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Disciple Up #291

Louie VS. ChatGPT

Intro – Crazy schedule, origin of this idea, etc.

Here’s what the Chatbot wrote, read by Word’s voice. I find …

Disciple Up #290

Christian Baby Boomers Want Change Too

By Louie Marsh, 1-12-2023

Here’s some excerpts from the article I read and commented on in this podcast…

Disciple Up # 289

Where Did American Christmas Traditions Come From?

By Louie Marsh 12-21-2022

Older Christmas Episodes You Might Want to Listen to:

34 – What is Christmas All About

87- The non-Pagan Roots of …

Disciple Up #288

Preaching VS. Cheerleading

By Louie Marsh, 12-14-2022

What is “cheerleading?”  I’m defining it as the constant speaking of bromides, platitudes and cliches that we know everyone agrees with, in the …

Disciple Up # 287

Restoring Leaders Who’ve Fallen

By Louie Marsh, 12-8-2022

Link to article: https://broward.us/2022/12/04/matt-chandler-restored-to-ministry-after-three-months/

Matt Chandler Restored to Ministry …

Disciple Up # 286

Positive & Negative Energy

By Louie Marsh, 11-29-2022

Dear Louie Marsh,

My name is Xavier. I am emailing you as I been meaning to bounce some ideas off you and wanting to hear some truth and …

Disciple Up # 285

Stewardship Part Nine: Use of Finances

By Louie Marsh, 11-23-2022

Introduction:  Where we’ve been and where we’re probably going!

9 Biblical Financial Principles

1) God is My Source

The first …

Disciple Up # 284

Stewardship Pt. 8: My Witness, Growth & Work

By Louie Marsh, 11-16-2022

• Evangelism/Personal Witness

“5As for you, always …

Disciple Up # 283

Stewardship Part 7: My Past, Part Two

By Louie Marsh, 11-9-2022

I forgot a very important passage last week when dealing with Stewardship of my Past.

“15The saying is trustworthy and deserving of …

Disciple Up # 282

Stewardship Lesson #5 -My Past

By Louie Marsh, 11-2-2022

Stewardship:

• Leadership
• Servanthood
• Trust/Faithful

MY PAST!

• My …

Disciple Up Show Notes #281

Stewardship Pt 5: Children, Ministry Weaknesses

By Louie Marsh, 10-26-2022

• Children

“4Fathers, do not provoke your …

Disciple Up #280

Stewardship, Pt 4, Marriage

By Louie Marsh, 10-19-2022

LESSON #4 - Disciple Up #280

• Marriage

“21submitting to one another …

Disciple Up #279

Stewardship, Part Three

By Louie Marsh, 10-12-2022

• Leadership
• Servanthood
• Trust/Faithful

3) The Larger Concept.

“15The Lord …

Disciple Up #278

Stewardship Part Two

By Louie Marsh, 10-5-2022

• Leadership
• Servanthood
• Trust/Faithful

NEW TESTAMENT

1. oikonomos (οἰκονόμος) …

Disciple Up #277

Stewardship. Pt. 1

By Louie Marsh, 9-28-2022

Link on Russian Orthodox Church:

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Disciple Up # 276

Gideon Pt 5, Ending with a Whimper

By Louie Marsh

Intro. 

We’re taking four weeks to read through six I wrote on the life of Gideon for my radio show, Tales From the Scrypt.  Let me know what you …

Disciple Up # 274

The Amazing Shrinking Army, Gideon Pt. 4

By Louie Marsh,

Intro. 

We’re taking four weeks to read through six episodes I wrote on the life of Gideon for my radio show, Tales From the Scrypt.  Let me …

Disciple Up # 274

Gideon Pt. 2; Getting to the Heart of the Matter

By Louie Marsh, 1-16-2020

Intro. 

We’re taking four weeks to read through six I wrote on the life of Gideon for my radio show, Tales From the Scrypt.

Disciple Up # 273

Gideon, Part One: “Mighty Man of Valor:

By Louie Marsh, 8-31-2022

Intro. 

We’re taking four weeks to read through six I wrote on the life of Gideon for my radio show, Tales From the Scrypt.  Let me …

Disciple Up #272

War Stories Pt. 5: Who’s In Charge Here? - 2 Chron 20:1-30

By Louie Marsh, 8-24-2022

Intro – Tales From the Scrypt on tap during my trip to Malawi IF I can get it done in time!

2  Some men came and …

Disciple Up # 271

War Stories # 4, Follow Faith Not Fear – Judges 6-7

By Louie Marsh, 8-17-2022

11  Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under …

Disciple Up #270

War Stories

Part 3: Failure Isn’t Fatal – Joshua 7-8

By Louie Marsh, 8-3-2022

Intro.

So about 3,000 men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, and the men of Ai killed …

Disciple Up # 269: War Stories #2

The Foolishness of God - Joshua 5:13-6:25

By Louie Marsh, 7-28-2022

Slide One: A college student …

Disciple Up # 268: War Stories #1

The Necessity of Worship

By Louie Marsh, 7-20-2022

Intro – Wayback Machine (Mr. Peabody & Sherman). My early lack of understanding of worship.

6  And Ezra blessed the LORD, the …

Disciple Up # 267

When Faith & Reality Collide

Part 7: Victims by Faith

By Louie Marsh, 7-13-2022

Intro. End of this series. Where to next?

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Disciple Up # 266

When Faith & Reality Collide

Part 6th: The Victories of Faith

By Louie Marsh, 7-6-2022

1) When I live by faith God’s power is …

Disciple Up #265

Towards a Biblical Reaction to America Today

By Louie Marsh, 6-29-2022

What Actually Happened:

What Should Our Response Be:

• …

When Faith & Reality Collide

Part 5: The Fight of Faith

By Louie Marsh, 6-22-2022

7  I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I …

Disciple Up #263

Contact – When Faith & Reality Collide

Part 4: Stand by Faith

By Louie Marsh, 6-15-2022

When I live by faith I…

Contact! When Faith Collides with Reality

Pt. 3, Looking For An Eternal City

By Louie Marsh, 11-19-2017

Opening = cartoons, last one birds not …

Disciple Up #261

Contact, When Faith & Reality Collide

Part Two: The Nature of Faith

By Louie Marsh, 5-25-2022

The American philosopher Henry …

Disciple Up #260

Uvalde – WHY?

By Louie Marsh, 5-25-2022

“2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.” (Proverbs 21:2, ESV)

“18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, …

Disciple Up #259

CONTACT! When Faith & Reality Collide

Pt. 1, The Hidden Fabric of the Universe

By Louie Marsh, 5-18-2022

Intro – bit of a …

Disciple Up # 258

Don’t Fear the Online Mob– Judges 6-7

By Louie Marsh, 5-11-2022

11  Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was …

Disciple Up # 257

Can You Trust Your Pastor?

By Louie Marsh, 5-5-2022

https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/2022/spring/pastoral-credibility-erodes-resilient-glenn-packiam.html

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Disciple Up #256

Silly Things Christians Say & Believe

By Louie Marsh, 4-27-2022

Intro. Just to show you we aren’t the only one’s acting very silly if not down right disgusting sometimes: …

Disciple Up # 255

Persecution: A New Testament Perspective

By Louie Marsh

News Story Quoted:

https://www.christianpost.com/news/street-preacher-cleared-of-hate-speech-for-preaching-from-bible.html

What Does the …

Disciple Up # 254

Easter – Up Close & Personal

By Louie Marsh, 4-13-2022

The Resurrection shows me that…

Disciple Up # 253

How Do Disciples Deal with Culture?

By Louie Marsh, 4-6-2022

Articles Referenced:

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Disciple Up #252

Character Over Charisma, Godliness Over Giftedness

By Louie Marsh, 3-30-2022

Article that sparked these thoughts:

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Disciple Up # 251

Responding To Injustice

By Louie Marsh, 3-23-2022

Article Read From:

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Disciple Up #250

Ukraine: Love Your Enemies

By Louie Marsh

Introduction: Give what’s happening in the Ukraine today, not to mention Myanmar (Burma) and many other places, I thought it was well past time to take a …

Disciple Up #249

Just Pray?

By Louie Marsh, 3-9-2022

Intro – Frustration about Ukraine, other situations.

Links to help you pray for Ukraine

https://www.24-7prayer.com/prayer_guide/pray-for-ukraine/

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No notes this time, just straight from the heart.

Disciple Up # 247

The Passion Translation – Translation, paraphrase or…?

By Louie Marsh

Intro.

I’m not a Bible translator, or a Greek or Hebrew …

Disciple Up # 246

Remembering Steve: A Story of God’s Amazing Grace

By Louie Marsh, 2-16-2022

This is the story of my best friend from college …

Disciple Up #245

Pastoral Breaking Point: Leadership During a Crisis

By Louie Marsh, 2-9-2022

Book Referral: Uncommon Leadership by Dr. Bob Kuest

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Disciple Up #244

Potpourri

By Louie Marsh, 2-2-2022

Websites Referenced In This Podcast

https://lifewayresearch.com/2022/01/24/the-group-most-likely-to-still-be-missing-from-your-church/

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Disciple Up # 243

Deconstructing Christianity – Nothing New

By Louie Marsh, 1-26-2022

Websites Used:

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Disciple Up #242

Christ IS In X-Mas Episode

By Louie Marsh, 12-22-2021

I am representing Episode 88 because I think there’s still a lot of Christians out there who don’t understand this when they need too/

Episode …

Disciple Up #241 Show Notes

The Non-Pagan Roots of Christmas

By Louie Marsh, 12-19-2018 (12-15-2021)

I’m representing this episode for the …

Disciple Up # 240

Biblical Character’s Signatures Plus…

Disciple Up # 239

Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?

By Louie Marsh, 12-1-2021

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/november/heaven-hell-universalism-reincarnation-pew-afterlife-survey.html

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Disciple Up # 238

Future Church: Mega/Micro?

By Louie Marsh, 11-24-2021

Articles I’m pulling from:

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Disciple Up # 237

Thinking God’s Thoughts After Him

By Louie Marsh, 11-17-2021

Intro. Sunday’s sermon, etc.

German mathematician, astronomer and …

Disciple Up # 236

God Silences Man

By Louie Marsh, 11-10-2021

Intro.  There are at least three times in the New Testament when God was rude to the Apostle Peter.  Three times when God interrupted and silenced Peter to …

Disciple Up # 235

Explaining God?

By Louie Marsh, 11-4-2021

Children Explain God

One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that die so there will be enough people to take care of …

Disciple Up # 234

Truth In Tension

By Louie Marsh, 10-27-2021

reThink #8 – Loving My Neighbor: http://riverchurchparker.com/sermons/08-rethink-loving-my-neighbor/

Quotes from The Weight of Glory, By C.S. Lewis:

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Disciple Up #233

Should I Dump My Denomination?

By Louie Marsh, 10-20-2021

Websites Used In This Episode:

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Disciple Up # 232

Should Worship Make Me Comfortable?

By Louie Marsh, 10-13-2021

Intro.

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Disciple Up # 231

Dead Works

By Louie Marsh, 10-6-2021

Good Works vs. Dead Works

The Bible has much to say about good works and also about dead …

Disciple Up #230

Sodom Found, McDowell Down, Faye Rebound?

By Louie Marsh, 9-29-2021

Links Quoted From In Show:

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Disciple Up # 229

Are We In the Last Days?

By Louie Marsh, 9-22-2021

Websites Quoted From in this Episode:

https://evidenceandanswers.org/article/are-we-in-the-end-times/

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Disciple Up # 228

7 Letters For 7 Churches, Pt. 2

By Louie Marsh

Intro. Last week we did the first three and I shared a nice graph on the letters in the show notes. This week we’ll be finishing off the last four.

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Disciple Up # 227

7 Letters to 7 Churches

By Louie Marsh, 9-8-2021

This is just about the only part of Revelation I will teach on. I’m not quite as bad as Martin Luther about this though.

He put both Revelation and …

Disciple Up # 226

Greater Than – Don’t Miss His Rest, Hebrews Chapter 3

By Louie Marsh, 9-1-2021

What’s happening??  Last time we did this was …

Tales From the Scrypt #225

The DEATH of Our Christian Worldview

By Louie Marsh, 8-25-2021

Links to Articles:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/over-60-percent-christians-jesus-not-only-way-to-heaven

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Disciple Up # 224

reThinking Evangelism & Other Stuff

By Louie Marsh, 8-18-2021

What’s happening now…

Disciple Up # 223

Persecution Watch, August 11th, 2021

By Louie Marsh

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Disciple Up # 222

Facing Our Failure (Thanks COVID!)

By Louie Marsh, 8-4-2021

Intro. I’ve been thinking about COVID’s impact on us in a different way lately. Then hearing that my dear friend Naomi’s Dad died of it …

Disciple Up # 221

Dangerous Christian Music

By Louie Marsh, 7-28-2021

Main Article Quoted from:

https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2021/07/26/modern-christian-music-isnt-just-bad-its-dangerous-n416613

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Disciple Up # 220

Double Talk & the Church

By Louie Marsh, 7-20-2021

Intro. Changes to the podcast will be coming fairly soon I think. What …

Disciple Up # 219

Is a Literal Translation Always Better?

By Louie Marsh, 7-14-2021

Article Read From: https://www.christianitytoday.com/partners/creative-studio/more-literal-than-thou.html

Legacy Standard Bible;  …

Disciple Up #218

10 Things Christians Accidently Say About Themselves

By Louie Marsh, 7-7-2021

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessindixie/2015/03/06/ten-things-christians-accidentally-tell-me-about-themselves/

Disciple Up # 217

Should We All Be Iconoclasts?

By Louie Marsh, 6-30-2021

icon·​o·​clast | \ ī-ˈkä-nə-ˌklast  \

Definition of iconoclast

1: a …

Disciple Up # 216

The State of the American Church & Me!

By Louie Marsh, 6-23-2021

“1“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words …

Disciple Up # 215

Words Mean Things

By Louie Marsh, 6-16-2021

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, for whom Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym, was an …

Disciple Up # 214

Remember … The Importance of Memory

By Louie Marsh, 6-9-2021

We must remember the Lord:

Deuteronomy 6:12 ESV: Then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out …

Disciple Up #213

“Living On Borrowed Time”

By Louie Marsh, 6-2-2021

In all my years of ministry I’ve never known anyone who better exemplified the …

Disciple Up # 212

I’m a Christian NOT a Victim!

By Louie Marsh, 5-26-2021

Intro. Picking up were yesterday’s sermon ends, the URL for it is below.

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Disciple Up # 211
What Is a Disciple?
By Louie Marsh, 5-19-2021

Intro.:

The Hebrew View of Discipleship:

Jesus began his first year of ministry by doing several things at once. He was traveling, teaching, performing …

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/may/white-evangelical-pastors-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-preach-ch.html

Disciple Up # 209

Wrestling with Scripture

By Louie Marsh, 5-5-2021

Intro. Excerpts from the article I’m discussing today, with a link to it below. Also some links to John Stott’s books are below as well.

John Stott …

Disciple Up # 208

A Disciple’s Identity Pt. 7: Blessed are the Peacemakers

By Louie Marsh, 4-28-2021

Blessed are the Peacemakers…

Disciple Up # 207

Are You Ready to be the Bad Guy?

By Louie Marsh, 4-21-2021

Are you ready to the be the bad guy? If not then you’d better get …

Disciple Up #206

Welcome to the New Christian Minority

By Louie Marsh, 4-7-2021

Articles Referred to or Read:

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Disciple Up # 205

Christians & Cohabitation

By Louie Marsh, 3-31-2021

Article I read from:

https://tipsyredfox.com/news/2021/03/22/the-cohabitation-dilemma-comes-for-americas-pastors/

At least three ways to …

Disciple Up #204

Greater Than – Jesus the Greatest of All Time!

By Louie Marsh, 3-23-2021

“1Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly …

Disciple Up # 203

A Disciple’s Identity, Pt. 6; A Singular Heart

By Louie Marsh, 3-15-2021

Intro.  A quiet week – windy day as I record – sorry!

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Disciple Up Episode 202

Do I Have a Soul or Am I a Soul?

Louie Marsh, 3-10-2021

Intro:

This episode sparked by an e-mail from a listener named …

Disciple Up # 201

Christian Skepticism

By Louie Marsh, 3-3-2021

Intro. Where this came from – the forbidden episode??

This episode came from two Mike Rowe posts on his FaceBook page and a lot of things that have …

Disciple Up #200

Looking Back To Look Forward

By Louie Marsh, 2-24-2021

Intro – Open, then play opening of episode #1.

The Value of History – a Christian view of history – watching God and man act, as God slowly …

Disciple Up # 199

Mercy, Tolerance & the Loss of Focus

By Louie Marsh, 2-17-2021

7  “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.…

Disciple Up # 198

The Christian Faith & Freedom

By Louie Marsh, 2-10-2021

Articles Quoted in this Episode:

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Disciple Up # 197

A Disciple’s Identity Pt. 4: Staying Hungry!

(Plus the Coup In Burma)

By Louie Marsh, 2-3-2021

1)    I seek God’s righteousness NOT MY OWN since I have forsaken self.

6  “Blessed are those who …

Tales From the Scrypt # 196

50 Most Dangerous Countries to Follow Jesus In 2021

By Louie Marsh, 1-27-2021

Links to articles read from in show:

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Disciple Up # 195

Dealing with Failure

By Louie Marsh, 1-20-2021

Websites I found helpful for this episode:

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Disciple Up #194

Tradition & Change

By Louie Marsh, 1-13-2021

Intro. Tradition and me

Let’s begin with this…

Disciple Up #193

The Disciple’s Identity Part 3: The Mighty Meek

By Louie Marsh, 1-6-2021

INTRO: What’s happening, where from here? Etc. 200th episode coming up! I am on Parlor - @discipleup.   Previous Disciple’s …

Disciple Up #192

Persecution, Disillusion & the End of 2020

By Louie Marsh, 12-30-2020

North Korean Persecution:

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