
The 5 Minute Discipleship Podcast
Daily episodes are hosted by Pastor Loren Hicks. This podcast will challenge you to go deeper into your Christian faith. The goal is to inspire you to be a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ. Episodes have been downloaded over 600,000 times.
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#1,310: You Will Receive Power
Whether it’s your coffee pot, your phone, your computer, or your car, power is necessary for each of these essentials to operate. It’s the same in the Christian life. You need power. God does not intend for us to live powerless Christian lives....
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#1,309: We Must Bring People to Jesus
Nothing we can do for people is more important than leading them to the Savior who can forgive their sins. We must do whatever it takes to bring our family and friends to Jesus.Main Points:1. One thi...
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#1,308: Our Heavenly Father's Love
What an amazing truth this is! Our Heavenly Father has lavished his love on us. The word “lavished” refers to something generous or extravagant. God has been extremely generous in His love for us. So much so that He has adopted us into His fami...
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#1,307: Faith Like a Child
Simple faith. Child-like faith. We must come to God with this same simplicity and sincerity. Just as a child can have complete faith in the protection and provision of their parents, so we must come to God with such faith. We must completely be...
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#1,306: Seeking the Will of God
As Christians, we put the future in God’s hands. We cannot predict the future. We don’t know what will happen tomorrow. Many will choose to worry about the future, but instead, we can choose to trust our Heavenly Father. We trust His will, His ...
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#1,305: Continue in the Truth
My prayer for you today is that you will let nothing move you. Remain steadfast. Stand firm in the truth. When others compromise their beliefs and when others crumble under the pressure to water down the truth, I pray you will remain strong for...
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#1,304: Why We Cannot Love the World
Loving the world will result in losing our first love. When this happens, we begin to buy into the world’s value systems and eventually, our lives do not reflect Christ; they will reflect the world.Main Points:1...
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#1,303: The Necessity of Faith
Today, everyone has natural faith. You step onto an elevator without any thought of its braking system. You fly on an airplane and you sit in a chair, both require natural faith. But to be born again, you must have saving faith. To be forgiven ...
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#1,302: Let the Lord Give You Rest
Have you ever felt like you were on an emotional treadmill? Our lives are going faster and faster and we don’t know how to slow them down. I meet people who say to me, “Pastor Loren, I am running on fumes. I’m on empty. ...
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#1,301: Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed
Jesus is telling us that while God can do great things with small faith, our faith doesn’t have to stay small. It can grow. In fact, it’s God’s will for your faith to grow. A mustard seed can grow to become a strong, tall tree. So it is with yo...
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#1,300: The Power of Gratitude
Apart from a heart of gratitude, we begin to be self-focused, self-centered, and self-pleasing. But when you and I, as Christ-followers, decide to live with a daily heart of thankfulness, it changes us. A peaceful heart is the result.
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#1,299: There is a Cure for Spiritual Blindness
Maybe you have wondered why some do not respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I have often thought, “If they could only see how wonderful Jesus is. If they could only see how amazing it is to know the Lord and to be forgiven of our sins.” But ...
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#1,298: We Must Have a Spiritual Birth
Our efforts at personal goodness, no matter how consistent they may be, will never save us. In fact, good behavior is incapable of bringing us into a right relationship with God. We must be born again.Main Points:
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#1,297: Chosen by God
Think about this truth. God didn’t have to love us. He didn’t have to offer us grace and mercy. Nothing forced God to show us forgiveness. Nothing compelled Him to give us the precious gift of eternal life, but God chose to. He chose to love us...
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#1,296: Run From Temptation
We must see that with God’s help, we have the power to flee and to run away from temptation. If we are hesitant, if we wait and entertain the temptation, we lose power against it. God’s Word teaches us to flee.Main Points:<...
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#1,295: When You Don't Know What to Pray
How many times have you and I come to God in prayer over a desperate situation, and we felt as if we didn’t have the words to pray? We didn’t know what to say. In that moment, words seem to fail us.Main Points:
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#1,294: Our Biggest Giants are Internal
The giants we struggle with the most are not sickness, finances, pain, loss, or grief. Our biggest giants are internal. The battles that take us out are personal. Struggles like lust, greed, selfishness, anger, bitterness, and...
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#1,293: No Condemnation in Christ Jesus
The Bible teaches us that not only does God forgive us, but he removes our condemnation. Grace brings freedom. It provides healing for the soul. Sins are not only forgiven, but God lifts our sentence of guilt. Shame is erased....
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#1,292: God's Word Will Not Fail
You and I have a truth we can hold onto today: God is a promise-keeper. He will not fail. What He has said, He will do. What He has promised, He will perform. Main Points:1. Let this truth be an encourageme...
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#1,291: God Uses the Foolishness of Preaching
God, in His infinite wisdom, uses what the world considers foolish—the preaching of the cross—to confound the wise. The power of salvation is not found in human wisdom or eloquence, but in the message of Christ's sacrificial love.
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#1,290: Is it Time to Rebuild?
The good news is that God specializes in restoring and rebuilding lives. Millions of people have experienced His grace and power. They have seen God pick them up out of the ruins and turn their lives around.Main Points:
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#1,289: The Bible is our Guide
The Word of God is our trail marker. Without the Word of God, we don’t know where to walk, or even how to walk, in a spiritual sense. Left to ourselves, we will get lost. Main Points:1. A hiker who ig...
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#1,288: Why I Believe in the Virgin Birth of Jesus
The most foundational doctrine of Christianity is that Jesus was 100% God and 100% man. He is the son of God and the son of man. He was virgin born, conceived by the Holy Spirit. This does not mean God came down and was sexually intimate with M...
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