Episodes
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Psalm 119: You light up my life
In this podcast episode, Pastor Jason Sykora explores Psalm 119:105-112, emphasizing the illuminating power of God's Word in guiding believers through life's challenges. He discusses how Scripture provides clarity, life, and joy,encouraging listeners to engage in prayer and worship as responses…
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Psalm 119: Sweeter than Honey
The Bible and the words of God contained inside are mentioned as being sweeter than honey. In today’s study of Psalm 119:97-104, we are going to unpack these verses along with Psalm 19 to learn how God’s Word can sweeten your life as you learn to live it out.
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Psalm 119: Firmly Fixed in Divine Truth
In a world filled with uncertainty and change, many seek a solid foundation to anchor their lives. Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the pressures of life? In this episode, we will explore how rooting ourselves in God’s truth provides stability amid chaos. We’ll examine Psalm 119:89-96, where the...
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Psalm 119: Longing for Jesus
In today’s study of Psalm 119, we explore the deep yearning for God’s salvation and the comfort that His Word brings. The psalmist expresses a heartfelt desire not only for relief from trials but also for a closer relationship with God. This longing mirrors our own as we navigate life's…
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A Ministry Moment: What does the Resurrection mean to you?
A heartfelt reflection on the significance of the resurrection, inspired by personal loss and biblical stories, emphasizing hope, faith, and eternal life.
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Valued: Strengthened Service
Loving God with all of our strength is not just a command buta lifestyle. It involves serving enthusiastically, practicing hospitality, and loving beyond limits. By embodying these principles, we reflect Christ's love and transform our relationships and communities. Remember, every act of service...
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Valued: Mindful Understanding
This episode of the Abiding in the Faith podcast explores the biblical perspective on loving God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. It emphasizes the importance of renewing the mind, engaging in intellectual reflection with faith, and living out God's commandments in daily life.
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Valued: Soulful Committment
In this episode, Pastor Jason discusses the importance of soulful commitment in the Christian faith, emphasizing the need for heartfelt devotion to God and the impact of our actions on our spiritual journey. He explores the concept of the soul, the necessity of faith in action, and the...
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Valued: Heartfelt Devotion
In this episode of the Abiding in the Faith podcast, Pastor Jason emphasizes the importance of loving God with all one's heart, soul, mind, and strength, as outlined in Mark 12. The conversation delves into the significance of heartfelt devotion, the connection between loving God and loving one's...
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Psalm 119: Crafted for Faithfulness: Part 2
In this episode of the Abiding in the Faith podcast, Pastor Jason explores the themes of transformation, faithfulness, and community through the lens of Psalm 119. He emphasizes the importance of allowing God to shape us like clay, reflecting His mercy to others, and the necessity of fellowship...
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Psalm 119: Crafted for Faithfulness Part 1
In this episode of the Abiding in the Faith podcast, Pastor Jason explores the themes of purpose, divine intention, and comfort through the lens of Psalm 119. He shares personal anecdotes about crafting a pond as a metaphor for God's intentional design in our lives. The discussion emphasizes the...
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Psalm 119: The Blessing of Affliction
In this message, Jason explores the theme of affliction as a blessing, drawing from Psalm 119. He discusses how affliction can lead to spiritual growth, align believers back to God, and reveal His goodness. The message emphasizes theimportance of viewing trials as opportunities for learning and...
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A Ministry Moment: Letters to Jesus
Have you ever written a letter to Jesus? I know that I have, and so did a young teen. Today's ministry moment will encourage you, as I was encouraged by this young man who wrote his own letter to Jesus. Hopefully, you will write a letter to Jesus yourself. Letters of praise, of requests, of…
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Psalm 119: The Lord is mine and I am His
I love how the Psalmist begins this portion of Psalm 119from the NLT. He states without apology, “Lord, you are mine!” He is exclaiming that he has a personal, close relationship with the Lord God Almighty. As followers of Jesus, we can also publicly claim that the Lord is mine because we believe...
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Psalm 119: Where is God?
Where is God? That is a question you will most likely hear someone ask when tragedy strikes. In today's episode, we will answer this question as we look at the Psalmist's response in Psalm 119 and the life of Job in the Bible. We will look at Psalm 119:49:56 during today's message.
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Psalm 119: A God Whom You Can Trust
Welcome to Abiding in the Faith Ministries. We have been in a ‘Strengthening Your Walk’ discipleship series in Psalm 119, titled ‘Walking with the Word’. Psalm 119’s overall theme is how the word of God is a lamp unto our feet. The word of God illuminates the path of a follower of Jesus as a…
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Psalm 119: Incline My Heart and Change My Perspective
In this portion of Psalm 119, we observe the psalmist sending God an email or a DM, as it were, by prayer, asking God to teach and give him understanding. He asks the Lord to lead him and to help him incline his heart to follow him. He asks God to help him change his perspective by turning his…
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Psalm 119: Enlarge My Heart
In today's portion of Psalm 119, we seek to strengthen our walk with Jesus by examining areas of the psalmist’s heart as he desires God to enlarge his heart. The Psalmist seeks God for revival, honesty, strength, and faithfulness, and concludes with a heart that continually returns to God.
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A Ministry Moment: Fuel the Desire
The Bible tells us to receive the Word, to cry out for insight and understanding. As followers of Jesus, we must tune our ears to wisdom and concentrate on understanding. If we want to fuel our desire to obey God, we must learn from His Word. If you desire to know God more abundantly, this…
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Psalm 119: Overwhelmed by the Word of Truth
The Psalmist in Psalm 119:20 said that he was "always overwhelmed with a desire for your regulations." NLT How did the Psalmist become so overwhelmed by God's word that he used God's word to fuel his desire to obey him? We will discuss this and more in today's podcast as we continue in our...
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Psalm 119: Crouching Sin, Hidden Word
Sin is crouching at your door. What will you do about it? In today's portion of Psalm 119, we discuss the effects of sin and the fact that when we have the Word of God hidden in our hearts, we have an essential tool to avoid being pounced on. Tune in to today's second episode of our Strengthening...
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A Podcasthon Ministry Moment: A God Who Cares
This Ministry Moment is a special podcast episode devoted to Charity Awareness during Podcasthon Week. Our God cares so much for us that Christians give back to God by partnering with a charity to show the love of Jesus to others. Tune in to hear more about a God who cares and why God cares for you.
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Psalm 119: I Choose the Jesus Way
This is the first episode in our new series called “Psalm 119: Walking with the Word.” We will take a deep dive into Psalm 119, which is all about choices. We will learn about the Psalmist's commitments to God throughout the Psalm and how God’s word dominated the Psalmist's choices and lifestyle....
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Valued: Valuing the Word of God
How can we, as believers in Jesus, better grasp the Word of God and allow God's truth to have a bigger impact on our lives? The Psalmist who wrote Psalm 119 chose to allow the Word ofGod to dominate his days. The Psalmist learned the value of God’s Word and decided to follow the Word. Just as the...
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Strengthen Your Walk: Walking in the Storm
It's been said that a person is either entering a storm, currently in the middle of a storm or exiting a storm. As believers in Jesus, we will experience different "storms" as we walk with Jesus Christ. Today's podcast looks at the Apostle Paul's response to a storm that he was in from the book…
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Strengthen Your Walk: Walk to Finish Well
Every athlete who begins a race wants to finish it. The athlete must prepare his mind to train and equip his body to endure the race. In Paul’s final letter to Timothy, Paul advised his young apprentice to run his race for Christ. Paul encouraged Timothy to always be sober-minded, endure…
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Strengthen Your Walk: Walk with Joy
The apostle Paul expressed the joy he had found by having a deeper relationship with Jesus. In today's episode, we will look at Paul's letter, Philippians, to see where Paul found his joy and how we can experience the joy that Paul writes about.
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Walking with Zeal
As followers of Jesus Christ, our aim is to please Him in everything that we do. We should be zealous for God and zealous to serve Jesus. In today's episode, we will examine the Apostle Paul's zealousness and discuss how we can learn to be zealous for the Lord.
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Walking in the Spirit
What do gardening and pond building do with walking in the Spirit? In today's podcast episode, we continue our "Strengthening Your Walk" series by answering this question as we look at Galatians 5:16-25. The Apostle Paul examines the difference between walking in the Spirit and the flesh in these...
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Walk by Faith, Not by Sight
The Apostle Paul walked by faith and not by sight. In today's podcast episode, we will learn some ways from Paul to walk by faith and not by sight today. Walking by Faith requires Biblical Faith, an Eternal Purpose, and an Eternal focus, all leading to the aim to please the Lord with our lives.
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Strengthen Your Walk: Revival Begins with You
Meet King Josiah from 2 Chronicles 34. Josiah experienced revival by seeking the Lord through personal reflection and repentance. Then, he went on to spread revival throughout the land. In today's episode, we can learn a few steps from Josiah's life that can help us strengthen our walk with Jesus...
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Strengthen Your Walk: Noah's example
Today, we will examine a specific person in the Bible who walked with God; his name is Noah, from Genesis 6:9 to 22. The Bible states that Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God. Why did God view Noah as a...
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Ministry Moment: Highlights and Close Calls
We all experience highlights and close calls as we walk in faith following Jesus Christ. In today's ministry moment, we will preview some of Paul's close calls while preaching the gospel. As we follow in Paul's footsteps, we will experience the same; by looking at Paul's pattern, we can gain some...
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Valued: Valuing the Love of God
The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV, "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things,...
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An Unfaithful Family in Shiloh.
Today's study is in 1 Samuel 22:12-35 where we meet the High Priest Eli and his family at God's temple in Shiloh. Eli and his sons became unfaithful to God and pursued their desires. Tune in to hear their story and how their sins finally caught up to them.
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Acquainted With Grief
We have all grieved over the love of a lost one at one time or another. Jesus Christ was a man acquainted with grief and a man of sorrows. In today's Ministry Moment, listen to discover a few steps to process your grief and why Jesus can relate to your pain.
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Valued: The Keys of Prayer
In this episode of the Abiding in the Faith podcast, we will look at the Lord's prayer and see the keys to prayer that Jesus gave his disciples. We have received many keys to prayer, but there is only one master key: the Lord himself.
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A prayer of desperation and a prayer of praise
We have all been in a moment of desperation. Where we come up against a difficulty, a struggle, a Chasm, or a mountain as if it were where we have no place to go but to God. For Christians, turn and gaze into heaven in prayer and ask God to intervene. Then God does intervene. Sometimes, he…
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Path of Obedience: A faithful family from Ramah
This episode begins with a faithful family from Ramah from the book of 1 Samuel. Elkanah and his family are on a path of obedience as they obey God's commandments. Hear the beginning of their story on today's podcast.
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The Path of Obedience: Transitions.
Today's podcast episode is the first in a series within a series called "The Path of Obedience" in a study of First and Second Samuel. Transitions are a part of everyone's life. We have all gone through a transition. We either are going into a transition, in the middle of one, or exiting one. The...
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Ministry Moment: The Lord's promise to seek and to save.
Prophesied long ago, before the birth of Jesus, the Sovereign Lord told Ezekiel that He would come to seek out and save his people. In today's ministry moment, we will look at the words of the Lord from Ezekiel and from Jesus himself.
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Valued: To Seek and to Save
God values us enough to send his son on a seek-to-save mission to rescue those who are lost. In this episode, we will look at the story of Zacchaeus and why the Lord had to be a guest in his home that day.
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Ministry Moment: Level up in 2024
In today's episode, we reflect on how God has worked through Abiding in the Faith Ministries in 2023. We then look ahead to 2024, wanting to continue to level up spiritually.
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Encounter What's Precious
Everyone at one point in their life will have an encounter with Jesus. Some will hear that Jesus is the Son of God. Some encounter Jesus in their youth, and some advance in years. Some will have a superficial encounter with Jesus that turns genuine. The Apostle Paul encountered Jesus on the…
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The Eye of the Beholder
What we value is found in the eye of the beholder. What do we value the most? Is it a prized possession, our relationship with others, or our relationship with Christ? As we begin this new series called "Valued: Valuing God's precious cornerstone," we will learn what Jesus values so we can value...
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The Completed Picture
Today's study is a recap of the book of Hebrews. Pastor Jason points out why Jesus is our great shepherd and the missing puzzle piece that completes the picture.
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Practical Principles for Christian Living: Remember your leaders
Hebrews 13:7 reminds us to remember our leaders and to see the good that came from their lives. In today's study, we will look at the traits of a Biblical leader from the Apostle Paul's message to the Ephesian elders from Acts 20 and how Paul's lifestyle influenced other leaders.
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A Ministry Moment: Death is but a doorway.
An ancient Egyptian proverb says, “Death is but a doorway to new life. We live today, and we will live again. In many forms, we will return.” The Egyptian proverb is only partially correct, though. Death is a doorway to new life; we are alive today and will be alive after we die. When we pass on...
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Practical Principles for Christian Living: The Secret to Contentment
What is the secret to contentment? Well, it depends on who you ask. In today's episode, we will hear the Apostle Paul's answer. Paul had found the secret to contentment, which was not found in being in need or having plenty, but in what? We will keep that a secret.
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Ministry Moment: Even Thieves Need Living Water
During Jesus’s ministry, he approached any person, no matter their sin, and spoke to them about their current spiritual need for living water. As Christians, we have this living water residing in us, and only Jesus can saturate our souls to look upon people with a concern for their spiritual...
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A Bible-teaching podcast ministry of Pastor Jason Sykora. This podcast is for the Christian who wants to strengthen their walk with Jesus Christ so God can be made known.
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