Living Word Ministries Podcast: Recent Episodes
Marc Hicks
Listen in as Pastor Marc teaches us to find rest in our identity as sons and daughters of the King!Â
Our God-given strengths, gifts and revelation were meant to be shared with others. Listen in as we learn that giving is better than receiving!
We bring to the partnership a willing heart of obedience to the Word of God, the purposes of God, and the plan of God for our lives. Â
Some special speakers bring our attention to the importance of fostering the fatherless!
Easter Sunday's message to declare what He declared, the good news that there is forgiveness and new life in Him!
The last sermon in a three part series discovering who Jesus is. In this final teaching, learn about the King of kings!
The second in a three part series discovering who Jesus is. Listen as Pastor Marc teaches about our merciful and just Judge!
The first in a three part series discovering who Jesus is. In this episode, Pastor Marc unveils the bridegroom we have in Him!
A church is made up of living stones, we are members not attenders! This sermon is a call to walk worthy of and according to our unique abilities and talents, that we as a church can bring down the gates of Hades.
A call from Pastor Marc to do away with our broken cisterns and daily drink from the Living Waters, abiding in the One who is Peace.
Guests Russ and Shirley Eadie, Pastor Jim and June Roe and Laura and Luther Lovell answer questions regarding marriage.
Donielle Hicks traces back the prophetic history of her life to reveal God's faithfulness to call her and Living Word Ministries to more. There are many prophetic invitations from God in our lives. We see that now is the hour to ask the Lord for the fruition of those prophetic promises.
We live in a culture that births fear into our lives. Although we are one of the more affluent and secure nations of the world we lead in fear and anxiety. God gives us an invitation to enter into peace in all situations.
Being sustained in good works can be a difficult thing when we have so many temptations of pleasure in America. The Lord, knowing our heart, has motivated us with eternal rewards. He calls us to look towards an eternal age rather then this temporal age. As we look towards eternity we will store up rewards that last forever.
God desires that we would respond to His love by loving others in action. We call this good works. When we do works from a response of His love God is glorified. Good works will never earn us salvation, they are our response to salvation.
Many times God moves our heart with His burdens. The burdens of His heart, the injustice of the earth that breaks His heart. These burdens sometime can make us feel uncomfortable. Rather then casting of the burdens we need to respond to them with prayer and action. We respond to our emotions with actions. Jesus moves our heart that we would act.
When our hearts are moved with God's love for Him and people it will demand that we respond with action. We do not define love with action. We can serve people and not love them. We can't love people and not serve them.
Jesus sums up christianity with two commands. Loving God and loving others. In the midst of these two commands he gives a key component to loving others and it is to love ourselves. When we feel love from our Father God it will empower us to love others.
We are called to love one another as God loves us. God loves us not because of what we do, but who we are. We are made in the image of God, in His likeness. We are called to love others according to their image in God, and not who man has made them to be. We must look past the scars on the outside and look to their true identity, sons & daughters of the Most High. The dilemma we have is that the ability to love others is apart from us. God is love and we love because he loved us first. We must behold God's love, to love others well.
Throughout Scripture we see the command to love God and love others. Many times we define love through actions. Although love demands action, the core of love is to value people like Jesus values people. When we see our spouses, friends and enemies through the same lens that Jesus sees them, we will begin to love as He loved even in the midst of rejection.