Morning Briefings

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1e20dc6c/of-courage-murder-and-a-personal-question-acts-no-22 Just imagine the pen is in your hand, and you are having to deliver this news--'I'm sorry to tell you, but your son is dead.' But first-- this is drawn from Acts 6 and 7, where we glean a few things: --what courage under fire looks like --a brief overview of the Old Testament --an account of a deathbed vision --Christianity will be costly for some, and is today;

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1dab820f/when-youre-held-it-changes-things Do you ever just get sick of yourself?...

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1c836ae2/i-want-nothing-to-do-with-organized-religion-acts-no-21 Having said my favorite conversations with strangers revolve around faith, there are several 'objections to faith' I often hear, but chief among them is, "I want nothing to do with organized religion." In conversations of substance, words must be parsed - so, we ought stumble on the word 'organized'. Does that mean the person would consider a religion that was

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1a9d0ad0/change-the-world-one-person-at-a-time-acts-no-20 I'm afraid they will reject me. Maybe they will ask me something, and I won't know the answer . . . I won't know what to say. They know I'm not perfect -- well, not even close! I've been told it is the number one thing not to talk about. I don't want to look stupid. All of these are reasons people give for not talking about their faith with other people. But the in

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/2e7c6677/shut-up-will-you-i-cant-ive-got-the-best-news-ever-acts-no19 The apostles had been warned: "stop talking about Jesus or else!" But that did not shut them up. They counted the cost and preached Jesus anyway. Why? They had never known such love, joy or meaning as they now experienced in their relationships with Christ. His mercy and forgiveness--the hope he extended transformed them, and there was no going back. Besi

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/25004aeb/the-world-according-to-me-the-world-as-it-should-be-acts-no-18 When did it happen? When did we become so 'dug in' about having things the way we want them--indignant, even militant when someone disagrees with us?! Whatever we think we want or need, we find a way to get it; and with Prime, maybe the same day! The Consumer is king! When I look back over my shoulder, knowing it hasn't always been this way, it seems t

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1e609c63/ode-to-a-well-packed-rucksack Before we rejoin Peter and John in old...

Listen to this podcast This is a rucksack ~ we all have one. Have you ever determined to be happy    or to be positive,      to stop...

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/19d34850/why-it-is-so-vital-acts-no-17 Scripture is rich. Talking with people, near and far, they want to know about the Bible, they want to know more about God, but they have had it with 'the Church'. Today, we look at all three--the Bible, God and the Church. I am not sure there could be a more relevant topic, convinced I am that we get this right and then act on it. I take you back to first century Jerusalem, to what we

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/da015d63/wanting-to-feel-gods-presence-acts-no-16 Eureka! When you find it, you know. Why, this is like the Jerusalem church! Anxious to talk more about that great gathering, I must first speak of one verse. You will remember that when Peter and John went back to their people, they reported what had happened to them, jail and a stern warning not to speak of Jesus, Acts 4. Upon hearing this, the people spontaneously burst fo

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/271b75c4/courageous-living-miracles-and-the-greatest-adventure-acts-no15 " THESE are the times that try men's souls ," Thomas Paine wrote during the American Revolution some 249 years ago. 1 But how many times throughout history could those words have been uttered, including now--as we see pictures of precious little children swept away in Texas floodwaters, as we fight personal battles too big for us to manage or fix. " Th