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Hello and welcome back! RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE! Show notes: ○ James 1:1-18 § James 1:2-4 □ Perseverance = endurance ® Endurance- the ability or strength to continue or last, especially despite fatigue, stress, or other adversity ◊ Read Isaiah 30:20-21 § James 1:5-8 □ If you lack wisdom, ask God for it, who gives it generously ® Read 1 Kings 3:9-12, Psalms 19:7 □ But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt….like a wave of the sea, tossed by the wind ® This reminds me of Matthew 14, when Jesus was walking on the water. When Peter first asked Jesus to call him out onto the water, he believed and was walking on water! But it says in verse 30 "But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and began to sink" □ Double-minded ® The NLT says "their loyalty divided between God and the world; the definition means undecided ◊ We like to live in this "gray area" when it comes to our faith sometimes. We live in the "sorta" mentality, but when it comes to maturing in our faith, there comes along with it a decision to be certain and steadfast ◊ Reference the Book of Daniel, with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego…whether God saved them from the fiery furnace was God's business, but regardless they refused to compromise their faith § James 1:12 □ We can persevere under trial because God is faithful. That "crown of life" is the promised eternal inheritance (Hebrews 9:15) § James 1:13-15 □ We are tempted because of what we have going on within ourselves, don't put that on God. □ Reminds me of Adam's response in Genesis 3, after Adam and Eve ate fruit of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil….Adam blamed his actions on God and Eve, negating any responsibility, as if he wasn't the one who also ate the fruit § James 1: 17-18 □ Every Good and Perfect gift comes from God □ God does not change The Jewish believers were the "first fruits" or the first yield of a greater harvest that was yet to be gathered as a result of the gospel spreading throughout the world. Listen and enjoy! Let me know what you think! Subscribe to my YouTube Channel- Can I Be Real? Podcast Follow me on Instagram- @raee.michele Join the South of Gaza Community Facebook Group to receive daily Bible scriptures and encouragement on your Facebook timeline! RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rachel398/message

Scripture itself attests to both its transcendent value as well as its pragmatic value for everyday life. Paul is working out the action verbs that outline the ways in which scripture equips us to live a life from faith in Jesus Christ. Every time we open scripture, scripture itself is leading us towards repentance and faith. We desire our DNA groups at ARCC to be a context where our people gather around the word and disciple one another towards a life that experiences this on a regular basis.

Every Good Gift - God's Good Gifts - Blair by Waypoint Community Church

God is a giving God, but if we're not grateful, if we trash the blessings of God, or take them for granted, the door may close. Our Father is the giver of all good things. Rejoice and be grateful for each blessing and live in the joy and peace of a thankful heart.

God is the “savior of all people” in the sense of physical preservation, but God is only the savior of “those who believe” in the spiritual and eternal sense (1 Timothy 4:10). God is the “common grace savior” of all, and God is the “special grace savior” of some (the elect). In other words, God cannot bless anyone apart from his grace, spiritual blessing (eternal) or physical blessing (temporal). “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights” (James 1:17).

Family Theater was a dramatic anthology radio show which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States from February 13, 1947, to September 11, 1957. The show was produced by Family Theater Productions, a film and radio studio extension of the Family Rosary Crusade founded by the Holy Cross Priest, Father Patrick Peyton, CSC, to promote family prayer. The motto of these Holy Cross Family Ministries is, "The family that prays together, stays together." The program had no commercial sponsor, yet Father Peyton, CSC arranged for many of Hollywood's stars in film and radio at the time to appear. In its ten-year run, well-known actors, and actresses, including James Stewart, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, Charlton Heston, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, William Shatner, and Chuck Connors, appeared as announcers, narrators, or stars. A total of 540 episodes were produced. The program featured not only religious stories but half-hour adaptations of literary works such as A Tale of Two Cities, Moby-Dick and Don Quixote Listen to our radio station Old Time Radio https://link.radioking.com/otradio Listen to other Shows at My Classic Radio https://www.myclassicradio.net/ Podcast Service I Recommend https://redcircleinc.grsm.io/entertainmentradio7148 Remember that times have changed, and some shows might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Entertainment Radio

Our hope is in heaven - not here! I want to say to Christians in Ukraine, in China, or wherever you may be, under persecution or in lack, our hope is not here - out hope is in heaven! Paul is showing the Colossians so clearly in verses 5-10, “This HOPE, preached in the Gospel of truth – despite the trouble and persecution – brings forth fruit in all the world, and in you, since the day you heard it and knew the Grace of God in truth.” The Gospel preached to the first generation Church was preached to a Church which would suffer persecution and death – and here Paul continues to the Colossians, verses 7-10, “You learned this Gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, a faithful minister of Christ – and he has told me of your love in the Spirit and, from the day we heard of this, we have not ceased to pray for you, and desire that you be filled with the knowledge of God's Will in wisdom and spiritual understanding, that you might walk worthy of the Lord, pleasing Him, being fruitful in good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.” Paul is saying, whatever the circumstances, however hard, walk worthy of the Lord in order to please, not yourself, not the pastor, but that you might please the Lord, and that you might be fruitful in what you do! 

In our final message on the Holy Spirit, we're reminded that God is a giver and He wants His kids to grow up to be like Him.CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE.You can find us here:www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/citychurchboulder

The word “light” appears to be a sort of verbal shorthand emblematic of, “purity, truth, knowledge, prosperity, and happiness”. … The word here properly means exemption from death! … He has it by his very nature, and…Please visit our Outreach Web site! ~ Home Page.Introduction ~ About Us, Who We Are: Episode 1How-To Be Saved: Episode 2“End Times” and “Benediction” A “Barking Squirrel Production” Copyright: 2018 ~ All Rights ReservedThe Holidays – Series: 2022-1202 Episode: 50TAGS: #Gospel #Christ #New-birth #Joy #HolinessThe following music was used for this media project:Music: Silent Night - Holy Night by Alexander NakaradaFree download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4777-silent-night-holy-nightLicense (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseArtist website: https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/Modified by: Pastor John~Pastor JohnThe Church of the Un-Churched. View our Home Page! This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

During the school gift exchange, Miss Harbor challenges her class not just to appreciate the gift, but spend time being thankful for the giver. Through her challenge, The Club poignantly discovers the depth of God's love for us. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/198/29

Learning to Give Thanks for the Gift and the Giver

Pastor Vince Stover James 1:16-17

Calibrated 11 || ”Be Ready for Every Good Work” (Titus 3:1-8), by Todd Hostetter, November 27, 2022. Visit summitwestolive.org for more info about SUMMIT CHURCH in West Olive, MI.

What if you suddenly found yourself in an episode of “Twilight Zone” in which a giant vacuum suddenly sucked every good thing out of your life? That's the question Mary Ann asks in this episode as she shares some of the lessons she's learned as God has been teaching her to live with more gratitude.Luanne's book, “Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God,” is available for order through her website (see below) and on amazon.com, as is Mary Ann's book, “Live. Learn. Laugh!”You can learn more about Luanne and Mary Ann, order the books they've written, and read Mary Ann's newspaper columns, on their websites: www.luannebotta.com and www.maryanncrum.com . Also check out their podcast Facebook page: “Unquenchable Hope.” You can contact the ladies at luannebotta@gmail.com and maryanncrum@gmail.com .   

The Word of God reminds us " in all things give thanks." There are opportunities to express gratitude in situations that are both favorable and lousy. Gratitude should be a constant practice in acknowledging God's goodness at all times. This week, let's unpack the practicality of gratitude and its value when applied. My hope is that you are able to see the goodness of God in all things.   Read: 1 Thessalonians 5:18 If led, please consider making  a tax-deductible donation to our ministry HERE.

Happy Thanksgiving Week! Today we're kicking off a week-long celebration on the podcast with a focus on giving thanks. In this episode, we're looking at James 1:17-18 and the good and perfect gifts that come from above.   Did today's episode resonate with you? Leave me a comment or send me a message (crystal@crystalfreie.com) and let me know.   How can I pray for you today? Go to www.crystalfreie.com/ministry to send your prayer request.   Thank you for listening! I'd love to connect with you outside of this podcast and get to know you better. Visit www.crystalfreie.com to connect and stay in touch.   If you're looking for a more in-depth resource to help you study God's word, but you're not sure where to start, check out my new book: A Walk Through the Word: Unpacking and Applying the Book of Ephesians now available on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3PpzgqO)

Every Good and Perfect Gift by Cornerstone Presbyterian Church Franklin

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Slideshow for this message is available Introduction James 1 We are in the book of James and he opens his book by talking about trials. **And he dives straight in without any padding. He doesn't sugar coat a thing. He starts his book by saying, “Life stinks. Life is hard.” And if anyone in the room doubts this: Talk to any police officer, Talk to a hospital worker. Talk to a social worker. Just talk to anyone in the room. Life is full of trials - full of them. James says, ok fine, what are you going to do about it? The choice is yours. Will it be a test that refines you or will it be a temptation that breaks you. Trials are just the heat. The difficulties of life come down on some people, and they seem to make them soft and wise and tender. The same troubles come down on other people, and they seem to make them broken and bitter and brittle. What's the difference? The difference James says, is this: one is deceived and the other is not. Last week James warned us not to be deceived when temptation comes upon us or when difficult things come upon us. Make sure you are looking at trials and temptations through the proper lens. When trials come upon us we are vulnerable to deception. We are all of the sudden open to start believing things that are quite absurd. In fact, if you just zoom out and think about it, what we end up believing when we sin is insanity to the max. It's actually madness. It's ludicrous and even commical. When trials come here's what we are deceived into believing: Sin is Good and God is Evil. On the surface, that's laughable. There's so much evidence against that. That's like trying to convince me that the earth is flat. Sure you can make an argument but the evidence to the contrary is just overwhelming. And yet somehow the whispers over time becoming convincing. There this voice in your head: You know the reason that God's not healing you is because he doesn't really care. That's why he's withholding. You know he could fix your marriage or kids. But he's just messing with you. He likes to watch you squirm. You know the reason God makes all these rules is he's trying to limit your joy. You know that right. He's a cosmic kill-joy. He's basically against having fun. In the midst of trial or strong temptation that all seems believable. There is some incredibly skillful deception going on. Now Christians are all about the ministry of unraveling that deception. We are about the ministry of pulling the bait off Satan's hooks so that his schemes become obvious. No, it's not that sin is good and God is evil. Actually, Sin is evil and God is good. It's no more complicated than that. We've just hacked the datacenter and decoded Satan's diabolic master plan to undo the human race. It's so obvious. Last week we really focused on unravelling the deception of that first point. Sin is evil. It's really evil. It's far more evil than we suspect. It leads to death. The unapologetic message from last week was this: We need to be freaked out of sin because it will kill you. But we ended last week by really encouraging you to look forward to this week because understanding the danger of sin is only half the equation. Yes, you can be protected against temptation by being convinced of the DANGER of SIN but even more powerful is being convinced of the unchanging goodness of God. Yes Sin is Evil AND Yes, God is Good. So let's look again at our passage. We began today by noting that verse 16 serves as a summary of last week. “Do not be deceived.” Sin is evil. But it also serves as an introduction to this week. Do not be deceived. God is good. Notice how James makes this point. If we want to be holy, if we want to be free of the death-clutches of sin, ultimately we have to be absolutely convinced, all of the time, God is really, really, beautifully good. Now James builds his argument with a foundation maybe you don't even realize you knew you needed. Let's ask this question, “If we are suffering, is it good news that God is good?” Yes, of course that's good but it's not good enough. We need more for it it be good news. Because we could imagine a god who is really, really good, but also really weak. A god like that would want to help you but you would lack the power to do so. So what you need is someone both good and powerful. And that's what is claimed. But here's the problem. In the face of suffering, the claim that God is good and powerful is not very believable, if he's so good and powerful, then why doesn't he save me? What do you need in that moment of doubt. You need proof. God knows that and gives it to us. So here's how the text is going to unravel today. We have the Claim that God is Good. We have the Claim that God is Powerful. We have the Proof that He's both. Let's start with the claim that he's good. Every GOOD gift and every perfect gift is from above. Now what he does here - and it's very masterful how he does it - is that he gets at the Goodness of God through the gifts of God. C.S. Lewis in his book Mere Christianity has a chapter on hope and he references this really common experience that we all have. There are moments in life when you run across something truly beautiful, truly amazing, truly wonderful. And your heart leaps at it. It could be a beautiful piece of music, a masterful piece of art, a beautiful person, a piece of land on the beach or mountains. And you just think, man if I could just have that I'd be so happy. That's what I want. That's what my soul has been searching for. And maybe you go on a mission to get it. And you build that home or you go on that vacation or you marry that person or you get that job or buy that piece of music. Well, the inevitable experience is that there's a fading of the euphoria. It fulfills but it's brightness fades. It has some power to satisfy but not enough to ultimately do so. In fact the more you try to make it satisfy, the less it does. God's gifts are are truly beautiful, but the closer you try to draw them into your heart, the more you try to make them make you happy, the less beautiful they become and the more you realize that your asking something of them they were never intended to do. What James is saying in this passage is that we were made to seek out goodness. Our antenna are tuned to that frequency and all of life we seek and hunt and search for it. We long for beauty. Our hearts crave it. And all these gifts are beautiful but they are not really the SOURCE of beauty. They are good but are not SOURCES of goodness. Goodness does not flow out of these things. That's why they cannot ultimately satisfy. They are merely reflections. Every good and perfect gift is from above. That's the source is above. The father who is from above is the source. Getting this mixed up is like somehow confusing the sun and the moon. The moon is always shifting. The moon is always changing its light because it doesn't have any light in and of itself. It's just reflecting the light of something else. Sometimes the moon is so bright a flashlight is totally unnecessary it's shining so brightly. Other times you can't see your hand in front of your face. It's always changing. It's shifting shadows. But the sun. It's got power. It's got blinding light. It's an eye watering nuclear reaction of almost infinite energy. In the same way, the music, the campfire, the fishing or hunting trip, the romance, the seashore - these are all really good gifts. They really are good, but they actually don't possess goodness itself. They are reflections of goodness. Of course they don't satisfy. They are just reflecting the source. You have to look to the source. He's not reflecting goodness. He is goodness. He's not reflecting beauty, He is beauty. He's not reflecting love, he is love. He's the source of all these things. And James is saying, "Listen, I know what you want is goodness. Look at the gifts, look at the shifting shadow; now follow that beam clear back to the creator God, the actual source of Goodness. That goodness does not fade. That goodness is ultimately fulfilling. That goodness lasts forever. It's the difference between smelling ice cream and tasting it. It's categorically different. When we deal with the creator God, we are dealing with source material - with goodness itself. We get this confused, don't we. One of the great blessings of trials is that it forces our our eyes off the gifts and redirects us to the giver of the gift. In fact, sometimes our trials are trials simply because we have our eyes on the wrong prize. When we loose the money, or the relationship doesn't turn out how we hoped or the kids don't turn out as we hoped or the job doesn't satisfy like we hoped, we call it a trial. That's not a trial. That's a mercy. God is his mercy is trying to get our eyes off the shadows. *He's trying to say, “The longing of your heart for beauty and goodness is right.* You want light, and your puny little flashlight burnt out and your moping around in a cave. Lift your eyes. Your vision is too low. Look to the heavens! Look to the bright and morning star.” Look to the source, not the reflection. Don't you want the real thing? Consider how different God's goodness is, to say, human goodness. God is spontaneously good. And he overflows with generosity. It's a disposition unlike anything we know. It's a disposition without any mercenary motive. Not giving without reciprocation. Consistently goes beyond what the recipients deserve. This week we were reading in our pastoral meeting the charge to elders in 1 Peter 5 to serve willingly and not under compulsion. There's also verses in 2 Corinthians 9 that talks about giving without compulsion. We have to be told NOT to serve begrudgingly or to give begrudgingly because overflowing generosity is not in our character. It's always God's character. Goodness just flows out of God. And that is such an encouragement. Apply that in your relationship with God. Because even the best of earthly fathers needs to be approached at the right moment. I want to go out with my friends, but dad's in a bad mood. As children, we read the signs. We see the body language. I don't think right now is the right time to ask him about this. Do you realize there is no wrong time to approach God? You can't catch him in an off moment. You can't get him in a bad mood. He's good and he's always good. That disposition of goodness doesn't change. He's just the blazing sun, outputting unchanging goodness. That's who God is. That's beauty. We don't want to just see that. We want to be that. We want to enter into that. James says when you get a good gift, you have to realize that there's something behind it, namely, the Father of lights. He's the perfect light. He's the ultimate light. He's an unchanging light. He's an unshifting light. He's the sun, not the moon. So the first claim is that God is good. The second claim is that he is powerful. Now where do we see this in the text? Well, we are told that these good gifts are coming down from the father of lights or as some translations have it, The father of the heavenly lights. Return to verses Now what he's doing there is linking the goodness of God with the power of God. It's so causal the way he does it. There's this little prepositional phrase that modifies Father. What kind of father do we have? The father lof lights. It's just casually tossed in there as a side comment but its effect is tremendous. He's saying all good gifts are served up from the hand of God. And who is this God? Answer: the same God who possess the power to create all the stars of the heaven with a single word. Therefore his ability to infuse goodness into the world, and into your life in particular, is at least equal to the power required to create all the heavenly lights. Consider for a moment the power of which we are speaking. How much power is required to create the heavenly lights? Well, let's think. The most obvious heavenly light of course is the sun. Here's a time lapse video from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Now I just love this video. That, my friends is a powerful object. And to get a sense of just how powerful, consider this. The sun is 93 million miles away from earth. So if the sun were a basketball the earth would be a tiny bead orbiting this basketball at a distance of about 75 feet away. The back of the sanctuary is almost exactly 75 feet from here. So here's this sun emitting energy in all directions, only a very small percentage of the energy of the sun hits the earth that tiny bead on the back wall. Like very small: 0000287% So its hard to image just how much energy its putting out in all directions. Here's one way to put it in perspective. Get in your mind the energy consumption of all the cities in the entire world that is consumed in a calendar year. All the heaters, all the factories, all the cars driving around, trains, planes flying, giant cargo ships. In one second the sun outputs about a million years worth of energy consumed by planet earth. So James is saying you see that big light up there and all that power that comes streaming out of that thing… that is supposed to make you appreciate just how powerful God really is. But notice that the text says, Every good and perfect gift is from above coming down from the Father of LIGHT(S) - plural. Our sun is one star among many. When you look out at the night sky on a perfect night you see about 3000 stars but you also see that bright band of light we call the milky way, it almost looks like a cloud. Here's a nice time lapse of that. That's our galaxy. And of course we are in it. To visualize why our night sky appears to us the way it does, imagine camping in the woods and instead of starts, we have trees. The trees right next to you are all around you and appear far apart. The trees on the neighboring mountain are closely packed together. But if you were to zoom out from your camp spot you could see the trees next to you merge with the entire forest, it would be laid out like a green carpet. The same thing is happening when we look at the galaxy. It's hard for us to conceptualize the forest of stars that we are in. This is a computer generated video to help you visualize it: All the stars we see with our naked eye in our night sky are like the trees around us when we are camping. But if we could zoom out, we would then be able to see the forest for the trees. We would then be able to see the entire milky way galaxy. Our sun is just one of these stars. Now being in it gives us an advantage because can photograph our own galaxy up close. Here's an actual photograph. You can go to ESO.org website and zoom in and out of this photo and if This photograph is a very small slice of the milky way galaxy. It's a 9 gigapixel image and has 85 million stars in it. This is one photograph. Every single one of those points of light is a star. Now keep in mind that the milky way galaxy has something like 200-400 billion stars. So that means that this photograph containing 85 million stars is 1/2000's of the stars that make up our milky way. Just so you can visualize this: Here's 2000 dots. So those 85 million stars are 1/2000th of the stars in our one galaxy. Now, we live in a very, very, very privileged age to appreciate the wonders of what our milky way galaxy contains. I woke up my wife this last Christmas at 5:00am. And it wasn't to get ready for Christmas. I wanted to watch this: This is the launch of the Arian 5 rocket which was carrying the 10 billion dollar James Webb telescope a million miles into space to intersect lagrange 2 equilibrium point which is a special place that allows satellites to make small orbits in the shadow of the earth which is a perfect place to put a telescope. Now I was so excited because I had literally been following this project for the past 20 years. And just this July, the first images from this telescope started pouring in. So here we are zooming into our milky way galaxy. This is that previous photo, but we are zooming into a very, very, very tiny portion of the night sky. And if we zoom in far enough, we see the crab nebula: This is a really interesting formation because this is actually the remains of a star that was observed to explode in 1054 A.D. It was so bright it could be seen with the naked in broad daylight. The center of the Crab Nebula contains a rapidly rotating neutron star – or pulsar – that is apparently pumping enormous amounts of energy into the nebula in the form of high-energy particles and magnetic fields at the rate of 100,000 suns. Check out this. This particular formation is known as the cosmic cliffs. Just beauty beyond anything I could imagine. The tall peaks here are about 7 light years high. Now keep in mind these photographs are just within our galaxy. This one is about 7600 light years away. All of this contained within our one galaxy. But our galaxy is not alone. There are not just hundreds of galaxies, not just hundreds, not thousands, not just millions, not just billions but recent estimates say there are upwards of 2 trillion galaxies in the known universe. NASA has a project called the SLOAN digital sky survey and the attempt of this project is to create a 3D map of as many galaxies and they can possibly do. And they've shared that data with the public. So if you could travel through space and tour a small portion of the galaxies that we can see from earth here's what it would look like. Keep in mind this is a scale model and every point of light is not a star but a galaxy. Each galaxy you see here contains billions of stars. Totalling all that up. Trillions and Trillions and Trillions of star, each with planets orbiting, each with their own unique moons. Not a single human will visit, not a single human will document or observe 99.999999999 percent of them. The vastness. Picture our first slide, with the sun, that one star pumping out a million years worth of earth's energy in one second. And we have billions upon trillion upon quadrillions of these in our universe. It's a number so large that no matter how hard you try (and I've tried), your mind cannot contain it. Here's probably the best way to barely try. Here's the best way for me to attempt it: Picture in your mind sand. Let me help you do that. Try to get in your mind a number that approximates the amount of sand on these dunes. And not just this sand, but all the sand in the world. All the sand in every city, every country, every beach, every sand dune from breneau sand dunes here in Idaho to the great Sahara Dessert. Sand from every river, from every island in the pacific, on every continent. All of it. Scientist estimate that the earth has 7.5 sextillion grains of sand. That's a lot of sand. Now if you want to conservatively estimate how many stars there on the universe then you'd have to say that every single grain of sand on planet earth represents not one but 10,000 stars just like our sun. Can you conceive of that? Now we've toured the universe in our mind. We've tried to count the stars and given up. Our brains are fried. It's amazing. Now as magnificent as these stars are, we must remember that these stars are just shadows. These are not the light. These merely reflect the light. These lights point us to the father of lights. The great giver of every light. The creator of light itself. Now back out. We've tried to paint a picture for ourselves of the POWER of the God we serve. We've tried to paint a picture of his POWER. And why? To unravel any notion we might have that God is somehow like us. To unravel any notion we might have that he is limited and because of that limitation is unable to help us. In other words, “Do not be deceived, my beloved.” Given what we just surveyed, do you think that God, is in any way limited by power? Do you think mentally, he's gotten himself into a bind and doesn't know the way out? Do you think he gets tired? Do you think he looses his ability to concentrate? Do you think he tires of handling so many needs? Do you think that whatever you ask of him in his ears sounds like a hard task? That it feels somehow emotionally draining? That he has to muster up some energy to listen to your whining? I'd love to help you, but I have to put up some boundaries here because you just keep on asking and there are so many needs in the world and I'm just going to get worn down if I'm not careful. Of course not. He is GOOD. AND He is ABLE. Those sextillion stars we surveyed are MERELY the MIDST that he EXHALES from his lungs on a COLD NIGHT. That's why Isaiah when speaking of the power of the Lord almost shames us into even remotely drawing comparisons between our power and His. Isaiah is speaking of the power of God to accomplish his purposes in all things. Isaiah 40 I certainly won't compare him to me. Forgive me Lord for doing so. Is it that God lacks power that he cannot immediately come rushing in and save you from your problems. Let's just nail this down once and for all. No. God has power. That's why he points to the stars. Of course the father of lights has power to save. Can we just worship God right now with our proclamation. God you are amazing. So we have two claims. There's the claim that he's good and the claim that he's powerful. But in trials it may not appear that God is what he claims. So we need proof of these truths and specifically of the claim that he is good. And here it is. What is that crowing act of God's powerful goodness. Here's the answer from the text: spiritual new birth. The greatest proof of God's powerful goodness, the greatest proof of his powerful love for you is that he has saved you. Return to verses “Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.” That's God's good and perfect, powerful loving initiative toward you. He chose to give us birth. Let's think about why that is such powerful proof. Hands up if anyone in the room who wrote an email or maybe for some of us older generation, wrote a letter and asked your parents if you could be born. Everything that happened in physical birth, happens without any consent or conscious awareness of the child. And so it is with our spiritual birth. James points out that our spiritual birth is not something that we prompted God to do. The new birth is something God chose unpressured by our helplessness, unimpressed by our goodness, uncoerced by social pressure. He acted in his accordance with his free, uncompelled, sovereign goodness. Now why is that such good news for us? HERE IT IS: Because this spiritual starts a spiritual chain reaction, a domino of forces, it's the first link in long golden chain which demonstrates God's unstoppable LOVE and GOODNESS that follows and pursues and relentlessly tracks you down for the rest of you life. Listen to how Romans 8 says it. Romans 8 also acknowledges the difficulty of life. It acknowledges trials. But it pulls us onto this perch and asks us to get some perspective. Romans 8 So if you are suffering, if you are going through some very difficult trial then Paul wants to give you some encouragement. So just like James the claim is that God is good and powerful. Now are you just supposed to believe those claims at face value? Praise the Lord if you do. But if you are struggling, he gives you help. You need some proof that God is in fact good when it seems like he's not? No problem. Here's how Paul says it. Notice this domino effect. Notice this golden chain of connected ideas. It's starts long before we were born, before the foundations of the earth. We were predestined. And that sets off a chain of events. Justification. Glorification. And there's a conclusion. Listen to the argument here. It's so powerful. He says, do not be deceived. To question my goodness, to question my love, because of a current trial or difficulty is the most irrational of all possible conclusions. God says to us. DO NOT BE DECEIVED. Please just open your eyes and review the facts. Let me just remind you that I loved you before you even had conscious existence. I set my love upon you before you even breathed a word or had a single thought. Like a child, I took you when you were helpless. I bathed you, clothed you, cared for you, I nursed you into existence in every possible way. At any moment if I would have removed my sustaining care for you, you would have perished, but I loved you. I set my affections upon you. I breathed life into you and you were born. And I brought you forth by the word of my power, the same power that spun all the galaxies into existence. And you grew and became beautiful. I wanted a relationship with you. I care deeply for you and so I put up some rules to protect you from the sin that leads to death. But you rebelled against me, you flaunted my rules. And even though you hurt me so badly, I pursued you. And yet you bucked and resisted and you ignored my commands. And I pursued you. And I asked you trust me and you sinned against me and I pursued you. The reason I was so concerned and the reason I asked you to not do all those things is because the wages of sin is death. And I didn't want you to die. But you had the sentence of death upon you. And so I sent my son, my one and only son, to the earth to take on flesh. And I sent him to the cross. And I put your robes of sin on him, and his robes of righteousness on you. And I poured out my wrath upon my son, that was reserved for you. And I did that to spare you so that you could live. And I've made a way so that you can live eternally with me in heaven. And I have gone to prepare a place for you that where I am you may also be And I cannot wait for you to see me for when you do you shall be like me. and all those trials that seem so hard and difficult, don't worry because I will wipe away every tear from your face and there will be no more morning only laughing and dancing. All that is true. Given all of that, do you think that a few small and momentary afflictions, a few trials, a few rules you don't understand are evidence that God is not good? Do not be deceived. God is Good. Do not be deceived. God is Powerful. Dl not be deceived. God has Saved you. So whatever is going on in your life, cling to these things. Run to them. If you are tempted to sin. If you are tempted to question God. Remember two things from James: Sin is really bad - it leads to death. God is powerfully good. - He sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to die for you. - that leads to life. DO NOT BE DECEIVED. No matter what it feels like, those two things are true.

The experience a potential customer has when they arrive at your landing page may be their first impression of your brand. And first impressions, especially negative ones, tend to stick. Research shows you only have about seven seconds to make that first impression a positive one before your visitors decide to leave your website. Landing pages play a key role in conversion–they are all about getting visitors to take action–and as such they warrant different design considerations. In today's episode, we'll look at the key elements every landing page needs and how to design your landing pages to actually convert. Check out the episode as we discuss: When you should consider using a landing page. How long a landing page should be. Some big mistakes we see businesses making when using landing pages. The importance of having a clear message and a clear call to action on your landing pages.  Whether or not your landing page should include navigation. What A/B testing is and what 5 key landing page elements you should A/B test.  If and where you should include social proof or authority on your landing pages. How to write a great value proposition. The role of the lead magnet on landing pages.  How much information you should collect from the person claiming a lead magnet. Custom “Thank You” pages for visitors after they take action.

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Pastor Brent Belford preaches on Titus 3:1-3.

Pastor Brent Belford preaches on Titus 3:1-3.

Today, Eric Gallagher shares how the readings for this weekend have inspired a deeper desire to make Scripture a greater focal point in his life and invites us to consider the benefit that comes from taking advantage of all the Lord has equipped us with in order to proclaim the word. Mentioned in this episode: Suscipe We bring together individuals who have experienced the love the Jesus Christ in their life and desire to commit their entire lives to Him to grow in their interior life through prayer, community and formation opportunities so that they can grow in the confidence that they are doing the Lord's will in their lives and living in and through His love at every moment of every day. https://with-you-always.captivate.fm/suscipe (Suscipe - Online Community and Formation for Disciples) About Eric Gallagher Eric Gallagher is a husband, father of four and the founder of the With You Always podcast and Suscipe.co. https://with-you-always.captivate.fm/suscipe (Suscipe - Online Community and Formation for Disciples)

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The fifth week of the 2022 Institute Summer Class, "Every Good Endeavor" at Emmaus Church in Buford, Georgia.   Speakers: Brian Abernathy and Ben Seals

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The final week of the 2022 Institute Summer Class, "Every Good Endeavor" at Emmaus Church in Buford, Georgia.   Speakers: Brian Abernathy and Ben Seals

The fourth week of the 2022 Institute Summer Class, "Every Good Endeavor" at Emmaus Church in Buford, Georgia.   Speakers: Brian Abernathy and Ben Seals

Week two of the 2022 Institute Summer Class, "Every Good Endeavor" at Emmaus Church in Buford, Georgia.   Speakers: Brian Abernathy and Ben Seals

The first week of the 2022 Institute Summer Class, "Every Good Endeavor" at Emmaus Church in Buford, Georgia. This class covers the content of Tim Keller's book, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work.   Speakers: Brian Abernathy and Ben Seals

This week I speak with Jill Page; she holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees and has worked with non-profit organizations since 1991. As Director of Education at Urban Family Council, Jill wrote curriculum, trained and supervised a team of educators, and taught programs in public and private schools, churches, and community agencies for children in pre-K through high school. The work was primarily in Philadelphia public schools and included a small group program for teen mothers. At Bethany Christian Services, Jill recruited and supported volunteers who provided housing for the children of families in crisis.  She also developed and implemented a long-term program for pregnant and parenting young women. Jill volunteered on the hotline and served on the board of an urban pregnancy resource center. These experiences have demonstrated the value of mentoring in a small group setting, shown the challenges young mothers face, even with government assistance, and inspired the desire to start Every Good Gift. Jill serves as its Executive Director.  Jill has one child, her daughter Shanita, who was adopted at age fifteen. You won't want to miss this interview where we see God overflowing from one of His children into the lives of generations. You will be inspired! Www.eveygoodgift.orghttps://www.facebook.com/EveryGoodGiftOrghttps://www.instagram.com/eggministry*Theme Music “Blessed Time” by Ketsa 

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Every good and purposeful life begins with the end in view. If you are still alive, you need to respond to the love of God by living a purposeful life. The Chairman of The Church of Pentecost, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, throws more light on this in this insightful message titled "Our Response To The Love Of Christ" Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

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James 1:12-18Payton Roth joins the conversation with Edwin again today to discuss the nature of God and the good gifts He gives. They talk about light and what a fantastic gift it is and the dangers of darkness. They also dig into the the difference between longing for the gifts versus longing for the Giver.Read the written devo that goes along with this episode by clicking here.    Let us know what you are learning or any questions you have. Email us at TextTalk@ChristiansMeetHere.org.    Join the Facebook community and join the conversation by clicking here. We'd love to meet you. Be a guest among the Christians who meet on Livingston Avenue. Click here to find out more. Michael Eldridge sang all four parts of our theme song. Find more from him by clicking here.   Thanks for talking about the text with us today.________________________________________________If the hyperlinks do not work, copy the following addresses and paste them into the URL bar of your web browser: Daily Written Devo: https://readthebiblemakedisciples.wordpress.com/?p=10388The Christians Who Meet on Livingston Avenue: http://www.christiansmeethere.org/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/TalkAboutTheTextFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/texttalkMichael Eldridge: https://acapeldridge.com/ 

It's our last episode before the podcast takes a little summer break, and today I'm talking about the importance of stretching through the discomfort and taking a leap of faith! ENROL IN FIND YOUR THING   CONTACT SOPHIE:   Coaching - The Joyful Everyday Join The Choose Joy Club The Monthly Pep Talk newsletter - sign up now Blog - www.sophiecliff.com Instagram - @sophiecliff Email - sophie@sophiecliff.com