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138: Priest – The Ministry of Reconciliation
8-21-2011
Scriptures:
Genesis 3:1-11
2 Corinthians 5:1 – 6:2
1 Peter 2:4-12
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138: Priest – The Ministry of Reconciliation
Sunday, August 21st, 2011137: Beautiful Messes
Sunday, August 7th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 38:07 — 34.9MB)
137: Beautiful Messes
8-7-2011
Scriptures:
Psalm 23
Luke 8:22-56
Isaiah 61
Psalm 103:3-18
Corinthians 5:14-21
Quotes:
“When God makes love a drama, His theater is all the universe, his audience is a single broken heart”
- Calvin Miller
“When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves–that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.”
— N.T. (Tom) Wright
“Your tears might not just be for you pain any more… they might become the messy tears of healing and hope for someone else. Maybe you will look at your scars one day as the finger prints of God left on the small of your back while he gently guided you to a blessing that has been repurposed out of your pain. Those are the stories that are holy, and they will never just been for the antagonist of the tale, but rather for all of us who are watching their becoming.”
- Bobby Triplett
136: Awake – Frustrations
Sunday, July 24th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 42:50 — 39.2MB)
136: Awake – Frustrations
7-24-2011
Scriptures:
Ephesians 6:10-18
Daniel 10:4-14, 10:15-19, 12
Hebrews 6:4-8
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
1 Peter 1:3-9,13-21
Zechariah 9:9-17
Quotes:
“Healing prayer is not the `instant fix,’ nor the bypassing of slow and steady growth. It is that which clears the path and makes such progress possible.”
- Leanne Payne
“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”
- Thomas Merton
“God will not conquer evil by crushing it under-foot-any god of man’s idea could do that-but by conquest of heart over heart, of life over life, of life over death, of love over all.”
- George McDonald
Books Referenced:
Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive – John Eldredge
135: Awake – An Act of War
Sunday, July 17th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 41:17 — 37.8MB)
135: Awake – An Act of War
7-17-2011
Scriptures:
Matthew 26:31-46
Deuteronomy 4:9
Psalm 18:20-30
Hebrews 12: 1-3, 12-17
1 Thessalonians 5:6-11
Quotes:
Satan has in fact a plan against the saints of the Most High, which is to wear them out. What is meant by this phrase, “wear out”? It has in it the idea of reducing a little this minute, then reducing a little further the next minute. Reduce a little today, reduce a little tomorrow. Thus the wearing out is almost imperceptible; nevertheless, it is a reducing. The wearing down is scarcely an activity of which one is conscious, yet the end result is that there is nothing left. He will take away your prayer life little by little, and cause you to trust God less and less and yourself more and more, a little at a time. He will make you feel somewhat cleverer than before. Step by step, you are misled to rely more on your own gift, and step by step your heart is enticed away from the Lord. Now, were Satan to strike the children of God with great force at one time, they would know exactly how to resist the enemy since they would immediately recognize his work. He uses the method of gradualism to wear down the people of God.
- Watchman Nee
Whatever else Jesus came to do, one thing is clear—He came to set you free. God is not a warden; He is a deliverer.
- Erwin McManus
I learned as never before that persistent calling upon the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times, there is simply no other way.
- Jim Cymbala
Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.
- C. T. Studd
Books Referenced:
Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive – John Eldredge
134: Awake – Walking the Reality
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 40:44 — 37.3MB)
134 – Awake: Walking the Reality
7-3-2011
Scriptures:
Genesis 4:1-7
1 Peter 1:13-25
Nehemiah 1:1-11, 2:1-8, 2:19, 4:16, 6:15
Quotes:
Professor Johnston often said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.
- Michael Crichton, Timeline
All the water in the world, however hard it tries, can never sink the smallest ship unless it gets inside, and all the evil in the world, the blackest kind of sin, can never hurt you in the least, unless you let it in.
- Anonymous
There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.
- C. S. Lewis
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend !ghting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks…”
- Helen Keller
133: Awake – Clarity To The Victor
Sunday, June 26th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 33:56 — 31.1MB)
133: Awake – Clarity To The Victor
6-26-2011
Scriptures:
James 4:7
Ephesians 6:13-18
John 14:18-31
2 Samuel 22:29
1 Corinthians 13:12-13
Proverbs 4:20-23
John 17: 11-19
2 Corinthians 4:7-18
Ephesians 5:8-17
Quotes:
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
- C. S. Lewis
“The God of light insists on traveling into dark places; the God of peace continuously involves Himself in the wars of men; the God who is good engages the depth of human evil. To follow Jesus is to enter the unknown, to relinquish security, and to exchange certainty for confidence in Him.”
- Erwin McManus
Books Referenced:
Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive – John Eldredge
133: Awake – Navigating the Reality We Find Ourselves In
Sunday, June 19th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 31:26 — 28.8MB)
133: Awake – Navigating the Reality We Find Ourselves In
6-19-2011
Scriptures:
1 Peter 5:8-11
Ephesians 6:10-20
1 Samuel 17:45-47
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
Ephesians 6:11-20
Acts 10:37-38
Luke 10
Acts 19:13-20
James 4:7
2 Corinthians 4
Quotes:
“If we fight the Lord’s battles merely by duplicating the way the world does its work, we are like little boys playing with wooden swords pretending they are in the battle while their big brothers are away in some distant bloody land.”
- Francis Schaeffer
“Our enemies are demonic, but the warfare against them isn’t waged by commanding them, mapping their physical location, invoking magic words to subdue them, claiming authority over them, or any of the other common tactics some people usually refer to as “spiritual warfare.” We are not fighting demons in a face-to-face confrontation, or by spirit-to-spirit conversation, or with voice-to-voice communication. We attack them by tearing down their fortresses of lies… What, precisely, are our weapons? The only power that will destroy such things is the power of truth…“the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Eph. 6:17).”
- John MacArthur
“The enemy will not see you vanish into God’s company without an effort to reclaim you.”
- C.S. Lewis
“We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day – but remember at the time they didn’t know they were heroes.”
— A.W. Tozer
Books Referenced:
Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive
- John Eldredge
132: Awake – The Cure For Amnesia
Sunday, June 12th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 30:07 — 27.6MB)
132: Awake – The Cure For Amnesia
6-12-2011
Scriptures:
Genesis 1:26
Genesis 9:6
Genesis 3:14-15
Luke 4
Luke 12:4-5
Psalm 37:5-6, 27-28, 39-40
Deuteronomy 14
1 John 3
Mark 4:9-12
Galatians 4:4-7
Quotes:
“The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.”
- A.W. Tozer
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
- C.S. Lewis
“It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.”
- William Gurnall
“With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shake The darkness out of me, and rend the mesh The spider-devils spin out of the flesh-Eager to net the soul before it wake, That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake.”
- George MacDonald
“Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.”
- GK Chesterton
“Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
- GK Chesterton
Books Referenced:
Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive – John Eldredge
131: Awake – Wiping The Sleep Out Of Our Eyes
Sunday, June 5th, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 32:57 — 30.2MB)
131: Awake – Wiping The Sleep Out Of Our Eyes
6-5-2011
Scriptures:
Proverbs 8:32-36
John 10:7-10
Revelation 12:7-12
Luke 21:34-36
Isiah 42:5-9
Romans 13:11-14
I Peter 5:8-11
Quotes:
“I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.”
- Joanne Sherman
There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.”
- C. S. Lewis
“Professor Johnston often said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.”
- Michael Crichton, Timeline
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
- Charles Pierre Baudelaire
“Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.”
- A.W. Tozer
Books Referenced:
The Screwtape Letters – C. S. Lewis
Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive – John Eldredge
130: Back and There Again
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011Podcast: Download (Duration: 52:14 — 47.8MB)
130: Back and There Again
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Scriptures:
Revelation 12: 10-11
Isaiah 42: 5-11
Romans 12: 1-13
Romans 10: 11-17
Quotes:
“If your Gospel isn’t touching others, it hasn’t touched you!”
- Curry R. Blake
“We are told to let our light shine and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.”
- DL Moody
