All Saints Podcast | Believe Doubt Seek

In Matthew 21:28-39, we hear Jesus make a very powerful statement, 'Truly I say to you, the prostitutes and tax collectors will enter the kingdom of God before you.' What does this mean for the moral and good?
The issue that Jesus is going after is how our hearts want to forget everything we have is a gift, and therefore we can take no credit for it. Why do our hearts tend to be this way?

Weeks before Easter, followers of Jesus are to do some disciplined thinking about the death of Christ and what it means. Jesus is to be understood for who he is, not who we think he is. We are using Jesus’ own statements about his death, we see who Jesus is, not a designer Jesus that we want to work for us.
Read: John 12:20-33

Envy is being unhappy at other people’s happiness. To be a person of envy puts you in a class that nobody wants to be affiliated with.  There is nothing more humiliating than having to admit to someone that you are envious
 'ENVY IS THE CONSUMING DESIRE to have everybody else be as unsuccessful as you are.' ~Frederick Buechner
Read: Proverbs 23:17-18; Psalm 73:1-3, 17-26

A theme that runs through the Proverbs and the whole Bible is the fear of the Lord.  The fear of the Lord is a term many wrestle with; scriptures like ‘the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,’ and ‘the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.’ Why is the fear of the Lord so important, and what is it?   The fear of the Lord is a life rearranging, joyful, awe, and wonder before the greatness of who God is and what he has done. So why use the term fear?
Read: Proverbs 3:5-6; 9:10; 16:6; 19:23; 20:9

You can make or break your life on your ability to make right choices.  Is this the person I should marry? Should I hire this person? is this right career for me? is this the right amount of freedom to give my child at this age? is this the right person to confide in?
Every one of those situations have many options, most all of them are moral, legal and allowable.  However, most of them aren’t wise, so we need guidance to make decisions. 
The questions is “how do we get God’s guidance?” So, when all these choices are before us, we know what the right course of action we should take. 
Proverbs 11:3; 12:5,15; 15:22; 16:3,9,25,33

Today we are looking at one of the main themes of the book of Proverbs, using anger for good.  Handling anger in yourself and in other people is the goal. There are some things we need to know about anger in order to be wise. Anger is an explosive emotion; it is the dynamite of the soul.  Anger has the power to obliterate things. 
Read: Proverbs 14:29-30; 15:1, 18; 19:19; 16:32; 24:29; 25:21-22; Ephesians 4:26

Self-control is important if we are to make wise decisions. If a person lacks self-control not only, are they going to mess up their life, they are going to mess up the lives of the people around them.
Read: Proverbs 18:10; 25:28; Titus 2:11-14

We all at certain times, have a tough time understanding and dealing with the deep, conflicting, powerful, confusing, feelings that roll through our heart.  Sometimes, we don’t feel we have any power over it, we feel helpless. We ask, how did we get to feeling like that? We know there is something wrong, and we don’t know what to do about it. 
Read: Proverbs 18:14; 14:30; 12:25; 14:13; 15:13; 14:10