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Episode 102-From the Inside Out
First, to renew our minds we can no longer just go with the flow. We have to ask ourselves, is this really what is best for me or is it just what my flesh wants?
Renewing Your Mind
For years I prided myself on being a rational thinker, so why didn’t my mind convince me to eat the right things? I wanted my mind to automatically tell me what to eat to be healthy. However, I was going about things the absolute wrong way. I finally figured out my...
Becoming Living Sacrifices
What does it mean to become a living sacrifice? I have to admit when I hear that I always think of the reverse: the walking dead. That usually means zombies or evil things but being a living sacrifice is far from that. It means to be alive to what Christ wants for us...
Episode 101-Surrender Delights God
Why should we surrender to God? Because our surrender delights God. If there is anything we should want to do it is to please God. Surrender also has great value for us on our journeys which also delights God.
Why Don’t We Listen To God?
“Why didn’t you listen to me when I told you to stop eating sugar the first time back in 1977?” God asked me the other day.I had been thinking about Romans 11:33-36 and when He asked me that question I saw three reasons why I didn’t and they all come from that passage...
Seven Strategies of Grace
Throughout the scriptures, we see glimpses of the strategies of how grace works. I didn’t really understand that very much until I went on my weight loss transformation journey. Then I began to see the many facets of grace. God’s grace is so vast that we really don’t...
Episode 100-Listen to God
Why don’t we listen to God? The other day I was jogging in the water and pondering what I would share on this podcast. I had been reading Romans 11 for several days but I had decided I was going to go on to do the next podcast on Romans 12 because I understood how it fit into my journey. Still, the last four verses of Romans 11 kept calling me back.
Episode 99-Grace is Amazing
God’s grace is many-faceted because it is as vast as God. Grace is the DNA of God. It’s what He is made of. The grace of God cannot be explained or contained in a few words, but I see at least seven words that help us understand how grace operates in our lives.
What Beautiful Feet!
To me, not many people’s feet are beautiful, but to God all of the feet of His children are beautiful. How do I know? One of my favorite scriptures appears in Romans 10:15 NIV. It says, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” Back in 1989, a friend...
Episode 98-How Beautiful
“How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” It’s right there in Romans 10:15 NIV. It’s also elsewhere in the Bible but it is quoted here to emphasize the fact that no one can become a Christian unless someone first shares with them the good news of who Jesus is. I first began to understand this scripture back in the late 1980s when a friend and I began what at the time felt like was to be my life-long destiny.