God's Character Episodes

When your question is, "How much does God love me?" the Bible's answer is: It's wider, longer, higher, deeper, and more than your mind can imagine!

Why do bad things happen to good people? That's a hard reality, but it's not the end of the story when God is in your story. In this episode, Val Brown interviews Bob Santos, founder of Search For Me Ministries, Inc. Bob has found a God perspective on life's sufferings and sorrows. In this conversation, he speaks about God's goodness in spite of resident evil in the world.

In this episode, Val Brown interviews author Barbara Isaac Croce about her book 'A Journey into Hope: An Interactive Journal for Women.' They discuss the importance of processing thoughts and emotions and training the heart to look at life from a "Hope in God" perspective. Barbara shares the Biblical pattern for training the soul found in Psalm 42:11. The Psalmist acknowledges the current state of his soul--despairing and disturbed--then he directs his heart to God, to trust in Him, and to worship Him as his Help, his God to whom he can run. “What you focus on, grows. That’s the truth. If you focus on all the darkness in your life, that’s all your eyes will see—because we’re trained. This is how God made us: He made us to become what we look at. If you look at God the whole time and His goodness and His character, that’s what will grow in your life. And that’s a matter of perspective. And so we train ourselves; we train our hearts to look a certain way. There’s no magic…Hope is …

Is God a narcissist? Jesus said, "You shall worship the Lord our God, and serve Him only." It is for OUR GOOD that we love Him with all of our heart, with all of our soul, and with all of our might.

Knowing God - Hindrances & Breakthrough. God jealously wants us to know Him, and Jesus is The Way to Him! We can learn to recognize hindrances and break through to know God personally.

How can I know God personally? There are 3 Must-haves. The route to knowing God is easy, but a relationship takes time and attention to develop, just like getting to know a person, who becomes a close friend. The 3 Must-haves to knowing God are: Desire Him, Pursue Him, and have a living relationship with Him. God passionately loves you, and He desires that you know Him personally. Do you feel His pull? Answer with, "God, I want to know You."