Pastor Tim Baker's Podcast: Recent Episodes
Timothy Baker
Pastor Tim, author, storm chaser and minister for Christ, shares his thoughts from the Bible each week bringing insightful views on God and life. If you have any questions or comments please email us at: pastortimbaker@outlook.com. Why not make this your online church and Pastor Tim your online pastor. Hey why not buy me a cup of coffee, lunch, or whatever to help support my work. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7LFTL4YZ8HR5G
The church is how Christians can help each other. The church is supposed to be a place where we are a positive influence on each other. To do that we need to be close to God. We discuss this in today's message.
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Our world seems to repeat the same problems over and over. Often when people forget that if hearts aren't right, politics can't fix many of the problems we face. Only hearts changed will resolve the world's problems. Let's listen to this message to see where hope really lies.
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Our story continues about Joseph who is wronged over and over in life, yet he keeps going and trusting in God. Listen to this story to see what God did for Joseph, it may be the hope you need today.
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It's hard to have hope in a world where there is so much negative news. The future doesn't leave us much hope without Christ as our focus. Hope can be found, listen to this broadcast if you are in need of hope today.
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When life seems so unfair, and it often is, we can look to Joseph's life is a great example of finding a way to move forward. It's all about faith. Joseph is a good person yet everything seems to keep going wrong for him. Rather than as God why, we find Joseph just trusting in God's plan for his life.
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It is easy to lose hope in today's world. But when we focus on God, we can always find hope.
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Yes, Jesus being resurrected from the grave is the single most important truth of our Christian faith. It is also the most wonderful truth there is. Death no longer holds us captive, we have hope, hope of eternal life because He is risen.
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God is always faithful, He always keeps his promises to us. We can trust God with our hearts and lives and know that He will be with us at all times, even when we make mistakes and bad choices. God is on our side.
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We all need help in life from time to time, and it is usually those closest to us that we go for and get help which is a great thing. Yet, there are times when God is the one we should be seeking the most. We can get bad advice from friends, but we always get what is good, right, holy and just when we go to God. Seek God first, that should always be our choice.
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Sometimes we might wonder if God really cares, especially when life gets difficult. Some have even left the faith and developed their own religion based on their feelings and conclusions apart from the Bible. Lets listen to what the Bible says on the faithfulness of God and why we should never lose hope, God is faithful in His promises.
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We see the horrible results of the war in Ukraine, not just on the Ukraine people but the innocent people in Russia who are against the war but afraid to speak out knowing if they do they will be punished. So many men killed from both countries, that this reminded me of a section of the Bible when God said that there would be a time when 7 women would hold onto the coat of one man, because of the shortage of men from war. Men cause war, God wants peace, God wants to forgive. God is a compassionate God who loves Mercy, but humanity keeps repeating the same problems, ignoring God and doing what they please. Lets hear more about this in our message today.
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God has always had a plan to bring peace to the earth and forgive us our sins. In Isaiah Chapters four and five we learn about God's overall plan, and it is to bring about peace to everyone. He will do this through a person, who Isaiah here calls the branch, who will come to help us find the way to real peace.
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This is the introduction to the Book of Isaiah starting in Chapter One of the things we learn here is what are true blessings from God, and what is full healing from God all about. Listen as we start in this important book of the Bible in understanding God better.
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It is often said that during our hardest trials the most difficult thing is finding hope. This message looks at how we can find hope, even when our circumstances don't offer any. Our God is a God of hope.
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Often we do not realize how much we rely on things of this world more than relying on God. It is important to understand our mental state is closely tied to the things we hold onto the most, and for real lasting peace that needs to be God. Lets listen and see what might be keeping us from relying on God as much as we need to.
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It is easy to see that life is not fair, especially when we see good people suffer. Yet, when we look in the bible we will find we can rely on God for our strength in all our suffering. We may not understand why we are suffering, but we can know that God is with us. Listen to see if you can find some hope today for what you are going through.
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Who and what you listen to as truth will make a difference in your life. If you are looking for the most peace and comfort in life be sure you are listening to God as revealed to us in the Bible, because every other source will lead to heartache and sorrow. We will look in the book of Isaiah to find the answers we are looking for. Listen and hear what God is trying to say to you.
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The question is why hasn’t God intervened in my suffering is a common one. But, does it mean that He couldn’t? Or is it that He chooses not to intervene for some reason? Lets discuss this today in our message.
Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
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Who is God? The answer is not as easy as you would think. Because God is God, He is a being beyond human comprehension so He is revealed to us in the Bible in human terms to help us understand a fragment of His true being. Listen in to hear what the Bible tells us about God, who's thoughts and ways are so far above our own we will never in this life fully understand everything there is about Him.
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Did you know the Bible says in Genesis 32 that Jacob wrestled God? But dont we all in some way wrestle with God, fighting against the changes He is trying to create in us. Let see what we can learn from Jacobs name changing event.
Read: Genesis 32:24-26
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We can completely trust the book of Genesis in the Bible to teach us truth. In todays lesson we learn about trusting God, and how God choses to do His will even when we don't understand what He is doing.
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God is all powerful, He is in control, but this is sometimes hard to see when life is filled with trials. Today we look at the comfort that comes from God. We find the Bible shows us that God's comfort is not an escape from suffering and God's comfort is not an absence of trails. God's comfort comes to us when we need it most, in our tribulations and pain. Lets examine this more together.
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I’ve said for years, God always wants to bless us more than we let him. Finding God's blessings helps us feel God's peace and joy, the greatest blessings of all, and it requires us to be people of mercy.
Read the following:
Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.
Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?
Matthew 9:13 "But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."
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Joseph trusted God for so long, and still things kept going against him. But finally today we see that Joseph was finally rewarded for his patience. I think it is often the case that we do not understand why God takes so long to reward out patience. But God is faithful and we will see that in Joseph's story.
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One part of the resurrection story people often miss is that God first reveals the resurrection of Jesus to a woman with a tainted past history. He did not reveal himself first to the religious leaders, he did not reveal this truth to the most important men there, but he reveals the resurrection to a woman with a questionable past. The story of Christ’s resurrection should bring hope to everyone. This is not a religious story only for the strict religious few, but it is the story of hope for everyone in the world who needs hope, especially when there has been no hope for them in this world.
If you are looking for hope this message is for you.
Mark 16:1-20
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We often we think we don’t have anything to offer God, but the Bible has so many examples of how God can use what we have for His purpose. All we need are willing hands to serve God and he will use them.
Let’s look at some examples of how God has used the hands of people in the Bible to do great things.
Exodus 4:1-8
Mark 8:2-5
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This podcast Tim discusses the subject of anger and how Christians are to manage their anger. There is much going on in the world today to make people angry. The good news is the Bible has many verses on dealing with anger, and how we are to behave as Christians.
Pr 16:32
Pr 19:11
Ec 7:9
Galations 5: 19 -20
Ephesians 4:31
Philippians 2:5-8
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It’s hard to let go when there are things in your life you feel like you can’t live without. When we hold onto things we don’t require for living and refuse to just let them go, it can wear us down emotionally and physically.
So how do we handle an uncertain future? Today we will look at finding peace even when the future may look frightening to us.
Podcast is 12:49 in length.
Philippians 3:13
Ge 19:12-26
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
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I think everyone listening knows there is a problem today in the world in finding truth. Fake news, false information, lies, all being spread around on the internet, TV, blogs, there is a plethora of untruthful information out there. Listen it hear what is the one source we can trust 100% to find truth today.
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Making good decisions seems to be one of the biggest problems I see when I talk to people. Some seem to make poor choices over and over while other’s I have seen make good choices most of the time. Let's look at the Bible and see if it gives us some guidance for making good choices.
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This is a 15 minute podcast on my thoughts about end times and where the war in Ukraine fits into this. We will look at a few Bible verses today and then Pastor Tim will give you his perspective on the application of those verses.
Joel 2:2
Mathew 24:3-11Revelation 13:17
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Life can be so unfair. Joseph was a man who had many bad things happen to him that were not fair or just. Even though he was a Godly man bad things continued to plague his life. But those things never changed Joseph’s faith in God; in fact we find that Joseph stays faithful to God no matter what. Let's follow this story and see what traits Joseph had that we can learn from and then apply to our own lives.
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Have you ever wondered what the future holds? With war and economic misery haunting the world today, we might began to wonder what is God doing? God wants us to trust him even when our life doesn't seem to make any sense to us. This message will challenge you to trust God even when things happening to us or the world don't make any sense. God knows things we don't know, we can trust His plan and judgement.
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We live in uncertain times, much like the people of Israel at the time of Moses. Moses and his people were under a terrible government, Moses was to deliver them, but, that deliverance would be in God's time. Moses loses patience with God, with the bad government over the people of Israel and tries to take things into his own hands, but it was not God's timing. As much as it is hard for us to understand, many years would have to pass before God's promise for deliverance would happen. Sometimes immediate deliverance is not in God's plan. Do we have the patience to wait on God?
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Is there anyone you can trust and rely on anymore? In our world today there are few who live up to their promises, but God. Yes, God, He is always faithful to us and we can count his promies.
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In a world where Covid-19 fears grow, rumors of wars, violence on the rise in the world how does a person not lose hope. Listen to this broadcast to hear what God offers you in the terms of hope.
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