James Flanders Two Minute Audio Devotionals

Recently I found that "The Path Of Grace" site has now started creating short one and two minute audio devotionals from the longer audio programs James Flanders has been producing.

To me this is a welcome addition because it allows me the opportunity to share audios with friends and family who don't have the attention span for the longer audios.

Once great thing about the new devotional recordings is that each one focuses in on only one topic without all the rabbit trails that typically take place in the longer studies.

Along with the shorter audio recordings you can also read written transcripts for each of the audios which is great for the hearing impaired and for those who might want to copy and paste a passage of Scripture into our own notes or to send it to someone else.

I've also found that after listening to the longer audios it's helpful to stumble upon the shorter excepts in the devotionals at a later date because it helps re-enforce what I had heard before.

Here is a sample of one of the written transcripts:

"Now That We're On The Right Track... Stop Looking Back" (Philippians 3)

In Philippians chapter 3, Paul says something that is important for you and me to grasp as we consider our pasts and our future... and what we are planting right now.

He talks about not looking back... and that's a hard thing to do sometimes... it's hard to turn our eyes forward and stop looking back. But we need to stop looking back and instead look forward and press on... and keep moving toward the goal.

Here's what he said in Philippians chapter 3. This is paraphrased.

He said,  "I’m not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. Friends, don’t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself as an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back. I'm not looking back! So let’s keep focused on that goal… Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it."

In other words he's saying, "We were off track but now were on track, so let's stay on it!"

"There are many out there taking other paths, choosing other goals, and trying to get you to go along with them. All they want is easy street. But easy street is a dead-end street. Those who live there make their bellies their gods; belches are their praise; all they can think of is their appetites. But there’s far more to life for us. We’re citizens of high heaven! We’re waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus Christ, who will transform our earthy bodies into glorious bodies like his own. He will make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting everything as it should be, under and around him."