as a guest but as the master of the house—this is a Christian necessity, he is no Christian who doth not thus believe. Those who feel the vital power of the gospel, […]
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“The trees of the Lord are full of sap.”-Psalm 104:16 Without sap the tree cannot flourish or even exist. Vitality is essential to a Christian. There must be life—a vital principle infused into us by God the Holy Ghost, or we cannot be trees of the Lord. The mere name of being a Christian is but a dead thing, we must be filled with the spirit of divine life. This life is mysterious. We do not understand the circulation of […]
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“Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.” -Luke 22:46 When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace, were you not more wakeful than you are now? Easy roads make sleepy travellers. Another dangerous time is when all goes pleasantly in spiritual matters. Christian went not to sleep when lions […]
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“Will ye also go away?”-John 6:67 Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with him; but what reason have you to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning—“Have I been a wilderness unto you?” When your soul has simply trusted Jesus, have you ever been confounded? Have you not up till now found your Lord to be a compassionate and […]
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“I will love them freely.”-Hosea 14:4 This sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. He who understands its meaning is a theologian, and he who can dive into its fulness is a true master in Israel. It is a condensation of the glorious message of salvation which was delivered to us in Christ Jesus our Redeemer. The sense hinges upon the word “freely.” This is the glorious, the suitable, the divine way by which love streams from heaven to […]
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“Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?”-Luke 24:38 “Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?” The Lord cares for all things, and the meanest creatures share in his universal providence, but his particular providence is over his saints. “The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him.” “Precious shall their blood be in his […]
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“The love of Christ constraineth us.” -2 Corinthians 5:14 How much owest thou unto my Lord? Has he ever done anything for thee? Has he forgiven thy sins? Has he covered thee with a robe of righteousness? Has he set thy feet upon a rock? Has he established thy goings? Has he prepared heaven for thee? Has he prepared thee for heaven? Has he written thy name in his book of life? Has he given thee countless blessings? Has he […]
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“Grow up into him in all things.” -Ephesians 4:15 Many Christians remain stunted and dwarfed in spiritual things, so as to present the same appearance year after year. No up-springing of advanced and refined feeling is manifest in them. They exist but do not “grow up into him in all things.” But should we rest content with being in the “green blade,” when we might advance to “the ear,” and eventually ripen into the “full corn in the ear?” Should […]
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“God, my maker, who giveth songs in the night.”-Job 35:10 Any man can sing in the day. When the cup is full, man draws inspiration from it. When wealth rolls in abundance around him, any man can praise the God who gives a plenteous harvest or sends home a loaded argosy. It is easy enough for an Aeolian harp to whisper music when the winds blow—the difficulty is for music to swell forth when no wind is stirring. It is […]
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“Babes in Christ.” -1 Corinthians 3:1 Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as he is. You are as much an adopted child of God as any other believer. An infant is as truly […]
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“Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.”-1 Samuel 15:22 Saul had been commanded to slay utterly all the Amalekites and their cattle. Instead of doing so, he preserved the king, and suffered his people to take the best of the oxen and of the sheep. When called to account for this, he declared that he did it with a view of offering sacrifice to God; but Samuel met him at once with the assurance that sacrifices were no excuse for […]
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“And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul.”-1 Samuel 27:1 The thought of David’s heart at this time was a false thought, because he certainly had no ground for thinking that God’s anointing him by Samuel was intended to be left as an empty unmeaning act. On no one occasion had the Lord deserted his servant; he had been placed in perilous positions very often, but not one instance had occurred […]
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“Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.”-John 21:12 In these words the believer is invited to a holy nearness to Jesus. “Come and dine,” implies the same table, the same meat; aye, and sometimes it means to sit side by side, and lean our head upon the Saviour’s bosom. It is being brought into the banqueting-house, where waves the banner of redeeming love. “Come and dine,” gives us a vision of union with Jesus, because the only food that we […]
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“But who may abide the day of his coming?” -Malachi 3:2 His first coming was without external pomp or show of power, and yet in truth there were few who could abide its testing might. Herod and all Jerusalem with him were stirred at the news of the wondrous birth. Those who supposed themselves to be waiting for him, showed the fallacy of their professions by rejecting him when he came. His life on earth was a winnowing fan, which […]
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“I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.”-Philippians 3:8 Spiritual knowledge of Christ will be a personal knowledge. I cannot know Jesus through another person’s acquaintance with him. No, I must know him myself; I must know him on my own account. It will be an intelligent knowledge—I must know him, not as the visionary dreams of him, but as the Word reveals him. I must know his natures, divine and […]
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“Love is strong as death.”-Song of Solomon 8:6 Whose love can this be which is as mighty as the conqueror of monarchs, the destroyer of the human race? Would it not sound like satire if it were applied to my poor, weak, and scarcely living love to Jesus my Lord? I do love him, and perhaps by his grace, I could even die for him, but as for my love in itself, it can scarcely endure a scoffing jest, much […]
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“The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost.”-John 14:26 This age is peculiarly the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in which Jesus cheers us, not by his personal presence, as he shall do by-and-by, but by the indwelling and constant abiding of the Holy Ghost, who is evermore the Comforter of the church. It is his office to console the hearts of God’s people. He convinces of sin; he illuminates and instructs; but still the main part of his work lies […]
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“I will meditate in thy precepts.”-Psalm 119:15 There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on his Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. Truth is something like the cluster of the vine: if we would […]
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“Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.”-Lamentations 3:41 The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should never know how poor we are, but a true prayer is an inventory of wants, a catalogue of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty. While it is an application to […]
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“Faultless before the presence of his glory.”-Jude 1:24 Revolve in your mind that wondrous word, “faultless!” We are far off from it now; but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in his work of love, we shall reach it one day. The Saviour who will keep his people to the end, will also present them at last to himself, as “a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but holy and without blemish.” All […]
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“But he answered her not a word.”-Matthew 15:23 Genuine seekers who as yet have not obtained the blessing, may take comfort from the story before us. The Saviour did not at once bestow the blessing, even though the woman had great faith in him. He intended to give it, but he waited awhile. “He answered her not a word.” Were not her prayers good? Never better in the world. Was not her case needy? Sorrowfully needy. Did she not feel […]
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“Praying in the Holy Ghost.”-Jude 1:20 Mark the grand characteristic of true prayer—“In the Holy Ghost.” The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven’s storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. We must shoot the Lord’s arrows back to him. That desire which he writes upon our heart will move his heart and bring down a blessing, but the desires of the flesh have no power with him. Praying in the Holy Ghost is […]
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“Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.”-Luke 5:4 We learn from this narrative, the necessity of human agency. The draught of fishes was miraculous, yet neither the fisherman nor his boat, nor his fishing tackle were ignored; but all were used to take the fishes. So in the saving of souls, God worketh by means; and while the present economy of grace shall stand, God will be pleased by the foolishness of preaching to […]
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“Now on whom dost thou trust?” -Isaiah 36:5 Reader, this is an important question. Listen to the Christian’s answer, and see if it is yours. “On whom dost thou trust?” “I trust,” says the Christian, “in a triune God. I trust the Father, believing that he has chosen me from before the foundations of the world; I trust him to provide for me in providence, to teach me, to guide me, to correct me if need be, and to bring […]
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“Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant?” -Numbers 11:11 Our heavenly Father sends us frequent troubles to try our faith. If our faith be worth anything, it will stand the test. Gilt is afraid of fire, but gold is not: the paste gem dreads to be touched by the diamond, but the true jewel fears no test. It is a poor faith which can only trust God when friends are true, the body full of health, and the business profitable; but […]
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“He had married an Ethiopian woman.” -Numbers 12:1 Strange choice of Moses, but how much more strange the choice of him who is a prophet like unto Moses, and greater than he! Our Lord, who is fair as the lily, has entered into marriage union with one who confesses herself to be black, because the sun has looked upon her. It is the wonder of angels that the love of Jesus should be set upon poor, lost, guilty men. Each […]
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“Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.”-John 4:14 He who is a believer in Jesus finds enough in his Lord to satisfy him now, and to content him for evermore. The believer is not the man whose days are weary for want of comfort, and whose nights are long from absence of heart-cheering thought, for he finds in religion such a spring of joy, such a fountain of consolation, that he is content and […]
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“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.”-Mark 16:16 Mr. MacDonald asked the inhabitants of the island of St. Kilda how a man must be saved. An old man replied, “We shall be saved if we repent, and forsake our sins, and turn to God.” “Yes,” said a middle-aged female, “and with a true heart too.” “Aye,” rejoined a third, “and with prayer”; and, added a fourth, “It must be the prayer of the heart.” “And we must be […]
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“He arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights.”-1 Kings 19:8 All the strength supplied to us by our gracious God is meant for service, not for wantonness or boasting. When the prophet Elijah found the cake baked on the coals, and the cruse of water placed at his head, as he lay under the juniper tree, he was no gentleman to be gratified with dainty fare that he […]
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“If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”-1 John 2:1 “If any man sin, we have an advocate.” Yes, though we sin, we have him still. John does not say, “If any man sin he has forfeited his advocate,” but “we have an advocate,” sinners though we are. All the sin that a believer ever did, or can be allowed to commit, cannot destroy his interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, as his […]
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“He himself hath suffered being tempted.”-Hebrews 2:18 It is a common-place thought, and yet it tastes like nectar to the weary heart—Jesus was tempted as I am. You have heard that truth many times: have you grasped it? He was tempted to the very same sins into which we fall. Do not dissociate Jesus from our common manhood. It is a dark room which you are going through, but Jesus went through it before. It is a sharp fight which […]
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“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” -Hebrews 1:14 Angels are the unseen attendants of the saints of God; they bear us up in their hands, lest we dash our foot against a stone. Loyalty to their Lord leads them to take a deep interest in the children of his love; they rejoice over the return of the prodigal to his father’s house below, and they welcome the advent […]
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“He will give grace and glory.”-Psalm 84:11 Bounteous is Jehovah in his nature; to give is his delight. His gifts are beyond measure precious, and are as freely given as the light of the sun. He gives grace to his elect because he wills it, to his redeemed because of his covenant, to the called because of his promise, to believers because they seek it, to sinners because they need it. He gives grace abundantly, seasonably, constantly, readily, sovereignly; doubly […]
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“Pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.” -Song of Solomon 7:13 The spouse desires to give to Jesus all that she produces. Our heart has “all manner of pleasant fruits,” both “old and new,” and they are laid up for our Beloved. At this rich autumnal season of fruit, let us survey our stores. We have new fruits. We desire to feel new life, new joy, new gratitude; we wish to make […]
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For generations, both Jews and Christians have sought the exact location of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, destroyed by the romans in 70 CE. Archaeologists have spent years digging, looking for the slightest trace of evidence, but it was an American engineer who uncovered its most likely place in the ancient city. Join us on The Walk to hear Dr. Christian Widener talk about his book, The Temple Revealed. In this episode, he explains why this research has been important to so many and what connection he thinks it has to the future of the world and the return of Christ, as well as his personal faith story.
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Kevin Malone had an exciting career in baseball, eventually becoming general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was a man who had it all, until July 2, 2013.
Kevin Malone walked into a nightmare. His son Shawn had overdosed on drugs, and he couldn’t wake him up. 30 days after the overdose, the Malones were told to pull the feeding tubes on Shawn. They denied the request. Three hospitals sent Shawn away believing there was nothing more that could be done and that all signs pointed to him being dead. But what medicine couldn’t do, God did through answered prayer.
Listen to Kevin’s amazing story of how God redeemed his family, and hear about his own faith walk in this special episode of The Walk with John I. Snyder.
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In this episode, Debbie and Josh interview Nucci Reyo, founder of Godify. They discuss a long list of topics, and really have a ton of fun doing it! Whether it is how to make it in the music industry, how to use creativity to bring light to darkness, or just not letting others outwork you, they really crush it all! For more information on Godify, click the link below. It is available on Google Play and IOS.
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In this episode, Debbie and Josh discuss suicide. They dive into some reasons people commit suicide and what we should be doing to combat this epidemic. It seems to be something we hear about every day, and we need to not only address the issue, but also fight back against it. For more info, check out the links below.
https://edubirdie.com/blog/student-suicide-prevention-guide
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It’s easy to forget that the Bible we read, translated in so many different languages today, has its roots firmly in the Jewish tradition. The Old Testament was written primarily in Hebrew, and the New Testament, written in Greek was heavily influenced by the language and concepts of the Hebrew world.
To overlook this is to guarantee that we won’t truly understand the Bible. Today’s guest, Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg, has dedicated his life to making sure we don’t make this mistake. He is head of the Israel Institute of Biblical Studies and the Israel Bible Center.
Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg comes to us today with credentials from Stellenbosch University, Reformed Theological Seminary, with post-doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Leiden University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has authored 11 books in his field.
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Do you have a plan to glorify God? Is it intentional? How do we do that? It could bring a total life change, but it’s something we can do whether we have unlimited resources at our disposal, or whether we are bedridden, in prison, or simply stuck in our life. Find out how we can radiate the light and power of Christ, exactly where we are. John I. Snyder unpacks this and talks about practical ways to glorify God in this special message on The Walk Podcast.
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In this episode, Debbie and Josh discuss if we are living in the end times. If we are, what does the Bible call us to do? Join us as we look at what we should focus on, and what we shouldn’t.
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