Light on Life Podcast

Light on Life Podcast

Emery Horvath: Bible Teaching and Commentary Author

Practical preaching, teaching, precepts and study from the Bible on everyday life and living.

God’s Love for You and Methods of Divine Healing

God’s Love for You and Methods of Divine Healing

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Six God wants you well in your body to such a degree that He provided various methods where you can receive divine healing. Even doctors have faith in faith. A survey conducted by the American Academy of Family Physicians shows that ninety-nine percent of doctors believe a relationship exists between faith and physical healing. Recently, more than one thousand health-care professionals met at Harvard Medical School to examine the connection between sp

Feb 18, • 0:00

Why God’s Timing Is Right on the Money

Why God’s Timing Is Right on the Money

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Five Today, we are in Ecclesiastes three talking about the subject of God’s timing as we close our series on the subject of the Lord’s vision for your life. What does time and timing have to do with anything? As intelligent, detailed and sophisticated as our God is by nature, it should be easy to understand how God’s perfect timing is always at work. This story is told about Abraham Lincoln: He was out at the back of his store one day rummaging throug

Feb 4, • 0:00

Why Being Zealous for God’s Remarkable Vision is Right

Why Being Zealous for God’s Remarkable Vision is Right

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Four

Jan 28, • 0:00

How to Find Your God Authorized Place in the Body

How to Find Your God Authorized Place in the Body

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Three

Jan 21, • 0:00

Why Your God Given Vision Makes You Special

Why Your God Given Vision Makes You Special

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Two

Jan 14, • 0:00

How You Can Chart Your Course by the Vision in Your Heart

How You Can Chart Your Course by the Vision in Your Heart

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode One

Jan 7, • 0:00

Why It’s Essential To Operate In God’s Stunning Wisdom

Why It’s Essential To Operate In God’s Stunning Wisdom

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Fifty-Three

Dec 31, 2024 • 0:00

What’s the Powerful Lesson of the Star of Bethlehem?

What’s the Powerful Lesson of the Star of Bethlehem?

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Fifty-Two

Dec 24, 2024 • 0:00

Why Growth Is An Essential Mindset For Jesus Followers

Why Growth Is An Essential Mindset For Jesus Followers

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Fifty-One

Dec 17, 2024 • 0:00

What Does A Spiritually Mature Jesus Follower Look Like?

What Does A Spiritually Mature Jesus Follower Look Like?

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Fifty

Dec 10, 2024 • 0:00

Why Quality Decisions Can Positively Frame a Better Tomorrow

Why Quality Decisions Can Positively Frame a Better Tomorrow

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-Nine

Dec 3, 2024 • 0:00

Why the Holy Spirit Connection between Morals and Thanksgiving Matters

Why the Holy Spirit Connection between Morals and Thanksgiving Matters

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-Eight

Nov 26, 2024 • 0:00

What Tools Do You Need to Pray for Others?

What Tools Do You Need to Pray for Others?

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-Seven

Nov 19, 2024 • 0:00

Why Faith and Prayers Are Vital in God’s Great Plan

Why Faith and Prayers Are Vital in God’s Great Plan

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-Six

Nov 12, 2024 • 0:00

Why God’s Greatest Glory Manifests In His Temple

Why God’s Greatest Glory Manifests In His Temple

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-Five

Nov 5, 2024 • 0:00

Why The Spirit Upon You Is An Incredible Life Changer

Why The Spirit Upon You Is An Incredible Life Changer

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-Four

Oct 29, 2024 • 0:00

How The Holy Spirit Deals With A Lost World

How The Holy Spirit Deals With A Lost World

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-Three

Oct 22, 2024 • 0:00

Why God’s Spirit Will Teach and Transform Your Life

Why God’s Spirit Will Teach and Transform Your Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-Two

Oct 15, 2024 • 0:00

Why You Need To Know What Jesus Said about The Holy Spirit Within

Why You Need To Know What Jesus Said about The Holy Spirit Within

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-One We’re continuing this week on how the Holy Spirit works in us and why we need to be in the know concerning that. You know the more we know, the better we are able to cooperate with God in His great plan. One such area where the Holy Spirit works in us is to show us how and what we should pray for as we ought. You know there is a great gospel song that says, “No one ever cared for me like Jesus.” But in Romans 8:26, Scripture says, “No one ev

Oct 8, 2024 • 0:00

How The Holy Spirit Works In Your Life

How The Holy Spirit Works In Your Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty How the Holy Spirit Works in the life of a believer is our focus this today as we continue to look at John fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen. You understand that from John thirteen onward, that is the last nine chapters up through chapter twenty-one center on the last two weeks of Jesus life. When you understand that Jesus handpicked and groomed these disciples to take His place because He was going back to the Father, you will realize that the inf

Oct 1, 2024 • 0:00

How to Understand the Three Dimensions of Man: Spirit, Soul, and Body

How to Understand the Three Dimensions of Man: Spirit, Soul, and Body

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirty-Nine The Bible informs us that there are three dimensions of man: spirit, soul, and body. We also know that the Holy Spirit of God indwells all believers. So what is the communication like between God who is a spirit and man? It’s somewhat like the communication that occurs with radios, TV, or WiFi. There must be a link between the receiver and the transmitter. When we listen to a broadcast, there are many sound waves all around us, but

Sep 24, 2024 • 0:00

The Link Between Love, Joy, And Abiding In Jesus

The Link Between Love, Joy, And Abiding In Jesus

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirty-Eight This week, we delve further into the depths of the Word as we explore the profound love of God and the overwhelming joy of the Lord. In a world filled with conflict, both on a global scale such as wars, and on a more intimate level like internal political turmoil, the message of love and joy is incredibly relevant and crucial. We have previously discussed the concept of Vine life and the importance of abiding in Jesus, focusing on the ini

Sep 17, 2024 • 0:00

How Your Prayers Can Be Answered One Hundred Percent

How Your Prayers Can Be Answered One Hundred Percent

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirty-Seven We are to that point in John’s gospel where Jesus makes what is to us one of the most outstanding of Bible promises: a vehicle by which prayer is answered one-hundred-percent of the time. If you haven’t experienced answers to prayer on this level, then this podcast is for you. Andrew Murray, the famous Scottish born, South African preacher, a prolific author of 240 books wrote the following on the subject of answered prayer. He said: A be

Sep 10, 2024 • 0:00

Eight Ways to Fulfill God’s Purpose for Your Life

Eight Ways to Fulfill God’s Purpose for Your Life

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirty-Six Purpose, God’s purpose, that is, is what we want to take a look at this week. On the heels of this idea on purpose comes the following illustration. The guest was a body builder a while back on “The Merv Griffin Show,” the guest was a bodybuilder. During the interview, Merv asked, “Why do you develop those particular muscles?” The bodybuilder stepped forward and flexed a series of well-defined muscles from chest to calf. The audience

Sep 3, 2024 • 0:00

Why You Need Jesus to Accomplish Anything Great

Why You Need Jesus to Accomplish Anything Great

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirty-Five The fact that we need Jesus goes without saying. We need Him for salvation, that’s the gospel but the need doesn’t stop with salvation. If after coming to Jesus, we aspire to build the Kingdom, if our heart yearns to do anything great for God, we still need Jesus. He boldly declared in John’s gospel that apart from Jesus, disconnected from the vine, we can do nothing. We have been looking at ‘vine life’ the past couple of podcasts and this

Aug 27, 2024 • 0:00

Why It’s Amazing for You to Abide in Jesus

Why It’s Amazing for You to Abide in Jesus

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirty-Four In John fifteen, Jesus moves on from His “I am the true Vine declaration” and concentrates some of His focus on the concept of fruit bearing and abiding. What’s exciting about this is that learning to abide leads to great things for the Kingdom of God. Abiding in Christ will always produce fruit, even though it is not always apparent. Here is the story of a man who produced glorious fruit in a very unspectacular way. A century and a half a

Aug 20, 2024 • 0:00

Why Jesus Is the Vine Is Superior News

Why Jesus Is the Vine Is Superior News

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirty-Three Jesus said I am the true vine. We are going to take a look at what this statement means for the Jesus follower. I promise you, this message, when understood, is wonderfully liberating. You will see what a great blessing it is for Jesus to be the Vine. Let’s talk about vines for a moment. Once, a young woman, a great lover of flowers, had set out a rare vine at the base of a stone wall. It grew vigorously, but it did not seem to bloom. Day

Aug 13, 2024 • 0:00

Why Satan’s Broken Power Over Your Life Means You’re Free

Why Satan’s Broken Power Over Your Life Means You’re Free

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirty-One Recently, I came upon a story that illustrates how Satan’s broken power over followers of Jesus. The story goes like this: “While visiting Grand Coulee Dam, my family and I were surprised to see that the visitor’s center was dark. It was a sunny day, so we thought the center might have tinted windows, but as we got closer, we realized no lights were on. We went in and saw that none of the displays were working. It soon became clear that the

Aug 6, 2024 • 0:00

Why Peace from Jesus Overcomes Fear in A Crazy World

Why Peace from Jesus Overcomes Fear in A Crazy World

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirty Peace is something almost everyone yearns for. Some have found the source of it while others reach for it while searching blindly in the dark. Could it be that the reason for the failure to acquire peace is in how it’s being defined? Peace is far more than protection from annihilation. Peace is more than the cessation of hostilities. Peace is more than a state of mind or the tranquility of a countryside. Peace is commitment to a way of life whi

Jul 30, 2024 • 0:00

Why You Should Highly Value Holy Spirit Education

Why You Should Highly Value Holy Spirit Education

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirty Today, our topic of discussion revolves around education, particularly a remarkable kind known as Holy Spirit Education. Education is a highly valued aspect in society, sought after by parents for their children and employers for their employees. However, today we will delve into the kind of learning that comes only from the Spirit of God. Let’s take a moment to acknowledge the incredible journey of Francis Asbury, who started as a humble peasa

Jul 22, 2024 • 0:00

Why The Great Manifestation Of Jesus Is God’s Promise

Why The Great Manifestation Of Jesus Is God’s Promise

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty-Nine One topic Jesus discussed with His disciples in John 14 is the manifestation of Jesus in the life of a believer. Tony Evans shared a powerful illustration to explain this concept. He stated that when a woman becomes pregnant, it is a result of an intimate encounter in private. This encounter becomes evident in public months later. If nothing is seen in public, it indicates that nothing happened in private. God desires for new life in Him t

Jul 16, 2024 • 0:00

What It Means to See with the Eye of Faith

What It Means to See with the Eye of Faith

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty-Eight Jesus alluded to an expression used much today among Jesus followers: the eye of faith. We talk about seeing with 20–20 vision — spiritual vision that is. Holy Ghost vision. Seeing as God see’s not as the world see’s. An artist can paint the physical hands and feet of our Lord, but he cannot paint the healing power of those hands and the godly walk of those feet. [That takes the eye of faith] He can paint the outward suffering, but not th

Jul 9, 2024 • 0:00

Three Things You Can Do To Operate in the Will of God Encore Podcast

Three Things You Can Do To Operate in the Will of God Encore Podcast

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty-Seven If you want to know how to grow up spiritually, if your heart desires to know what God’s will is for your life, you’ve come to the right place today. On the heels of knowing God’s will, comes this illustrative story from the lips of F.B. Meyer. Myer was a Baptist Pastor and Evangelist whose life spanned England’s 19th and 20th centuries. When crossing the Irish Channel one dark starless night, F. B. Meyer stood on the deck by the captain

Jul 2, 2024 • 0:00

What Does It Mean to Be Spirit Filled?

What Does It Mean to Be Spirit Filled?

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty-Six Being filled with the Holy Spirit via psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs is the focus of our podcast and this post today. The Spirit of God has given utterance to many songs and hymns throughout the centuries. On the subject of hymns, Charles Spurgeon shared the following story from his life. “During one of many holidays at Salmbourne, [I looked this place up on the internet and after I did I had no more idea where it was than when ai state

Jun 25, 2024 • 0:00

Why The Holy Spirit Of God Is Your Ultimate Helper

Why The Holy Spirit Of God Is Your Ultimate Helper

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty-Five Today’s podcast focuses on a person — the Holy Spirit of God — , on a Helper — the third member of the Trinity — on a constant companion who has been with you since the day you said ‘yes’ to Jesus. A.W. Tozer in his book on the Holy Spirit said, ‘There is an unseen Deity present, a knowing, feeling Personality, and He is indivisible from the Father and the Son, so that if you were to be suddenly transferred to heaven itself you wouldn’t be

Jun 18, 2024 • 0:00

Your God Given Right to Use Jesus Name Now and Forever

Your God Given Right to Use Jesus Name Now and Forever

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty-Four In today’s podcast, your God given right to using Jesus Name is our focus. Jesus Name and His works go hand in hand. Miracles can occur because of the use of Jesus Name. On this thought of miracles, I know we have hit this from multiple angles. How about we take another shot at this but from the negative point of view. Have you ever thought, Why are there so many false miracles that are claimed by almost all religions (non-Christians and p

Jun 11, 2024 • 0:00

Why God’s Big Dream Will Make You Stunningly Happy

Why God’s Big Dream Will Make You Stunningly Happy

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty-Three God’s Big Dream is our point of emphasis today as we continue to talk about doing the works of Jesus. God is a worker! Perhaps you’ve never thought of Him that way. But that’s how He first appears in the Bible. In the creation account in Genesis 1 and 2, you will find that God wears multiple occupational hats: we are talking strategic planner, designer, civil engineer, real estate developer, project manager, artist, and many more. Using H

Jun 3, 2024 • 0:00

Why Miracles Matter Now and Forever

Why Miracles Matter Now and Forever

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty-Two If you’re acquainted at all with the gospels and the works of Jesus, you’ll know that miracles matter. They were prevalent during the three and half years of His ministry. But, what about afterward? Well, in this podcast, we will take a look at what happened post Jesus. That is what happened miracle-wise after Jesus ascended back into heaven both in the early church and in the later as well. Just as in Jesus day some refused to believe desp

May 28, 2024 • 0:00

Why Your Doing Jesus Powerful Works Is Right

Why Your Doing Jesus Powerful Works Is Right

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty-One Concerning the works of Jesus, the Spirit of God made an astounding statement to the disciples in John fourteen. Listen to what He said. ‘The works that I do shall you do also and greater works than these shall you do.’ What kind of works did Jesus do? Well, Miracles for one. Miracles in the New Testament are essentially expressions of God’s salvation and glory. Why did Jesus perform miracles? Jesus answered this question Himself. When in p

May 21, 2024 • 0:00

Why It’s Revolutionary For You to Know What God’s Like

Why It’s Revolutionary For You to Know What God’s Like

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty What is God like? What kind of God is he? How may we expect him to act toward us and toward all created things? This is a marvelous question that we started to poke our noses in last week’s podcast. A.W. Tozer wrote that “Such questions are not merely academic. They touch the far-in reaches of the human spirit, and their answers affect life and character and destiny. When asked in reverence and their answers sought in humility, these are questi

May 14, 2024 • 0:00

Powerful Jesus Truths about God the Father on High

Powerful Jesus Truths about God the Father on High

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Nineteen Today, we delve into John fourteen, where Jesus imparts profound truths about our heavenly Father, God. It’s astonishing how, amidst the explosion of knowledge in the past fifty years, many have overlooked the fact that the most crucial knowledge one can possess is knowledge of God. Who is He, and what is He like? Let’s consider a hypothetical scenario: if we were to discover inhabitants on other planets, the achievement of sending men to the

May 7, 2024 • 0:00

Biblically Secrets to a Healthy Heart in God

Biblically Secrets to a Healthy Heart in God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Eighteen As we switch over to John’s gospel, chapter fourteen, the subject of having a healthy heart comes to the surface. Of course, the heart we are referencing is the spirit of a man and not the human blood pump. But, there are parallels between the two. You know when Dr. Christian Bernard performed the first human heart transplant, [we are talking about ‘healthy hearts’ today] the medical world basked in the glow of human achievement. Sick and dyi

Apr 30, 2024 • 0:00

Why You Need To Know Who You Are In Christ

Why You Need To Know Who You Are In Christ

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Seventeen As Paul closes out his segment on the division, the boasting, and the immaturity that was in this church, he ends chapter one with the marvelous reality that God placed us ‘In Christ.’ ‘Because of Him you are in Him, is what Paul states. But, what does that mean to be ‘in Christ?’ Tony Evans shared an object lesson that highlights one aspect of what it means to be ‘in Christ.’ Here’s his illustration. Tony said, “I’VE GOT three envelopes: a

Apr 23, 2024 • 0:00

Why Boasting Is Never Beautiful for Those Born Again

Why Boasting Is Never Beautiful for Those Born Again

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Sixteen No human being should consider boasting of his or her accomplishments. Prideful boasting is never best. Meekness of humility is what’s appreciated by God and man. The Word of God says “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth” — you find that reference in Matthew five and verse five. Illustrating this truth a drunkard of a husband spent the evening with his happy friends at a bar. He boasted that if he took all of his friends to

Apr 16, 2024 • 0:00

Why Your Powerful Victory Over Satan’s Wisdom Is Certain

Why Your Powerful Victory Over Satan’s Wisdom Is Certain

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Fiveteen Did you know that your victory over Satan’s wisdom is a sure thing? Now, don’t be afraid to ask questions, that is a motto to live by. It is important to ask questions when we don’t understand something. We need to set aside our ego and acknowledge that we don’t know everything, as this is how we mature. However, we must not mistake this attitude for the rebellious “question authority” movement of the past. That is simply a disguise to do wha

Apr 9, 2024 • 0:00

How to SpotLight God’s Wisdom In Your Every Day Life

How to SpotLight God’s Wisdom In Your Every Day Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Fourteen. We are putting a spotlight on God’s wisdom this week because of Pauls’ First letter to the Corinthians. One gentleman shared his trek in trying to acquire the wisdom of God. He said, ‘Shortly after my conversion in 1973, six of my young Christian friends and I met one evening to talk about our faith. […] The post How to SpotLight God’s Wisdom In Your Every Day Life appeared first on emeryhorvath.com. Related posts: Why Total Confid

Apr 2, 2024 • 0:00

Why Total Confidence in the Cross Means Ultimate Wisdom

Why Total Confidence in the Cross Means Ultimate Wisdom

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Thirteen In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he emphasizes the immense power of Jesus’ Cross. This can be found in verse seventeen of chapter one. Moving on to verse eighteen, Paul mentions the significance of the ‘word of the Cross’ and its superiority over the word of the world. It’s clear that this message will resonate with many. Interestingly, an illustrator has praised Pittsburgh’s airport, stating that it is among the largest and most we

Mar 26, 2024 • 0:00

Why a Spirit of Division is Not Your Way

Why a Spirit of Division is Not Your Way

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twelve In First Corinthians, Paul addresses the division prominent in the house churches of the city. Simply stated, division is a wall between two sides. In the 1960s, the Communists of East Germany erected the Berlin Wall to prevent East Germans from uniting with West Germans. Many individuals lost their lives while attempting to climb the wall that separated the East from the West, proving that this barrier was not innocent. This wall of division s

Mar 19, 2024 • 0:00

Why Moving In Strife Means You Need To Grow

Why Moving In Strife Means You Need To Grow

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Eleven Strife, avoiding it, and knowing why you should is what we are talking up today. The Church at Corinth had major problems with strife. So, in his letter to this church, Paul makes addressing this problem one of his major focal points. He didn’t want this church to have a history in this area. You may not realize it, but Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the United States, had a history with strife. His grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, raise

Mar 12, 2024 • 0:00

How To Find Your Ultimate Calling for Your Life

How To Find Your Ultimate Calling for Your Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Ten. Everyone wants to know what their calling is in life. Why am I here? What’s the purpose for my life? Why am I wired the way I am. What’s God’s plan for my life? Some time ago in Schenectady, N. Y., before an audience which included many young engineers from General Electric, Donald Grey Barnhouse […] The post How To Find Your Ultimate Calling for Your Life appeared first on emeryhorvath.com. Related posts: How to SpotLight God’s Wisdom

Mar 5, 2024 • 0:00

How to Live a Sustained and Guilt-Free Life

How to Live a Sustained and Guilt-Free Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Nine In this week’s podcast, the subject of guilt steps forward as we march through the first chapter of First Corinthians. Paul writes to this church informing them of a particular thing God will do for all Jesus’ followers. He will sustain them to the end, holding them guiltless on the day of Lord Jesus Christ. Now, as we get into today’s lesson, we will read these set of words again, but we will do it in context. So, here’s the question we’re going

Feb 27, 2024 • 0:00

What It Means to Be Really Mature in God

What It Means to Be Really Mature in God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Eight. Today’s dive into the Book of First Corinthians brings us to the subject of maturity. What does it really mean to be mature in God? Sinclair Ferguson asked the same question. He states that our constant quest as Christians is to become mature. Whenever I think of the subject of maturity, Sinclair said, I recall […] The post What It Means to Be Really Mature in God appeared first on emeryhorvath.com. Related posts: Why Repetition Is a

Feb 20, 2024 • 0:00

What You Need to Know about Knowing God

What You Need to Know about Knowing God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Seven In today’s podcast, our subject matter in the book of First Corinthians takes us to the subject of knowing God. A.W. Tozer spoke out on this topic with the following thought. “The decline of the knowledge of the holy has brought on our troubles. A rediscovery of the majesty of God will go a long way toward curing them. It is impossible to keep our moral practices sound and our inward attitudes right while our idea of God is erroneous or inadequa

Feb 13, 2024 • 0:00

How to Impact an Immoral City: Lessons from Corinth

How to Impact an Immoral City: Lessons from Corinth

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Six So, we have finished the books of First and Second Thessalonians and now we are switching to Paul’s two letters to the Corinthians. In upcoming podcasts, we are going to be talking about this first letter. We will do some Bible background on the book and focus on just how the gospel came to Corinth. Corinth was a major city in the eastern Peloponnese of Greece. It lay near the narrow isthmus that joined the Peloponnese to the mainland. The city la

Feb 6, 2024 • 0:00

Why You Can Overcome Weariness With God’s Amazing Grace

Why You Can Overcome Weariness With God’s Amazing Grace

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Five In today’s episode, we are talking about the subject of weariness. It’s not something that we normally talk about, but the Bible addresses it and since it does we should know how to combat it. There is an old story of a Jewish rabbi who consented to take a weary traveler into his house for a night’s rest. After they ate, the rabbi asked the gentleman, “How old are you?” “Almost a century old,” the old man replied. “Are you a religious man?” asked

Jan 30, 2024 • 0:00

Why God’s Thoughts On Discipline Are Superior To Yours

Why God’s Thoughts On Discipline Are Superior To Yours

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Four In this week’s episode, the subject of divine discipline comes to the forefront. It’s called divine discipline, but it’s more like child rearing but from the spiritual side or from God’s point of view. ‘Discipleship’ involves ‘discipline.’ Discipline means correction. After all, God is your heavenly Father. Have you ever thought of Him not just as a supplier of your physical needs — you know, one you approach in Jesus’ Name asking for stuff? Do y

Jan 23, 2024 • 0:00

Why God’s Love and Direction Are a Match Made in Heaven

Why God’s Love and Direction Are a Match Made in Heaven

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Three God’s direction or His ability to guide us into His ways is the subject of today’s podcast as we move further in 2 Thessalonians chapter three. Now there are places in the Word of God where we have God’s direction, that is, places where He wants us to go. Then there are other passages where there is firm encouragement to ask for directions. Asking for direction is not always the easiest thing for someone. Men are famous for their ability to not

Jan 16, 2024 • 0:00

Why You Need God’s Protection in a World Gone Nuts

Why You Need God’s Protection in a World Gone Nuts

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Two The faithfulness of the Lord to protect and guard His kids from evil comes into view in today’s podcast. You need God’s protection! We know that God is faithful and reliable in these areas. The question and challenge here is ‘Are we allowing and depending on Him in this area?’ We should understand our part of the faithfulness equation. We are encouraged greatly along these lines. God’s Word speaks about being faithful to the Word, faithful in the

Jan 9, 2024 • 0:00

Why Growing in Faith Brings Amazing Results

Why Growing in Faith Brings Amazing Results

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode One In today’s season opening podcast, [Season 11] our topic of focus is faith, growing faith, faith in God, that is. In previous seasons, we have recorded several podcasts on this subject. Several podcasts are just a soccer ball drop in the ocean for such a vast subject. There is no way one can fully cover this just a few thirty-minute sessions. To fully cover a topic, you must fully know it and, I do not lay claim to this. But the good news here is

Jan 2, 2024 • 0:00

Why Powerful Prayer to Advance the Gospel Is Right

Why Powerful Prayer to Advance the Gospel Is Right

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Fifty-Two Powerful prayer is our season ending, year ending focus today. You know, this is the time of the year where people look forward to the dawning of a new year. With that, they become reflective. They become goal oriented because they realize that the currents of the past year led them to places that they were not happy being. Some of these new year type resolutions deal with course corrections. You know, making a clean, fresh start. The prospect

Dec 26, 2023 • 0:00

Reasons Why People Fail to Receive From God

Reasons Why People Fail to Receive From God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Fifty-One In today’s podcast, we want to look at some reasons prayer is unanswered. Or, we could say it this way – why some fail to receive from God. William Wilberforce and some of his contemporaries started enormous social reforms in England. This group accomplished it by dedicating a significant amount of time to prayer and consistently devoting three hours to prayer each day. They organized Christians throughout the country to unite in special prayer

Dec 19, 2023 • 0:00

Why You Shouldn’t Be Quickly Shaken by Prophetic Happenings

Why You Shouldn’t Be Quickly Shaken by Prophetic Happenings

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Fifty Paul uses a phrase, ‘quickly shaken’ that we want to jump in and look at today. Some of the Thessalonian believers had jumped ship and gone back from following Jesus. In church circles today, we use the term back sliding or backslidden to describe the process of a believer quickly turning away from Jesus. But is the process so quick? What goes through the mind of a professing believer when he turns away from Christ? How can a person who shows excit

Dec 12, 2023 • 0:00

Why Jesus Proven Second Coming Produces Ironclad Hope

Why Jesus Proven Second Coming Produces Ironclad Hope

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty-Nine Hope is a marvelous and essential part of the power triplets, faith, hope, and love. The Lord provides hope and a way of escape in perilous times as the light grows darker among those who refuse to believe. He did such a thing in Noah’s day when the world was even darker than it is right now. God provided hope and a way of escape via the Ark that He commanded Noah to build. There’s a humorous story detailing the Ark building process. Here it i

Dec 5, 2023 • 0:00

Why God’s Amazing Dynamic Deliverance Is Coming Your Way

Why God’s Amazing Dynamic Deliverance Is Coming Your Way

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty-Eight In this week’s podcast, we are talking about God’s amazing dynamic deliverance from the standpoint of expectation. We know what to expect from the Lord when evil persecutes God’s own children. There is going to be a response. We can thank God for this response, ahead of time. We know what will happen. It’s a law in the universe. The farmer who plants certain seeds knows what to expect. He knows he will reap what he sows. He may not know exact

Nov 28, 2023 • 0:00

What Does a Spiritually Healthy Jesus Follower Look Like to God?

What Does a Spiritually Healthy Jesus Follower Look Like to God?

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty-Seven In today’s podcast, we are talking about spiritual health. Naturally, people go to doctors to get checkups because they want to make sure their health is up to par. The same ‘check-up’ idea works for believers in Jesus. How’s your health — your spiritual health, that is? Are you growing in God? Are you closer to Jesus? Do you want to know Him better? Here’s an example of a healthy growing believer. Have you heard the story of Charlie Riggs? O

Nov 21, 2023 • 0:00

Why Repetition Is a Vital Need for Godly Spiritual Growth

Why Repetition Is a Vital Need for Godly Spiritual Growth

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty-Six Repetition is a key tool for spiritual growth and development. the same can be said for natural growth as well. Last week, we closed out our look at Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians. But, did you know that shortly after Paul, Silas, and Timothy co-wrote the first letter, this dynamic trio wrote a second? Are you also aware that in the second letter, these marvelous missionaries both repeat and expand on the contents of the first letter?

Nov 14, 2023 • 0:00

Why You Should Never Doubt The Faithfulness of Your Heavenly Father Towards You

Why You Should Never Doubt The Faithfulness of Your Heavenly Father Towards You

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty-Five The faithfulness of God to His kids is one of the more comforting Bible truths. Most of us have lived long enough to be disappointed with people from time to time. But the Lord remains faithful. Even when you cannot see Him, the Christian believer knows that God is ever so near and close by! Picture a little girl flying a kite on the beach. Her kite is so high in the air that it looks like a speck in the white, cotton clouds. Someone happens b

Nov 7, 2023 • 0:00

How to Understand the Three Dimensions of Man: Spirit, Soul, and Body

How to Understand the Three Dimensions of Man: Spirit, Soul, and Body

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty-Four The Bible informs us that there are three dimensions of man: spirit, soul, and body. We also know that the Holy Spirit of God indwells all believers. So what is the communication like between God who is a spirit and man? It’s somewhat like the communication that occurs with radios, TV, or WiFi. There must be a link between the receiver and the transmitter. When we listen to a broadcast, there are many sound waves all around us, but the only wa

Oct 31, 2023 • 0:00

How to Work and Flow with the Holy Spirit in the Vocal Gifts

How to Work and Flow with the Holy Spirit in the Vocal Gifts

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty-Three The working of the Holy Spirit in our midst is something to be treasured. His working is what we are going to be talking about today. Now, I say ‘His working in our midst’ because you will see so much of His movings in a group setting. One gentleman said it this way. “The Holy Spirit is the source of community and the Spirit’s work is more related to the building of the community than to the edification of the isolated individual.”1 Group lif

Oct 24, 2023 • 0:00

Why It’s Right to Embrace Prophecies in the Local Church

Why It’s Right to Embrace Prophecies in the Local Church

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty-Two In today’s podcast, we take a look at prophecies in the local church. Now, the simple gift of prophecy is speaking unto men for edification, exhortation, and comfort. Sometimes this gift of the Spirit goes hand in hand with some of the other gifts listed in First Corinthians twelve. Check this story out from the life of John Wesley for example. Wesley was not an advocate of sensationalism in preaching. But on one occasion, he interrupted his ow

Oct 17, 2023 • 0:00

Three Things You Can Do To Operate in the Will of God

Three Things You Can Do To Operate in the Will of God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty-One If you want to know how to grow up spiritually, if your heart desires to know what God’s will is for your life, you’ve come to the right place today. On the heels of knowing God’s will, comes this illustrative story from the lips of F.B. Meyer. Myer was a Baptist Pastor and Evangelist whose life spanned England’s 19th and 20th centuries. When crossing the Irish Channel one dark starless night, F. B. Meyer stood on the deck by the captain and as

Oct 10, 2023 • 0:00

Why Doing Righteous Good Instead of Taking Revenge Is The Jesus Way

Why Doing Righteous Good Instead of Taking Revenge Is The Jesus Way

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty The Word of God warns us against the idea of revenge, taking matters into our own hands, paying evil for evil, or any other similar phraseology. Plotting your revenge against someone who has wronged you is not the Jesus way. It leads to irrational decisions and if executed, potential life-altering results. When he was an attorney, Abraham Lincoln was once approached by a man who passionately insisted on bringing a lawsuit for $2.50 against a man wh

Oct 3, 2023 • 0:00

Why Possessing Patience Is A Powerful Step to A Faith Filled Life

Why Possessing Patience Is A Powerful Step to A Faith Filled Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Thirty-Nine In this week’s episode, we take a look at the valuable traits of patience and long-suffering. I mean it’s more valuable than gold because being exercised in this discipline can put gold in your pocket. In the days of instant coffee and fast-food service, we have come to expect short waiting periods. We struggle with patience daily; we get tied up in knots. Why? Because God is not on our schedule. We want to hurry up and wait while He wants us

Sep 26, 2023 • 0:00

Four Ongoing and Continuous Responsibilities for Every Jesus Follower

Four Ongoing and Continuous Responsibilities for Every Jesus Follower

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Thirty-Eight As Jesus’ followers, we all are in charge of certain responsibilities when it comes to our brothers and sisters in Christ. That’s the ‘we’ part of being in the Body of Christ. The ‘we’ part of the Jesus life means the emphasis is us — not I. The Jesus life is a group life. It’s a life invested in others. So, we have a responsibility. Now, you know there will always be those who try to side-step their responsibilities. They blame other factor

Sep 19, 2023 • 0:00

Simple Yet Effective Directives for Living the Dynamic Jesus Life

Simple Yet Effective Directives for Living the Dynamic Jesus Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Thirty-Seven The Jesus life is our focus this week. How different His life was from the normal of that day. Illustrating this Sue Monk Kidd shares the following story. “Years ago, she says, while shopping in a mall in Atlanta, I let go of my three-year-old son’s hand to examine a display of scarves. When I looked around a minute later, he was gone. In vain I searched the store aisles, panic beginning to churn in my stomach. Mall security began a search,

Sep 12, 2023 • 0:00

How to Avoid the Wrath of God and Be Caught Up With Jesus

How to Avoid the Wrath of God and Be Caught Up With Jesus

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Thirty-Six As we roll into chapter five of 1 Thessalonians, we have ten more verses that relate to the Rapture, the Wrath of God, and End Times. Charles Finis Dake wrote quite a bit about these areas. He was a prolific student of God’s Word having put in 100,000 hours of study which averages roughly to eight hours a day. He said this about End Time events. “Having been born in 1902, I have now had time to witness the coming and going of quite a few proph

Sep 5, 2023 • 0:00

How Does the Rapture of the Church Play Out On The Great Stage

How Does the Rapture of the Church Play Out On The Great Stage

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Thirty-Five Are you looking for Jesus to return in the glorious event mentioned in First Thessalonians four known as the Rapture of the Church? Famous Bible Expositor G. Campbell Morgan, said, “I never begin my work in the morning without thinking that perhaps He may interrupt my work and begin His own. I am not looking for death. I am looking for Him.”1 Are you looking for Him? The early believers were not looking for something to happen, they were look

Aug 29, 2023 • 0:00

Why The Rapture and Jesus Second Coming Are Not the Same Event

Why The Rapture and Jesus Second Coming Are Not the Same Event

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Thirty-Four The Rapture is our focus as we motor along through chapter four of First Thessalonians. On the subject of the Rapture, the humorous story is told of an old farmer who brought his family to the big city for the very first time. They had never seen buildings so tall or sights so impressive. The farmer dropped his wife off at a department store and took his son with him to the bank—the tallest of all the buildings. As they walked into the lobby,

Aug 22, 2023 • 0:00

Why Grief Is a Killer and How You Can Side Step This Deadly Foe

Why Grief Is a Killer and How You Can Side Step This Deadly Foe

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Thirty-Three Paul writing to the Thessalonians addresses the subject of believers falling asleep in Jesus and the toxic grief that was occurring because of these deaths. The following illustration speaks to this thought. You know fifty years ago, industrialists thought they could just bury toxic waste and it would go away. We have since learned it doesn’t just go away. Toxic waste leaks into the water table contaminates crops, and kills animals. Buried g

Aug 15, 2023 • 0:00

Three Things You Can Do to Rise Above Unnecessary Drama in Your Everyday Life

Three Things You Can Do to Rise Above Unnecessary Drama in Your Everyday Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Thirty-Two Many a person enjoys watching a good drama-type show on television. But, did you know the Bible is stocked full of dramatic God encounters? These are the kinds of drama that are good, wholesome, and healthy. But what if you weren’t just being a spectator viewing or reading about the drama but you were embroiled in it yourself? What if you were the lead character? On the night of November 16, 1930, Mrs. Henrietta Garrett, a lonely 81-year-old w

Aug 8, 2023 • 0:00

Why God Is Super Pleased with Holy Living and Right Conduct

Why God Is Super Pleased with Holy Living and Right Conduct

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Thirty-One Holiness is the word for today. It’s found in Paul’s simple message to the Thessalonians – this is the will of God your sanctification. Jerry Bridges, the author of many an article and book on the subject of holiness writes the following: “As I sat in the doctor’s waiting room, my attention was drawn to a portrait of a man sculpted out of a block of marble. The sculpture was complete down to about mid-thigh, but below that the partially chippe

Jul 31, 2023 • 0:00

What to Do When the Answer to Your Prayer Is Delayed

What to Do When the Answer to Your Prayer Is Delayed

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Thirty Answered prayer is a joyous occasion indeed. But what happens when the answer to your prayer seemingly doesn’t come? What is up with this? Have you ever asked yourself why you didn’t get the answer? It’s okay to ask that question because the answer on the other end of that query leads to astounding insight into the character and mind of God. Let me say it boldly. It is God’s intent that every prayer prayed in Jesus’ Name, prayed according to His w

Jul 25, 2023 • 0:00

Why You Can Overcome Fear and Anxiety In a World Gone Crazy

Why You Can Overcome Fear and Anxiety In a World Gone Crazy

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Twenty-Nine In today’s podcast, we take a broad look at the subject of anxiety, a symptom that’s on the rise in a mighty way in some as they struggle in uncertain times. In the book ‘Streams in the Desert,’ Mrs. Lettie B. Cowman tells of a minister who was heavily burdened under a load of anxiety and care. After carrying this weight for quite some time, he one day imagined that he could place his burden on the ground and stand back a step or two. Then he

Jul 18, 2023 • 0:00

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