The First Three Problem-Solving Devices (2026)

Learn God's Word, reflect His grace and understand His purpose.How do you develop the spiritual wisdom to understand life's circumstances and make decisions according to God's plan? Rick Hughes introduces problem-solving devices four, five and six of the FLOT Line: grace orientation, doctrinal orientation and a personal sense of destiny. Learn why salvation is entirely by grace, how Bible doctrine transforms your thinking and how understanding God's purpose helps you maintain the right priorities.Key Takeaways• Grace Orientation: Understand God's grace in salvation and His provision for your needs. Recognize why legalism and self-righteousness distort the grace perspective.• Doctrinal Orientation: Discover why studying and applying Bible doctrine is essential to developing divine viewpoint and navigating life according to Scripture.• Personal Sense of Destiny: Build confidence in God's plan through knowledge of His Word, obedience and an understanding of His purpose.• Spiritual Priorities: Recognize how distractions can divert you from God's will and learn to evaluate your direction through Biblical checkpoints.• Spiritual Growth: Understand why the filling of the Holy Spirit and accurate understanding of Scripture are essential to applying God's Word.Request the free resources: Bible Promises and Principles, a compilation of more than 400 promises from Scripture. ⬇Download Transcript: https://rhem.pub/1107-transcript

Learn the biblical solutions for sin, the flesh and adversity.Every believer faces adversity, but adversity does not have to become inner stress. God has provided 10 Bible-based problem-solving devices to help Christians handle the pressures of life. Rick Hughes introduces the FLOT Line—a line of resistance in the soul—and explains how rebound, the filling of the Holy Spirit and the faith-rest drill help believers recover fellowship with God, live the Christian life and apply God's promises in times of crisis.Key Takeaways:Rebound: Confess personal sin to God and recover fellowship with Him through the promise of 1 John 1:9.The Filling of the Holy Spirit: Understand why spiritual service must be accomplished under the filling of the Holy Spirit, not the energy of the flesh.The Faith-Rest Drill: Learn three steps for restoring objectivity and confidence in God during adversity.Claim God's Promises: Apply Scripture to stabilize your thinking rather than allowing fear and emotions to control your response.Build Your FLOT Line: Discover how God's Word provides practical solutions for the challenges of the Christian life.Free resources: Visit https://rhem.pub/request-publications to explore Bible-based publications, including Bible Promises and Principles, a compilation of more than 400 promises from Scripture.⬇Download Transcript: https://rhem.pub/1106-transcript

Your spiritual life impacts the nation more than you realize. What is the biblical solution for a nation’s future? Rick Hughes explains why national stability and blessing begin with the spiritual lives of individual believers. He examines the pivot of mature believers, Satan’s efforts to distract Christians from their true spiritual responsibility and the four divine institutions God established for the orderly function of the human race.Key Takeaways:• Why your spiritual life matters to the future of the nation• How the pivot of mature believers provides spiritual influence and national blessing• How Satan can distract believers from God’s plan through the cosmic system and misplaced priorities• The four divine institutions: volitional freedom, marriage, family and nationalism• Why humility, prayer, fellowship with God and spiritual maturity are essential⬇Download Transcript: https://rhem.pub/1105-transcriptPublications⁠Request your free copy Christian Problem Solving and Bible Promises & Principles rhem.pub/request-publications⁠Audiobooks⁠ Listen to the audiobook on the website: https://rhem.pub/audiobooks

Beware of arrogance and ignorance—they can distort truth and destroy your soul.Artificial intelligence may dominate today's headlines, but a far more dangerous “AI” has eternal consequences: arrogance and ignorance. Rick Hughes examines how arrogance produces self-deception and how ignorance of God's Word can distort truth and lead to devastating decisions, including accepting a counterfeit gospel.Key Takeaways:• Understand how arrogance produces self-justification, self-deception and self-absorption.• Learn why biblical humility is the answer to arrogance and a key to spiritual wisdom.• Recognize the difference between gnosis—knowledge that is understood—and epignosis—knowledge that is understood and applied.• Understand why ignorance of God's Word leaves people vulnerable to spiritual deception.• Be certain that salvation is by faith alone in Christ alone, not by adding human works.⬇Download Transcript: https://rhem.pub/1104-transcript

Understanding why you suffer helps you respond to God correctly. Suffering is part of the Christian life, but not all suffering has the same source or purpose. Some suffering is divine discipline, while other suffering is allowed for blessing, spiritual growth, testing or advancing spiritual momentum. Understanding why you are suffering helps you respond with Scripture, faith-rest and confidence in God's provisions rather than self-pity, bitterness or confusion.Key Takeaways:• Understand the difference between suffering for blessing and suffering for discipline.• Recognize how punitive, preventive, undeserved and evidence testing can affect the believer.• Learn how the faith-rest drill applies when circumstances cause pain and pressure.• Understand how personal decisions and responsibilities can manufacture unnecessary suffering.• See how God's grace provides what you need to endure suffering and continue advancing spiritually.Publications⁠Request your free copy of Christian Problem Solving at rhem.pub/request-publications.⁠Audiobooks⁠ Listen to the book on the website: https://rhem.pub/audiobooks⬇Download Transcript: https://rhem.pub/1103-transcript

Your spiritual priorities shape thoughts, decisions, actions, and daily direction. Every believer needs spiritual priorities that are learned from Scripture and aligned with the plan of God. What you believe influences your thinking, your decisions and ultimately how you live. The Apostle Paul provides a powerful example of making knowing Christ and following His plan the central priority of life.Key Takeaways:• Learn why spiritual priorities must be developed through learning Scripture.• Understand how renewing your mind changes your thinking and daily decisions.• See why faith, obedience, grace orientation and spiritual recovery are essential priorities.• Learn why occupation with Christ is the believer's highest spiritual priority.• Understand how to love, forgive, serve and walk by faith as Christ did.Publications⁠Request the books Rick references. No charge or obligation! https://rhem.pub/request-publications• A Divine Pardon• Christian Problem Solving • FAMILY—An Enduring Legacy• Life's Toughest Years ⁠Audiobooks⁠ Listen to the book on the website: https://rhem.pub/audiobooks⬇Download Transcript: https://rhem.pub/1102-transcript

Learn how arrogance, ignorance, and impulsiveness give Satan an advantage.Believers can give Satan an advantage without realizing it. Failure to learn Bible doctrine, understand sin and evil, recognize arrogance, or exercise discernment can produce confusion, controversy, and decisions that misrepresent God. The Christian life requires humility, integrity, knowledge, discernment, and the ministry of the Holy Spirit to apply God's Word correctly.Key Takeaways:• Learn how ignorance of Bible doctrine can weaken your spiritual life.• Understand the difference between sin and Satan's system of evil.• Recognize how arrogance leads to self-justification, self-deception, and self-destruction.• Learn why impulsive decisions and lack of discernment can give Satan an advantage.• Understand the importance of converting biblical knowledge into usable doctrine through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.⬇⁠Download Transcript⁠: https://rhem.pub/1101-transcriptPublications⁠Request Understanding Your Soul, a free publication from Rick Hughes Evangelistic Ministries that explains the principles taught in this episode. https://rhem.pub/request-publications⁠Audiobooks⁠ Listen to the book on the website: https://rhem.pub/audiobooks

God’s Word is living, powerful, and able to change your life.God’s Word is living, powerful, and able to change your life. Scripture exposes the thoughts and intentions of the heart, separates divine viewpoint from human viewpoint, and teaches the believer how to live the Christian life. But spiritual growth requires more than enthusiasm—you must study the Word accurately and allow the Holy Spirit to teach you its truth.Key Takeaways:• Understand why the Word of God is living, powerful, and sharper than a two-edged sword.• Learn how Scripture exposes your thoughts, motives, intentions, and human viewpoint.• Understand the Holy Spirit’s role in teaching the believer God’s Word.• See why confession of known sin is necessary for effective Bible study.• Learn why believers are commanded to study and accurately handle the Word of truth.⬇Download Transcript: https://rhem.pub/1100-transcriptPublications⁠Request the books Rick references. No charge or obligation! https://rhem.pub/request-publications • A Divine Pardon• Christian Problem Solving• FAMILY: An Enduring Legacy• God’s Grace in Aging• Life’s Toughest Years⁠Audiobooks⁠ Listen to the books on the website: https://rhem.pub/audiobooks

God’s peace gives believers a tactical advantage over anxiety.Anxiety, fear, and discouragement do not have to control the believer’s thinking. Through prayer, thanksgiving, the filling of the Holy Spirit, divine viewpoint, and the faith-rest drill, believers can use God’s provision of peace to stand firm under pressure. The peace of God does more than comfort—it guards the believer’s heart and mind in Christ Jesus.What You’ll Learn:• Why God commands believers to be anxious for nothing• How prayer, supplication, and thanksgiving provide the biblical alternative to worry• Why the peace of God is a believer’s tactical advantage• How divine viewpoint protects the soul from fear, discouragement, and human viewpoint• How the faith-rest drill uses God’s promises to stabilize the believer under pressure⬇Download Transcript: https://rhem.pub/1099-transcriptPublications referenced in the show:• Bible Promises and Principles — provides biblical promises and principles for applying Scripture to life's difficulties.• Christian Problem Solving *— covers the 10 problem-solving devices of the FLOT Line.• These Things*— principles taught by Jesus Christ to His disciples, particularly from John 13–15Request publications or download a PDF: https://rhem.pub/request-publications*Listen to the audiobooks online: https://rhem.pub/audiobooksNever a charge or obligation. All provided by God's Grace!

God provides peace when you respond to loneliness with truth.Loneliness does not have to control a believer's thinking or produce bitterness, anxiety, or emotional reactions. Learn how God's Word redirects your thinking toward Him, provides perfect peace, and gives you the capacity to handle difficult circumstances without being dominated by people or circumstances.Key Takeaways:• Learn why loneliness can begin with preoccupation with self.• Understand how to respond to loneliness by thinking rather than reacting emotionally.• See how Isaiah 26:3 connects a steadfast mind, trust in God, and perfect peace.• Learn how Philippians 4:8 provides a biblical pattern for what to think about.• Understand how spiritual maturity produces capacity for life, peace, and happiness.⬇Download Transcript: https://rhem.pub/1098-transcriptRequest the books Rick references. No charge or obligation! • Christian Problem Solving — covers the 10 problem-solving devices of the FLOT Line.• Bible Promises and Principles — provides biblical promises and principles for applying Scripture to life's difficulties.• Your Christian Spiritual Life — addresses spiritual maturity and developing capacity for life.⁠https://rhem.pub/request-publications⁠