Etiam pulvinar consectetur dolor sed malesuada. Ut convallis
euismod dolor nec pretium. Nunc ut tristique massa.
Nam sodales mi vitae dolor ullamcorper et vulputate enim accumsan.
Morbi orci magna, tincidunt vitae molestie nec, molestie at mi. Nulla nulla lorem,
suscipit in posuere in, interdum non magna.
Today's show is a recording of the message I preached to the church in which I pastor Mt. Tabor Baptist Church on Judges chapter 2. The outline of the passage is as follows:
1-5 Review of Chapter 1
7-10 Setting the Stage for the Cycles of the Judges
11-19 The Cycles/Patterns of the Judges
Three principles that apply to us from the passage are:
God is Faithful to Keep His Covenant Over and Over Again
In this show you will hear a recording of the of message I preached to Mt. Tabor Baptist Church from Joshua 6 on the defeat of Jericho. The outline of the passage is as follows:
The Plan of Attack 1-5
The Plan told to the Army 6-7
The Plan carried out for six days 8-14
The Plan carried out the seventh day 15-21
Rahab saved 22-25
Future of Jericho 26
Fame of Joshua 27
The theological principles of the passage relate mostly to faith. We have 5 principles of Faith illustrated.
1) Faith sees the Future Promises of God as Present Realities
2) Faith follows God’s Plan even when it doesn’t make sense
3) Faith calls on God to act.
4) Faith sides with God even when all around are not
5) Faith accepts restrictions aimed at preventing temptation
As 2013 approaches most people are thinking about what will happen during that year and what happened this past year. The end of the year then is a great time to address the issue of goal setting and what is involved in that and how to achieve the best results from it. There is a great book from which some of the subject matter of this podcast comes: Tommy Newberry's Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life. Here are the Eight Rules to Effective Goal Settings:
They must be written down
They must be state in the present tense
They must be stated positively
They must be consistent with your core values and mission statement
They must be specific and measurable
They must be time-bound
They must be balanced between reasonableness and challenge
In this show you will hear the message I preached to the congregation of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church on the third part of the three part series on the Reasons for the Incarnation. The simple outline is below. I hope you find it helps you build your biblical worldview.
The Incarnation occurred to Destroy the Works of the Devil.
1 John 3:8
The Incarnation occurred to Provide a Qualified Judge.
In this episode you will hear a few of my thoughts about the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary school this last week. Here is the outline of what I talk about.
First, it is an n Unspeakable Tragedy.
Second, it demonstrates the depravity of man
Third, it demonstrates the hypocrisy of public policy and outrage.
Fourth it is impossible to entirely prevent evil and destruction.
Some thoughts about solutions:
1) Must take responsibility for yourself and your children
2) Preventing a means of defense is the opposite of a solution
3) More gun control is not the solution
4) We must not allow tragedies such as this to be used by the state to take away freedoms from the people.
In this show you will hear a recording of the message I preached to the congregation of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church on two reasons for the Incarnation. It continues a three part series on the purposes or reasons for the incarnation. The outline is as follows:
The Incarnation occurred to Provide an Effective Sacrifice for Sin.
Heb. 10:1-10
The Incarnation occurred to Fulfill the Davidic Covenant.2 Sam 7:12-13
In this show you will hear a recording of the message I preached to the congregation of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church on two reasons for the Incarnation. It begins a three part series on the purposes or reasons for the incarnation. The outline is as follows:
1) The Incarnation occurred to Reveal God to Us.
John 1:14, 18
John 14:7-11
Hebrews 1:1-3
2) The Incarnation occurred to Provide an Example for our Lives.
In this show you will hear my evaluation of the Project Appleseed event I attended with my three oldest boys this last weekend near Richmond, VA. If you have not yet attended one of these events you need to get one scheduled it was incredible. There are eleven things that I thought were excellent about the marksmanship training.
Safety
25 yard target simulating 100, 200, 300, and 400 yard.
I came across this article today and wanted to pass it along. This couple has lived a long time together and has built a legacy. Notice what they said was the key (their faith in Jesus).
In this show you will hear a teaching from Joshua 3-4. At this stage in Israel's history they are preparing to go into the promised land but encounter the barrier of the Jordan River. God provides them access into the Promised land and in doing so provides a picture of the blessings of God's grace in salvation. Here is the outline and some principles from the text:
Joshua 3-4
OUTLINE
Camping before the Crossing 3:1-4
Consecration for the Crossing 3:5-13
Completion of the Crossing 3:14-17
Commemoration after the Crossing 4:1-24
<>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <><
3 Aspects of Salvation are pictured through this event
God Provides a Way into the Promised Land through Covenant Faithfulness
God Provides a Way into the Promised Land through Victory over Death
God Provides a Way into the Promised Land through Substitutionary Atonement
Episode-100- Introduction to Permaculture from a Biblical World View[ 34:08 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (382)
This show is an evaluation of the the Prime Directive and three Ethics of Permaculture from a Biblical perspective. I discuss the relationship between the Prime Directive (which is to take responsibility for oneself and ones children) and building a mult-generational legacy of abundance. In evaluating the first ethic, which is Earth Care, I relate it to the original mandate in the garden of Eden as well as the true nature of nature or creation and man's involvement in it. Regarding the second ethic, which is People Care, I mainly focus on the balance between people care and earth care and the balance needed between self reliance and community. The third ethic has probably had the most controversy over its interpretation and application and I discuss this third ethic from the standpoint of a steward.
I just wanted to wish everyone of you in the US a Happy Thanksgiving. I was not able to get to the computer yesterday to get this note out to you so it is a little late but it still comes from my heart. One of the things for which I am grateful to the Lord is the listening audience of The Legacy Podcast. Your desire to take the effort to listen to this show means so much to me. I am a teacher at heart and a teachers greatest joy comes from knowing that people want to learn what is being taught. So thank you for allowing me to do that!
In this show you will hear a recording of the message I preached to the congregation of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church this last Sunday from Joshua 1. Joshua 1 records the transition of leadership to Joshua after the death of Moses. In it Joshua is commanded to be strong and courageous. The details of the passage give us 4 actions that can be taken to fulfill the command to be strong and courageous. The outline and principles are below:
OUTLINE
God Commissions Joshua 1-9
Joshua Commands the People 10-15
The People Submit to Joshua’s Leadership 16-17
God Exhorts Joshua 18
In this show we complete the series on the varies forms of capital. This last type of capital is Cultural Capital. First I review the eight different types or capital discussed.
Social Capital
Material Capital
Financial Capital
Living Capital
Intellectual Capital
Experiential (Human) Capital
Spiritual Capital
Cultural Capital
I then discuss what Cultural Capital is.
Then I discuss the uniqueness of Cultural Capital
This is followed by looking at several different examples of groups that form their own unique cultural capital, including:
Family
In a business
In community
In an ethnic group
In a nation
Pop culture
CONCLUSION
Why is learning about and working at building more of the various kinds of capital important?
We want to build a legacy of abundance. Abundance comes from obtaining and developing your capital.
Go back through and review the 8 forms and what you can do to develop the various forms of capital in your life. Set some goals for each form of capital for 2013 and a plan to achieve it.
In this show you will hear a recording of the message I preached this last Sunday at Mt. Tabor Baptist Church from Exodus 32 on the tragedy of the Golden Calf worship. Here is the outline of the passage:
The Building of the Calf 1-6
God’s reaction to the Idolatry 7-10
Moses Intercedes for the people 11-14
Moses returns to camp with the two tablets 15-18
The Tablets broke out of anger over the Idolatry 19-21
Aaron’s lame excuse for the Idol making 22-24
Moses imposes discipline for the idolatry 25-29
Moses intercedes a second time 30-34
God brings judgment upon the people 35
IMPLICATIONS
1) God’s people must not follow the ways of the cultures around them
2) God’s people need an intercessor.
3) God’s people must take a stand against sin.
4) God’s people must expect judgment for sin
CONCLUSION
The Law cannot save or sanctify anyone. If that was all that was needed Israel would not have sinned so soon after being delivered and promising to keep the law.
We need more than a promise to God to obey Him.
We need a new life and new heart.
We need a better Mediator than Moses.
We are provided one in Jesus.
Episode-96- Wisdom about public policy issues from William John Henry Boetcker[ 30:28 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (432)
In this show you will hear my comments about ten maxims originally recorded by Rev. Boetcker almost 100 years ago but still very applicable to current public policy issues.
First are a few of my election 2012 comments:
Election results reflect the will of the people . If we want different results it starts with grassroots education of people.
Republicans have to run someone who is substantially different than the status quo if they are going to beat an incumbent.
Incumbents are really hard to beat no matter how bad or good things seem.
Wisdom about public policy from William John Henry Boetcker
The Rev. William John Henry Boetcker was a Presbyterian minister and notable public speaker who served as director of the pro-employer Citizens' Industrial Alliance, a position he held when, in 1916, he produced a booklet of "nuggets" from his lectures, which included maxims such as "We cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong" and "We cannot help the poor by kicking the rich." Boetcker's collection of maxims eventually crystallized as the list of ten now-familiar entries (variously known as the "Industrial Decalogue," the "Ten Don'ts," the "Ten Cannots," "Ten Things You Cannot Do, "or the "American Charter") reproduced above:
1) You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
Government wasteful spending
What do we have being broadcasting loudly, spend spend spend. We even have economists proclaiming the importance of the consumer to our economy.
It is not consumerism that makes a country or a people prosperous it is thrift and savings.
2) You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
Financially the strong in this country are the wealthy the one percent. To weaken them through progressive tax structures does not strengthen anything but the government who creates more dependents on their redistribution.
Taking from the strong and giving to the weak does something else it makes the weak become weaker because they acquire a false amount from their production.
3) You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
e.g. I’m for the little guy. Its the wall street fat cats that are the problem
“You didn’t build that” Really. Talk to a business owner and ask what he sacrificed to build his business.
4) You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
Minimum wage laws
Lilly Ledbetter act
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (Pub.L. 111-2, S. 181) is a federal statute in the United States that was the first bill signed into law by President Barack Obama on January 29, 2009. The Act amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The new act states that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit regarding pay discrimination resets with each new paycheck affected by that discriminatory action. The law directly addressed Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 550 U.S. 618 (2007), a U.S. Supreme Court decision that the statute of limitations for presenting an equal-pay lawsuit begins on the date that the employer makes the initial discriminatory wage decision, not at the date of the most recent paycheck.
5) You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
Communists have tried this, socialists have tried this.
It is the rich who invest into development, capital, etc. It is capital that makes capitalism work. IT is the rich who have the most capital. Destroy the capital and your destroy wealth for all!
6) You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
We are a debtor nation. From whom have we borrowed the most? http://www.mygovcost.org/2011/03/11/to-whom-does-the-u-s-government-really-owe-money/
as of 2011 when the dead was only 13.5 trillion instead of over 16 trillion
2.4 trillion to SS trust fund
over 1/3 is owed to foreign countries (over 4.5 trillion)
1.6 trillion to China
854 Billion to Japan
217 Billion to Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Gabon, Libya, and Nigeria
190 Billion to UK
176 Billion to Brazil
1.6 Trillion to all other foreign countries
Borrower is slave to the lender.
7) You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
The media, politicians and many others are trying to polarize and incite class hatred.
Again the criticism of the 1%
Complaining about the welfare and food stamp recipients
Blaming the recipients of social security.
8) You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
It is true on a personal level, business level, and governmental level.
The federal government will take in $2.173 trillion in 2011.
The federal government will spend $3.818 trillion during the year.
So, just like many families, the government’s outgo exceeds their income—to the tune of $1.645 trillion in overspending. That’s called the deficit. Altogether, the government has $14.2 trillion in debt.
If their household income was $55,000 per year,
they’d actually be spending $96,500—
$41,500 more than they made! That means they’re spending 175% of their annual income! So, in 2011 they’d add $41,500 of debt to their current credit card debt of $366,000!
What’s the first step to get out of debt? Stop overspending! But that means a family that is used to spending $96,500 a year has to learn how to live on $55,000. That’s a tough pill to swallow. You can’t borrow your way out of debt.
9) You cannot build character and courage by destroying man's initiative and independence.
Character is built by taking chances failing learning, growing and trying again. It is built by people taking responsibility for winning and loosing.
Courage is someone taking their capital and investing it in some tools and starting a business.
When a government or a people take expect someone else to take care of them or give them someone they loose initiative independence and courage
10) You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
You give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for ever.
What if parents still wiped the butt of their children when they are 10 or 15 years old? Are you really helping them? of course not!
And yet we as a society do that with nearly everything. Health care. Provide it through comprehensive insurance or worse, government provided health care only hurts people in the long run. This is what got us where we are in the first place.
CONCLUSION
Issues never seem to change. These principles were written 100 years ago. Nothing changes they only get more defined and pronounced.
If we are going to build a legacy of abundance for ourselves and also for others we must agree with and be patterned by these principles in our own life and in society.
Start with yourselves and change what you can about that then move towards public policy.
In this show you will hear a message I delivered to the church in which I pastor, Mt. Tabor Baptist Church on Exodus 20 the Ten Commandments. It is just a brief sketch of the law since it is too time consuming to cover them all in depth in one message.
The First Commandment deals with the Sanctity of Allegiance and is found in verse 3.
The Second Commandment deals with the Sanctity of Worship and is found in verses 4-6.
The Third Commandment deals with the Sanctity of God’s Character and is found in verse 7.
The Fourth Commandment deals with the Sanctity of Time and is found in verses 8-11.
The Fifth Commandment deals with the Sanctity of Authority and is found in verse 12.
The Sixth Commandment deals with the Sanctity of Life and is found in verse 13.
The Seventh Commandment deals with the Sanctity of Sex and Marriage and is found in verse 14.
The Eighth Commandment deals with the Sanctity of Property and is found in verse 15.
The Ninth Commandment deals with the Sanctity of Truth and is found in verse 16.
The Tenth Commandment deals with the Sanctity of Heart and is found in verse 17.
The purpose of the law is to show us our need for a Savior and how we are to live for Him.
Join me for today's show where I talk about the role of the father as a priest in his home. Learn about the three roles of a priest (a worship leader, a consecrated example, and an intercessor) and how these three roles can be played out in the context of ones home and family.
In this show you will hear the message I delivered to Mt. Tabor Baptist Church this last Sunday from Exodus 14 on the Red Sea crossing. The outline is as follows:
God’s Redirection 1-4
Pharaoh’s Regret 5-9
Israel’s Reservations and Moses’ Reassurance 10-14
God’s Resolution 15-18
Night’s Rampart 19-20
Israel’s Route becomes Egypt’s Rout 21-25
Egypt’s Ruin 26-29
Israel’s Rescue 30-31
The implications of the text are as follows:
God Directs us to achieve His glory 1-4
Fear and Faith are inversely related 10-14, 30-31
Attempting to do as God’s people do without a Relationship with God leads to destruction 21-29
Salvation does not mean Perfection in this life 10-14-30-31.
In today's show I discuss the concept of Spiritual Capital as we continue our series on the eight forms of capital described by Ethan C. Roland of Appleseed Permaculture. I will probably be taking a little different direction than most who comment on the concept. First, I discuss what it is not. Second, I discuss briefly the idea that spiritual capital can be looked at as a subset of Social Capital. Third I look at spiritual capital and its acquisition from an eternal perspective as indicated by Matt. 6:19-21 and highlighted from three other Scripture texts (2John 1:8, John 4:36, 1Cor. 3:8, 14). When taken from this perspective it encourages us to be involved in sound doctrine, evangelism, and discipleship.
. Here are the Eight Rules to Effective Goal Settings:
