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Join us for a theological deep dive as we discuss whether or not Christians should watch secular TV shows. In this podcast, we'll delve into biblical principles and discuss the potential impact of watching these shows. Stay tuned for part 1 of this thought-provoking series!
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In this video, I challenge the norm surrounding Christian views on entertainment. Many leaders have overcorrected and added to Scripture when it comes to secular shows. Join me as I breakdown 3 categories of shows that many Christians believe we should avoid watching and why I disagree. From award-winning series like Succession, Breaking Bad, and The Bear to reality TV shows like The Bachelor, and even shows with magical and demonic elements like Avatar the Last Airbender and The Exorcist. Stay tuned for Part 2 where we dive into the theology of entertainment with Scripture and practical advice. Spoiler Warning: I won't spoil any major plot lines but will discuss story threads and subplots. Let's challenge the status quo and find a balanced approach to consuming content. Watch the full video for a comprehensive understanding!
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It can be tough to stay motivated so Bible study doesn’t just feel like a duty! Planning, relevance, and variety can help.

Matthew 11: 1-15 (part #1)

If you are in the Lathrop, join us at Lathrop Grace Community Church every Sunday at 9:30am or watch the sermons on youtube; link below

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Sources:
1. NKJV Study Bible,
2. Women's Study Bible
3. ESV Bible
4. www.bibleref.com
5. www.biblegateway.com

If you are in the Lathrop area, please join us at Lathrop Grace Community Church... or here's  the link to view online sermons.

https://www.youtube.com/live/zJ-WzmCb2wc?feature=share

Here is our email address: please email us for prayer requests or anything else that you might think is helpful for this ministry. We love you and pray for you.

Robbie & Joy Bircher
dontfearwhattheyfear@gmail.com

Tell us what you think. Please like, comment and share.  It helps with spread the good news to others.

If you want to support this podcast, we ask that you continue to pray for us and for the people listening.

And please, share, like and comment.  This helps let people know that this podcast is exists. Let us bring the GOOD NEWS to the social media world.

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Sources:
1. NKJV Study Bible,
2. Women's Study Bible
3. ESV Bible
4. www.bibleref.com
5. www.biblegateway.com

This week we're learning about the role of the Holy Spirit with the interpreter. 

This week we learn how to prepare the interpreter. 

This week we continue our introduction: why study the Bible?

Anytime I needs some fresh joy in my life, I know where to head - to Yvette Walker with the Positively Joy podcast. Yvette’s episode entitled “What to do when you're sleepwalking through life and faith” (Season 13 Episode 23) aired a year ago and was one of the ten most downloaded episodes of 2022. I invited Yvette back to talk about some of the ways we each dig into God’s word and spend time with Him. She shares some specific strategies as well as helping us to pause and ready our hearts for our time. I just loved this conversation.


We discuss:

• Resources to help you connect with God’s word
• The power of pausing before prayer 
• Methods like PRAY, SOAP, and GOD

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Get your copy of Whispering In His Ear,  Lyrics from my Faith, and God's Voice and How To Listen

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Yvette is host of the Positively Joy podcast and founder of Positively Joy Ministries at positivelyjoy.com. She published the life lesson-filled devotional “Whispering in His Ear” and its companion study and discussion guide God's Voice and How to Listen. 

She manages a Facebook Community group along with other social media related to her platform. Yvette is a former journalist and also is an educator and Dean of Students at Gaylord College at the University of Oklahoma. She is chair of the Journalism Education Committee for the National Society of Professional Journalists. She has been inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.

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Jesus tells the parable of two men: one with a speck in his eye and one with a plank. The parable was aimed at a specific audience of Jesus' day (Hint: They weren't big fans of him) and was intended to encourage a change in perspective and behavior towards ourselves. Join Josh and Femi as they discuss the Parable of the Plank and the Speck.

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Don't worry, our deep dive discussions into stories are not going away! Rather, we are adding a new stream of content to the podcast! Introducing: Bolts.

Bolts will be short, 15ish minute discussions of Bible stories and lessons we can learn from them. As a reminder, we are not doctorate theologians, just two guys who love God, his people, and the stories he has blessed us with in his Word.

If you have a Bible story you would like us to analyze, send us an email or DM!

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The Book of Revelation is a book about Jesus! It reveals Him to those who heard and read it under persecution. It encourages and lifts people up who are in despair as He is exalted through it. It's principles about Jesus encourage us today.

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A Spirit empowered approach to studying and discovering the role of the Holy Spirit in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. 

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If you are hungry for more of the Holy Spirit in your life, and want to know how to encounter Him as you read and study the Bible, then listen in! You'll receive timeless principles and personal experience in how you can encounter the precious Holy Spirit. 

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My Body: Sportsmanlike Conduct

1 Corinthians 9:19-27

1. Win! (By giving up)

v. 19 - “For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.” 

A. Win the religious

v. 20 - “To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.”

B. Win the regular man

v. 21: “To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.”

C. Win the weak man

v. 22: “To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak.”

1 Cor. 8:12: “if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again…”

1 Corinthians 9:12: Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

v. 23: I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

2. Run to win

(pictures for tomorrow)

A. Athletic awareness

verse 24: Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 

B. Self control

verse 25: “Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.”

verse 27: “But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”

Romans 12:1: “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.”

C. Aim for the prize

verses 25-26: “Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.”

Questions

Do you run your rights through the filter of the Gospel? Or do you typically choose the most convenient option?

How does the Gospel speak to the way you view your body? 

Besides self-control, what are other ways you could use your body as an instrument of worship for the Lord this week? 

How would your week look different if you ran solely focused on the reward from Jesus? 

My Body: Sportsmanlike Conduct

1 Corinthians 9:19-27

1. Win! (By giving up)

v. 19 - “For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.” 

A. Win the religious

v. 20 - “To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.”

B. Win the regular man

v. 21: “To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.”

C. Win the weak man

v. 22: “To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak.”

1 Cor. 8:12: “if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again…”

1 Corinthians 9:12: Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

v. 23: I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

2. Run to win

(pictures for tomorrow)

A. Athletic awareness

verse 24: Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 

B. Self control

verse 25: “Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.”

verse 27: “But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”

Romans 12:1: “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.”

C. Aim for the prize

verses 25-26: “Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.”

Questions

Do you run your rights through the filter of the Gospel? Or do you typically choose the most convenient option?

How does the Gospel speak to the way you view your body? 

Besides self-control, what are other ways you could use your body as an instrument of worship for the Lord this week? 

How would your week look different if you ran solely focused on the reward from Jesus? 

Genesis 2:1-3
Return to Design: Work and Rest

1) God is a Worker v. 1
Ephesians 2:10
Hebrews 1:3b

2) God Designed You as a Worker 
Gen 1:28
Ecclesiastes 3:13
1 Thess 4:11

5 practical reasons God gave the gift of work
(1) to serve people 
(2) to meet our own needs 
(3) to meet our families needs 
(4) earn money to help others 
(5) to love God 
Your Work Matters to God, Sherman and Hendricks

Eph 6:7-8 

3) God is a Rester v.2
Rest = to cease from
Jn 15:7 
God’s rest is deep pleasure and satisfaction in what he had made. 

4) God Designed You as a Rester v.3
Exodus 20:8-11

Sleeping says, “The God who made the world, rules the world, and I trust Him to do it better than me.” 

“You won’t lose anything by resting that you need to keep. You won’t gain anything by overworking that you won’t lose one day.”  Adam Mabry, The Art of Rest

5) Enter the True Rest
Matt 11:28
 
St. Augustine, “Our hearts are restless till they find their rest in Thee.” 

Questions:
Are you experiencing work as more of a blessing or a curse?
How do you feel when rest is forced on you?
What kind of work do you experience as renewal?
What is the state of your sleeping practice?
When you refuse to rest as God designed, is self-sufficiency or self-rule dominating you?
Do you most often view yourself working for man or for the Lord?
What do you need to begin taking deep pleasure in?

Genesis 2:1-3
Return to Design: Work and Rest

1) God is a Worker v. 1
Ephesians 2:10
Hebrews 1:3b

2) God Designed You as a Worker 
Gen 1:28
Ecclesiastes 3:13
1 Thess 4:11

5 practical reasons God gave the gift of work
(1) to serve people 
(2) to meet our own needs 
(3) to meet our families needs 
(4) earn money to help others 
(5) to love God 
Your Work Matters to God, Sherman and Hendricks

Eph 6:7-8 

3) God is a Rester v.2
Rest = to cease from
Jn 15:7 
God’s rest is deep pleasure and satisfaction in what he had made. 

4) God Designed You as a Rester v.3
Exodus 20:8-11

Sleeping says, “The God who made the world, rules the world, and I trust Him to do it better than me.” 

“You won’t lose anything by resting that you need to keep. You won’t gain anything by overworking that you won’t lose one day.”  Adam Mabry, The Art of Rest

5) Enter the True Rest
Matt 11:28
 
St. Augustine, “Our hearts are restless till they find their rest in Thee.” 

Questions:
Are you experiencing work as more of a blessing or a curse?
How do you feel when rest is forced on you?
What kind of work do you experience as renewal?
What is the state of your sleeping practice?
When you refuse to rest as God designed, is self-sufficiency or self-rule dominating you?
Do you most often view yourself working for man or for the Lord?
What do you need to begin taking deep pleasure in?

Genesis 2:15

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.


Genesis 3:17

Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life


How do you know you are making work an idol:

Work is the primary source of your satisfaction
The goal of being the best you can be is to make a name for yourself

3 Things Your Congregants Should Know About a Christian Work Ethic

1. Christians Work in Security, Not Scarcity

2. Christians Work Ethically

Philippians 4:13 

Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.

3 Things Your Congregants Should Know About a Christian Work Ethic

1. Christians Work in Security, Not Scarcity

2. Christians Work Ethically
3. Christians Work to Be a Blessing

Acts 20:35

“In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”



Working as if for Jesus Gives Freedom

Freedom to worship God through your work
Freedom to serve others 
Freedom to trust God allows rest from it
Freedom gives you joy
Questions to Consider
1. Do you treat work as a mission field?
2. What does your attitude at work tell about your faith?
3. How are you using work as a blessing?
4. Do you find freedom in work or oppression?