Father of the Inklings

Oct 17 2024 100 ep. 6 mins 22

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Dedicated to the legacy of bold thinking Christianity through the writings of George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and Michael Phillips

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Command #120 - This is My Command: Love One Another

Oct 17 2024 7 mins

From The Commands by Michael Phillips. Read by Michael Kimball. More information on this and similar writings may be found at Father of the Inklings. Visit Amazon to purchase The Commands and other books by Michael Phillips.

Command #119 - Practice My Words

Oct 15 2024 7 mins

Throughout the Gospels, Jesus urges obedience to his Commands in many ways and with a great variety of words, phrases, metaphors, and parables.

Command #118 - Bear Fruit As My Disciples

Oct 10 2024 6 mins

What is the ”fruit” we are to bear as the Lord’s disciples? How will our lives ”glorify” God the Father?

Command #117 - Do As I Do and Become Like Me

Oct 08 2024 6 mins

The debate is long standing in Christendom about what exactly ”sanctification” is and how it comes about.

Command #116 - Don’t Call Me Lord and Not Do What I Tell You

Oct 03 2024 6 mins

It was not until after much reflection that it slowly dawned on me what an intriguing and perhaps prophetic word this is from the mouth of Jesus.

Command #115 - Don’t Look Back On Your Past Life

Oct 01 2024 6 mins

The image Jesus is alluding to here is familiar from many sermon illustrations. The farmer guiding his single plow behind donkey or horse or ox desires to plough a precisely straight furrow from one end of the field to the other.

Command #114 - Count the Cost of Single-Minded Devotion to God

Sep 26 2024 6 mins

Count the cost and Don’t look back are in a sense two ways to say the same thing.

Command #113 - Love Me By Having My Commands and Words and Keeping Them

Sep 24 2024 7 mins

At first glance, this may seem but a restating of the command we considered previous to the last. Are we splitting hairs to differentiate between the two?

Command #112 - Don’t Separate What God Has Joined

Sep 19 2024 5 mins

It will be unpopular, in this time when obedience to the marital commands of Scripture has grown so lax within Christendom, to read this command from the mouth of Jesus as strictly forbidding divorce.

Command # 111 - Abide in Me By Obeying My Commands

Sep 17 2024 6 mins

The profound example of the Apostle John’s life is as powerful as the words he recorded of Jesus’ farewell conversation and charge to his disciples in the upper room.