Piney Grove's Podcast: Recent Episodes
Larry Stephens
Piney Grove is a church that love the Lord Jesus Christ and the nations. We are a church that upholds the Word of the Lord and seeks to make the name of Jesus famous through out our community and the world. Hear Pastor Larry bring the word ever Sunday.
There is a threefold message incapsulated within the text. In Philemon we find, the love we should have for one another, the faith we have in Christ and each other, and the intercessors we should be one for another.
Philemon is considered as one of the Apostle Paul’s letters from prison. Paul wrote this particular letter close to the year 60 AD to Philemon in reference to one of his servants Onesimus. Paul met Onesimus, led him to the Lord, then pleads for Philemon to accept Onesimus back to his home. This is an open demonstration of grace and mercy, and It speaks volumes to you and I.
To put this book into perspective with the rest of the Pauline letters, this book only contains about 300 plus words in the original Greek language which it was written. Such as small book with a powerful and potent message. As we venture into another year of reflecting the Advent [...]
Joh 20:31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. This episode in the narrative, shows the importance of making disciples. With the important command, “feed my sheep,” we find there is work to be done until the Lord returns or calls us home. It is John’s intentions to show how the Risen Lord made an impact on all of them, and turned their disbelief into true faith and submission. HE confronted the disciples and they believed, they saw the Risen Lord, heard Him speak, felt His wounds. The apostles needed these encounters with the Risen Jesus to empower them for the mission ahead. They needed the empowering from the Spirit of God to set the bedrock for the early church and beyond. Thomas needed to feel the wounds before He cried out, “my Lord and My God,” as an act of worship. We saw in our message last week, how Thoma [...]
I want to share today, from God’s Word, the reality of what occurs when we truly encounter the Risen Lord. In the day in which we live, when the world has turned to pointing the finger at everyone else, we need the transformative work of the Holy Spirit badly. We live in a world that makes Adam and Eve’s blame game in the garden look like a picnic. In a world where people doubt and fear everything and everyone, we need Jesus all the more. We are easily offended and want to march against everything and everyone, we get offended so easily. What happened to the days when we could handle tough stuff, the days when it took a lot to offend. We live in a world that is not kind, sin and the curse is evident all around us. People it is time we put on our big people pants and act like we have some sense, it is time to turn the world on its head with the transformative work of the gospel. It’s pretty easy, speak much of Jesus, live out you [...]
There is a still a bit of uncertainty surrounding the resurrection of Jesus among the early disciples. It wasn’t too far back on the narrative when we read of Mary at the empty tomb, with tears in her eyes, crushed under the heavy burden of the sting of death. She was so moved by the loss of Jesus, see didn’t notice the angels were angels, nor did she recognize it was Jesus that she spoke to either. She supposed Him to be the gardener. Joh 20:15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” It was only after He called out to her, “Mary,†that she recognized Him as the Lord and ran off to tell the others that she had seen the Lord. The Lord was constantly teaching His disciples and training them. It becomes v [...]