web01.fireside.fm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:06:05 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) https://grinditpodcast.fireside.fm/tags/imitate Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:00:00 -0400 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. en-us episodic We at GRINDIT want to encourage people to keep going, to keep grinding, when life gets hard. Quitting is not an option! Randall Tucker 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. no Jesus, Christ, endure, grind, keep going, quit, death, life, heaven, throw in the towel Randall Tucker thegrinditpodcast@gmail.com https://grinditpodcast.fireside.fm/393 e15c1396-2838-4dfe-8661-68ef71838d8f Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:00:00 -0400 Randall Tucker full Randall Tucker We learn to impersonate someone by studying their life. We need to study Jesus! 25:05 no We left Paul in chapter 4 listing a bunch of sins that need to stop happening in a believer’s life. He will continue this list in chapter 5 but sandwiched in between these lists is a command to “Imitate God.” In the Greek this means to mimic, to impersonate. How do we impersonate someone? We watch them, the mannerisms, how they talk and act, we study their lives and then we start to act like them. We may not be them but we act just like them and when people hear us and see us, they hear and see the person we are impersonating. But how can we impersonate a God we cannot see? We look at Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. We study the life of Jesus and do what he did! impersonate, impersonator, mimic, copycat, imitate, Elvis, mannerisms, Emmanuel We left Paul in chapter 4 listing a bunch of sins that need to stop happening in a believer’s life. He will continue this list in chapter 5 but sandwiched in between these lists is a command to “Imitate God.” In the Greek this means to mimic, to impersonate. How do we impersonate someone? We watch them, the mannerisms, how they talk and act, we study their lives and then we start to act like them. We may not be them but we act just like them and when people hear us and see us, they hear and see the person we are impersonating. But how can we impersonate a God we cannot see? We look at Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. We study the life of Jesus and do what he did!

]]> We left Paul in chapter 4 listing a bunch of sins that need to stop happening in a believer’s life. He will continue this list in chapter 5 but sandwiched in between these lists is a command to “Imitate God.” In the Greek this means to mimic, to impersonate. How do we impersonate someone? We watch them, the mannerisms, how they talk and act, we study their lives and then we start to act like them. We may not be them but we act just like them and when people hear us and see us, they hear and see the person we are impersonating. But how can we impersonate a God we cannot see? We look at Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. We study the life of Jesus and do what he did!

]]> https://grinditpodcast.fireside.fm/106 bebf99c7-3608-49fb-8315-00e7a624445b Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0400 Randall Tucker full Randall Tucker Can people see Jesus when they look at you and me? 28:29 no Poser Test: An expensive guitar sounds better than a cheap guitar no doubt, however, a cheap guitar is still a guitar! It can be used by a beginner to learn how to play guitar, but it can also be used by an expert to jam with if it's all he has got. When it comes to Christianity, we all want the real deal; We want Jesus but in reality, He is sitting at the father's right hand in heaven and we won't see him until we die or he returns to call us home. So...you'll just have to settle for the cheaper version...and that would be you and me. We are all he has to use; We are, or should be, representing Jesus while we are here on this earth. Ephesians 5:1 Be imitators of God... When Paul said that, he wasn't offering a suggestion...it was a command! Can people see Jesus when they look at you? Part two coming soon! mimic, imitate, represent, ambassador Poser Test:
An expensive guitar sounds better than a cheap guitar no doubt, however, a cheap guitar is still a guitar! It can be used by a beginner to learn how to play guitar, but it can also be used by an expert to jam with if it's all he has got. When it comes to Christianity, we all want the real deal; We want Jesus but in reality, He is sitting at the father's right hand in heaven and we won't see him until we die or he returns to call us home. So...you'll just have to settle for the cheaper version...and that would be you and me. We are all he has to use; We are, or should be, representing Jesus while we are here on this earth. Ephesians 5:1 Be imitators of God... When Paul said that, he wasn't offering a suggestion...it was a command! Can people see Jesus when they look at you? Part two coming soon!

]]> Poser Test:
An expensive guitar sounds better than a cheap guitar no doubt, however, a cheap guitar is still a guitar! It can be used by a beginner to learn how to play guitar, but it can also be used by an expert to jam with if it's all he has got. When it comes to Christianity, we all want the real deal; We want Jesus but in reality, He is sitting at the father's right hand in heaven and we won't see him until we die or he returns to call us home. So...you'll just have to settle for the cheaper version...and that would be you and me. We are all he has to use; We are, or should be, representing Jesus while we are here on this earth. Ephesians 5:1 Be imitators of God... When Paul said that, he wasn't offering a suggestion...it was a command! Can people see Jesus when they look at you? Part two coming soon!

]]> https://grinditpodcast.fireside.fm/107 4b569799-0350-4c93-8e14-21ae2a8fda45 Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0400 Randall Tucker full Randall Tucker (continued) Do people see Jesus when they look at you and me? 26:59 no (continued from previous podcast) An expensive guitar sounds better than a cheap guitar no doubt, however, a cheap guitar is still a guitar! It can be used by a beginner to learn how to play guitar, but it can also be used by an expert to jam with if it's all he has got. When it comes to Christianity, we all want the real deal; We want Jesus but in reality, He is sitting at the father's right hand in heaven and we won't see him until we die or he returns to call us home. So...you'll just have to settle for the cheaper version...and that would be you and me. We are all he has to use; We are, or should be, representing Jesus while we are here on this earth. Ephesians 5:1 Be imitators of God... When Paul said that, he wasn't offering a suggestion...it was a command! Can people see Jesus when they look at you? mimic, imitate, represent, ambassador (continued from previous podcast) An expensive guitar sounds better than a cheap guitar no doubt, however, a cheap guitar is still a guitar! It can be used by a beginner to learn how to play guitar, but it can also be used by an expert to jam with if it's all he has got. When it comes to Christianity, we all want the real deal; We want Jesus but in reality, He is sitting at the father's right hand in heaven and we won't see him until we die or he returns to call us home. So...you'll just have to settle for the cheaper version...and that would be you and me. We are all he has to use; We are, or should be, representing Jesus while we are here on this earth. Ephesians 5:1 Be imitators of God... When Paul said that, he wasn't offering a suggestion...it was a command! Can people see Jesus when they look at you?

]]> (continued from previous podcast) An expensive guitar sounds better than a cheap guitar no doubt, however, a cheap guitar is still a guitar! It can be used by a beginner to learn how to play guitar, but it can also be used by an expert to jam with if it's all he has got. When it comes to Christianity, we all want the real deal; We want Jesus but in reality, He is sitting at the father's right hand in heaven and we won't see him until we die or he returns to call us home. So...you'll just have to settle for the cheaper version...and that would be you and me. We are all he has to use; We are, or should be, representing Jesus while we are here on this earth. Ephesians 5:1 Be imitators of God... When Paul said that, he wasn't offering a suggestion...it was a command! Can people see Jesus when they look at you?

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