Morning Briefings

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/28314674/a-storm-is-headed-your-way-ready The storm is coming – it is right...

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/3818585d/what-do-you-hope-people-will-say-about-you-acts-no-28 Do you ever stop to think how you will be known?   If folks sum up your life in a sentence, what will it be?   If they remember you by a single word, what might it be?   Interesting thoughts to be sure. Just before our camera moves away from Saul for a while, consider one more element with me--the impact one man had on him.  To this point in the young church, Lu

Tom Petty, theologian? podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1e8f1059/waiting-is-the-hardest-part-acts-no-27 >What’s the reason some seasons seem so long, days marked with uncertainty? >What’s the reason God's timing seems to take forever? You know He has called you to a task, but it feels like he forgot about you. >What’s the reason God redeemed you, showed you the way, then seems to have left you in the desert? >And what’s the reason Jesus Christ stepped dir

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/22fff25e/sink-your-teeth-into-this-one-acts-no-26 Compelled by one provocative sentence, I am. But first, remember that Saul (who we know as Paul) has just rolled into town in a most unconventional manner. But his method of arrival and its accompanying transformation of the man is not known by all--in fact, only by the one sent to pray for him. Word is out, Saul has come to town to round up believers in Jesus Christ, and h

If God spoke to you, would you know it was Him? hmmm. podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/2704ce41/would-you-know-his-voice-acts-no-25 Full of fury and armed with authority, Saul was in hot pursuit of the Jesus followers--as they posed a threat to the Judaism he esteemed more than life itself. As they fled the persecution in Jerusalem, he traveled to Damascus to apprehend and imprison them. But a strange thing happened as he journeyed - suddenly, he was blind

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/315257b2/blinded-so-he-could-see-acts-no-24 I have met them, so have you ... know it alls. Sometimes people are so committed to how they see things, so convinced they are right, it takes something very dramatic for them to see things as they really are--for them to know and acknowledge truth. This is that story - about a know-it-all guy. You may be familiar with this part of his story, but as you consider it today, perhaps

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1b613eee/for-such-a-time-as-this-you-acts-no-23 For such a moment as this, you were born. It is no accident where you live, to whom you are related, and with whom you are connected--or for that matter, who you might 'serendipitously'? meet today. For such a time as this, you are here. And for such a time as that one, Philip, a very ordinary man did the extraordinary. We have the perspective of history to see how God was wor

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