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  • Praying: Father First

    Praying: Father First
    Jan 22 2026
    This episode of No-Co is dedicated to helping listeners with their prayer life by discussing the prayer Jesus taught His disciples, often called the “Lord's Prayer”, as recorded in Luke chapter 11. He analyzes the structure of the prayer, emphasizing the overarching theme of addressing God as Father and breaking the requests into two vertical prayers (magnifying God: "Hallowed be your name," "Your kingdom come") and three horizontal requests (for the believers: daily bread, forgiveness of sins, and deliverance from temptation). Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/h1LpIQeY6Yg Produced/Edited By: Marrio Escobar (Owner of D2L Productions)
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  • Marriage Blunders

    Marriage Blunders
    Jan 21 2026
    Pastor Mike discusses common marriage blunders (mistakes) based on his experience, including recent premarital counseling. He prefaces the advice by acknowledging his own imperfections after 36 years of marriage and emphasizing that marriage reflects Christ and the Church. He outlines and explains several key mistakes, such as viewing differences as negative, adopting a "you have a problem" syndrome instead of "we have a problem," arguing while tired, withholding forgiveness, chronic complaining, using intimacy as a weapon, and trying to change one's spouse. Mike stresses the importance of forgiveness as a reflection of God's grace and warns against bitterness and chronic complaining as major destroyers of a good marriage. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/upI052xd6Ro Produced/Edited By: Marrio Escobar (Owner of D2L Productions)
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  • God\'s Sanctifying Work

    God\'s Sanctifying Work
    Jan 20 2026
    Pastor Mike argues against the common misconception that sanctification is primarily the believer's effort (synergistic). Instead, he asserts the technical and proper definition is that sanctification is fundamentally the monergistic work of God's free grace, as the sanctifier, through the Holy Spirit. Mike distinguishes between positional sanctification (set apart at justification) and progressive/practical sanctification (the subsequent process of holy living, dying to sin, and living to righteousness). He emphasizes that a Christian's response to God's work is first by faith—believing they are dead to sin and alive to God in Christ (union with Christ) before yielding the fruit of obedience. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6dhG6YCtdLc Produced/Edited By: Marrio Escobar (Owner of D2L Productions)
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  • An Introduction to Catechisms

    An Introduction to Catechisms
    Jan 15 2026
    Pastor Mike focuses on the importance and benefit of using catechisms, creeds, and confessions as supplements to studying the Bible. He argues that these resources, such as systematic theology or a confession, help believers "get their arms around" the vast content of the 66 books of the Bible by providing concise summaries and instruction.While affirming that God's Word is the final, supreme authority (sola scriptura), he highlights how catechisms protect the church from "celebrity pastors" by establishing a shared, time-tested theological foundation, and provide a means for unity among different reformed groups (like the "three forms of unity": Dort, Heidelberg, and Belgic Confession). Produced/Edited By: Marrio Escobar (Owner of D2L Productions) Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vjv_fnYjzIM
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  • Feed the Sheep

    Feed the Sheep
    Jan 14 2026
    This episode of No-Co Radio is framed around the ironic concept of “how to be a boring Bible teacher” which the host uses as a contrast to teach listeners how to be effective and engaging in their teaching and preaching. He outlines specific pitfalls to avoid to prevent being a "boring Bible teacher." These pitfalls include scolding people instead of using the Word to gently wound and kill, speaking in a flat, monotone way that lacks enthusiasm, teaching too long, using the Bible as a Star Spangled Banner springboard without digging into the text, and forgetting about the people you're teaching by not crafting the sermon with their life circumstances in mind. Produced/Edited By: Marrio Escobar (Owner of D2L Productions) Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TNOX7TrQpgw
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  • Resurrected Savior

    Resurrected Savior
    Jan 13 2026
    Pastor Mike presents a detailed discussion about the supernatural events surrounding the crucifixion and death of Jesus as recorded in Matthew chapters 27 and 28. He argues that the author, Matthew, includes a series of supernatural signs to "grease the wheels" and prepare the reader to understand the resurrection of Jesus as the ultimate supernatural event. He focuses on five specific signs that occurred around the time of Jesus's death: darkness over the land , the curtain of the temple being torn in two , an earthquake that split the rocks, the tombs opening and dead saints being raised, and the centurion's supernatural conversion and declaration that Jesus was the Son of God. Produced/Edited By: Marrio Escobar (Owner of D2L Productions) Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nw98IslGT8Y
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  • Cross, Then Crown

    Cross, Then Crown
    Jan 8 2026
    Pastor Mike focuses on the purpose of Jesus's first coming as contrasted with the misunderstanding of His disciples. The context is drawn from Luke 9:51-56, where Jesus, resolutely set on going to Jerusalem, sends messengers ahead to a Samaritan village. He urges listeners to adopt Jesus's attitude of compassion and mercy toward enemies and unbelievers, focusing on salvation rather than vengeance, which is reserved for the second coming and God's discretion. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/AbTxU5JMhY8 Marrio Escobar (Owner of D2L Productions)
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  • Study Your Bible

    Study Your Bible
    Jan 7 2026
    Pastor Mike speaks on reading and studying the Bible, offering motivation and practical advice for both new and mature Christians. He provides three core motivations for study: the blessing of simply possessing an affordable Bible today, the Bible's unique nature as the divinely inspired Word of God that transforms believers, and the availability of numerous translations and tools like study Bibles. Mike also advises listeners to avoid "randomly opening" the Bible ("flipping") or reading too fast without understanding, and suggests the key strategies of "sinking sections" (dividing the Bible into its major parts, like Law, History, Poetry, Gospels, etc.) and understanding the different “genres” (like poetry, which uses parallelism). Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/h8wNYSaoJyM Produced/Edited By: Marrio Escobar (Owner of D2L Productions)
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