Advancing Word Podcast
Advancing Word weds a pastor's love for the people of God with a preacher's passion for the Word of God in powerful and practical sermons. T. D. Stubblefield believes that the Bible contains principles, perspectives and promises that satisfy and sustain those who place their trust in God. These inspirational messages are evidence that the Word of God is alive, powerful, and relevant to the times in which we live.
Episodes
211 episodes
How Good Is God
We do not know who wrote Psalm 100. The anonymous author pushed through doubt, disillusionment, desperation, disappointment and arrived at a place where, in a magnificent, melodic and moving anthem of praise and thanksgiving, he affirmed ...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 47
•
19:05
Fast Forwarding Through Life's Reversals
Wouldn’t it be great if when we experience a reversal, a setback or find ourselves in a difficult place, to have the ability to grab a remote and fast forward through the pain, the sorrow, the tears, the disappointment or difficulty? So o...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 46
•
20:04
The Story In The Storm
In the spiritual realm, storm chasers are rare. We don’t go looking for a storm! Rather, most of us are like the author of Psalm Fifty-Five who, while looking for an exit ramp from the storms of life wrote, “Oh that I had wings like a dov...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 45
•
26:58
An Upstream Provision For A Downstream Problem
In Joshua Chapter Three, the Israelites receive instructions from God about crossing of the Jordan River. Before they encountered the towering fortress that was the city of Jericho, they faced the turbulent flooding of the Jordan River!&n...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 44
•
29:37
What's In The House?
In Second Kings, Chapter 4, a single mother whose husband had died faced an insurmountable debt. Failure to pay would result in her two sons being sold into servitude. The prophet Elisha challenges her to do an inventory of her hous...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 43
•
28:03
The Pastor In Biblical Perspective
October is Clergy Appreciation Month. Once again, we share this classic sermon by Dr. T. D. Stubblefield on the biblical office of Pastor -Teacher based on Jeremiah 3:15. “The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 42
•
27:31
Modeling Jesus's Ministry
According to the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 4, verses 16-20, Jesus reads from the prophet Isaiah to mark the official commencement of His public ministry. In the synagogue, Jesus uses the prophet’s words to communicate the character of His m...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 41
•
26:55
Trusting God In A New Season
During the Retirement Celebration of Dr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Owens of the Shiloh Baptist Church Lexington, Kentucky, after twenty-five years of faithful service, Dr. T. D. Stubblefield encourages his friends and the church. He draws timeless t...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 40
•
28:15
The Power Of A Changed Life - Part 3
In the soaring crescendo of Galatians Chapter Two, verse 20, Paul declares the essential fact of the Christian Gospel, “The Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me”. The Apostle’s life was powerful, prolific and productive becaus...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 39
•
21:34
The Power Of A Changed Life - Part 2
A “changed life” is the standard and bar to which every child of God must by grace assent and ascend to. It requires commitment, courage and consistency. These characteristics are in short supply in the contemporary church. In...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 38
•
18:24
The Power Of A Changed Life - Part 1
The Apostle Paul’s compelling affirmation about the spiritual life in the Book of Galatians, Chapter 2, verse 20 is formative, informative and transformative. In the first of a three-part sermon series focused on “The Power of the Changed...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 37
•
18:21
What Makes The Church So Special?
What makes the church so special? This question is implicit in the Apostle Peter’s compelling commendation of the church in Chapter 2, verses 9-10 of his first epistle. The question is still relevant considering the increasing press...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 36
•
20:56
Insight For The Uptight
In Psalm 73 Asaph, a worship leader in the Temple during the reign of King David experienced a crisis of faith as he observed around him "the prosperity of the wicked". When he worshipped, he faced his crisis, found clarity, and framed a ...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 35
•
21:57
Winning The War Within
While pursuing perfection, the Apostle Paul was in a war. The battleground was within him, and the adversaries were the flesh and the spirit. For those who are struggling with sin today, we learn from Paul’s words and experience that, we ...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 34
•
27:58
Standing On The Promises Or Settling On The Premises
The Book of Acts, Chapter Three, verses 1 – 10 is relevant to anyone who occupies residence, domicile, territory, and hiatus in holy places. The primary character in this narrative had settled on the premises. Yet, when his story co...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 33
•
29:14
The High Cost Of Standing
In Chapter Three of the Book of Daniel, the primary characters, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, did not make a purchase at a clearance sale or in a bargain basement but transacted the business of their faith under the most difficult and deadl...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 32
•
27:50
How To Handle A Burden
In Psalm Fifty-five, stanza 22, King David laments the suffering and disappointment that he experienced because of his son Absalom’s attempt to usurp the throne and from the betrayal by a close advisor and friend. Yet David expressed his ...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 31
•
23:29
The Church The Lord Blesses
During the 225th Anniversary Celebration of the Historic Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, Dr. T. D. Stubblefield parses powerfully and passionately the Risen Lord’s commendation of the Church of Smyrna recorded i...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 30
•
27:40
An Exclusive Invitation
Chapter Eleven of the Gospel of Matthew begins with an exceptional interrogation by the John the Baptist but ends with an exclusive invitation in verse 28 by the One whose mission, ministry and message that John seemed to momentarily question.&...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 29
•
27:22
The Power Of A Praying Man
Samson would never be a poster child for Great Fathers of the Bible; in fact, there is no record that he ever had children. But here we are! Parked at this text. Why? Because Samson demonstrates for us the power of a pra...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 28
•
28:11
How To Talk To A Mountain
As Jesus’s public ministry comes to an end, he intensifies the training of the disciples. He teaches them that genuine faith can move mountains! Faith does not retreat from impossibility but trusts in God. The principles in this mes...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 27
•
27:59
The Day The Church Stopped Giving
In Chapter Thirty-Six of Exodus, Israel upsized their giving with an “over-the-top” offering. Fresh out of Egyptian bondage and responding to an appeal to support the construction of the tabernacle, they gave so much that they were restra...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 26
•
23:16
Assurances For The Journey
During the Twenty-Third Pastoral Anniversary and Church Birthday Celebration at the Christ Way Missionary Baptist Church in Louisville, KY, Dr. Stubblefield preaches from Isaiah, Chapter 52, verse 12 and reminds Pastor and People that there are...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 25
•
28:21
A Father Who Found His Voice
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 ...
•
Season 5
•
Episode 24
•
28:03