The Other 167
Garrett Layell, Pastor Ben Pearce and Kenny Lewis discuss the spiritual battles in their day to day lives, and staying connected to Jesus outside of church life.
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I've had a lot of opportunities on this podcast to say some things I'd later regret. But of all of them, I think the line I regret the most came from the very first episode. I said "As long as I know I'm where God wants me, I don't care what the purpose of that is."
I don't regret it because it was wrong. Honestly, it sounds pretty righteous to me. I regret it because it turns out it was...
Sometimes life happens. This episode was recorded just before Christmas. Also 2 days before my computer crashed taking all of my files down with it.
Fortunately, the recording was already uploaded to YouTube, so I was able to get my hands back on it. It comes in handy to have some extra episodes laying around when vacation...
There’s a great quote from one of my favorite movies: “Good judgement is the result of experience, and a lot of experience comes from bad judgement.”
Certainly, God wants us to develop good judgement. But we get frustrated that He allows us to have bad judgement along the way. Free will isn’t always convenient, but it is pa...
Jesus bought our freedom with His blood. Before the Cross, we were bound by our sin, but now we have a choice. But it still our choice. We decide how to use this freedom. Unfortunately, part of having freedom is being free to make the wrong choices, too.
But we are not free from the earthly consequences of sin. And freedom...
One of the threats to our walk with God is becoming so hard-headed and rigid that we forget there are two sides of every coin. Work needs to be done, but we also need rest. We show patience and grace to others, but there’s a time for discipline and hard truth. The joy of God’s love should never leave us, but neither should the fear and awe of His power.
<...We tend to use the fruits of the Spirit as a guide for our own behavior and actions, but they also give us insight into God’s character. His power and perfection can make it easy for us to paint Him as a tyrant in our minds. But if God’s Spirit is manifested by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, then...
It’s easy to forget that God can hear the subtext of our prayers. We can pray “not my will but Yours be done” until we are blue in the face, but if we really mean “God, I think this would be great so please give it to me”, He hears that part too. So, it does us no good to say the “right prayers” that we don’t really mean (I wouldn’t suggest praying “God, ...
The W.W.J.D. bracelets give us some words to live by, but I agree with Ben’s take on this; it is a tough question to try to answer. The fact is, we are not Jesus, and we cannot possibly expect to know how He would handle every situation we encounter in our lives. For one, we create scenarios He didn’t face because we sin, He didn’t.
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When we think about the guidance the Bible offers us, it can be really easy for me to focus on the judgement of God. “Do this, or else” might be the way of thinking about it. And if you are defiant, yeah, it can get pretty ugly. But I don’t think that’s God’s preferred message.
He guides us, developing us to be more like J...
A couple of weeks ago I had my first physical in about 10 years. I hate going to the doctor. Most of all, I hate having blood drawn. Judge me all you want, but I hate it. I don’t mind shots, but I can’t stand them taking blood. I started to dread it, and after a day or so I realized that the process that would take 3 minutes was another week away, and it ...
One of my favorite Episode titles that we’ve had is “He Loves You the Way You Are, But He Refuses to Let You Stay That Way”. I liked the line at the time, but it has grown to mean more and more to me over time.
As a non-believer or maybe even a new believer, I think the first half of that line is important to remember. God...
It’s so easy to overcomplicate spiritual matters, and yes, I realize I’m the extreme example. But I don’t believe that’s God’s intention. God went to great lengths to drive home the simple truths He wanted us to anchor to in our lives.
The 66 books of the Bible tell a lot of stories and provide a lot of wisdom in a lot of...
Followers of Christ are called to follow His example, showing His love to others to encourage them to follow Him as well. But it doesn’t work as well when we forget to follow His example. The world has a lot of misconceptions about Jesus and what Christians really believe today, and the enemy loves confusion. But our countermove in this battle is simply t...
We tend to give ourselves more credit than we deserve for the things we do in life. When you woke up this morning, what was your contribution to the process? Setting an alarm, and getting out of the bed when you heard it?
What was God’s part? While you rested, God kept your heart beating, brain functioning, lungs working, ...
We can be awfully entitled in this country, and that includes, maybe even especially Christians. We start off knowing that we need God. Then we seek Him, we find Him, and His love changes us. We start walking by the Spirit and seeing Its fruits. Then something bad happens and we start wondering what we did to deserve the misfortune.
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Nick Saban has won 7 National Championships, more than any other college football coach in history. How successful would his career have been if he let every player pick their own position, let them play their way, patted them on the back after every play, and helped them blame others for their failures? How many titles would his teams have won? How many ...
It’s easy to attach our own limitations to God. His knowledge, power, and love are so far beyond our human capabilities to comprehend even individually, so how can we expect to understand the effects of all three? It takes understanding all three and how they work together to be able to truly find the peace and trust in His will.
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Knowledge by itself isn’t really worth a lot. I know a lot about football. But I never played past JV and my coaching career stalled out at Pop Warner. There’s a big difference between knowing a lot about something and having the ability to apply what you know.
If you read a recipe for French Souffle’, then you will know h...
I’m constantly trying to figure God out. He must find it amusing. Or annoying. It could go either way, I guess. But I want to know what God is doing. I can drive myself crazy asking ‘why is He doing this’ or ‘what is He going to do with that?’
But we don’t need to worry about what God is doing. God’s handling what God needs...
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