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  • Divorce and Remarriage | Repentance After Divorce and Remarriage

    Divorce and Remarriage | Repentance After Divorce and Remarriage
    Sep 19 2024
    Divorce and Remarriage | Repentance After Divorce and Remarriage "Divorce and Remarriage | Repentance After Divorce and Remarriage" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/divorce-and-remarriage-repentance-after-divorce-and-remarriage\/#arve-youtube-o1-eh6pg7vo","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/O1-EH6pg7Vo?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"Divorce and Remarriage | Repentance After Divorce and Remarriage","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/STP-S30-EP06-Divorce-and-Remarriage-Repentance-After-Divorce-and-Remarriage.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-19","description":"Divorce and Remarriage | Repentance After Divorce and Remarriage"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related Messages Related sermons: The Exception Clause Marriage or Divorce: Where is Your Emphasis Genuine Repentance Murder Diagnosed by God's Standard The Correction of God's Children "Divorce and Remarriage | Repentance After Divorce and Remarriage " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/divorce-and-remarriage-repentance-after-divorce-and-remarriage\/#arve-vimeo-1009936997","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1009936997?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"Divorce and Remarriage | Repentance After Divorce and Remarriage","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/STP-S30-EP06-Divorce-and-Remarriage-Repentance-After-Divorce-and-Remarriage.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-19","description":"Divorce and Remarriage | Repentance After Divorce and Remarriage"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify Divorce and Remarriage | Repentance After Divorce and Remarriage There are many specific and complicated situations and scenarios that result in people getting divorced and remarried. There are also many questions around the topic of divorce and remarriage. Those questions don't typically end with one’s decision to divorce or remarry. Many of those questions are difficult, and the answers are not always easy and clear-cut. Therefore, each situation needs to be dealt with individually based on the situation and circumstances of the individuals involved. However, one truth of the matter is sin is always involved in the case of divorce and, more often than not, in the case of remarriage. Biblical wisdom is required in answering and applying truth to these challenging, painful, and sinful circumstances. Join us this week on the Straight Truth Podcast as Dr. Josh Philpot presents Dr. Richard Caldwell with a couple of these difficult questions from a listener who seeks to right a wrong with God after a divorce and remarriage. The listener asks, if they have already divorced and remarried, how do they repent from what they've done? They also ask what they should do to make it right in God’s sight. Not knowing the circumstances, Dr. Caldwell says that you just acknowledge that. Not knowing where the sin happened, whether on the divorce side, the remarriage side, or both sides of the issue, repentance must exist where the sin was committed. What you do is ask the Lord to forgive you. Often, this kind of question will include someone asking if they should divorce the person they're married to and return to their former spouse. Dr. Caldwell says no, you don’t do that; you don’t commit other sins as a way of rectifying the original sin(s). The Law of God is clear on this issue of divorce and remarriage. Once someone has left their spouse and has married another,
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    9 mins
  • How the Thief On The Cross Found Paradise with Christ

    How the Thief On The Cross Found Paradise with Christ
    Sep 12 2024
    How the Thief On The Cross Found Paradise with Christ "How the Thief On The Cross Found Paradise with Christ" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/how-the-thief-on-the-cross-found-paradise-with-christ\/#arve-youtube-i8hw28p8e5e","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/I8HW28P8E5E?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"How the Thief On The Cross Found Paradise with Christ","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/STP-S30-EP05-How-the-Thief-On-The-Cross-Found-Paradise-with-Christ.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-12","description":"How the Thief On The Cross Found Paradise with Christ"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related Messages Related sermons: God's Grace on Death Row Preaching the Gospel to Christians The Final Words of John & Jesus "How the Thief On The Cross Found Paradise with Christ " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/how-the-thief-on-the-cross-found-paradise-with-christ\/#arve-vimeo-1007749950","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1007749950?h=fa2beeeefe&dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"How the Thief On The Cross Found Paradise with Christ","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/STP-S30-EP05-How-the-Thief-On-The-Cross-Found-Paradise-with-Christ.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-12","description":"How the Thief On The Cross Found Paradise with Christ"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify How the Thief On The Cross Found Paradise with Christ Was the thief on the cross next to Jesus saved? Some say yes, while others say no. If he was saved, how was he saved? Was he saved under the provisions of the Old Covenant, or was he saved under the New Covenant? Is his salvation the same sort of salvation that we receive today under the New Covenant, or is it something different? Some years after Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection, the Apostle Paul writes in Romans 10:9, “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Did the thief confess these things and confess his sin? He was literally on his bed of death, so in addition to all this, there’s the question of baptism. The thief wasn’t baptized. How can what happened between Jesus and the two thieves be explained so we might better understand what took place? Join us on the Straight Truth Podcast this week as Dr. Richard Caldwell and Dr. Josh Philpot discuss the biblical account of the thief on the cross from Luke 23. Dr. Caldwell and Dr. Philpot seek to help us see how this story illustrates key aspects of faith, salvation, and even evangelism. From Luke 23:32-33, we learn that two thieves (also called criminals/robbers elsewhere) are led away with and will be put to death on crosses along with Jesus, one on His right and one on His left. Dr. Philpot shares the account of Luke 23 from verses 39-43, where these two criminals have both been reviling Jesus (See Matthew 27:44, Mark 15:32) when almost suddenly one criminal profoundly rebukes the other and then goes on to appeal to Jesus to remember him when He comes into His Kingdom. Jesus answers that man by saying, Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise. Dr. Caldwell tells us Jesus answered that man’s request, and he was saved. But how did that happen, we ask? He was saved the same way that salvation has been throughout history. Salvation has always been by grace alone, faith alone,
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    7 mins
  • Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith

    Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith
    Sep 5 2024
    Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith "Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/why-every-christian-should-be-ready-to-defend-their-faith\/#arve-youtube-zyvm4ze7qtm","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Zyvm4ZE7QtM?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/STP-S30-EP04-Why-Every-Christian-Should-Be-Ready-to-Defend-Their-Faith.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-05","description":"Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related MessagesRelated sermons:The Believer's Mindset for Suffering - Part 1The Believer's Mindset for Suffering - Part 2The Believer's Mindset - Part 3The Mindset & Manner of God's Servant "Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/why-every-christian-should-be-ready-to-defend-their-faith\/#arve-vimeo-1004680976","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1004680976?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/STP-S30-EP04-Why-Every-Christian-Should-Be-Ready-to-Defend-Their-Faith.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-05","description":"Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their FaithWhat is Apologetics? We hear this word a lot within the Christian community, but do we really understand what it means and where it comes from? Is it important? In short, apologetics is being able to give a defense of the Christian faith. It is being able to explain what you believe and why you believe it; being able to give a reason for the hope that is in you. The primary text used for apologetics is found in the Bible, in the New Testament, in 1 Peter 3. So yes, it is important. But is apologetics something for only those Christians in academia to take up as a vocation or ministry? Or is there value and benefit for all the saints to have a proper understanding of apologetics and be apologists themselves? These questions are considered and answered in this episode of the Straight Truth Podcast. Join us and listen in as Dr. Richard Caldwell and Dr. Josh Philpot converse about this important topic today.Dr. Caldwell says the value of apologetics is the opportunity for evangelism. It is also valuable in the sense that it encourages the people of God with the knowledge that the truth is the truth. But if apologetics is separated from a pastoral purpose, it can easily become distorted. Dr. Caldwell believes this is often what we see in the landscape of Christendom, where people are practicing apologetics but with no real pastoral purpose. It’s really just a field for arguments and argumentation instead of having a godly purpose standing behind what they are doing.Dr. Caldwell brings up the text of 1 Peter 3:13-17 where Peter tells his readers (believers) to always be prepared/ready to make a defense for the hope that is in them, yet it is to be done in gentleness and with respect. We get the word apologetics from the word translated “defense”. Dr. Caldwell sees Peter as envisioning the believer as under attack, those who are suffering for the sake of righteousness. Yet even as they are being attacked, they are called to make a defense, an apology,
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    10 mins
  • Biblical Perspectives on Health and Fitness

    Biblical Perspectives on Health and Fitness
    Aug 29 2024
    Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded? "Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/can-you-be-too-heavenly-minded\/#arve-youtube-oj2apgdbhcc","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Oj2apGdBHcc?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S30-EP03-STP-S30-EP03-Can-You-Be-Too-Heavenly-Minded.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-29","description":"Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related MessagesRelated sermons:Heavenly-Minded PeopleA Warning Against WorldlinessCommanded to HopeHope & HolinessThe Call to EnduranceA Mature View of the MinistryAre You Prepared? "Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded? " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/can-you-be-too-heavenly-minded\/#arve-vimeo-1002142574","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1002142574?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S30-EP03-STP-S30-EP03-Can-You-Be-Too-Heavenly-Minded.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-29","description":"Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?Some people are so heavenly-minded that they’re no earthly good. Have you ever heard this statement or something like it? It’s a catchy quote attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in the late 1800s, and many years later, in 1977, was embodied in a popular Johnny Cash song titled “No Earthly Good". A listener to the podcast has heard this phrase over the years and has written to us seeking to better understand what it really means. Aren’t Christians called to be heavenly-minded? Is it actually possible to be so heavenly-minded that they do no earthly good? Can Christians even be too heavenly-minded? That is the topic for this week’s Straight Truth Podcast with Dr. Richard Caldwell and Dr. Josh Philpot. Join us and listen to the conversation as they seek to help us gain insight and understanding into what might be meant when someone uses this now widely familiar turn of phrase.Dr. Caldwell says if we begin by defining the phrase- heavenly-minded, according to the Scriptures, then the answer is no, a Christian cannot be too heavenly-minded. But, if we try to define what some people mean by describing someone as so heavenly-minded that they are no earthly good, it’s possible that what they mean is the person has an over-realized eschatology. This would be someone who responds to time and eternity in a manner that God never intended. This is a circumstance where a believer knows they are headed to eternity, knowing that Jesus could come any day, and that is all they care about and are focused on. That would be an unbiblical response to the truths that God has given us about the return of Christ and about eternity. An example of this kind of living would be someone who sort of lives their life with their head in the clouds, so to speak, where they are not taking care of the things here on the earth that God has also assigned to His people. We find a most likely example of this in 2 Thessalonians 3, where Paul writes about some believers who had stopped working. But, in terms of being heavenly-minded and living in obedience to God’s Word right now where we are on earth, and in light of eternity (with it always in view), that’s absolutely biblical. That is what Christians are called to do; it’s a matter of Christian obedience.
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    10 mins
  • Biblical Perspectives on Health and Fitness

    Biblical Perspectives on Health and Fitness
    Aug 22 2024
    The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election "The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/biblical-perspectives-on-health-and-fitness\/#arve-youtube-okbgbw1iiyw","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/okbgBW1iiYw?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-08","description":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related Messages Related sermons: The Beautiful Life & Civil Authority The Wisdom of Christ The Christian's Relationship to Governing Authorities Why the World Hates Christians Blind Opposition "The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/biblical-perspectives-on-health-and-fitness\/#arve-vimeo-993146820","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/993146820?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-01","description":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election Every four years in the United States, we enter an election year where we are provided the opportunity, having been given the right, as citizens to vote for the President of the US. We are in the thick of that season as we prepare to vote this November, just three months away. It seems that we hear the news media increasingly telling us that this is the most significant election of our lifetimes, where the constant refrain is that if so and so is not elected or if this party is not elected, it will lead to the destruction of democracy or the loss of certain liberties we have as Americans. Dr. Josh Philpot shares that this year feels as though it's more consequential than previous years. He asks Dr. Richard Caldwell if he would talk briefly to the listeners of the Straight Truth Podcast about some of these things. He also asks Dr. Calwell to share how consequential an election like this might be within a biblical worldview. Dr. Caldwell believes this year’s election is going to be very consequential. During his nearly 61 years of life, he has seen a significant change in this country, especially concerning its moral atmosphere. This is witnessed in a nation or a society where God removes His restraining grace from them and gives people over to their sinfulness. There’s this downward plunge into darkness and destruction where insanity sets in. Dr. Caldwell believes we’ve reached that place in our culture, and he shares examples of the kinds of moral insanity we are experiencing. Therefore, our country is different, and as we’ve descended into this moral insanity, we’ve lost touch with what made this nation what it once was. Our Founders were in touch with the idea that our Creator afforded certain freedoms and rights to people just by virtue of their existence. But we’re heading dangerously towards socialism, communism, or even Marxism, very dangerous ideologies, systems of governments that have had disastrous results where they have taken root in the history of the world. Dr. Caldwell says when we see our country headed in this direction, he believes that elections really matter.
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    8 mins
  • The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election

    The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election
    Aug 15 2024
    The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election "The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/the-role-of-faith-in-the-2024-election\/#arve-youtube-okbgbw1iiyw-5","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/okbgBW1iiYw?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-08","description":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related Messages Related sermons: The Beautiful Life & Civil Authority The Wisdom of Christ The Christian's Relationship to Governing Authorities Why the World Hates Christians Blind Opposition "The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/the-role-of-faith-in-the-2024-election\/#arve-vimeo-993146820-5","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/993146820?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-01","description":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election Every four years in the United States, we enter an election year where we are provided the opportunity, having been given the right, as citizens to vote for the President of the US. We are in the thick of that season as we prepare to vote this November, just three months away. It seems that we hear the news media increasingly telling us that this is the most significant election of our lifetimes, where the constant refrain is that if so and so is not elected or if this party is not elected, it will lead to the destruction of democracy or the loss of certain liberties we have as Americans. Dr. Josh Philpot shares that this year feels as though it's more consequential than previous years. He asks Dr. Richard Caldwell if he would talk briefly to the listeners of the Straight Truth Podcast about some of these things. He also asks Dr. Calwell to share how consequential an election like this might be within a biblical worldview. Dr. Caldwell believes this year’s election is going to be very consequential. During his nearly 61 years of life, he has seen a significant change in this country, especially concerning its moral atmosphere. This is witnessed in a nation or a society where God removes His restraining grace from them and gives people over to their sinfulness. There’s this downward plunge into darkness and destruction where insanity sets in. Dr. Caldwell believes we’ve reached that place in our culture, and he shares examples of the kinds of moral insanity we are experiencing. Therefore, our country is different, and as we’ve descended into this moral insanity, we’ve lost touch with what made this nation what it once was. Our Founders were in touch with the idea that our Creator afforded certain freedoms and rights to people just by virtue of their existence. But we’re heading dangerously towards socialism, communism, or even Marxism, very dangerous ideologies, systems of governments that have had disastrous results where they have taken root in the history of the world. Dr. Caldwell says when we see our country headed in this direction, he believes that elections really matter.
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    11 mins
  • The Armor of God Explained

    The Armor of God Explained
    Aug 8 2024
    "Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/the-armor-of-god-explained-2\/#arve-youtube-okbgbw1iiyw-9","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/okbgBW1iiYw?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-08","description":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related Messages Related sermons: The Christian's Battle - 4 Sermons on Ephesians 6 The Christian's Armor - 6 Sermons on Ephesians 6 The Importance of Prayer Perseverance in Prayer "Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/the-armor-of-god-explained-2\/#arve-vimeo-993146820-9","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/993146820?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-01","description":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God Today on the Straight Truth Podcast, Dr. Josh Philpot introduces us to Isaiah 59, which provides some Old Testament background to what Paul says in Ephesians 6 regarding the armor of God. The spiritual armor given in Ephesians 6 is a means for Christians to be strengthened in our daily walk with Christ. It’s meant to help us guard against the schemes of the devil. The armor of God is what Dr. Philpot would like Dr. Richard Caldwell to speak about in this episode today. Join in on the conversation to learn about the Christian's spiritual armor. You’ll hear about the pieces of armor we are to use and learn how we are to go about using them. Dr. Caldwell tells us what the two passages have in common is the kindness of the Lord. In His kindness, He gives us imagery that helps us grasp what He has supplied for us, for what He’s called us to be and do. The Isaiah passage is obviously what the Lord Himself is doing. But, in Ephesians, it is what He supplies us with. The imagery in Ephesians is of very practical things that are filled with spiritual significance and power that enable us to walk in His ability and strength. As we look at Ephesians 6, we are alerted to a world of activity that takes place all around us that we can’t see. Behind all this activity is the outworking of the devil, and we’re given this spiritual armor so that we can stand firm against his schemes. It is supplied for us to fight the spiritual battle we are engaged in that’s real and powerful, even though we can't see it. So Paul tells us to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. We can be confident that the imagery supplied speaks of practical steps we are to take that are infused with real spiritual power from the God who gave us these steps. Putting on the armor is faith in action, believing the Lord, and taking the steps He's given us. And from the outset, determination is set before us.
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    10 mins
  • Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God

    Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God
    Aug 1 2024
    "Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/silence-solitude-how-prayer-meditation-strengthens-your-relationship-with-god\/#arve-youtube-sbr4gbnjope","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SBr4GbNJOPE?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP09-Prayer-Advice-How-Solitude-and-Silence-Strengthen-Your-Relationship-with-God.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-01","description":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related MessagesRelated sermons:The Truly Blessed PersonThe Lives We Are Urged to LiveA Holy ResponsibilityThe Call to Endurance12 Sermons on the Life of Peace from Philippians 4The Believing LifeGod’s Word & God’s People "Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/silence-solitude-how-prayer-meditation-strengthens-your-relationship-with-god\/#arve-vimeo-990571348","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/990571348?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP09-Prayer-Advice-How-Solitude-and-Silence-Strengthen-Your-Relationship-with-God.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-01","description":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with GodWe live in a chaotic culture obsessed with noise, clutter, and activity. We live very busy lives immersed in this cacophony all day, every day. The ability to think clearly without our minds and thoughts being constantly bombarded is highly impacted by it all. In several Psalms, we find exhortations to be still, to meditate, to rest, and even to wait on the Lord. Psalms 1, 4, 37, 46, and 119 represent just a few examples. In the New Testament, in Matthew 6, in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus talks about prayer. As He does this, He exhorts His disciples and followers to go into their room, shut the door, and pray to their Father in secret, and not be like the Pharisees who pray out in the open places, where they will be seen and heard. These texts seem to encourage a kind of silence and solitude in the Christian life. Does that require us to run off to an unpopulated area, live off the grid, and forsake televisions and telephones? Or could just small amounts of time, short periods of silence, and moments of being still help us in our spiritual life? Might they enhance it in one way or another? Join us this week on the Straight Truth Podcast as Dr. Richard Caldwell and Dr. Josh Philpot discuss what these exhortations mean, how to implement them, and how they will help us in our fellowship with our God.Dr. Caldwell tells us that activity can be an avoidance of other things. It’s not always the case, but it does play into the busyness of our lives. We tend to think if we stay busy, we won’t have to deal with this or that, and we won’t have to think about them. But, one of the reasons that God has designed, as part of our lives of worship, moments dedicated to quietness, reflection, meditation on truth, prayer,
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