May 13, 2012

Phil Lapp

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• Summary: II Timothy 1:8-10

• January 18th: Part 1

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• January 25th: Part 2

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• February 8th: Part 3

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May 6, 2012

Santosh Poonen

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• Summary: II Timothy 1:8-12
• Quote: You will be a shy Christian if you seek to preserve your own reputation or honor.
• Quote: You will be a shy Christian if you rely on your own ability and Self-confidence, rather than on God.
• Quote: You will be a shy Christian if you are not experiencing Christ’s resurrection power in your inner being.
• Quote: You will be a shy Christian if you don’t know God as your Father who is able to keep your life which you have entrusted to Him.

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February-March, 2009: The ‘Undivided’ Life

• The Undivided Family Life - Part 1: Husband and Wife

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  Quote: To live an ‘undivided’ life in your marriage is to treat your spouse… the way you treat others; and the way you would want to be treated.
• The Undivided Family Life - Part 2: Children and Parents

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  Quote: Only if the peace of Christ is the authority in your heart, will you have true authority in your home.
• The Undivided Work Life

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  Quote: To live an ‘undivided’ life with regard to our earthly work is to treat that work as holy and noble — no different than if we were doing some ‘Christian ministry’.
• The Undivided Life - An A-B-C Summary

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  Quote: Let every detail in your lives — attitude, behavior, conversation — be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.

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January 18, 2009: Baptism in Water
Sermon Notes
Quote: Baptism in water is the testimony of a life of finding favor in God’s eyes; believing God; and obeying God.

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August, 2008: The Power of the Cross:

• Part 1: Justification

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  Quote: Most Christians are content with merely the partial power of the Cross in their lives.
• Part 2: Authority

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  Quote: The cross of Christ is made void to you, if you’re not on it!
• Part 3: Transformation

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  Quote: The cross is our journey, Christ our destination!

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April-May, 2008: The Kingdom of Heaven:

• Part 1: Citizenship

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  Quote: Do you look like a citizen of the Kingdom?
• Part 2: The Citizen's Code

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  Quote: Do you abide by the Kingdom code of conduct?
• Part 3: Ambassadorship

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  Quote: ‘Wake up! I have spoken to you for this purpose: to appoint you as an ambassador.’

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October 4, 2007: The Good is the Enemy of the Best
Sermon Notes
Quote: The most miserable people in the world are half-hearted ‘Christians’!

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October 2-3, 2007: The Spiritual Tug-of-War

• Part 1
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  Quote: You’re either moving forward in constant revival, or being pulled downward in constant death.
• Part 2
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  Quote: Will the story of your life be: ‘God was with him’, ‘God was with her’?

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October 1, 2007: The 7 Godly Habits of Highly Effective Young People
Sermon Notes
Quote: Knock out the ‘T’ from ‘IT CAN’T BE DONE’!

by David Wilkerson

It is important that we understand the motive out of which our obedience springs, because if the spring is not pure, everything that flows out of it will be polluted.

The sad truth is that many Christians in these last days obey God only because they are afraid of going to hell. They fear their Father’s wrath and their obedience to Him is “legal” only. They have no genuine desire to please Him.

Jesus did everything out of love and a desire to bring pleasure to His heavenly Father: “Then Jesus said to them, When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him” (John 8:28-29, NIV).

This was the rock, the foundation upon which Jesus built His life of obedience. It was the spring, the motive, out of which the flow of His obedience came. It is to be our rock, as well.

“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me” (John 6:38).

Jesus shut Himself up in prayer on the mountaintops, in quiet places, often all night long in fellowship with His Father. His one great prayer was, “Father, what do You want? What will bring You pleasure? What can I do to fulfill the desire of Your heart?”

That is the attitude of a person who has the Spirit of Christ and that should be our attitude—that we might be one who builds on the rock. The foundational motive of all our obedience must be: “I do all things because I want to please my Lord; I want to bring Him great pleasure!”

by Zac Poonen

Faith is basically believing that God still loves us. He does not love our sin. He does not want us to continue in our sin. He is like a father who sees his child’s diseases and hates those diseases, but loves his child. Think of a mother who sees her child full of leprosy or tuberculosis. That mother loves her child so much, but hates those diseases with all her heart.

God loves sinners but He hates their sin. We see God’s love for sinners and His hatred of sin on Calvary’s cross. His love for sinners is seen in that He allowed Jesus to die on the cross for us. His hatred of sin is seen in His turning His face away from Jesus when Jesus bore the sin of the world on the cross.

People sometimes ask how a God of love can send people to Hell. What is Hell like? Hell is a place that God has forsaken completely – a place where God cannot be found. This earth has not been forsaken by God. That’s why there’s still so much of goodness and beauty on this earth.

Look at the beauty of creation, for example. Look at the decency and goodness there is in many human beings. Demons would like to possess ALL human beings, but they are unable to, because God has put a restraining wall around people, so that demons cannot do what they like. It is God’s mercy also that gives man health, prosperity and many other comforts. All these blessings are bestowed by God on both good and evil people. All this proves that God has not forsaken this world. But Hell is not like that. In Hell there is no mercy at all – because Hell is a truly God-forsaken place.

There is goodness in many unconverted people in this world, because the influences of God are still over them. But once they go to Hell, those very same people will become as evil as the devil himself – because the mercy of God will no longer be over their lives.

In Hell, people will experience for the first time what it is like to be totally forsaken by God. That was what Jesus experienced on the cross. Jesus experienced Hell on the cross for those three hours of darkness, when God actually forsook Him. There we see how much God hates sin.

So what is the answer? Can a God of love send people to Hell? The answer to that lies in the answer to this other question: Could a God of love allow His own Son to face Hell on the cross, when the sin of the world was upon Him? If He could do that, He can send people to Hell too. A God of love will turn His face away from those who continue in sin, who say to God, “I am not going to listen to you. I have chosen my own way and I will continue along it forever.”

The Bible says in Proverbs 29:1 (paraphrased) “A man who is corrected many times and refuses to accept correction will one day suddenly be destroyed and he will not have another chance”. If a man keeps on refusing God’s loving invitations, he is in real danger. Now I don’t want any of you over-sensitive brothers and sisters to feel condemned hearing that – because that verse was not written for those who fall into sin, but to warn those who love to sin and who want to continue in it. It was not written for those who try to live in purity but keep falling. It was written for rebels, who defy God and want to keep on sinning. How can you know whether you are a rebel? That’s very easy to find out. Just ask yourself whether you have a desire to repent and to turn back to God? If there’s even the slightest desire within you to turn to God and to love Him, then that proves that the Holy Spirit is still working in your life and that God is seeking to draw you to Himself. You may be a failure, but you are not a rebel. There is a vast difference between one who is failing and one who is rebelling.

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by Phil Lapp

“I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine alters, and slain the prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left: and they seek my life, to take it away” (I Kings 19).


“What Doest Thou Here?” – has the still small voice of the Lord ever spoken these words to you?

Elijah was having a pity-party for himself, and it really did appear that he was the only prophet of the Lord left. However, God did not accept his “woe is me” attitude. He simply commanded him to go back into the work.

“Go, return on thy way… anoint a man to be king in Syria, another to be king in Israel, and anoint Elisha to take your place, as prophet.”

It is interesting that the Lord did hear his complaint, and gave in to his request to die. “Be careful what you wish for.” The Lord hears even our complaints and fears, and may answer your discouraged wish.

“What doest thou here, __________?” Put your name in the blank. Is the Holy Spirit asking you this question today? Is the place where you are in your journey with Jesus and your work in the Kingdom where God wants you to be?

Be careful how you answer God when He begins to question you. He will take your answers seriously and may alter your life forever as a result.

Dear fellow co-workers in the Kingdom of God, let us be careful to not succumb to the “Elijah syndrome.” This is easy to do in the world of compromise we live in today. We can very soon feel we are one of the few in the world, that still stand for truth and preach it the way it is.

We must be careful, for God may replace us quickly, as He did Elijah, after giving in to this attitude.

Jesus never had this attitude. He was never discouraged at all in the work His Father had given Him to do. He understood his mission in life and as He prayed one of His last recorded prayers in John 17, it was a prayer of accomplishment and joy. There is no hint of discouragement and fear in it.

It is a prayer of triumph! One of surrender and commitment to His Father’s will. It is full of hope and trust for those whom His Father had given to him to disciple. This is the kind of prayer I want coming from my lips at the end of my mission on earth.

“What doest thou here, __________?” is a question the Father never needed to ask Jesus.

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Proverbs Topical Study

June 29, 2011: Chapter 1 - Part 1
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July 6, 2011: Chapter 1 - Part 2
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July 20, 2011: Chapter 3
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August 3, 2011: Chapter 4
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August 24, 2011: Chapter 5
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August 31, 2011: Chapter 6 and 7
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September 7, 2011: Chapter 9
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October 19, 2011: Chapter 16
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November 9, 2011: Chapter 19
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December 11, 2011: Chapter 20 – Part 1
November 30, 2011: Chapter 20 - Part 2
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December 7, 2011: Chapter 20 - Part 3
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January 11, 2012: Chapter 21
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January 18, 2012: Chapter 22 - Part 1
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January 25, 2012: Chapter 22 - Part 2
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February 1, 2012: Chapter 22 - Part 3
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February 8, 2012: Chapter 22 - Part 4
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February 15, 2012: Chapter 22 - Part 5
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February 22, 2012: Chapter 23
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February 29, 2012: Chapter 24 - Part 1
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March 7, 2012: Chapter 24 - Part 2
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March 14, 2012: Chapter 24 - Part 3
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March 21, 2012: Chapter 25 - Part 1
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April 11, 2012: Chapter 25 - Part 2
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April 18, 2012: Chapter 26 - Part 1
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April 25, 2012: Chapter 26 - Part 2
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May 16, 2012: Chapter 27
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Study Notes – Chapters 1-6
Study Notes – Chapter 21

The Fear of God

Sermon video snippets on The Fear of God
by (in order of appearance): Carter Conlon, Zac Poonen, Paul Washer, Art Katz, Leonard Ravenhhill, David Wilkerson, Jim Cymbala, Keith Daniel, and John Piper

Treasures Old and New – New Covenant Truths Depicted in the Old Testament

September 9, 2009: The Coming of the Son of Man
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September 23, 2009: Cain and Abel
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September 30, 2009: The Tower of Babel
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October 7, 2009: Abraham and Lot
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October 14, 2009: The Life and Times of Noah
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November 4, 2009: Nehemiah Rebuilds the Walls
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November 11, 2009: The Lessons of Nehemiah
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November 18, 2009: (Nehemiah) - How the Enemy Attacks the Work of God
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December 2, 2009: The Contrast Between Esau and Jacob
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December 9, 2009: (Esau) - Our Birthright
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December 16, 2009: The Life of Joseph
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January 6, 2010: (Ishmael) - The Slave and the Free
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January 13, 2010: (The Israelites) - Take Heed Lest Ye Fall
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January 20, 2010: The Tabernacle of God
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January 27, 2010: The Mercy Seat
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February 3, 2010: Sacrifices and Offerings
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February 10, 2010: The Day of Atonement
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March 3, 2010: (Moses) - The Spiritual Response to Accusation
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March 10, 2010: How Jesus Fulfilled the Law
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March 24, 2010: (The Israelites) - The Sting of Death
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March 31, 2010: Preparing for the Coming of Christ
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April 14, 2010: The Sin of Balaam
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April 21, 2010: Lessons from the Life of Gideon
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April 28, 2010: Faith: Rahab and the Walls of Jericho
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August 4, 2010: The Story of Jephthah
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August 18, 2010: Lessons from the Life of Samson
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August 25, 2010: David
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September 1, 2010: The Priesthood of Eli and the Priesthood of Zadok
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September 15, 2010: (David) - The Sinner and The Man After God's Own Heart
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September 22, 2010: (David) - God's View of Sacrifice
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September 29, 2010: (David) - Rebuilding the Temple of Praise
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October 13, 2010: The Wisdom of Solomon
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October 20, 2010: (Solomon) - Knowing God and Knowing About God
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November 3, 2010: (Asa) - The Endurance Test
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November 10, 2010: The Faith of Jehoshaphat
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November 17, 2010: Israel and the High Places
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December 1, 2010: The Sin of Uzziah
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December 8, 2010: (Elisha) - Characteristics that God Seeks in the People He Uses
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December 22, 2010: The Fall of the Kingdom of Israel
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January 12, 2011: Isaiah's Messianic Prophecies - Part 1
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January 19, 2011: Isaiah's Messianic Prophecies - Part 2
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January 26, 2011: Israel's Complacency
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February 9, 2011: Israel's Harlotry
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February 16, 2011: (Jeremiah) - A Heart of Flesh
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February 23, 2011: (Jeremiah) - The Law Written on Our Hearts
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March 2, 2011: The Lamentations of a Prophet of God
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March 9, 2011: (Daniel) - An Uncompromising Prophet in the Workplace
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April 6, 2011: The Spiritual Types in the Story of Esther
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April 13, 2011: The Integrity of Job
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April 20, 2011: (Job) - Speaking from Knowledge and Speaking from Revelation
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April 27, 2011: The Prosperity Gospel of Haggai
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(Zechariah) - May 4, 2011: God's Jealousy Over His House
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May 11, 2011: Zechariah's Visions and Prophecy Regarding the Church
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May 18, 2011: (Malachi) - The Final Message of the Old Covenant
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May 25, 2011: He Who has Ears to Hear
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Historical Chronology of Judah and Israel

June 8, 2011: The Church’s Love Story
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June 15, 2011: Wisdom
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June 22, 2011: Wisdom and Knowledge
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The Parables of Jesus

A List of the Parables of Jesus
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September 24, 2008: The Parable of the Soils
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October 1, 2008: The Parable of Ten Virgins
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October 15, 2008: The Parable of the Wedding Feast
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November 5, 2008: The Parable of the Friend at Midnight
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November 19, 2008: The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
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December 10, 2008: Two Parables of the Old and the New
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January 21, 2009: The Lost Parables
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February 4, 2009: The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax-Gatherer
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February 18, 2009: The Parable of the Faithful and Wise Slave
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March 11, 2009: The Parable of the Good Samaritan
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April 15, 2009: Two Parables about Counting the Cost
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April 29, 2009: The Parable of the Wise Man and the Foolish Man
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May 27, 2009: The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares
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June 10, 2009: The Parables of Earthly and Heavenly Treasures
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June 24, 2009: The Parable of the Talents
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July 8, 2009: Two Parables On Humility
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July 29, 2009: The Parable of the Vinedressers
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The Lord’s Supper

April 7, 2010: Part 1
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May 5, 2010: Part 2
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May 12, 2010: Part 3
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May 26, 2010: Part 5
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June 2, 2010: Part 6 - Bearing Fruit
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June 16, 2010: Part 7: The Ministry of the Holy Spirit
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June 23, 2010: Part 8: Jesus' Final Requests
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Other Studies

July 2, 2008: The Law and Legalism
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July 9, 2008: The Baptism in the Holy Spirit
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September 10, 2008: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
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April 1, 2009: The Lords Prayer and The ”Glory” of God
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May 13, 2009: The Biblical Teaching on the Covering of the Head
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May 17, 2009: Love, and its Opposite
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July 22, 2009: The Biblical Teaching on Baptism in Water
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July 26, 2009: The End Times and the Two Groups
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November 25, 2009: Love: The Unity of the Spirit
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Special Presentations

Appreciating our Elders:
• July 13, 2011: Zac Poonen

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• March 30, 2011: Santosh Poonen

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• October 27, 2010: Phil Lapp

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• April 4, 2010: Santosh Poonen
• November 1, 2009: Phil Lapp


Mothers’ Day:

• May 8, 2011: Her Children Rise Up and Bless Her
• May 9, 2010: A Song of Majesty to God for Our Mothers
  Slide Show (watch in full-screen mode)
  PDF Document


Children’s Programs:

• December 6, 2009: The Walls of Jericho


Fellowship:

• August 14, 2011: Words of Encouragement (John Esh, Christian Gauthier, Gabriel Williams)
• December 22, 2010: Testimonies of God's Faithfulness in 2010

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The wedding of Gabriel & Alicia Williams:

• June 4, 2011: The Ceremony

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• A Marriage Prayer
• The J-O-Y of Marriage
• June 1, 2011: Christ's Example in Marriage

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April 29, 2012

Phil Lapp

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• Summary: II Timothy 1:7

April 22, 2012

Santosh Poonen

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• Summary: When the authority of God is over your authentic life, He will impart grace and faith through you into the lives of those whom He has given to you.
• Authority
  • Quote: You cannot take upon yourself a ministry in God’s kingdom without God calling you to that ministry.
  • Quote: You have authority in the life of others only if you are called to that purpose by the will of God (II Timothy 1:1).
  • Quote: If you have authority in the life of others you must be in constant prayer for them (II Timothy 1:3).
  • Quote: The laying on of hands is a symbol of spiritual authority, so be careful in how you exercise that responsibility on others or allow others to exercise it on you (II Timothy 1:6).
• Authenticity
  • Quote: Your life will be authentic if you are holding fast to the promise of life in Christ Jesus (II Timothy 1:1).
  • Quote: Your life will be authentic if you are serving God with a clear conscience (II Timothy 1:3).
• Imparting the Grace of God
  • Quote: Grace comes only from God, but He imparted it into our lives first through Jesus. Now He wants to impart it likewise into the lives of others through us.
  • Quote: Grace is not merely a past reality, but a present and future reality!
• Imparting Indwelling Faith
  • Quote: May the people who interact with you see the leaning of your entire personality on God in Christ, in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness, without pretense — this is what it means to have a sincere faith (II Timothy 1:5 AMP).
  • Quote: If you give this sincere faith a permanent home in your heart, God will be able to impart it into the lives of others through you.