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    <title>GRINDIT podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Creation”</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 525: Titus 1 Part 4 Am I Worthless or Valuable?</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The people of Crete weren't to well thought of by their own prophets but Jesus can change all of that and you!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Titus has the difficult task of finding leaders, elders, for the churches on the island of Crete. The people of Crete are described as “liars, cruel animals, and lazy gluttons.” However, for those who had died to their old selves and are filled with the Holy Spirit, they have crucified that old man and have become a new creation in Christ, are those whose hearts the Father prunes and they produce good fruit. They will be easy top spot because they will look like Jesus! Paul says these people who claim to know God but do not look like Him are worthless and good for nothing. I want to be valuable for the kingdom of God, used by Him to bring glory to His name! 
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  <title>Episode 380: Ephesians 2 Part 2 You Are God's Masterpiece!</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>God takes a blank canvas and makes something beautiful. You...are beautiful!</itunes:subtitle>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Do you know an artist? I like to draw and have painted a few things but I know people who can paint masterpieces that can make your jaw drop! They start with a blank canvas but before they make the very first stroke, they can see the painting already completed in their head! You and me, we are God&#39;s masterpiece! He takes a blank canvas and makes something beautiful for the whole world to marvel at, to see His beauty in us. He even takes our ugly parts and makes them beautiful by the blood of Jesus! You are precious,  valuable, and have worth!</p>]]>
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  <title>Episode 271: Romans 1 Part 3 We Have No Excuse...Not One!</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We don't have any excuse to not believe in God!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Paul makes it clear that we have no excuse to deny God. The reason people do deny God exists is because of their own sin, their wickedness. If people admit God created the earth and the heavens, then they would be held accountable for their choices, they would have to deal with the consequences, so it's easier for people to say God does not exist. Therefore, they don't have to worry about any consequences to their choices and they can live any way they please. Instead of worshipping the Creator, they have chosen to worship creation. 
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  <title>Episode 161: Luke 20 Part 1 Who Do You Think You Are?</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2022 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
  <author>Randall Tucker</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The religious leaders wanted to know by what authority Jesus did what he did. The creation still thinks they are better than the Creator today!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>The religious leaders from all over the region have been trying to back Jesus in a corner for three years. They have tried to trip him up so they could prove that he was not the Messiah yet they never accomplished their goal. Therefore, they turned to violence and try to stone him several times. The ones who should have known that Jesus was the Messiah, literally hated God! The very One who they claimed to love and to be serving! And here they are on their turf, the holy city of Jerusalem, Jesus was there, literally to die for the sins of man, to accomplish the will of God, and what they are asking Jesus here is, “Who do you think you are?” And nothing has changed much today! The creation still thinks they are better than the Creator! And Christian, before we slam the religious think about this question, “Am I doing the same they did?” and what I mean by that is: do we trust Jesus or do we question everything he does, everything about him? Even though I know a little bit about the Bible and I say I love God, do I show it by the way I live? 
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    <![CDATA[<p>The religious leaders from all over the region have been trying to back Jesus in a corner for three years. They have tried to trip him up so they could prove that he was not the Messiah yet they never accomplished their goal. Therefore, they turned to violence and try to stone him several times. The ones who should have known that Jesus was the Messiah, literally hated God! The very One who they claimed to love and to be serving! And here they are on their turf, the holy city of Jerusalem, Jesus was there, literally to die for the sins of man, to accomplish the will of God, and what they are asking Jesus here is, “Who do you think you are?” And nothing has changed much today! The creation still thinks they are better than the Creator! And Christian, before we slam the religious think about this question, “Am I doing the same they did?” and what I mean by that is: do we trust Jesus or do we question everything he does, everything about him? Even though I know a little bit about the Bible and I say I love God, do I show it by the way I live?</p>]]>
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