Episodes
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The beauty of the Christian life is that we live in what scholars often call the “now and not yet.”
In other words, while we have salvation and redemption NOW, there is also a waiting and longing for our future (completed) salvation and redemption.
Throughout Scripture, salvation is used in all three tenses: we were saved (past), are being saved (present), and will be saved (future).
In this episode, Nathan talks about the three tenses of our salvation and how we can find the beauty and profundity in our “now and not yet” lives.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 321
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Due to the continued conflict in Israel, we switched our November study tour to an Early Church Bible Study Tour in Turkey ("Asia Minor"). Consider joining me this November in a study tour in Ephesus, Colossae, Laodicea, and many other New Testament locations.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 320
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Many Christians know that memorizing the Bible is helpful and important, but few of us do it.
In this episode, Nathan talks about a few benefits of memorizing God's Word and gives some encouragement on how to get started.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 319
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Joshua 1:8 commands us “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Biblical meditation is drastically different from New Age meditation. In biblical meditation, we are to fill up, ponder, consider, and think upon God's Word, His works, His life, the Cross, and the Gospel. In short, we should continually think upon Christ and His Word.
In this episode, Nathan discusses the concept of biblical meditation, why its so important to our spiritual lives, and gives four ideas to get you started.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 318
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There is a two-fold reality and position in every believer's life—we are IN Christ and He is IN us.
And this changes everything.
In this episode, Nathan discusses the two positions of a Christian's life and how that relates to being a new creature in Christ Jesus and clothed with His garment of salvation and righteousness.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 317
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The Christian life is supposed to grow, deepen, and mature in Christ over time.
Yet, far too many believers have stalled in their spiritual lives and are unsure how to progress forward. In this replay of a webinar Nathan gave, he discusses five specific ways to grow spiritually and how you can thrive in Christ Jesus in this season of your life.
Download the webinar notesEllerslie Online – a “go at your own pace” online discipleship program that is available for a donation of any amount (registration closes February 29)Come to Colorado and join me and Ellerslie for an in-person discipleship program this upcoming summer or fall. You can learn more about our discipleship programs or sign up to enter to win one of our ten full-ride scholarships we are giving away (end February 15, so sign up soon if you’re interested). You can learn more about the scholarship giveaway here.-----------------
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 316
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Discipleship is not something we accomplish and then move on to the next thing; rather, biblical discipleship is a lifelong pursuit of Christ, growing in our understanding and relationship with Him, and being conformed to His image.
The concept of discipleship is akin to an apprentice that takes on not just the knowledge but the lifestyle of the one to whom they are following – in our case, God Himself. We are to become Christlike … not through self-effort or talent, but through the indwelling of the very life of Christ (i.e., the Holy Spirit).
One great way to continue your lifelong pursuit of Christ is have an intentional plan to grow in Christ. Here are two great options I’d highly recommend:
Ellerslie Online – a “go at your own pace” online discipleship program that is available for a donation of any amount (registration closes February 29)Come to Colorado and join me and Ellerslie for an in-person discipleship program this upcoming summer or fall. You can learn more about our discipleship programs or sign up to enter to win one of our ten full-ride scholarships we are giving away (end February 15, so sign up soon if you’re interested). You can learn more about the scholarship giveaway here.-----------------
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 315
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I've been reading through Leonard Ravenhill's biography (In Light of Eternity: The Life of Leonard Ravenhill by Mack Tomlinson) and have been deeply stirred by the life Ravenhill lived and the passion he had for prayer and revival.
In this episode, I give several quotes from the book about Leonard's passion for prayer and examine what it means for us to be men and women of prayer in the days in which we live.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 314
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Many Christians start a Bible reading plan at the first of the year … but we often miss one important thing while reading the Bible.
In this episode, Nathan gives a fresh reminder on the one thing we should be most aware of as we read through Scripture this year.
Don't have a Bible reading plan? Here are some helps to get started:
5 Creative Ways to Read the Bible This Year That WON’T Be BoringWhy This Is The Best Time To Start A Bible Reading PlanHow to craft a plan to read the Bible10 Ways to Read the BibleSpurgeon on How to Read the Bible-----------------
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 313
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Happy New Year!
Being a new year, many of us are writing down our resolutions and dreams for this year. Yet, as Christians, we need to rethink resolutions and goal setting and consider if there is a better way.
In this special New Year’s edition of the Deeper Christian Podcast, my good friend Dan McConnaughey talks about new year resolutions and how we can resolve to live as Christians this year.
*This is a reprise of episode 141 from December 2019.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 312
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How can Christians live with continual peace, joy, and calm? How can we as believers NOT be anxious or worried about anything?
Paul reminds us in Philippians 4:6 that there is no reason for worry, fear, or anxiety and instead commands Christians to be “anxious for nothing.”
And Paul isn't the only one—hundreds of passages throughout Scripture exhort us not to fear, worry, be anxious, forebode, fret, or panic.
More than a reminder not to fear, Paul also gives us the secret to live without fear.
*This is a reprise of episode 240 from March 2022.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 311
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When the angels appeared to the shepherds, they declared that a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger was a "sign."
This sign was a declaration of what Jesus was going to do (and be) at the Cross.
In this episode, we talk about Luke 2 and the marvelous sign of Christmas.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 310
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The Christmas season is a wonderful reminder of how undeserving we are that the God of the universe came to dwell among and within us.
The picture of Jesus born in a stable is one of my favorite meditations during Christmas. Just as He was willing to be born in a place of muck and mire, so too, He is willing to come within the muck and sin of my life.
But the profundity of the Gospel is that while He is willing to be born in a stable known as humanity, He refuses to leave us that way. We are to be built up as a temple of the Holy Spirit, clean, pure, and holy—fit for His use.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 309
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While Jesus does give us life (eternal life!), the beautiful reality of Scripture is that the life He gives is not "something" but Himself.
He is our life, as Paul declares in Colossians 3:4 …and John goes on to write that we are to live through Him (1 John 4:9).
In this episode, we talk about what it means for Jesus to not merely give us life, but to be our life. I also mention a new series that has launched "Life in the Word" on the Daily Thunder Podcast as I walk through a study on our life in the Word—the living Word (Jesus) and the written Word (Scripture).
Join me in my new Daily Thunder series Life in the Word.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 308
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God gave Himself for us to showcase His marvelous redemption in our lives. He bought us out of captivity to sin and darkness and has purified us for Himself. And just as God is our inheritance so too we have become His.
In this study, we examine God’s grand redemption which Paul wrote about in Titus 2:14 and we discover that God wants to use us to showcase His life, love, and Gospel to the world around us … He wants to work the “poetry” of the Gospel through our lives and use us to once again be image bearers of Himself to the world.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 307
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Scripture makes it abundantly clear that the attitude, mindset, and language of a Christian is to be marked by thanksgiving.
While we as a culture may celebrate a day of thanksgiving once a year, the life of a believer is always marked by it.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 306
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Jesus Christ is returning soon.
While we patiently await His return, how are we supposed to live now?
In this fourth study from Titus 2:11–15 we talk about how to "look for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ" and give nine biblical ways we can practically “hope” and have an eager expectancy for the Lord's Return.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 305
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Christians have been radically transformed and conformed to the image of Christ. We are brand new creatures in Christ who are now to live completely different than the world around us.
And the amazing reality of the Gospel is that God’s grace, through His Holy Spirit, enables us to live as we ought – even in the present day in which we live.
In this third study from Titus 2:11–15 we talk about how God’s grace is training, disciplining, and enabling us to walk as genuine Christians – with self-control, righteousness, and godliness.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 304
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For Christians, it is far too easy to live, think, and talk like the world around us—yet Paul tell us those are the things we are to deny and reject. As Christians, we are called to live set apart and different than the world around us.
In this second study from Titus 2:11–15 we talk about how God's grace is training, disciplining, and enabling us to reject ungodliness and worldly desires and now genuinely live as Christians. We have been born again and we are brand new creations in Christ Jesus.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 303
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When we truly understand the depth and richness of God's grace, it no longer becomes a cliché to call it "amazing."
In part one of a new series examining Titus 2:11–15, we talk about the missing aspects of God's manifold grace and specifically discuss three things Paul tells us about God's grace in Titus 2.
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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 302
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