Porter Podcast
Biblical Truth for Today
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 355
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
The Church in Ephesus : The Church with a Problem 02/06/22
Revelation 2 : 1-7
Angry with God 01/30/22
Series: Reset
Angry with God
The Book of Job
Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish,
for his mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness!
Lamentations 3:2…
A Divided Heart 01/23/22
Series: RESET
A Divided Heart
Various Texts
He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Matthew 22:37
Love is what God desires FROM you; lo…
Dealing with Depression 01/16/22
Series: RESET
Dealing with Depression
I Kings 19
Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 42:11
de…
Failure is not Final 01/09/22
Series: Reset
Failure is Not Final
Mark 14, John 21
flavors of failure
· Aspirational
· Missional
· Moral
· Covenantal
Simon Peter’s headline Mark 14
the destructive…
Pressing On 01/02/22
Series: Reset
Pressing On
Philippians 3:12-21
the value of a reset
· When we start over, we are reminded of mercy.
· There are lessons learned best through the struggles.
· The opportu…
Incarnation & Hope 12/19/21
Series: Incarnation
Incarnation & Hope
Romans 5:1-5; Revelation 21-22
Hope is an essential need of humanity; without hope, death has already tightened its grip of an individual.
Hope can be undermin…
The Incarnation and Missions 12/12/21
Series: The Incarnation
The Incarnation and Missions
Philippians 2:5-11;2 Corinthians 5:15-20
RECAP
The Latin word incarnation = to become flesh
The doctrine of the incarnation teaches that Jesus was alwa…
Series: The Incarnation God came near 12/05/21
Series: The Incarnation
God came near
John 1:14; Luke 1:26-37
The inclusion in early creeds, the debate at church councils and the Roman calendar all show the importance the early Christians placed on…
Kingdom Benefits 11/28/21
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Kingdom Benefits
Matthew 7:24-29
The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus’ teaching about what it means to be a citizen in the Kingdom of Heaven.
A person becomes a Kingdom citize…
Entering the Kingdom 11/14/21
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Entering the Kingdom
Matthew 7:13-23
Sermon Overview
· The focus of the Sermon on the Mount is citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven--what a citizen is like, how he/she …
Citizenship Test 11/07/21
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Citizenship Test
Matthew 7:8-12
Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:20
The Sermon on the Mount is …
Do Not Judge 10/31/21
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Do Not Judge
Matthew 7:1-6
“Do not judge”
The phrase “do not judge” is not to be used for self-justification.
“Do not judge” does not mean accept all practices/beliefs.
judg…
Value and the Kingdom 10/17/21
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Value and the Kingdom
Matthew 6:19-24
What are the most valuable things you have?
What makes them valuable?
A Kingdom Citizen values God and His will above all else.
trea…
Pure Motives 10/10/21
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Pure Motives
Matthew 6:1-18
Kingdom citizens are pure in attitudes, actions, thoughts and motives.
· You can only be reasonably confident about your own motives.
·…
Kingdom Citizens & the Law Part 2 10/03/21
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Kingdom Citizens & the Law Part 2
Matthew 5:33-48
Kingdom citizens are different from people who do not believe.
The holiness required for kingdom c…
Kingdom Citizens and the Law 09/26/21
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Kingdom Citizens and the Law
Matthew 5:21-32
We are not under the law, but under Christ.
Romans 6:14
3 Purposes of the Law
· The civil purpose of the law. (Guardrai…