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Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture Meditations
Hello! I'm Allen Greeley and I love thinking and meditating on Scripture. Another word for it, which we don't use very often, is pondering. When the mother of Jesus heard the shepherds retell the vision of the angels celebratory singing; the Scripture says, "Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart" (Luke 2:19). That alone is my goal with this podcast. I want us to treasure in our hearts what we hear from God and ponder it. It would be an honor to have you listen in and…
Episodes
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsLet a Woman Learn - Thinking Across Cultures (1 Timothy Series)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about Paul's seemingly controversial subject about women teaching or exercising authority over a man from I Timothy 2:12…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture Meditations"Unveiled" Sermon Series Coming - Conversation with Bryan Schiele
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me a new sermon series coming to Plainfield, Indiana! The Plainfield church of Christ is having Bryan Schiele come to teach a…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsICE Protests and the Exclusive Way of Jesus (1 Timothy Series)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about some of the ICE protesting and how it might relate to the singular path of salvation - Jesus. I know it sounds weird!…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsHaman’s Holocaust Threat That Should Have Never Happened (Esther #2)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about the providence of God from the book of Esther again. God works through the horrors of life just as much as the things…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsSquandering the Glory We Were Made to Image and Seeing His Glory Better
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me how God has exalted humankind and bestowed on us glory. This glory was made to image His glory but unfortunately has been…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsThe Security of Believers vs. Handing Over to Satan (1 Timothy Series)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me a little deeper about handing someone over to Satan and its connection to church discipline. We ended last episode with a…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsShipwrecked Faith and Handing Over People to Satan (1 Timothy Series)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me what it means to hand someone over to Satan. That is not a phrase you'll hear used very often in churches (if ever), but…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsConvincing Esther - Being Open to God’s Providence
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me the possibility that God has pre-determined some things in your life. Most that listen to the podcast, me included, believe…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsThe Prototype Sinner or the Worst of Sinners? (1 Timothy Series)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me one of the most famous quotes from Paul - that he was the foremost or chief of sinners. Is Paul saying that he was the worst…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsIs There a Time When Scripture is NOT Good? (1 Timothy Series)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me the art of double checking everything we hear, even in the church. We are diving deeper and more specifically into the…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsDealing With Church Problems - What is Our Aim? (1 Timothy Series)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me the beginning of 1 Timothy and start by being amazed at the fact that Paul had Timothy stay in a troubled church. Timothy…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsThe Classroom of Creation - Letting God's Glory Put Things in Perspective
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder about what the word "glory" means. We are going to embark on a series about the glory of God which we will tackle on the first…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsHearing with Ears Like Jesus - "Ears You Have Dug for Me"
Send Allen a text - Ponder what it means to hear with ears like Jesus. In Psalm 40 we have a strange phrase in Hebrew - "ears you have dug for me" (vs. 6)…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsThe Chain Gang of Love - Summing Up Helping One Another Thrive
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me one more time about helping one another thrive in the church. That was the theme of the congregation where I worship…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsPreacher Talk or Church Curriculum? Themes of I Timothy (Letter Reading Follows)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me some of the broad themes in 1 Timothy. This book is not given a lot of attention. It certainly isn't given the attention…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsPierce My Ear, Lord - I Want to Stay Forever
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me one of the most ancient and strange laws regarding freeing slaves. However, the strange twist is not in the freedom but in…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsMoving From Thanksgiving to Worship with His People
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me how sincere thanksgiving ought to be seen in us. This week is Thanksgiving, and I hope you all have a wonderful holiday! I…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsSatan and Archangel Michael Arguing - So Cryptic! But Don't Miss the Point
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me one of the strangest, weirdest, cryptic references in Scripture! It is Jude's reference to Satan and the Archangel Michael…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsWhen God Doesn't Agree with Me - Bringing Baggage to Scripture
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about the agendas we have when we come to Scripture. Because of our culture, upbringing or popular religious thinking (that…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsAbsolute Confidence in Prayer, Like Elijah (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #14)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about prayers of faith. Can we say that our prayers are of faith? Let's first look at what it means to have prayers of…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsLORD Sabaoth, God of Angel Armies (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #13)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about taking matters out of our hands and letting the Lord fix it. As Americans we love to think we can fix anything and…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsHelping the Church with Our Extra Manna
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about what to do with our extra manna. We don't often think about the contribution of money on the Lord's Day as being a…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsBe Gone! The Insidiousness of Short-cuts (Battling Temptation #3)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me the final two temptations from Satan in Matthew 4. They are all about shortcuts. The shortcut to show everyone Jesus is the…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsSnapping Back into Spiritual Reality (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #12)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me some applications to some very big topics - loving our neighbor as ourselves and the brevity of life. It may seem silly to…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsHigh Priestly Training in the Wilderness (Battling Temptation #2)
Send Allen a text - Ponder the spiritual warfare in the wilderness between Christ and Satan, from Matthew 4. Christ, as our High Priest, is showing the way to…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsChrist in the Wilderness - Prep Work to Help Us (Battling Temptation #1)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about how Christ helps us in our temptations. Although I don't know all the details, Hebrews is quite clear that Jesus is…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsGrace Greater Than Our Idolatry (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #11)
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder worldliness a bit more. This is a bit of a continuation of the last episode. If I did not quite convince you that worldliness…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsWorldliness as Adultery, or Idolatry? (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #10)
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder the strong language James has about worldliness. He calls it spiritual adultery (4:4). That might not be as shocking on the…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsStrange Fire and a Strange Death - A Thought on Scriptural Authority
Send Allen a text - Ponder the deaths of Nadab and Abihu with me. They were Aaron's sons and died by the hand of God in Leviticus 10 because they offered…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsTime to Yield! Wisdom to be Open (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #9)
Send Allen a text - Ponder another aspect of heavenly wisdom - being open to reason. This Greek term in James 3:17 is a super deep word! It's translated…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsWisdom to Seek Congregational Peace (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #8)
Send Allen a text - Ponder what wisdom from above is all about. Heavenly wisdom shows itself in many ways, but one vital one that James brings to our attention…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsCharlie Kirk and the Free [Hate] Speech Debate (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #7)
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder the raging debate within our society about free speech and hate speech. One of the results from Charlie Kirk's assassination…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsJustification Showdown Between James & Paul (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #6)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about how James can say that we are justified by works and not by faith alone (2:24). Ironically, that is the only time in…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsShhhhh - Everyone Quiet! God Has Spoken
Send Allen a text - This episode is a branch off of the last one. James 1 spoke about the prep work we need to do with our hearts, to help us listen to God…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsPrepping Our Heart for an Implant (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #5)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about one of the key themes to religion in general - listening. It all begins with listening to God! It's how faith comes…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsBuild, Pray, Keep and Wait - A Recipe for Keeping Ourselves in the Truth
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder much of the book of Jude together. Jude has much to say about false teachers, and it is very harsh. How can we keep our…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsLeaving the Faith So Soon? But He Saved You in Baptism
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me some of the things Paul reminds the church about when encouraging them to stay faithful. Much of the New Testament letters…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture Meditations'My Trials Aren't Helping!' Who is to Blame? (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #4)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about what James means when he says that God does not tempt anyone (1:13). This is a statement about God's intentions, so…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsA Respectful but Uncompromising Stand - Daniel's Balancing Act
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder the rest of the story in Daniel 1. Last week we talked about resisting temptation and used Daniel as a case-study about what…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsReceive This Implanting with Meekness (Blue-Collar Christianity, Reading from James)
Send Allen a text - Ponder James as a whole with me. We're in a series about Blue-collar Christianity, which is a study of James. I want to throw this into the…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsNo Excuses, Just Resolve - The War Against Temptation
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder the battle against temptation. We all are battling it, although some of us may not be engaging the fight like we ought…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsPunked! A Humiliating Life (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #3)
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder our wealth and comfortability seriously. Are these legitimately helping us spiritually? The way we pursue them, you would…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsThe Cost-Benefit Analysis of Our Trials (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #2)
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me the spiritual benefit that can come from trials. James 1 says they can create steadfastness, but Jesus mentioned people…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsWisdom an Outcast Would Love (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #1)
Send Allen a text - Please ponder a new series about Blue Collar Christianity with me. It's all about the book of James. In this lesson we introduce the book…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsInvestigating Excellence! How Can We Better Edify One Another?
Send Allen a text - Ponder with me about how we can investigate to excel in building the church up. Paul says to do this in I Corinthians 14:12. Most…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsRevealing God's Face, Through Forgiving Others
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder how we can show the world what God is like. It's not easy but it is powerful - forgiving others. We all know how serious God…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsTrusting God's Faithfulness as Much as His Power - the Rest of the Story (ours)
Send Allen a text - I start off this pondering with this question - what character of the O.T. believe in resurrection before there were any resurrections? And…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsA Despised, Rejected Victor - Christ in the O.T. Series #15
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder Christ's resurrection in the Old Testament. This will be our last lesson in our series on seeing Christ in the Old Testament…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsThe Contagion of Christ, Reversing the Curse of the Law
Send Allen a text - Ponder the healing of the hemorrhaging woman with me. This episode is a bit of a follow up from the last. We saw in the previous episode…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsThe Contagion of Uncleanness - Does Being 'Around' Religion Help?
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder a weird sermon in Haggai. The prophet asks two hypothetical questions to the Jews about how holiness and cleanliness get…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsAnother Human, Like Us, Praying...and It Worked!
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder how the Scripture never hides the flaws of its most faithful characters. Their sins are staring us in the face...and not just…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsThe Crucifixion of Jesus in Hebrew Poetry - Christ in the O.T. Series #14
Send Allen a text - Ponder the crucifixion with me, from the poetry of the Old Testament. There are some prophecies that are a little hidden and…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsThriving Through Prayer and God Empowering Us to Lead Productive Lives
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder how to help one another thrive, through prayer and living a productive life! Paul touches on both of these in II Thessalonians…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsFighting Discouragement From a Cave - Fallout from Mt. Carmel (I Kings 18-19)
Send Allen a text - Ponder the fallout of Mt. Carmel with me. It was a tremendous outward, visible victory for God! How could discouragement be the fallout?…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsDads, Revival is Waiting! Calling All Abrahamic Dads - Happy Father's Day
Send Allen a text - Happy Father's Day! Let's ponder fatherhood together. The generational impact of fatherhood is frightening. We can make a difference! When…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsI, Paul, Write This Greeting With My Own Hand (II Thessalonian Reading)
Send Allen a text - Let's hear the word of God together as it was written in the first century, as a letter to the church. When the church read these, they…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsGod's Two Approaches to Anger Management Counseling
Send Allen a text - Ponder two cases of anger with me - Cain and Jonah. As similar as the wording is in the stories, there are some differences. Let's think…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsBetrayal of a Close Friend, a Macbethian Tragedy - Christ in the O.T. Series #13
Send Allen a text - Ponder Judas' betrayal of Christ with me. He was a dear friend of Jesus. The Scripture calls him that on multiple occasions. There are Old…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsGod's Name is Not God - What is it Then? A Pondering From Josiah Greeley
Send Allen a text - This pondering comes from my nephew, Josiah Greeley. I have a short introduction about him and his lesson at the very beginning of this…
Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture MeditationsCelebrate Your Covenant with God! In the Lord's Supper
Send Allen a text - Let's ponder another aspect of the Lord's Supper. We don't often think about the covenant aspect of it. However, it is not a mistake that…