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How to Maintain Constant Contact With Our Awesome God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Thirteen Episode Nine

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How to Maintain Constant Contact With Our Awesome God

Walking with God was never meant to be a once-a-week event—it’s an everyday, moment-to-moment life of constant contact. In this Light on Life teaching, we build on the responsive life and show why responsiveness requires real-time connection: asking before you move, obeying when He speaks, lifting others in prayer, and seeking Him with your whole heart. We anchor the possibility of constant contact in Isaiah 26:3—learning to “lean” our mind on the Lord for perfect peace—and we trace what constant contact produces: increased awareness of God’s presence, wells that become rivers, and a prayer life that stays engaged. Finally, we talk about protecting your progress—because distraction is one of the enemy’s favorite devices, and contact doesn’t drift into your life… you choose it. How to Maintain Constant Contact With Our Awesome God. That’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

This Week: Constant contact with God is possible—lean your mind on Him, stay engaged in prayer, and choose the good part over distraction.

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How to Live a Responsive Life with God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Thirteen Episode Eight

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How to Live a Responsive Life with God

Walking with God is not a once-a-week experience — it is an every day reality. But knowing that truth raises a deeper question: how do we stay responsive to Him in the ordinary moments of life? Jesus did not merely give us doctrine; He revealed The Way — a distinct path marked by asking, obeying, lifting others in prayer, and seeking the Father’s direction continually. The responsive life is not complicated, but it is intentional. It is the daily choice to follow His leading rather than our own thinking, to seek His will rather than assume we already know it, and to walk in step with Him instead of walking ahead of Him. Because the question is not whether God is speaking — the question is whether we are responding. And that’s our focus in this episode: How to Live a Responsive Life with God on this week’s Light on Life.

This Week: Ask before you move. Obey when He speaks. Lift others in prayer. Seek Him with your whole heart.

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How to Never Lose Ground Spiritually Again

Podcast: Light on Life Season Thirteen Episode Five

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How to Never Lose Ground Again

To climb the mountain of spiritual growth requires faith in God’s ability to keep you moving upwards. In this Light on Life teaching, we explore Jude 24 and uncover God’s promise of a steady, no-slip, sure-footed walk in His ways. This passage in Jude 24 isn’t about repenting after you fall. It’s about something way more dynamic that’s available to you as a child of His. This passage is about God’s ability to keep you from falling in the first place. You will see from the Word of God that Scripture shows that God lights your path, secures your steps, and guards your footing as you walk the Jesus life. If you are tired of slipping spiritually, then this message is for you. You can regain lost ground in the Name of the Lord. You can choose a no-slip, Jesus is Lord life, by faith in God. How to Never Lose Ground Spiritually, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

This Week:  God is able to keep you from stumbling; you can regain lost ground and stay steadily increasing in Him once and for all.

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Profitable Elements that Elevate Your Word Life in God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Thirteen Episode Four

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God’s Word is life to those who find it and health and healing to all their flesh— so says the writer of Proverbs. Jesus said His Words are Spirit and life. That’s monumental. In this Light on Life episode, we look at what it means to build a profitable Word life and why spiritual increase doesn’t happen by wishing—it happens by applying yourself. Using the picture of a climber driving pegs into rock, we learn that growth takes effort, and effort not applied becomes lost ground. If you want to press upward, refuse spiritual drift, and grow strong in God, this message will give you Profitable Elements that Elevate Your Word Life in God, all on this week’s Light on Life.

This Week: Build a profitable Word life—press upward, refuse drift, and drive Scripture pegs into your daily walk.

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How to Construct Your Prayer Life on God’s Word

Podcast: Light on Life Season Thirteen Episode Two

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How to Construct Your Prayer Life on God's Word

Many believers know they should pray more, yet few have been taught how to intentionally build a prayer life that grows stronger over time. Jude 20–21 gives us a clear blueprint: we are to build ourselves up in our most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit and staying anchored in God’s love. In this episode of Light on Life, we explore prayer as a construction project—adding floors, strengthening foundations, and learning how to both pray to God and talk with Him. We also uncover the biblical connection between prayer, leadership, and global gospel impact, showing why praying for all people and all kings is not optional but essential for God’s purposes in the earth. That’s why we our focus today is How to Construct Your Prayer Life on God’s Word.

This Week: Build intentionally—pray in the Spirit, stay focused on God, and expand your prayer life beyond yourself.

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Why Your Lifetime Commitment Should Be God’s Secure Word

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Forty-Nine

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Why Your Lifetime Commitment Should Be God’s Secure Word

In a culture filled with confusion, deception, and competing voices, the Book of Jude delivers a sobering warning that believers cannot afford to ignore. Jude 12–16 exposes the dangerous nature of false teachers—hidden reefs beneath calm waters, shepherds feeding themselves, and wandering stars destined for darkness. In this Light on Life teaching, we confront the spiritual instability of our age and call believers back to one unshakable anchor: God’s secure Word. When emotions lie, culture shifts, and voices multiply, Scripture alone tells us where we are, where we’re going, and how to land safely. That’s why Jude is intense—because God is intense about protecting His people from spiritual disaster. Why Your Lifetime Commitment Should Be God’s Secure Word, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

This Week: Why spiritual survival depends on a lifetime commitment to God’s secure Word.

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How To Spot Rogue Teachers Threatening The Faith Of Believers

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Forty-Six

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In today’s world, some so-called spiritual leaders make bold claims, but behind those claims often lies a dangerous deception. Jude’s warning about false teachers is just as relevant now as it was in the first century. These individuals speak against what they don’t understand, rely on their own instincts instead of truth, and follow the destructive path of Cain. Jude pulls back the veil on their arrogance, ignorance, and harmful influence—not to scare believers, but to strengthen them. In this episode, we’ll dive into how these behaviors manifest, why they’re so dangerous, and how we can stay anchored in truth when deception is disguised as spirituality. This week on Light on Life, we focus on How to Spot Rogue Teachers Who Threaten the Faith of Believers.

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How to Start a Power-Packed Effective Church: Lessons from Thessaloniki

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Eighteen

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How to Start a Power-Packed Effective Church: Lessons from Thessaloniki

How does one pioneer a power-packed effective church? That’s the question today. We are going to take a look at how the call of God and the zeal of the Lord upon the Apostle Paul turned into a power-packed Church in one of the ten most influential cities in the Roman Empire, the city of Thessaloniki. Now, one thing is certain from the following illustration — this is not how Paul did it. You know, about 350 years ago a shipload of travelers landed on the northeast coast of America. In the first year, this group of pioneers established a town site. The next year they elected a town government. In the third year, the town government planned to build a road five miles westward into the wilderness. In the fourth year, the people tried to impeach their town government because they thought it was a waste of public funds to build a road five miles westward into a wilderness. Who needed to go there anyway? Is that wild or what? Here were people who had the vision to travel three thousand miles across an ocean and overcome great hardships to get there. But, once they got there, in just a few years they were not able to see even five miles out of town. They had lost their pioneering vision1 F.B. Myer said, that the church that refuses to be a missionary church will become a missing church. the Apostle Paul didn’t get saved to sit — He got saved to be sent. The result of his obedience to go? The powerful church at Thessaloniki. How to Start a Power-Packed Effective Church: Lessons from Thessaloniki, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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How to Become an Expert at Swinging the Sword of the Spirit of God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Fourteen

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How to Become an Expert at Swinging the Sword of the Spirit of God

We’ve arrived. Today, we take a look at the final piece of the armor of God, the Sword of the Spirit. What is the Sword of the Spirit? Well, the scripture says that it’s the Word of God. So, our interaction with the Bible is necessary when we engage the levels of devils that come against us to steal, kill, and destroy. One gentleman, Robert Boardman wrote an article entitled, The Neglected Exercise, What will you miss if you don’t read your Bible every day? In it, he said that in the early 1970s, he accompanied a small tour group into a country that was difficult to enter. In one city of about 500,000, we found only one church left open by the authorities. All over the city, we could distinguish former church buildings turned into museums, warehouses, offices, or military barracks. In that solitary open church, we joined about fifteen bystanders, including several youths, watching a stand-up worship service. The worshipers numbered ten elderly women, one elderly blind man, and a handful of children. A priest wafted incense and recited some incantations. Then he brought out a huge, bejeweled Bible, carefully unlocked it, and read a portion from the Old Testament and another from the New. He then locked the Bible and, to our astonishment, one by one the eleven elderly worshipers came by and reverently kissed the ancient Holy Book. As we came out of that forlorn but open church building, many thoughts raced through our minds. One thing we were sure of was that the onlooking young people were thinking, If this is Christianity, it deserves to stay in the Middle Ages. What we saw was a ritualistic, clergy-dominated religion where the people had no access to a Bible of their own. It was locked away from them. How many versions of the Bible do we have in the free world? Hundreds I’m sure. I have an invaluable study book called The New Testament from 26 Translations. Do you and I take advantage of the unlocked, abundant versions of the Bible in our homes and libraries? Or do our negligence and apathy make the Bible a locked book? That was Robert Broadman’s insightful comment. Let me ask you a question based on what you’ve heard. How does the Bible become the Sword of the Spirit that it needs to be if you treat it as a locked book? How to Become an Expert at Swinging the Sword of the Spirit of God, that’s the focus of this week’s Light on Life.

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Just Who Is Jesus to You? Encore

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One Necessary Component You Need for Spiritual Growth in God

The Bridge Commentary: The Epistle of First Peter

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The Word of God is the Key to Spiritual Growth

The earliest African converts to Christianity were earnest and regular in their private devotions. Each one reportedly had separate spots in the thicket where he poured out his heart to God. The several paths to these little ‘Bethels’ became distinctly marked; and when anyone began to decline in devotions, it was soon apparent to others. They would then kindly remind him, saying, “Brother, the grass grows on your path yonder.”1 Being regular in your time with God is a key to spiritual growth as the Apostle Peter lets us know in his second epistle.

Why You Don’t Have to Be Sick in Light of the Bible

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The Word of the Lord Is Like A Fire

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The Word of the Lord Is A Fire

How’s Your Fire?

Jeremiah said the Word of the Lord in him just lit his heart up like fire.

Jeremiah 20:9 (GW) — 9 I think to myself, “I can forget the Lord and no longer speak his name.” But ⌊his word⌋ is inside me like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I wear myself out holding it in, but I can’t do it any longer.

If you think about the Word of God long enough, if you ponder it and meditate on it like the Psalmist David did in Psalm one,

Psalm 1:1–3 (GW) — 1 Blessed is the person who does not follow the advice of wicked people, take the path of sinners, or join the company of mockers. 2 Rather, he delights in the teachings of the Lord and reflects on his teachings day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted beside streams— a tree that produces fruit in season and whose leaves do not wither. He succeeds in everything he does.

You will come to a place just like Jeremiah where His Word is so strong in you that you can’t hold it in. You have to just let it go.

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Why You’re Bored in Church and How to Overcome It

The Epistle of Galatians

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In last week’s blog, we looked at one of the first signs to look for when people are disconnecting from their first love. The scriptures warn us about taking this path. They warn us about abandoning our first love (Revelation 2:4). The Greek word ‘abandon’ means ‘to give up’ or ‘to let go’. Jesus knows where your heart is. He knows if you’re giving up or letting go. Which way are you trending, up or down? In today’s post, we are going to look at the second sign people transmit when they are considering defecting from the from the ranks: boredom. If you’re seeing this sign in yourself, beware.

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