Love is Calling
Drawing on faith in Christ, I discuss the challenges of life along with the victory and true freedom available in belief in Jesus alone. Born again in 1987, I have traveled a road that has taken many paths and has at times been very traumatic. Raised in a dysfunctional family, sexually abused at a young age, separated from parents at times, along with the devastation that comes from decades in a fellowship which became a religious cult, it felt like the fear, guilt and shame was irreversible and simply my lot in life. But God! God has opened my eyes to the amazing truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and who I am in Him. My identity as a blood bought child of the Living God, through no work on my part other than simply coming to Him in faith, obliterates the religious requirements of man, and HIs great love has set me free from the fear, guilt and shame of my past. If He can change my trajectory from barely existing to victorious, He can do the same for you. -Banner Kidd
Episodes
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
The Law can do nothing to bear the fruit of love in our hearts and lives. It was meant as a verdict against the people who live according to the flesh. They had no love because they refused to listen and obey the God who is Love. But now, we have God who is Spirit, and who is Love, indwelling us and producing in us, His great Love, to seen in our lives in love for Him and for others - and the Law has absolutely no part to play in it whatsoever! Join me as we finish up Galatians Chapter Five, on The Daily Good News.
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
The Letter Paul wrote to the Galatians is a hard line in the sand! The readers then, and many today, are left with a tough decision. Paul is writing the truth in dire warning to those who are being siren called into being circumcised into Judaism and keeping the Law and that by succumbing to it you will have fallen from the grace that saves you! Join me in this episode of The Daily Good News, on The Love is Calling Podcast.
Friday Aug 23, 2024
Friday Aug 23, 2024
Brothers and sisters, I was wrong! For nearly two decades I was fully enmeshed into a cult of Messianic Judaism or Hebrew Roots at Messiah Fellowship in Brighton, and now Ontario, Indiana. It, like each Torah Observant fellowship, has its own version and dogma based on the Law of Moses and many extra-biblical writings and inter-web, self professing rabbis, theologians, linguists and pseudo-scientists. The delusion is thick to those who have not received a love for the Truth. Join me for this episode of The Daily Good News as we are nearly completion of Paul's Letter to the Church of Galatia.
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Abraham with Hagar produced Ishmael by an act of the flesh, in an attempt to bring God's promise into reality. It was works based and not God doing, by His power, what He had promised He would do. It was a picture of the attempt to be under the law given at Sinai for justification. Israel was under the law until flesh came, and now, Paul writes plainly, are no longer. Likewise, Gentiles, who have never been under the law, should not go back into the similar weak and beggarly elements of that law, after having been delivered from the bondage to the paganism they formerly practiced! Join me for this episode of The Daily Good News, continuing to see Galatians in light of what Paul really is telling us.
Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
The desire to be accepted, to feel approved and to have attained something through our work and intellect is what the devil uses to draw us into legalism. Things from our childhood that have left us in a co-dependent mindset make us easy prey to those who can manipulate our emotions. I was one of those who fell prey to that cult manipulation into the Hebrew Roots movement, in Messianic Judaism. Now I've been called and given the mission to sound the alarm with a call for repentance, and a return to Jesus, our First Love, and faith in Him alone. Join me for Today's Good News Podcast.
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
I left off in Galatians a little over half way through it, and realize that I must finish it before continuing in Mark. The onset of religious perversion is growing and it shipwrecks faith. It's my prayer that we pay close attention to what Paul writes to the Church at Galatia, and apply it to the deluge of religion striking fear in some from the Hebrew Roots crew, but also see it for what it is in the laws that man has contrived within modern day religion in Christianity. Join me for The Daily Good News, the true and only gospel. There is no other!
Monday Aug 19, 2024
Monday Aug 19, 2024
There are those who preach a health, wealth and prosperity gospel, and those who focus more on God giving us a successful life free of trouble here in this side of eternity. But there are those who die in Jesus, having never been released from the prison cells or die of a terminal illness, while having strong faith in Jesus Christ. Those are just two examples. Each of them have inherited everlasting life in Paradise with Jesus, having escaped the circumstances of this life, and more importantly the destination of all mankind, apart from deliverance by being born again from above. That's why Jesus came down to us on a rescue mission for us!
Friday Aug 16, 2024
Friday Aug 16, 2024
Taking an episode to explore a little more thoroughly what Jesus meant, in Mark Seven, about the commandment of God, versus the tradition of men. His answer to those Pharisees speaks specifically about the exact commandment that they are setting aside, and from which Law it comes from. There is a difference! Join me in this episode as we look at Mark Seven, take a side trip for foundation in Exodus Nineteen and Twenty and then into 2nd Corinthians Three. The glorious Gospel of the Kingdom of God in Christ Jesus is essential to know, be always experiencing and holding fast to until the end. Join me in today episode.
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Jesus said you shall know them by their fruit. What is that fruit? We must know! What is the opposite of the fruit of the Spirit? Mark Chapter Seven agrees with Galatians Five what is not, and it is what defiles a man, or woman! He says of the religious leaders that they are hypocrites, and the Greek work means, literally, a pretender, like an actor of a stage playing a part. Join me for today's episode of The Daily Good News and listen to what the Word of God says.
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
When you read the Bible, with an open heart and mind, you will find that the thread through the Scriptures is red, and is a rescue story. The God who created us, loves us, and though we were far from Him, didn't care about Him, didn't seek Him - And certainly didn't ask Him to come rescue us, HE DID! He didn't just come spring us from the death penalty, with the charge of guilt still upon us. He came and paid our debt of death for us! When we accept His gift of Love, or everlasting Life, and give Him the sovereign reign over us as our Father, the King, who is Love, we are no longer that guilty man or woman. Join me in today's episode of The Daily Good News!
Love is Calling
A Cult. Death. Tragedy. Victory
Life is relentless and impartial in its seemingly endless march. Alone, we're helpless to the events that seem to upend our lives. But, through all that life throws at us, in faith in Christ Jesus and God's great love, we are more than conquerors.
-Romans 8:35-39