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Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Perhaps the truest test of the depth of our faith is discovered in how, where, and when we praise God. When is He worthy enough for our full confidence? How do we feel about releasing praise when life has bottomed out? Will God see us pressing in to Him in our times and places of impossibility? The Prophet Jeremiah was living in a context of massive destruction and ruin. His words in those circumstances reveal the deep emotional struggle He was having with God, and why God had allowed catastrophe to find His people. Yet, in the midst of the ruin and devastation, Jeremiah gives some of the most important and motivating words for our faith in all of the Old Testament. His words must become our own when life is not lending itself to easy praise.

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Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Deep, deep trouble had begun to find the family of King David. The unraveling began with some extreme sin by one of his sons against one of his daughters. Now, David moved into the world of a detached father, failing to righteously handle the dysfunction in his home. In the absence of spiritual decisiveness by David, some fleshy plans were made by David’s other son, Absalom. A heart filled with hurt, rage, and impatience turned into a heart full of vengeance. This message exposes the deadly poison of bitterness in our soul. Hated is nothing short of murder-in-the-heart. Murder in the heart soon became murder by the hand in David’s family. It matters whether we forgive or not. Absalom’s story removes all doubt.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Let’s be truthful - most of us avoid suffering at any cost. It’s normal. It’s natural. Nobody in their right mind naturally purses pain, problems, or persecution. In fact, the devil usually gets blamed for any and all suffering in the lives of Christians. Non-Christians typically blame God when suffering finds their lives. The Apostle Peter had much to say about suffering in a letter he wrote 2,000 years ago. Have we ever considered that there is eternal profit in our temporary pains? While God does not cause suffering for His children, it is clear that He does not always prevent it. What good might come from any suffering that He would allows in our lives? This episode of Truth Shots offers us some considerations about suffering.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Some passages of Scripture are painful to examine. David’s family life would never be the same after the scandal of David’s sin with Bathsheba and the subsequent murder of her husband. Nathan prophesied that there would be permanent trouble in David’s family after David’s sin was exposed. This prophetic word did not take long to manifest as David's firstborn son did the unimaginable to his own half-sister. Christians cannot avoid the parts of Scripture which make us cringe. The Bible is raw, and if it played out in an unedited script on a movie screen, it would be rated NC-17. Yet, David’s family trouble was no entertaining piece of fiction. It was devastating reality which involved, rape, murder, and rebellion. It is very sad but also very true: this is where the unravelling of David’s family begins.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth There is a false doctrine commonly referred to as “hyper-grace.” Within this system of belief is the false notion that a truly saved person can continue to live in indifference or rebellion concerning the ways of God and the Word of God. In essence, individuals who believe and teach this doctrine believe that grace allows us to sin with no fear of present or eternal consequences. These people wrongly believe they can enter the Kingdom of God having never come out of the kingdom of darkness. Scripture is clear that the person who has experienced the redeeming grace of God will have an entirely different life after receiving Christ. This message calls us to consider the powerful promises of God to those who are saved. His grace empowers us to live free from the power of sin. Hyper-grace never teaches us this. Biblical grace always does, and this freedom from sin’s power is the beautiful inheritance of the all the children of God.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth In the present season, we are seeing the work of God in bringing runaways back home. We all know what is meant by the phrase “prodigal child.” When someone rebels against his or her parents, lives in entitlement, rejects wisdom, and chooses to go stubbornly down a wayward path…this person is a prodigal child. This not only happens in our families, it happens in the spiritual family that has God as its Heavenly Father. For those who wander from God into sin, pain, and shame, there is a present call going out which welcomes them to come back home to Father today. May those who hear this message never fail to remember that grace tells them that they can come fully home. The invitation is still there from God. His door is still open for now. He will meet any and all as they turn to Him. He does not give up on His prodigal child…even when they have given up on themselves.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Most Christians have had moments when they wondered if God truly loved them. The doubt was not primarily a theological issue in their hearts. No, they wondered about His love for them because they felt something amiss. Some wondered how God could continue to love them when they struggled so mightily to live a life that pleased Him. Others only felt that they could be loved if they earned it through religious duty & performance. There are suffering Christians who viewed their painful circumstances as evidence that God must not love them anymore. In the end, the one thing which God does not want us to ever doubt is His covenantal love for us who are in Jesus Christ. There is a particular passage of Scripture that relentlessly seeks to drive this truth home into our hearts. This episode of Truth Shots unpacks those precious verses so that we might never again doubt God’s love for us as His children.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth We now live in a generation that holds to vastly different definitions of what love actually is. Some would have you believe that, if you truly love them, you must always make them feel wonderful about themselves. In their view, love does not allow for opposing them, correcting them, or telling them that they are wrong. Others equate love with an emotion, a romantic passion, or a fairytale feeling that must constantly be maintained and prioritized. These are only two wrongly defined views of love. So, for those who are Jesus-followers, how should we define, display, and communicate God’s heart on the topic of love? Thankfully, the Bible gives us plenty of help. Love is what God says it is - and He has said so much!

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth It is a heartbreaking thing to watch a child of God fall. The moral implosion of a formerly faithful believer often leaves a trail of destruction. David had been powerfully committed to his God for decades, but in a prolonged season when the battles were few and the blessings were many, David, the man after God’s own heart, dropped his guard. Through the study of David's infamous encounter with Bathsheba, we are instructed and warned about how sin can ambush and defeat a true believer. Nobody is immune from temptations, but we can deny them access to our lives if we are wisely informed and inwardly prepared before the temptations arise. From David’s personal collapse, we can learn about how the faithful fall, and how we can keep our names off the long list of believers who have gone before us and experienced the devastation of painful sin.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Get used to it: God does not allow you to see everything He is doing. He leaves us with questions. He does not mind it being uncomfortable when He intentionally withholds information that we crave. He draws out our trust as He declines to give us clarity about the How, When, and Why of our lives. One of the main reasons God operates this way is because He has called us to live by faith (sometimes blind faith!) rather than us living by detailed guarantees and explanations. Abraham is an amazing person in the Bible who was called God’s friend. How could such a statement be made of Abraham? Because he continued to obey God upon the roller coaster of faith-walking with Him in order to obtain the promises from God over his life. Abraham learned to rest in covenant, even when there was no clarity. We will need to do the same as we answer the summons to walk with God by faith as His friend.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth The life of a Kingdom Leader must navigate between strong, decisive, and bold exploits, balanced with patient, merciful, and kind displays of caring for others. Most leaders have a personality that tilts toward one of these things above the other. Rare is the Kingdom Leader who faithfully operates in these two types of authority with holy consistency. David knew how to kill giants. They wrote songs about his ability to destroy foreign enemies. You definitely did not want to get on David’s bad side. Yet, in this beautiful chapter from his life, the man of war is also seen to be a true man of grace and kindness. May we all consider that the warrior leaders must learn gentleness, and that the gentle leaders must learn when and how to wage war. David was the rare leader who could expertly accomplish both.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Have you ever been told “No” by God? It is a difficult moment in one’s journey of faith when it becomes obvious that something that felt important to them was not as important to God. In fact, sometimes God exercises His holy right to deny us what we desire. In David’s life, there came a moment when he had a noble idea to do something great for God. Though he received support from his spiritual adviser, God ended up telling David NO. From this moment we are able to address our own response when things in life do not turn out the way we had hoped. Do we become bitter? If so, do we realize that by doing so, we disqualify ourselves from God’s alternative to what we desired? We must learn the difference between being redirected and being rejected. God will never reject us as His children. But He certainly redirects us from our plans to His better plans.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Christianity has been made to be overly individualized in the last 75 years. We talk about personal faith. We claim Jesus as personal Lord and Savior. We have personal prayer lives and personal ministries. It seems that we have sacrificed the big-picture components of Christianity on the narrow altar of what it means personally to each of us. God’s word is clear that Christianity is a group-event. We are meant to do life together - and all the more as we approach the end of the age. Much strength is gained when the many function as one. We are together a family, an army, a team, and a spiritual organism. This message reminds us of what God does when we not only embrace Him, but one another. If we fail to do so, we forfeit some components of Christianity that we cannot survive without.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Spiritual maturity will result in a Christian refusing to cooperate with panic when troubles arise. While there may be multiple measures that can serve to reveal the level of our spiritual growth, it is certain that peace in the midst of life’s storms will be on the list. What do you do when trouble finds you? Many people fear that God has disappeared when trouble comes to stay. Interestingly, God actually chooses to use trouble for some of His most important desires for our lives. This message takes us with the disciples of a Jesus straight into some very troubling circumstances. Jesus won’t panic alongside of them. Instead, He trains them about how to respond to difficulties, fears, and negative forecasts.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Once upon a time, the American Church did not sense any need to ask what a man is. God-given biological identities and cultural roles were universally accepted and reasonably embraced by all. Slowly, but surely, insanity set in, and now people are no longer certain what constitutes a male and/or a female. While asserting the biological science is an unnecessary task for sane people, there does remain an actual need to certify again what it means to be a man, and to affirm biblical masculinity as something which flows from the heart of God into His sons. This message is completely non-responsive to the demands of a culture to continue to blur the lines between men and women. Without apology, we certify upon the Word of the Lord that God places an unchangeable distinction between male and female, and that with each of the two genders there are roles, characteristics, and traits that are unique to men and women. This message is to men, about men, and for men. May we all enthusiastically embrace what is taught.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Have you ever heard of oikos? Some of you will know that it is presently a successful brand of yogurt that you can by at your supermarket. Yet, many do not know that this word limos is a Greek word found all throughout our New Testament. It is actually a very important word that has significant emphasis for the modern Church – especially as we inch closer toward the end of the age. This message explains why we all need a renewed commitment to both temple and oikos. From the Kingdom combination of these two expressions of Christianity, the growth of the Church began. While the appearance of the Church can change between generations and culture, the two foundations of Temple & Oikos were always intended by God to remain wherever they are able. In the end, Temple will be forced into nonexistence, but Oikos will powerfully endure until the return of Jesus. We must know, therefore, what this word means.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Have you noticed that there are scores of different (often conflicting!) opinions about what it means to be a Christian. People communicate everything from easy-believism to hardcore legalism as the means by which someone becomes a follower of Jesus Christ. But what did Jesus say? If we want to truly know whether or not we are a Christian, we should welcome the Savior Himself to tell us what is required to rightfully claim that we are His. This is not a matter upon which we can remain unclear. What is the actual call to us from Jesus?

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Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth Sometimes we are tempted to wonder how it is that continues to work with us. We sense our weakness. We can identify moments of carnality, selfishness, and even outright sin. We stare in a spiritual mirror and it seems like we see anything but Jesus staring back at us. It would be so easy to lose hope that we will ever become the type of Christian we know that God desires us to be. The reason we do not, cannot, and will not lose hope is because we do not trust in ourselves. God is committed to finishing you one day. Until then, we need biblical help in not giving up during the long process of the Father making us into the likeness of the Son.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth No follower of Jesus wants to fail. We hate our sins. We groan when we cannot discern measurable growth in our spirit. When the accusations of the enemy (both human and demon) come our way, we recoil because those accusations sometimes contain a grain of the truth. Yet, in all of the battling and belittling, there is a power place for refuge. We stand in the grace of God and in the relentless commitment of Holy Spirit to bring us out of all defeat and into greater victories as we grow in Christ. It is extremely important to remember that the enemy cannot and will not have the final word over the Christian.

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth If you are not willing to wait on God, you are not ready to influence anyone for God. Gifts, talents, callings, skills, and anointing are marvelous assets as we follow Jesus. Yet, if in any way, we believe we are qualified to set the pace and establish the timing of how God moves in and through our lives, we are bordering on unholy presumption. God owns the calendar and the clock. David had been anointed by Samuel as a pre-teen. Through painful losses and long delays, he finally receives the full throne of Israel at thirty-seven years old. You can do math and discern that this would have been a very long wait. From his amazing endurance, we receive an example of what it looks like to truly honor God with our lives and callings. If you put yourself in a place, it is on you to keep yourself there. If you wait on God’s timing, your promotion in the Kingdom will be His to anoint, prosper and protect. Will you continue to wait upon the Lord

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth How we respond when our enemies are brought down will reveal much about what kind of heart we have. David has been on the run from Saul for a decade. His life has been one of nonstop drama and danger - all because of the demonized paranoia of King Saul. When word arrives to David of Saul’s death, David knows that the man who has sought to kill him for years is now dead himself. His response to this news is both inspiring and instructional. What do we do when we see our own opposition fall? When the one(s) who hurt us find their own pain, what happens in our hearts? This big step toward the throne of Israel required David to operate with a heart that God could bless. Once again, David passes the test. Will we?

Find Out More About Us: https://linktr.ee/transformingtruth There seems to be a global blind-spot that is afflicting the human population. There is something mankind either cannot see, or does not want to see. Concerning what are we in darkness? The uplifted judgment-hand of God. Something is happening right now that our blinded eyes cannot see. Even the Church seems to have lost sight of the sobering reality that the hand of the Almighty is raised and, as He promised long ago, He is about to enact some intense judgment upon a generation committed to rebellion and rejection of His ways. Thankfully, those in covenant with Him will not be touched by His hand of judgment. But what about everyone else? The answer is unsettling.

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