Right Start Radio with Pastor Jim Custer

Dec 12 2024 87 ep. 39

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Right Start Radio is a ministry of the Grace Polaris Church of Columbus, Ohio, and was started over 40 years ago with Pastor Jim Custer producing and then delivering it to local radio stations. Today Right Start can be heard in Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Gainesville and New Plymouth, New Zealand.

Right Start is an outreach ministry with a three-fold aim:
1) Stimulate an interest in understanding the Word of God among believers (Colossians 1:28).
2) Strengthen local churches by providing a teaching ministry to local church leaders and teachers (2 Timothy 2:2).
3) Evangelize those who are seeking a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (John 20:31).

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Daniel Has A Second Vision - Part 1 of 3

The ram, the goat, and the angel! Do you believe the old saying that, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall?" If it's true, then we should expect the most powerful kingdoms to crash the hardest of all. That should sober-up even the most power-drunk rulers, like Belshazzar of old - and like some of ours, today. Daniel foresaw the destruction of a mighty empire. It was symbolize

Daniel Receives A Vision - Part 3 of 3

If you want to know about your future, you'll have to go back! The only One who knows the future is the One who wrote it. But, in the Bible, God gives us a broad outline of coming events - and not just once, but several times. The prophecies of Jesus, John, Daniel and others confirm and complement each other. We'll look at some of those interlocking prophecies about the future - yo

Daniel Receives A Vision - Part 2 of 3

Meet the Antichrist! If we didn't have the Revelation to John, we would still have the revelations given to Daniel, centuries earlier. We'll look at one of them today. In chapter 7 of Daniel's book we get our first glimpse of Earth's final human king - the Man of Sin, the Counterfeit Savior, the Beast. In Dan's dream he's symbolized by a horn. When we see him later in the Bible, we

Daniel Receives A Vision - Part 1 of 3

A revelation from God will change how you feel! We live in a culture obsessed with emotions. If anyone could empathize with Daniel as he's knocked sideways by a divine dream, it's us. What he saw was powerful. He described his emotional state as "troubled," "alarmed," even "terrified." What was this shocking dream? We'll sneak up on it gradually in this message from Pastor Jim. It'

Daniel Aids The Kings - Part 3 of 3

We see Daniel's righteousness in his preparation. We can only make sense of our lives, in many cases, when we look back. Then we see the significance of events that seemed unimportant - even random - at the time they happened. We can imagine that Daniel looked back on his career, and realized that its huge moments of crisis weren't sprung on him "out of the blue." God had given him

Daniel Aids The Kings - Part 2 of 3

It's a long way from the palace, to the pasture. Nebuchadnezzar thought he was in charge. He thought his accomplishments proved his superiority as a human being. But the Most High would prove that the king was no better than an ox, or a bird. All of "his" glory had been lent to him. Now God was calling that loan. The King of Babylon had become an object lesson for his own life. But

Daniel Aids The Kings - Part 1 of 3

The king who became a beast. Nebuchadnezzar didn't "lose his mind;" he threw it away. He forfeited his sanity when he refused to humble himself before God. As Paul would write to the Romans much later, "...since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind...." So Daniel, chapter 4 isn't just a story about one, proud king, long ago. It's the story of

Daniel Interprets A Second Dream - Part 3 of 3

"Well, I don't have a crystal ball, but...." If you could see the future - you can't, but if you could - would you change your behavior? If your glimpse of coming days frightened you, surely you'd be "scared straight," wouldn't you? The Bible tells us of a king who dreamed of his own fall - a judgment like a magnificent tree being cut down. And Nebuchadnezzar seems to have paid it

Daniel Interprets A Second Dream - Part 2 of 3

Is the "spirit of the holy gods" in you? In his pagan ignorance the king of Babylon was giving Daniel a compliment. He saw something unusual in the man he called "Belteshazzar;" something astonishing. The explanation could only be supernatural. Nebuchadnezzar's praise was off-the-theological-mark, but well intended. Well, do you have a different spirit? Pastor Jim will help us appl

Daniel Interprets A Second Dream - Part 1 of 3

When you're the king, you can start your letter with the "P.S." Toward the end of Nebuchadnezzar's life he wrote a proclamation. He addressed it to everyone on earth. And we find this late letter early in the book of Daniel. Even more unusually, the king put his conclusion first: that the kingdom of the "Most High God" is "an everlasting kingdom." Why this upside-down writing struc