The Honor of God

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

What do you live for? Today, Nathan W. Bingham interviews Grant Castleberry about his new book with Ligonier Ministries, The Honor of God. Hear how understanding God’s holiness and grace motivates us to a fulfilling life of joyful reverence.

Be among the first to receive Grant Castleberry’s new book. We’ll send you The Honor of God for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/4021/donate

Live outside the U.S. and Canada? Request the ebook edition of The Honor of God with your donation of any amount: https://www.renewingyourmind.org/global

Meet Today’s Teacher:

Grant Castleberry is senior pastor of Capital Community Church in Raleigh, NC, and a Ph.D. student in church history and systematic theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	The reality is all of us have broken the rule of honor. All of us have fallen short of the glory of God without exception. And only one man has truly kept the rule of honor. And that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
0:23.2	What do you live for?
0:26.0	The world's answer is to live for yourself,
0:30.9	but the Bible directs us to a higher pursuit, the honor of God.
0:35.2	Thanks for joining us for a special Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind,
0:38.2	featuring a conversation I had with Pastor Grant Castleberry at last month's Ligonier National Conference on his new book, The Honor of God.
0:44.9	Today, you'll hear what the honor of God is, the rule of honor, and how we're called to bring
0:50.1	honor and glory to God's name. One teacher, after reading this book, noted that Pastor
0:56.3	Castleberry's book helps to reorient our living and thinking around the biblical access of honor
1:02.7	and shame. If you'd like to own your own copy of the honor of God, you can request this hardcover
1:08.9	book when you give a donation of any amount today only
1:12.2	at Renewing Your Mind.org. I began this conversation with Pastor Castleberry, joined by an
1:19.7	audience of conference attendees, by asking him his motivation in writing this book and what he
1:25.4	means when he speaks of the honor of God.
1:31.0	Well, Nathan, first, thank you for having me. It's truly an honor to be here. No pun intended.
1:38.1	I'm just thrilled to do this work with Ligonier and just humbled to be able to come alongside and partner with this ministry.
1:46.2	But, you know, this theme of the honor of God was something that just gripped me from an early
1:53.7	age. Several factors in my life. One, when I was a boy, my father was killed in a plane crash.
2:20.4	And so the Lord used that providential event just in momentous ways in my life because I was struck by the gravity of eternity. And the Lord used that avenue for my mom to present the gospel to me to explain to me heaven, hell, these eternal realities. And so I was really, as a child, just gripped by this existential reality of God that there is an eternity,
2:29.1	that there is a hell, there is a heaven. And if I trusted Christ as my Savior, that I would
2:34.1	spend eternity with God
2:35.7	in heaven and see my father once again. So those realities were heavy in my life. And that's really
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