The Christians Hour

Love and War, Light and Darkness, Assurance and Conviction these are all great contrasts that could describe the Apostle John’s writing in the Bible’s book of 1st John.  If you have read John’s writings you might have noticed that while he focuses a lot on “Love”, he also writes of contrasts, such as these.   This month, Aaron Brockett, lead minister with Trader’s Point Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana will be helping us wrap our hearts and heads around the contrasts of 1st John.    My granddaughter and I have a little word game we play.  We will ask each other; “are you sure?”, “are you really sure?”, “are you absolutely sure?” In today’s message Aaron unpacks how John helps us answer the eternal version of that question… “Are you sure?”, “Are you really sure?”, “Are you absolutely sure?”

Love and War, sounds like a great name for a novel, doesn’t it?  At the same time, it is a great way to sum up the Bible’s book or letter of 1st John.  If you have read John’s writings you might have noticed that he talks about love.  You might also note he writes of contrasts; light and darkness, assurance and conviction, love and war.    This month, Aaron Brockett, lead minister with Trader’s Point Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana will be helping us wrap our hearts and heads around the contrasts of 1st John.    Do you feel it?  Tension, I mean.  It’s all around us and in us.  How about the tension of standing before the Son of God to give answer to the life you have lived.  In today’s lesson the Apostle John is going to break the tension by teaching us how we can have confidence as we approach the judgment seat of Jesus.  So… here’s Aaron with 4 Assurances from 1st John that will help to break the tension and give us hope as we anticipate the day we find ourselves face to face…

Love and War, sounds like a great name for a novel, doesn’t it?  At the same time, it is a great way to sum up the Bible’s book or letter of 1st John.  If you have read John’s writings you might have noticed that he talks about love.  You might also note he writes of contrasts; light and darkness, assurance and conviction, love and war.    This month, Aaron Brockett, lead minister with Trader’s Point Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana will be helping us wrap our hearts and heads around the contrasts of 1st John.    Here’s a hard question for you, make that 2:  Do you think it is possible to live in the world without being influenced by it values and desires?  How can you balance engaging with the world and abiding in and seeking God?   Stumped?  Here’s Aaron to help find some clarity in the writings of Jesus disciple John…

Love and War, sounds like a great name for a novel, doesn’t it?  At the same time it is a great way to sum up the Bible’s book or letter of 1st John, written by the Apostle John.  If you have read John’s writings you might have noticed that he talks about love.  In fact, in John’s Gospel, John 3:16 is known by many who do not claim to be religious people.  “For God so Loved the World…”  Yet in 1st John, he writes of contrasts; light and darkness, assurance and conviction, love and war.    This month, Aaron Brockett, lead minister with Trader’s Point Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana will be helping us wrap our hearts and heads around the contrasts of 1st John.    So what do Light and darkness, assurance and conviction, and love and war have to do with our relationship with God?  To shed some love and light on the subject with the Best News Ever, here’s Aaron…

For many people the New Year is a great time to Detoxify from all the overeating during the Holidays.  Perhaps January might be a great time to Spiritually “Detox” as well.    This month on TCH we have been hearing from Gene Appel and Mike Breaux.  Gene and Mike minister with East Side Christian Church with Multiple Campuses in Southern California, Nevada, and Minnesota.   The foundational definition for our journey this month is we are a Soul that happens to have a body.  There are a great many things that can be toxic to our Soul.  Things that clog us up, weigh us down, cloud our spiritual vision.  Things like say, a hurried over packed life, a tortured Soul, a heavy heart, even a cluttered mind.  All this month we’re looking at how we can detoxify our souls and impower our relationship with God.   Have you ever noticed how we can grow callused to the clutter around us to where we don’t even notice, yet it still inhibits how well we can work and act.  In today’s message Mike Breaux shares how we can get out of old, destructive ruts and clear the clutter.  So, here’s Mike with a recipe for rut jumping, clutter clearing, Mind cleansing detoxification…

For many people the month of January is a month to Detoxify from all the over eating during the Holidays.  Perhaps January might be a great time to Spiritually “Detox” as well.    This month on TCH we are hearing from Gene Appel and Mike Breaux.  Gene and Mike minister with East Side Christian Church with Campuses in Southern California, Nevada, and Minnesota.   There are a great many things that can be toxic to our Spiritual walk.  Things that clog us up, weigh us down, cloud our spiritual vision.  Things like say, a hurried over packed life, a tortured Soul, a heavy heart, even a cluttered mind.  All this month we’re looking at how we can detoxify our souls and impower our relationship with God.   Okay, the foundational definition for our journey this month is we are a Soul that happens to have a body, and at the heart of our burdens, pun intended, can be a “heavy heart”.   So to help us “lighten the load”, here’s Gene Appel.

It’s a thing… after the holidays, at the start of the New Year there are a lot of people hoping to start “a-new”, clean out the ole blood stream, detoxify!  You know, this might be a great time to Spiritually “Detox” as well?   All this month on TCH we are hearing from Gene Appel and Mike Breaux.  Gene and Mike minister with East Side Christian Church with Campuses in Southern California, Nevada, and Minnesota.    There are many things that can be toxic to our Spiritual walk.  You know what I mean, things that clog us up, weigh us down, cloud our spiritual vision.  Things like a hurried, over packed life, a tortured Soul, a heavy heart, even a cluttered mind.  This month we’re unpacking how we can detoxify our souls.    Harboring a secret sin, or an unresolved hurt can be poison to our souls, they can be torture!  But there is a way out, resolution, a way to Detoxify.  Going beyond forgiveness, here’s Gene Appel with a tough but effective, Biblical way to detox our tortured souls.

The holidays are over, the relatives have gone home, you’re recovering from so much turkey and Christmas goodies… For many the new year is a time to “Detox”.  Perhaps this might be a great time to Spiritually “Detox” as well.    This month on TCH we will be hearing from Gene Appel and Mike Breaux.  Gene and Mike minister with East Side Christian Church with Campuses in Southern California, Nevada, and Minnesota.    There are many things that can be toxic to our Spiritual walk.  You know what I mean, things that clog us up, weigh us down, cloud our spiritual vision.  Things like a hurried over packed life, a tortured Soul, a heavy heart, even a cluttered mind.  This month we’re taking a look at how we can detoxify our souls and impower our relationship with God.    It's called Hurry Sickness and it is embedded in our Culture.  But it can be distracting, detrimental, even deadly to our souls.  Here’s Mike Breaux to coach us into a new, less maddening pace of life…

All through the month of December we have been taking in the good news brought to the shepherds by the Angels on the night of Jesus’ birth.  But here we are, following all the celebrations of Christmas, and like those shepherds on that incredible night so long ago, the question remains; what, now?   This week we welcome a message by Bob Russell; “After the Angels have Gone”.    Bob, served as the pastor of Southeast Christian Church for 40 years before retiring.  Southeast, one of the largest churches in America, is located in Louisville, Kentucky.    Feel the moment?  The year is over, the holiday celebrations and visits are behind us and now 2024 ominously looms ahead.  Do you find yourself wondering; “wow, what now?”  I wonder?, I’d even bet, the shepherds, on the night of Jesus arrival felt something similar.  So, with a road map gleaned from those shepherds of old of how to navigate from here, here is Bob Russell

Joyful Christmas!  Our prayer this Christmas season is that the reminder of the birth of Christ serves to reignite your passion to respond to Christ’s love daily, and that your hope for eternity will be renewed to dominate your heart and mind!   What should be “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year; is for some of us overshadowed by Stress, Anxiety, Isolation or loneliness, Depression.  Sometimes, making our way through the Holidays we just need to be reminded what this celebration is all about.  So let’s pause, take a deep breath and listen to some Good News!    Our speaker, this month is Ben Cachiaras, lead minister with Mountain Christian Church, Joppa, Maryland.    It has been said; Happiness comes from what happens to you from without, Joy comes from what is within.  Real Joy comes from a relationship with the God who designed you to walk in His Joy.  So, it should be no surprise that the coming of Jesus continues to be news of Great Joy, here’s Ben to explain…