Charles R. Swindoll

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Have you ever met someone who seemed determined to steal your joy? Someone so busy policing how you live that they squeeze every ounce of freedom out of your faith? Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll opens Mark chapter two, where we read about three confrontations between Jesus and the religious rule keepers of his day.

Along the way, Chuck identifies three battles every believer must be prepared to wage.

These are struggles we dare not surrender because our freedom in Christ hangs in the balance.

most of them are lost most of Matthew's friends do not know Christ Matthew is leaving his profession and his buddies are saying goodbye along with a lot of people he's been doing business with and they're all together and Jesus is in their midst now I know that your first thought is good for you Christ good for you that's right where you ought to be would you have been there If you would not have been there, it's probably because of Pharisees, today's Pharisees.

What would they say? What would you say? I'll make it even harder.

If you're downtown Dallas and you're walking along a busy area one evening and you look into a bar and there is Chuck Swindoll having dinner with all the people in the bar.

I have a feeling there would be letters to the elders along with phone calls made so that other people might pray more intelligently.

He's interviewed me.

I'm talking about Pastor Chuck Swindoll is my guest.

Pastor Chuck Swindoll, I praise God for you.

Welcome to this program.

Well, thank you, Eric.

Well, we're going to go off the air right now.

Don't turn this off so we can get each other's information.

But folks, in case you didn't know, I've been talking to Chuck Swindoll.

Have you ever met someone who seemed determined to steal your joy? Someone so busy policing how you live that they squeeze every ounce of freedom out of your faith? Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll opens Mark Chapter 2, where we read about three confrontations between Jesus and the religious rule keepers of his day.

Along the way, Chuck identifies three battles every believer must be prepared to wage.

These are struggles we dare not surrender because our freedom in Christ hangs in the balance.

Today's Pharisees.

What would they say? What would you say? I'll make it even harder.

If you're downtown Dallas and you're walking along a busy area one evening and you look into a bar and there is Chuck Swindoll having dinner with all the people in the bar.

I have a feeling there would be letters to the elders.

along with phone calls made so that other people might pray more intelligently.

Have you ever met someone who seemed determined to steal your joy? Someone so busy policing how you live that they squeeze every ounce of freedom out of your faith? Today on Insight For Living, Chuck Swindoll opens the Bible to Mark Chapter 2, where we read about three confrontations between Jesus and the religious rule keepers of his day.

Along the way, Chuck identifies three battles every believer must be prepared to wage.

These are struggles we dare not surrender because our freedom in Christ hangs in the balance.

Today's Pharisees.

What would they say? What would you say? I'll make it even harder.

If you're downtown Dallas and you're walking along a busy area one evening and you look into a bar and there is Chuck Swindoll having dinner with all the people in the bar.

I have a feeling there would be letters to the elders saying, along with phone calls made so that other people might pray more intelligently.

And very little said to me personally because I was in there and shouldn't be in there.

Chris Schroeder, who is the associate pastor here at First Baptist Church in Texarkana, Texas.

And he and I have both finished a biography by Charles Swindoll called Awakened by Grace, The Life Story of Chuck Swindoll.

What a great read.

And we're going to talk about that today because there's so much to learn from Chuck Swindoll, one of the great, great choice servants that God has used so greatly over the years.

Well, even at Stonebriar, the very end, that was one of his most challenging was the elders were kind of against him on anything that he wanted to do.

He had to kind of redo the whole elder board.

And I mean, he's in his 60s and he's Charles Swindoll.

He's written all these books.

Lifetrack with Chuck Swindoll is a presentation of Insight for Living Canada.

When something tragic happens, you think, well, maybe it'll get better, and of all things, something calamitous follows that.

It happened in our own church in years past.

And it was truth, and I felt it.

And then I heard Erwin Lutzer, and then I heard Chuck Swindoll.

Oh, my goodness.

I was hooked.

How am I going to find out about my steps? What should I do? What should I be? How has God made me? Train up a child in the way he shall go, and when he is old he shall not depart from it.

Actually, I heard Chuck Swindoll, marvelous sermon on that years ago.

Train up a child according to his bent, it means.

What's that? How God has made him.