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Our God-given way to put sin right
TRANSCRIPT Sin — and God’s gracious answer to our most pressing problem Hello again from Ian Greig and Alison Greig with another episode of The Living Word podcast to encourage you and get you hearing God for yourself and grow into relationship with Him. That’s a whole lot different from religion…
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Truly Knowing God leads to seeing ourselves in a renewed way — as He sees us
|| Truly Knowing God leads to seeing ourselves in a renewed way — as He sees us || Ian & Alison Greig talk us through this episode which starts with the story in Exodus 2 of how the Israelites in Egypt were cruelly oppressed under a new Pharaoh, but held on to their faith in God and loyalty to…
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Learn The Turn
BIBLE PASSAGES These are the Bible readings set for Sunday, August 20 in the interdenominational scheme that many different churches and chapels follow. Ideally read these first and then the podcast becom,es a reflection. Psalm 133…
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In His Grip (revised)
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In His Grip — episode for August 13, 2023
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God's Gracious Generosity To Us
Hello again and thanks for dropping in on The Living Word podcast. It's Ian Greig here with episode for Aug 6, 2023. It's a simplified, compact format over this summer season — holiday time for many, and a lot of exciting changes going on for us as a family as we're gaining grandchildren and…
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How Word and Spirit Together Make Us Fruitful
See also: Bible study: https://thelivingword.substack.com/p/july-16-gods-purpose-flows-through?sd=pf Article post: https://thelivingword.substack.com/p/becoming-fruitful-for-god-living?sd=pf Video: https://thelivingword.substack.com/p/becoming-fruitful-for-god-living-e5f?sd=pf This is a public...
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The Living Word podcast with Ian & Alison Greig
The story is from May 21 (pre-Pentecost) but the discussion takes it forward. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thelivingword.substack.com
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How to Live the Jesus Way
|| How to Live the Jesus Way || • The call to be a disciple of Jesus is to join all believers in being a very different kind of priesthood, where everybody represents God to man, and intercedes for man with God Based on these Bible readings widely used by different churches and chapels on Sunday,...
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Jesus, seen and unseen but always saving
The story part of the podcast is woven through these Bible readings which are NIV. You can find your favourite version thropugh the links: Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19 Luke 24:13-35 Acts 2:14, 36-41 1 Peter 1:17-23 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...
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What keeps Christian joyful? Knowing that Jesus is alive!
This episode is based on the following Bible readings which are the ones set for Sunday, April 16, in the interdenominational scheme widely used by both churches and chapels. Psalm 16 John 20:19-31 — The resurrected Jesus appears to the disciples Acts 2:14, 22-32 — Peter tells how he witnessed…
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Why are Christians Joyful about their Lord Dying on a Cross?
A story told through these Bible readings set for April 2 (Lent 6) in the interdenominational revised common lectionary used by many churches and chapels. Psalm 31:9-16 Isaiah 50:4-9 Matthew 27:11-54 Philippians 2:5-11 BIble study post: Story post: Video: This is a public episode. If you would…
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God wants us to join Him in His work of revival
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Falsehood vs Faithfulness and How To Know The Difference
Welcome to another episode in The Living Word series for Sunday, March 19. The story this week explores the spiritual tension that exists between what is of God, and true, and what is evil and deceptive. We understand how this plays out in a story which takes us from the anointing of a...
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This Is the Story of God's Amazing Grace
These are the full Bible readings set for March 12 (in the widely-used interdenominational scheme). We use excerpted versions as part of the storytelling. This is the Bible study (on Substack) that lies behind the story: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...
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How Can God Change My Life?
Intimacy with God and new spiritual life is God's promise to us — but as Jesus teaches, we must be born again by receiving Him into our hearts as Lord. Abram let go of his life to God; and Jesus told Nicodemus that he needed to, in a spiritual rebirth — and that is how we become Christians. Here...
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For all of us trapped by historic sin, God has a way out
Based on these Bible readings (set for Sunday, Feb. 26 in the interdenominational scheme shared by many different churches). Psalm 32 Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 — Adam and Eve are tempted to disobey God Matthew 4:1-11 — Satan's testing fails to tempt Jesus into sin Romans 5:12-19 — Our choice is to...
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Listen! How God Spoke on the Mountain Top and Speaks To Us Today
Based on the following Bible readings set for Sunday, February 19, in the interdenominational readings scheme used by a broad spectrum of churches and chapels. Psalm 99 Exodus 24:12-18 — God summons Moses to wait for Him on Mount Sinai Matthew 17:1-9 — God’s voice is heard as Jesus is…
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Feb. 12 episode — Learn What Being Spiritual Really Means
• As Christians who have trusted Jesus as Saviour and Lord, we are not under law — but the pattern starts there and moves on through Jesus enabling us to live right by demonstration and by His Spirit This week’s episode is based on these Bible readings which are the ones set for February 12...
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Are You a Disciple on Mission with Jesus — or a Church Club Devotee?
Are you a disciple on mission with Jesus — or a church club devotee? What a true worshipper and disciple looks like Much of what passes for worship is insincere, but the Lord is seeking those who, empowered and enabled by His Spirit, will be evident as salt and light to those around them There is…
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How God Gives Us His Nature To Live His Way
Living God's way has sometimes been seen as austerity, religiosity and constant penitence, but the Holy Spirit helps us see ourselves as new creations, free from selfish sin and enabled to live well towards God and others. || Do let us have your questions about this episode — or the wider topic…
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Light in a dark place — the kingdom of God revealed
Hundreds of years before Jesus was baptised, anointed by the Holy Spirit, tested in the wilderness and heard proclaiming that people should turn from their independent ways and recognise the kingdom of God near them — Isaiah prophesied that God’s light would impact the spiritual darkness of the...
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Renewal — How Jesus Enables Us to Live the Best Version of Ourselves
Jesus doesn't say to us "You must live better!" He says, by trusting in Me and receiving my Holy Spirit, I enable you to live your best life! The decision to believe and trust Jesus as our Lord and invite His Holy Spirit to fill us, allows Him to make us holy from the inside — to be His light to...
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Who is Jesus, where is Jesus? How mystery leads us to revelation
Epiphany means realisation or revelation — the 'Eureka moment' — and it is an ancient celebration of the time Jesus (probably a toddler by now) is worshipped as Lord and honoured by Gentile men of influence from afar. Jesus Christ was always going to be the spiritual light noticed by people far…
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We Celebrate God Made Man — How Much Do We Trust Him?
|| We Celebrate God Made Man — How Much Do We Trust Him? || • The miracle birth is God's promise having become the reality of Jesus, who is 'God With Us', present and personal in a relating way, not a religious way. Foretold by Isaiah and other OT prophets, God's Son being born as man took place…
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Holy Dissatisfaction Gets Us Reaching for God's Freedom
Story for Dec. 11 narrated by Ian Greig with Bible readings by Alison Greig EXCERPT This week focuses on Revival and why we often see two opposing directions happening at once — which is difficult to understand. But it is a tension which God can and does use to stir us out of our passivity! Based...
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When Jesus Comes Near It Changes Everything
Links to related pages:Dec 4 VideoDec 4 Post Dec 4 Bible Study page /////// For individuals facing difficulties, for churches struggling with decline or division, the answer is to make more room — for Jesus to draw close! This is a season to turn from doing our own things and asserting our own...
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Why as Christians We Never Get to Stand Down
• Late November view from Hay Tor, Dartmoor, Devon UK || Story told by Ian Greig with readings by Alison Greig || Jesus talked about His return with a sense of immediacy — we need to be right with God through receiving Him as Saviour before He comes! Jesus WILL come again, without warning — a…
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How God Offers Us the Gift of Being Made Right with Him
How God Offers Us the Gift of Being Made Right with Him This week's episode is about a hard-to-believe offer that God makes us, through us turning to Jesus in faith. Believing Him, not performing any religious or other 'good' actions. This is staggering generosity from God, which is why many of…
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Seeing through the Pain to the Promise
Seeing through the Pain to the Promise Episode for Sunday, November 13, of a weekly series based on the set Bible readings widely used by both churches and chapels • Our world seems to be ruled by chaos and confusion, but with faith we can see through the pain of that to God working His purposes...
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God's People with God's Truth Can Counter Man's Trouble
God's way and God's truth has always been attacked by spiritual forces in rebellion against God, played out in the realities we experience. Conflicts in the church have a long history. Paul, Silas and Timothy experienced violent persecution and contended with false teaching that sought to turn…
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How Faith Comes: by Hearing and Believing What God Says
The story for Sunday, October 30, based on the set readings widely used by different churches and chapels. Here are links to the Bible readings: Psalm 119:137-144 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119%3A137-144&version=NIV Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 — Prophets appeal about continuing...
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God Says Those Who Seek Me Find Me
Sunset silhouettes the tall mill building in Weobley, Herefordshire, UK This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thelivingword.substack.com
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Getting Better at Faith — Learning to Live in Partnership with God
View down Glen Nevis towards Britain’s highest mountain • Episode 22021016 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thelivingword.substack.com
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