Something Worth Thinking About with Randy Todd
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97 episodes
Hebrews - Remarkable Similarities Between Then and Now
This podcast explores several of the compelling similarities between the original setting for why Hebrews was written in the 1st century and why the church needs to hear this same message today in the 21st century. The letter to the Hebrews is ...
The Very First Angel Story in Scripture
During the Christmas season we are reminded of a lot of angel stories that are now very familiar to us. But do you know the very first angel story? Do you know who this angel visited? In today's podcast we want to encourage our hearts with the&...
God Brings People Back To Him Through Ordinary People Like You And Me
In today’s podcast we want to talk about the way God works through ordinary people like you and me by considering again the story of John the Baptist. When we look at our world and start to feel like the darkness is deepening, when we won...
Constant Complaining Gets In The Way Of Giving Thanks
In today's podcast we want to linger over the thought that for the follower of Christ every day is to be Thanksgiving Day. It is God’s will in Christ Jesus for us to give thanks to God in all circumstances. But, if we are not careful, we will f...
Take A Moment To Thank Jesus For What He Has Done For You
In today’s podcast we want to challenge ourselves to stop taking everything in our life for granted—especially people and all that they do for us, and especially God and all that our God does for us. In Luke 17 there is an incident in the life ...
Choosing to Give Thanks Instead of Complaining
In today’s podcast we want to be challenged by the story of two people who I dare say had every right to complain and gripe against the Lord, but they chose not to. Instead of grumbling, they prayed to God and sang hymns to the Lord. In spite o...
Giving Thanks To God Is The Cure For Our Culture of Constant Complaining & Criticizing
In today's podcast we want to think about the importance of giving thanks to God in every circumstance. Instead of being stuck in criticizing and complaining, God wants us to live with joy and gratitude in our hearts. The joy of the Lord is our...
Rethinking What It Means To Be Holy
In today’s episode we want to take a few minutes to think about what it means to be holy. A lot of us are intimidated by this word “holy.” We feel like it’s absolutely impossible to be holy. We are convinced that we will fail miserably. W...
God Has Both Made You Holy and Calls You to Be Holy!
In today’s podcast we want to ponder the opening lines of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the ancient church in Corinth. This was a church chock-full of some pretty serious behavioral problems and significant misunderstandings of the Gospel of Jes...
Dare To Dream That You Can Be Like Jesus -- God Already Does!
In today’s podcast we continue exploring this absolutely incredible thought that God is calling you and me to be holy as he is holy. God wants us to be transformed into the likeness of Christ. This is not a simple little task or goal. This is e...
We Must Remind Ourselves Again That We Live In Hope For Redemption And Renewal
In today’s podcast I want to speak into the tragic events that took place today at a high school located in Arlington, Texas, the city where I live and proudly call home. We were reminded again today that we live in a broken world. I want to re...
Grace Teaches Us That Both Salvation and the Battle Belong to the Lord
Welcome to Episode 86. In today’s podcast we want to explore the other side of grace as explained in Titus 2:11-14. Grace is not only about our salvation, grace is also about our sanctification. That is, grace is about being changed and t...
It Is God’s Will That You Should Be Sanctified, Including In Your Sexual Behavior
In today’s podcast we want to explore the Word of God in 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8. The Apostle Paul urges us to explore and pursue the will of God for our lives in such a way that we please God more and more in everything that we do, including in ...
God Calls Us To Be Holy As He Is Holy
In today’s podcast we want to continue to explore God’s call on our lives to be holy as he is holy. This calling is given to us in clear and explicit terms in 1 Peter 1:13-16. Instead of being intimidated by this high and holy calling, we need ...
Overcoming Our Unbelief That God Can Make Us Holy
In today's podcast we explore the reality of belief and unbelief living side by side in our hearts. We believe, yet we have doubts. And we especially seem to doubt the idea that we can become and be holy in all that we do—even with the help of ...
Make Every Effort to Be Holy — Hebrews 12:14-29
Today begins a new emphasis. We want to spend a few weeks rediscovering and rethinking about God’s work in our lives to sanctify us through and through, God’s work to make us holy, and also to rediscover and reflect on God’s call on our lives t...
God Has Called You Into The Fellowship of Jesus Christ Our Lord
In today’s podcast we wrap up the summer focus on our fellowship with God by considering the Word of God in 1 Corinthians 1:9. God has called you into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jesus Can Help Us When We Are Tempted
In today’s podcast we will continue exploring the incredible idea presented to us in the Word of God in 1 John 1:3, our fellowship is with God. Today we want to consider the way Hebrews 2:11-18 explains our fellowship with God. The first step i...
We Are Super-Mega-Ultra-Hyper-Conquerors Through Christ
In today’s podcast we want to hear the incredible words of Romans 8:37, that we are super-hyper-mega-ultra conquerors through Christ Jesus our Lord. Even when all of the evidence suggests that we are losing and all hope is lost, the reality is ...
The Spirit Helps Us As We Pray
In today’s podcast we want to think about what the Word of God says happens every time we pray. We want to hear again Romans 8:26-27 and the promise made to us that whenever we pray, we are never alone. God’s Spirit prays with us. God’s Spirit ...
God Will Redeem Our Bodies, Not Just Our Souls
In today’s podcast we want to let our hearts be encouraged by the hope that we have that one day our bodies will be completely redeemed. This is the Word of God in Romans 8:23. We are eagerly waiting for the redemption of our bodies. What does ...
Sharing in the Sufferings of Christ
In today’s podcast we want to explore this idea in Romans 8:17 that we too often gloss over or ignore. Paul says that we are children of God, heirs of God and co-heir of Christ, “if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also sh...
Heirs of God and Co-Heirs with Christ
In today’s podcast we will hear Romans 8:12-17 and emphasize two incredible ideas. First, by the Spirit of God we cry out to our God, “Abba, Father,” just as Jesus did in the garden on the night he was betrayed. Second, we are not only...
Live by and Be Led by the Spirit of God
In today’s episode we want to think and talk about what it means to live according to the Spirit as Paul describes it in Romans 8:5-14. In our last podcast we highlighted a lot of the incredible things the Apostle Paul says about o...
Exploring The Meaning & Implications Of Our Fellowship With God Found As Described In Romans 8
In today’s podcast we simply want to let our hearts be encouraged by all of the different ways that the Apostle Paul describes and explains what it means that we have fellowship with God in Romans 8.