Christian Questions Bible Podcast

Everybody wants to know what the future will look like and with all of the myriads of ways we can connect with each other, we certainly are not shy about telling others what we personally think the future will bring.  Depending on the school of thought that you come from, looking ahead one hundred years or so might be exciting or devastating.
Will the human race screw up planet earth so badly that it won’t be inhabitable?  Are we causing global warming - or cooling - that will destroy life?  Will we ruin things with careless handling of biological diseases, will robots rise up or will it be zombies or will we just nuke the planet into oblivion?  If the world doesn’t end in the next hundred years by human cause, then what about super volcanoes or asteroids or even gamma rays from the sun?
You get the point - the future can be a scary mystery and your school of thought will dictate that. If the world doesn’t end, then what kind of place will it be?  Will technology rule?  Will humanity get along?  Will today’s world powers be tomorrow’s world powers?
So many questions and so little time!  The Bible actually has a lot to say about the future of both humanity and of planet earth.  This is a book  filled with prophecies of the future - the challenge is interpreting and understanding them in the way they were meant to be understood.
In our March 6, 2016 broadcast titled “What will the World Look Like in the 22nd Century?” we put many Bible prophecies together to establish a timeline of events from our present industrialized era and into the future. What we found was this:  God actually does have a pre-determined plan for the future of humanity and of earth and that plan has been operating in stages.  The present stages (several of these overlap) that we are in are the Christian-spiritual-judgment stage, the pre-really-big-trouble stage and the return-of-favor-to-Israel stage.  These are all transition times; the world is dramatically changing on several levels as we speak and God really does have it in hand.
What is to come?  Lots of really good things!  We could tell you here, but you owe it to yourself to check out the broadcast and see for yourself.

Everybody wants to know what the future will look like and with all of the myriads of ways we can connect with each other, we certainly are not shy about telling others what we personally think the future will bring.  Depending on the school of thought that you come from, looking ahead one hundred years or so might be exciting or devastating.
Will the human race screw up planet earth so badly that it won’t be inhabitable?  Are we causing global warming - or cooling - that will destroy life?  Will we ruin things with careless handling of biological diseases, will robots rise up or will it be zombies or will we just nuke the planet into oblivion?  If the world doesn’t end in the next hundred years by human cause, then what about super volcanoes or asteroids or even gamma rays from the sun?
You get the point - the future can be a scary mystery and your school of thought will dictate that. If the world doesn’t end, then what kind of place will it be?  Will technology rule?  Will humanity get along?  Will today’s world powers be tomorrow’s world powers?
So many questions and so little time!  The Bible actually has a lot to say about the future of both humanity and of planet earth.  This is a book  filled with prophecies of the future - the challenge is interpreting and understanding them in the way they were meant to be understood.
In our March 6, 2016 broadcast titled “What will the World Look Like in the 22nd Century?” we put many Bible prophecies together to establish a timeline of events from our present industrialized era and into the future. What we found was this:  God actually does have a pre-determined plan for the future of humanity and of earth and that plan has been operating in stages.  The present stages (several of these overlap) that we are in are the Christian-spiritual-judgment stage, the pre-really-big-trouble stage and the return-of-favor-to-Israel stage.  These are all transition times; the world is dramatically changing on several levels as we speak and God really does have it in hand.
What is to come?  Lots of really good things!  We could tell you here, but you owe it to yourself to check out the broadcast and see for yourself.

Attitude – it is simply one of those things that we just don’t think much about, but probably should.  Your attitude pretty much governs most everything about you…  You go to work one day with a lousy attitude and guess what?  You have a lousy day!  Go to work the next day with a great attitude and your day can be great instead.  The moral of the story:  it makes sense to pay attention to and to adjust your attitude.
Jesus understood attitude.  He really understood not only the importance of a good and godly attitude, but he also understood what shapes our attitude.  Better yet, he taught us how to put it all together so that we can learn how to successfully manage and elevate our attitude.  How did he do that?  By way of a parable of course!
In the Parable of the Great Dinner, the dinner host pre-invited his special guests.  When the time for the feast came and they were notified, they all had excuses as to why they could not come.  The host is undaunted by this and invited some of the lame and crippled people from town to come in their place and then invited people from far and wide to come as well.  Those who were the privileged and intended guests lost out because they were just too busy elsewhere.  Their attitudes stunk!  In the Parable, Jesus lists the three different types of excuses they used and they all revolved around Me! Me! Me!  The bottom line is that in their attitudes of self-preoccupation, they said "no" a sacred invitation from God and therefore lost a sacred opportunity.
What are the secrets of understanding and controlling attitude?  There are several, but one of them is to understand the simple ingredients of our attitude.  Think of it like a math equation: Desire + Perceived Opportunity = Attitude.  Once you begin to observe and apply this simple formula, you begin to take the steps necessary to actually control your attitude.
In addition to this equation, what can we do daily to put ourselves in a place in our minds that draws us towards the sacred grace of God and away from the “me” excuses of life?  Check out our Christian Questions broadcast from February 28, 2016, “Does Christianity Need an Attitude Check?” and see just how clearly defined attitude control can be and how you can give your own attitude new altitude!