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Life Perspectives: Harris Faulkner
Harris Faulkner of FoxNews Gives Insights on Faith in a Divided Media World
Join Michael Goring as he sits down with Emmy award-winning anchor and best-selling author, Harris Faulkner, to discuss her book "Faith Still Moves Mountains" and her journey in journalism. Discover how faith has played a pivotal role in her life and career.
- Harris Faulkner's insight into the power of prayer and personal stories from her book.
- How faith has shaped Harris Faulkner's journey in the high-pressured world of journalism.
- Balancing career demands with a commitment to faith.
- Harris's impactful recount of experiences like the Oklahoma City bombing and dealing with a stalker.
- Maintaining Christian values while reporting on sensitive and controversial topics.
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By: Michael Goering
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Jan 30, 2025
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Life Perspectives
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00:24:06 min.
00:24:06 min.
Day By Day Expressions
Day By Day Expressions
Worship services take effort and consideration to coordinate and prepare.
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By: Clif Johnson
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Feb 03, 2025
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Day by Day
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00:10:04 min.
00:10:04 min.
Day by Day - 2 Samuel
He Is Simply Arranging Chess Pieces
God’s Kingdom will not be overthrown because He has already arranged all the pieces.
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The conclusion to all that we have studied this week is pretty simple:
Our hope, our confidence is in the eternal durability, unstoppability, unconquerable king and kingdom of God. And we can have confidence in this hope because of the resurrection. Stay true to God’s kingdom through the submission to the Holy Spirit.
When it looks like God’s people are going to be defeated, going to be erased from the pages of history, don’t lose hope. God is simply arranging the pieces on the chessboard. His Kingdom will not be overthrown because His King has already conquered all that He needs to guarantee His success. And because of that you are a part of an unstoppable kingdom.
By: Clif Johnson
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Jan 31, 2025
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Day by Day
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00:01:18 min.
00:01:18 min.
Build Like Jesus
Two Main Components of Leadership
Leadership requires initiation and influence, but a self-focused leader will struggle to guide an organization effectively. Without trust and loyalty, their influence will be limited, hindering progress.
By: Dr. Steve Crawley
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Feb 03, 2025
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00:01:23 min.
00:01:23 min.
Build Like Jesus
Courageous Leadership
Leading effectively requires tremendous courage, as it comes with challenges, roadblocks, and uncertainty. Overcoming these obstacles demands fearless leadership despite fear, intimidation, and potential pain.
By: Dr. Steve Crawley
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Feb 10, 2025
Duration
00:01:13 min.
00:01:13 min.
Life Perspectives
Harris Faulkner of FoxNews Gives Insights on Faith in a Divided Media World
Harris Faulkner of FoxNews Gives Insights on Faith in a Divided Media World
Join Michael Goring as he sits down with Emmy award-winning anchor and best-selling author, Harris Faulkner, to discuss her book "Faith Still Moves Mountains" and her journey in journalism. Discover how faith has played a pivotal role in her life and career.
- Harris Faulkner's insight into the power of prayer and personal stories from her book.
- How faith has shaped Harris Faulkner's journey in the high-pressured world of journalism.
- Balancing career demands with a commitment to faith.
- Harris's impactful recount of experiences like the Oklahoma City bombing and dealing with a stalker.
- Maintaining Christian values while reporting on sensitive and controversial topics.
To learn what it means to follow Jesus in your life, go to FOLLOW.Lifeword.org
00:00 "Faith's Power Through Adversity"
05:17 Faith Amidst Family and Fear
09:43 "World Building for the Divine"
10:55 Southern Love and Civil Rights Journey
15:22 "Hope and Love in Adversity"
19:24 Truth-telling in Political Context
22:02 "Pray and Connect with Kindness"
23:28 Harris Faulkner Interview Summary
By: Michael Goering
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Aired on
Jan 30, 2025
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Life Perspectives
Duration
00:24:06 min.
00:24:06 min.
Day by Day - 2 Samuel
Spycraft And The Foolishness Of Haters
God can use the foolishness of haters for His plan.
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We have already noted the central statement of "For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel”—as being a statement of God’s providence. But how does the providence play out? That is what we see in 2 Samuel 17-18.
But for our purposes of today, take note that God can use the foolishness of haters.
This always brings us to an ethical question, because within this text we see spy craft and deception. Are these acts ethical, moral? Let me direct you to a fascinating conversation between Dr. Al Mohler and a former agent in the CIA. The podcast is called “Thinking in Public,” and the name of the episode is “Spycraft and Soulcraft on the Front Lines of History.” Give that a listen and see if that will help you.
As we continue to read the text we see spies having to dive into a well; we see the craftiness of a wife spreading grain over the well to make it appear as if nothing was underneath. It’s a real whale of a story here.
But then we see Ahithophel once more, and he sees the writing on the wall. He knows what is to come for his betrayal. He sees that Absalom doesn’t trust him, and that David would likely succeed in a war, and then Ahithophel would be executed. So he chooses to take his own life.
And then we get this geographical bit of information so that we know where Absalom’s army is. They are in the land of Gilead, east of the Jordan Riverwhich has been, in the past, favorable to anti-David campaigns.
But David and his crew are a bit south of Gilead, but still pretty close to Absalom’s camp, in the region of Mahanaim, and there they find favorable company, where they are provided beds, bathrooms, pots, pans, food, and refreshment. It all makes you wonder if it wasn’t this very treatment that inspired David to write “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.”
By: Clif Johnson
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Jan 30, 2025
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Day by Day
Duration
00:03:21 min.
00:03:21 min.
Lori Cline - Greatest Hits
Lori Cline's Greatest Hits: Have You Lost Your Love?
When we lose sight of our love for God, we can always repent and come back to Him.
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Have you lost that lovin’ feelin’? Is it gone, gone, gone?
Could your heart be like this balloon? In one moment it’s full of possibilities and then the next (LET THE BALLOON GO)
it has left the building, leaving you empty and deflated.
The Righteous Brothers recorded, You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ in 1964. It resonated with hearts across the country so much that it shot up the charts to number one and people are still singing it today thanks to radio, television and top gun.
If by chance you’ve been living under a rock and do not know the song, it basically describes behaviors that seem to reveal a love, which was once strong and passionate, that has lost its fizzle. A heart is drifting and it’s showing. The connection is no longer what it was.
When it comes to relationships and love, some might say if you’ve lost that lovin’ feelin’, then the feelin’ you had was probably not TRUE love. True Christ like love, which is described so beautifully in 1 Corinthians 13, stands the test of time. A love that fades is most likely infatuation, which has been described as unreasonable and short-lived passion. Isn’t that often where our hearts are recklessly drawn? We settle for short-lived passions that fade and leave us empty.
We are quick to give our heart away to things and people that don’t deserve it and then we wonder why we are left holding the pieces. Our heart, the most precious part of who we are, is what God desires. Jesus said in Matthew 6, ”seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” He also said, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Every new day our heart must first be filled with Christ. This realigns us to follow and treasure HIS way and His word over our own. We hear His voice above the worlds. Still, our hearts are prone to wander. Our time with Jesus decreases and our time with the world and the cares and temptations of it increases. We drift and our first love begins to be replaced with cheap imitations of what God ordained.
The love of God FOR us is faithful and steadfast, but our love for Him over and over proves to be fading and faithless. The marriage of the The Old Testament prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer puts on full display the example of our wandering hearts. We give our heart to Jesus and then over and over we redirect that love and offer it FULLY to whatever idol the day may bring. God forgive us and may we get back to our first love and commit to it with our whole heart.
Revelation 2:4-5
Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
Jesus, through the Apostle John, addresses the church of Ephesus in Revelation chapter 2. This church is referred to as the ‘loveless’ church. The church, of which Jesus is the cornerstone, has always been God’s plan to display His grace, love, truth and mercy to not only the world as we know it but also to the angels we can’t see. (Don’t take my word for it, see Ephesians chapter 3.) So the church matters, so much so that Jesus addresses the seven churches in Asia at that time and his message STILL applies to us today. He tells the loveless church, along with you and me, you’ve lost your love for me! You’ve fallen out of love and replaced your devotion and affection for me with whatever your fleshly heart desires.
Repent. Come back to your first love.
Our life and heart falls to pieces and we wonder where IS God in all of it. Friend, He never left. We wandered off. He does not. We choose our own way and ignore His. We are faithless and He is forever faithful, lovingly waiting for our return.
That’s the truth.
No matter where your heart may be right now, give it back to Jesus. Maybe you’ve never given it to Him in the first place. Today’s the day. What a beautiful day to discover a love that never leaves you, is never ending and never fades. Call on the name of the Lord and be saved. Seek that love first and everything else will follow.
I’m Lori Cline.
By: Lori Cline
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Jan 30, 2025
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The Lori Cline Show
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00:05:09 min.
00:05:09 min.
Day by Day - 2 Samuel
Stop Moping Around
We should not hesitate to obey God’s call because we are afraid of failing.
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The threats to God’s kingdom that exist are many. There is the threat from the external enemy, but there is also the threat from within.
All of us who have experienced the grace of God in salvation know that the fight doesn’t end there don’t we. Our struggle against sin continues. The difference between a believer’s struggle and battle against sin and an unbeliever’s struggle is that the believer is fully equipped to battle, where the unbeliever is not, and does not really want to battle it.
But there is something in this wider text we need to realize, take comfort in, regarding the believer’s sin. This whole mess started because of David’s sin. And as wide as these ripple effects go, David’s sin is not able to overthrow the kingdom of God.
You see, I believe that many times as Christians, we get into our heads a defensive posture of not doing what we know God has commanded us or called us to do because we believe we will mess it up big time. And so we just sit on the sidelines. But David will learn a lesson here. And we need to learn the lesson as well—The kingdom will not be overthrown by our sin. Why is that? Because our sin has been forgiven, removed from the ledger, cast away from us as far as east is from the west. Praise be to God!
So believer, you must believe this aspect of the gospel as well. And since this is true, then your work within the kingdom is not over, has not been cancelled. Take hope in this believer. There is a place for you. There is a purpose. There is a work for you. Stop moping around, being pitiful, and get after it.
By: Clif Johnson
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Aired on
Jan 29, 2025
Show
Day by Day
Duration
00:02:39 min.
00:02:39 min.
Day by Day - 2 Samuel
His Kingdom Will Not Be Stopped
Sin is a frontal assault on the kingdom of God, but we are rescued from it by God’s grace.
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There are two ways a king and kingdom can be overthrown, and that is either by external forces, or from within, by internal forces. You can have an enemy overthrow the kingdom, or you can have a coup take place. We have all those scenarios in our text for study this week in 2 Samuel 17.
The first threat we come across is the enemy’s attempt to sabotage the kingdom.
In this passage, Absalom is the external threat. He is the threat to King David, God’s anointed one, and by extension, Absalom is the threat to God’s kingdom. And we see clearly that God ordained that Ahithophel’s good counsel would be defeated, but why? Well, the text answers that for us as well when it says, “SO THAT the LORD might bring harm upon Absalom.” We will read and study about that harm next week. It’s a real hairy mess, if you catch my drift.
And the real laugh that is taking place here, is that God is going to take the insight and strength of the enemy and turn it on its head to work against the enemy.
When we step back and think about this, we realize that, biblically speaking, we have all been born wanting to overthrow God’s kingdom, or we have wanted the throne for ourselves. This is at the heart of sin. Sin is not a mere dismissal of God and His word. Sin is not a bit postmodern foolishness where we say, “Well, that may be okay for God but this is what is true for me.” Sin is a frontal assault on the Creator of universe. It is a satanic attempt to sabotage God’s kingdom. And what is needed to rescue us from ourselves is for someone to overthrow our own hearts, and that is exactly what takes place in the gospel. God, because of His grace and mercy, invades our souls. He regenerates our heart, gives us a new heart, gives us faith to believe, justifies us, adopts us into his family, sets us upon the Rock of of His Son, washes us, cleanses us, forgives us, gives us eternal life! This is the gospel, and this is what we desperately need, and what many of you have experienced! Praise be to God!
By: Clif Johnson
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Jan 28, 2025
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Day by Day
Duration
00:03:05 min.
00:03:05 min.
Lori Cline - Greatest Hits
Lori Cline's Greatest Hits: How To Love Like Jesus
Showing the world that we love like Jesus shows them that we are loved by God.
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How do YOU see Jesus?
Do you see a holy man, guru or prophet? Maybe you see him as a radical faith figure who started a movement that ended with his death? Do you see him only in a manger at Christmas? Maybe you see him on a gold cross around your neck and accept that his death meant something, but did it really mean everything?
I know people see Jesus in many different ways. To me, He IS my savior, the promised son of God. HE is the beginning and the end. He IS the atoning sacrifice for my sins and the ONLY way, the truth and the life. He is the resurrected messiah, prophesied about in the Old Testament, the ONE who defeated sin and death and the one who sits at the right hand of the Father even now, waiting for the time He will return for His bride. He is with me always and He loves me.
That’s the core of who Jesus IS to me. He is so much more, but I know even if you don’t see Jesus the way I do, wouldn’t you probably still say that Jesus IS love? That seems to be the common denominator. Jesus IS love. He loved sinners. He loves you and He loves me. Jesus preached about loving our enemy and loving our neighbor. He loved well and calls us to do the same and we quote it regularly, but do we really know what LOVING like Jesus looks like? I’ll tell you what it’s not, it’s not a touchy feely gospel of good vibes and sunshine. When Jesus talks about love, it always requires sacrifice and surrender.
He lays it out for us.
John 15:9-14
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.
The life of Jesus was a full display of sacrificial LOVE. He loved to display the love of the Father. God is love and Jesus was that love sent to earth in flesh to make a way for you and me to be reconciled to the Father.
When we remain in that love, we can’t help but love others. It compels us to do so because we realize we don’t deserve it! When you are loved so perfectly, even in the midst of sin, rebellion and shame, it leads you to repentance and a desire to STAY IN that love. That’s abiding in the love of Jesus. It’s obedience to the Father. So when we obey like Jesus, we LOVE like Jesus. They go hand in hand and the beautiful result of a life lived like Jesus is complete JOY, not some empty promise the world will never deliver.
Love God and Love others like Jesus.
1 John 4:7-12
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
When you love like Jesus you show the world that you know you are loved by God. You get it and you want to give it away and obedience naturally follows. You want to know His way. You desire to take up your cross and follow. That’s how Jesus loved me and it’s how we can love like Jesus.
That’s the truth.
It’s a perfect love and the resulting ripple effect on the world around us continues to put on full display the truth that is the common denominator from Genesis to Revelation, God SO loves the world. I hope you know that love today. You can discover even more about it at LIFEWORD.org.
I’m Lori Cline.
By: Lori Cline
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Jan 28, 2025
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The Lori Cline Show
Duration
00:05:08 min.
00:05:08 min.
Build Like Jesus
Pure Heart
Dr. Steve Crawley discusses the truth that impure motives can misalign a leader's focus and lead their organizations off course.
By: Dr. Steve Crawley
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Jan 27, 2025
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Build Like Jesus
Duration
00:01:19 min.
00:01:19 min.
Day By Day Expressions
Day By Day Expressions
Churches oftentimes under use the talents of the creative people in their midst.
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By: Clif Johnson
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Jan 27, 2025
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Day by Day
Duration
00:05:59 min.
00:05:59 min.
Day by Day - 2 Samuel
Do You Believe In Providence?
Understanding God’s providence brings the fullness of life to a believing soul.
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This is the central statement, the climax if you will, of the whole passage.
“For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.”
Do you believe in the providence of God? I am not talking about fate or coincidence. I am talking about a personal being, God, and His right and might to orchestrate all the events of mankind in order to bring about His glory and His people’s good. The providence of God includes not only His actions, but also his choice not to act in certain circumstances. All of it is according to His providential plan.
It seems like we talk a lot about the providence of God around here doesn’t? But I hope you realize that we talk a lot about it because God talks a lot about it in His word. He wants us to know that we are not alone! He wants us to know that we are secure within Him. He wants us to know that you can gather the wisest, strongest, most intelligent, most political people on the earth—the top scientists, top doctors, top philosophers and combine them with the most sinister of people who are willing to do anything to accomplish their goals, and they will only ever accomplish what God has ordained for them to accomplish. It is that simple! And it is that beautiful. And it is a doctrine that brings out the fullness of life to a believing soul!
By: Clif Johnson
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Aired on
Jan 23, 2025
Duration
00:02:19 min.
00:02:19 min.
Day by Day - 2 Samuel
Am I Just A Robot?
God does not force us into any action, but He orchestrates all things according to His will.
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In 2 Samuel 16-17 we have been studying events that make it clear that God is in control of the operation of the world.
You may say, “But what about my free will, Clif. Am I just a robot? If God moves and acts in such a way that no one can stop his will, then what about my will? Is it just overpowered? Do I even really make any choices?”
The answer is no, you are not a robot, and yes, you really do make choices, and they all fit within the providence of God. Absalom is not standing there thinking, “I don’t want to ask Hushai his opinion, but there is just this force that is making me open my mouth.” No! Absalom willingly asked Hushai. God does not work in violence against his will. We are not real sure what Absalom’s motivation was at this point in asking Hushai, but what we are certain of is that there was an invisible providence taking place, and that belonged to the LORD.
I could sit down across the table from a Grand Master Chess player, and before the game ever started, he could tell me, “Check Mate.” And I could say, “Wait! I haven’t even made a move! How can you say Check Mate?” And you know what, the Grand Master Chess player wouldn’t even have to explain it to me. He could just say, “Okay then, let’s play.” And in no time it would be check mate. Did the Grand Master chess player force me to make any certain opening moves? No. Could he back me into a corner, taking away options? Sure. But all the while he would be working in accordance with my will, my skillset, and still able to say “Check mate.”
So it is similar with God and His providence and the Christian should take much comfort in this fact. This is where our victory lies. When Paul writes in Romans 8, “What shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us,” the these things are very weighty doctrinal truths such as foreknowledge, predestination, and calling. But the conclusion is we win because God is in total control.
By: Clif Johnson
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Aired on
Jan 24, 2025
Duration
00:02:50 min.
00:02:50 min.
FamilyLife Today
Parenting in the Digital Age
Parenting in the digital age comes with lots of concerns. Melissa Kruger and Jim Mitchell
share with FamilyLife Today hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, how grace and communication
can build foundations that last.
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Jan 24, 2025
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FamilyLife Today
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00:24:55 min.
00:24:55 min.
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34MB
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Lori Cline - Greatest Hits
Lori Cline's Greatest Hits: The Object Of My Affection
There are many things to love in the world, but God should have our hearts.
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LOVE is in the air! Your response to that may be, ‘oh no it’s not’! OK, you may not be IN love at the moment, BUT we all have objects of affection in our life. So then the question is, what or WHO is the object of your affection?
My forever valentine is my husband, so his cute face comes to my mind. I adore my two miracle girls. I pour my love, care and attention on them daily. You may really LOVE your car or truck, so maybe that’s what comes to your mind.
Those strong feelings of affection and adoration for whatever we love, are powerful. We love so much we will spend billions of dollars showing it over the next few weeks, and I know many of you will spend a good bit of that on your pets! We love our family. We love our friends. I love my dogs, Roxy and Ruby. My husband loves his 1959 Gibson acoustic guitar.
The objects of our affection and love direct our attention, care, time, passion and often our life. This CAN get out of hand. Remember ‘The Lord Of The Rings’? Tolkien, the English author and scholar, imagined a world where the story revolved around one object, a very powerful ring. It became ‘the precious’ object of affection for anyone who possessed it, but its power was so strong it could NOT be controlled, so it had to be destroyed.
The story of that ring is a good reminder as we consider where our hearts attention may be. Is it healthy? Is it out of balance? Are the objects of our affection honoring to God? What about God? Where is He in the mix?
Here’s what I have come to learn over and over in my life. When God is NOT the primary object of my affection and focus of my heart, I AM out of balance. I’m going to repeat that for me one more time. When God is NOT the primary object of my affection and focus of my heart, I AM out of balance.
Life becomes more and more about ME. All the things, all the desires of my heart, all the objects of my affection, end up serving ME, not God.
God knows our hearts are prone to wander. That’s why Jesus in Mark 12 boils all the commandments down to the greatest with the first and foremost one being to, ‘love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ He’s reminding us to keep God as the primary object of our affection! God first. His way and have no OTHER gods before Him.
Yet our hearts wander. Our eyes and desires shift from God to self. WE become the object of our affection, so much so that we are blind to what is true.
Paul wrote very clearly to this LOVE of SELF and the fruit that is produced as a result.
2 Timothy 3:2-5
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
Look around and you see that kind of behavior everywhere. What happens is when we love ourselves and our pleasures MORE than we love God, we naturally live out of a narcissistic worldview. We filter God’s word and truth in a ‘narcigesis’ way, in which we bend it to our selfish, self pleasing, boastful and proud liking. SELF becomes the center of the story and God is further and further removed from it or put in His place according to our liking. This is the danger of making SELF the object of our affection. Paul warns against it and calls it like he sees it. Either God is first or I am.
What has our heart? Where is our devotion? What matters most? Take an honest look at the characteristics and fruit of your life. Do they resemble what Paul described in 2 Timothy 3?
Only when our heart is set first on loving God, is everything else in our life set into its proper place.
That’s the truth.
I pray we seek God first today. Take SELF out of the picture. As we do the desires of our heart actually come more and more into view.
I’m Lori Cline.
By: Lori Cline
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Aired on
Jan 23, 2025
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The Lori Cline Show
Duration
00:05:28 min.
00:05:28 min.
FamilyLife Today
Lost and Found - What to Do When Children Lose
If your children lose faith, you don't have to! Author, Stuart Scott, and hosts, Dave and Ann
Wilson, give advice to parents navigating these circumstances with patience, prayer and
trust...on FamilyLife Today.
By: FamilyLife
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Aired on
Jan 23, 2025
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FamilyLife Today
Duration
00:24:55 min.
00:24:55 min.
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34MB
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FamilyLife Today
Navigating the Heartbreak of Wayward Children
The turmoil parents experience when children stray from faith can be significant. Author,
Stuart Scott, joins Dave and Ann Wilson, hosts of FamilyLife Today, to discuss how to
navigate these challenges.
By: FamilyLife
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Jan 22, 2025
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FamilyLife Today
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00:24:55 min.
00:24:55 min.
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34MB
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FamilyLife Today
Transforming a Blended Family
On this episode of FamilyLife Today, hosts Dave and Ann Wilson join FamilyLife Blended
podcast host Ron Deal for an inspiring conversation with Fred and Anita Von Cannon. The
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Day by Day - 2 Samuel
What Is Your Advice Like?
When we seek someone’s advice, it should be rooted in righteousness and integrity.
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In 2 Samuel 16 we have Absalom and his entourage marching into Jerusalem, with Ahithophel at his side. We must remember that Ahithophel was a very trusted advisor to David, who traded sides, and who has now joined forces with Absalom. But not only is there Ahithophel, we are also re-introduced to a man named Hushai. Hushai, you will remember, was sent into Jerusalem by David as a spy, so that David could know what Absalom would be up to with his military plans. This is the context and these are the characters of this current episode—Absalom, the Usurper; Ahithophel, the Advisor; and Hushai, the Spy.
Quite the tense and exciting story we have here. Will Hushai succeed in his task, or will Absalom or Ahithophel discover the secret intentions of Hushai? Will his cover be blown?
As we continue to read, the question surfaces as to how Absalom should make his presence felt and known in Jerusalem. What should be his official coming out statement? So he turns to Ahithophel and says, “What advice do you have for me?”
Ahithophel looks around the King’s house, ponders, and then says, “I think the most dramatic and clearest statement we can make to all the people that you are now the king, is if you conquer all of your father’s concubines. In this way all of Israel will know that you not only defy your father, but that you have taken over his throne.”
Remember, when David ascended the throne of Israel, he too assumed or took in all the wives and concubines of Saul. In that day, that was a sign of possession. Women were treated like property, and so if you took over their wives and concubines, then you were taking over their property.
But what happens in our text today is that Absalom does so in a fashion that is done in public in order to humiliate and shame David. But this as well should not be surprising because God told David through the prophet Nathan that this very thing would happen to David.
Now the important feature of this part of the story comes in 16:23 “Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.”
Now remember, the question at hand by Absalom is, “What shall we do?” What should we do to make the kingdom of Absalom known?
So Ahithophel doesn’t stop with just the advice of setting up a brothel on the roof of the king’s house. He also advises Absalom to let Ahithophel gather up 12,000 soldiers and go hunt down David. He would only hunt down David, and he would bring back the rest of David’s people to be in the kingdom of Absalom. And Absalom and all the elders of Israel agreed with Ahithophel. His plan made perfect sense to them. Let Ahithophel go out and fight the battle while Ahithophel stayed back, on the king’s roof, and amplify the sin that David committed by 100.
What are we to learn from this little segment of this story? I think one truth we can glean is that when we seek someone’s counsel, that counsel should be rooted in righteousness and integrity. Although Ahithophel’s advice may have been politically expedient, it was divorced from any moral truth.
By: Clif Johnson
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Jan 21, 2025
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Day by Day
Duration
00:04:40 min.
00:04:40 min.
Lori Cline
Lori Cline's Greatest Hits: This Is Faith’s Promise
If we are hoping for something that hasn't come yet, we can trust God sees it.
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Do you believe things today are as they ought to be? If you’re on a beach somewhere with your toes in the sand and not a care in the world, you just might believe that. But even IF that is where you are, things still aren’t as they ought to be are they? We DO have so many cares in this world. We don’t have to look far to find pain. It’s in our own lives, in the lives of those around us and we see it everyday in our country and around the world.
When my heart is overwhelmed with the truth that things are NOT as they ought to be, I remember 1 Peter 5:7 that says, ‘cast all your care on Him because He cares for you.’ We weren’t meant to carry the weight of this world. We can find rest as we lay ALL our cares down at the feet of Jesus.
That’s the beauty of faith. Even when the world around us is falling apart, I am blessed. If you are IN Christ, you can claim that same blessing and promise. So even if things aren’t as they ought to be, it CAN be well with your soul and as it ought to be because you are IN Christ. He makes it right, even when it’s not. It’s a beautiful truth that is not based on what you see. It’s based on a HOPE that is found in what we cannot see.
It’s faith’s promise. Things may not be as they should be now, but one day they will be and until then, it IS well with my soul.
Faith’s promise is that one day things will be as they ought to be. So we walk by faith and look to the promises of God. He’s never not kept one by the way!
Look at Abraham and Sarah in the Old Testament. God promised them a son. God told Abraham in Genesis 15 to count the stars and if he COULD count them, that would be the number of his descendants! Do you know how long Abraham and Sarah waited for a child? A very long time. But the Bible tells us that Abraham believed in the Lord. He had faith, even when things weren’t as they ought to be. There was a time Abraham fell on his face and laughed about it all, Sarah laughed too, but thankfully they lived through that, and even though he was one hundred years old when Sarah conceived, God was faithful to His promise.
Hebrews 11:12
And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Abraham walked by faith. He laughed a little along the way, but still He believed.
What are you believing for today that you aren’t seeing? Trust and know that God sees. His plan for your life IS good. His timing is perfect. His ways are SO above our own. We can’t see the big picture, but when we walk by FAITH and believe in the promises of God, we are BLESSED and in our heart, things ARE as they ought to be.
Receive this blessing today and believe in the promises of God for your life.
Numbers 6:24-26
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.
This blessing of God’s people is called “the Aaronic benediction” asking God to delight in His people and show them favor. God’s favor leads to peace. This isn’t a life without pain, struggle, death or war, this is a heart that believes in a God who IS faithful to His promises even when things around us are not as they ought to be.
That’s the truth.
May the Lord bless you and keep you as you trust IN Him and walk each day, by faith.
I’m Lori Cline.
By: Lori Cline
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The Lori Cline Show
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00:04:11 min.
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Day By Day Expressions
Day By Day Expressions
Churches oftentimes under use the talents of the creative people in their midst.
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By: Clif Johnson
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Jan 20, 2025
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Day by Day
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00:07:19 min.
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FamilyLife Today
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Holiness in Leadership
Dr. Steve Crawley defines "holiness" and shows us how being holy is essential in both spiritual and corporate settings.
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Build Like Jesus
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Releasing Marriage Baggage
Speakers, Preston and Jackie Hill Perry, share their journey of overcoming marriage
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Jan 17, 2025
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FamilyLife Today
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Day by Day - 2 Samuel
Are You Willing To Walk On The Trail?
When we see someone hurting, we should be a friend who uplifts them.
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Friend, are you in the wilderness, knowing not which way to turn or walk? Are you in a season where there is a trail of tears behind you. It may be that you are there because of your own doing and choices you have made. Very possible. Will you have faith enough to say with David, “whatever comes, I will trust the Lord. I desire and long for his favor, but I will submit to his discipline as well, for whatever comes my way as His child, it is ultimately good.”
And on that trail, when prayers are made as you walk up the mountain, you can trust that God’s answer is already walking up the other side to meet you.
You may not be walking through a trail of tears of your own this morning. But what we have seen in these events are people who are willing to walk with David in his grief. Ittai, Zadock, Abiathar, and now Hushai. Friends who stick closer than a brother. Friends who are willing to lay down their lives, their time. Friends who are willing to walk the dusty trail, so that it won’t be a trail of loneliness. Are you that friend today? Are you willing to hold up the weak arms of another, and help straighten the collapsing knees? Or will you sit on the sidelines as the caravan of hurt passes by?
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FamilyLife Today
Taming of the Tongue
Overcoming marriage challenges is hard work. Preston and Jackie Hill Perry join FamilyLife Today hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, to share how to overcome marriage conflicts with grace and effort.
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Jan 16, 2025
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Day by Day - 2 Samuel
God’s Providence Is Pushing Through The Crowd
Sometimes we expect a supernatural answer to prayer, but God works in routine providence.
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God’s Providence—-Read the text 15:32-37
You have to see this picture in your mind. We are told in 2 Samuel 15:30 that while David was traveling to the top of the Mount of Olive, he was told of Ahithophel. And while traveling to the top, he prayed that guttural prayer “please turnt he counsels of Ahithophel into foolishness”. And then we read in verse 32, “While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, a man by the name of Hushai showed up! Hushai was sharing in the distress of David, robe torn, dirt on his head as symbols of being in mourning. And here is the answer to David’s prayer from verse 31. Notice that David says, “…you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.”
This is absolutely God’s providence on display for all of us to see and take hope in. While David was taking one strained step after another, trying to make it to the summit, carrying his broken heart, tears in his eyes and this prayer on his lips, while all of that was going on and David reaches the summit, the designated place of worship, Hushai is pushing through the crowd to get to David.
My friends, see in this passage, that when you think all is lost, when confusion has set in, don’t ever forget that God is moving in the crowds, God hears your prayers, and He has already put the answer to your prayers in motion. This is the providence of God.
Now, the answer to the prayer, especially for us, may be difficult to discern, because I think we are always thinking in terms of the unexpected, supernatural, when many times, the answer to the prayer is in the routine providences of God. We just have to have the spiritual insight and discernment to recognize what is going on.
By: Clif Johnson
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Day by Day
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00:02:35 min.
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Lori Cline
Lori Cline's Greatest Hits: Have You Tried This Water?
God fills us with His goodness and sustains us. ~~~ Have you ever been excited about a lemon? Well I have and I’ll tell you why! I got one for Christmas this year. It wasn’t wrapped in a box or anything, I actually picked it off of a tree. This wasn’t just any lemon off of any lemon tree. This was a lemon that grew on a lemon tree that my parents bought and planted in a pot. My Daddy was so proud of that little lemon tree. If they got at least 2 big lemons each year they were happy, because that meant at least one or two lemon meringue pies. My Daddy met Jesus face to face this past summer. Goodness how we miss him. We’re still in the year of firsts. This first Christmas without him, our family gathered. Even though Daddy’s no longer with us, he’s still everywhere around us. So much of who he was and what he loved and lived for, remains in us and in ways, in all things he left behind. One of the things he enjoyed was that lemon tree. This Christmas, it was full of lemons. Everybody got one. Round, yellow rays of sunshine in a way from Daddy. I’ve never been more excited about a lemon. Now something else you should know about me is I LOVE lemons. I am an avid lemon water drinker. I have been for a long time. So bringing one of the lemons that my Daddy loved home with me for Christmas was just about the best gift I could have gotten. I didn’t want to cut it at first. I wanted to just keep it, but I knew it would go bad if I didn’t. It was meant to be picked, and enjoyed. So I did. I sliced it up, filled a glass of water and squeezed a big slice in and let it float to the top. Do you think I enjoyed that glass of lemon water? Listen, I drank every drop. Then I filled it up again and drank all that. That wasn’t just any lemon water. That was lemon water from a fresh lemon off of a lemon tree my Daddy loved and cared for! That just made it taste that much better. It was good. I felt close to my Daddy and I was refreshed. Isn’t that the way this life is supposed to be lived? We have a father who is good. He is a giver of good gifts. He is our good shepherd and IN Him I shall not want. He refreshes my soul and IN Him I am blessed and filled up as I taste and SEE His goodness in my life. Psalm 34:8 Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. When you savor something good, you want more. You can’t stop talking about it. You give five star reviews because you want people to know the goodness you’ve experienced. The Lord IS good. What I have tasted and seen in my life over and over keeps me abiding IN Him. I take refuge in Him. I am connected to the vine. He IS my portion. When I am poured out He fills me up yet again. He is ALL I need in and out of every season. When I see His moving in my life and when I simply must wait, I know He is with me working it all for my good, in HIS time. Nothing else compares to the Father’s love for me. It’s so sweet. I’m not sugar coating anything here. Life IS hard and sometimes you get lemons. But then again, sometimes you get lemons! Through it all, I can be refreshed, renewed and know He is with me. That’s the truth. Have you tasted the goodness of God? It’s good water. I’m Lori Cline.
By: Lori Cline
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Jan 16, 2025
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00:04:06 min.
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