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Oct 29, 2024
Feb 8, 2024
Jan 29, 2024
Jan 29, 2024
59 min
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Some Books Related To The Early Church
Pagan Christianity- Frank Viola & George Barna
Reimagining Church- Frank Viola
Finding Organic Church- Frank Viola
Paul's Idea of Community- Robert J. Banks
Jan 8, 2024
Dec 22, 2023
Dec 3, 2023
Nov 17, 2023
Nov 17, 2023
39 min
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How often should I pray?
- What is prayer anyway? Communicating with God. Talking & listening. Dialogue with God.
- We could be praying all the time… Back Burner Prayer
- Praying at all times in the Spirit
- Praying without ceasing. How can you be always in a place of prayer?
- There is a subjective element in prayer.
- We need to be getting off the performance hamster wheel and learning to get up in the morning and just being ourselves! Go be you!
- If we’re going to successfully navigate life on this side of the cross, we need to learn to pray at all times in the Spirit.
Oct 22, 2023
Oct 22, 2023
53 min
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Let’s Talk About Sin-
- Performance-based expectations and Paradigms
- What does it mean to be Holy? It has nothing to do with not sinning.
- Ontology vs Experience
- Earning the Sin Tracker merit badge by keeping track of my sin…and others too.
- What is sin? Any Motive, Attitude, or Action that is not an expression of our Relational Trust in God is a sin. (Rom 14:23)
- Why do Christians still sin? We Christians still find ourselves sinning because we are still human. It is the activity of the Flesh in our lives.
- If we’re going to navigate life on this side of the cross successfully, we need to learn that God has completely dealt with the “sin issue” in my life and the life of every other human.
Oct 11, 2023
Oct 11, 2023
35 min
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How Forgiven Am I?
- When did God forgive me?
- When Jesus completed His work through His death, burial, and resurrection.
- How thorough is it?
- You’re either completely forgiven or not at all. (1 Cor 5)
- You were forgiven once-for-all… Hebrews
- What is it that makes forgiveness possible?
- The loving father’s heart of God!
- What does forgiving others look like?
- It’s the choice of a heart that is willing to let go or the “right” to be offended and to hold something over someone else’s head.
- What about 1 John 1:9 and confessing?
- Is it possible that we might have missed confessing a sin along the way?
- Absolutely!
- It's not only possible, it's certain.
- If confession is necessary for every sin to be forgiven and we miss any…we’re in trouble.
- If we’re going to navigate life on this side of the cross successfully, we need to learn how completely and fully forgiven we are in Christ and then learn to pass that gift on to others!
Oct 2, 2023
Oct 2, 2023
42 min
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What role does The Law of Moses play in a
Christian’s day-to-day life?
- None!
- There is no place for a direct practical application of the Law of Moses to the daily life of a Christian. Remember, it's an all-or-nothing proposition. We don't get to pick and choose which laws we want to obey if we want to live under the Law of Moses.
- Are there things we can learn from the Law? Yes, many things. But our practical daily lives, nor our ongoing New Covenant relationship with God, are governed by the Law of Moses.
- To whom was The Law of Moses given? The Children of Israel.
- We Gentiles were never given access to nor included in the giving or receiving of the Law. It was not meant for any group other than Israel.
- (Eph. 2:11-22)
- At one time, you were:
- Called the Uncircumcision
- separated from God
- alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel
- strangers to the covenants of promise
- having no hope and without God in the world.
- But now, in Christ Jesus:
- You who were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
- He Himself is our peace,
- He has made the two of us [Jew & Gentile] both one and has broken down in His flesh the dividing wall of hostility
- By abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances,
- So that He might create for Himself one new man in place of the two, thereby making peace.
- And might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
- For the first several decades of the Church’s history, the majority of Christians were Jews who were raised under The Law of Moses, and it was intricately involved in their culture.
- The Hebrew Scripture was the only Bible the Primitive Church had, and they mostly used the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures). Greek was the common trade language and was familiar to most people.
- The Hebrew Scriptures are a record of God calling to Himself a people (Israel) through whom He would bring the Son of redemption (Jesus) into the world for the benefit of all peoples.
- The New Covenant Scriptures were written over several decades as the Church grew. They were passed around and began developing a wide range of acceptance, but were not completely codified for several hundred years.
- The Hebrew Scriptures were embraced as authoritative by the first-century believers, most of whom for the first few decades, were Jewish, and had been raised with them as their Bible.
- It’s interesting, however, that the new Gentile Christians were never told or encouraged to adopt the detailed religious structure and practice laid out in the Old Covenant Scriptures, except by the Judaizers which Paul strongly opposed in his letter to the Galatian churches.
- If The Law of Moses is not a guide for how I should live my day-to-day life, what will be? (and let’s be clear about this question, NO ONE LIVES THEIR LIVES WITH THE LAW OF MOSES AS A DAY-TO-DAY GUIDE. Because it requires sacrifices offered in a specific way at a specific place and that can’t be accomplished.
- Jesus points us toward living a life that is fueled by Love and guided by the Spirit.
- If we’re going to successfully navigate life on this side of the cross, we need to learn to live lives fueled by Love and guided by the Spirit.