CHRISTIANITY WITH AN EDGE-WITH SCOTT E. ROKELY

When does a battleship captain have to take orders from a seaman second class? When do you, the captain of your life, have to take orders from God? Listen and hear a wonderful story that will change the way you view authority.

Humans have the strangest bad habit imaginable. This bad habit prevents them from having a much more enjoyable life than they do.

God does not think about time the way we do. To God, there is only "right now." When we begin to think about time the way God does, we ruin fewer present moments thinking about the future and the past.

Repentance isn't groveling on the floor before an angry, wrathful god. Repentance is different than any religious person has probably ever told you it is.

No one in their right mind would stare at junk mail for hours on end. So why do we think junk thoughts for hours on end?

Some governments use brainwashing techniques to manipulate their citizens. Satan uses these same techniques to try to control you.

Ever been mugged by your own mind? Until I started paying attention to what thoughts I was having throughout the day, I didn't realize how negative my thoughts were. Listen as I share how to monitor your thoughts and learn what to do about the negative ones.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me? Wrong. The wrong words can kill you. This podcast is how to conduct the mental War of Words that ultimately all human life really is.

Love is not a feeling. Love is union with a person, and that person's name is God. I examine the many New Testament verses declaring this wondrous fact.

EGO=the opposite of LOVE. Why was Jesus Christ so opposed to the human ego? Only one reason; ego always leads us away from LOVE. LOVE is the force in the universe that brings all people and all things together. All else is ANARCHY.

How in the world do you love God with all of your soul? Step 1 is changing the way you think about yourself.

Union with God! That's what all Christians have. Problem is, the Pharisees don't want you to know that. And Yes, it is clearly taught in Scripture.

Want to improve your relationship with God? Then listen and find out practical things you can do immediately to connect to God better.

What is the God you believe in like? Is your God full of warmth, love, and compassion or is the God you believe in a monster of vengeance and judgment? Listen to how the concept of the Trinity may help you relate to God a lot better than you do now.

Do you want to have an honest relationship with God? Then you are going to have to learn to express all of your emotions to him including anger. The Bible has many startling verses concerning this.

You must be completely honest in all of your dealings with God. That means expressing your anger to him at times. If you don't do this, then your relationship will remain shallow. Listen how I learned this the hard way.

Reading a magazine article about the Grand Canyon is not like standing on the South Rim yourself. Likewise, reading about God is not like having a relationship with him and experiencing him. Here is yet another way to love God.

One way to love God is to love him with all of our heart. But how do we do this? In this podcast we look at a few of Jesus' suggestions.

The modern Pharisees have so messed up "worship," that people don't even know what God wants them to do. God is not interested in song singing. Find out what really pleases God in worship.

God wants a close, intimate, and intense love relationship with you that is in some ways like the relationship between husband and wife. Don't take my word for it, read Song of Songs chapters 4, 6, and 7 for starters. And here is the best part, God can't remember all of your mistakes in the relationship. He can't remember one of them.

Loving other people is next to impossible if you don't change the way you look at others. Here's how to view others as Jesus has taught us. (I bet it's different than what you think)

Ever meet a Pharisee? They do everything right but the most important thing. And the most important thing is LOVE.

There is a lot more to loving God than saying you do. That's a good start, but there is much more to it. This is the first installment of my book "Loving God."

Much of modern Christianity would be revolutionized if we kept in mind some of Emerson's admonitions. The conclusion to Emerson's masterpiece, his essay on Self-Reliance.

What God has told others to do is interesting. What God has told you to do is life changing. Hear what Emerson has to say about this.

The most important thing anyone can do is to follow your intuition. The New Testament calls this being led by the Spirit. With this, there is life. Without this, there is death.

What a revolutionary idea Emerson has here, to say what you really think. Religion doesn't like this behavior, but Jesus loved it because that's how he lived his life.

Conformity is the common sin of humankind according to Emerson. Listen to Emerson explain why.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay on Self Reliance presents many startling truths embraced by Christianity better than most Christian literature. This is amazing considering Emerson, by his own admission, was not a Christian!

We all need a break from our obsessive compulsive thinking, thinking, thinking. The most wonderful way for me to do this is SYMA.

Tradition is second hand religion. It is what was meaningful to someone else who lived long ago in a much different culture. The problem is, it can become outdated, irrelevant, and yes, BORING. See what Jesus Christ had to say about tradition.

Both Paul and Jesus made some shocking statements about exactly who we are in God's eyes. Find out who you are, and what your status is with God.

This is who you are! Not many Christians believe it, but it's true. Stop trying to be who everyone else wants you to be, and just be who you are.

Religion can be about hiding the real you from others so they will approve of you. Instead, why don't you decide to be the person God made you to be?

You'll be surprised at the one requirement Jesus had for his initial leaders. And this trait is not valued by most of the Christian church.

Religion often implies that God doesn't think much of you. But, Jesus Christ made several amazing statements about you that you need to know about.

In Jesus' day many religious leaders, in his view, did not know God. It's the same today.

God cancelled the law and nailed it to the cross of Jesus. (Col. 2:15) But many in religion don't realize that. God is not into the law, God is into grace.

The Jesus found in the gospels is a lot different than the Jesus often portrayed by some in organized religion. There were super religious people in Jesus' day that thought they were more holy than Jesus was. Imagine that!

It is amazing what Jesus said about some of the most religious people in his society. Find out what is crucial to God.

We develop our friendship with God exactly the same way we become friends with anyone. We are around them, we talk to them, and they talk to us. Learn how to develop an intimate relationship with God by PTPOG, Practicing The Presence Of God.

A sure sign you are in the grip of second hand religion is the presence of boredom. Learn how to shake off second hand religion and embrace first hand religion, which is a friendship with God.

The Gospels are not dead history. And Jesus' attitude towards the organized religion of His day is exactly the attitude He has today. Learn why.

Jesus' attitude towards the man made religion of the first century is exactly his attitude toward the man made religion of today. Are you tired of religion? So is God.

Religion can be a substitute for knowing God the being who created you. Religion has never saved anyone, but knowing God can!