Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture Meditations
Hello! I'm Allen Greeley and I love thinking and meditating on Scripture. Another word for it, which we don't use very often, is pondering. When the mother of Jesus heard the shepherds retell the vision of the angels celebratory singing; the Scripture says, "Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart" (Luke 2:19). That alone is my goal with this podcast. I want us to treasure in our hearts what we hear from God and ponder it. It would be an honor to have you listen in and ponder with me. To God be the glory!
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132 episodes
Prepping Our Heart for an Implant (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #5)
Ponder with me about one of the key themes to religion in general - listening. It all begins with listening to God! It's how faith comes. James speaks about how to prep the heart to listen faithfully though. Listening to God with humility and o...
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Episode 72
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Build, Pray, Keep and Wait - A Recipe for Keeping Ourselves in the Truth
Let's ponder much of the book of Jude together. Jude has much to say about false teachers, and it is very harsh. How can we keep our congregations pure from false teachers? Furthermore, how can we best deal with Christians who may have suffered...
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Episode 71
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Leaving the Faith So Soon? But He Saved You in Baptism
Ponder with me some of the things Paul reminds the church about when encouraging them to stay faithful. Much of the New Testament letters are designed to help Christians stay true to Christ, and such is the case in Colossians 2. The things Paul...
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Episode 70
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'My Trials Aren't Helping!' Who is to Blame? (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #4)
Ponder with me about what James means when he says that God does not tempt anyone (1:13). This is a statement about God's intentions, so we're going to dive into the mind of God a bit to think about HIs purposes. Also - what happens if my trial...
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Episode 69
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A Respectful but Uncompromising Stand - Daniel's Balancing Act
Let's ponder the rest of the story in Daniel 1. Last week we talked about resisting temptation and used Daniel as a case-study about what it means to be resolved against temptation. This week let's look at the results of his uncompromising fait...
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Episode 68
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Receive This Implanting with Meekness (Blue-Collar Christianity, Reading from James)
Ponder James as a whole with me. We're in a series about Blue-collar Christianity, which is a study of James. I want to throw this into the series to help us not lose sight of the entire book as a whole. It's a reading from James, start to fini...
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Episode 67
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No Excuses, Just Resolve - The War Against Temptation
Let's ponder the battle against temptation. We all are battling it, although some of us may not be engaging the fight like we ought. Daniel, on the other hand, was full of resolve in his fight against it...even though he was in a position of su...
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Episode 66
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Punked! A Humiliating Life (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #3)
Let's ponder our wealth and comfortability seriously. Are these legitimately helping us spiritually? The way we pursue them, you would think so. James makes a startling comparison - the exaltation of poor Christians vs the humiliation of the wo...
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Episode 65
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The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Our Trials (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #2)
Ponder with me the spiritual benefit that can come from trials. James 1 says they can create steadfastness, but Jesus mentioned people falling away in the midst of their faith being tested (Luke 8:14). So, which is it? It's up to us, and whethe...
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Episode 64
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Wisdom an Outcast Would Love (Blue-Collar Christianity, James #1)
Please ponder a new series about Blue Collar Christianity with me. It's all about the book of James. In this lesson we introduce the book by emphasizing how it is different from most other N.T. Scripture. It is tremendously applicable and down ...
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Episode 63
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27:53
Investigating Excellence! How Can We Better Edify One Another?
Ponder with me about how we can investigate to excel in building the church up. Paul says to do this in I Corinthians 14:12. Most translations say "seek" or "strive", but the original Greek term can mean "investigate". In other words, Paul want...
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Episode 62
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Revealing God's Face, Through Forgiving Others
Let's ponder how we can show the world what God is like. It's not easy but it is powerful - forgiving others. We all know how serious God is about forgiving others. There were few things Jesus spoke so seriously about. Perhaps God knew just how...
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Episode 61
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Trusting God's Faithfulness as Much as His Power - the Rest of the Story (ours)
I start off this pondering with this question - what character of the O.T. believe in resurrection before there were any resurrections? And what was going through his mind to cause him to trust such a thing? This lesson has more application to ...
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Episode 60
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A Despised, Rejected Victor - Christ in the O.T. Series #15
Let's ponder Christ's resurrection in the Old Testament. This will be our last lesson in our series on seeing Christ in the Old Testament. There's no better place to land than on the most important event in human history. Christ's resurrection ...
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Episode 59
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The Contagion of Christ, Reversing the Curse of the Law
Ponder the healing of the hemorrhaging woman with me. This episode is a bit of a follow up from the last. We saw in the previous episode that under the Old Law, uncleanness could spread but cleanness/holiness could NOT (Haggai 2). However, Chri...
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Episode 57
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The Contagion of Uncleanness - Does Being 'Around' Religion Help?
Let's ponder a weird sermon in Haggai. The prophet asks two hypothetical questions to the Jews about how holiness and cleanliness get passed on. The returned exiles had stopped work on the Temple partly because they thought just being around th...
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Episode 56
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27:37
Another Human, Like Us, Praying...and It Worked!
Let's ponder how the Scripture never hides the flaws of its most faithful characters. Their sins are staring us in the face...and not just their sins but the darker emotional side too that sometimes doesn't involve sin. In short, the Scripture ...
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Episode 55
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The Crucifixion of Jesus in Hebrew Poetry - Christ in the O.T. Series #14
Ponder the crucifixion with me, from the poetry of the Old Testament. There are some prophecies that are a little hidden and obscure...while others are so obvious they work more like a portrait. They paint a vivid scene of Jesus' life. Such is ...
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Episode 54
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Thriving Through Prayer and God Empowering Us to Lead Productive Lives
Let's ponder how to help one another thrive, through prayer and living a productive life! Paul touches on both of these in II Thessalonians 3. Paul asks Christians to pray for him in other letters but there is a little more background to this r...
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Episode 53
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Fighting Discouragement From a Cave - Fallout from Mt. Carmel (I Kings 18-19)
Ponder the fallout of Mt. Carmel with me. It was a tremendous outward, visible victory for God! How could discouragement be the fallout? What was Elijah thinking that caused him to want to quit? Discouragement is so dangerous, and more people a...
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Episode 52
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Dads, Revival is Waiting! Calling All Abrahamic Dads - Happy Father's Day
Happy Father's Day! Let's ponder fatherhood together. The generational impact of fatherhood is frightening. We can make a difference! When God wanted to make a difference, he selected Dad's. Let's think through a couple of passages together tha...
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Episode 51
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I, Paul, Write This Greeting With My Own Hand (II Thessalonian Reading)
Let's hear the word of God together as it was written in the first century, as a letter to the church. When the church read these, they were reading it in one sitting, and that's how the author intended it to be read. This is a reading of II Th...
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Episode 50
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God's Two Approaches to Anger Management Counseling
Ponder two cases of anger with me - Cain and Jonah. As similar as the wording is in the stories, there are some differences. Let's think about what God is wanting them to consider in their anger, while contrasting it with mankind's approach. To...
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Episode 49
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27:54
Betrayal of a Close Friend, a Macbethian Tragedy - Christ in the O.T. Series #13
Ponder Judas' betrayal of Christ with me. He was a dear friend of Jesus. The Scripture calls him that on multiple occasions. There are Old Testament Psalms that speak to this betrayal. Let's look at those, through the lens of Jesus' life and le...
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Episode 48
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God's Name is Not God - What is it Then? A Pondering From Josiah Greeley
This pondering comes from my nephew, Josiah Greeley. I have a short introduction about him and his lesson at the very beginning of this episode. He taught this lesson back in Phoenix, AZ and it makes you think! And since thinking is what this p...
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Episode 47
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