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The Last Week: Rejected in Jerusalem (NEW)
After hard frosts and heavy snows, finally March Madness begins. It brings not only the best show in basketball, but Easter lilies in Wal-Mart and beautiful new dresses on racks for moms to buy for their little girls. It’s the triumph of warmth over cold, of tulip blossoms over ugly bulbs, but most of all it’s the time when more than 2 billion Christians across the globe look back to the events of Passion Week, the Last Week, the time when Jesus was rejected in Jerusalem. . His Last Week on earth began with shouts, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” It ended with “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” How could this week in a land hardly the size of New Jersey where a peasant was crucified like thousands of other Jews by the Romans be the climax of all of history?
Unexpected Grace
Good Sunday school children expect to grow up and go out into the world and experience blessing — after all, God promises good to those who obey Him. Prodigals go out into the world and conclude God has rejected them — after all, they have failed to live up to divine expectations. Since it’s hopeless, why not just abandon your life to the pleasures of the world? Both the good religious Sunday Schooler and the Prodigal have got it wrong. Learn from the life of Joseph and Judah and discover the “unexpected grace” the Lord has planned for your life.
I Peter: Aliens and Pilgrims - living stones in a fallen world
Has the loss of an eternal perspective and the rejection of divine judgment and salvation—“no hell below us, above us only sky”—generated more “oneness” and peace throughout the world? If so, why was John Lennon gunned down on the streets of New York? What about our own hopes and fears when we live only for today? Do you ever begin to realize maybe things aren’t quite right in this present life? The Apostle Peter, near his death, wrote a letter to some believers in what is now modern Turkey and told them that only aliens on earth can feel at home in eternity.
Daniel: Living in the Lion's Den
Is it possible to climb the ladder in business in education or in government and stay close to God? What does personal faith in Jesus look like publically in Monday morning Main Street life? Daniel is the Old Testament patron saint for those who want the answer to these questions. If you want to get serious about living in "Babylon" but not be destroyed by it, then this Truth Encounter series is a must listen for you.
The Cross and the Empty Tomb
We celebrate Good Friday and millions gather to remember that the Son of God died on the cross. Even many of our children know that Jesus died to forgive us for our sins. They also know that Easter Sunday is the time when we celebrate the empty tomb. But do we know what the Cross has to say about questions we ask about forgiveness and does the resurrection of Jesus mean anything when it come to the power to actually reconcile with God and with one another? Join us as we explore the significance of The Cross and the Empty Tomb.
Conquering Illicit Passion
The Sixties proclaimed the so called liberation message of Free Love. Today we are living out the consequences of this rejection of biblical morals. Broken families, broken emotions, broken bodies—these are the signs that a spirit of lawlessness has taken over our land. There is hope! The sweet singer of Psalm 23 became an adulterer, liar and murderer but eventually found his way back home.
Countering the Spirit of Antichrist
As events continue to heat up in the Middle East, the hunger for predictions intensifies, yet we can overlook the obvious. The Spirit of Christ and the antichrist are already locked in a to-the-death struggle. This spirit continues its war of total destruction. How can we counter this anti-supernatural, secular spirit of power? This series can help us conquer this deadly force in our own lives with biblical answers.
Dethroning
the Goddess of Money
Goddess Worship! It brought God's children down in the Old Testament and God
sent them into exile. As we begin the 21st Century, we are far more sophisticated.
We would never dream of falling into this kind of idolatry, or would we? You've
got to listen to these four studies titled "Dethroning the Goddess of
Money."
Romans
Written only twenty three years after Jesus’ crucifixion, this book
has provided the most influential answer to the question about our destiny,
in the history of Christianity. You owe it to yourself to at least begin your
search for an answer about eternity in Romans, and these messages will help
you to get into the message of Romans for yourself. The Book begins with an
ironic twist. One of the most conservative, orthodox Jews in the first century
tells us that he is totally unashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Read
Paul's letter carefully and I pray that these messages will help you to discover
for yourself God's power unto salvation.
Spiritual Leadership
The spiritual leadership crisis. It is one thing when congress persons are
mocked by the general populace, but it is even more serious when the credibility
of ministers is put on the level of a crooked used car salesman. Perhaps it
is time to take another look at the kind of personal character it takes to
become a leader than can command respect and honor.
HisStory - Old and New
When we open the pages of the best seller of all time, we enter the greatest
story ever told. Unlike the Koran, the Scriptures of both Jews and Christians
tell a story. Do you know the setting of this story, the main characters,
the plot, the climax, and the resolution? Who are the good characters and
the bad? Is it a comedy or a tragedy? This series will help you feel comfortable
and confident that you know the story that God is telling in His Word, why
He is telling it, and how you fit into His Story.
Living
Free Forever
Can Christ really make us a new person? When we take an honest look at ourselves,
when we interact with our family and those closest to us, do they see evidence
that Jesus Christ is making a difference? These messages will enable you to
take a good inventory of your struggles with the sinful nature even as a “new
creation in Jesus”, and then give you hope from the truth of God’s
Word for a life full of the Fruit of the Spirit.
HomeBuilder.God
What is a marriage? Who has the right to decide what it means for two people
to love each other and then to commit their lives to each other? The national
debate intensifies but what does the Creator of marriage have to say? In this
series we open God's Handbook for Skillful Living and discuss together what
it means to build our marriages and our homes by God's design. Whether you
believe the Bible or not, this is the book that has influenced the idea of
marriage more than any other in our culture. You owe it to yourself to take
a first hand look at what God actually does say about Home Building. Consider
this a personal invitation to take an in depth look at the Architect's Blueprint.
Your
Kids and Jesus
Our kids--all of us parents agree that they are our priceless treasures, but
we don't agree on how to raise them. Some of us are too strict and some of
us are too easy. Who can give us the wisdom and the power to get it right?
This series challenges us to get serious about helping each of our children
to experience the fact that Jesus loves them because the Bible tells us so.