Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
1,571 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago -Be With Me is a daily 7 minute chronological walk through the New Testament hosted by Michael Smith. It is for everyone who is curious about what Jesus actually said and did in the gospels. Most episodes will leave you with at least one good thought to chew on for the rest of the day. We start with the Bible and hopefully end with Awe. We are walking through the chronological events of Jesus' life and then thoughtfully considering them. It is meant to spur the devotional life of the Christian and the not-yet-Christian. We occasionally venture into the Old Testament when it helps our understanding of the New Testament events. Everybody has 7 minutes. Everybody needs to wonder. Be With Me is hosted by Michael Smith who has absolutely no special qualifications to do a podcast. He is not a pastor. He has not been to seminary. He does not lead a mega-church. He is not a professional and he has no more credentials than you do. He does, however, follow a great God with an observant eye and a curious heart. Each day, he starts with a study bible and aims for astonishment. ‘be with him’ for 7 minutes as he sets out daily to discover the God who invites us to ‘Be With Me.’
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Hesed In The New Testament S18e11 Titus 3:4
July 11, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.2 MBSend us a Text Message. What happens when our treachery encounters the goodness, the kindness, and the rescue of God? It is called HESED in the Old Testament. It is when those who have no right to expect anything, are given everything. This character of God doesn't change from the Old to the New Testament. The language of the Bible changes from Hebrew to Greek, but the character of God is the same. Listen 7 minutes to one of the best passages about this character of God. Bewithme.us...
We’ve Got People In The Water! S18e10 Titus3:1
July 10, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 4.98 MBSend us a Text Message. Man Overboard! We've got people in the water! This is no time to be wondering what the authority structure on a ship looks like. You need to BE READY and have that issue not be the main thing over and over. The last thing you want when you have people in the water is some sailor debating, "You're not the boss of me". We are part of a rescue team to a bunch of knuckleheads in the water who cannot save themselves. We cannot be proud because we too were just like th...
A People For His Own Possession S18e9 Titus2:14
July 09, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.59 MBSend us a Text Message. God has gone to great lengths to make a people for His own possession. He came and basically gave everything to make it happen. He loves this group of people. He has a special place for this chosen, peculiar, "privately owned" people. It is Sunday morning...and SO SHOULD WE. I hope this very day you are drinking your coffee and getting ready to gather with a group of people-possessed-by-God. He cannot wait to be with them and neither should we. I'll see you in c...
ADORNING The Gospel Beautifully S18e8 Titus2:9
July 08, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.09 MBSend us a Text Message. Paul reminds Titus, and old men, old women, young men, young women and even bondservants to WATCH THEIR BEHAVIOR. Everybody needs to be "reputationally aware." We have received a beautiful gospel. It's even called the GOOD NEWS. It is a beautiful thing...don't sully it. Keep it free from REPROACH by watching your actions, your teachings, your words and your life. Don't let the reputation of God be impaired by your reputation. Do let the reputation of God be ADORNE...
Spiritual EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE S18e7 Titus2:6
July 07, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.42 MBSend us a Text Message. I'm likening the fruit of SELF-CONTROL to that of Spiritual EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE. It is to defer immediate gratification for the benefit of future gain. It is to give up what you want NOW to make possible LATER that which you cannot live without . It is a part of the Christian walk for everybody, but especially for the young. Older folks are to teach and to train the young in it. They'll need some help, just like you did. Listen 7 minutes to start to get our ...
Elderly Out To Pasture Or In POSITION? S18e6 Titus2:2
July 06, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.81 MBSend us a Text Message. If you think Older Men and Women in the church are "put out to pasture" and sidelined, then join me for 7 minutes as we disabuse you of that notion. It couldn't be further from the truth. In Scripture, we find older men and women dynamically involved, engaged and critically positioned. It is as if they are desperately needed in their roles and established character. If this doesn't describe you, then grieve and GET GOING. The Church needs you! bewithme.us and A...
Healthy Teaching Begets Healthy Practice S18e5 Titus1:13
July 05, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.19 MBSend us a Text Message. Sound doctrine begets sound faith Healthy doctrine develops healthy fruit Sound teaching protects sound Christians Good teaching is inseparable from good practice You cannot have a healthy church without healthy teaching. You cannot have a healthy podcast without healthy Biblical teaching. Listen 7 minutes and see if we got it right. bewithme.us to subscribe
Teaching With EXPLOSIVES s18e4 Titus1:9
July 04, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.18 MBSend us a Text Message. Or, maybe FIREWORKS. Happy 4th of July! The word used for the quality of teaching in our elders is the same root as our word DYNAMITE. He should be POWERFULLY able to teach. He should be mighty in it. He should be able to teach, not "in a pinch", but in POWER. Then he should have a strength of ATTACHMENT to the Word. He should be devoted to it to the point that it would be difficult to separate him from his connection with the Word. This is how you keep power under...
Bearing HOLINESS To This World S18e3 Titus1:8
July 03, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.72 MBSend us a Text Message. We are asking that our pastor/teacher/overseer bear the marks of exposure to a holy God that he live in THIS world, yet carry the imprint from another world that he BRING BACK essential elements needed HERE from visits THERE that he be characterized by exposure to this Holy Person of God in a way that is noticeable, identifiable and desirable. In short, we are asking him to be HOLY. Listen 7 minutes to this tall ask. Come back tomorrow at bewithme.us for an eas...
Bearing Marks Of Exposure S18e2 Titus1:7
July 02, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.14 MBSend us a Text Message. Titus is putting to order the church in Crete by attention to its' leaders. They are supposed to be people whose lives demonstrate an exposure to another world. This exposure then, is seen in this world by their character. Join me as we look at some of the characteristics that make for a good leader in the church. We'll look at his marriage, his home, his habits, his tongue, his fuse, and his wallet. No aspect of his life is off limits for examination. Why? Bec...
I’m Sorry For Your Loss S18e1 Titus1:4
July 01, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.4 MBSend us a Text Message. When one goes to a funeral we console those who are the children and the grandchildren of the person who dies. Similarly, there are spiritual children and grandchildren that could be consoled when their spiritual parents die. Paul calls Titus such a person: my spiritual CHILD. Paul writes a letter to his spiritual son and of course includes all the good stuff. We have that letter! It is here for us to listen-in on! We hear the heart of a spiritual father to his spir...
GUARD These TREASURES S17e35 Review 1tim 4-6
June 30, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.08 MBSend us a Text Message. Paul charges the younger Timothy to: GUARD the treasures you have Don't make a SHIPWRECK of your faith Don't SWERVE from the truth Don't WANDER away Don't PIERCE yourself with any self-inflicted harm Don't Depart from the faith You have received a TREASURE. Your job is to KEEP IT. GUARD the good deposit entrusted to you. Review chapters 4-6 of 1 Timothy with me. bewithme.us@gmail to subscribe to the next chronological book, Titus.
My FAVORITE THINGS In 1 Timothy S17e34
June 29, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.1 MBSend us a Text Message. Join me for a 7 minute romp through my FAVORITE THINGS in chapters 1-3 of 1 Timothy. Here's just one: The church uniquely, and most clearly manifests Him, for it is the assemblage of the indwelt of God. Because He has given us the household of the living God (3:15), to rip yourself out of the hands of fellowship is to rip yourself out of the hands of God. Another early favorite: We want pastor/teachers who have studied the Word and are STRUCK with their own sin...
O Timothy, GUARD! S17e33 1tim6:2
June 28, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.12 MBSend us a Text Message. Paul gives Timothy a final CHARGE but it is with a HEART. O Timothy... GUARD what you have been entrusted. Value it. Protect it. Guard the DEPOSIT. It has been imparted to you. You have been trusted with it. Don't SWERVE. Stay on the path. Don't turn. This is serious business. Guard the treasure you have and don't turn from it. Too, entrust this with others who later will entrust this to others. Repeat as necessary. Bewithme.us to subscribe.
The TRUTH About RICHE$ $17e32 1tim6:18
June 27, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.18 MBSend us a Text Message. Riches are: temporary. There will be none as we know it in the next life. uncertain. Moth, rust, theft and unknown returns on investment. haughty-factories. Riches can separate us from people because they can cause us to say "I am above you". Christianity is all about serving. competitive. For our HOPE that is. The Truth about rich people is they should: be RICH, but in good works. Abound in justice and love and action be GENEROUS. In reality. With an actual o...
How’d I Get To Be Immortal? S17e31 1tim6:16
June 26, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.51 MBSend us a Text Message. You are 100% immortal. You will live forever. How did you get to be that way? Well, the God who created you had to have the capability to make you that way. He had to be immortal. You are immortal because the Immortal One gave it to you. I know that death and funerals and decay are a part of this world we live in. We weren't created that way, but it came with the curse. But, that status is temporary and death is going to be defeated in the end. We are all 100...
IMMORTAL=Death-less-ness S17e30 1tim6:16
June 25, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.02 MBSend us a Text Message. God is a bit ironic. Jesus knows no sin, yet was viewed as having sin so He could take the penalty for sin away for all believers. That's in 2 Cor 5:21. Similarly, He is the only IMMORTAL. Immortal means deathlessness. He is immortal yet, He takes on death so we don't have to experience death in its' fulness. We have a deathless God who is known to have born death for us. We have an IMMORTAL God who is known to have born mortality for us. We are going to worsh...
Don’t Be That Guy S17e29 1tim6:14
June 24, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.08 MBSend us a Text Message. Christ is perfect and in the end, no one in heaven or hell will have a single criticism about Him. However, until then, what we do HERE affects His reputation. What I do now can affect what people think about Jesus. My words and actions influence what people think about Jesus. My behavior at home, work, and in the church can positively or negatively reflect on Jesus' reputation. Let's be well-thought of now so that Jesus is well-thought of until that day comes. ...
FLY, You FOOLS! S17e28 1tim6:11
June 23, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.32 MBSend us a Text Message. In an epic battle of Gandolf vs. Balrog in Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien warns through Gandolf's parting charge, "FLY YOU FOOLS!" Aarogon, Frodo and his company then run for their lives. Certain evils are best fought by taking flight. Similarly, Paul warns Timothy to FLEE certain things. Why? To live to fight another day; to be free to fight other battles, and to follow after the good stuff. Join me for 7 minutes as we listen to these two giants of the faith. ...
Sticking Yourself With A Fatal Needle S17e27 1tim6:10
June 22, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.01 MBSend us a Text Message. Nobody wants to pierce themselves with a fatal needle-stick. But that is exactly what those who have the love of money; who crave it are doing TO THEMSELVES. Let's not let money be an ultimate desire. If we let it, it will have to displace other desires such as love of the Lord. Listen 7 minutes for the revelation of a surgical-suite-secret about potentially fatal needle-sticks. It will apply to our desire to be rich. bewithme.us Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
How To Be Truely Wealthy S17e26 1tim6:6
June 21, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.54 MBSend us a Text Message. God tells us how we can be truly wealthy. He is the great treasure; the great gain. No believer would trade her adoption into the family of God for the wealth of the Rockefeller's. The most financially poor Christian is more wealthy in every important way than Elon Musk. The next world operates without money. There, Capital has no Capital and currency has no currency. So let's leave this world possessing the "pearl of great price": Jesus Himself. You cannot get...
Teachers Who LOVE MONEY S17e25 1tim6:5
June 20, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.19 MBSend us a Text Message. The caution today is: DON'T FOLLOW TEACHERS WHO THINK GODLINESS IS A MEANS OF GAIN$. The caution tomorrow is DON'T BE THE PERSON WHO THINKS GODLINESS IS A MEANS OF GAIN$. The risks are high: piercing yourself with many pangs; plunging into ruin; into a snare and destroying yourself. Basically, you can cause yourself a spiritual shipwreck by a financial shipwreck. Don't do it. Please Listen 7 minutes. I appreciate your consideration. bewithme.us is a good place ...
Results Of REGARDING Rightly S17e24 1tim6:1
June 19, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.04 MBSend us a Text Message. Probably no one listening to this podcast is a slave or a bondservant. We all have Christianity to thank for that. But, everyone who is listening is a WORKER, so there are applications to be made. How we REGARD, how we let our mind precede our actions; how we let our thinking LEAD THE WAY, is a foundational principle of Christianity. ALL WORK IS A WITNESS OF this INTERNAL REALITY. Work reflects the way we REGARD in our mind. It will reflect on whether the truths...
Elders That Stand In FEAR S17e23 1tim5:20
June 18, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.06 MBSend us a Text Message. What happens when elder/pastor/teachers fail? Fortunately, the Bible has an answer for that. There is a discipline process that is public and probably painful. Why? So that we never want to do it again. Specifically, so that in a holy way, other Elders can "Hear and Fear" and take all necessary steps to stay out of sin. What kind of men do you want over you? What kind of men does God want over you? Elder/overseers that STAND IN FEAR. These are the careful shep...
Those Who Rule Well S17e22 1tim5:17
June 17, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.3 MBSend us a Text Message. What kind of a leader do I want positionally over me in the church? One who RULES WELL. It is not an easy job. The bad news is you can do it wrong. The very good news is that there are men WHO RULE WELL. These are EXACTLY the kind of people we want leading us in our churches. They are worthy of double honor from our hearts. If they are full-time-vocational elders, then we shouldn't withhold actual wages from them. All elders-leaders-shepherds-overseers are involved...
The Office NOBODY WANTS s17e21 1tim5:8
June 16, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.8 MBSend us a Text Message. There is an office or role THAT NOBODY WANTS: that of WIDOW. Today we learn what these people should be like before and after they occupy the office they did not ask for, that of being a widow. Fortunately, God has a special place in His heart for the Orphan, the Stranger and the Widow. It is all through the Bible. It is very prominent in 1 Timothy as Paul instructs Timothy about "proper widow behavior" and about proper behavior TOWARDS widows. Who is a true wi...
HONOR The True Widows S17e20 1tim5:5
June 15, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.19 MBSend us a Text Message. Join me for 7 minutes as we HONOR the true widows. we will find them torn from their husbands we will find them torn from their children we will find them marked by tragedy we will find them all alone and not nearly alone we will find them all alone, and ONLY HIS OWN Admire with me these giants of the faith who stand tall til the end. Value them with me as we learn of their faithfulness in tragedy, in marriage, in motherhood, in hospitality, in service to the ...
Visual Definition Of ENCOURAGEMENT S17e19 1tim5:1
June 14, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.68 MBSend us a Text Message. You might remember the Olympic moment from 1992 when a sprinter ruptured his hamstring and his father, Jim Redmond, somehow ran to his side to help him finish the 400 meter race. This best defines "ENCOURAGEMENT" which is more than "You can do it." It is more like, "We can do it TOGETHER." With the exhortation comes an ARM. Sometimes a person just needs to be carried for a bit. Join me for 7 minutes as we honor this moment that Jim Redmond forever became known for....
Bring Them All Home With You S17e18 1tim4:16
June 13, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.13 MBSend us a Text Message. Listen 7 minutes to a very encouraging Word from 1st Timothy. If you are an athlete, you will strongly relate to Paul's charge to WORK OUT in godliness. It involves WORDS, both God's and your own. It involves WITNESS to everybody around you. It involves some work, toil, striving and effort. The big question is, "Why work out spiritually?" Here's the answer: to bring them all home with you. Try to get everybody around you on the bus to heaven with you. It wil...
Deceitful demonic Doctrine Devotion S17e17 1tim4:1
June 12, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.26 MBSend us a Text Message. Imagine calling your mother and telling her that you are devoted to deceitful demons and now follow the liars that promote their doctrine. She'd be horrified. But that is exactly what young Timothy was up against. Paul cautions against leaving the TRUTH, and the Pastors who teach the TRUTH. It is a sobering call to dial up our devotion to the Lord and His leaders. Listen 7 minutes as we learn of a modern concern taught from a time long ago. Listen to your mother...
We Confess This Is GREAT! S17e16 1tim3:16
June 11, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.09 MBSend us a Text Message. Jesus came in a way we could understand; in a body we are familiar with; in a world we occupy; and amidst troubles we understand. But something is required of US. He asks "just one thing" of us. What is required of YOU is to BELIEVE what was required of HIM. He requests that what was required of Him be agreed upon by you. It is a great thing that we have before us. We confess this is GREAT! Bewithme.us or write at [email protected] to subscribe for a daily ...
The ASSEMBLAGE Of The INDWELT S17e15 1tim3:15
June 10, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.21 MBSend us a Text Message. Why should I go to church? What makes the church so very special? The church is not a building. It is an ASSEMBLAGE. It is a gathering of the people that He indwells. We don't "find God" in temples, or in nations or in particular cities anymore. We find God in PEOPLE. He's commanded us to gather these people together every Sunday morning to display Him in a unique way. If all you "get out of church" is something like, "I liked the message", you are missing th...
R U Ready For Deacon/Deaconessing? S17e14 1tim3:8
June 09, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.38 MBSend us a Text Message. It is a fair question to ask: Are you ready to be a deacon/deaconess? To assess this the individual and the church looks at: family: what do our kids, spouse, and marriage demonstrate about us? words: what do our words represent about us? character: how does our self-control, money, and reputation reveal readiness? God has an interest in the kind of person He indwells. The church has an interest in the kind of person that represents her. Let's each at least ask...
STUNG by 1000 Bees S17e13 1tim3:6
June 08, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 4.98 MBSend us a Text Message. The falling of a pastor into the disgrace of pride is rarely a recipe for Kingdom growth. When the pastor falls, he is spoken poorly of; God is spoken poorly of; and the people the pastor leads are spoken poorly of. He is TRAPPED first, then he TUMBLES, and then it's on TV. The ripples of his pride effect, through no fault of their own, the whole congregation. So choose carefully before you lay hands on a new elder/pastor/teacher guy. Let's have him around for a ...
True In YOUR House_GOD’S House S17e12 1tim3:4
June 07, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 4.92 MBSend us a Text Message. For the potential Elder/Shepherd, what is true in YOUR house will be true in GOD'S House. That is, it is fair game to look at the management and instructional content of his home to get a glimpse of whether he will be a good manager/teacher in the church. Specifically, the ask is whether SUBMISSION has been a LIFE SKILL that he has committed his family to. It is a critical life skill that is important in students, in soldiers, in workers, in Christians, in citizens ...
Fight Like A Christian S17 E11 1tim3:3
June 06, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.37 MBSend us a Text Message. In many ways, Pastors/Elder/Teachers/overseers are in the greatest of battles every day. How should they be fighting? LIKE CHRISTIANS. Look with me for 7 minutes at the character with which they should be fighting. Today we'll focus on not violent but gentle and not quarrelsome. Finally our Teachers should be free from the love of money. I ask: has any lasting legacy of goodness ever been produced by a "pastor" with a JET? Yes, sometimes I am just hilarious. bew...
Teachers With HANDS OVER THEIR MOUTHS s17e10 1tim3:2again
June 05, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.08 MBSend us a Text Message. Elders are supposed to be skillful teachers. If they have had such sincere exposure to the Word, somewhere along the way they should have been STRUCK with their own sin. They should be the most sinfully-aware people on the planet. They should also be the most SHATTERED people in the world, for God breaks everybody to piece when they really come to Him. Like Job, they also should be SILENCED in Awe-filled respect and be standing before God with their HANDS OVER THEI...
SILENCED TeacherPastorElder S17e9 1tim3:2
June 04, 2023 07:00 - 7 minutes - 5.23 MBSend us a Text Message. The office of Pastor/Elder/Overseer/Leader/teacher should be occupied by a man who: has STUDIED the Word has SUBMITTED under the Word has SHUT HIS MOUTH before the Word has BEEN SHATTERED Upon the Word has been STRUCK with their own SIN as prodded by the Word has been SOBERED by the holiness of the WORD has been SILENCED BEFORE THE WORD THEN and only then will you find a man who is truly SKILLFUL with the WORD, that is ABLE TO TEACH. Have such men for your p...
What Kind Of Men Does God Want? S17e8 1tim3:2
June 03, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.22 MBSend us a Text Message. If only God would tell us what kind of men He wants to pastor us! If only we knew a few criteria. Well, wonder no more. God has made it abundantly clear. Be above reproach. Be well thought of by OUTsiders. Be a one-woman-man; husband of one wife; single person of one future wife Be sober-minded. Be not controlled by drink. Be a person that demonstrates self-control. Here's the trick, all of these are also some pretty good qualities for every single believer an...
Who You Gonna Call? S17e7 1tim3:1
June 02, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.36 MBSend us a Text Message. When the police come to your door...When the Doctor has the biopsy results...When your spouse says, "I don't love you any more"...When the horror of your sin finally STRIKES you...WHO YOU GONNA CALL? We will find out today the qualifications of the person on the other end of the phone. There are 15 of them. They are hard. They are comprehensive. They are public and private. They are in the church and out. When you make that call, you have the God-ordained office ...
Thriving Roles In The Church S17e6 1Tim2:12
June 01, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.35 MBSend us a Text Message. God cares about His Church. God cares about the people of His Church; the gender of those people and the roles and offices they occupy. God cares about what happened in the Garden of Eden God cares that His Church be effective and of authentic display of Him God cares that His Church thrive. Listen 7 minutes today and everyday. Bewithme.us or [email protected] to subscribe for 7 minutes daily.
START HERE: God Desires All People To Be Saved S17e5 1tim2:4
May 31, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.32 MBSend us a Text Message. If this was the only thing you knew about God, at least it would be a GOOD START: God DESIRES ALL people to be SAVED. I guess there is some bad news: you start as a person who IS NOT saved and needs to be SAVED. But God's character is such that HIS DESIRE is ALL PEOPLE be SAVED. We have a very strong advocate in our corner. He is ABLE. He is sufficient to the task. There is a ransom available. Let's let it ring in our ears one more time: GOD DESIRES ALL PEOPLE T...
SHIPWRECKING YourSELF S17e4 1tim1:19
May 30, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 4.9 MBSend us a Text Message. In a Mediterranean Sea culture, nothing is more catastrophic than being SHIPWRECKED. Paul uses that picture of people putting THEMSELVES at peril by their actions, agency and antagonism. The spiritual walk is the SECOND most difficult thing. It involves the work of thought, habit and behavior. Yup, it is hard. What could be worse? Well, try being SHIPWRECKED, and knowing it is you who did it to YOURSELF. Subscribe to bewithme.us and Spotify so you can shipwreck-...
A Glorious Day S17e3 1tim1:17
May 29, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5 MBSend us a Text Message. How do we "give glory" to our God who ALREADY has all gloriousness and will ALWAYS have all glory? I bend my UNDERSTANDING and get by brain-tool fired up about it I bend my ATTENTION to things that are a bit difficult to understand; For eyes to see the invisible. I bend my HEART towards, and lean into these actions I bend my WORDS to "re-give" you characteristics that you already have. But now I "give" you these from this acre, from this person, from this mouth....
The BEST SINNER In The World S17e2 1tim1:15
May 28, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.32 MBSend us a Text Message. I am the #1 sinner in the world. So says Paul. But, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. So, I guess that makes me (Paul and all the other #1s out there) #1 on His list. A big powerful God is necessary for this. We cannot do it ourselves. It was good of Him to come. He loves this world enough to come and then do what only He could do: RESCUE all those #1 sinners out there. I HOPE you are one of the desperate, grateful, humble #1 sinners out there toda...
SWERVING From A Rescue S17e1 1tim1:6
May 27, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 4.93 MBSend us a Text Message. The folks in Ephesus SWERVED from the real RESCUE they had in Jesus: they swerved to SPECULATION rather than the STEWARDSHIP of truth they swerved to GENEALOGIES rather than Jesus they swerved to LAW rather than the LORD'S LOVE they swerved to PEOPLE rather than PROMISES made true in JESUS they swerved to SELF righteousness rather than a SAVIOR'S righteousness He's given us a way out of our bad situation. Let's not SWERVE from it! Bewithme.us or bewithme.us@gma...
Where RAINBOWS Become REAL S16e5 Philem20
May 26, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.63 MBSend us a Text Message. Philemon is a book where Paul asks the real man Philemon to put his faith into reality; and make his rainbows real. It is a book that challenges beliefs to become BOOTS; FEELINGS to become FORGIVENESS and the THEORY of Christianity to be TANGIBLE. This part of the Bible seeks EFFECTIVE rainbows; sentiments that have RESULTS. It is a challenging book. It changed Philemon's world. It changed the whole social order. May it change YOUR WORLD. May the RAINBOW of this ...
I Want To See A BENEFIT S16e4 Philem20
May 25, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.76 MBSend us a Text Message. Paul reminds Philemon that because he enjoys Christian fellowship, there is supposed to be some evident fruit from it; there is supposed to be a demonstrable BENEFIT in his actions. The call for Philemon is high, as Paul is asking him to FORGIVE a guy named Onesimus and now call him a brother. That is, he should be in a forever-relationship with you in God's church there in Colossae. It is the second hardest thing in Christendom. So, if you are a Christian, Jesus...
Who Exactly Is The RUNAWAY BUNNY? S16e3 Philem17
May 24, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.31 MBSend us a Text Message. Paul makes the tall-ask of having Philemon receive back the RUNAWAY BUNNY in his life, Onesimus. So what might motivate this change of heart? Paul reminds Philemon that he, Philemon himself, was the RUNAWAY BUNNY at one time. Paul received him into family fellowship. Jesus received him into family fellowship. When? Well, when he was undeserving, unwashed, and unforgiven. Because we all were the RUNAWAY BUNNY, we should be changed in how we treat the other RUNAWAY ...
Getting A LETTER FROM GOD s16e2 Philem10
May 23, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.4 MBSend us a Text Message. One day, Philemon wakes up and literally gets a LETTER FROM GOD. It had all the trappings of being a letter from PAUL, but it was later recognized by the Church to truly be a message for Philemon and the rest of us from the Almighty Himself. If you got a literal letter from God today, what would it say? Would it be a letter of COMFORT? God knows humanity, suffering, sickness, and yes, even death. Perhaps it would be a letter of HELP, or of ENCOURAGEMENT to believe,...