Who do you say I am?

Opinions. Spend thirty seconds online or in a grocery store with another human being and you are going to hear someone’s thoughts about something as small as toilet paper or as large as global politics. You can’t escape the opinions, and the voices just keep getting louder.

That said, thank you for taking the time to listen to OUR voices today. Really, it means so much.

People had all kinds of opinions in Jesus’s day, too. In fact, He asked His disciples what others were saying about Him. And then He asked them a more personal question: Who do you say I am?

We are getting back to the basics in the next few weeks—looking at who Jesus is, based on who He said He was. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed by all the voices. At Light in Your Corner we are going to look specifically at His words, hearing His voice, and leaning in as His light shines into our lives.

ALSO:

• The legacy of faith
• We're still here!
• Living like your life is over
• “Nothing’s more timely than the Office of the Keys!”
• Praying for education in all its forms
• Faith like children, but no acting like babies
• Spaghetti brains and spiritual milk

References:

• Matthew 16:13-20
• 1 Corinthians 3
• Ballad of Wallis Island
• Paul David Tripp Podcast, ep. 933
• Wild Horses
• “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey

To Fast or Not to Fast? That’s Just One of Many Questions

Hi, friend, we are so glad you are with us today! In today’s episode we have a discussion about what we are doing, and what others suggest we do, to grow in living out our faith.

It started as a text conversation in response to an interview John Mark Comer did about his book “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry,” but we knew there was more to discuss, and where better to discuss it than here on “Light in Your Corner”?

So buckle up, folks. We are about to discuss fasting, spiritual disciplines, embracing discomfort, hearing voices, and a lot of other stuff. And still, we land on this truth: we belong to Christ already. There is nothing we need to do to earn it. It is a gift and it is ours in Jesus. Let that be our starting place, our ending place, and the truth that guides us every step of the way.

ALSO:

• Just a couple international cosmopolitan ladies
• Regional idiosyncrasies: “We’re not the same”
• Defining love based on who God is
• The benefits of confession
• The Theology of the Body

References:

• Podcast episode: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: John Mark Comer; No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp; John Mark Comer Tokens Podcast
• “Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough”, by Elmer Towns
• “One Thousand Gifts”, by Ann Voskamp
• “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry”, by John Mark Comer
• Back to the Frontier. On HBO
• Blurry Creatures podcast
• “Practicing the Way”
• 1 Corinthians 13
• Isaiah 58
• Joel 2:12-13
• Colossians 2
• Romans 6:3-4

“He’s Not a Tame Lion”

We are back, Friends! It’s been a good summer, but we are happy to be back together and getting back into the swing of things podcast-wise.

In this episode we are going to catch up a little. It has been a month since our last episode, so we are going to check in and see how things have been going.

If you want to skip all that and get right to the heavy conversations, you can always go to minute 30 where we will start to discuss things like how God is good enough to get in our way. He slows us down. He doesn’t bow to our whims or our foolish attempts to play God. He doesn’t always speak in the way we want Him to speak, either, but that is a good thing.

Because He tells us over and over again that He loves us. He tells us in His Word and in His world. He provides all that we need not just for life here, but for life eternally with Him. He doesn’t get worked up when we aren’t producing what we think we should be producing. That’s not why He loves us anyway.

That’s what we want people to come and see. That’s why we are back here recording. May this episode bless you and shine light on your day, Friend.

ALSO:

• Being good with God
• “At some point you just have to trust what He said.”
• Looking back at how God has been faithful
• When God gets in the way
• “I want to be the kind of person that says, ‘Come and see.’”
• You don’t always have to be producing

References:

• Ryan Teagan
• Forrest Frank
• Happy Gilmore 2
• The Ballad of Wallis Island
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• The Breakfast Club
• Downton Abbey
• Gilded Age
• Good Hang
• Blurry Creatures
• Our American Stories
• LifeWise
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt