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    <title>GRINDIT podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Belly”</title>
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    <description>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. 
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    <itunes:subtitle>We at GRINDIT want to encourage people to keep going, to keep grinding, when life gets hard. Quitting is not an option!</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:author>Randall Tucker</itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary>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. 
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  <title>Episode 523: Titus 1 Part 2 Liars, Evil Beasts, and Lazy Gluttons</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The people of Crete weren't very well looked upon by their own prophets and Paul confirms it...</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>No, we are not talking about your ex in this podcast! Paul is writing to Titus who has been left behind to establish some leadership in the church at Crete. The people of Crete are known as deceitful and not very well liked by their own. Interesting fact, the Greek god, Zeus, was born on the island of Crete and hidden in a cave there. He starts off by establishing his authority as an apostle and what his intentions of writing is, “To establish truth to help them live righteous and grow in their faith.” It’s a similar message in his letters to Timothy. The word in the Greek Paul uses is epignosis and it means a precise and exact truth. It’s exactly what the disciples in Crete need in order to know they are not being deceived by Paul.  
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  <title>Episode 377: Ephesians 1 Part 6 Bursting At the Seams!</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Paul says we are "full" in Jesus!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Remember that commercial where the people ate a meal and they screamed, “I am full!” They were saying, “I have eaten so much that I cannot eat another bite. My belly is so full it feels like it is about to explode!” This is the idea Paul has when he is talking about the church at the end of Ephesians 1 and the beginning of chapter 2. He says we, the church, the body of Christ is “full” because of Jesus and what he has done. So, if we are “full”, why do we act like we lack something?  
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    <![CDATA[<p>Remember that commercial where the people ate a meal and they screamed, “I am full!” They were saying, “I have eaten so much that I cannot eat another bite. My belly is so full it feels like it is about to explode!” This is the idea Paul has when he is talking about the church at the end of Ephesians 1 and the beginning of chapter 2. He says we, the church, the body of Christ is “full” because of Jesus and what he has done. So, if we are “full”, why do we act like we lack something? </p>]]>
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  <title>Episode 227: Matthew 12 Part 3 Show Us A Sign!</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>God isn't sending you a sign when He has already sent His Son! You either believe or you don't!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>The Pharisees just don't seem to get it. Sparring with Jesus is not a good thing but this time they bring some help--some teachers of the law. Surely these bible thumpers can outsmart God Himself! Nope...They demand a sign to prove to them that Jesus' authority comes from God like he claims. Jesus tells them the only sign they'll get is the sign of Jonah, a prophet they'd be familiar with. He says just as Jonah was in the fish's belly for three days, the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days. He was talking about his death, burial, and resurrection but they didn't understand that. Jesus tells them they have someone greater than Jonah but they refuse to repent and they have someone wiser than Solomon but they refuse to listen. God isn't sending you a sign when He has already sent His Son! You either believe or you don't! 
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