Taking Your Next Step In Following Jesus Christ

Identity theft is a major issue today. In the blink of an eye, everything you have can be gone. Just the same Satan is working hard to steal your identity in Jesus Christ. He desires to distort and destroy your identity so you can never discover who you really are. While Satan seeks to steal our identity, God works to give us our identity. 

When you look at yourself what do you see? Too often we only see our flaws, our imperfections, or what we lack We don’t see what God sees. We don’t see what God wants us to see. Too often we have an unbiblical view of ourselves. On this episode we learn the truth about ourselves based on what God says.

We have studied in detail the 9 fruit of the Spirit. How do we practically live each fruit out in our everyday lives? Paul gives us three instructions on how to produce the fruit of the Spirit in our lives.

Self-control is an area we all struggle with. Many of the issues or sins we struggle with all boil down to self-control or our lack of it. On this episode, we look at the importance of self-control and some ways to help us to practice it. 

Christians are to be meek because Jesus was meek. Meekness is not weakness rather it is strength under control. It is the perfect balance between anger and apathy. On this episode, we examine the fruit of meekness and see how we can live it out in our lives today. 

One of the necessary characteristics of a friend is faithfulness or loyalty. We understand faithfulness because the Bible tells us that God is faithful. It is who He is not just something He does. Since God is faithful we are to be faithful to others. 

Too many times we measure our goodness by other people rather than by the true standard of good. This can cause us to become complacent in our Christian life thinking that we are doing "good enough." Since Scripture says that there is nothing good in us, it is vital that we live out the fruit of goodness.

We all experience the internal struggle of trying to what is right and not being able to do it. Then trying not to do what is wrong and still doing it. This is a battle we all experience really constantly throughout each day. What does Scripture say about this battle and how can we get victory over the flesh? 

No one likes to be around a harsh or abrasive person. But a kind, gentle person anyone would want to be around. Would others consider you a kind Christian?The fruit of gentleness is vitally important in our interactions and responses to other people. This is a fruit of the Spirit that is very important practically speaking in our everyday lives. 

There are some people that have a short fuse. It does not take much to set them off or make them angry. As a Christian, we are to be long fused. We are to be very patient with people. This is not easy! We will talk about becoming a long fused Christian.  

Peace is something we all of long after. Spiritual peace is completely different than the peace the world seeks after. Spiritual peace is not the absence of evil or turmoil if goes much deeper than that. On this episode, we will discover what spiritual peace is and how we can get it.  

Spiritual joy is not the same as happiness nor is it based on our circumstances. Joy is something we can possess in spite of anything going on in our lives. How can we find and experience this spiritual joy in our lives?

We can have the most talent, the most wisdom, the most faith and use it all for God but without love it is worthless. We could sacrifice our money and even our life but without love it will not profit us one bit. Love is the the more excellent way of the Christian life. 

Love is the centerpiece of the Christian life. Too often we make other good things the goal but miss what is most important. We will examine this centerpiece of our Christian life and how we can live it out in our daily lives. 

Jesus provides us the best example of how to overcome the different types of temptation that we will face in our lives. We will learn from Jesus how He responded to Satan's temptation and also discuss how to discern what voice we are hearing. That of the Spirit or that of the flesh. How can we know which is speaking and which to listen to?