St. Paul
speaker
78 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
St. Paul’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) · Day 348: Rules for the New Life (2024) · 13 Dec 2024
podcast
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves and masters.
Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters with fear and trembling in singleness of heart as to Christ, not in the way of eye service as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a goodwill as to the Lord and not to men.
knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Masters, do the same to them and forbear threatening, knowing that he who is both their master and yours is in heaven and that there is no partiality with him. Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness. against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Therefore, take the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand. Stand therefore, having fastened the belt of truth around your waist and having put on the breastplate of righteousness and having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace.
Besides all these, taking the shield of faith with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.
And also for me, that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly as I ought to speak. Personal Matters and Benediction Now that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will tell you everything.
I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts. Peace be to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love undying.
A man of wrath stirs up strife and a man given to anger causes much transgression. A man's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. The partner of a thief hates his own life.
Lord God, we thank you for this struggle. We thank you for the battle and we thank you for the fact that you trust us enough to be part of your work and you trust us enough to make us your body on earth. My gosh, Lord God, you've made us members of your body because you trust us.
Not only because you love us and because you want to pour out your love upon us and give us life in you, but also because you give us a share in your mission. You make us your hands and feet in this world. And so please, Lord God, help us to never take that for granted. Help us to always walk in you. Walk as you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We have the second to last chapter in the Acts of the Apostles today. And here's St. Paul. It is a journey and a half, right? Can you imagine, chapter 27, this journey of St. Paul to Rome? And there's, you know, 260 plus people here on this ship with Luke.
He's there because he's, remember, whenever we have the we, we know that person traveling with Paul in this case is going to be Luke because he's describing what he went through as well. But you just think about it. Man, not only is he on his way to Rome to be tried and hopefully to be able to share the gospel, but it's not an easy trip.
And I just think about how often are you and I on a trip and we think, I mean, we've talked about this before, but we're on a trip and we think, oh man, there's all these difficulties. I should have just stayed home. Yeah. You know, like even if it's minor inconveniences, you know, a traffic jam or our plane is delayed. And that's my mind goes right there.
My mind goes right to the place of, well, you know what? I shouldn't even be on this trip. I regret all these decisions. And here's St. Paul. And he doesn't give any indication. He gives every indication that...
that he's trusting in the lord and saying okay this is god's will this is god's will for me right now and this is the secret to holiness is to be able to lean into that and be able to say okay whatever is happening this is god's will for me right now even if it's not good right not that god wills evil but he can oftentimes well all the time it's either his perfect will that he desires us to be in a certain situation or it is his permissive will that he allows us to be in a
Here's St. Paul on his travels to Rome in this horrible, horrible situation. And yet he can lean into this without any kind of licking his wounds, without any kind of that sense of, you know, I'm going to have this self-pity and just going to mope around, but being able to say, okay, God, this is your will for me today.
And that's, that's my prayer for all of us is that we get to say in every situation, okay, God, this is your will, your will for me right now, even when it's unpleasant for all of us. So speaking of this, man, St. Paul's conclusions to the letter to the Ephesians, we have that, that unity, that unity in the spirit.
Now, one of the big, the big themes, of course, is going to be that you have to have a converted life, that here you're living in Ephesus and you cannot, you cannot live the way you used to live. So he goes on in chapter five, he's, well, actually chapter six, sorry, chapter four. I know how to count, count backwards. You have rules for new life.
He says, put away the old man, put on the new man created after the likeness of God into righteousness and holiness. Be angry, but do not sin. It goes on to say those who used to steal. No, no. Now you're going to labor doing honest work with your hands. Those who complain and let evil talks come out of your mouths. No, no, no. Only speak what is good for edifying to build up people around you.
Showing 41–60 of 78 · page 3 of 4
← Previous
Next →