Pip: Preacher's Point asks the question most of us quietly avoid: are you still spiritually crawling, or have you actually learned to walk?Mara: That's the territory preacherspoint covers this week — the markers of spiritual immaturity, what growth actually looks like, and the two practices the Bible points to as the path forward. Let's start … Continue reading Podcast Episode: Spiritual Maturity Stages
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Spiritual Maturity Stages
The Bible uses the terms babes, young men, fathers, elders, children, and several others to indicate where a person is in their spiritual maturity. As time goes by after a person’s salvation, God expects them to grow spiritually. Immediately after salvation, we are spiritual babes. We don’t know a whole lot; we do things we … Continue reading Spiritual Maturity Stages
Podcast Episode: What About The Children?
Pip: Welcome back to the digest — where this week, preacherspoint hands us a story about a church van, twenty-five hungry kids, and a deacon who thought that was too many.Mara: The post works through what it actually looks like to fight for children in a congregation — and what happens when you stop fighting … Continue reading Podcast Episode: What About The Children?
What About The Children?
Decades ago, while pastoring a previous church, some interesting things happened. A few weeks after starting at the church, I was there alone and decided to snoop around. There I was looking through closets and other storage areas. Everything was what you would expect stored inside a church. A lot of seasonal decorations, costumes, and … Continue reading What About The Children?
Podcast Episode: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You
Pip: Preacher's Point opens this week with a question that parking tickets, light sockets, and the Book of Luke apparently all agree on.Mara: That's right — preacherspoint's latest post works from everyday ignorance outward to the spiritual stakes of not knowing God. Let's start with what you don't know and why it matters.What You Don't … Continue reading Podcast Episode: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You
What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You
Years ago, I played in a church basketball league. For this particular game, I had the keys to the building in which we were going to play. I arrived about two hours early. It had snowed about an inch and a half that day, and the parking lot had not yet been plowed. I parked … Continue reading What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You
Podcast Episode: Reconciliation
Pip: Preacher's Point this week goes straight for the word that shows up five times in three verses — which, in biblical terms, is the equivalent of underlining something twice and circling it.Mara: That's a fair read. The post from preacherspoint works through reconciliation as both a theological concept and a personal call to action … Continue reading Podcast Episode: Reconciliation
Reconciliation
When reading or studying the Bible, it is always helpful to note when God repeats Himself. Look for the same words or phrases that are duplicated over the span of a few verses or a chapter. On a broader scale, a word study throughout the Bible can be very interesting. Pick a word, then look … Continue reading Reconciliation
Podcast Episode: The Fruits of Saving Faith
Pip: Welcome to Preacher's Point — where the questions are ancient and the stakes, depending on who you ask, are eternal.Mara: Today we're working through a post from preacherspoint that takes on one of the central tensions in Christian theology: whether genuine faith produces visible change, and what it means if it doesn't.Pip: Let's start … Continue reading Podcast Episode: The Fruits of Saving Faith
The Fruits of Saving Faith
When a person places faith in the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ as their only means of salvation, they are saved (John 3:14-19, 36; Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:28; Romans 4:5; Galatians 2:16; John 5:24; Acts 16:30-31; Titus 3:5). At the moment of salvation, a person receives the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14; Romans 8:9; Titus 3:5-6; … Continue reading The Fruits of Saving Faith
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