by David Lindner | Feb 28, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Featured, Jesus Habit Podcast
One of the things I’ve noticed about myself that I hate is how easily I am influenced by the people around me. When someone is older than me, I tend to to be less able to be the influencer and am more likely to be influenced by them. When someone is my age and is...
by David Lindner | Feb 27, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Featured, Jesus Habit Podcast
In the TV show friends, Rachel claims that her favorite movie is “Dangerous Liaisons”. But her actual favorite movie is “Weekend at Bernie’s”. I’ve only seen weekend at Bernie’s once, but the concept stands out in my mind. So, Richard and Larry receive an...
by David Lindner | Feb 26, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Featured, Jesus Habit Podcast
What did you want to be when you grew up? Do you remember? Maybe you dreamt of being an astronaut or doctor. Maybe you wanted to be a teacher or a preacher. I wanted to be different things. For a short while, I wanted to be an architect. That didn’t last too long,...
by David Lindner | Feb 25, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Featured, Jesus Habit Podcast
Yesterday we started talking about our light pollution problem in the church. I ended our time together yesterday with this call to action: “Can you find 5 minutes to take away from one of the idols of this age that we all worship and give that time to Jesus?” I...
by David Lindner | Feb 24, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Featured, Jesus Habit Podcast
We live out in the county. We literally live at the end of a dead end road. We’re almost as far out as you can get and still be in the same county. Up where we live, there is a vast network of logging roads giving access to all the state-owned forest land. And some of...
by David Lindner | Feb 21, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Featured, Jesus Habit Podcast
To set the stage for our final devotional on the topic of Hell, I’d like to read a parable that Jesus shared just before He would go to the cross. Matthew’s account of Jesus has this as the last parable Jesus shared before the events of Jesus’ arrest would take...
by David Lindner | Feb 20, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Featured, Jesus Habit Podcast
Well, we’ve been talking about Hell all week, that’s been fun. I don’t know about you, but for me there’s nothing more rousing than a good discussion about eternal punishment. Nothing sets the mind at ease like thinking about torment and the absolute absence of all...
by David Lindner | Feb 19, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Featured, Jesus Habit Podcast
Yesterday we skimmed the surface of some of the attributes of God. Like I said, there is so much more to God than the sketch we can paint in one episode of a podcast. With that in mind, today I’m going to try to draw the connections between who God is and how the...
by David Lindner | Feb 18, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Featured, Jesus Habit Podcast
Yesterday I referred to one perception people have of God as the Mad Scientist who is running experiments on us His test subjects. That perception of God is false, but it is true that many people think of God that way. Another way people think about God, popularized...
by David Lindner | Feb 17, 2020 | Daily Devotional, Featured, Jesus Habit Podcast
A couple of years ago while I was reading through the Bible, I came across a verse in Revelation. I tend to not get too bogged down in Revelation because so much of it is difficult to understand. But this verse really stood out to me. “Then another horse came out, a...
