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Welcome to a podcast by opentheword.org where we provide Bible teaching and Biblical perspective on the rapid changes taking place in our society.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 143
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
125 | Shammah: David’s mighty warrior who stood his ground
In this podcast, Wayne Johnston discusses one of his favorite Bible characters, Shammah. The man who defended a lentil patch.
00:10:05 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
124 | Why did Jesus compare the Kingdom of God to an invasive weed?
When Jesus discussed the Kingdom of God in the Gospels, He compared it to one of the Middle East's most invasive weeds. This comparison predicted the explosive growth of the church.
00:09:42 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
123 | Eight Reasons why spiritual gifts are still for today! Part 2
In this second of my two part series, I discuss the last three of my eight reasons why I believe the gifts of the Holy Spirit are intended for today. It seems that the Holy Spirit is manifesting His …
00:15:41 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
122 | Eight Reasons why spiritual gifts are still for today! Part 1
Over the past couple of months, I have been doing a series on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the importance of spiritual gifts. It has attracted the attention of cessationists who don’t believe t…
00:15:41 |
Fri 30 Aug 2024
121 | The Holy Spirit: What is the purpose of the Gift of Tongues?
By Dean Smith: In this podcast, I discuss one of the more controversial Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the gift of Tongues. Why does the Holy Spirit give this gift? What is its purpose?
00:20:54 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
120 | The Holy Spirit: My Brief Encounter with the Gift of Faith
By Dean Smith
In this podcast, I discuss my very brief encounter with the gift of faith, one of the spiritual gifts listed in 1 Corinthians 12.
00:14:47 |
Fri 05 Jul 2024
119 | The Greatest Hindrance to the Moving of the Holy Spirit in Your Life
By Dean Smith
In this podcast, I discuss what I believe is one of the greatest hindrances to the moving of the Holy Spirit in our personal lives and the church.
00:17:33 |
Fri 21 Jun 2024
118 | Have you been filled with the Holy Spirit?
The Bible talks about a Second work of grace, after salvation, where believers are filled with the Holy Spirit. It through this Baptism of the Holy Spirit that we can be empowered like the early chur…
00:20:40 |
Fri 31 May 2024
117 | Is it time to forgive your parents?
In this podcast, I discuss the touchy issue of forgiving our parents and how it potentially impacts our perception of God. I know of instances where parents have been dead and buried for years and ye…
00:17:46 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
116 | Laying on of hands and Imparting the Holy Spirit
In this podcast, Dean talks about laying on of Hands and the impartation of the Holy Spirit, which is called one of the foundational doctrines of the Bible in Hebrews 6:1-2.
00:17:26 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
115 | What It Means to Pray Prophetically
I believe God is calling believers to start praying more, and as part of this, we need to engage in prophetic prayer. In this podcast, I discuss what it means to pray prophetically.
00:14:21 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
114 | A Conversation with Diane Harrison on the Gift of Prophecy
Dean Smith interviews Diane Harrison on the Gift of Prophecy. Diane serves as the Prophetic coordinator for LifeLinks, an international network of churches.
00:40:45 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
113 | In the Fullness of Time
Using an illustration from a Christmas journey many years back, Wayne Johnston explains what it means when the Apostle Paul writes that Jesus came in the 'fullness of time.'
00:09:10 |
Mon 29 Jan 2024
112 | The world’s greatest earthquake
In this podcast, I discuss the world’s greatest earthquake. This one, of course, hasn’t happened yet. It is one that the Apostle John saw occurring during the apocalyptic events leading up to Christ’…
00:15:13 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
111 | A Word for 2024 by Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston shares a word for 2024. As the darkness covers the earth, like the wise men, we need to focus on the light.
00:03:20 |
Fri 29 Dec 2023
110 | The Magi: When God plundered hell
When it comes to the Christmas story, many have wondered who exactly were the Magi, that came to Bethlehem looking for the newborn king of the Jews?
00:11:46 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
109 | The fathers of atheism: How our upbringing can impact our religious beliefs
In this podcast, I discuss Paul Vitz's theory that a person's atheistic beliefs can sometimes stem from a broken relationship with a person's earthly father.
00:16:28 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
108 | Comparing actress Goldie Hawn’s encounter with an extraterrestrial with Daniel’s encounter with an angel
In this podcast, we compare famed Hollywood actress Goldie Hawn's alleged encounter with an extraterrestrial with the prophet Daniel's encounter with an angel, because there seems to be some similari…
00:13:55 |
Tue 31 Oct 2023
107 | The Sinking of a Good Luck Charm
In this podcast, I want to discuss the tendency many of us have to treat God as little more than a good luck charm. It showed up in two battles separated by nearly 3,100 years when two armies tried t…
00:09:39 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
106 | The End Times: The Day God touches the sun
In the Book of Revelation, the Apostle John’s vision of the calamitous events that will be occurring in the end times, we read of the strange thing that will be happening on Earth when God touches th…
00:12:05 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
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