Salvation and Stuff
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Salvation and Stuff is a weekly podcast hosted by Micah Coate. It's aim is to engage, encourage, and enlighten all people towards a deeper faith in Jesus.
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William
December 16, 2022 01:14 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBWilliam Episode 27: Hello, thank you for joining us today! It takes a near act of God for someone to stand back and view themselves, and their culture with a wide angle lens - To rise above their own time and view things from an eternal or heavenly perspective. Everyone can and usually does critique history quite well when they look back on time… But it’s something special and rare for one to do it in real time and space with grace and with truth. It is nearly impossible for people to int...
Patricus - The Saint of Ireland
June 22, 2022 18:02 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBDeep feelings and endless thoughts of revenge captivated the young man’s mind. For two weeks now, all he had thought about was the retribution he would inflict upon his captors when he got free, if he ever got free — something he knew would never happen. Just a fortnight ago the sixteen-year-old had been enjoying his fairly sheltered life as a Roman citizen on the west coast of Britain near the small town of Bannaventa Berniae. From all the comforts that came with having a father who was a ...
The Return of the Christmas Bells
December 25, 2021 21:38 - 18 minutes - 17 MBWhile the coming of December once evoked warm sentiments for the upcoming celebration of the birth of Christ, it had been overshadowed by the harsh weather that was only going to get colder. “One of the season's jokes was that Dante had been wrong, and that hell was not hot at all, it was, in fact, as cold as a Romanian apartment in winter.” (1) But, even if the apartments were warm, Christmas was not celebrated, and even though ninety percent of Romanians belonged to the Christian Orthodox ...
Charles, Billy, and the Bible
December 01, 2021 19:51 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBCharles - Part 1 Charles Templeton was born October 7th, 1915 in Toronto Canada. With four other siblings in the midst of the depression, the family learned to adapt on meager wages. Everyone in the family had to do their part. Young Charles, picked up drawing and was quite talented at it. So, after failing to pass the 9th and 10th grade, he pursued his knack of drawing sketches, hoping that someone might find value in his work and purchase them. Charles was pleasantly found right - the 17...
John
July 28, 2021 20:51 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBJohn Gresham Machen was born on July 28, 1881. It was prosperous time - the gilded age of America. Skyscrapers were going up as well as wages. The Machen family was affluent. John’s mother Mary came from a wealthy family and was a devote Presbyterian. She was a voracious reader and had even published a work on the Bible and poetry. She was 21 years younger than her husband, Arthur Webster Machen, a successful lawyer and an Episcopalian. But despite the couple’s different Christian affiliati...
Jordan
April 26, 2021 21:42 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBIn February of 2020, the man slowly awoke from a deep sleep. Not a deep sleep like he had been out all night, but a deep sleep like he had been in a coma. Actually, a medically induced coma that lasted for over a week. The fifty-seven year old man had been completely unconscious for nine days. And if he was arousing from a nightmare, the reality he awoke to was much worse. As his eyes opened, the man noticed he couldn’t move. Not because his body wasn’t working, but because his body was stra...
Ravi - His great and tragic legacy
March 15, 2021 02:17 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBAt seventeen years old, the young man, depressed by his grades in school, and his average ability in playing Cricket found himself contemplating suicide. He didn’t know that the maximum number of suicides in India occur just after school examinations, but he definitely felt the weight of having never attained academic excellence and the shame it would surly bring to his family. He simply didn’t care and he didn’t want to live anymore. Although his parents were Christians and he went to chur...
Trailer
January 11, 2021 00:13 - 5 minutes - 5.29 MBHello! Welcome to Salvation and Stuff - I’m your host Micah Coate. I am of the opinion that God is always speaking to us. Undoubtedly, God speaks to us through His word, the scriptures but also through times past. As Paul said in his letter to the church in Rome “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” (Romans 15:4). One major part of this podcast is Biblical Theology...
George on Giving Thanks
November 23, 2020 03:38 - 7 minutes - 6.75 MBIf there ever was a time to discuss faith and politics by cheerful hearts with those close to you during the holidays, it’s today! In what is now rare political form, both houses of congress once agreed on something historic and of good nature! What was it? They requested the President to implore the nation to separate a special day of the year to give thanks to God for His many blessings - in particular the gift of being a sovereign and free nation with a constitutional government elected ...
Irena Part 2
November 23, 2020 00:28 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBIntroduction: The long night of conversations over the pleasantries of relatively fresh baked deserts (even if there was hardly any sugar in them) was a sweet rarity that warmed Irena’s body and spirit. It was special times like this that made her temporarily forget, (even if it was partial) the fear and the horror that surrounded her and gripped the once beautiful city of Warsaw. It was hard for anyone with a conscious to indulge in bread that wasn’t old and stale while so many in the Ghe...
Love Becomes / Devotional 5/5
September 03, 2020 23:20 - 8 minutes - 8.16 MBIrena Sendler rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. This devotional will explore Irena's life and the rich example we find in her example of embodying the truth that God's love becomes all things to all people. 1 Corinthians 9:22,23 "To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings." Visit the sites below to listen ...
Love Becomes / Devotional 4/5
September 03, 2020 16:58 - 8 minutes - 7.79 MBIrena Sendler rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. This devotional will explore Irena's life and the rich example we find in her example of embodying the truth that God's love becomes all things to all people. 1 Corinthians 9:22,23 "To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings." Visit the sites below to listen ...
Love Becomes / Devotional 3/5
September 02, 2020 01:59 - 8 minutes - 7.35 MBIrena Sendler rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. This devotional will explore Irena's life and the rich example we find in her example of embodying the truth that God's love becomes all things to all people. 1 Corinthians 9:22,23 "To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings." Visit the sites below to listen ...
Love Becomes / Devotional 2/5
September 01, 2020 04:03 - 8 minutes - 7.48 MBIrena Sendler rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. This devotional will explore Irena's life and the rich example we find in her example of embodying the truth that God's love becomes all things to all people. 1 Corinthians 9:22,23 "To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings." Visit the sites below to listen ...
Love Becomes / Devotional 1/5
August 31, 2020 04:14 - 7 minutes - 6.42 MBIrena Sendler rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. This devotional will explore Irena's life and the rich example we find in her example of embodying the truth that God's love becomes all things to all people. 1 Corinthians 9:22,23 "To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings." Visit the sites below to listen ...
Irena
August 29, 2020 19:15 - 28 minutes - 26 MBPart One - Irena Sender was born on February 15th, 1910 in Warsaw Poland. She was raised in the Catholic faith and was named after St. Irene of Rome. Her naming day was October 20th. Her mother, Janina would be in her life for many years. Yet, her father, Stanslaw was not. He was a medical Dr. and humanitarian. He made an effort to treat Jewish people and sometimes treat them without charge. This led him to work within the Jewish community in Otwock, a town 15 miles southeast of Warsaw. Sta...
Whittaker
July 03, 2020 19:41 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBWhittaker "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Psalm 139:14 NIV “When we dead awaken.” - Henrik Ibsen One morning in 1938 in his small apartment on St. Paul Street in Baltimore, Whittaker was casually feeding his young daughter Ellen breakfast. He contemplatively absorbed this everyday and seemingly ordinary experience as it appeared to stand in direct contrast to everything about him. Just the fact that ...
Watching Us Die
June 05, 2020 03:04 - 11 minutes - 12.2 MB“If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.”1 I recently heard a story about an elder in a remote tribe that had converted to the Christian faith years before. Knowing he was nearing death at 103 years old, the elder gathered the young people around him to recount the story of how their tribe came to know and believe the gospel years before. As to be expected, the tribe first thought the message of the missionari...
Eight Basic Manners of Tech-Mediated Communication
May 05, 2020 00:15 - 18 minutes - 18 MB1. Respond when contacted! Or in other words, RSV freaking P! Seriously, what the hell is wrong with some people? If I were to bump into you at the grocery store, say hello and ask how you were doing only to see you snub me and walk by, I’d determine you had become blind, deaf, mute, or had experienced some sort of massive head trauma since our last meeting. Yet, people do this all the time in tech-talk and are further deluded into thinking that is goes unnoticed. In case you were raised by ...
Small Government Big God
April 21, 2020 23:36 - 12 minutes - 12.5 MBDennis Prager reasons “The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.” 1 I am sure many more have said and believed likewise, but he recently sparked my thoughts that as a government grows in size and scope, certain things shrink as a result. Goodness, particularly defined as people acting charitably to each other dwindles as the government tries to federalize communal generosity. And personal character diminishes while liberties becomes more restricted. In short, more government equate...
Foundational Faith - The Whats and Whys / Part V - The Bible
April 08, 2020 21:40 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBAgain this is Foundational Faith - We are not talking about the particular theological house that you’ve built over time, nor arguments about grey issues of Christianity and the differences between my house and yours, but rather the immovable foundation that we should all be building upon - these are the few essentials that we can all find agreement. Christian theology must be built upon these three strata of indispensable foundations. 1. Accepting the person and saving work of Jesus. 2. A...
Foundational Faith - The Whats and Whys / Part IV - Grace And Faith
March 17, 2020 23:43 - 29 minutes - 28 MBMAIN TEXT: Ephesians 2:8-10, For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. John 3:16, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. SUBTEXT: Matthew 5:16, In the same way, let yo...
Patricus
March 10, 2020 22:07 - 5 minutes - 5.94 MBMuch of my historical notes in this story were taken from St. Partick of Ireland, A Biography, written by Phillip Freeman, Simon & Schuster, New York NY 2004.
Octavia
February 11, 2020 23:33 - 16 minutes - 16.5 MBEven though the usual cold weather had set in on the eve of Lupercalia, Octavia was determined to sleep well. Thoughts of the coming festival put a smile on her face as the young woman warmed her body under the blankets. She still lived with her parents basically at the center of Rome, near Palatine Hill. And Palatine Hill just happened to be at the center of the upcoming annual celebration. Lupercalia had not only been a tradition that Octavia had grown up observing, but one that her famil...
Foundational Faith - The Whats and Whys / Part III - The Resurrection of Jesus
February 01, 2020 19:00 - 31 minutes - 30 MBThree Crucial Truths That Support the Resurrection 1. The Tomb of Jesus was Empty. PLACE - Preached in Jerusalem / Jesus’ tomb was never venerated as a shrine PEOPLE The Jews believed the tomb was empty / The tomb was discovered by women TIME - Early account of the resurrection 2. The lives of Jesus’ Disciples were radically changed after the resurrection. - The disciples and many others had real experiences with a resurrected Jesus. - The disciples before and after the resurrectio...
Alberta
January 15, 2020 21:22 - 22 minutes - 21.8 MBShe was born September 13, 1904 in Atlanta, Georgia. She was named Alberta Christine Williams. She would be an only child. Her father was the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, or A.D. - the preacher at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Alberta lived a relatively normal life for the time and age. She went to church faithfully and learned to play the piano. As Alberta was nearing her last days in High school, her parents started to board a girl at their house whose name was Woodie. Woodie’s brother ...
Foundational Faith - The Whats and Whys / Part II - The Person of Jesus Is Jim Carrey for real? Is Santa Clause real? Is Jesus real?
January 08, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBMain Text: Mark 8:27-29 Sub Text: Phil., 1:7, 1 Peter 3:15, John 10:7-20, C.S. Lewis from Mere Christianity, Jim Carrey from documentary I Needed Color, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21CEOlBq2YI), Linda Harden from The Physics of Santa Claus, (http://www.daclarke.org/Humour/santa.html), Micheal Gleghorn from Ancient Evidence for Jesus from Non-Christian Sources (https://www.bethinking.org/jesus/ancient-evidence-for-jesus-from-non-christian-sources). ______________________________________...
Foundational Faith - The Whats and Whys / Part I - Our Theological House
January 01, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBThis first episode asserts that all people, religious or not, live within their own theological house. The house is not of concern now but the foundation is. The bedrock either undermines or strengthens every house. Ultimately, in examining the foundations of the Christian faith we answer the very personal question, “What must I do to be saved?” TEXT: Main Text: Acts 16:23 - 35 Sub Text: Psalm 118:22, Isaiah 28:16, 1 Corinthians, 3:11-13, Matthew 7:24, Hebrews 11:10 _______________________...
Christmas Bonus
December 24, 2019 19:14 - 19 minutes - 19 MBI heard the bells on Christmas Day by Henry Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, and wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Till ringing, singing on its way, The world revolved from night to day, A voice, a chime, A chant sublime Of peace on earth, good-wil...
Foundational Faith - Preview
December 18, 2019 08:00 - 8 minutes - 9.02 MBWhat does it mean to be a Christian? Who was Jesus and how are we saved? What is the Bible? How should we understand it and is it a reliable source of truth? In this five part series of Foundational Faith, we’ll seek to answer these basic fundamental questions that are clearly revealed in the Scriptures and the words of Jesus. 1st We’ll examine our Theological House - The Foundation 2nd Who Jesus claimed to be, 3rd What he did, namely his resurrection 4th How the nature of salvation 5t...