GRINDIT podcast
We at GRINDIT want to encourage people to keep going, to keep grinding, when life gets hard. Quitting is not an option!
About the show
Let's face it...life sometimes is hard and can just suck. When we are faced with life's challenges we can be discouraged, get tired, and become weary. What we need is motivation, encouragement, and a helping hand that keeps us going. That's the idea of GRINDIT! We find our strength to endure when we focus on Jesus. God's own Son wasn't exempt from life's challenges and He didn't do anything to deserve what he went through! And yet He did...willingly, therefore we find our hope in Him.
Episodes
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Episode 27: John 10 Part Two The Good Shepherd
October 1st, 2020 | 25 mins 54 secs
hanukkah, light, menorah, winter
In the second part of John 10 the crowd just wants to hear it plainly from the horse's mouth, "Are you the Messiah?" but Jesus tells them "You don't believe anything I tell you but you could at least believe the works I do." They wanted to stone him but he escapes. There's a ton of evidence to back up Jesus' claim but even today, people don't believe. They want to do their own thing without responsibility and so even after weighing the evidence they walk away. Will you do the same?
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Episode 26: John 10 Part One The Good Shepherd
October 1st, 2020 | 27 mins 7 secs
crowd, good, jesus, shepherd, sin, temple
In John 10 Jesus says He is the good shepherd and he tries to persuade the crowd to be sheep. He tells them a story of a thief that comes over the wall and how the sheep are frightened and run off. But he is the shepherd that comes in the gate and there is peace among the sheep because they know it's the shepherd. David tells us Psalm 23 "the Lord is my shepherd" and he lists some characteristics of the shepherd. Are you going to trust Jesus to be your shepherd are you going to keep trying to do things your way and make a mess of it all?
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Episode 25: John 9 The Blind Man Healed
September 25th, 2020 | 29 mins 51 secs
blind, healing, jesus, mud pie, pharisees
Jesus heals a blind man on the Sabbath and he becomes an instant witness to his friends, family, and even the Pharisees.
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Episode 24: John 8: "I Am"
September 18th, 2020 | 37 mins 14 secs
adultery, compassion, grace, love, mercy, stones, stoning, teaching, temple
Jesus continues to try to explain to people that he is the very Messiah they have been looking for but they just can't get past the idea that they know his family, and since they believe the Messiah will just show up, they don't believe him. And it comes to a boiling point at the end of the chapter as Jesus says two words, "I AM", and they pick up stones to stone him to death. But before the dialogue Jesus displays what we we as christians are to be about as he shows grace and mercy to a woman caught in adultery.
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Episode 23: Jeremiah 29:11 In Context
September 15th, 2020 | 33 mins 40 secs
babylon, destroyed, jeremiah, jerusalem, temple
People use Jeremiah 29:11 quiet often but they really have no idea the meaning behind the verse. My goal in this podcast is to give you the context of Jeremiah 29:11 so the next time you use it or see it, you'll truly understand what God was saying!
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Episode 22: John 7 Jesus Goes Incognito
September 12th, 2020 | 28 mins
brothers, disbelief, leaders, religious, temple
Jesus is challenged by his (half) brothers to go to the Festival of Shelters and prove himself because they don't believe in him. While there he goes to the temple and teaches showing no fear in the face of those who want him dead.
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Episode 21: John 6 Part Two: Will You Walk Away Too?
September 4th, 2020 | 28 mins 31 secs
blood, drink, flesh, jesus, passover
This crowd has followed Jesus after getting their bellies full of bread and fish. Jesus tells them all they have to do is believe. Will they believe or walk away?
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Episode 20: John 6 Part One: Feeding the 5,000?
September 4th, 2020 | 26 mins 53 secs
bread, fish, full, lunchable, saved
We hear this story called the feeding of the 5,000 but that was just the count of the men. In reality, there's more like 10,000 there including women and children. Jesus feeds them with two fish and five loaves of bread. Would that be enough to convince them to believe?
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Episode 19: John 5 Part Two: Jesus and the Religious Leaders
August 28th, 2020 | 30 mins 59 secs
compassion, grace, jesus, love, mercy
Jesus tells the religious leaders he is from the Father and is doing the Father's Will. And not only that he gives several witnesses to back up his claim!
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Episode 18: Mary Gamboa Interview
August 27th, 2020 | 38 mins 28 secs
cedar, friends, mary, miscarriage, point
Mary shares one of her life challenges, having a miscarriage, and how she overcame it. Thanks for listening!
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Episode 17: John 5 Part One The Healing of the Paralyzed Man
August 25th, 2020 | 33 mins 48 secs
blind, healed, jesus. eternity, lame, one, paralyzed, temporary
Jesus visits the area by the Pool of Bethesda and he heals a paralyzed man. But what about the others?
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Episode 16: John 4 Part Three
August 21st, 2020 | 29 mins 1 sec
discriminate, government, grace, mercy, official
We finish up John 4 by looking at a government official who was desperate to find Jesus because his son was dying from a fever.
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Episode 15: John 4 Part Two
August 20th, 2020 | 29 mins 44 secs
grace, mercy, samaritan, water pot, woman
A Continuation of the Samaritan woman and Jesus
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Episode 14: John 4 Part One The Samaritan Woman Meets the Messiah
August 20th, 2020 | 29 mins 46 secs
choice, messiah, racism, samaritan, well, woman
This is my favorite chapter in the New Testament. Jesus, a Jew, walks on Samaritan soil blowing all the religious rules out of the water, has a conversation with a Samaritan woman, and a village is changed because of it!
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Episode 13: Mark Howard Interview
August 19th, 2020 | 34 mins 4 secs
encouragement, hope, partnership, pastor
In this episode I interview the pastor at Partnership Christian Church in Maryville, TN.
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Episode 12: Interview with Adam Cook
August 18th, 2020 | 34 mins 54 secs
christian, cop, drummer, overcome, police
Adam shares some of his life challenges and how he has overcome them.