The Dennis Kinlaw Podcast: Recent Episodes
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If we where to tape ourselves talking and play it back. Would we hear ourselves talk about Jesus or ourselves?
Scripture reading is in Genesis 18
Don't you care? Don't you care about the world? Don't you care about the people around you to be saved?
Scripture reading Mark 10:17
God has daily patterns and habits for our lives, so that we are ready for His kingdom.
This is a Short message from Dr. Kinlaw. Is our life matching the patterns of how Christ wants us to live?
The first of five studies to know if you are a child of God.
Looking at total sanctification and the life of Henry Clay Morrison
God is serious when it comes to disobedience.
Scripture reading is in 1 John 2:3
Walking in the Light Series
Scripture reading is in Ezekiel 36:14
Being filled with the spirit and the gifts that come with it.
Scripture reading is John 19
Some people missed Jesus when he was here on earth. Make sure you don't miss him either.
Are you living for yourself or for God in total dependent?
Scripture reading is 1 Corinthians 1:4 & 3
Scripture Reading is in 1 Peter 1:13
God can take our Achilles' heel and make us new and holy.
Scripture reading is in Genesis 2 and Isaiah 58:13
We need daily reminders in our lives to point us to Christ.
Takes a look at tithing and the sabbath.
Scripture reading is Ephesians 4
Dr. Kinlaw tells the story of the Snow Queen and how it relates to God.
Scripture reading is in Mark
Dr. Kinlaw talks about trusting God. How it's easy to say, you trust God, but its hard to believe it sometimes.
Simeon was a normal man that loved the Lord and listened to the Holy Spirit. He did not miss it when the Spirit led him to the Temple to meet the Savior he was waiting for. We can be like Simeon, a normal person loving and obeying the Lord.
Dr. Kinlaw walking us through Jesus last week/ moments before the cross.
When we crucify ourselves, we gain Christ.
Scripture reading is in John 12:10
Dr. Kinlaw talks about, how if you miss Christ then you are missing out on life. How having a relationship with Jesus, transforms you into a new person.
This is the third session to the "Want to Know God" series
Scripture reading is in 1 John
The book of John deals with "family" more than any other gospel
This is the first session of the "Want to Know God" Series
Scripture reading is in John 14
Scripture reading is in Genesis
The Beginning book, Genesis, helps us understand the whole Bible better.
Scripture reading Philippians 2
God can set us free from our selfness so we can live freely for others and Him.
This is the last session to the Story in a Story series
Scripture reading is in Revelations 22
This is the second part in the Story in a Story session.
Scripture reading is in Exodus
Stories are important. They a part in a bigger story.
Scripture reading is in Genesis 12
Dr. Kinlaw talks about his personal experience at the 1970 Asbury Revival. He also talks about what is a revival and why it's important.
Dr. Kinlaw explains how the Psalms are a prayer book and how they were used in the past.
The Early Church’s conversations on the Trinity gave us our understanding of personhood today. What they discovered was that Jesus is the only authentic view of a person. Scripture Reading: John 17:20-26
Dr Kinlaw talks about that Asbury College and Francis Asbury Society are two different things. He tells the listeners what the goals of the FAS are. He also tells a little bit about the 1970 revival and his experience at it.
The Church is a witness to the world of what God is about. What is the witness we are to give? Who is God?
Scripture Reading:
Exodus 23:20-22, Exodus 33:12-16, Ezekiel 37:27-28, John 17: 20-23
Commision service at One Mission Society (OMS). The world is not saved through gifts but through people.
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 4
How do you know you are significant? Dr. Kinlaw will tell you in three sermon points and then challenge you on what to do with your significance.
Scripture Reading: Psalm 23
Our interest should not be the Christian life but the Christ in the Christian life. It is about knowing Christ in the daily and being so focused on walking with him.
Scripture Reading: Mark 1
Human association is a grace of God. Individuals can only know themselves by knowing others. God uses the people around us for our sanctification.
Scripture Reading: Colossians 3
What is the purpose of suffering in the life of a Christian? Do we love him for who he is or what he gives?
Scripture Reading: Psalm 57
The most important thing is not in the realm of the visible or measurable but in the realm of the unseen, it is the internal push to be more.
Scripture Reading: Genesis 17
Dr Kinlaw ask the the question of who is the main character of the gospel? We as Christian should be other oriented and not self focus.
Scripture reading is from Exoduses 19
How do we look at scripture? Do we look at a part of the whole story or do we look at the whole story.
Are you pregnant? Has God given you a person to bear in prayer?
Dr. Kinlaw talks about intercession. God interceding for us and how he ask us to intercede for others.
Scripture Reading: Hebrews 9:1-15, Ezekiel 16:1-14
Problem: How can God be with me? Solution: God must act in order to be with us. He must be both Savior and Emmanuel.
Scripture Reading: I Kings 17
Hard times made Elijah who he was. God used those hard times to bring about belief in others. Today, God is able to use your hard times to the same end.
Scripture Reading: Mark 2
How did Jesus communicate that he was God? What made him credible?
Scripture Reading: II Timothy 1: 1-13
A picture of what a relationship between an older man and a younger man should look like.
Scripture Reading: Ecclesiastes 3
An Asbury College President Weekend address, where Dr. Kinlaw shares on kairos–an appropriate time for a specific purpose–and the great role time plays in a young person’s life.
Scripture Reading: Galatians 4:19-31
What does it mean to travail so that Christ might be formed in another?
Dr Kinlaw talks about the trinity, as well as explaining why the Apostle Creed is important to understand.
Scripture Reading: 2 Chronicles 6:12-22, 32-33
What do Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, have to do with Asbury College and the human heart?
Scripture Reading: Exodus 3:1-12
The mountain peak of Scripture and human history– the moment when Moses was introduced to God by God. How did God reveal himself?
Scriptures reading is in Luke 22
Are you living God's best for your life? Learn what is God's best is for your life.
Dr Kinlaw talking to preachers what it means to be a good pastor.
Scripture reading in 2 Corinthians
Scripture Reading is in 2 Chronicles 16
He tells a story about a Chinese student that God worked for, bring her to the USA and taking her home. As well as how exciting it is to be a part of what Jesus is doing in the world.
Scripture Reading is Mark 8
There are Christians, than those Christians that are sold out for Christ. Taking a look at being all of Gods through Mark and personal stories.
Scripture Reading: Revelation 1 and 5A series of stories of Dr. Kinlaw’s time in Russia with Rev. Dr. Sam Kamaleson.
Religion is to know, to surrender, and to release control. Academia is to know about, to subdue, and to control. Knowledge is not secular but a divine commandment.
Abraham is the pattern of faith for us. What does it look like when God calls us away from all we know to give us himself.
We are called to live under one dominant thought: to do what God has for us to do. To do his will. This is purity.
Jesus is the center and if you do not know the center you do not know how anything else relates to each other and you do not know yourself.
Scripture Passage: Romans 1
The Spirit works out the redemptive work Jesus died to give us. Are you grieving the Holy Spirit?Scripture passage : John 16:5-15
Christ is what it is all about for the Christian. Therefore, we are to know about him, confess him, know him, and crown him.
An address to Asbury College students at the beginning of a school year motivating them to work at becoming who God has for them to become. Scripture Passage: Mark 2
Speaking at a literary conference Dr. Kinlaw reflects on the theological influence of English writers such as C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and G. K. Chesterton and what these authors gave to him biblically.
Scripture reading is Psalm 23.
Taking a deeper dive into this chapter to understand the fuller picture of God.
Scripture reading is in Psalm 8
God and man belong together. God does not want to destroy man, but redeem man.
Are we challenging people enough? Are we willing to go bigger or are we alright with just settling where we are at?
Dr Kinlaw talks about the different Malchus' Ears (God's love notes) that He place in our life. Do we see them or do we miss them?
How do we Christians explain the cross to others?
God's Holiness and our spiritual Blindness
Scripture Reading is in Ephesians
Scripture Reading 1 Corinthians
Christ is more important than our rights and the injustice done to us.
Scripture Reading is in 1 Corinthians and John
How different men in history wanted to know Jesus with undivided attention and how it has changed Christianity today.
The conversation with Peter and the disciples in Caesarea Philippi in Matthew 16:13-28 shows Christ as self-giving love who gave himself for his neighbor.
The way of Christ is through a cross, therefore my way should be too. The cross is the difference between a life centered on me and a life centered in Him.
Scripture Passage: Romans 8:1-8, 12-17
Working through Philippians 2:5-11, Dr. Kinlaw unpacks what it means to have the mind of Christ and to walk as he walks. So instead of wondering “What’s in it for me?” we begin to lose our self-interest, vain conceit, murmuring, and complaining and think of others higher than ourselves.
Scripture Passage: John 12:20-28 Four images of Christ that show there is no redemption except in self-sacrifice.
Scripture Passage: Mark 8:27-38 You do not think the way God thinks but as a human thinks.
Scripture Passage:
I Corinthians 12:3
What does it mean to confess Jesus as Lord? How are we able to do this?
After looking at the philosophers, Dr. Kinlaw looks at the social scientists’ comments on the self. Here he talks about intimate love and relationships.
Continuing his thoughts on Jeremiah 10:23, Dr. Kinlaw, focuses on the philosophers and their understanding of self, and the need for an “Other.”
The practical application to discovering the nature of self is to wait on God. To come to God with openness, dependence, and expectation. God is not the God of despair or discouragement but the God of hope.
Using Jeremiah 10:23 Dr. Kinlaw explores how the nature of God unveils the nature of humanity. Self cannot be known in self, but only by looking out. The way of man is not in himself.
Working through Romans, Dr. Kinlaw explains how Christian forgiveness and love are different from the world’s. They are born not out of self-interest but given by divine impartation. There can be a sanctified love (eros), where there is no hypocrisy to your love.
Dr. Kinlaw argues that the focus of the book of Romans is on faith more than justification. It is through faith that the believer allows God to do for him or herself what he or she cannot do. The question is, “Are we believing?"
The base, purpose, and origin of the family is found in the nature of the Trinity. Dr. Kinlaw shares his own personal family stories to illustrate the Fatherhood of God and the key of the family.
Scripture reading is in Act 2
This message takes a look at coming together as a group of believers. How God works differently when are in a group setting, rather than being by ourselves. The importance of being part of Christian fellowship.
In this sermon, Dr. Kinlaw tackles the theology of disease and suffering. He focuses on the “wholeness” present in ancient Hebrew thinking and how it helps us connect suffering with the healing of Jesus.
Dr. Kinlaw expands on his second point from the previous sermon, that God talks. He speaks on the conversion and definition of words, which is born out of God’s eagerness to communicate with us.
Out of Jeremiah 10:1-10, Dr. Kinlaw brings up two points. First, God desires companionship with us, and second, God talks.
This podcast is a continuation of the previous one (The Faith of Abraham), which focuses on the faith of Abraham. However, it takes a New Testament turn where Dr. Kinlaw looks at Jesus’ cleaning of the temple, highlighting the connection between the temple as a symbol and the reality that has come.
The greatest blessing is, what we can give to somebody else rather than what can I get for myself. Dr. Kinlaw talks about how God designed marriage and the family.
Scripture reading is in Jeremiah 6
Taking a look at how Jesus and Jeremiah are similar.
What God wants from us has to be given. God wants us to have a personal knowledge of him vs. scientific knowledge of him.
Scripture reading is in James 2:14
Taking a look at God's symbols and the faith Abraham had in what God has promises to him and his descendants.
Being asked to expound on the doctrine of the Trinity for the United Methodist Church, Dr. Kinlaw approaches the doctrine through a comparison and explanation of Islam and Judaism
Continuing his message on angels, Dr. Kinlaw points to the greater gift that was to come– the Holy Spirit.
Looking at the Biblical message of Christmas Dr. Kinlaw focuses on the angels of the Christmas story and their part in revealing the transcendent
Continuing in Jeremiah, this sermon focuses on the character of God and His invitation for His followers to bear His burdens with Him.
God looked for one person and found none. Who is God looking for? Someone who would call to him.
Scripture Reading is in Mark 8:27 and John 12
God wants us to love him, rather than to just obey him because we have too.
Scripture reading is in Mark 8:27
Jesus asks the Disciples, "Who do you say that I am?" It taking a deeper look at how the disciples responded to his question.
Scripture reading is in the book of Philippians chapter 2. It is walking through the different steps of what it means to have the mind of Christ. To accepted what God has given us without us saying, "Yes, but..."
Note: This Podcast does contain some mature contents near the end.
Dr. Kinlaw gives an overview of the book of Jeremiah highlighting its prophet, history, and theological impact.
In this sermon, Dr. Kinlaw uncovers the heart message of the book of Judges and the central role God is to play in a person's life.
Scripture reading is Romans 5:12-21. Christ’s life, death, and resurrection have made worship possible. We are able to have the Mind of Christ and walk as he walked.
Looking at Romans 1, Dr. Kinlaw focuses on worship and what happens when there is a lack of worship for God. His challenge is that your worship be proper and “single eyed”.
In this Holy Week sermon, Dr. Kinlaw works through five images used to describe our relationship with God.
Scripture reading 1 Timothy 2
While looking at prayer, Dr. Kinlaw explores personhood and reveals that the hope of every person is in someone other than themselves.
Scripture reading John 15:12-14
Prayer emerges from other-oriented love, where one bears another before God without self-interest. In the same way Christ loved us and bore us before the Father.
While exploring Paul’s prayer for the Philippians, Dr. Kinlaw, reveals the mind of Christ and God’s desire to create that mind in you.
Scripture reading is Philippians 1:1-2:24
Scripture reading is John 1:10-18.
A human person is a person in a web of social relationships. As Jesus Christ is the image of God, so he also is the image of perfect personhood.
The family starts with God. Everyone in the family has a role to play that is important. This messages takes a look at how a Godly family should look like.
Scripture reading is in 2 Corinthians 5
2 Corinthians is about how the preacher and his preaching, there is no separation between them in his daily life. No difference from Sunday morning throughout the rest of the week.
Note: This message does contain mature context
Taking a look at the last few Psalms, how they all started with "Praise the Lord," and end with praising him as well.
Scripture Reading is in John 7: 37-39
There are Holy Moments throughout life, Holy days and Holy seasons.
You must lose your soul, to gain your soul. Are you willing to give it all for Christ and see how he can use you?
Scripture Reading is in Hebrew 11
Do you have a hunger for God? The most important thing in our life is not what we do, but Who we know.
Scripture reading is in Hebrew's 11
What does it mean to have Faith with God? No matter what is asked of you.
Scripture reading takes place in Hebrews 9. Looking at how we can know God on a deeper level.
God's symbols are all around us. Dr Kinlaw helps us not miss God and His symbols in our life.
Reading from Zachariah 2.
God can even use the weak to do great things. He wants to work through us to show His glory to the world.
This is the first episode of "The Perilous Journey" serises. Taking a look at the book of Joshua.