Podcast: Download (Duration: 38:36 — 35.3MB)
158: Knowing Grace (3)
1/22/2012
Scriptures:
Hebrews 8:10-12
John 8
Luke 15
Luke 7:34
John 3:16-17
Philippians 2
Posts Tagged ‘Bobby Triplett’
158: Knowing Grace (3)
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012157: Knowing Grace (2)
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012Podcast: Download (Duration: 30:49 — 28.2MB)
157: Knowing Grace (2)
1/15/2012
Scripture:
Matthew 5:48
Matthew 6:5-15
Luke 12:31-32
Luke 11:5-13
Hebrews 8:6
1 Peter 1:13-25
Quotes:
“God doesn’t reveal himself to us just to make us happy or to deliver us from loneliness. He also comes to us so that we can in turn be conduits of his presence to other people. He invites us to join him in making things down here the way they are up there. This news is the best news.”
- John Ortberg
“The direct experience of God is grace indeed, and basically there is no one to whom it is refused.” In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us—that we be men and women of prayer, people who live close to God, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it. As Merton said in the last public address before his death, “That is his call to us—simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.”
- Brennan Manning
156: Knowing Grace (1)
Saturday, January 14th, 2012Podcast: Download (Duration: 38:17 — 35.0MB)
156: Knowing Grace
1/8/2012
Scripture:
Isaiah 43
Ephesians 2:4-13
Titus 2:11-14
Matthew 11:27-30
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Quotes:
“Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
- C. S. Lewis
“At the last judgment Christ will say to us, “Come, you also! Come drunkards! Come weaklings! Come children of shame!” And he will say to us: “Vile beings, you who are in the image of the beast and bear his mark, but come all the same, you as well.” And the wise and prudent will say, “Lord, why do you welcome them?” And he will say: “If I welcome them, you wise men, if I welcome them, you prudent men, it is because not one of them has ever been judged worthy,” And he will stretch out his arms, and we will fall at his feet and we will cry out sobbing, and then we will understand all, we will understand the Gospel of grace! Lord, your Kingdom come!”
- Fydor Dostoyevsky
“When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves–that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.”
— N.T. (Tom) Wright
155: WITH – Christmas Eve
Saturday, January 14th, 2012154: WITH – Immanuel God Makes the First Move
Monday, December 19th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 28:23 — 26.0MB)
154: WITH – Immanuel God Makes the First Move
12-18-2011
Scripture:
Isaiah 7:13-17
Isaiah 8:9-10
Proverbs 16
Isaiah 9:2-7
John 1:14
Matthew 1:18-23
John 3:16-18
Quotes:
“The story of the Bible isn’t primarily about the desire of people to be with God; it’s the desire of God to be with people.”
- John Ortberg
“Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.”
- Oswald Chambers
“God has come down to us, Jesus walking on planet earth… here… simply astounding… and how did he come? Flesh. God Arrived with skin, the Divine in the form of a sweaty laughing boy playing with other kids in a narrow street on a summer afternoon. That’s how God Chose to connect with us… to deliver us, to come for us. He didn’t send a note and Email, a check, a cosmic event, a mandate, or an image on a toasted cheese sandwich. When God came to man, when Be Came … Be Became Flesh. The God of the world in a body like yours and mine. Why does it matter? Because you can Touch Flesh. You can identify with flesh; you can wrap your arms around flesh and feel its heartbeat. You can hear the voice of flesh and look into its eyes. And if you are looking for a sacrifice for the sins of all mankind … you can pierce flesh and it will bleed. You can nail flesh to a cross.”
- Louie Giglio
153: WITH – Live and Move and Breathe
Monday, December 12th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 33:45 — 30.9MB)
153: WITH – Live and Move and Breathe
12-11-2011
Scripture:
1 Peter 1:3-5
John 10:9-16
Psalm 119:169-176
2 Peter 1
Psalm 95:6-7
Matthew 6:6
John 15:4-15
Ephesians 4:30
Quotes:
“Heaven is not a cute little word we paste on the casket to give death some sense of meaning. Rather it is the name we give the heart of redemption the moment we choose to really live.”
- Bobby Triplett
“For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own fife, not by rationalizing it but by living it.”
- Thomas Merton
“Now, if God doesn’t also speak to us, why would he have given us all these stories of him speaking to others? “Look-here are hundreds of inspiring and hopeful stories about how God spoke to his people in this and that situation. Isn’t it amazing? But you can’t have that. He doesn’t speak like that anymore.” That makes no sense at all. Why would God give you a book of exceptions? This is how I used to relate to my people, but I don’t do that anymore. What good would a book of exceptions do you? That’s like giving you the owner’s manual for a Dodge even though you drive a Mitsubishi. No, the Bible is a book of examples of what it looks like to walk with God. To say that he doesn’t offer that to us is just so disheartening. It is also unbiblical…”
- John Eldredge. Walking with God
“What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.”
― Oswald Chambers
“Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.”
- Andrew Murray
152: WITH – Heaven is the Consolation Prize
Monday, December 5th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 28:53 — 26.4MB)
152: WITH – Heaven is the Consolation Prize
12-4-2011
Scriptures:
Revelation 21:12-14, 21-27
Titus 3:3
Revelation 19
Philippians 3:20-21
John 17
1 Peter 1:3-5
Quotes:
“All through the Bible we read about the God who longs to be on earth with His people. What happens at the end of time? God establishes His kingdom on earth. Consequently, the mark of a true follower is not someone who wants to escape to heaven forever, but one who looks forward to spending eternity in the new heaven that will come to earth. “The goal isn’t escaping this world but making this world the kind of place God can come to. And God is remaking us into the kind of people who can do this kind of work.”
- Rob Bell
“There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
- Oswald Chambers
“HEAVEN is important… but it Is not the end of the world.”
- N.T.Wright
151: WITH – Why This Matters To Us
Sunday, November 27th, 2011150: WITH – Broken Postures and Responses
Sunday, November 20th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 33:46 — 30.9MB)
150: WITH – Broken Postures and Responses
11-20-2011
Scriptures:
Ephesians 1:3-12
John 5:34-40
John 6:25-26
John 6:35-40
Philippians 3:2-14
Quotes:
“Our assumptions control our interpretation of events, and they supply a great deal of the momentum and direction for our lives.”
- John Eldredge. Walking with God
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
- C. S. Lewis
“Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.”
- Oswald Chambers
149: WITH – Reqium of Intention
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 29:03 — 26.6MB)
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149: WITH – Reqium of Intention
11/13/2011
Scriptures:
John 1:1-5
Genesis 1:26-28,31
Genesis 2:5-9
Psalm 8:3-6
Revelation 21:1-8
Jeremiah 24:7
Romans 5:12-21
Quotes:
“Here is an example: If your story begins in Genesis 3 with people being really bad, then your gospel will be, ‘We have to deal with the sin thing.’ And if it begins with the world is bad and people are bad then the highest…is figuring out how to evacuate and go somewhere else. If your story begins in Genesis 1, it begins with a poem of creation…and God has said, ‘I made this big, beautiful world and I put you in it. Now you go make something big and beautiful.’ If your story begins in Genesis 1 and 2, well that’s a fundamentally different story. Then no longer is the fundamental problem getting rid of sin. The gospel then is restoration and redemption and renewal and return to how God always intended this.”
- Rob Bell
“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
- C.S. Lewis
“The story of the Bible isn’t primarily about the desire of people to be with God; it’s the desire of God to be with people.”
- John Ortberg
“The Primary Promise: I Will Be with You The central promise in the Bible is not “I will forgive you,” although of course that promise is there. It is not the promise of life after death, although we are offered that as well. The most frequent promise in the Bible is “I will be with you.”
Before Adam and Eve ever sinned or needed forgiveness, they were promised God’s presence. He would walk with them in the cool of the day. The promise came to Enoch, who “walked with God.” It was made to Noah, to Abraham and Sarah, to Jacob and Joseph and Moses and David and Amos and Mary and Paul and too many others to list. It is the reason for courage: “Do not be terrified;. . . for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” It kept them going in darkness: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.” The central promise in the Bible is not “I forgive you.” The most frequent promise is “I will be with you.”
At the end of time, when sin is a distant and defeated memory and forgiveness is as obsolete as buggy whips, it will be sung, “God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.”
- John Ortberg”
“Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives. It’s why God created us. Not simply to believe in him, though that is a good beginning. Not only to obey him, though that is a higher life still. God created us for intimate fellowship with himself, and in doing so he established the goal of our existence-to know him, love him, and live our lives in an intimate relationship with him.”
- John Eldredge. Walking with God
“If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior. ”
― D.A. Carson
“Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, “God, you don’t know what it’s like! You don’t understand! You have no idea what I’m going through. You don’t have a clue how much this hurts. The cross is God’s way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, ‘Me too.’”
― Rob Bell
