Episodes
Part 5: Israel’s Role In God’s Plan
Paul wrestles with the question: how come Israel has rejected the Gospel? If God’s purpose and plans are related to the nation of Israel, how could they have rejected the Gospel? If God’s purpose and plan for Israel is failing, have God’s promises themselves failed?
Part 4: Sanctification By God’s Grace
What does it mean to be set apart, to be consecrated, to become all that God has created us to be?
Part 3: Justification By God’s Grace
God is Merciful. God is Loving. But God is also Just and He must punish Sin. We have a problem, and there is nothing we can do. But there is something that’s already been done.
Part 2: Fallen People in a Fallen World
We live in a fallen world. What’s the cause of all of this? In the Letter to the Romans, we get the answer.
Part 1: Introduction to Romans
The Apostle Paul’s Letter to the Romans is perhaps the clearest statement of the Gospel in the whole Bible. To study it is really to study the essence of Christianity.
Part 9: New Testament Women Leaders
While the Bible is sometimes viewed as sexist or “anti-women,” Christianity actually raised the status of women in a variety of ways.
Part 8: Philip, Available to God
Although Philip is a relatively minor character in the book of Acts, God uses him in remarkable ways because he was available to God and because he took advantage of the opportunities that God gave to him.
Part 7: The Discerning Leader
Deborah and Rahab are excellent examples, not of women leaders, but of discerning leaders who just happen to be women.
Part 6: The “Other-Centered” Leader
Although Barnabas was a relatively minor character in the book of Acts, every time we meet him he’s doing the same thing: meeting the needs of others, reconciling people who are in conflict and building bridges of understanding.
Part 5: Leading Through Failure
Leaders fail in two primary ways: Moral Failure and Experimental Failure. Moral failure, like David and Peter, requires time for restoration and reconciliation to take place. But, it is still necessary that we work at overcoming it and moving on from it. Experimental Failure, while sometimes perceived negatively, can actually be one of the best things that can happen, as long as we are willing to learn from it and move on from it.
Part 4: The Mission of the Servant Leader
In Acts 20 Paul is on his way to Jerusalem, where he expects he may be arrested and even put to death. On the way, he calls the elders of the church in Ephesus to give them some final instructions – words of wisdom for fulfilling the leadership role God has given them.
Part 3: Foundations of Servant Leadership
When two of Jesus’ disciples, James and John, ask Jesus for the best seats in the kingdom, Jesus returns to a topic he has been teaching about throughout Mark’s Gospel—servant leadership.
Part 2: Transformational Leadership
When Nehemiah heard of the struggles taking place back in Jerusalem, he had two options. Ignore it or step up. He chose the latter. His transformational leadership style established the foundation for the leadership style of Jesus.
Part 1: Our Fundamental Mission: Discipleship
Jesus chose twelve disciples to focus his primary energies on during his earthly ministry. Yet these few then went out and transformed the world. Jesus’s fundamental mission given to the church was to “make disciples.” But what does this mean?