Advancing Word Podcast Dr. T. D. Stubblefield

Dr. Stubblefield shared this powerful message on Father’s Day in 2022 at The Still Useable Ministries Church in St. Robert’s, MO. In many homes in America, the voice of the father has been muffled, muted, maligned, misrepresented or gone missing altogether. This reality is deeply damaging to the fabric of our society of which biblical marriage and family is the foundation and the father and husband is the chief cornerstone. In the Gospel of Luke, Chapter One, verses 62-66, Zachar...

The Parable of the Good Samaritan recorded in the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 10, verses 30 -37, is Jesus’s response to an expert (scribe) of the Law, who came to Him attempting to justify himself. The parable leverages one of the frequently used metaphors in the Bible of the spiritual life, that of a journey or a road trip. The journey that is the life of the child of God involves dangers seen and unseen. There are steep mountains to climb and deep, desolate valleys to go throu...

The questions asked at many places in the Bible opens and pushes back the panoramic horizons of spiritual reality and truth. Whether, God asking Adam in Genesis Chapter 3, “Where are you?” or the disciples on stormy sea in an act of desperation asking the Lord, “Care not that we perish?”, questions can be profoundly provocative and redemptively revealing. One of those questions is recorded in the Gospel of Luke, Chapter Twenty-Two, verse 71. “What need we any further witness...

One of the Apostle Paul’s favorite metaphors for Christian life and ministry was the military. 2 Timothy, Chapter 2, verses 3 – 4, is one of many places in his writings where this image and analogy is used. One gets the sense when reading his letters in the New Testament that Paul was all too familiar with the clank of armor, the thump and thud of soldiers’ feet as they marched under command and in formation, brandishing swords, shields and spears. As we celebrate the contri...

The final installment of the sermon series “Improving Our Serve” focuses on the call of Isaiah to the prophetic ministry recorded in Chapter Six, verses 1 -8 of the book that bears his name. This passage reveals that before the prophet committed to be a servant before his Sovereign, he also acknowledged being a creature before his Creator and a sinner before his Savior. God requires the same from any of us who are serious about ministry.

A mother who could quality as the poster child for “bad luck magazine” is driven into Jesus's presence because of a personal crisis. Her faith will not allow her to settle for crumbs from the Lord's table because she believes she can have the crust. She learned, as can we, that "Jesus is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think!"