Be Holy Podcast

Most times we attend and join a church because we are pushed into doing so...or  maybe Grandma wanted her family to attend church...and because we don't want to feel as if we are disobeying Grandma...we start attending church religiously. Over time, we begin to search for God's will in our lives and then we "take off for Jesus"...and that's good. But later we learn that we should simply love God and treat people "right" simply...

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

God is not man,...

And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing...

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I...

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkn...

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.

And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth...

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might c...

It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you,

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For the Lord himself will descend...

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and f...

One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them w...

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put ...

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can...

And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.

And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”