Muscular Christianity

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Sinopse

Bruce Gust, a nine year veteran of the United States Marine Corps, blurs the lines between the secular and the sacred by filtering everything from fitness to politics through the Word of God. It's motivating, it's inspiring - it's good stuff!

Episódios

  • Who's In Charge?

    19/03/2024 Duração: 01min

    This is the question you need to ask the person who wants your vote, your subscription or your support. How you answer that question either puts your name alongside those who signed the Declaration of Independence and ratified the Constitution, or…it defines you as someone who wants to replace the One Who is in charge with someone who looks a lot like themselves.

  • The Media

    19/12/2023 Duração: 33min

    Everyone has their own perspective and that's why you want to make a point of hearing all sides of an issue and vetting your sources according to a Standard that doesn't fluctuate according to a human agency. Otherwise, you risk a corrupted opinion being used as the basis for your viewpoint. This is the approach advocated in Scripture and it applies to not only the headlines, but also the bottom lines as they're documented in the Word of God. Buckle up...!

  • That's Your Opinion | Part II

    02/12/2023 Duração: 18min

    Part II of the "That's Your Opinion" series. After recapping how "That's Your Opinion" is a phrase often used by people who don't have something say as much as they have something to hide and examining how Christ handled those kinds of tactics, Part II looks at some real world examples of how God's technique can help keep a conversation moving forward that would otherwise end in a victory for the one posing as a victim of an intolerant evironment.

  • Turn the Other Cheek - How to do it Right!

    08/11/2023 Duração: 14min

    Turning the other cheek is not a command to absorb the evil that is directed towards you. Rather, it's an admonishment to address it and reveal it for what it is. In this episode of "Muscular Christianity," we're going to look at the three primary passages that would have us be complicit with the offenses and assaults that are directed towards us and see how they fall short of an interpretation based on the whole of God's Word.

  • That's Your Opinion

    18/10/2023 Duração: 09min

    One of several phrases you can use to distract attention from what happens where your perspective is put into practice.

  • What Does it Mean to be Saved? | Part Three

    11/10/2023 Duração: 14min

    You can tell by the way you regard the reality of sin in your life whether or not you're born again.

  • What Does it Mean to be Saved? | Part Two

    11/10/2023 Duração: 04min

    There's more to believing in the death and resurrection of Christ than simply being able to say that you believe it out loud. To believe it in your heart means that's it's more than a historical truth, it's a personal reality.

  • What Does it Mean to be Saved? | Part One

    11/10/2023 Duração: 08min

    According to the book of Romans, if you don't have the Spirit of Christ, you don't belong to Him. That's the bottom line: You've been forgiven for every offense you've committed against God and the Spirit of God is now living in you. That's what it means to be born again!

  • Thomas Jefferson at Ten Years Old

    30/07/2013 Duração: 12min

    Young people have the capacity to do far more than our culture gives them credit for, although that wasn't always the case. A brief rehearsal of history and Scripture reveals not only what a young person is truly capable of, but also provides a motivating incentive to dig in a little deeper and sieze the opportunities and challenges that lie before you, regardless of your age.

  • Let's Talk About The Civil War

    16/07/2013 Duração: 15min

    I had just read "Team Of Rivals" and a buddy of mine reponded by insisting that my understanding of history and Abraham Lincoln was severely flawed. I determined to refer to some other resources in order to better understand what I believed to be the case and in so doing, uncovered some Biblical principals that constitute a lesson that can be learned not only from a national viewpoint, but a personal one as well.

  • What Do You Need to Do? What Do You Want to Do? What Are You Meant to Do?

    20/05/2013 Duração: 10min

    Three categories of "to do's," all three of them warrant a plan. But you want that plan to be subordinate to God's design for you. Only then are you guaranteed a life and not just an existence.

  • How Do You Tell Someone They're Wrong?

    27/04/2013 Duração: 24min

    John 4 represents a great template to use when confronted with either the opportunity or the obligation to tell someone that they're wrong. Popping open the hood of that Scripture reveals Jesus deploying an approach

  • You Are Not a Victim!

    21/01/2012 Duração: 02min

    Allow yourself the opportunity to experience whatever represents a healthy, emotional response to your situation but don't stay there. Bring the defense in and get that offense on to the field and start moving forward based on who you are in Christ.

  • The Separation of Church and State

    20/01/2012 Duração: 02min

    While we can easily point out the historical discrepancies represented by asserting "the separation of church and state" as being a comprehensive description of the scope and intent of the First Amendment, it's the fact that was as believers have separated the church from our everyday state of affairs that we're having to deal with this issue to begin with.

  • The Existence of God

    14/01/2012 Duração: 02min

    It's not so much that people don't believe in God, as much as they have a hard time understanding / accepting His actions and apparent motives. There's more to this conversation than just, "Does He exist?" We're swimming in a dirty pool and we as human beings are the ones that have made it that way. But God offers an alternative and it's the fact that He's even willing to give us an option reveals Him as a God that is worth reconsidering.