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    <title>GRINDIT podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Government”</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 491: 1 Timothy 3 Part 2 The American Church Has Leadership All Wrong</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Church leadership....elders and deacons...plural, not singular!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Paul gives Timothy instructions to choose church leaders, in particular elders and deacons, for the church in Ephesus. We breakdown the qualifications for both in today's podcast and discuss how the American church doesn't follow these instructions very well. We tend to choose people who have money or who is from a prominent family in the she congregation and forget the qualifications...AND the Bible is clear these positions are plural, not singular! There should never be one, what we call "pastor" with a bunch of deacons under him, these positions were always plural in every church!  
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  <title>Episode 299: Romans 13 Part 2 Paying Taxes</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 04:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Paul says "Pay your taxes"!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Romans 13 is about obeying the authorities as a believer and if we don't we are rebelling against God because He established them. In Part 2, swe discuss paying taxes. Who likes payig taxes? Nobody! Buit Pail tells bel;ievers to pay their taxes so those in authority can get a paycheck. Then he switches gears to discuss Jesus' return.  
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  <title>Episode 298: Romans 13 Part 1 Obey Your Authorities</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We don't have a choice. We have to obey the authorities. If awe don't, we are being disobedient towards God!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Paul was telling the Christians at the church in Rome to love their enemies and bless them. In the very next breath he tells them to obey the governing authorities. He is speaking about the Roman government, the ones who were responsible for killing Jesus and persecuting Christians! What?!?! I have to be obedient to them?!?!? Yes, because God has established their authority and to be disobedient to them, is being disobedient to God.  
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  <title>Episode 16: John 4 Part Three</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>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. In John 4 we have seen Jesus minister to an outcast and a government official. Jesus doesn't discriminate...salvation is for all.  
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