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Acts 3

Bible Study: (1:52) 1 Pt 2:2-5, 9-12 Growing into salvation!  Mk 10:46-52 Trust & salvation  Letters: (28:00) - Thank you, Father for your views about the Diocese!  (30:55) - Catholicism, the Jews, and killing Jesus  Word of the Day: Boundary (39:03) Callers:  (42:52) - I do the Liturgy of the Hours, I always thought the Feast of Corpus Christi was on a Sunday?   (44:53) - Could you explain the Agnus Dei?  (45:57) - Guardian Angel Prayer, to light and guard and rule and guide. Could you explain the word 'rule'? (47:23) - Fornication, divorce and remarriage and how is that word interpreted and diff from the Protestants and way they look at it? (49:16) - Conversion process in the early Church, and I'm involved in RCIA, what was it like converting during the Roman times?

Bible Study: (2:11) 1 Pt 1:18-25 Commandments & obedience  Mk 10:32-45  The cross of Christ  Letters:  (22:22) - Born of the Spirit  (27:24) - Should priests be publicly hostile to each other?  (31:14) - Speak now or forever hold your peace (33:24) - Vision of Jesus  Word of the Day: Ransom (36:58) Callers:  (39:31) - If my friend where to die before getting last rites, is that the same as if you die before going to confession? (42:38) - What has happened to the animals in Eden after the fall?  And Where's Aretha Franklin music that you used to play? I'm an old neighbor of his. (45:24) - Where can I find information about indulgences and visiting cemeteries? https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1178 (46:38) - Regarding reconciliation, what does persona in Christi mean when confession is happening? (48:49) - I noticed that the Eucharist looks like a roaring lion in the reliquary, does that have anything to do w/the 2nd coming?

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Sermon preached on Sun, 11 Feb 2024

Christ Jesus - Word by RealCUF

Bible Study: (1:48) Rom 8:18-25 What is our job as Christians? Lk 13:18-21 Father discusses building the kingdom Letters: (24:10) - Bible recommendation  (25:24) - St. Jude as patron of the impossible  (27:58) - Deuteronomy 20:5-7 (30:10) - Sons of God and intimate relations  (33:35) - Jewish army during the time of Jesus  Word of the Day: Adoption (35:37) Callers:  (37:23) - I had not been to a Latin Mass in 60 years. I went on Sunday and when the priest held up the host, I began to tremble. It seemed like a glimpse of the Kingdom.  (38:35) - When did we start having confession as we know it today? (41:41) - A lot of people at my Church leave after Communion. How important is the closing blessing? (44:34) - On the book of Maccabees. Do we know who wrote it? (47:14) - Can you speak to the origin of the legend that souls are with God in heaven before children are conceived? (50:10) - Did Abraham take a third wife?

"The Heartbeat of Jesus" October 15, 2023 Rex Durham

Faith in the Autority of Jesus Word - Luke 7:1-10

Jesus makes a clear contrast between the word of God and human tradition.

The practice of Christian Meditation helps us live with the peace of Christ. Relax to the sounds that help you soak in the Scripture. Who is Jesus to you? Meditate on John 1:14. Find peace and rest during this guided meditation for mind and body with deep breathing, prayer, and scripture. Use these meditations as a bible study in the morning to center yourself on the truth in God's word. For more Bible meditations, download the Abide app: https://abide.co/awesome See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

https://discipledbyjesus.org/what-we-do/Transcript Here Read the blog by clicking here. Serving pastors, parents, and churches in growing Christlike disciples and disciplers.HeartWalk is determined to be all about Jesus, about being with Him, and about helping others be with Him. HeartWalk is about meeting, ministering, and maturing with Jesus, then making disciples who do the same and will be equipped to help others meet, minister, mature, and so on.Hal & Debbi PerkinsHal and Debbi have given 40 years in studying and strategically applying the principles of making disciples that Jesus modeled and commanded of His followers. Both formally and informally, they relationally discipled their four children (now all in full-time Christian ministry) and those in their churches willing to invest time in their own relationship with Jesus and then to help others.HeartWalk FoundationsIn 1969 Hal was dramatically called into professional ministry. He andDebbi began their first full time pastoral role in June 1 of 1970 and concluded 40 years of pastoral ministry on June 30, 2010. They have been married 41 years. At marriage, Hal was a math teacher and coach. Debbi finished college to become an elementary teacher.During their 40 years of professional ministry, Hal and Debbi served five Nazarene churches as senior pastor. Debbi taught in both public and Christian schools, served as administrative assistant to the Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, and ministered as a chaplain in 10 corporations.Welcome in echo through eternity. I'm your host, Dr. Jeffrey D. Skinner. What is God echoing through your life today? I am joined in the studio today by Reverend Hal Perkins. He has a ministry called Discipledbyjesus.org. As you can imagine, it focuses on discipleship. One of the things that we talk about in church planting. And nine times out of ten, if you have a church that's in need of revitalization or a church that needs to be relaunched, or if you're planting a new church, if you're launching a new church, there are eight systems that we tend to focus on within that church. Planting within the sphere of revitalization that need to be healthy for your church to thrive. Nine times out of ten, if there's a church in need of revitalization, one of these systems are multiple systems are going to be broken. Dr. Jeffery D. Skinner·02:30Primarily discipleship system will be broken, your worship system is likely to be broken and your outreach or in reaching system is likely to be broken. There are five other systems that need to be healthy as well. But discipleship is key. You need to be I tell people there's seasons in church, ministry in there, you need to be both receiving to disciple and train and teach and simultaneously be sending those. So multiplication, that's another system, that multiplication system. So we're not just multiplying churches, we're multiplying disciples. That was Jesus. Model was a god of descending god. We invited Reverend Hal perkins on because he specializes in discipleship. He was so good at discipleship that he wrote several books on discipleship, has a ministry that focuses on that. Dr. Jeffery D. Skinner·03:21And so I thought it'd be good to bring him on and let him kind of tell his story, how God is reverberating his voice throughout eternity there echoing his voice through eternity. Welcome, brother Hal. How are you doing today? Rev. Hal Perkins·03:34Thank you, Dr. Jeff. Good to be with you. I'm doing great. Speaker 4·03:37It's good to have you. Dr. Jeffery D. Skinner·03:38So tell us a little bit about your story. We've got a mutual friend in. Reverend Jeff fresh low. Jeff is one of our coaches in DCPI. And so at DCPI Dynamic Church Planting International, we offer free training to pastors who Christian leaders who have a call to plant church. And so Jeff is one of our coaches and helps others on our online platform to train others. Actually, he's leading the training right now. And he and I were talking he purchased several of my books that one of the books I just wrote, Revitalized a Plant, and I actually co authored with a friend of mine, Desmond Barrett. And he was telling me a little bit about it. We were talking about the podcast and he mentioned you and he said, have you talked to Reverend Hal Perkins? And I said no. Dr. Jeffery D. Skinner·04:22Telling me a little bit about your ministry. I was just fascinated with kind of how it came about and how God kind of led you through this process here. So share it with our listeners here and how all that happened for you. Rev. Hal Perkins·04:33Well, I think I won't jump in right at the beginning of how it happened. Let me jump into the very essence. Then it'll take me back to the beginning. The heart of this that is probably a pill for people to swallow is that I discovered in study that the most discipled person that ever walked the planet was named Jesus, because Jesus himself gave his life to prayer, meaning when he was alone, away from people, he was never alone. My father's always with me. And Jesus said routinely, significantly, I don't make any judgments on my own. I only judge, as the Father shows me. And Jesus often withdrew to lonely places to pray. He stayed up all nights to pray. He went away. So when Jesus was alone, he was never alone. He was always in conversation, in communication, and he never led. Rev. Hal Perkins·05:32He always followed. He always was led by the Spirit Luke, for he always even judged. He didn't come to any judgments on his own, but only as he was shown. I won't take time to talk about how that spells out theologically for me, and I think it's biblical or I wouldn't believe it. But Jesus Himself in private was always in conversation. So he prayed continually. He brought every thought captive because he had lots of thoughts come to Him. But he didn't judge them. He didn't come to a conclusion about them. And then when he was in public and he's either alone or in public, but he was never alone, he was with the Father when he was in public. Rev. Hal Perkins·06:14Jesus always and only followed his father because he didn't do anything or he didn't say anything without being aware that it's what his father wanted him to say and it's what his father wanted him to do. So I say that Jesus was the most discipled person that ever walked the planet. People may struggle with this a little bit, but I say he never led, he always followed. And then he said to us, come to me, learn to me, follow me. Which means I need to be discipled by Jesus. Jesus told us in the Great Commission, he said, Go and make disciples, baptizing them. Who are we to baptize? Oh, not Christians were to baptize disciples who 250 times were called disciples before they were ever called Christians. And that was actually an upgrade from being a disciple. Rev. Hal Perkins·07:07But they were called Little Christ in Acts 1126 because they were so much like Jesus. And they said, man, these guys are turning the world upside down. What's with them? Oh, they've been hanging out with Jesus. The whole idea of being discipled by Jesus came first, most foundationally from the understanding that Jesus himself was always discipled. He never led, he always followed. And in one John Two Six says if anyone is in Christ, he must walk as Jesus walked. Well, how did Jesus walked, walk? Well, he walked with his father. He prayed continually, he walked in relationship so that whatever he said did, even judged, he got from the Father. Then we're called to live that way. And we're really grateful that we're saved by grace because that's a very high standard. Rev. Hal Perkins·08:07We came into this thing as very independent, practiced leaders, meaning we did what we thought, we did what we felt, we did what we wanted. And then most of us realized that wasn't working so well. So we repented of our own government, we repented of independence, and we became dependent on Jesus. We determined, we set in our heart to follow Jesus. We decided to put our faith in him. And so that's the basic beginning of returning to the kind of life that God created for us to live, which was a life of dependence, not independence. We were never made to be independent. So that's how Jesus lived, depended on his father. And we're called to quit living independently, quit walking by sight and by flesh and learn to walk by faith. Rev. Hal Perkins·09:00And the good news is, because God sees the heart, man looks on the outward, god sees the intention, he sees the determination. So I can at new birth, determine or decide to follow Jesus. I can put my faith in Jesus and say, not only do I believe he died for me, but I believe he'll come to dwell in me, to lead me and to guide me into all truth and by the presence of the Holy Spirit, which Jesus said would better if he went away. Because if he went away, then he gave us his Spirit. So we don't have Jesus next to us like Peter had. We have Jesus in us. Rev. Hal Perkins·09:31So we can actually, by the indwelling spirit of God called the Holy Spirit, we can learn, be coached, be discipled to be discipled by Jesus who dwells in us, by His Spirit who spoke and inspired. And we have Scripture. So we can be discipled by Jesus spirit, we can be discipled by Jesus Word. And because the Spirit of God indwells other belie

04. Jesus | Word CD | Kelley Stephenson

Church of the Apostles- Dawsonville, GA

Bible Study: (6:33) IS 45:6C-8, 18, 21C-25 What happens when God isn't kind to us?  LK 7:18B-23 What's Father's theory on this Passage?  Letters (20:34) - Father talks about moving the tabernacle  (23:07) - Letter about someone who left the Catholic Church (27:56) - Discrepancies about the criminal crucified next to Jesus  Word of the Day: Vindication! (34:41) Callers  (38:45) - John 3:13 and Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, and could you explain those in terms of the death and body. (43:12) - Comment on the Eucharist from Bishop Sheen: 'When I walk into Church these days, I felt like Mary Magdalene' referring to lack of importance.   (46:24) - When Jesus said, to the Pharisees 'In your law, it says ye are Gods'. Was Jesus being sarcastic when he said that?

O come, O Key of David, come . . . we know these words from the old carol, O come, O come, Emanuel. But what does it mean that we call Jesus, "key of David." Pastor Amy does some digging in scripture to help us understand where this title comes from and invites us to consider what it means for our life of faith. Jeremiah 23:1-6 and Luke 23:33-43

2022 - 08 - 17 - Summer Series - Jeremy Pate - Jesus, Word by Buford Church of Christ

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possibly start with Myers Briggs tests and over time adjusting closer to each other. adjusting behaviors after hanging out with people. new school want to fit in sambas pegged pants kswiss skateboards even learning to like soccer because I wanted to be with my friends. As we spend time with people we…

Sermon by Pat Wilcox, Parish Associate at Dardenne Presbyterian Church on April 3, 2022 Names of Jesus: Word of God Sermon Series: Names of God

Message from Tony Jones on March 20, 2022

Church of the Apostles- Dawsonville, GA

Jesus makes God known to us. The post Jesus, Word of God | John 1:1-18 | 30 January 2022 appeared first on Living Church.

Today, I'm chatting with my sweet friend, Andrea Cantu! Andrea is married to Pedro Cantu for 23 years, where she says, "Can I say God gets the GLORY FOR THAT!! It's been a crazy road but we have made it." She is a Jesus Word girl, who loves the Word of God and all it has for her. She enjoys reading and journaling for herself, but for others she has a love to study and teach the Word. She loves spending time with family and friends. Andrea is the the founder of Better Together Ministries. As a ministry she loves that she gets to stand in the gap for each other and able to serve and partner with other ministries. She states, "We are all aiming for the work of our Father in Heaven. Kingdom minded driven to serve. It's been great." Her heart is to see women walk out what God has placed inside of them. To see how God can take the old man and do something beautiful with the new man, is what makes it all worth it. Andrea likes to remind others that He is Worthy and because HE IS, WE WILL!! Join us as we discussed all things Jesus and marriage! www.braided.faith https://www.instagram.com/crystal.addis https://www.instagram.com/better_together_minstries/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/braided/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/braided/support

Joseph, Spouse of Mary And Father of Jesus | Word and Songs “God's mercy is from age to age…he casts the mighty from their thrones and raises up the lowly ones!” We cannot contemplate the great things the Lord has done in Mary's life without at the same time contemplating Joseph, her spouse. We do not hear a word from Joseph in the scriptural narratives, but it is not difficult for us to imagine how he may have lived alongside Mary and Jesus, as a loving husband and a tender father. From the time the angel assured him in a dream that what Mary conceives is from the Holy Spirit and that he will save God's people from their sins, he let go of all his hesitations and took full responsibility of his family. As a husband Joseph was “just” which means faithful, and so alongside Mary, he also said his own “yes” to God's plan for him to be Mary's husband and Jesus' foster father. He was also faithful to Mary, caring for her needs while they waited for the baby to be born, protecting her and moving her away from harm. He was a steady companion and faithful traveler with Mary on the journey of marriage. Joseph was not only faithful to Mary, he was also faithful to Jesus – he protected him when he learned of Herod's plan to kill the child; and when Jesus was growing as child, he faithfully and devoutly took care of him, loving Jesus as his very own. As a father, we can imagine Joseph giving his share in the household duties, in taking care of their son Jesus, in helping him walk and talk, in teaching him to pray, in passing on to him the values that he had: love and faith in God, simplicity, gentleness, serenity, love for work, self-sacrifice. Through and through, he was a guardian or a protector of his family. Pope Francis, in one of his addresses said: “Being a guardian is the distinctive trait of Joseph: Being the guardian is his great mission . . . We look to Joseph as the model educator, who watches over and accompanies Jesus as he grows ‘in wisdom, age and grace,' as the Gospel says. He was not Jesus' father: the father of Jesus was God, but he was a father to Jesus, he was a father to Jesus in order to help him grow. And how did he help him grow? In wisdom, age and grace.” God has done wondrous deeds not only in Mary, but also in Joseph, her faithful spouse. Script: Sr. Melba Grace Lobaton, fsp | Daughters of St Paul

A new MP3 sermon from A.T. Stewart and Sons Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Jesus' Word of Love Speaker: Dr. A. T. Stewart Broadcaster: A.T. Stewart and Sons Ministries Event: Sunday Service Date: 7/17/2021 Bible: John 19:23-27 Length: 41 min.

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THE HIDDEN SEED OF LOGOS  1Peter 1:23 since you have been born again, not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible seed, through the living and abiding (logos) of God;  Our New Creation lives are the expression of the logos seed of life implanted within us through the death and resurrection of Jesus, the logos Word of God. God is always ‘bringing us into being’ of that New Creation life and our faith causes us to always be ‘coming into being’ of that life. We attend to that hidden seed of spiritual life within. LOGOS THE BIG IDEA The Logos was the Word that spoke creation into being, and that designed and ordered everything in the Universe. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made through Him.  As a Pharisee, Paul used to have what he thought was the best and biggest idea for his life living under God’s Law, but then he was walloped by the greatest idea that had ever existed – the Logos, in the form of Jesus, The Word. Before Paul received a revelation from Jesus on the road to Damascus he was an enemy of Christianity. He had a very stable and strongly approved religion where everybody in his entire personal world validated him. When he was converted he was perceived as an enemy of Judaism by those of the Jewish religion even though they were not seen as enemies by him, and his whole personal world turned upside down. Paul met the logos, Jesus, born from above, who joined God to humanity for all time.  John 1:1 And the Word became flesh and lived amongst us. Jesus Christ, the Logos now sustains and upholds all of creation with that Word of power. (Hebrews 1:3). It is hard to grasp the wonder of this magnificent creative power that is able to order and reorder our whole life as we consciously cooperate with God in that process of transformation. Jesus the Logos Word unfolds to us who God is through the Holy Spirit, and as we get to know who God is, he gets to show us who we are. THE HISTORY OF THE WORD LOGOS The Word Logos had been around in Greek culture and philosophy for hundreds of years before Jesus was born. Logos was the one overarching thought in ancient Greek philosophy that expressed the wonder and design of an ordered Universe. When John wrote that Jesus was the Logos that created the world as God and that he became a human being that had come to live among us, it gave to everyone who read those words with a responsive faith, a profound understanding of who Jesus really was, as God joining himself to his own creation in us. It was the Greek belief that Logos is some form of intentional idea or principle that can be seen everywhere; it makes up the earth, trees and even us as humans, and logos does not just give everything form; it also gives it order. In the Greek mind, this meant that logos determines who is who and who is placed where, because logos contains the master plan for all things, and constitutes the ideal way to order them.  So as Logos had become the big Idea for the Greek culture and indeed for much of the then known world, we now see that God had prepared that then known world with this word logos to describe the person of Jesus – In the beginning was the Logos…and the Logos was God…and the Logos became a human being.  Logos was the big idea and design plan of God’s own purpose and intention for humanity. When Paul was spoken to by the Logos, Jesus, that totally re-ordered his belief system and his personal world and his whole life. He began to live each day alongside Jesus as his disciple consciously allowing the Holy Spirit to bring the DNA of the implanted logos seed into the unfolding of his life’s destiny and purpose. THE MORAL CONSCIENCE AND THE LOGOS The apostle Peter’s tradition gave him a moral conscience of what was right and wrong according to the Jewish religion. Peter had already lived alongside Jesus, the Logos, the Word made flesh, for over three years as his disciple, and he knew him and loved him as a friend, but it took Peter a long time to let go of his former belief system of living under the Law of Judaism that he grew up with.  His Jewish tradition gave him a moral conscience of the letter of the Law, but it was no longer fully aligned with what the Holy Spirit was saying according to the Logos, or Word of truth in the spirit.  New Testament Scriptures point out the difference between two different types of conscience (Hebrews 9:14, 10:22,6:22). These Scriptures show us that there is the natural moral conscience and there is the Spiritual conscience which is aligned with the mind and heart of Jesus the Logos.  Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from bondage to the morality of human tradition (dead works) into life-giving service the living God. All of humanity has been given a natural conscience by God, to discern the difference between right and wrong. Adam and Eve had that conscience before they disobeyed God because they were told that it was wrong to eat of the tree of knowledge. That is why they felt guilt and shame and covered their shame with fig leaves and hid from God. Humanity has been doing that ever since, hiding from God and covering their shame.  Our personal moral conscience about what is right and wrong has been formed broadly by our culture or religion and it guides our values and our decisions. This means that our natural or personal conscience can only inform us of the right and wrong of our culture or tradition, and in many areas we can be calling right wrong and calling wrong right. God once showed Peter a vision of all kinds of animals that were forbidden for Jews to eat and he then told Peter to eat those animals as food.  Peter refused to eat what he believed to be unclean food, alright maybe for gentiles but not fit for Jews, and so Peter told God that he was wrong! He said ‘Not so Lord’.  It is actually a contradiction to say ‘not so’ and ‘Lord’ in the same statement. God then had to say to Peter ‘do not call unclean what I have cleansed’. God was telling Peter that he was inviting all of humanity, and their food, into the Kingdom of God alongside his people Israel as his children and as brothers and sisters to his Son Jesus. A natural conscience of human tradition is called in the Bible an evil or a harmful (poneros) conscience (Hebrews 10:22).  Peter was judging all of humanity outside of Judaism as being unclean and not worthy or eat with or to even enter into their house. That judgment was now a morally harmful and unloving act in the eyes of God, who then told Peter to go into the house of a gentile (Cornelius) and preach the Gospel of Jesus to him.  Peter had to have his harmful conscience gradually transformed by the work of the Holy Spirit who brings our conscience into line with God’s heart of Logos truth and love.  Jesus had told his disciples that when he went to be with his Father he would send the Holy Spirit to convict the world of sin. That means all of humanity after Jesus has the Holy Spirit actively working upon them in their spirit, where the conscience resides, bringing an awareness of the love and forgiveness of God for their sins and turning their hearts (repentance) toward God and away from darkness (like a plant turns towards the sunshine). When we respond to this movement of the Spirit and acknowledge what Jesus has done for us we then actively receive the Holy Spirit so that it is now an abiding of our spirit with the Holy Spirit in a pathway forward of our transformation from a natural life to a spiritual life in Christ. Paul was literally exploded out of his natural and religious moral conscience under the Law. He had been a hostile enemy of Jesus until he met him on the road to Damascus.  Paul had been hunting down Jewish Christians and putting them in jail and sentencing them to death. He had actually just been part of the stoning to death of the martyr Stephen before he set off on the road to Damascus. The last thing that Stephen said to the Jewish elders and Pharisees before he died was ‘You are always resisting the Holy Spirit as your fathers did, you obstinate and hard hearted murderers of those who were sent to proclaim the coming of the Messiah’ (Acts 7:51). Those words were still ringing in Paul’s ears when he was confronted by Jesus on that road that day, and when he was spoken to by Jesus Logos on that road, he had already been getting pricked in his conscience and angrily kicking against those promptings of Holy Spirit Jesus knew what was happening in Paul’s conscience and he said to him ‘It is hard for you to kick against the pricks’ (Acts 9:5). Paul then asked Jesus ‘What must I do Lord?’ Paul’s conscience was then brought into line with Logos truth and he began to live not as a hostile enemy but as a close friend of Jesus.  All of humanity have a corruptible human seed of life from the DNA of our parents, and since Jesus we now have the incorruptible seed of life from the spiritual DNA of God implanted by Jesus, the Logos, through the Holy Spirit.  We are encouraged to humbly reach in our hearts and minds and embrace the Logos.  James 1.21 Receive with meekness the implanted (emphytos) Logos that is able to save (restore and reorder) your soul.  ONLY BY FAITH IS THAT IMPLANTED SEED GERMINTATED INTO GROWTH AND FRUIT BEARING Satan has planted into the minds all of humanity the seed of the Lie that we are all alienated from the life of God in Adam.  God has planted the seed of oneness with himself into the life of all humanity in Jesus. (Romans 5:18)  We have both those seeds within us, the natural from Adam and the spiritual from Jesus. We choose which one to cultivate and live from. The natural seed tends towards disorder and the alienation in our minds from the life of God and the spiritual seed (Logos) tends towards order and oneness with God and the renewing of our minds. A seed brings something into being. which one will we invest in? The natural seed is about self and what things I want for myself. The Logos seed is about working together with God to release to others the goodness of God that we have received. The Jesus Word of Logos is our blueprint that will live in us and bring understanding, truth and wisdom into any and every situation we face. As we still our hearts and minds and give attention to that one big Idea of the life giving and life changing seed of life within us Holy Spirit will inspire in us acts of virtue and courage, feelings of joy and peace, and God’s love deep within our hearts. It is an odd wonder that the Christmas event of the birth of Jesus, the ‘Word made flesh’ is celebrated around the world every year – even by people who do not understand or believe in the cosmic truth it contains. That is just one more welcome for Jesus to be  believed in by ALL of humanity because it is for ALL humanity, but our lives of love and grace to others is the greatest welcome for so many who are desperately waiting for something better to happen in their lives. So let us gratefully receive that seed of life and invest in that seed and cultivate it so that it grows and bears the fruit of the blessing of God’s love and care that will go out and be that blessing for all those in our world in Jesus name Amen.  

Pastor Richard D. Dobbs

Rev. Dr. James Voelz, professor of New Testament at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, MO, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Mark 16:1-8. Throughout his Gospel account, St. Mark emphasizes the complete reliability of Jesus’ Word. Now, at Jesus’ empty tomb, the angel speaks that same reliable Word to the women. These women have come to Jesus’ tomb after the sun had risen, recalling Malachi’s promise that the Sun of Righteousness would rise with healing in His wings. Indeed, the Son has risen. The women are alarmed at the sight of the young man in Jesus’ open tomb. He proclaims to the women that the Crucified One is the Risen One. Although the women do not see Jesus at this moment, they will see Him when they believe His Word. In this way, the Gospel according to St. Mark serves as good news for those who live in tough times. Just like the women at Jesus’ tomb, even though we do not see Jesus, we have His reliable Word, and that is all we need. “The Gospel in Action” is a mini-series on Sharper Iron that goes through the Gospel according to St. Mark. The Evangelist hits the ground running with the very first verse of his Gospel account, and he never lets up the pace. As one deed of Jesus comes right after another, always paired with His authoritative Word, St. Mark proclaims the good news that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, revealed conclusively by His death on the cross.

ST CYRIL OF JERUSALEM WAS A PIONEER IN DEVELPING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD, FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT.FR LOUIS SCURTI USES HIS EXAMPLE AS APPLIED TO LIVING THE WORD OF JESUS._______________________________________________________Check out our website: https://www.friendsoftheword.orgJoin our community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/www.FriendsoftheWord.orgDonate and support FRIENDS OF THE WORD, INC. PAYPAL.ME/FRIENDSOFTHEWORD

ST CYRIL OF JERUSALEM WAS A PIONEER IN DEVELPING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD, FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT. FR LOUIS SCURTI USES HIS EXAMPLE AS APPLIED TO LIVING THE WORD OF JESUS. _______________________________________________________ Check out our website: https://www.friendsoftheword.org Join our community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/www.FriendsoftheWord.org Donate and support FRIENDS OF THE WORD, INC. PAYPAL.ME/FRIENDSOFTHEWORD

Host: David M. Evans (aka Surgeon)Devotion Title: Are You Afraid?Verse: Psalm 56:3EPISODE PLAYLIST:Steven Billings - “Already Gone”Lynn McCully - “Walking Miracle”Robert Orndoff & Disciple 13 - “Dancin’ For The Lord”Kristiina Brask - “Praise to Jesus”Word of Life - “Higher”Ray Ramon - “I Had A Dream”RELATED LINKS:Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/christian-music-podcastSubmit your Christian songs: https://www.ktfproductions.com/cmp-song-submissionWeb Page: https://www.ktfproductions.com/christian-music-podcastFollow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ktfproductionsSubscribe to the KTF Newsletter: https://bit.ly/2n9LprkCONTACT US:Email: writecmv@hotmail.com

Anthony Gee

We often welcome Jesus into our lives simply for His gifts. Or, we come to Jesus with our own agenda. These perspectives dishonor the Lord Jesus. Instead of trying to press Him in to our plans, we must adjust to His Word - His plan. Learn to believe Jesus - to take Him at His Word - because He speaks with all authority.

Once upon a time on a night like no other in a little town called Bethlehem the broken dream that is fallen humanity's temporary lot was melded with the heavenly realm as all creation sang the glory of God and the wonders of His love.