All Saints Podcast

In this week’s podcast, Pastor Steve Jeffery talks about leveraging relationships to accelerate and maintain maturity. This talk was given at a men’s discipleship breakfast on September 10. Visit our website — allsaintskirk.com Worship with us — Sundays 11:00 AM The post Pursuing Maturity in Christ (9): The Importance of Relationships appeared first on .

In this week’s episode, Pastor Jeffery considers whether it’s possible to learn practical wisdom for the Christian life from resources produced by unbelievers. Visit our website — allsaintskirk.com Worship with us — Sundays 11:00 AM The post Learning Wisdom from Unbelievers? appeared first on .

In this week’s podcast, Pastor Jeffery talked about why it can be so difficult to design for ourselves helpful structures to inculcate godly habits and Christlike character. It also includes a recording of a recent’ Men’s Discipleship Breakfast, with some practical encouragement towards accurate self-diagnosis. Visit our website — allsaintskirk.com Worship with us — Sundays 11:00 AM The post Pursuing maturity in Christ (8) appeared first on .

In this week’s podcast, Pastor Jeffery talks about the concrete practical steps that we can take as we seek to grow in maturity in Christ, along with a discussion about natural law, the nature of true freedom, and an extra segment on the dangers of victimhood. The post Pursuing Maturity in Christ (7) appeared first on .

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In this Bible study, Pastor Jeffery talks about the problems that people encounter in their walk with Christ, with special attention to times of stasis, dryness, and regression. Visit our website — allsaintskirk.com Worship with us — Sundays 11:00 AM The post Maturity in Christ (5): The Practical Work of Maturity appeared first on .

Pastor Steve Jeffery explores how our pursuit of maturity in Christ is grounded on the maturity that Christ himself has, and which he has bestowed on us as a gift by the Spirit. Visit our website — allsaintskirk.com Worship with us — Sundays 11:00 AM The post Maturity in Christ (4): The Maturity of Christ appeared first on .

In another Wednesday night Bible study, Pastor Steve Jeffery talks about growing in wisdom, and seeks a definition of Christlike maturity through the example of Solomonic approaches to growing up in godliness. Visit our website — allsaintskirk.com Worship with us — Sundays 11:00 AM The post Maturity in Christ (3): What is Maturity in Christ? appeared first on .

Pastor Steve Jeffery talks about making much of Christ and growing more and more in maturity as a Christian. Visit our website — allsaintskirk.com Worship with us — Sundays 11:00 AM The post Maturity in Christ (2): Pursuing Maturity in Christ appeared first on .

Pastor Steve Jeffery walks us through some final principles on making, investing, and planning in money matters.PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. Three things about moneyDishonest gain will be cursed by the LordThis counts for not giving to whom it is due, but also not paying your taxesThe IRS are also unkindTithe and give to the poorGod really cares about the poorOur greatest financial asset is ourselvesBest investment is working hardShould women go to college?It depends. You have the responsibility to determine the ROISpeculative investments?Commodity/currency speculation doesn’t work in the same category Biblically as investing in companies The post Thinking Biblically About Money (3) appeared first on .

Pastor Steve Jeffery takes a look at Godly responses to being gossiped about, and walks us through a Biblical approach to the basic concept of wealth. More on moneyDevotion: what to do when you discover you’re being gossiped aboutThere might be something to the gossip: we’re never utterly innocentTrusting the Lord when we get into the territory of being lied aboutAsking God for riches and honorWe are to assume that riches are goodWealth is a blessing in the BiblePlanning for your financial future, humbly, in submission to GodIt is a good idea to pray over our moneyWe spend a third of every day getting moneyWe should probably ask for God to bless all that time, especially since we hope for itOur world overflows with abundanceEconomic activity is a reflection of the Triune God Visit our website: https://www.allsaintskirk.com Worship with us: 11:00 AM Sundays The post Thinking Biblically About Money (2) appeared first on .

New series: Pastor Steve Jeffery talks about using your money to worship God and to bless your family. We begin with talking about a biblical approach to wealth and investment. New format: short exegesis at beginning of each podcastEzekiel on the sword sharpened to slaughterChildren: pay attention to your parentsBe wise with money: know thy interest ratesSavings and making things easier for yourselfWhat should our biblical philosophy of money and investing be?Love of money: bad! Money itself not necessarily the problemThe Rare Jewel of Christian ContentmentDon’t have the kind of family that has wonderful things and who hate each other…But do provide for yourself and your familyGood reputation is better than much money Visit our website: https://www.allsaintskirk.com Worship with us: 11:00 AM Sundays The post Thinking Biblically About Money (1) appeared first on .

Pastor Steve Jeffery concludes our series on Critical Social Justice with a talk about addressing woke tactics. Wokeness: activist movement!Corrections to be made to James Lindsay:“If you see something, say something” not always necessaryEffective apologetic tactic: don’t speak up“Trojan horse” wordsThe Woke lexiconHow to respond to CSJ argumentsSowing doubt Further reading for this series: Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity – and why this harms everybody Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Everybody/dp/B08LDSWJ9V/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Cynical+Theories&qid=1638766402&sr=8-1 Fort Worth Public Library: http://fwmlc.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=2352899 Voddie T. Baucham, Jr., Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fault-Lines-Movement-Evangelicalisms-Catastrophe/dp/B08T6G7FCQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Fault+Lines&qid=1638766459&s=audible&sr=1-1 Fort Worth Public Library: http://fwmlc.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=2361790 Visit our website: https://www.allsaintskirk.com Worship with us: 11:00 AM Sundays The post Critical Social Justice (4): Tackling Wokeness appeared first on .

Pastor Jeffery continues our Critical Social Justice series talking about how “wokeness” is more a set of strategies than a worldview. Further reading for this series: Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity – and why this harms everybody Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Everybody/dp/B08LDSWJ9V/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Cynical+Theories&qid=1638766402&sr=8-1 Fort Worth Public Library: http://fwmlc.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=2352899 Voddie T. Baucham, Jr., Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fault-Lines-Movement-Evangelicalisms-Catastrophe/dp/B08T6G7FCQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Fault+Lines&qid=1638766459&s=audible&sr=1-1 Fort Worth Public Library: http://fwmlc.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=2361790 Visit our website: https://www.allsaintskirk.com Worship with us: 11:00 AM Sundays The post Critical Social Justice (3): Wokeness is not an ideology appeared first on .

Resuming our series on Critical Social Justice (CSJ), Pastor Steve Jeffery talks about applying Christian principles to Pincourt and Lindsay’s Counter Wokecraft. No “races” in the Bible; there are nationsDistinctions in the Bible have nothing to do with our concept of “race”The color of skin should not be a defining characteristic of people!The doctrine of colorblindness (Martin Luther King)Discrimination on the basis of skin tone in Exodus: (a bad thing)Differences between people that do matter, like sexThe Woke and the Woke-ProximateDon’t treat people who talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion as if they were fully woke! Further reading for this series: Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity – and why this harms everybody Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Everybody/dp/B08LDSWJ9V/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Cynical+Theories&qid=1638766402&sr=8-1 Fort Worth Public Library: http://fwmlc.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=2352899 Voddie T. Baucham, Jr., Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fault-Lines-Movement-Evangelicalisms-Catastrophe/dp/B08T6G7FCQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Fault+Lines&qid=1638766459&s=audible&sr=1-1 Fort Worth Public Library: http://fwmlc.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=2361790 Visit our website: https://www.allsaintskirk.com Worship with us: 11:00 AM Sundays The post Critical Social Justice (2): Learning to Love appeared first on .