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The Judgment Seat of Christ: How to Be Ready

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Thirty-Eight

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The Judgment Seat of Christ: How to Be Ready

Every believer will one day stand before the blazing brilliance of Jesus at the Judgment Seat of Christ. It’s not a throne of condemnation but a place of evaluation—where motives, faithfulness, and the quality of our work for God are tested by fire. Paul tells us to “take care how we build” on the foundation already laid, which is Christ Himself. This is no time for autopilot spirituality or half-hearted service. What we build, how we build, and why we build will all be revealed. The question is not whether you’ll be there—it’s whether you’ll be ready. That’s why on this week’s episode we cover, “The Judgment Seat of Christ: How to Be Ready” all on this week’s Light on Life.

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Built on the Powerful Rock: Jesus Is Our Cornerstone

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Thirty-Seven

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Built on the Powerful Rock: Jesus Is Our Cornerstone

Jesus is our cornerstone—the solid foundation on which everything lasting and true is built. In Matthew 21:42, Jesus points to Himself as “the stone the builders rejected” that God has made the cornerstone. What others dismissed, God exalted. What the world saw as weakness, God made strength. Every part of our faith, our hope, and our purpose rests on Him. Without the cornerstone, the structure collapses—but with Christ in His rightful place, everything holds together, steady and unshakable. In this week’s Light on Life podcast, we tackle the subject of how we are ‘Built on the Powerful Rock: Jesus as Our Cornerstone.’

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How to Live Satisfied and Gain Victory Over Strife

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Thirty-Three

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How to Live Satisfied and Gain Victory Over Strife

What does strife mean in the the Bible? For one, it is an ugly thing that should never be the hallmark of the way a Jesus follower lives. In a political world world gone crazy with conflict, the Word of God stands in bold contrast. Proverbs declares ‘it is the glory of a man to overlook an offense.’ There is an old legend that speaks of Hercules and his encounter with a strange animal on a narrow road. Hercules strikes the weird animal with his club and continues down the road. Soon the animal overtakes him, but now it’s three times as large as it was before. Hercules strikes it with speed and fury, but the more he clubs the beast, the larger it grows. Then Pallas, the Titan [the little g] god of war appears to Hercules and warns him to stop. “The monster’s name is Strife,” he said. “Let it alone and it will soon become shrink down to nothing.” This is valuable advice for those of Jesus followers who wish to engage in verbal eye for an eye conflict. Overlook the offense, only then does strife cease.1 We’re talking the negative impact of being a contentious person. How to Live Satisfied and Gain Victory Over Strife, that’s our focus today on this week’s Light on Life.

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What is Carnal Minded and How to Grow Out of It?

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How to Crucify Carnality and Live a Happy Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Thirty-Two

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How to Crucify Carnality and Live a Happy Life

Carnality isn’t a comfortable topic for followers of Jesus, and it becomes even more challenging when we talk about “crucifying” it. Yet, crucifying our carnality is key to a truly happy life. The Bible lays out the keys to real life in Jesus, and who doesn’t want that kind of genuine happiness? The problem arises when there’s a mixture of affections. Many love Jesus, but also indulge in the sins of the world. This creates misery, and happiness evades them. Francis Chan said, “It’s like loving lemonade and Frappuccino and drinking from both instead of one or the other. It will make you sick. Loving the world and loving God will make you miserable.”1 Some things just don’t mix, like oil and water. While some things complement each other, other mixtures are toxic. The interests of the world and God are contradictory; spiritual life and carnality are the same way. They are mutually exclusive. First Corinthians 10:21 states, “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too.” Therefore, the path to real happiness and genuine spirituality involves cutting off the carnal component – what the Bible calls “crucifying.” This week’s Light on Life podcast tackles this very subject: “How to Crucify Carnality and Live a Happy Life.”

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The Importance of Knowing Where Your Faith Lies

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The Truth About What It Means to Be Spiritually Mature

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Thirty-One

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The Truth About What It Means to Be Spiritually Mature

So today, we are going to talk about growing into spiritual maturity. What is that? What is growing up spiritually? How do you know if you are making progress? How do you gauge it? You know a tape measure is a must when you need an accurate measurement. How long is that bolt that you need? About 4 inches? Maybe 5? If you need one that is exactly 4 inches, you’ll need an exact measurement. A random measurement is not effective when you need to be precise. Do you live your life randomly? Have you measured your maturity in Christ accurately? A random measurement is not good enough. The Bible teaches us that we are to measure our spiritual maturity. What are the marks of a mature Christian believer? A thankful heart, prayer, joy, fellowship, confidence in God’s salvation, partnership, growing and discerning love, and righteousness.1 So in today’s podcast, we are going to take a look at what Paul wrote about this subject as we look at “The Truth About What It Means to Be Spiritually Mature” all on this week’s Light on Life.

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What’s the Spirit’s Number One Role in a Believers Life?

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Why You Need to Understand Jesus Crucifixion

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Thirty

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Why You Need to Understand Jesus Crucifixion

Jesus followers everywhere hold His crucifixion on a cross for their sins and that God the Father raised Him from the dead three days later. They demonstrate faith in that truth by the lives that they live. Every departing missionary is an act of faith in the resurrection. When you forgive your enemy, feed the hungry, and defend the weak, you believe in the resurrection.1 When you pray to a God you cannot see, when you believe you receive from Him your need met, you believe in the resurrection. When you walk in love towards others, when you forgive your enemies, when you hold your tongue when other’s speak ill of you, you believe in the resurrection. These beliefs are essential but God wants you to understand the depth of it all. And so He gave in His Word some of the details about what happened after Jesus was crucified. Today, we are going to take a look at some of this as we focus on Why You Need to Understand the Crucifixion of Jesus, all on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why God’s Spirit Is Vital for Your Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Nine

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Why God's Spirit Is Vital for Your Life

In ancient times, the Lord, by God’s Spirit, arrested people’s attention via the use of miracles. You know miracles by definition is where God intervenes, by His great power, and stretched out arm, suspends the ordinary course of nature. One writer said that, ‘Religion had its beginnings with a sense of awe and power outside the visible world. The Spirit came to Samson and he demonstrated miraculous strength. The Spirit enabled Joseph to interpret puzzling dreams and to withstand the hostility of his brothers and sensual temptations in Egypt. The prophets declared the Spirit as righteousness and felt the Spirit within them. The Spirit enabled David to conquer one crisis after another. The Spirit of God devastated Saul of Tarsus and later cleansed and commissioned him to proclaim the gospel. Sustained by the Holy Spirit in the wilderness, Jesus came to His hometown of Nazareth and, standing up in the familiar synagogue, declared: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach” (Luke 4:18).’1 You see, it’s the Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God that’s the common denominator. That’s why in this podcast we will focus on ‘Why God’s Spirit Is Vital for Your Life’ all on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Your Will is A Powerful Help to Healing

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Why the Human Spirit of Man Is the Real You

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Eight

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Why the Human Spirit of Man Is the Real You

Have you ever wondered how the Holy Spirit can enter a human spirit? You know that’s what the Bible says. The Spirit of God will be with you and He will be in you. How can God’s spirit be in your spirit? A.W. Tozer offered this explanation. One quality belonging to the Holy Spirit, of great interest and importance to every seeking heart, is penetrability. He can penetrate matter, such as the human body; He can penetrate mind; He can penetrate another spirit, such as the human spirit. He can achieve complete penetration of and actual intermingling with the human spirit. He can invade the human heart and make room for Himself without expelling anything essentially human. The integrity of the human personality remains unimpaired. Only moral evil is forced to withdraw. The metaphysical problem involved here can no more be avoided than it can be solved. How can one personality enter another? The candid reply would be simply that we do not know, but a near approach to an understanding may be a simple analogy borrowed from the old devotional writers of several hundred years ago. We place a piece of iron in a fire and blow up the coals. At first we have two distinct substances, iron and fire. When we insert the iron in the fire we achieve the penetration of the fire by the iron. Soon the fire begins to penetrate the iron and we have not only the iron in the fire but the fire in the iron as well. They are two distinct substances, but they have co-mingled and interpenetrated to a point where the two have become one.1 The human spirit is the essential part of your being. And so in this podcast, we are going to talk about “Why the Human Spirit of Man Is the Real You”, all on this week’s Light on Life.

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Demonstrating the Glory of God

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Why It’s Essential To Operate In God’s Stunning Wisdom

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Fifty-Three

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Why It’s Essential To Operate In God’s Stunning Wisdom

In order to maintain our connection with God’s wisdom, it is crucial for us to also recognize and understand the wisdom of the world, which opposes it. Solomon’s life serves as a powerful example of how even the wisest person can become a fool if they do not continue to walk with God. Despite being blessed with immense wisdom and understanding beyond measure, Solomon eventually strayed from the path of the Lord and committed evil acts. This foolishness, or folly, as described in the Scriptures, is something we should strive to avoid. That is why, in this week’s episode of Light on Life, our main focus will be Why It’s Essential To Operate In God’s Stunning Wisdom all on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Your Powerful Victory Over Satan’s Wisdom Is Certain

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Why Growth Is An Essential Mindset For Jesus Followers

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Fifty-One

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Why Growth Is An Essential Mindset For Jesus Followers

As with any earthly parent, the expectation of God, our Heavenly Father, is that His children grow. Now, that’s a valid expectation because that’s how God wired creation in the first place. All of creation grows. It never stops growing. Way back in Genesis when God said, let there be light, that was actually a statement of growth. When God spoke those words, light propelled forward from inside of Himself at the magnificent speed of 186,000 miles a second. Light has never stopped traveling, never stopped growing since that day. It’s no surprise that things grow. One day a lady asked a question of her landscape gardener. The question caught him off guard. “Will you say that again, ma’am,” said the landscape gardener? The lady-of-the-house waved her hand to include several acres of the woodland she was having landscaped. This is what the lady said — “I want a picture of how it will all look when it’s finished—fish pond and rose garden included. Could it look like this picture in Better Homes and Gardens?” The gardener replied, “Hard to say, you know, we’re dealing here with living things. I can show you a pattern, I guess, but these things grow. Okay? So you’re going to have to keep on planting, cultivating, and trimming. Who’s to say what it will look like some day? It’s just never going to get finished growing!” … “I had no idea I was hiring a philosopher,” [my friend] said over coffee. “But that little speech reminded me that growth doesn’t stop when we reach our full height.” 1 We’re talking about growth today. Why Growth Is An Essential Mindset For Jesus Followers all on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Jesus Shocking Bread of Life Statement is the Only Way to Heaven

Bible reading is not just about gaining knowledge, it’s about providing food for your spirit man so that your spirit man can grow. Share on X
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What Does A Spiritually Mature Jesus Follower Look Like?

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Fifty

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What Does A Spiritually Mature Jesus Follower Look Like?

What does a spiritually mature Jesus follower look like? Great question, right? If we are asking — ‘what does a mature believer look like? — it stands to reason that there must be a picture somewhere that we can compare to. How else would you be able to measure yourself? In the physical world, a tape measure is a must when you need an accurate measurement. How long is that bolt that you need? About 4 inches? Maybe 5? If you need one that is exactly 4 inches, you’ll need an exact measurement. If you’re trying to set a piece of furniture in your house, do you just wing it or do you measure? A random measurement is not effective when you need to be precise. Take this idea over into our spiritual life. Do we live our live’s randomly? Are we just coming to church and winging maturity? Is there a way to measure our maturity in Christ accurately? There must be — after all, we’re talking the Creator of the Universe here. The one who according to Job [26:7], stretched out the north over the empty places and hung the world on nothing. God never wings anything so a random measurement is simply not His style. So in the Bible, God laid out for us how we are to gauge spiritual maturity. What are the fundamentals of Christian growth? In Hebrews, God gives us six elementary precise principles all tied up for us in chapter six. Throughout the rest of the Word of God, we are given other benchmarks like, a thankful heart for example, or your body as a house of prayer, or the joy of the Lord as a measure of strength. There are other bull eyes to hit of course. We may get into some of them later on. These measured pictures are in place so that we can lift our eyes and look upward. The images of maturity are available — God took the guess work out of it for us.1 So in this podcast, we are going to take a walk on the mature side of the Jesus life as we endeavor to answer the question, ‘What Does A Spiritually Mature Jesus Follower Look Like?’ All on this week’s Light on Life.

What is Carnal Minded and How to Grow Out of It?

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Why Quality Decisions Can Positively Frame a Better Tomorrow

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-Nine

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Why Quality Decisions Can Positively Frame a Better Tomorrow

Quality decisions, good God honoring choices, frame the future. You are where you are today because of the decisions you made yesterday. On her golden wedding anniversary, a certain grandmother revealed the secret of her long and happy marriage. “On my wedding day, I decided to choose ten of my husband’s faults which, for the sake of our marraige, I would overlook,” she explained. A guest asked her to name some of the faults. “To tell the truth,” she replied, “I never did get around to listing them. But whenever my husband did something that made me hopping mad, I would say to myself, ‘Lucky for him that’s one of the ten.’”1 You see this grandmother made a decision and stuck to it so much that she realized fifty successful years happily married to the same man. You are today the total of the decisions, commitments, goals, and systems you made yesterday. You may think, wow, “I’m not a good place today — life is messed up for me right now.” Well, here’s some good news for you. God is a good God and the game of life is not over yet. As long as you have breath in your lungs, you can make different decision that will frame your tomorrow. Why Quality Decisions Can Positively Frame a Better Tomorrow, that’s our focus on today’s edition of Light on Life.

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The Role of the Spirit in the Life of A Believer

Walking in love is a decision and not a feeling. God’s love is not an emotion. It’s a policy. Share on X