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On Being Christian
by Pastor Nolan G Ruby
We are redefining (or more accurately stated - we are correctly defining), what being a Christian means. Too often who we claim to be has become nothing more than a matter of who we say we are, but who we really are has much more to do with what we do and how we live. The “On Being Christian” Podcast aims at removing the title “Christian” from being nothing more than a NOUN people use to define themselves and placing it back in the VERB category. Meaning it is an action that people practice to define themselves. This Podcast won’t be what you think it is, but you might find it is exactly what you need it to be.
Episodes
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122 | Finding Value & Fault Correctly
Humanity seems to be as good at finding value where we want, as we are at finding fault where we desire. The issue seems to be that we always seem to find value in ourselves and what we think, and we find fault in others and what they think. What do you suppose would change if we found value and...
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121 | Why We Come to Christ
The notion of coming to Christ is not a new one for most people, but sometimes, why we come to Christ has more to do with whether or not we actually have a relationship with him. As is the case for most things, why we do something is often more important than how we do it or just the fact that we...
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120 | Repentance that Saves
Repentance may be perhaps one of the most misunderstood aspects of Biblical Doctrine within Christianity today. It has been defined incorrectly as "a work" for many years by most "scholars", which has led to a lot of confusion with respect to genuine Salvation. This episode aims at understanding...
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119 | Salvation Without Faith?
This episode is an important one, although regrettably, not a new subject of debate within Christianity. I have recently beeb brought into a conversation with respect to the idea of whether or not an individual in their "natural state" (a lost individual or an individual who has not accepted the...
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118 | Having the Correct Focus
In life we are asked to focus on many things, not all of it is helpful, and very little of it is necessary (or at least not as necessary as we may think). How do we have the "correct" focus? Is there even such a thing as correct focus? There is focus that benefits and focus that hinders, and that...
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117 | Correction is Coming
There’s two things that you can do with doctrinal correction - you can accept it or you can reject it. The acceptance of doctrinal correction (done with love and compassion) will lead to personal blessings and fulfillment in your life, not to mention that God can then use you for the purpose in...
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116 | When It’s Too Late To Obey
God will always forgive, when we seek that forgiveness by repentance through faith. There's no question about that, by the study of God's Word. However, at times, even though we have received forgiveness, we're still left dealing with the consequences of our disobedience toward God. This episode…
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115 | The Two Desires
Contrary to what many may believe, there are only really two desires in this world. The desire of the Lord God (the Designer), and the desire of Satan (the Deceiver). The Deceiver keeps you from the Designer by many methods, but none are more effective than comfort and complacency. This episode…
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114 | The Dangerous Mentality of Experts
I've noticed a trend in which we are increasingly being told that we need to surrender what we think to the will of those who have more "expertise" than we do. Except when it comes to serving the Lord and living in accordance to the Doctrine of the Bible, we are commanded to walk by faith and not...
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113 | As the Hour Approaches
Each one of us will have a final hour. Our final hour is inevitable, but where we will be after that, by God’s grace, is changeable now. Those who wait to deal with their final hour until it comes, will find that they waited too long. Whereas those who allow the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to deal...
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112 | The Established Heart
My Grandfather used to tell me, "the world is full of things that men have started, however it's not so full of things that men have finished." As a Christian, to run your course with confidence, requires an established life; to have an established life, you must possess an established heart, and...
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111 | Exploiting Vulnerability
There are a lot of concepts within ministerial leadership in today’s culture that are implemented with the justification that the vulnerable are being helped. However, what you’ll find from the Word of God is that when you attempt to do the work of the Lord differently than how the Word of God...
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110 | The God of the Living
This episode is about the God of the living, and how He can only be understood by faith. We tend to attempt to place God into categories, which we then attempt to control. But understanding God has always had more to do with accepting what He says than it has had to do with logically attempting…
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109 | We Will Not Forsake
Many times we like to think ourselves capable of accomplishing the things we intend to do, without actually making any plans to do them. In the same way, we tend to think declaring ourselves to be Christian is all it takes to “live” as a Christian, when in reality, there are some procedural steps...
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108 | On Relationships
There are very few things in life that can affect you for the better or for the worse, like relationships. There are beneficial relationships and there are destructive relationships; there are very few relationships that don’t lean towards one of these two extremes. This episode is about the...
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107 | God’s Desire for His People
So much of cultural Christianity today revolves around the question of “what can God do for me?”, or “what can church do for me?”. What if being a Christian had less to do with what our desire from God is, and more to do what God’s desire from us is? This episode attempts to answer from God’s…
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106 | Who Is Your Captain?
There are very few decisions in life that will affect you as much as the decision you make concerning who’s in charge of your life. For Christians, the decision of who is in charge (who your captain is), should be clear, but as I look at our Christian culture today it seems to me that we may have...
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105 | God Never Speaks Without Reason
There's a certain level of reverant attention that folks seem to give to men who speak with clarity and purpose (as long as that clarity and purpose comes from a place of correct understanding). However, when the Lord speaks, we seem to have developed a culture that says it's ok to form…
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104 | Remaining Faithful in Hardship
Most of the time we tend to think of being faithful as that attribute which we portray when everything is going just right. The reality, however, is that the attribute of faithfulness becomes most valuable when everything is going wrong. This episode is about a few realities from the Bible that I...
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103 | Why We Feel Alone
I think it's fair to say that part of the reality of life is that there will be times when we feel alone. This episode is about the fact that that reality does not need to occur perhaps as much as it does. The truth is, as Christians, (regardless of how we feel) we are never alone according to...
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102 | Biblical Multitasking
The idea that serving the Lord will be a free and easy endeavor without any resistance seems to be popular in today's "Christian" culture. However, the Word of God knows nothing of easy Christianity, and you might find that God asks you to be more than a "one-trick pony". The On Being Christian...
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101 | He Sought for a Man
This episode is indeed about the fact that God is looking for qualified individuals to serve Him. However, what may not always be understood is that the qualifications that God is interested in are not based off who you are or what you can produce, but rather they are based off who Christ is and...
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100 | The Weakness in Our Strength
The majority of us seem to have no real issue accepting acknowledgment and praise for our strengths. However, a majority of us also seem to not be so readily accepting of the criticism and corrections of our weaknesses. It is however, the awareness and acceptance of our weaknesses that adds to…
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099 | What God Gives His Man
The calling to speak for the Lord is not a small thing. Nor is it (as we have attempted to make it) a definable thing within the perimeters of any specific religion. Speaking for God can only be done when speaking from the Word of God and by the power of God. The duty is ours, the method and...
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098 | His Help = My Health | Deep Calls to Deep
I have a very close friend who once said - “the reason Christians are having an identity crisis, is because they were never meant to have one (an identity outside of Christ, that is).” This episode is about that the fact that the help of His countenance (Ps.42:5) is the health of my countenance...
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097 | Slow to Hear. Swift to Speak.
In many situations, we find ourselves acting much too quickly on things we should be taking our time on, and procrastinating or taking way too much time on things we should be moving swiftly on. The Bible does have a little bit to say about what proper behavior should look like concerning swift…
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096 | Calling Down Fire Again
I'm sure you've heard a version of the phrase- Hard Men make Good Times, Good Times make Soft Men, Soft Men make Bad Times, Bad Times make Hard Men... and so the cycle continues. What may not be realized, is that this same cycle can play itself out in the course of one man's life. You can succeed...
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095 | A Crisis of Comfort
Many times, in trying situations, we tend to seek the comfort which we've been conditioned by society to think will be helpful to us. However, many times the "comfort" we seek in all reality just introduces a different form of crisis. The worth is in the work, not the reward, and that's what this...
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094 | Lessons from Disorder
Many times in the process of gathering information to make good decisions, we analyze what works and try to recreate it. However in many instances, if we took the time to learn what not to do from situations that went sideways, we might learn more quickly and throughly how to have a more…
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093 | Is God Fair?
The question of whether or not God is a fair God is often one of the most asked questions that I encounter when talking with people who are considering Christianity. In this episode, my desire is to first show the Biblical Doctrine that God is absolutely fair, but then perhaps more importantly…
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092 | What is A Good Man? No.2
At times if we're not careful, we tend to use Biblical phrases for secular purposes. The term "a good man", is objectively defined by the Word of God, but we may have swapped out that definition for a more subjective one in keeping with our own opinions. This episode is about what it means to be…
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091 | What is A Good Man? No.1
At times if we're not careful, we tend to use Biblical phrases for secular purposes. The term "a good man", is objectively defined by the Word of God, but we may have swapped out that definition for a more subjective one in keeping with our own opinions. This episode is about what it means to be…
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090 | Trouble
The idea of trouble, as we experience it ourselves and/or see others experiencing times of trouble, is interesting because it's never as hard to understand that you're in trouble as perhaps it is to understand how you got into trouble, or more importantly, how to get out of it. Knowing that there...
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089 | Significance
I think it's safe to assume that most of us would like to have "significant" lives and make "meaningful" contributions, to know that who we are and what we do matters. However, many times we do this by comparing what we can see, understand, and accept as valuable to what we define as invaluable,...
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088 | The Christ of God
Across "religious" beliefs there is a general acceptance as to who God is, however there is widespread debate and confusion as to who Jesus Christ is. This episode makes very clear, from the perspective of Biblical Doctrine, exactly who the Christ of God is. The On Being Christian Podcast is a...
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087 | Misplaced Fear
Fear is a powerful emotion. When fear manifests itself as reverence (fear) towards God, it becomes very appropriate and useful in the Christian life. However when fear is misplaced, it becomes a disease. Fear, as a disease, causes us to make inappropriate and unhelpful decisions with respect to...
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086 | Pure Religion
The word religion has become a term we use to define almost any position that anyone might take on any issue. Pure Religion however, is actually definable by the Doctrine of the Word of God. The Bible says that Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, so I'm not sure when we decided that we...
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085 | Why Obedience Can Be So Hard
Somehow being a Christian has been allowed to become about culture, status and experience, when in reality being a Christian is really just about being obedient to the Word of God. In fact, culture, status and experience can get in the way of being just simply obedient. This episode is about the...
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084 | Our Problems vs God’s Power
At times we face significant challenges/problems in this life, some of which have the power to change the course of our life. Some of these challenges and problems are just part of the human experience, and some, as powerful as they are, can be the result of our own foolish decisions. Whichever…
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083 | Look Up
Our society is becoming increasingly more filled with chaos and anarchy; we’ve never had access to more information, while at the same time we’ve never been more inept at utilizing the information. We have all the “smarts” in the world and yet we seem to have zero wisdom, this causes anxiety and...
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082 | Christian Standard Operational Procedures No.2
In the Military, we had an acronym we called SOPs, which stands for Standard Operational Procedures. SOPs served as a selection of known, unchanging responsibilities, so that even if the plan fell apart, we knew the fundamentals to fall back on. In the Bible, we find some Christian SOPs, and if…
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081 | Christian Standard Operational Procedures No.1
In the Military, we had an acronym we called SOPs, which stands for Standard Operational Procedures. SOPs served as a selection of known, unchanging responsibilities, so that even if the plan fell apart, we knew the fundamentals to fall back on. In the Bible, we find some Christian SOPs, and if…
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080 | Obedience
In many ways we tend to look for reasons to make things more difficult than they really are, it’s one of the ways we attempt to make ourselves feel better about not taking immediate action (we say we’re “deliberating” or “thinking about it”). This episode attempts to put all of that nonsense…
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079 | The False Prophet
In our society, we like to try to convince ourselves that there are "styles of truth" or grey areas, between the truth and the lies. When it comes to those who tell you about God, there are Preachers of God's Word (those who preach the truth), and there are False Prophets (which is literally...
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078 | The Provoking Father
This episode is about the influence of a father. A father (however active or involved in his children's life he may or may not be), will have a negative influence or a positive influence on his children. It is impossible for him to have no influence. We will use the Word of God to show the stark...
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077 | The Devouring Mother
This episode is about the damage that can be done when the one who should be protecting you and advocating and preparing for your future success, instead advocates and prepares for their own personal continued success, because of an unbiblical and consuming focus on their own self. The On Being...
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076 | The Price of Partial Service
So many of our life systems are set up from the perspective of what's called "risk management" - we purchase insurance to protect ourselves against the potential of loss, we form boundaries around our friend groups to keep people we don't want to interact with separate from us, we look for jobs...
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075 | Awareness of Self
This is the final installment of our three-part series concerning Awareness. We've looked at Awareness of the Pastor, and the required Awareness of the Brethren (fellow Christians), now we're going to take a close look at perhaps the most difficult form of awareness -Awareness of Self. Not in...
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074 | Awareness of the Brethren
Continuing our look at 'Awareness', in this episode we’re talking about the 2nd thing - Awareness of the Brethren. Because of today's technology we all seem to be very aware of many things which have nothing to do with our duty to the Lord and our Christian walk. The Scripture lays out three...
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073 | Awareness of the Pastor
Over the course of the next 3 episodes, we're going to be looking at the concept of 'Awareness'. Specifically, three things that according to the Bible we should be very conscious of. Because of today's technology we all seem to be very aware of many things which have nothing to do with our duty…
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We are redefining (or more accurately stated - we are correctly defining), what being a Christian means. Too often who we claim to be has become nothing more than a matter of who we say we are, but who we really are has much more to do with what we do and how we live. The “On Being Christian” Podcast aims at removing the title “Christian” from being nothing more than a NOUN people use to define themselves and placing it back in the VERB category. Meaning it is an action that people practice to define themselves. This Podcast won’t be what you think it is, but you might find it is exactly what you need it to be.
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Pastor Nolan G Ruby
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