『Lessons From The Tent』のカバーアート

Lessons From The Tent

Lessons From The Tent

著者： Mike Bradley
無料で聴く

このコンテンツについて

As the title says, this is a podcast about just one thing. Each lesson is roughly six and a half minutes long with the focus on what is the purpose of life. Please don’t confuse this with a religious podcast because it certainly is not. This is a podcast about life from God’s perspective – what He created it to be. Unfortunately, whenever God is mentioned, people instantly think we are talking about religion. That’s a shame because God hates to be confused with man made religion. God is the author and giver of life. Mankind created religion I suppose to help soothe their frustration/discomfort with their personal struggles. And because religion doesn’t solve those issues, we keep creating more religious expressions under the guise that this one is better than that one. I will not be picking on any religious group during these podcasts. I only hope to introduce you to the whole purpose of life on earth according to the Creator of all things and how He designed us to live. I hope you will give these Lessons From The Tent a try and get to understand the purpose for your life.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me at mike@lessonsfromthetent.com

Copyright 2025 All rights reserved. キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 聖職・福音主義
エピソード
  • Applying Faith and Believing to becoming favored by God | Section 02 Episode 15

    Applying Faith and Believing to becoming favored by God | Section 02 Episode 15
    2025/12/15
    SECTION 2 In this next section I would like to look at the necessity of faith for God says without faith it is impossible to please Him. If that is what God says then we need to understand exactly what faith is and how it applies to our relationship with Him. These next episodes will give you some practical ways to apply faith to all you have learned so far. LESSON 15 ─ Applying faith and believing to becoming favored by God Bible References: Matthew 5:3 (1) Hebrews 11:6 (2) Luke 7:37-48 (3) Good morning and welcome to another Lesson From The Tent. This week I would like to apply faith and believing to lesson # 5 where we learned how to become favored by God. If you remember, God said He favors those who are poor in spirit, and they are the ones who inherit the kingdom.(1) Once again, I want to remind you that without faith it is impossible to please God, and faith must also believe.(2) So, then how do we apply faith to the concept that Jesus said we need to recognize ourselves as being poor in spirit? To begin with faith must completely agree with Jesus’ assessment of how bad we really are. If someone doesn’t agree with His opinion then they will not have the full assurance and conviction that they are completely devoid of what they need to be, so they can inherit the kingdom. One thing you can be sure of about God, He never lies, and neither does He twist or manipulate the truth for His purposes. He just says it like it is and I for one, really like that. Therefore, if you apply faith to the concept that you are poor in spirit, then you must completely agree that this is who you are. What then should your actions of believing be like if you think of yourself this way? Well, it should make you a miserable person possibly even hating everything about yourself, but is that the response God wants? Yes, it is, but only until you turn to God and acknowledge your sinful condition, because once you do, then His forgiveness should overwhelm you causing a completely different attitude toward yourself and God. There are three believing attitudes that should constantly be a part of your life once your faith accepts His way for you to become favored. These are sorrow, joy, and thanksgiving. Sorrow because of your sinful condition; joy because of what God has done for you and thanksgiving because now you are in His kingdom – the place where He has always wanted you to be. These three emotions should never go away in your new relationship with God. They are the believing actions of your faith. Notice I just called sorrow, joy and thanksgiving believing actions and not just emotions. I did this because these three emotions must be expressed with actions. Sorrow should be expressed in words of honest confession to God where you own up to who you are and what you have done. Joy must flood your soul to the extent you become a noticeably happier person. And thanksgiving should produce such a humble appreciation for what Jesus did on the cross that you naturally want to participate in this relational partnership with Him. The possibilities that this relationship brings you are far more than we can cover in one lesson. It will actually take you a lifetime to discover all the wonderful aspects of this relationship. But let me tell you about another result of being poor in spirit. On several occasions Jesus taught about a life altering aspect that comes from forgiveness. Let me show you how this works through one of the stories Jesus told that reveals much about what the actions of believing do when you realize the depth of God’s forgiveness. One day a prostitute came into the home where Jesus had stopped to rest. The home was owned by a staunch religious person and when this poor in spirit prostitute came to Jesus, she fell at His feet weeping bitterly because of her sin. Her tears washed over Jesus’ feet so much that she took her hair and used it to dry them. But the staunch religious person was very upset that Jesus was empathetic to this prostitute and didn’t throw her out. Jesus then told a parable to illustrate what was really going on. Here is what He said: There was a person who owed $14,000 and there was another person who owed $140,000. Neither of these men was able to pay back the amount of money they owed so the moneylender decided to forgive both their debts. Jesus then asked the staunch religious person, which one of those men who had their debt forgiven will appreciate the forgiveness of their debt more? And the religious person said, I suppose it would be the one who was forgiven the most. And Jesus said, that is correct, and for this reason, though this prostitute has ...
    続きを読む 一部表示
    7 分
  • Applying Faith and Believing to the Invisible Kingdom | Section 02 Episode 14

    Applying Faith and Believing to the Invisible Kingdom | Section 02 Episode 14
    2025/12/08
    SECTION 2 In this next section I would like to look at the necessity of faith for God says without faith it is impossible to please Him. If that is what God says then we need to understand exactly what faith is and how it applies to our relationship with Him. These next episodes will give you some practical ways to apply faith to all you have learned so far. LESSON 14 ─ Applying faith and believing to the invisible kingdom Bible References: Luke 17:20, 21(1) Hebrews 11:6 (2) Romans 6:16 (3) Romans 6:18, 19 (4) James 1:25 (5) Matthew 5:6 (6) Luke 19:14 (7) Good morning, and welcome to another Lesson From The Tent. I am sitting at my desk in the tent, and as I do quite often, I have rolled up one side of my tent to allow a soft, cool breeze to blow inside. Just outside the bug netting about six feet away is a small flock of grouse meandering by. They are unaware of me, so they are in no hurry. Watching the goofy way grouse walk adds some great entertainment to my morning. God definitely has a sense of humor. This week we will review lesson #4 about the Invisible Kingdom and apply faith and believing to this mysterious wonder. I will be concentrating on the main thought of that lesson where Jesus said: “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will anyone say, ‘Look, here it is! Or, There it is!’ Then Jesus said, ‘pay attention to what I am about to tell you next; the kingdom of God is in your midst.’”(1) What Jesus taught here is a great challenge to faith, for He revealed the kingdom of God cannot be seen by our human eyes. Yet, it is real, and it is powerful, and it resides inside God’s favored ones. Remember that faith is the assurance of things hoped for, and the conviction of things not seen,(2) which certainly applies to the invisible kingdom. If you remember, the original word for kingdom refers to the reign of a king. It has nothing to do with land or a castle. So, if we are talking about faith in the invisible kingdom, then the actions of faith must first, be willing to acknowledge and surrender to God’s invisible reign, and second, any actions of believing must be in harmony with God’s visible word the Bible, just as if God was standing next to you asking you to do something for Him. When God created us humans, He designed us to become slaves of doing what is right. But when the first two people disobeyed Him, that slavery to righteousness suddenly reversed and all humans from that time on became enslaved to doing wrong. Listen to what God says about this in the Bible. “Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to a change in the way you experience life for the worse, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.”(3) And then God follows this up by saying: “I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to doing wrong, which led you deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to doing what is right so that you become slaves to righteousness.”(4) And God calls being enslaved to doing right as the type of freedom that leads to a life of rich happiness.(5) Like everything about God there is great benefit in obeying Him. But it all comes down to a willing attitude of surrendering to the invisible kingdom reign of God living inside of you. Faith must have the assurance and conviction that the invisible kingdom does live inside God’s favored ones, and that He wants us to willingly surrender in obedience to His will. The believing actions of this will then be seen in a person’s desire for a righteous lifestyle.(6) One day Jesus taught a parable that illustrates what this type of willing surrender to the invisible kingdom looks like. If you remember, a parable is a story that may not be true in all its details but is absolutely true in the lesson it teaches. In this parable, Jesus revealed what the correct attitude of surrender to His invisible reign is like, and He teaches this through a group of people who actually have the wrong attitude. We see this in what they say about the nobleman, who in this parable represents Jesus, and I quote them, “We don’t want this man to reign over us.”(7) The word want used here actually reveals the correct attitude Jesus is looking for from those in His kingdom. The original word means to love to or take great pleasure in doing something. And these people strongly admit they do not want Jesus to reign over them. That is a clear revelation they are not God’s favored ones. This parable reveals ...
    続きを読む 一部表示
    7 分
  • Thanksgiving 2025 From The Tent

    Thanksgiving 2025 From The Tent
    2025/12/01
    Thanksgiving, 2025 This will not be another lesson from the tent. Today is Thanksgiving and I would like to talk about something I am truly thankful for. At first it will sound very strange that I could be thankful for what I am about to share but please bear with me. What I want to share with you is recently my wife Joan was diagnosed with breast cancer. We do not know the full extent of this disease yet, but we will find out next week. What we have been told is that it is not good. So how can I talk about my wife having breast cancer while at the same time talking about being thankful? It doesn’t seem that those two concepts should ever be thought of together. Joan and I were married at the age of eighteen and that was fifty-five years ago. That’s fifty-five years of learning about God, learning about each other, learning about love, learning about grace, learning about forgiveness, learning about joy, learning about our human shortcomings, discovering what is truly important, and understanding how to work through the trials and tribulations that everyone has to deal with at times in their life. This moment in time challenges everything that we have collectively learned together for nothing can happen to either of us without directly affecting the other person just as much. That is married life. And I wouldn’t want it any other way. Joans cancer is my cancer. My struggle is her struggle. We share it all – the good times and the bad times. So how can I honestly be thankful in the middle of this devastating disease? Let me share with you what cancer means to two people who have spent the past fifty-five years getting to know God and serving Him together. God made Joan and I uniquely different, so we are not two peas in a pod as they say. We are closer to being the north and south poles on a magnet that sometimes oppose each other, yet at times will be stuck like glue to each other. That is not unusual it is how most married couples are, and I think that is exactly how God designed marriage to be. It is this attraction and polar opposition that makes us stronger, more loving, more creative, more fun, more interesting, and much wiser than we could ever be alone. Now let’s get to the scariness of this cancer – there is a possibility that I may lose my most cherished possession here on earth and if that happens, I will be alone having lost one-half of me. For that I am not thankful, nor will I ever be. I could lose both my arms and legs, and it would not affect me as much as losing the woman who has truly been with me every moment of these past fifty-five years; both physically and internally because I cannot possess even a thought without her presence somehow being involved in it. We have become one just as God designed marriage to be. And this is what fuels my thanksgiving despite the terrible disease cancer is. One thing cancer does is it sure makes conversations take a different course. There has been hardly a day during these past couple of months where that ugly “c” word hasn’t been involved in our conversation. And each time it has, Joan and I end up talking about the joys of our life memories. And as we reflect on life and now the possibility of death, we so often find ourselves in a state of thankfulness because life becomes even more precious when death may be lurking around the next corner. So, what drives our thankfulness during this time of reflection and coping with cancer? It is everything these podcasts have been about. When I started these lessons, we didn’t know that Joan would soon have breast cancer. During all our conversations the one thing that keeps bringing us back to a place of thankfulness is the truth of our relationship with God. You see, without all that the kingdom has brought to our lives and what it means for our future, our outlook on life would be completely different. There certainly would not be any thanksgiving. And most likely there would be anger, frustration, hopelessness and the uncertainty of the future would be flooded with harsh cold moments that turn into days, weeks, months and years of mental anguish. Instead, the truth behind these podcasts is our reality. They are behind the memories that flood our souls, and they are the future that we depend on. And death is not our reality. Life in the eternal kingdom is. It is there we will relish the eternal relational partnership with God in ways we have never experienced here on earth. The reality of the kingdom means death is only a doorway into the great future that God designed for us when He created this world. And in that future world, our greatest and fondness experiences that we have shared here on earth will not be even close to the smallest ...
    続きを読む 一部表示
    8 分
まだレビューはありません