Porter Podcast

Series:  If I Only Had

The More Trap 

I Timothy 6:6-20

Discontent: not happy with who you are, what you have and/or how things are going in your life. 

Keep your life free from the love of mo…

Series: If I Only Had           

Pursuing the Wind     

Ecclesiastes 4:4-8      Proverbs 14:30

give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

I Thessalonians 5:18

discontent:…

Series: The Church in History

The Church and Communion

Luke 22:14-22         I Corinthians 11:23-26

Protestant = Someone who protests when the church strays from “the faith once for all delivered to th…

Series:  The Church in History

Moments of Conflict

Acts 15:36-41

causes of conflict        

·      Satan is real, and people are sinners. 

·      Sometimes the conflict is not directly tied to sin but…

Series:  The Church in History

Encouragers & Hypocrites

Acts 4:32-Acts 5:11

an encourager              Acts 4:32-37

·      Barnabas was a giver.

·      Barnabas saw potential in people.

·      He was a …

series: The Church in History

The Church on Mission

Acts 1:1-8

“These men who have turned the world upside down 

have come here too”

Acts 17:6

why the first church changed the world

·      They had a po…

Series: John the Baptist

Matthew 14:1-12

What is Success?

What constitutes a “successful” life?

Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared...

Matth…

Series:  John the Baptist

Faith & Doubt

Matthew 11:1-6

3 types of doubt

·      Intellectual doubt

·      Spiritual doubt

·      Circumstantial doubt

When Jesus had finished giving instructions to his twe…

Series: Prepare the Way—John the Baptist

John—the Baptism of Jesus

Matthew 3

Recap

John was an eccentric prophet whose dress, diet, preaching style and message distinguished him from others.  John’s pri…

Series: Prepare the Way—John the Baptist

John—the man and his message

Mark 1; Luke 3; John 1

“Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared...”

 Matthew 1…

Series: In Christ 

Personally In Christ 

Ephesians 1:1-14

The phrase, “in Christ” or “in Him,” occurs over 100 times in the New Testament.  

How many times is “in Christ” used in Ephesians 1:1-14? 

Ep…

Series: Ezekiel

Hope in Ezekiel

Ezekiel 37-48

Hope involves:  the future, something better and security/confidence.   

To hope is to be confident that something better is in the future.

People have not…

Series: Ezekiel

Made New

Ezekiel 36-37

Since the fall, humanity has been drawn to sin and prone to fail.

People have not overcome the propensity to fail and remain broken.

Ezekiel 36

God is just in H…

Series: Ezekiel

A Better Shepherd

Ezekiel 34

With leadership comes responsibility.

woe to the shepherds

God not only cares about who leads, He cares about how they lead.

Titles do not make you faithfu…