Mentoring Matters
To know Christ and make Him known, sharing foundational tools to develop and maintain a Biblical Worldview from generation to generation.
Episodes
May 10, 2024 • 12 mins
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
In that one sentence, Jeremiah gives us a mini-view of why we are here on earth at this appointed time and place. God told Jeremiah I am responsible for your very life for a special purpose, he was set apart. The path Jeremiah was to walk included times of trials and pressure.
To prepare us ...
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May 3, 2024 • 12 mins
“With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.” Psalms 119: 10-11
How do you hide God’s word in the heart?
Romans 12 gives us a clue – Renew your mind in the mind of God – His word.
Why is it important to renew our minds? Because only there can we find our purpose in life. Only in God’s word do we find God’s design for...
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April 25, 2024 • 12 mins
“In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” I Thessalonians 5:18
In this upside-down world we are living in it can be difficult to give thanks. When our livelihood is threatened and our character trampled, finding the courage to give thanks is stifled by fear. When good is called evil and evil is called good, we seek to reason instead of resting in Him with thanksgiving.
The daily co...
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April 18, 2024 • 12 mins
“Count it all joy when you fall into various trials” James 1:2
Now, where is the logic and wisdom from rational thinking with this verse? Normally we avoid trials at all costs - not with all joy. We look for the quickest escape route to return to “normal.”
We fail to reflect on the wisdom of the Word that tells us many times that the JOY of the Lord is your strength, which is exactly what you need when in over your head with te...
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April 12, 2024 • 12 mins
“Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves.” 2 Corinthians 13:5
When we are fretful, full of anger, anxiety, withdrawn, isolated by choice, and no hunger for God’s Word, it is time to stop, examine and evaluate:
Are the facts based on the Bible or my opinions of what I think is true?
Are the facts being lived out, by faith, in trusting the Lord as my FINAL AUTHORITY, and is He the FOCUS of my Fait...
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April 4, 2024 • 12 mins
2 Peter 1:5-9 “Give all diligence add to your faith, virtue, to virtue knowledge and self-control.”
This passage in Peter guides us on the right road for living by faith and signs to keep us on the main highway of Godly living.
Somewhere, along the way, we can take a detour on the side path of emotions and feelings, thinking it would be a shortcut, and now are lost in finding our way back. Maybe your GPS, (God’s Protection Syst...
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March 28, 2024 • 12 mins
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving” Colossians 2:6-7.
As Christians, faith is the basis for our walk with the Lord. It is important that we evaluate what the foundation of our faith is in; facts of the scriptures or the feelings of our flesh.
We can’t let emotions and experiences...
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March 21, 2024 • 12 mins
“When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work He did for Israel.” Judges 2:10
Bridges connect us with where we have been and where we are going. This is true in the physical world, so it is true in the spiritual eternal world. Without bridges connecting the history of the past, we do not know how to learn from the past and repeat the blund...
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March 15, 2024 • 12 mins
“The days are coming when I will send a famine in the land, not of bread, nor thirst of water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.” Amos 8:11
Why would God want to make hearing the Word a famine?
Perhaps we no longer desire TRUTH as spiritual food, or we only want “food” that satisfies, tastes good, and comforts us without nourishing and healing.
Today, information alone is being called truth, but who can trust the truth tha...
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March 7, 2024 • 12 mins
“But we Christians have no veil over our faces; we can be mirrors that brightly reflect the glory of the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 3:18
If we want to check our growth in Christian living through practical means, we can look at our personality, temperament, actions, and attitudes. Do they reflect in a mirror the image of who God says He is?
Can a person say there is something different about us? Can they see Christ “in us?"
As the S...
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March 1, 2024 • 12 mins
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28
To labor and be heavy burdened are two descriptions of our conditions that most are facing in one area or another. This can be applied to the physical, emotional, and soul – influencing our spirits.
Culture is telling us to have third-party encounters with one another through some device that offers opinions and information for man-ma...
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February 22, 2024 • 12 mins
“Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test Yourselves.” 1 Corinthians 13:5
We have an age-old problem – a portion of the Christian community lacks the discipline to look at our lives with discernment.
We want to be given the Truth in ways that do not cause upset to our current way of thinking. If that be the case, then how do we “gear up” to grow in grace and knowledge? How do we learn to love?
As we examine ou...
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February 16, 2024 • 12 mins
“Exercise yourself toward godliness” 1 Timothy 4:7-10
Godliness can begin with physically taking care of the body through exercise. Our bodies are temporal temples and exercise does require discipline, training, being faithful, and even requires some sweat.
Those same qualities are also needed in knowing and understanding the wisdom the Lord Jesus taught for living a life of godliness.
Let’s compare how the short-term examples...
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February 9, 2024 • 12 mins
“Judge not that you be not judged” Matthew 7:1
Word matter and the way you use them can change a whole conversation. We can never “judge” the person for condemnation, that belongs to God alone.
We are commanded to discern a person’s behavior, words, actions. We are exhorted to discern and deal with obvious sinful lifestyles.
Today’s conversation will help decipher when to discern, but not Judge.
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February 1, 2024 • 12 mins
“Test all things; hold fast what is good.” 1 Thessalonians 2:21
This mandate is in a list of requirements for being set apart to discern the current “teaching” of the day. They were to discern what was written and spoken was the truth or popular opinion, just words of men.
We still battle that same problem today with volumes of information coming out each day to “better ourselves” but may not be according to Scripture. Many ...
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January 26, 2024 • 12 mins
“For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.” 2 Peter 1:9
Life can start with wonderful words of wisdom and affirmation that the God we have trusted is giving us grace and peace. His divine power is drawing our hearts to be conformed to His image. He supplies us with an outline of what is needed, step by step, in case we forget our provisions and rema...
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January 19, 2024 • 12 mins
“Giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge” 2 Peter 1:5
This little nugget of truth tucked away in the progressive path of growth is a command to be fully committed to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; for without faith, it is impossible to please God. Once our faith is established the first attribute is to add Virtue, even before knowledge.
Now, why should we acquire the quality of virtue before adding kno...
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January 12, 2024 • 12 mins
“As a prisoner of the Lord, I beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called.” Ephesians 4:1
Many have read this scripture numerous times not taking into consideration that
a calling is a part of your job, perhaps in ministry, or perhaps in different areas but
it is what you do. The request is to know what your calling is and then how to
perform with lowliness and gentleness. There is a strong outline here fo...
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January 4, 2024 • 12 mins
“I, therefore, a prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called.” Ephesians 4:1
Life is not to be lived in a sloppy casual indifference of selfish indulgence. This approach is not limited to any age group. We do expect, as growth and training take place, to see a maturity in thinking and knowing how to make good decisions.
The calling is already given to us and now, own up to the appoint...
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December 29, 2023 • 12 mins
“If anyone does not come to ME and does not hate this father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.” Luke 14:26
Now that is really a hard saying about what love is all about.
Words have meanings and without hearing the heart of the speaker we can certainly come to the wrong conclusions. We all like to hear soft sayings that bring comfort and make the heart happy,...
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