Our world so desperately needs to see what God can do in and through us. I will share how God through His mighty power in and through me establishes His will and displays His glory.
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This study reveals the hidden dangers of a life of constant complaining.
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This study takes a look at the various ways we get tricked and seduced as Christians into short-circuiting the peace of God from flowing in our lives.
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This study takes a look at the various ways we get tricked and seduced as Christians into short-circuiting the peace of God from flowing in our lives.
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This study takes a look at the various aspects of daily obedience to God that's needed if we're going to have a fruitful walk with Jesus Christ.
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This study takes a look at the various problems and solutions involved in experiencing the abundant joy of the Lord at all times, even in trials.
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This study takes a look at the various problems and solutions involved in experiencing the abundant joy of the Lord at all times, even in trials.
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This study takes a look at the various aspects of daily obedience to God that's needed if we're going to have a fruitful walk with Jesus Christ.
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Tim Hart is a police officer and bi-vocational church leader, missionary and speaker. In this podcast, Tim explores topics related to living out the Christian faith and experiencing God. Throughout the bible, there is a common theme - that the people of God experience God in profound, real ways. As Christians we are invited into a deep and profound experience of God- to hear His voice, to experience his power and presence and to experience deep and intimate relationship with Him. Through a m ...
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A frequent reflection on how a middle-aged, marginal Catholic sees the MORE, aka God, by looking for the more in the world around. Episodes focused on this light have interspersed ST21 episodes - a modern version of The Screwtape Letters. Listen and see how to recognize the nearness of the MORE and hear how to avoid being distracted away from the deep. May this podcast help you to see and experience deeply. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/presence/support
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Jesus welcomes the poor - Quadra Island Bible Church - May 19, 2024
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is a message that Tim gave at the Quadra Island Bible Church on Sunday May 19, 2024. In Luke chapter 14, Jesus was invited to dine with some Pharisees on the Sabbath, during which he taught them and told parables… Jesus made some challenging comments to them as he confronted head-on some of their misplaced relig…
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Unity - Gateway Foursquare Church - November 5, 2023
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is a message that Tim gave at Gateway Foursquare Church on November 5, 2023. For more information about Gateway Foursquare visit: https://gatewayfoursquare.ca/ Unity is a foundational characteristic of the Church in the New Testament and is a reflection of the very nature of God himself. One of the central theme…
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Hardships, trials and persecutions - Gateway Foursquare Church - September 10, 2023
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is a message that Tim gave on September 10, 2023 at Gateway Foursquare Church in Campbell River BC. Visit https://gatewayfoursquare.ca/thisweek/ For more information about Gateway. Almost every book of the New Testament mentions suffering, hardships and persecution that believers face. It is talked about by Jesu…
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Jesus’ example and invitation to a Holy Spirit empowered life - Gateway Foursquare Church - August 13, 2023
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is a message that Tim gave on August 13, 2023 at Gateway Foursquare Church in Campbell River BC. Visit https://gatewayfoursquare.ca/ for more info. As followers of Jesus, we are called to imitate Jesus, follow his example and become more and more like him. When Jesus came, he came as fully God, and yet he was al…
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Healing Service - Gateway Foursquare Church - June 11, 2023
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Send us a Text Message. This is part two of Tim speaking on Sunday June 11, 2023 at Gateway Foursquare Church on the topic of Healing in the New Testament. In the previous message, Tim looked more broadly at the over-arching theme of God’s willingness to heal, and the provision he made for healing in the cross of Calvary. This episode is a little l…
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God’s Willingness To Heal - Gateway Foursquare Church - June 11, 2023
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Send us a Text Message. On June 11, 2023 Tim was invited to speak at Gateway Foursquare Church on the topic of healing. In this episode, Tim takes a broad look into scripture at the overarching theme of God’s nature and character as a life-giving God who desires healing and freedom for his people. In a very general, over-arching sense - God is will…
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The MORE in a Time Two Years On From Uncertainty to Amazement
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Are you, right now, facing a time of change and uncertainty? I was, exactly two years ago. Please listen as I share how I wrote and prayed during June 2021. And how my life has unfolded in amazing ways from then until now. God - The MORE - moved & worked in my story. I believe that The MORE is moving & working in your own story right now too. --- S…
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The MORE - Helping My Dad Figure Out One Drive
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Do you know how to use Microsoft One Drive? I kind of do. On Memorial Day I Zoomed with my 83 year old dad and showed him how to use this often confusing computer tool. I was surprised to experience The MORE (how I am growing to know God) in this mundane act of service. It got me wondering about the deeper more in a child teaching and/or supporting…
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The MORE - Listening to Peter Gabriel's "I/O" Song on May 6th
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I listen to Peter Gabriel - an artist who has inspired me for 35 years now - sing as I walk my pooch on a beautiful Saturday AM. In his new song "I/O" he declares a truth "I'm just a part of everything." So much of the world around us shows this to be true. Listen as I ponder how even one H2O molecule in the saliva in your mouth reveals this truth.…
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I finish listening to the outstanding 24 hour long audiobook of King's newest novel "Fairytale". The simple, yet engaging telling of a familiar tale allows me to go deep into the more it holds. Like the 'Fairy Stories" about which Tolkien spoke this fairytale illuminates the light and dark in our world. The MORE ultimately dispels the darkness, yet…
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I return to a theme which is at the center of hundreds of prior episodes - experiencing God - The MORE. Today I reflect on how my dog Lucy, with her intense focus on a patch of grass as we walked in the rain, reminded me of how I can use my senses to ponder any sliver of the world I encounter as a go about my day. By finding the deep more to everyt…
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The Church: it’s makeup, it’s marks and it’s mission - Part 8 - Authority of the Church (3 of 3)
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Send us a Text Message. This episode brings us to the conclusion of this series on the Church, looking specifically at one final aspect of the authority of believers. Authority is the right (or authorization) to do something - to carry out a certain action, or make a decision. In the last few episodes, Tim presented three types of authority that ap…
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ST21 century - The Spy Wednesday After the Indictment Day
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Screwtape celebrates how The Enemy's own self-identified followers are facilitating his Dark Father's cause as these Reds claim that they and their boy Prince Chaos are the actual victims. ST21 is pleased that dark history was again made on April 4th like it was made on January 6th (Epiphany.) Yet, he relishes the irony of how it might have taken p…
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ST21 century - Indictment During Profane Week
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Screwtape is excited that the first ever indictment of a former US president will take place as a spectacle and thus distraction for the faithful during what he calls "Profane Week". --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/presence/support
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It's Code Yellow when Wormwood tells ST21 that Fr. Steven Bell, a thoughtful and authentic priest is coming for a three day mission. ST21 commands that Wormwood must prevent his Patient from attending and being drawn closer to The Enemy and his warm embrace. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/presence/support…
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ST21 century - Exploit the Madness of March
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Screwtape encourages Wormwood to guide his Patient to find pleasure and doom in one of the greatest inventions by The Agency of Enticement to Obsession -- online sports betting.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/presence/support
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The Church: it’s makeup, it’s marks and it’s mission - Part 7 - Authority of the Church (2 of 3)
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Send us a Text Message. Jesus has delegated authority to the Church. In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus tells Peter “…you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose o…
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The Church: It’s makeup, it’s marks, and it’s mission - Part 6 - Authority of the Church (1 of 3)
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Send us a Text Message. As this series comes to a close, there is one final aspect of the Church to look into - that is the authority of the Church. There are several passages of scripture that indicate that Jesus has delegated his authority to the Church. The questions that arise from this are: What is the nature of this authority? How is it expre…
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The Church: It’s makeup, it’s marks, and it’s mission - Part 5 - Mercy and the Great Commission
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Send us a Text Message. Tim is back with another episode in this series “The Church: It’s makeup, it’s marks, and it’s mission.” What are the purposes of the Church? First, to love and worship God. Second, to love one another and build up the body of Christ. In this episode we will take a look at the third purpose of the Church: To love the world a…
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ST21 century - On Thanksgiving and the Danger of Gratitude
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ST21 explains to Wormwood the risk and potential reward for their Dark Father on the U.S. day of Thanksgiving. While the Seven Slippery Slides - gluttony, greed and envy - are there at the table, so too is the risk that The Patient may feel the vilest of attitudes - that of gratitude. ST shows WW how he can deploy two of their most effective tools …
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ST21 speaks to Wormwood for the first time in the week since the 2022 election. He encouragea WW to "keep his chins up" as The Prince of Chaos has announced that he is running again for president in 2024. ST21 extoles the vices of this remarkable figure and prepares for the decisive chaos ahead on the road to 2024. --- Support this podcast: https:/…
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ST21 explains to Wormwood what it means that "democracy is on the ballot today." ST21 recounts the dark reality of how some of the same people who fought for democracy 80 years ago and in decades since, will today vote for candidates who boast of how they will ignore the will of the people when votes are cast. This makes ST21 proclaim - "Truly this…
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ST21 century - Two Days Until the Midterms
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Screwtape brings Wormword out of exile and gets his nephew up to speed with smartphones and other aspects of the 21st century. WW's "patient" - a white middle aged American Evangelical Catholic is preparing to vote. ST21 tells Wormword of the delicious hypocrisy this man and others like him show as they hurt those whom Christ identified as "my litt…
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Screwtape Updated. Introducing a new podcast "ST21 century"
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"The Screwtape Letters," written by C.S. Lewis and published in 1942 is one of the most remarkable novels ever written about good and evil. What would the character Screwtape have to say about our world and the U.S. in 2022 and beyond. Listen and follow along at www.ST21century.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/…
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The Church: It’s makeup, it’s marks, and it’s mission - Part 4 - Built up in love
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Send us a Text Message. Paul wrote “what then brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up” (1 Corinthians 14:26). As we continue this series on the topic of The Church, this episode looks further into the purposes of the Church, specifically th…
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The Church: It’s makeup, it’s marks, and it’s mission - Part 3 - Worship
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Send us a Text Message. Author Wayne Grudem in his book “Systematic Theology” identifies three purposes of the Church. Firstly the Church exists to love and worship The Lord. Secondly, it functions to build itself up in Love; and thirdly, the Church works together to fulfill the Great Commission. In this episode Tim focuses on the first of these pu…
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The Church: it’s makeup, it’s marks and it’s mission - Part 2
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode Tim continues the study on The Church, looking at how the bible defines “Church,” and understanding its marks and characteristics. As discussed in the first episode the Church in one sense, is the community of all genuine believers for all of time (including the genuine believers of the Old Testament, now enr…
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The Church: It’s makeup, it’s marks and it’s mission - Part 1
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Tim begins a new series looking into some of the foundational theology of “The Church.” One author defined “church” as the gathering of all genuine believers throughout all of time. In other words the church is the people of God! In a post-pandemic world, a lot of things have changed including where and how …
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Send us a Text Message. This is it. The final episode in this series on Spiritual gifts. Tim continues with some of the commonly asked questions regarding spiritual gifts. Are there spiritual gifts in the Old Testament? How can I be certain which spiritual gifts I have? How do we implement gifts-based ministry in church? What are the implications f…
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Send us a Text Message. To wrap up this series, Tim addresses some of the commonly asked questions related to spiritual gifts. In this episode Tim answers the question, ‘are there other spiritual gifts not listed in the bible?’ There are in fact two other spiritual gifts mentioned in the New Testament that are not commonly talked about- the gifts o…
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Spiritual Gifts part 21: Word Gifts - Apostleship
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Send us a Text Message. Jesus spent an entire night praying, and when day broke he called his disciples to himself, and chose from them 12 whom he designated “apostles.” These Apostles (and later the apostle Paul) became the foundation upon which the Church was established. They were sent out to preach, they had authority to heal and cast out demon…
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Spiritual Gifts part 20: Word Gifts - Shepherding and Leadership
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Send us a Text Message. In our western culture, the term “pastor” has evolved slightly from it’s original meaning, and is often used to describe someone in a primary leadership role in the Church. You may have also heard terms like “associate pastor,” “youth pastor” or “worship pastor” all of which typically refer to staff members and leaders in ch…
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Spiritual Gifts part 19: Word Gifts - Teaching and Exhortation
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Send us a Text Message. The spiritual gifts discussion continues in the “word gifts” category. These are the spiritual gifts that clarify the nature, character, purposes and will of God. These gifts are also strongly present in church and ministry leadership roles. In this episode the microscope is on the gifts of teaching and exhortation (also ref…
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Spiritual Gifts part 18: Word Gifts - Evangelism
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode Tim begins to explore the final category of spiritual gifts which are the word gifts. As mentioned in previous episodes these categories are not found in scripture, but are ways that different authors have organized the gifts into categories to help us understand their function and purpose. Word gifts functio…
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Spiritual Gifts part 17: Power Gifts - Working of Miracles part 2 - Deliverance from evil spirits
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Tim continues with part 2 on the spiritual gift of working or miracles. In part 1, this gift was introduced and defined as when the power of God works through a believer to have a miraculous affect on someone or something. One of the main ways this spiritual gift works is in the act of casting out evil spiri…
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Spiritual Gifts part 16: Power Gifts - Workings of Miracles part 1
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Send us a Text Message. C. S. Lewis defined the term "miracle" as "...an interference with nature by supernatural power..." While all believers are invited to experience the miraculous through powerful and effectual prayer, some believers are given the gift of workings of miracles. This gift involves God's supernatural power working through a follo…
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Spiritual Gifts part 15: Power Gifts - Healing part 2
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Send us a Text Message. Well here it is- part two on the spiritual gift of healing, also called 'gifts of healings.' The spiritual gift of healing is the Holy Spirit empowered ability given to some believers to minister to sick people and see them miraculously healed. In part two, Tim provides an overview of the healing ministry of Jesus and the di…
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Spiritual Gifts part 14: Power Gifts - Healing part 1
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode. The plunge is officially taken into the next spiritual gift on the list - the gift of healing. The gift of healing, or gifts of healings is a God-given empowering that enables some believers to minister to sick people and see them get well. Tim provides an introduction to this gift and shares some of his per…
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Spiritual Gifts part 13: Power Gifts - Tongues and Interpretation
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Send us a Text Message. Tim continues the conversation on spiritual gifts, looking at two more gifts in the 'power' category: Various Kinds of Tongues and Interpretation of Tongues. Speaking in Tongues is a Holy Spirit empowered ability to speak in another language that is not known to the speaker. The Interpretation of Tongues is pretty self-expla…
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Spiritual Gifts part 12: Power Gifts - Prophecy part 3
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Send us a Text Message. Dr. Wayne Grudem, author and theologian defined New Testament prophecy as 'speaking in our own words something that God brings to mind.' In the last few episodes Tim has been taking a detailed look into New Testament prophecy. We first compared prophecy in the Old Testament to prophecy in the New Testament and then looked at…
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Spiritual Gifts part 11: Power Gifts - Prophecy part 2
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Send us a Text Message. Wayne Grudem, author of "The gift of prophecy in the New Testament and Today" defines prophecy as 'speaking in our own words, something that God brings to mind.' In episode 10, we dove into the Old Testament and looked at similarities, as well as some important differences between prophecy in the Old Testament and prophecy i…
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Spiritual Gifts part 10: Power Gifts - Prophecy part 1
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Send us a Text Message. Dr. Wayne Grudem, author of "The gift of prophecy in the New Testament and today," defines New Testament prophecy as "speaking in our own words something that God brings to mind." This is an excellent starting point as we begin to explore the spiritual gift of prophecy. In order to fully understand prophecy in the New Testam…
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Spiritual Gifts part 9: Power Gifts - Faith and Discerning between spirits
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Send us a Text Message. J. Robert Clinton described Power Gifts as a category of spiritual gifts that bring the presence and reality of God into a situation. When they happen, people profoundly experience God's presence and He becomes very real to them in the moment. In episode 9, Tim continues the discussion on the Power Gifts looking at two more …
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Spiritual Gifts part 8: Power Gifts - Word of Knowledge and Word of Wisdom
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Send us a Text Message. J. Robert Clinton described Power gifts as a category of spiritual gifts that bring the presence and reality of God into a situation. When they happen, people profoundly experience God's presence and He becomes very real to them in the moment. In this episode Tim begins the conversation on power gifts, and unpacks the first …
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Spiritual Gifts part 7: Love Gifts - Helps, Service, Hospitality and Mercy
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Send us a Text Message. The Love Gifts help to establish a love culture by expressing the love of God in practical ways. In this Episode, Tim continues unpacking the Love Gifts looking at Helps, Service, Hospitality and Mercy.Bởi Tim Hart
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Spiritual Gifts part 6: Love Gifts - Administration and Giving
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Send us a Text Message. In the previous episodes of this series, Tim has been working to establish the foundation and groundwork on the topic of spiritual gifts. In this episode, Tim continues the series by diving into the Love Gifts! The Love gifts express and demonstrate the love of God in simple practical ways! These are the lifeblood of the chu…
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Spiritual Gifts part 5: What is the cessationist view?
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Send us a Text Message. Cessationists believe that not all of the spiritual gifts exist today, but that some passed away after the establishment of the early church. In this episode, Tim continues the series on spiritual gifts by looking at the cessationist point of view and asking the question, do all of the gifts exist today? Or have certain gift…
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Spiritual Gifts part 4: Measures of faith and the Fruit of the Spirit
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Send us a Text Message. Tim continues with part 4 of a series on spiritual gifts. In this episode Tim highlights the necessity of bearing the fruit of the Spirit and growing in character as we continue the journey toward gifts-based ministry. Tim also discusses measures of faith, and divine limitations, and how God gives increase through faithfulne…
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Spiritual Gifts part 3: Distribution of gifts and being filled with the Holy Spirit
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Send us a Text Message. Part 3 in a series on spiritual gifts. Tim continues the conversation by looking at how we receive spiritual gifts, how God distributes spiritual gifts, asking questions like ‘are spiritual gifts temporary or permanent?’ ‘Can they be taken away?’ Tim also takes a few moments to explore the question ‘what is the baptism of th…
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Spiritual Gifts part 2: What are Spiritual Gifts?
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Send us a Text Message. This is part 2 in a series on spiritual gifts, where Tim explores gifts-based ministry and what it means to function and serve as members of the Body of Christ. In this episode Tim is joined by Shawna Hart who shares some of her church background and experience. The conversation continues with some foundational discussion on…
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