Best Morgan Snyder Podcasts (2024)

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The Artist 1:21

1h ago1:21

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Sunlight on water. Songbirds in a forest. Desert sands under moonlight. Vineyards just before harvest. These all share something in common — they reflect the heart of a particular artist. They are his masterpieces, his expression and his gift to us. The artist’s name is Jesus. Something else lies in common between these treasures and Jesus as well …

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You Will be Vindicated 1:54

1h ago1:54

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The fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. (1 Corinthians 3:13–14) You know your every sin is forgiven. So if you can remove all fear of exposure from your heart, and set it safely within the context of your Father’s love, it helps you toward a great moment in the kingdo…

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A "Propositional" Christianity 1:38

2h ago1:38

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We have lived for so long with a "propositional" approach to Christianity, we have nearly lost its true meaning. As Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen says, "Much of it hinges on your view of scripture. Are you playing proof-text poker with Genesis plus the Gospels and Paul's epistles, with everything else just sort of a big mystery in between — except maybe…

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Authentic Brotherhood is a Necessity For True Freedom 35:43

5h ago35:43

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Leaning into a recovery group like Men in the Battle unlocks the insight, support, and healing we need to establish freedom from unwanted sexual behavior. True brotherhood, deep inner work, and shame reducing vulnerability are pillars of the Men in the Battle community. Desiring freedom from unwanted sexual behavior may be the starting point that g…

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The Longing to Belong 1:48

1h ago1:48

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Whatever else it means to be human, we know beyond doubt that it means to be relational. Aren’t the greatest joys and memories of your life associated with family, friendship, or falling in love? Aren’t your deepest wounds somehow connected to someone also, to a failure of relationship? That you were loved but are no longer, or that you never have …

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A Fear of Passion? 2:15

4h ago2:15

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Dare we forget King David? Yes, his passions got him in a heap of trouble—and gave us our book of worship, the Psalms. Sure, Peter was a hotheaded disciple always quick with a reply. Remember in the Garden of Gethsemane—he's the one who lopped off the ear of the high priest's servant. But he was also the first to acknowledge that Jesus was the Mess…

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Carrying Others 2:46

2h ago2:46

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Worry is only one of a hundred things that burden our souls. Genuine concern is just as dangerous, maybe more so because it’s grounded in something noble — your concerns for your aging parents, a sick friend, a people group, a cause crying out for justice. Those kinds of things can fill a backpack, and make it mighty heavy. Jesus began teaching me …

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A Glory We Were Meant For 1:17

1h ago1:17

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The poet Yeats wrote, If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made. ("Before the World Was Made" from the poem "A Woman Young and Old") Yes, that's it. When we take a second glance in the m…

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Failure is Ripe with Goodness 1:25

1h ago1:25

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God drops things in our laps at just the right time. He puts barriers in our paths that look like roadblocks but are really gifts in disguise, beckoning us to take a closer look at what’s going on inside of us. We can either step over them or choose to pick them up and examine them for the potential they may hold. Failure is ripe with goodness. The…

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The Stream of Healing 1:19

42m ago1:19

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For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them. (Matt. 13:15) "And I would heal them." That's a different offer from: "And I would forgive them." It's a differ…

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Dignity of Causation 1:44

1h ago1:44

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One of the most crippling convictions held by believers today is the idea that everything that happens is the will of God. It is a poisonous belief that will destroy your confidence in God; you will end up believing terrible things about him. The news report about a pack of teenage boys who repeatedly raped a little girl with Down’s syndrome. That …

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Vanity Fair 3:17

2h ago3:17

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"Don't be afraid of embracing the disappointment you feel, old or new. Don't be scared of the unreasonable joy either. They're the highway markers home." We snort with disdain at such quaint sentiments, and our choice made, strike off down the straight highway of discipline and duty. All goes well for a while, sometimes for years, until we begin to…

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Famished Craving 3:03

1h ago3:03

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Something is happening to the human heart. You need to understand what it is if you would make sense of any of this. Human beings are by nature ravenous creatures; a famished craving haunts every one of us. We were created for utter happiness, joy, and life. But ever since we lost Eden, we have never known a day of total fullness; we are never fill…

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A Place Prepared for You 1:04

8h ago1:04

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There is the joy of having someone save a place for us. We walk into a crowded room at church or at a dinner party and someone across the way waves us over, pointing to a chair he's held on to especially for us. For a moment we feel a sense of relief, a taste of being on the inside. Now consider Jesus' words in John 14:2 — "I am going...to prepare …

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What Is Your Role in the Story? 3:06

1d ago3:06

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Now — what is your part? What is your role in the Story? In truth, the only one who can tell you that is the Author. To find our lives, we must turn to Jesus. We must yield our all to him and ask him to restore us as his own. We ask his forgiveness for our betrayal of him. We ask him to make us all he intended us to be — to tell us who we are and w…

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Your Heart Matters 2:03

2d ago2:03

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The devil has more temptations than an actor has costumes for the stage. And one of his all-time favorite disguises is that of a lying spirit, to abuse your tender heart with the worst news he can deliver — that you do not really love Jesus Christ and that you are only pretending, you are only deceiving yourself. (William Gurnall) Satan is called i…

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Echoes from the Past 1:56

3d ago1:56

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Aren't there times in your life that if you could, you would love to return to? I grew up in Los Angeles but spent my boyhood summers in Oregon where both my mother and father's parents lived. There was a beauty and innocence and excitement to those days. Woods to explore, rivers to fish, grandparents to fuss over me. My parents were young and in l…

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Three Interwoven Parts 2:10

16d ago2:10

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We human beings are made up of three interwoven parts. As Paul says, “May God himself ... sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess. 5:23). We are body, soul, and spirit. Each part affects the others in a mysterious interplay of life. By seeking healing …

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Belonging, Empowerment, & Clarity After Sexual Betrayal 24:21

5d ago24:21

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God wired us for connection and belonging but who can you trust after the person you relied on the most has been deceiving and betraying you on the most intimate level? Who can understand your shattering pain and disorienting reality collapse? We can. Women in the Battle is more than just a betrayal trauma recovery community. We are women pursuing …

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Know Yourself 1:15

17d ago1:15

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The book “Killing Lions” is a conversation between John and Sam Eldredge about the trials young men face. [John] The more you know yourself, the more this will prove an immensely helpful category. (And please, as Socrates urged, do not live an unexamined life; know yourself.) What are you historically prone to do when it comes to making decisions? …

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Embracing Recovery 4:11

18d ago4:11

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Athletes will tell you that working out is not the most important part of training. Recovery is. The number one cause of athletic injuries is the lack of recovery time between training sessions. Let me repeat this because it’s so counterintuitive — recovery is more important to athletic performance than training is. Your body needs to rest and repa…

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Touched 4:06

19d ago4:06

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Early on in the fanfare of his public appearances, Jesus gives what will become known as the famous Sermon on the Mount. This is a “big moment” for Jesus. He has laid out in detail his understanding of a life that pleases God; he has, so to speak, driven a stake in the ground. His star is ascending, crowds are growing, and the religious leaders are…

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Bursting With Longing 1:52

20d ago1:52

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Oh! Ephraim is my dear, dear son, my child in whom I take pleasure! Every time I mention his name, my heart bursts with longing for him! Everything in me cries out for him. Softly and tenderly I wait for him. (Jer. 31:20 The Message) Put your own name in this verse, in the place of “Ephraim” (a name for God’s people, and that includes you). Imagine…

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A Heart for People 2:05

21d ago2:05

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But far and above the most revealing aspect of anyone’s character is how he handles people. Friends, I hope you understand this — the way a person handles others is the acid test of his true nature. How is Jesus with people? What’s he like to be around? One day children were brought to Jesus in the hope that he would lay hands on them and pray over…

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Agreements 2:10

22d ago2:10

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We want to be as clear as possible what we mean by an “agreement.” Satan is a liar, “the father of lies” (John 8:44), so utterly convincing he deceived a glorious man and woman to betray God, whom they walked with every day. I think we tend to dismiss Adam and Eve as the idiots who got us all into this mess in the first place. But they had not yet …

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How Have We Learned Christ? 2:16

23d ago2:16

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How have we learned Christ? It ought to be a startling thought, that we may have learned him wrong. That must be far worse than not to have learned him at all: his place is occupied by a false Christ, hard to exorcise! The point is, whether we have learned Christ as he taught himself, or as men have taught him who thought they understood, but did n…

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Fueled by God 2:03

24d ago2:03

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Guys are unanimously embarrassed by their emptiness and woundedness; it is for most of us a tremendous source of shame, as I've said. But it need not be. From the very beginning, back before the Fall and the assault, ours was meant to be a desperately dependent existence. It's like a tree and its branches, explains Christ. You are the branches, I a…

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Hard-pressed 2:52

25d ago2:52

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Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him. “You also were with Jesus of Galilee,” she said. But he denied it before them all. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. Then he went out to the gateway, where another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth.” …

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His Plans Are Good 1:38

26d ago1:38

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God interferes with us a lot. He interferes with our inner diatribes; He interferes with our style of relating; He blocks the paths we wrongly think will lead to life. He interferes to bring us up short so that we might see where we are taking the wrong turn. He wants us to truly know Him and enjoy Him. He wants us to live lives that will lead us m…

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Denial 1:20

27d ago1:20

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Denial is a favorite method of coping for many Christians. But not with Jesus. He wants truth in the inmost being, and to get it there he's got to take us into our inmost being. One way he'll do this is by bringing up an old memory. You'll be driving down the road and suddenly remember something from your childhood. Or maybe you'll have a dream abo…

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Trap for Desire 1:50

28d ago1:50

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The Evil One has basically two ploys. If he cannot get us to kill our hearts and bury our desire, then he is delighted to seduce our desire into a trap. Once we give over our desire for life to any object other than God, we become ensnared. Think of the phrase "She's a slave to fashion." We become slaves to any number of things, which at the outset…

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God is Out There 1:56

29d ago1:56

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We are looking for more of God. You’re far more likely to find him in a walk through an orchard or a sit by a pond than you are in a subway terminal. Of course God is with us and for us wherever we are, but in terms of refreshment, renewal, restoration, in terms of finding God in ways we can drink deeply of his wonderful being, you’d do better to l…

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Surrender Self-Determination 1:54

1M ago1:54

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Love Jesus. Let him be himself with you. Allow his life to fill yours. Every day, give him your life to be filled with his. This is part of what I now pray, every morning: Lord Jesus, I give my life to you today, to live your life. Of course, this assumes that you are willing to surrender your self-determination. You’ll find it hard to receive his …

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The Intimacy Pyramid with Matthew and Joanna Raabsmith 44:21

23d ago44:21

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How do you rebuild your marriage after sexual betrayal? The Intimacy Pyramid is a guide for couples to lay a new foundation and rebuild a relationship that thrives. The Raabsmiths have used the principles of the Intimacy Pyramid to build a strong, joy-filled marriage for themselves AND they share it with the couples they coach and counsel. You can …

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Chase Our Dreams 2:07

1M ago2:07

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The book “Killing Lions” is a conversation between John and Sam Eldredge about the trials young men face. [Sam] Obviously we’ve been told to chase our dreams. Over and over again every high school and college graduation speech challenged us to reach for the stars (as though they had just stumbled upon an original metaphor). But all the while we wer…

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In the Crosshairs 1:51

1M ago1:51

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The question is not, Are we spiritually oppressed, but Where and How? Think of it — why does every story have a villain? Little Red Riding Hood is attacked by a wolf. Dorothy must face and bring down the Wicked Witch of the West. Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi go hand to hand against Darth Maul. To release the captives of the Matrix, Neo battles t…

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Is He Safe? 2:18

1M ago2:18

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In C. S. Lewis's novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, of The Chronicles of Narnia series, four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, pass through the wardrobe's portal to find the kingdom of Narnia imprisoned under the spell of the White Witch. Aslan the lion, who is the king of Narnia, is nowhere to be found. Although rumor has it "He …

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God as the Epicenter 3:17

1M ago3:17

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The mistake folks are making in this rough hour is trying to figure out how to fit a little more of God into their crowded lives. We need to do the opposite. Start with God, center your life on him, and work outward from there. Our spirituality moves from something that is part of our life to the epicenter of our life — from which all other things …

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Leaving What Is Familiar 1:56

1M ago1:56

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The history of a man's relationship with God is the story of how God calls him out, takes him on a journey, and gives him his true name. Most of us have thought it was the story of how God sits on his throne waiting to whack a man broadside when he steps out of line. Not so. He created Adam for adventure, battle, and beauty; he created us for a uni…

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Take the Risk 1:28

1M ago1:28

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We aren't meant to figure life out on our own. God wants to father us. The truth is, he has been fathering us for a long time — we just haven't had the eyes to see it. He wants to father us much more intimately, but we have to be in a posture to receive it. What that involves is a new way of seeing, a fundamental reorientation of how we look at lif…

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The Root of Fatherlessness 1:43

1M ago1:43

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Today’s Daily Reading is an excerpt from Morgan Snyder's book “Becoming a King” Years ago I came across a very revealing story recounted by Gordon Dalbey. He told of a nun who worked in a men’s prison. One year she brought some Mother’s Day cards to distribute to any prisoners who were interested in sending cards to their moms. Word spread, and req…

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Moments of Immense Consequence 0:53

1M ago0:53

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Scripture tells us that we might at any time entertain an angel simply by welcoming a stranger. The serpent in the garden is really the Prince of Darkness. The carpenter from Nazareth — there is more to him than meets the eye as well. Things are not what they seem, and so if we would understand our lives — and especially our marriages — we must lis…

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We Need a Guide 2:48

1M ago2:48

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Whatever the details might be, when a man speaks of the greatest gift his father gave him — if his father gave him anything at all worth remembering — it is always the passing on of masculinity. This is essential, for life will test you. Like a ship at sea, you will be tested, and the storms will reveal the weak places in you as a man. They already…

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Is Jesus in It? 2:11

1M ago2:11

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We’ve got to remember, folks, that no matter how promising an idea sounds, if God’s not in it, you don’t want to be in it either. This is true of a relationship, career change, buying or selling a house, even something as simple as a vacation. We only want what Jesus is in; we only want what our Father is giving. The key test for this moment is not…

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A Vital Act 1:25

1M ago1:25

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In our eagerness to see good happen, Christians often jump straight into praying, without first pausing and aligning ourselves with Jesus —l ike a trombone player who simply starts playing her part without waiting for the conductor; or an athlete who skips all his normal stretches and warm-ups and tries to hurl himself into the game from a cold sta…

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Fully Integrated 2:07

1M ago2:07

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The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. (Isaiah 61:1) The Hebrew for “brokenhearted” is a conjunction of two words: leb, which is the heart, and shabar,…

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Imitation of Christ 1:20

1M ago1:20

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I don’t recall a worship song with the word cunning in it. “Thou Art Cunning,” or “Cunning, Cunning, Cunning.” Do we interpret his actions in our lives as perhaps part of some cunning plan? That delayed answer to prayer — is there something brilliant about the timing? Would it help us to rest if we thought so? When he answers our prayers with “No,”…

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The Last Adam, the Second Man 1:43

1M ago1:43

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Jesus of Nazareth is given many names in Scripture. He is called the Lion of Judah. The Bright and Morning Star. The Wonderful Counselor. The Prince of Peace. The Lamb of God. There are many, many more — each one a window into all that he truly is, all that he has done, all that he will do. But one name seems to have escaped our attention, and that…

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Becoming a King - Morgan Snyder of Wild at Heart Part 3 of 3 23:45

2M ago23:45

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Morgan Snyder delivers life-changing truth about the power that God invites men to step into for His Kingdom. Listen as Michael and Morgan crack open some of the deep messages from Morgan's incredible book Becoming A King". Morgan also has some incredible additional resources you can find at BecomingAKing.com. If you are a man, a parent, or anyone …

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Resignation 2:08

2M ago2:08

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Resignation is not just the sigh that groans with something gone wrong. Such a sigh can be redemptive if it does not let go of the Haunting we have all experienced of something presently lost. Resignation is the acceptance of the loss as final. It is the condition in which we choose to see good as no longer startling in its beauty and boldness, but…

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