The 5 Minute Discipleship Podcast
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The 5 Minute Discipleship Podcast
Daily episodes are hosted by Pastor Loren Hicks. This podcast will challenge you to go deeper into your Christian faith. The goal is to inspire you to be a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ. Episodes have been downloaded over 600,000 times.
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#1,348: Only Jesus Can Satisfy
Any attempts at finding joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment apart from God always leave us empty. Yes, there may be temporary moments of happiness and...
#1,347: The Church is God's Idea
The church of Jesus Christ is not a building and it’s not an event. Sometimes we’ll say we are “going to church” or we “went to church.” But it’s not...
#1,346: Understanding Why Jesus Had to Die
If you fully understand the gospel and what Jesus has done for us, you comprehend that it was not just executed 2,000 years ago by the Romans. You rec...
#1,345: Approaching God's Throne with Confidence
When we come to God in prayer, our confidence is not found in ourselves, our ability to pray good prayers, or even the amount of our faith. Our confid...
#1,344: Your Integrity Matters
Character matters. Your integrity matters. Living by biblical values matters. Our integrity will be tested. It will be tried. But if you remain resili...
#1,343: God is Always on Time
Trust today that your steps are being established by the Lord. When it’s time to take the next step, God will make it clear. As you wait, believe that...
#1,342: Is There a Cure for Worry?
I’ve found that often times worry has to do with the fear of what could happen. They haven’t happened. We don’t know if they will happen, but we fear...
#1,341: God's Power is Limitless
If you read the Bible from cover to cover, you will come away with the knowledge that God is great. There is no limit to His power. There is no end to...
#1,340: The Belt of Truth
Where do we find absolute truth? We find truth in the Bible. What God says is true, and it is true absolutely. There is no wavering in God’s truth. ...
#1,339: Are You Listening for God's Voice?
We live in a very loud culture. The sound of our day is filled with the voices of media, news, politics, music, movies, sports, social media, friends,...
#1,338: God's Word Will Last Forever
God has ordained that His Word would last forever. No man can destroy the Word of God. It remains throughout every season and every generation.
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#1,337: Are You Using Your Spiritual Gifts?
Your spiritual gifts determine how God wants to use your life. Are you willing to allow God to use your life, for His glory, to build the kingdom of...
#1,336: Where is your quiet place?
Every believer needs a secret place. Where is your quiet place? Where can you regularly get alone with God in prayer? I believe the impact of our publ...
#1,335: The Prayer of Surrender
Out of all the prayers we pray, there is one prayer that is more difficult than all the others. It is the prayer of surrender. The prayer of submissio...
#1,334: Is it Possible to Become Righteous?
Here’s the good news. Jesus is our righteousness. By placing our faith in Jesus, and believing he is the perfect, sinless son of God who died and rose...
#1,333: God Invites Us to Pray with Confidence
Where is our confidence? It is not in ourselves, and it is not in our prayers. Our confidence is in God. This is where we place our faith. Our faith i...
#1,332: The Holy Spirit Leads Us to Truth
After his departure, Jesus would send his followers a Helper. This helper is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit lives within us and though we cannot see...
#1,331: You Can Be a Strong Christian
Today, you and I can work on our foundation. In fact, we never stop working. We are to keep growing in God’s grace. We continue to pursue a closer rel...
#1,330: Is Jesus First Place in our Lives?
In Matthew 6:33, Jesus says we are to seek God, but he goes on to say that we are to seek him “first.” This is a matter of priority. We all seek somet...
#1,329: You Have a Story to Tell
Your story is one of your greatest ministry tools. I meet people who feel they have nothing to offer the Lord. In their minds, they feel incapable of...
#1,328: God Wants You to Grow Spiritually
The author of the Book of Hebrews makes the case that we simply can’t stay with the basic, elementary teachings about faith and spiritual growth. We m...
#1,327: The Great Price for our Forgiveness
Jesus paid our debt on the cross. He bore our sins upon his body. He suffered and died in our place, as our substitute. Jesus took the shame, condemna...
#1,326: We Must Do the Will of God
There is a struggle that all of us face, and it is the struggle of submitting to God’s will. Why is this so difficult for us? Because we really want t...
#1,325: Living with Fullness of Joy
Joy in the Biblical context is not an emotion. Joy is an attitude of the heart. It is not necessarily based on something positive happening. Joy is...
#1,324: Forgiveness is Required
There is one key that is absolutely necessary for a relationship to be restored. It requires forgiveness. I’ve never seen a broken relationship restor...
#1,323: The Second Greatest Commandment
Loving our neighbor is not simply a good idea or an admirable ethic; Jesus called it the second greatest commandment. We first love God, and second, w...
#1,322: Your True Identity
What a tragedy it is when there is a loss of spiritual identity. I believe you can lose your true identity, give it away, forget it, waste it, or cha...
#1,321: Discouragement Can Be Defeated
Can I ask you an important question? What do you do when you become discouraged? You need an answer to this question. You need a plan, and you need it...
#1,320: True Love Calls For Us to Do Something
From scripture, we come to see that love is more than words, feelings, and emotions. Love is action. True love calls for us to do something, and also...
#1,319: Our Time is Limited
The Bible has a lot to say about time. The most important thing it says is something we know already—that our time is limited. Time can be used or was...
#1,318: The Blessing is in the Giving
I’m convinced that most of us listening today would say we have been blessed by God. In fact, many would say that we have been greatly blessed and ble...
#1,317: God Is For You
There is no truth more fundamental in all of God’s Word than this truth. God is for us. God is not against us. God is not neutral towards us. Because...
#1,316: A Desire to Be Like Jesus
We should desire to be like Jesus in our values, beliefs, character, and behavior. The only way we can be imitators of God is that we would follow him...
#1,315: Do you Have Any Holy Habits?
When we come to Jesus and make Him our Savior and Lord, he begins to work in our lives and strips away old ways of living that conflict with scripture...
#1,314: Remembering What God Has Done
It’s so important to remember the Lord’s faithfulness. In our times of anxiety, fear, and discouragement, the remembrance of what God has done brings...
#1,313: An Appetite for the Word of God
We must have a desire for the Scripture. It’s through the pages of the Bible that we come to know the author. My prayer is that we would develop a hun...
#1,312: The Significance of the Blood of Jesus
What a powerful promise! The blood of Jesus cleanses us from ALL sin. It’s not a partial cleaning, no, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. Is...
#1,311: Rest is God's Gift to Us
Have you ever felt like you were on an emotional treadmill? Our lives are going faster and faster, and we don’t know how to slow them down. I meet p...
#1,310: You Will Receive Power
Whether it’s your coffee pot, your phone, your computer, or your car, power is necessary for each of these essentials to operate. It’s the same in the...
#1,309: We Must Bring People to Jesus
Nothing we can do for people is more important than leading them to the Savior who can forgive their sins. We must do whatever it takes to bring our...