Posts Tagged ‘Tampa Church’

140: Priest – Object of the Effected

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

140: Priest – Object of the Effected

9-3-2011

Scriptures:

1 Peter 2:9-12
Ephesians 2:1-10
2 Corinthians 4:4-15
Ephesians 2:11-22

139: Priest – Why a Priesthood?

Monday, August 29th, 2011

139: Priest – Why a Priesthood?

8-28-2011

Scriptures:

2 Corinthians 5:14-21
Proverbs 21:2
1 Peter 2
Matthew 5:13-16
Hebrews 4:14-16
Galatians 5:22-26
Hebrews 10:11-25

Quotes:

“God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus.”
- Max Lucado

“If you love the quiet retreat that you create in order to meet God, you may not love God at all but only the pointless discipline of quietness. If you love the literature of the saints more than you desire to emulate their holiness, you are too much the captive of your reading and not the servant of your Lord. If you seem to talk a lot about prayer but pray very little, you are seeking only a godly mystique and not God himself. God is never honored by our sterile fascination with him.”
- Miller

“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. ”
- Oswald Chambers

“The biblical fact is that there are no successful churches. There are, instead, communities of sinners, gathered before God week after week in towns and villages all over the world. The Holy Spirit gathers them and does his work in them. In these communities of sinners, one of the sinners is called pastor and given a designated responsibility in the community. The pastor’s responsibility is to keep the community attentive to God.”
- Eugene H. Peterson

“Teach me the wilderness simplicity. Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously, as the threshold of all that really matters.”
-Calvin Miller

138: Priest – The Ministry of Reconciliation

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

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

 

137: Beautiful Messes

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

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

 

134: Awake – Walking the Reality

Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

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, 2011

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, 2011

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, 2011

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, 2011

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, 2011

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