JP: Talk Radio

I love talk radio. I love to hear other people’s insight into what’s going on in the world. But often, the conversation can really become negative and depressing. So, I made a conscience decision that if I was going to continue listening to talk radio as I worked around the yard or drove around Grandview and its suburbs, it needed to have a more positive spin. I found this AM Christian station recently that provides some sound teachings as well as news from a biblical world perspective. It’s always good to see how God is moving on the hearts of teachers around the world.

More often than not, it has an Atlanta flavor to it. It seems that God is keeping my heart connected to Georgia as most of what I hear comes from Charles Stanley at First Baptist Atlanta, Michael Youssef at Church of the Apostles, or Johnny Hunt at First Baptist Woodstock. These men are not about tickling your ears. They are calling us to get off the bench and get in the game. We are allowing the enemy to take ground as we turn our head and sit passively by because “we don’t have the giftings to do anything about it. I’m not as holy or “good” enough. God can’t use me”.

This morning I heard Tony Evans finish a teaching on this same subject. He reminisced about how Superman was his favorite TV show while he was growing up. Clark Kent was a bumbling idiot who couldn’t do anything right. His co-workers at the Daily Planet didn’t like or respect him. In essence he was a spaz, dweeb, dork – take your pick. The bad guys would be wreaking havoc in Metropolis until someone cried out “Where’s Superman?” Then Clark would take off his glasses, loosen his tie and begin looking for a telephone booth or closet. He would emerge in his red and blue jumpsuit showing bulging muscles and Superman ensignia that were hidden under a normal drab exterior.

Then, Superman would go flying across the sky, arrive at the scene, catch a few bullets with his bare hands, bend gun barrels, capture criminals, and change everything. Why? Because he stopped hiding under his old clothes and allowed who he really was to come out.

Now it’s time for Christians to step into God’s phone booth or closet. We need to take off our Clark Kent clothing of timid living and talking. God is calling us to put on our spiritual Superman suits and allow His glory to show forth from you. He wants us to boldly emerge from that booth or closet, step back into the world, and “be faster than speeding sin, more powerful than public unrighteousness, and able to leap evil in a single bound”.