We take relevant topics with a Biblical point of view and we, "Talk About It". "Talk About It" with Pastor Don Smith: Where faith meets real life. Each season, we take a deep dive into one relevant topic – from current events to timeless struggles – and explore it through a Biblical lens. We tackle the big questions, cultural shifts, and personal challenges, offering perspective, insight, and meaningful conversation grounded in Scripture. Join us as we "Talk About It", you know you want to.. ...
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Send us a text Marriage Math: Why Adulthood is the Secret Ingredient to Lasting Love Is your marriage truly a union of two adults? This week, we dive deep into the essential requirements of adulthood that make or break a thriving partnership. We explore why personal responsibility is the greatest gift you can give your spouse – and how blaming them…
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Send us a text Marriage Math: Why 1+1=1 Subtitle: The Surprising Truth About Biblical Oneness What if Hollywood’s version of marital "oneness" is missing the real math? In this eye-opening episode, we explore God’s radical equation for marriage: 1+1=1 (Mark 10:7-8). You’ll discover: Why the intoxicating "you complete me" fantasy often leads to mari…
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The Fear of Getting Out of the Box Part 2
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26:04Send us a text What happens when the "safe" Jesus you imagined vanishes in blazing glory? In this seismic conclusion to our Fearless series, we confront the uncontainable God revealed at the Transfiguration – and discover how holy fear shatters every chain holding us back. You’ll experience: 🔥 THE DANGER OF GLORY (Matt 17:1-3) Why seeing Jesus' tru…
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The Fear of Getting Out of the Box Part 1
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27:14Send us a text Are we worshipping a "safe" God? In this powerful episode, we confront how fear keeps us trapped in spiritual smallness. We tear down the illusion of a tame, manageable Jesus and rediscover the ferocious, uncontainable God revealed at the Transfiguration. Jesus never called His followers to be cowards—yet we often cower from challeng…
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Send us a text We are called to become a people of great confidence and boldness when facing the fears that plague our culture and the world we live in. In this world of problems and calamity we need not fear, we just need to be still and know that our God has all things under His amazing control. Support the show…
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Send us a text A discussion I’ve often heard, a question often asked is: what is the unforgivable sin? When is that we cross the line and can’t come back? Is there a time when God is finished with us and we are beyond saving? Why do people ask that? Because we are worried that maybe we have gone too far, done that thing once too many times, played …
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Send us a text It's "fear" that convinces us that death has the final say. It is a true saying, "whatever you fear controls you". What if I told you that you dont have to fear death because the curtain on the mystery of death has been removed?!!!!! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text One of the most often communicated messages in this life is "you dont' matter". We have a natural inborn need to matter. The fear of not mattering is a bully that wants to take you down paths you dont want to take and become something that you dont want to become. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text What if we could live a Fearless life?! Well, it not about the storm, its who you meet in the storm! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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God Want to Trust You With His Delegated Authority
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32:38Send us a text God has a goal to accomplish in each of our lives. He customizes that process and it always entails some form of leadership, good or bad. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text Leaders will be judged more severely that we will. Our judgement will be relative to our submission. God is more concerned that His authority is manifested in our hearts than that our own agendas to accomplish His work. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text A true conversation about authority should no be just about the authority that I have but also about the authority I am submitted to. It's God's authority that brings me into right relationship with Him and others. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text We have a weapon for every weapon the devil has, but he has no defense for the one weapon we have - THE WORD of GOD! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text It high time that Christians stop sounding the retreat and start shouting "charge"! If you are a Christian you are in a battle everyday! Do not be discouraged..... this battle is winnable because of the "Authority of the Believer". Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text We are celebrating one full year of Podcasting with episode #52!!!!! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Exercising Spiritual Authority Over The Devil
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23:52Send us a text You walk in authority not because of you who are but because of who lives inside of you. Its time to tell the devil to give back what he stole!!!!!! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text We are the tool that God intends to use to tear down the stronghold of Satan on Earth! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text A door is meant to be a barrier but once you have the "keys" it can no longer hinder you. It's the same with the Authority of the Believer, we have the "Keys" to the Kingdom! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text True faith begins with the proper understanding of authority. When you understand faith to be an extension of Jesus' authority, it instills trust and obedience. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text In this episode we talk about by what authority the believer walks in. We are empowered to empower others. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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The Believer's Authority - Identity Part 2
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23:08Send us a text Keys represent authority. Jesus has given us the Keys to the Kingdom. In this episode we talked about what keeps us from using those keys. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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The Believer's Authority - Identity Part 1
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23:09Send us a text Identity is the key that opens any door. Believers have been given the name of "Jesus". It is His name on our life that we must learn to walk in! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Confession Makes a Difference in the Authority of the Believer
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23:27Send us a text Your confession makes all the difference in the kind of authority you walk in. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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The Believer's Authority - Authority Lost - Authority Regained
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22:53Send us a text By learning to live in the authority of Christ, the believer can and will experience Victory! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text In this final episode on Forgiveness. we invited Lisa in along with her daughter and some of her friends for a Q&A. This discussion provides us with the proof that total forgiveness is possible!!!!! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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A Journey to Total Forgiveness Part 2 - Lisa' Testimony - 40 years later
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25:51Send us a text WARNING - In this Episode I tell the story of what happened 40 years after Lisa was raped. This was the test of "Has she really forgiven". Your ears will not believe what happens. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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A Journey to Total Forgiveness - Lisa's Testimony
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1:07:37Send us a text This episode is Lisa's testimony. Warning - This episode details very sensitive issues about being raped at 15 and the physical abuse of her life. We are telling the story not to glorify abuse or offend anyone but to demonstrate how God met Lisa and how the power of forgiveness healed her life. If you are there God can and will meet …
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Send us a text Since forgiveness is a choice what is the next step? If we are persuaded that it is right and have decided to do it, and not look back, what's next?! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text What is the purpose of The Lord's Words in Matt 7: 1-5 if what He is saying seems to be impossible? Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text Knowing the difference between "Fault finding" and speaking truth in love has to do with knowing your own heart. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text Criticism that is either unfair or unjust, even if it is true, should never be uttered Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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The 5 Consequences of an Unforgiving Spirit
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21:30Send us a text What are the consequences of harboring unforgiveness in your heart? What exactly did Jesus mean in Matthew 6:15? Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text Although we know we are saved by grace alone, there remains consequences if we choose to walk in unforgiveness Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text Unless we are walking in a state of forgiveness toward others, we cannot be in an intimate relationship with God Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text Six steps to applying total forgiveness Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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How do I know that I have totally forgiven
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24:07Send us a text Have you ever wondered if you have really forgiven someone? Does that question bother you enough to seek out the answer? IT SHOULD! In this episode we will answer it! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text Letting go of unforgiveness is an open invitation for the Holy Spirit to give you His peace, joy, and the knowledge of His will Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text To have a solid foundation and true understanding of Biblical forgiveness, you need to know what it is not as much as what it is. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text At the foot of the Cross of Jesus no one seemed to be sorry. But Jesus asked the Father to forgive them anyway. and Acts Chapter 2:14-41 God answered Jesus' prayer. What if God forgave and blessed us to the proportion that we forgive and bless others? Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text You should never be in a position of having to wield a sword that is a weapon only. The sword is to be a part of youn so that when you fight, you are expressing the power of the Word that has already done its work in you. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text The eternal truths of salvation, faith, and hope flow from a mind that has allowed itself to be saturated in God’s Word. In this cosmic conflict, the front lines are between your ears! Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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Send us a text The ultimate cause of all spiritual depression is unbelief, if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God we fall before his attacks. This ability to quench arrows that have the potential not only to pierce but also to start a destructive fire is what fa…
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Send us a text The blessing of being used by God to impact the world always far outweighs the harassments of the enemy. You are going to have to choose between fear and faith, and the later is far better than the first. The best response is to forge ahead with the knowledge of how to engage the enemy successfully. Support the show…
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Send us a text If grace has been undermined in a believers’ mind, self is all that is left – all we can do then is hope in our own resources. When failure comes then the only conclusion anyone can draw is “Maybe I don’t really belong to Christ”. And if we never really known we become a pawn in the hand of the enemy. We will be forever plagued by do…
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Send us a text A Roman breastplate was usually made of bronze; it covered from just below the neck to the thighs to guard the most vital organs that keep us alive. No one would dare go into battle without it. What exactly does righteousness mean? If you think it means you have to become perfect before you are protected, just quit now. That is not w…
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Battling Deception - Sifting Through False Intelligence
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22:08Send us a text The real secret to happiness isn’t anywhere in prime-time TV. The key to life has nothing to do with fast cars, revolving partners or this year’s fashions. Those are just counterfeits with which the enemy and the flesh conspire to tempt us. And the remedy – the number one defense against this devious deception – is to clothe ourselve…
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Send us a text It our job to learn how to guard the territory that has been entrusted to us. To not let our new position in Christ get undermined by our thinking, speech, and lifestyle. We are about to learn how this works out in everyday life with normal people like you and I. There are two responses: do nothing or prepare. The cutting edge of our…
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Send us a text We live in a fallen world, and though we are brand new, we still fight a war on two fronts. Our flesh against the Spirit. And a supernatural angelic being who fell from heaven and took 1/3 of the angels with him, whose goal is to destroy us spiritually, emotionally, relationally, and physically. Fighting on both fronts will require a…
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Send us a text Even though Satan is more powerful than we can imagine, we give him too much credit – or God too little – if we fear him. We are never told in the Bible to be preoccupied with the devil. Our preoccupation should be entirely on God and not on our adversary or ourselves. Support the show…
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Send us a text Satan and his forces have a plan to terrorize your soul, to render you impotent as a believer, to make you worthless to the cause of Christ, and to make your life one of misery and spiritual defeat. Support the showBy Pastor Don M Smith
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