When God Calls with Michael McCaskill
A show about listening for God's calling and acting on his direction.
Episodes
In kicking off Season 5 of When God Calls, we start a group discussion with men in their 50s' efforts to fulfill God's plan in their lives.
Today, Michael is joined by his good friends Geoff and Loffie to discuss God's plan for older men as described in Titus 2.
A Church Divided Over Leaders (1:10-17)
- Why were they divided?
- One possibility - teachers and philosophers wanted to share their “wisdom”.
- Another - we naturally follow other people
- Gravitate to those we better identity with; whose ministry we understand
- Begin following the messenger instead of the message
- Leads to competition among the “leaders”
- The people of Chloe’s house were courageous
- They openly called out t...
Actual first letter
- Written prior to the epistle 1 Corinthians
- Written about sexual immorality
- The letter was not taken seriously
Paul received information about the church
- From Chloe’s household he heard:
- Reports of division (1:11, 11:18)
- Sexual immorality (5:1)
- From Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus visit
- From a letter written to Paul by the. Church (7:1, 7:25, 8:1, 12:1, 16:1, 12)
Based on all of this informat...
Imitators of God! (Cont) (vs 1-9)
- Children obey your parents
- They are Christians
- It’s the 5th commandment
- It is right
- Fathers (or parents)
- Don’t provoke them
- Don’t say one thing and mean another
- Blame and praise when appropriate
- Do what you say you will do
- Don’t do what you say you won’t do
- Don’t do anything that confuses the child
- Bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord
- Discipline them
- In love not ang...
- Don’t provoke them
Imitators of God!
- Walk in love
- God’s Child
- God’s beloved child
- Purchased with a great price
- Walk as children of light
- We are set apart
- We are light
- Walk in wisdom
- Walk with purpose
- Use your time wisely (life is short)
- Days are evil (Freedom to win the lost could be taken away)
- God has a plan for us, a will for our lives. He gave us a mind (a choice) and we must use the Bible, prayer, meditation and worship to figure...
- Gentiles:
- Know God but refuse to follow his commands
- Alienated from God
- Callous - have no conscience
- [1 Tim 4:3] living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.
- Greedy
- Thinking is in vein with no purpose.
- Futile because because it is darkened. Believes they are enlightened because they reject the Bible and believes the latest philosophies but they are in the dark.
- Satan blinds the unsaved so the...
- First three chapters talk about doctrine, last three discuss our Christian responsibility.
- 4:1
- therefore - because of the doctrines that Paul covered in the first 3 chapters, we have the responsibilities in Christ that are discussed in the last three chapters.
- urge (KJV uses beseech) - God urges us to live for His glory.
- In the OT God said, “If you obey me, I will bless you.” Now, through Jesus Christ, God has already ...
- First prayer was for God to give them the Spirit of wisdom and revelation
- That they may know Him and the hope that is in Christ because of His resurrection and authority.
- Second prayer was for Spiritual strength
- So Christ can dwell in their hearts because of their faith
- To comprehend the complete love of Christ
- For this reason
- What reason?
- We are one in Christ; Jew/Gentile
- What reason?
- Paul kneeled before G...
I today's episode, Paul reveals the mystery of the Gospel. The revelation placed the Gentiles on equal footing with the Orthodox Jews. "This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel." (Ephesians 3:6)
This week we continue our study of Ephesians by seeing how Jesus reconciled the Gentiles with the Jews into one humanity and then reconciled all the people with God. These reconciliations provided unity for all believers in Jesus Christ.
- Verses 15 - 23
- Paul’s message is for everyone to have faith in Jesus Christ and with that love for everyone. Our salvation depends on it.
- Acts 20:21 - I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
- Col 1:3-4 - We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and ...
- Paul’s message is for everyone to have faith in Jesus Christ and with that love for everyone. Our salvation depends on it.
Our Sunday school class begins our study of Ephesians. In this episode we discuss chapter 1 verses 1-14.
Background
- Paul first ministered in Ephesus in about the year 53 but didn’t remain there (Acts 18:19-21) First missionary journey
- Two years later returned to Ephesus, third missionary journey, and remained for at least two years. (Acts 20)
- Ten years later writes to the Ephesians
- He is a prisoner in Rome
Chapter 1
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We spend a lot of time researching things that could drastically change our lives. In this episode I talk about studying Jesus' life in order to truly know the God we worship.
Do you have hurt and anger pent up inside you because of a wrong done to you or a wrong you have done to someone else? Forgiveness will begin your road to peace.
In this episode I bring two true stories of forgiveness right here in the panhandle of Florida that are unimaginable. Stories that inspired me to forgive and accept forgiveness and I know they will inspire you too.
In this episode I talk about how we all need a little encouragement every now and then.
There are those people in life who best demonstrate how to live a Christian life in the worst of times. Rory Mock is one such person!
Are you so busy that you don't have time to let God speak in your life? I am struggling with this and in this episode I'll talk about what I am going to do to try and change that.
God created you with specific gifts and talents. Therefore, only you are capable of doing what you do like you can.
We can come up with all kinds of excuses why we don't spend time with God. In this episode I talk about the need to find time to give our problems to God so he can put our lives back together.
Have you ever stopped to watch ants work to fix their hill after something destroys it? It is a marvelous event where every ant uses their particular talent to assist in repairing the damage.
We can learn from ants. God has given us all talents and gifts. But if we don't use them properly, it creates a void in God's Kingdom that has to be filled.
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