The Newness of Spirit Podcast

Living in Christ - Making the Change Part I

It is good to know that we are in Christ.  It is much better to live in Christ so fully He is more real to us than our circumstances and surroundings!  God made us to dwell in Christ, and He knows how to bring us in to a living moment-by-moment Oneness that is a completely different realm than the world around us!

Soul Food by G. D. Watson Chapters 2, 7, and 8

Brother Watson knew the Lord intimately and understood the working of the Cross as necessary to being conformed to the image of the Son.  In these excerpts from Soul Food, we will seek to understand more fully how the Spirit applies the Cross to the soul not so much to deal with sin, but to bring us into a fuller union with Christ and a deeper separation from ourselves. 

Being In Christ - Personally

Is there any grander reality than that the Father has put us in His Son?  Probably not.  But does it have an effect on our daily lives?  It should, shouldn't it?  In this episode we examine the simple yet imperative step of receiving God's grand reality as personally real for each believer.  He so desires that we respond to Him with our hearts! 

The Rent Veil by Horatius Bonar

Chapters One and Ten are read from this wonderful book, which explores God's desire to have close fellowship with the hearts of His people.  We abiding in Christ and Christ living in us was God's desire and intended plan all along!  It was never meant to be a special relationship for a chosen few but the natural and simple way that God and man meet one another. 
 
Read by Mallory Patrick.

The Eyes and the Heart

We know that the heart is key in our daily experience with Christ as our life.  But the eyes are important, too!  Where we look and what we see determines where we end up, and also reveals where our heart rests. 

Life Out Of Death by Jessie Penn-Lewis, Mme. Guyon, and T.C. Upham -- an Excerpt

Today we will allow saints from another age to speak to us on what it means to be One with Christ.  This is not ethereal mysticism, but the experience of the soul that is filled with the life and nature of Christ.  May we find great benefit as we drink from these precious wells! 

Resurrection Is In God's Hands

We love the Lord and desire that He use us for His purposes.  In this episode, we explore how God desires to use us in ways our minds do not really comprehend.  Deeply relying upon Christ within as our essential life, we are useful because of His being in us, not because of the activities that God places in our hands. 

The Cloud of Unknowing

This episode is a reading of an excerpt from the old Christian Classic, "The Cloud of Unknowing."  The author of this book is, in a unique way, dividing soul from spirit in his attempt to guide the believer into union with Christ.  Even though some of the language is old fashioned, there is much spiritual food to feed on.
 
Read by Mallory Patrick

His Death - His Victory

Christ at His weakest point overcame every tyrannical enemy that sought to defeat Him.  And we were in Him when that happened!  May we know Him in His death and enter into oneness with His life by faith instead of strength!

Inside Our City of Refuge

This episode builds upon "Christ - A Refuge for the Manslayer" October 23 2024.  Here, we look more deeply into how the Spirit of God works in the soul of one who finds Christ as his City of Refuge.  The weakness and surrender experienced by the believer in the City of Refuge opens him or her to Oneness with Christ!