The People & Stuff of the World, Part 1 (TMF:2750)

Friday, November 21, 2025

Peace to Live By: The People & Stuff of the World, Part 1 (TMF:2750) - Daniel Litton
(Tap to play feature or right-click to download)

It becomes so obvious where a person’s heart is at when they lose these types of things—these people and things that the world has brought to them. We are born into this world bare naked, with nothing. We aren’t born into the world with a bunch of assets. They aren’t attached to us physically. Sure, we may be born into better circumstances than others, but they didn’t come into the world with us when we came into the world. That means they aren’t truly ours. Only our flesh is ours. Nothing outside of that. In that sense, then, just as nothing was attached to us when we came, nothing will be attached us when we leave. And also, that means nothing should be too attached to us as we live—as we live out how many ever years we find that we live. This is where the quality of life comes into focus, and by quality of life it is meant how our awareness of our lives comes to fruition. If we are seeing our lives through a Godly perspective, we understand our relationships with him are really, at the end of the day, all that truly matters.

The Higher Calling of the Christian, Part 4 (TMF:2749)

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Peace to Live By: The Higher Calling of the Christian, Part 4 (TMF:2749) - Daniel Litton
(Tap to play feature or right-click to download)

If we are focused on the earth, and what the earth has to offer, and what the earth can bring to us, we are creating a life for ourselves where all of our worth and value is found here. What is meant is that people can truly care about this world so much that all their attachment is tied here. Tied to a spouse. Tied to children, Tied to a career. Tied to a house. Tied to a collection of cars. Tied to the money in the bank accounts. Tied to making more and more money. It’s all tied here. What happens if part of it, or all of it, disappears? What happens if the family dies? Or suddenly, overnight, all the money is gone? What happens in these cases? It depends on whether we have stored up our value here, or stored up our value there—the ‘there’ being Heaven. If we are storing up our value in Heaven, we hold onto to the things this life has brought us with a loose grip. It’s a loose grip. Nothing held too tightly. The absence of them is the ultimate test.

The Higher Calling of the Christian, Part 3 (TMF:2748)

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Peace to Live By: The Higher Calling of the Christian, Part 3 (TMF:2748) - Daniel Litton
(Tap to play feature or right-click to download)

It’s a higher calling than the world, who, again, just lives out basic societal character traits, traits which include immorality, revenge, back stabbing, lying, getting ahead at any cost, not playing by proper rules, whatever you want to name. This is how they live, and we are to live in a different way. To “seek the things that are above.” ‘Above’ things. Things which are like God. Jesus would also tell us, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal” (Matthew 6:19, 20, ESV). Much could be said about these verses, but let us focus today on the part of it which pertains, again, to our own desire within ourselves. If we are focused on the earth, and what the earth has to offer, and what the earth can bring to us, we are creating a life for ourselves where all of our worth and value is found here.

The Higher Calling of the Christian, Part 2 (TMF:2747)

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Peace to Live By: The Higher Calling of the Christian, Part 2 (TMF:2747) - Daniel Litton
(Tap to play feature or right-click to download)

So, when each of us personally “seek[s] the things that are above,” what we are doing is actually living with the awareness of how things actually are—that the world has been loved by God, that there is hope for us and for everyone, and that Christ’s character traits are that which should be implemented in every situation. We’ve called this in the past becoming more like Jesus. That’s exactly it. For us, as Americans, that may not include persecution like it included for him and the disciplines (or it may), but the point is that we are to try to see everything how he would see it, and to act how we think he would act, or in a way that we believe he would be pleased with. It’s a higher calling than the world, who, again, just lives out basic societal character traits, traits which include immorality, revenge, back stabbing, lying, getting ahead at any cost, not playing by proper rules, whatever you want to name.

The Higher Calling of the Christian, Part 1 (TMF:2746)

Monday, November 17, 2025

Peace to Live By: The Higher Calling of the Christian, Part 1 (TMF:2746) - Daniel Litton
(Tap to play feature or right-click to download)

The call to us today isn’t so much to go out of life—to go out of the world. Or to check out. To become a monk in a monastery. That might be peaceful, and we might be really close to God (or perhaps not), but that’s not practical for us. We have to live out our daily lives—to live in the positions God has placed us in. That’s the way it works, and that’s even what God intends. The call to us today seems more focused on a particular quality that we bring to our life experience. It’s living out the same experience as we would of lived out but with a different focus. It’s having God in perspective. That’s what our enlightenment in coming to know God has done in the first place, in becoming a Christian. It has brought into raw form that which is the reality of the state of the world, that our fleshy bodies are affected by sin. That sin reigns in the world. That other people, besides ourselves, need to come to know this God. That there is this being named Satan, and he reaps havoc on the world.