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On Being Christian
We are redefining (or more accurately stated - we are correctly defining), what being a Christian means. Too often who we claim to be has become nothing more than a matter of who we say we are, but who we really are has much more to do with what we do and how we live. The “On Being Christian” Podcast aims at removing the title “Christian” from being nothing more than a NOUN people use to define themselves and placing it back in the VERB category. Meaning it is an…
Episodes
On Being Christian123 | The Foolishness of Status
Only in the affairs of men has status been allowed to become as “important” as it has. We judge and accept or reject each other based on nothing more than the…
On Being Christian122 | Finding Value & Fault Correctly
Humanity seems to be as good at finding value where we want, as we are at finding fault where we desire. The issue seems to be that we always seem to find…
On Being Christian121 | Why We Come to Christ
The notion of coming to Christ is not a new one for most people, but sometimes, why we come to Christ has more to do with whether or not we actually have a…
On Being Christian120 | Repentance that Saves
Repentance may be perhaps one of the most misunderstood aspects of Biblical Doctrine within Christianity today. It has been defined incorrectly as "a work" for…
On Being Christian119 | Salvation Without Faith?
This episode is an important one, although regrettably, not a new subject of debate within Christianity. I have recently beeb brought into a conversation with…
On Being Christian118 | Having the Correct Focus
In life we are asked to focus on many things, not all of it is helpful, and very little of it is necessary (or at least not as necessary as we may think). How…
On Being Christian117 | Correction is Coming
There’s two things that you can do with doctrinal correction - you can accept it or you can reject it. The acceptance of doctrinal correction (done with love…
On Being Christian116 | When It’s Too Late To Obey
God will always forgive, when we seek that forgiveness by repentance through faith. There's no question about that, by the study of God's Word. However, at…
On Being Christian115 | The Two Desires
Contrary to what many may believe, there are only really two desires in this world. The desire of the Lord God (the Designer), and the desire of Satan (the…
On Being Christian114 | The Dangerous Mentality of Experts
I've noticed a trend in which we are increasingly being told that we need to surrender what we think to the will of those who have more "expertise" than we do…
On Being Christian113 | As the Hour Approaches
Each one of us will have a final hour. Our final hour is inevitable, but where we will be after that, by God’s grace, is changeable now. Those who wait to deal…
On Being Christian112 | The Established Heart
My Grandfather used to tell me, "the world is full of things that men have started, however it's not so full of things that men have finished." As a Christian…
On Being Christian111 | Exploiting Vulnerability
There are a lot of concepts within ministerial leadership in today’s culture that are implemented with the justification that the vulnerable are being helped…
On Being Christian110 | The God of the Living
This episode is about the God of the living, and how He can only be understood by faith. We tend to attempt to place God into categories, which we then attempt…
On Being Christian109 | We Will Not Forsake
Many times we like to think ourselves capable of accomplishing the things we intend to do, without actually making any plans to do them. In the same way, we…
On Being Christian108 | On Relationships
There are very few things in life that can affect you for the better or for the worse, like relationships. There are beneficial relationships and there are…
On Being Christian107 | God’s Desire for His People
So much of cultural Christianity today revolves around the question of “what can God do for me?”, or “what can church do for me?”. What if being a Christian…
On Being Christian106 | Who Is Your Captain?
There are very few decisions in life that will affect you as much as the decision you make concerning who’s in charge of your life. For Christians, the…
On Being Christian105 | God Never Speaks Without Reason
There's a certain level of reverant attention that folks seem to give to men who speak with clarity and purpose (as long as that clarity and purpose comes from…
On Being Christian104 | Remaining Faithful in Hardship
Most of the time we tend to think of being faithful as that attribute which we portray when everything is going just right. The reality, however, is that the…
On Being Christian103 | Why We Feel Alone
I think it's fair to say that part of the reality of life is that there will be times when we feel alone. This episode is about the fact that that reality does…
On Being Christian102 | Biblical Multitasking
The idea that serving the Lord will be a free and easy endeavor without any resistance seems to be popular in today's "Christian" culture. However, the Word of…
On Being Christian101 | He Sought for a Man
This episode is indeed about the fact that God is looking for qualified individuals to serve Him. However, what may not always be understood is that the…
On Being Christian100 | The Weakness in Our Strength
The majority of us seem to have no real issue accepting acknowledgment and praise for our strengths. However, a majority of us also seem to not be so readily…
On Being Christian099 | What God Gives His Man
The calling to speak for the Lord is not a small thing. Nor is it (as we have attempted to make it) a definable thing within the perimeters of any specific…
On Being Christian098 | His Help = My Health | Deep Calls to Deep
I have a very close friend who once said - “the reason Christians are having an identity crisis, is because they were never meant to have one (an identity…
On Being Christian097 | Slow to Hear. Swift to Speak.
In many situations, we find ourselves acting much too quickly on things we should be taking our time on, and procrastinating or taking way too much time on…
On Being Christian096 | Calling Down Fire Again
I'm sure you've heard a version of the phrase- Hard Men make Good Times, Good Times make Soft Men, Soft Men make Bad Times, Bad Times make Hard Men... and so…
On Being Christian095 | A Crisis of Comfort
Many times, in trying situations, we tend to seek the comfort which we've been conditioned by society to think will be helpful to us. However, many times the…
On Being Christian094 | Lessons from Disorder
Many times in the process of gathering information to make good decisions, we analyze what works and try to recreate it. However in many instances, if we took…
On Being Christian093 | Is God Fair?
The question of whether or not God is a fair God is often one of the most asked questions that I encounter when talking with people who are considering…
On Being Christian092 | What is A Good Man? No.2
At times if we're not careful, we tend to use Biblical phrases for secular purposes. The term "a good man", is objectively defined by the Word of God, but we…
On Being Christian091 | What is A Good Man? No.1
At times if we're not careful, we tend to use Biblical phrases for secular purposes. The term "a good man", is objectively defined by the Word of God, but we…
On Being Christian090 | Trouble
The idea of trouble, as we experience it ourselves and/or see others experiencing times of trouble, is interesting because it's never as hard to understand…
On Being Christian089 | Significance
I think it's safe to assume that most of us would like to have "significant" lives and make "meaningful" contributions, to know that who we are and what we do…
On Being Christian088 | The Christ of God
Across "religious" beliefs there is a general acceptance as to who God is, however there is widespread debate and confusion as to who Jesus Christ is. This…
On Being Christian087 | Misplaced Fear
Fear is a powerful emotion. When fear manifests itself as reverence (fear) towards God, it becomes very appropriate and useful in the Christian life. However…
On Being Christian086 | Pure Religion
The word religion has become a term we use to define almost any position that anyone might take on any issue. Pure Religion however, is actually definable by…
On Being Christian085 | Why Obedience Can Be So Hard
Somehow being a Christian has been allowed to become about culture, status and experience, when in reality being a Christian is really just about being…
On Being Christian084 | Our Problems vs God’s Power
At times we face significant challenges/problems in this life, some of which have the power to change the course of our life. Some of these challenges and…
On Being Christian083 | Look Up
Our society is becoming increasingly more filled with chaos and anarchy; we’ve never had access to more information, while at the same time we’ve never been…
On Being Christian082 | Christian Standard Operational Procedures No.2
In the Military, we had an acronym we called SOPs, which stands for Standard Operational Procedures. SOPs served as a selection of known, unchanging…
On Being Christian081 | Christian Standard Operational Procedures No.1
In the Military, we had an acronym we called SOPs, which stands for Standard Operational Procedures. SOPs served as a selection of known, unchanging…
On Being Christian080 | Obedience
In many ways we tend to look for reasons to make things more difficult than they really are, it’s one of the ways we attempt to make ourselves feel better…
On Being Christian079 | The False Prophet
In our society, we like to try to convince ourselves that there are "styles of truth" or grey areas, between the truth and the lies. When it comes to those who…
On Being Christian078 | The Provoking Father
This episode is about the influence of a father. A father (however active or involved in his children's life he may or may not be), will have a negative…
On Being Christian077 | The Devouring Mother
This episode is about the damage that can be done when the one who should be protecting you and advocating and preparing for your future success, instead…
On Being Christian076 | The Price of Partial Service
So many of our life systems are set up from the perspective of what's called "risk management" - we purchase insurance to protect ourselves against the…
On Being Christian075 | Awareness of Self
This is the final installment of our three-part series concerning Awareness. We've looked at Awareness of the Pastor, and the required Awareness of the…
On Being Christian074 | Awareness of the Brethren
Continuing our look at 'Awareness', in this episode we’re talking about the 2nd thing - Awareness of the Brethren. Because of today's technology we all seem to…
On Being Christian073 | Awareness of the Pastor
Over the course of the next 3 episodes, we're going to be looking at the concept of 'Awareness'. Specifically, three things that according to the Bible we…
On Being Christian072 | When Christ is The Problem
The On Being Christian Podcast is a ministry of Wasatch Front Baptist Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Authored and hosted by Pastor Nolan G. Ruby. If you would…
On Being Christian071 | Emmanuel
Who does the Bible say Emmanuel is? You might be surprised that the Biblical description of Emmanuel differs greatly, and often times in many ways, from the…
On Being Christian070 | Serving with Confidence
It has been said, and I believe it's true, that Christianity is in the middle of a "crisis of confidence". I believe that this is because Christianity, like…
On Being Christian069 | What Being Used by God Requires
It has been my desire of late, and my prayer to the Lord, to more effectively reach people as a witness and for the cause of Christ. But as is often the case…
On Being Christian068 | The Purpose of Freedom
It has been said that the government of the United States is wholly inadequate for anything other than a just and moral people. Freedom is only a blessing when…
On Being Christian067 | You Have Not Passed This Way Before
So much of our current culture is about doing everything you can to stay inside your comfort zone, but so much of the Biblical culture that we read in God’s…
On Being Christian066 | Standing Before Kings
This is a short story that clearly puts forth two possible future outcomes, both directly related to the choices you choose to make today. One choice (the path…
On Being Christian065 | The Burden of Captivity
Sometimes the very things that we surround ourselves with for comfort and assurance are the exact things that end up owning us, more than we end up owning…
On Being Christian064 | The Unchanging Will of God
We have a tendency to allow ourselves to be consumed with anxiety and worry over our own very temporary life systems and procedures. It would do us good to…