Food For Your Soul

It's always a fun question to ask, "If you could have one superpower, what would you want it to be?" But the far more important question is this: "What would you do with it?" If God gave you unlimited access to divine power for the next 30 days, how would you use it? Peter is going to teach us what God's power is for, and how to get a lot more of it than you have.

Why can you resist 99 out of 100 temptations, but certain ones get you every time? Today's podcast will show you the three things that will give you the abilty to have long term victory in those troublesome areas.

1) We suffer painful consequences for sin, and yet we never seem to learn. Why aren't the painful consequences enough to get us undeceived? 2) What is the role of the Holy Spirit in all this? 3) How do we overcome the feeling that I can commit this sin and then repent afterward, so I go ahead and do it? 4) How can we use pleasure to undeceive our desires? 5) What if you haven't experienced enough delight in God's presence to compete with the pleasure of some sin?6) Where is the line where a good gift becomes sin?

When you lack self control, what's in control of what you do? We all need to increase our self-control. So we are devoting this entire season of the Food For Your Soul podcast to discover what Scripture says about how to gain greater self-control with step-by-step instruction on how to break free from whatever enslaves you. This season begins with a deep dive into exactly how temptation works in your soul (episodes 1-7). This lays the foundation for the rest of the study. If you enjoy the episode, please consider subscribing to the podcast and leaving a 5-stars rating. This helps others find the podcast. My sermons are the fruit of nearly 30 years of pastoral ministry, biblical counseling, formal seminary training, and a lifelong passion for God's Word. Since childhood, I've been drawn to the beauty and power of expository preaching—opening Scripture verse by verse and applying it to real life. After graduating from Moody Bible Institute, I spent the next 27 years serving as a youth pastor, senior pastor, c

When you lack self control, what's in control of what you do? We all need to increase our self-control. So we are devoting this entire season of the Food For Your Soul podcast to discover what Scripture says about how to gain greater self-control with step-by-step instruction on how to break free from whatever enslaves you. This season begins with a deep dive into exactly how temptation works in your soul (episodes 1-7). This lays the foundation for the rest of the study.

When you lack self control, what's in control of what you do? We all need to increase our self-control. So we are devoting this entire season of the Food For Your Soul podcast to discover what Scripture says about how to gain greater self-control with step-by-step instruction on how to break free from whatever enslaves you. This season begins with a deep dive into exactly how temptation works in your soul (episodes 1-7). This lays the foundation for the rest of the study.

When you lack self control, what's in control of what you do? We all need to increase our self-control. So we are devoting this entire season of the Food For Your Soul podcast to discover what Scripture says about how to gain greater self-control with step-by-step instruction on how to break free from whatever enslaves you. This season begins with a deep dive into exactly how temptation works in your soul (episodes 1-6). This lays the foundation for the rest of the study.

When you lack self control, what's in control of what you do? We all need to increase our self-control. So we are devoting this entire season of the Food For Your Soul podcast to discover what Scripture says about how to gain greater self-control with step-by-step instruction on how to break free from whatever enslaves you. This season begins with a deep dive into exactly how temptation works in your soul (episodes 1-6). This lays the foundation for the rest of the study.

When you lack self control, what's in control of what you do? We all need to increase our self-control. So we are devoting this entire season of the Food For Your Soul podcast to discover what Scripture says about how to gain greater self-control with step-by-step instruction on how to break free from whatever enslaves you. This season begins with a deep dive into exactly how temptation works in your soul (episodes 1-6). This lays the foundation for the rest of the study.

When you lack self control, what's in control of what you do? We all need to increase our self-control. So we are devoting this entire season of the Food For Your Soul podcast to discover what Scripture says about how to gain greater self-control with step-by-step instruction on how to break free from whatever enslaves you. This season begins with a deep dive into exactly how temptation works in your soul (episodes 1-6). This lays the foundation for the rest of the study.

When you lack self control, what's in control of what you do? We all need to increase our self-control. So we are devoting this entire season of the Food For Your Soul podcast to discover what Scripture says about how to gain greater self-control with step-by-step instruction on how to break free from whatever enslaves you.

Have you ever wondered what makes a sin evil? Why are some evils so much worse than others? Most people think it's all about how many people are hurt by your sin, but that doesn't square with Scripture. Some of the worst, most vile of all sins don't affect people at all. What, exactly, is the definition of evil?

Do you ever feel like you must have been home sick the day the Holy Spirit handed out gifts? You see the amazing giftedness of others, and it just feels like you really don't have much to offer? If you're a believer, then you have a gift. It may be that it seems ineffective, because you're offering it to the wrong people.

The main wish of every New Testament writer for us is that we would receive more grace. The Holy Spirit inspired them to say some form of "Grace to you" 31 times. If it's that important for us to get more grace, why do we so seldom ask God for more grace in our prayers for ourselves and others? This message aims to open your eyes to the astonishing value of grace.

In Mark 6:5 we read the astonishing statement, "Jesus could not do any miracles there." What was it about that place that prevented miracles? And is it possible for you or me to do something that would create the same circumstance?

It's fashionable these days for people to claim agnosticism when it comes to belief in God. It's ironic. It's the most important topic there is, and yet it's the one thing educated people take pride in not knowing. They figure a person can't be expected to know everything. That's certainly true—you can't be faulted for that. But at what point is it your fault when you remain ignorant about something?

We left off last time with Jairus just getting word that his little daughter is dead. She's dead because Jesus dragged his heals and took so long to come. But Jesus goes to his house anyway, shows up hours after the girl died, walks into the funeral, and says something that made everyone think he was a lunatic.

Imagine how your life would be different if God turned one specific part of his sovereign control over to you. God was still in charge of what happened and what didn't happen, he still decided what blessings you got and didn't get, he still chose whether to say yes or no to your prayers—everything remained the same except this one thing: he turned the timing of it all over to you. It was up to you to decide when everything would happen. How would your life be different?

Have you ever experienced some terrible loss and felt like you didn't know how you would go on? You were afraid of the sun coming up tomorrow because it doesn't feel like you'll be able to handle life now? Today and next time we're going to see how Jesus helps a man who felt like that after losing a child.

If some little green man from Mars landed in the United States today and asked the question, "What matters most to these people? What defines them?—the answer would be clear. In our culture, right now, it's sexual preference, skin color, and gender identity. Those are the things our culture thinks define you. They are the most important elements of who you are. You can make fun of someone's profession, their religion, their education, their ancestry, their culture—all that is fair game. But you can go to jail for saying something about their sexual preferences, skin color, or gender identity. How did we come to define ourselves with such superficial things? And what's the true indication of our identiy?