Episodes
Monday Sep 26, 2016
Live It Well - Mark Brauss
Monday Sep 26, 2016
Monday Sep 26, 2016
⌂The Problem of Sin ….. I John 2:1-2
□ Jesus is our Advocate …. Hebrews4:14-16
□ Jesus is the Righteous One
□ Jesus is the Atoning Sacrifice …. Hebrews 7:23-28
⌂ Knowing Him …. I John 2:3-6
◊ Obey? - - - - - Lying ↔ Truth
◊ The Test → ……must live like Jesus did.
•Simplicity ….. “Follow Me!” …Matthew 16:24-25
•Mindset ….. Philippians2:5-8
•Fruit of the Spirit …. Galatians5:22-23
⌂ Old - - - New Command ….. I John 2:7-8
○ Old → Leviticus 19:18
○ New → John 13:34-35
○ Darkness →→→ ☼ Light! …. John 8:12
⌂ Light ☼ ↔ Darkness●
►The World → ….. John 3:19-21
⌂ Application …. 4 NEEDS
1. I need to go to Jesus when I sin.
2. I need to know the Lord by obeying His commands.
3. I need to yield to the Holy Spirit to ‘live like Jesus.’
4. I need to love others.
Monday Sep 19, 2016
Walking In the Light - Bob Levin
Monday Sep 19, 2016
Monday Sep 19, 2016
“Grand Canyon immersion”… eternal life vs. 1-2
John 14:6
Family affair… fellowship vs. 3-4
III John 4
Walk in the light… vs. 5-7
Stains on the soul… confession & forgiveness vs. 8-10
> never without sin
Romans3:23
Hebrews4:15
James4:17
Luke18:10-14
> guilt versus conviction
Revelation12:10
I John 2:1… Hebrews 7:25
John16:8
Psalm32:3-5
> faithful to forgive
James 1:17
Hebrews 13:8
> just to forgive
I John 2:2
I Peter 3:18
Monday Sep 12, 2016
A Letter For Our Time - Bob Levin
Monday Sep 12, 2016
Monday Sep 12, 2016
A letter for all time
I John 2:26, 19,22; 1:1
Truth… “aletheia”
Culture &truth… John 18:38
Jesus &truth
“I am truth”… John 14:6
“your word is truth”… John 17:17
The believer& truth
“the truth shall set you free”… John 8:32
“you know the truth”… I John 2:21
Love… “agape”
John’s lens…John 11:3; 5:42; 21:15; 13;23
Love & Christian transformation … John 14:21
God is love…what’s that look like?... I John 4:8-9
Cultural confusion-- agape… phileo… eros
Love in truth… I John 3:18
Sunday Sep 04, 2016
Labor Days - Bob Levin
Sunday Sep 04, 2016
Sunday Sep 04, 2016
Work…
…. a blessing?
Genesis2:15
Exodus20:8-11
The Greco-Roman world was not alone in looking down upon manual work. That attitude was common throughout the ancient world. The God who liberated the Jews worked for six days and commanded human beings to do the same. That is the opposite of Hindu tradition, which conceives of God as a mediator for Yogesh war (“god of Yoga”)
…Vishal Mangalwadi
One of the greatest causes of poverty in the developing world is the lie that work is meaningless…A major component of the Judeo-Christian worldview, however, is the dignity of labor, and this is one of the key tools for lifting people out of poverty.
… Darrow L. Miller
… a curse?
Genesis3:17-19
Biblical mandate for technology—“work smarter, not harder”
God is architect, builder,technologist… Genesis 1:1
Humans, in image of God, commissioned to
“rule & subdue physical world”… Genesis 1:26-31
Contrasting world views
Animism - “spirit in the tree” >>> fear, placate physical world
Buddhism >>> escape physical world,not use it
Hinduism- reincarnation, fatalistic, caste
>>> ‘born above work… born to carry dung’
It is virtually impossible to find a Brahm in guru in traditional India who resembles the Apostle Paul—a rabbi who made tents for a living. Brahmins said that manual work was the duty of lower castes, a result of badkarma from their previous births. Mahatma Gandhi was the first Indian leader who… [tried to]import the Pauline work ethic into India
…Vishal Mangalwadi
From the hour of their birth some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.
… Aristotle
Only a society with a theological climate that values human dignity begins using technology as a force for human emancipation and empowerment.
…Vishal Mangalwadi
The chief glory of the later Middle Ages was not it cathedrals… it was the building for the first time in history of a complex civilization which rested not on the backs of sweating slaves or coolies but primarily on nonhuman power.
… Lynn White, Princeton professor of Medieval history
Personal work vision
Colossians 3:23
I Corinthians 10:31
Recommended reading—The Book That Made Your World by
Vishal Mangalwadi