Love is Calling

Religion is a Blindfold

The eyes of man are blindfolded by his religion and won't allow him to see Jesus as the True Messiah. Deeply held religion misses Jesus and because it begins and is led by a man and not the Spirit who is God. Even after Jesus was grown and had begun His ministry, with all the incredible miracles attesting to He was, the pious religion of Judaism, who knew the Bible like the back of their hand didn't see Him for who He was. Yet, Simeon, in the temple recognized Jesus as the Savior of the World when He was brought to the temple to be cirucumcised at just eight days old!

When Your Best Don't Cut It!

On today's episode - What is your motivator? Does pride motivate you to give your best, or does love motivate you? Is giving your best just a dutiful thing that you do, yet you are always comparing what you give to what another gives? With God, it isn't really about what you give. It is really about whether you simply want to please Him by believing Him, which results in obeying what He is saying - and He is always saying something to us. Are we listening?

Dirty Feet

The hypocrisy of some in the profession Church of Jesus Christ is sad to see. In pompous arrogance people who have been living on the fringes, who bear the marks of a fallen world and the streets, and they reek of the sin they've been involved in are not welcomed in the church house! Most of the leadership in Pastor Chuck Smith's church were incensed over him allowing "those dirty hippies with dirty feet to come in and stain up their new carpet in the sanctuary." They weren't interested in what God was doing by calling these marginalised outcasts from polite society. Jesus came to call sinners and when they come they may still be in their sin! That's why He called. He wants to take their sin upon Himself and set them free by rebirth and becoming a brand new creation in Jesus Christ! What's our problem, church?

Is The Apostle Paul a Heretic?

If you are on the Hebrew Roots mindset, eventually, when you can no longer spin his letters to say that we still have to be under the law, and keep the law, you become cornered. It is then that a very serious choice must be made. If you believe what Paul writes you find your faith life and walk in Jesus Christ, apart from the law. If you determine that Paul is a heretic, then you reject his letters, along with him, then The Book of Hebrews, and finally the entire New Testament and Jesus as Messiah! Trying to hold to both is a perversion that is no gospel at all. This is what Paul is writes about in Galatians Chapter One, with his case more fully laid out in the whole letter, and all of his other letters.

Some Songs and Testimony

Hey everyone! We're taking a break from The Foundation Series to bring you this update on who I am, where I came from, and who I am and where I'm going now, as far as I know. It's also a chance to do, in a small way, another of my passions that I've been blessed to do in my career in music - be a DJ. Yeah, it's just doing song intros, but I loved doing it live on air when I was at WQCT, WBNO. WAWK, WQKO, WCVM and CSN International over the years. This episode features the title track of the Hillbilly CD, which is actually the theme music for Saddle Up! along with cut #7, Narrow Road off the same project. Some country-rock and some bluegrass country. Hope you'll give this a listen.

What You Don't Know Can't Hurt You

You've probably heard the old saying that "What you don't know can't hurt you." I've always questioned that as far as what happens in our lives. But for Adam and Eve, everything was fine when they didn't know good and evil. But isn't knowing good and evil a desirable thing? Adam and Eve thought so. But it was not! When their eyes were opened, they lost their innocence and tried to hide their guilt and shame. Romans Chapter Seven says that "sinful passions... were aroused by the law." Knowing good from evil, in rebellion to the very Word of God who was alive in intimate relationship with Adam and Eve killed them! Paul agrees with this from his own experience. Join me for this episode of The Foundation.

Are you buck naked?

Before Adam and Eve knew good and evil, they ran around naked in front of God and the world, and weren't aware of it! They weren't ashamed! They thought nothing of it. But once they knew good and evil, they then knew and they tried to cover themselves and to hide their nakedness. Join me in this 4th edition of The Foundation Series on the Saddle Up! Podcast.

Is God's Foundation Good Enough?

The Word of God spoke the very earth and everything in it into existence from nothing! The Word of God is God, and He is Jesus! From the beginning the Foundation of life and godliness is laid by the very Foundation Himself! Join me on this episode of Saddle Up! The 3rd edition of The Foundation Series.

Where Do You Find Your Foundation?

Paul writes there is no other foundation other than that which is already laid, and the Foundation is Jesus. Where to do you find the Foundation? When you begin to build a house the very first part of the construction is the foundation that you will build upon. You may make a mess as you build on it, but if you are building on the good foundation, you can down you work upon it and start again, staying true to the Foundation, the Chief Cornerstone. Join me in this 2nd installment of The Foundation Series on Saddle Up!

So, You Think You Know, Huh?

Mankind's problem is pride in accumulated knowledge. Man thinks he knows but he really doesn't. It' not new! Beginning in Genesis Chapter One we are looking for the foundation of everything, including where this inherent heart problem we all have began. The reminder in Exodus 20 that we are to "remember the Sabbath Day," is critical to consider what about it we are to remember. What does that remembrance look like for us today and is it even to b a consideration for us? As we continue in Genesis we will see portions in the New Testament that tell us about it. The only foundation laid is vital to us to know, and the True Rest of God that remains for we as believers in Christ. Join me as we spend some time in the Word, beginning in Genesis.