Mission Upside Down
For 2000 years, the followers of Jesus have been on a mission, even as Jesus himself was on a mission. Often wrongly understood as “saving souls,” this mission of Jesus actually is about bringing people into a new kingdom, a new reality. Life in this new kingdom requires not only a change of heart and mind, but a change in life-purpose and worldview. As Jesus himself observes, there are not many people who will want this change. But for those who are changed by God inwardly, life in this new kingdom, brings new meaning and purpose in life. Everyone who becomes part of this new kingdom finds that almost all their prior beliefs, ideas, attitudes, and perspectives become turned “upside down.”
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 176
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#176 Pausing the Podcast
Having begun our podcast “Mission Upside Down” in July, 2020, we have decided to take a break. The Lord has been bringing us into new phases in our lives and leading us to new projects. One project i…
00:26:49 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
#175 Pursuing Peace
When Jesus was born, a host of angels sang about glory to God and about peace on earth. If there’s anything that should characterize believers and our life together in the church, it should be our pe…
00:25:39 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
#174 Repairing Relationships
These are days of strong political opinions and sharp disagreements. Not only in society, but also in the church. In this episode we’ll learn about repairing our relationships and deepening our frien…
00:24:20 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
#173 A Biblical Way to Encourage Churches
The New Testament clearly teaches that each church must be supervised by pastors and elders. What isn’t so clear is whether local churches should belong to broader church assemblies and yield to deci…
00:25:10 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
#172 Setting Our Hearts on God’s Things
God instructs us in the tenth commandment not to covet the wrong things. It’s a call to discover our deepest desires. Jesus rightly observes, “Where your treasure is, there is your heart.” Where is y…
00:23:43 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
#171 How To Talk Rightly to People
In our heated political climate today, it’s easy to speak wrongly to people. And about them. The ninth commandment reminds us how God wants us to guard our words carefully.
00:23:26 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
#170 Loving Money and Possessions Too Much
Why are we tempted to steal, cheat, and defraud people? The words of Jesus and James explain our motives for violating the eighth commandment.
00:26:19 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
#169 Sex and the Seventh Commandment
In the seventh commandment God not only prohibits adultery, but all types of sexual immorality. In this episode we explore how God safeguards our marriages and multiplies our joy as we obey Him.
00:27:46 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
#168 Have You Murdered Anyone Lately?
Jesus interprets the Ten Commandments in a deeper sense than the Jewish rabbis. He applies them not only to our actions but also to our attitudes and motivations. Thus, under the Sixth Commandment we…
00:24:07 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
#167 Honoring and Obeying Parents
Children must respect and obey their parents out of love for Jesus. A special promise applies to those who do. Today we explore the fifth commandment.
00:28:11 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
#166 Our Sabbath Rest
In the fourth commandment, God’s people are told to remember the Sabbath day. It’s the 7th day of the week, corresponding to our Saturday. Why do most believers no longer worship on the Sabbath? And …
00:27:34 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
#165 Using God’s Name Rightly
Like the first two commandments, the third one is also a prohibition. We are prohibited from using God’s name in unbiblical ways. Not only will we learn some of those wrong ways, but we will consider…
00:23:58 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
#164 Worshiping God in Spirit and Truth
The second commandment is about our worship of God. We must not represent God by any images, or other visible means. We also consider two opposing ways to decide what to include in our worship servic…
00:26:45 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
#163 God’s Rules in Our Relationship with Him
For believers, the main use of the Ten Commandments is known as the normative use. That is, God’s laws are the norms, the standards, for living thankful lives once we are saved. We also explore the m…
00:26:57 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
#162 Why Has God Given Us His Laws?
In popular thinking, laws are regarded as bad things. People think that laws get in their way, restricting their freedoms. Indeed, some human laws are bad. God’s laws, however, are perfect and are gi…
00:23:55 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
#161 Always Rejoicing in Jesus
It’s easy to over-simplify the commands in these verses. That if only believers could wave a kind of magic wand, all their worries will disappear. In this episode we try to carefully interpret and ap…
00:24:13 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
#160 Dealing with Our Anxieties
Continuing our look at Philippians 4, we ask if it’s possible to be rejoicing always. It really depends on our definition of biblical joy, and, most importantly, the meaning of our being in the Lord …
00:25:36 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
#159 Evaluating Church Life Honestly
No local church is perfect. That’s because it is made up of imperfect believers. In a new series on Philippians 4 about Christian joy, we set this topic in its proper context. The Apostle Paul writ…
00:26:04 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
#158 The Mask of Masculinity Part 2
We look at three more masks that men wear, according to Lewis Howes: the aggressive mask, the joker mask, and the know-it-all-mask. For better and deeper friendships, we must start to remove these m…
00:26:16 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
#157 The Mask of Masculinity Part 1
Scientific studies show that the #1 factor in ordinary human happiness is our social relationships. That includes our friendships. From a book written by Lewis Howes, we will explore what gets in t…
00:22:38 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
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