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Pastors Ben and Tony talk with Simon Camilleri about his new book Wow God! Thank You Sorry Please? and how we can help children tell simple prayers. Full reading of Simon's book is after the outro.

Sunday sermons from Main Street Baptist Church in Georgetown, TX - New episodes every Monday!

I want to encourage each of you to take notice of God's goodness in your own lives, and when you feel called, to share those stories. Sometimes it can feel hard to share because you wonder if people will believe you, or because you fear you will come across as bragging. But our testimonies can help strengthen others' faith and spread the good news that our God is doing so much good in our lives. Connect with us! Website: https://www.pzazzonline.com/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/pzazzartstudio Instagram- www.instagram.com/pzazzartstudio  Text us: 1-334-249-1818

The love of God is the bond of perfection. Perfect love casts out fear. Rejoicing in God's love causes us to rejoice in all situations and circumstances. Living above in Christ allows us to no longer live beneath. The matters of this world will no longer cause us to live like we were never meant to live.WOW God!Linktr.ee/TriumphantVictorious_Reminders

What does it look like to step out in a faith in that wows God? We live from faith or fear - faith says even if when fear says what if. Mike Massey teaches from Mark 6: 1 - 6 about what it means to be called in bold faith and to step out in risk.

Today, Week of Worship (WOW) presenter, Pastor Simo, talks about how God had to teach the people of Israel throughout history how to live and fear Him. We can gain instruction and wisdom on how to live through the beatitudes.

guess what?... God loves you! I hope this video encourages you to pursue a relationship with Jesus Christ, God and the Holy Spirit. They love you so, so, so much. Having a relationship with them helps me make hard decisions in life, gives me peace throughout hard times and allows me to pursue my big dreams in life! If you're wondering what the purpose of life is or are wanting to grow closer to God, then you've come to the right place. Wow God is good. This may be the smoothest video I've made without any planning haha. The more you risk and trust, the more room you give God to show up! Love, Jamie

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Sunday Morning, April 3, 2022WOW God's Final Word ... Hebrews 1:1-4A message delivered by Replant Pastor, Richard Fleming, Jr.

This series is a collection of testimonies about what God is doing through His Holy Spirit in our community. We hope that sharing these testimonies of God's goodness will encourage you to say Wow, God! Do it Again! If you would like to know more or have any questions, please visit us at https://www.thelighthouse.org.au Till next time, God Bless

Title: Armed with Attitude Text: I Peter 4:1-6 FCF: We often struggle responding well to unjust suffering. Prop: Because our suffering for doing good is temporary and revelatory, we must arm ourselves with Christ's attitude. Scripture Intro: [Slide 1] Turn in your bible to I Peter chapter 4. Last week was a little more on the academic side. I hope in spite of that you were able to learn and grow. Today, Peter takes all the theology and academia and aims it at the hearts of his audience. Indicative switches to imperative. Telling them what IS transitions to telling them WHAT TO DO. Of course, every New Testament writer, when commanding their audience to do something, grounds that command in truth. And even though Peter just proved conclusively that Christ suffered for doing good and was given glory because of it… he will add a couple more pillars of truth to undergird his command to his audience today. I am reading from I Peter 4 in the NET which starts on page 1366 in the pew bible. You can follow in whatever version you have. Transition: Not near the uncertainty of last week but much to get to. Let's get right to it. I.) Because suffering means we have been stopped from sin, we must arm ourselves with Christ's attitude. (1-4) a. [Slide 2] 1 – So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you must also arm yourselves with the same attitude, i. Peter's point is inescapable for his audience and has been for some time. ii. They may in fact suffer for doing good. But they ought not live in terror over this. Why? Because the fear of suffering for doing good is relegated to this earthly, fleshly, and temporary existence. iii. Since this world is a temporary illusion of the eternal state, his audience ought to suffer without fear, instead trusting and fearing Christ while living harmoniously and humbly, even with those who persecute them, seeking to give an answer for the hope they have. iv. Their example of doing this is none other than Christ Himself. v. Peter has conclusively proven that Christ suffered in the flesh. vi. He came to earth and suffered for doing good. In fact, His suffering was God's good. His suffering proved He was blessed of God. vii. Because in that suffering not only was He doing the will of the Father, bringing glory to God the Triune, but He was also rescuing His people and bringing them back to God, since they were separated from Him by their sin. viii. Christ died for sinners. The just for the unjust. ix. And in that death His mission was complete. Thus began His victory march to the realm of the dead, back to the realm of the living, and then to God's realm itself. x. Now Peter comes to chapter 4. Because Christ suffered in the flesh, in this physical realm, in this temporary plane… xi. That gives Peter the springboard for this command… xii. Arm yourselves. This is battle language. It is “get your sword ready! Draw your weapons!” xiii. But notice! What is our sword? xiv. Christ's attitude. xv. What was Christ's attitude in suffering in the flesh? xvi. I think He demonstrated it best in the Garden of Gethsemane. xvii. Was his human nature afraid? Oh yes. He did not want to experience physical death. And he did not want to experience temporary separation from the Father. xviii. But who did He fear more than death and separation? xix. “Yet not my will, but yours be done.” xx. His human will feared the will of God far more than death or separation. For it was the will of God for Him to suffer. xxi. His attitude was exactly what Peter has said. Trusting and Fearing God. xxii. And then he went like a lamb to the slaughter without saying a word. Meek and mild they hung Him on the tree. xxiii. So, Peter's audience when facing suffering for doing good, they must arm themselves with the faithfulness of Christ in fearing and loving God to continue to do His good, and the meekness of Christ so that in that suffering they may do so gently and courageously. xxiv. This… is so…. Backward. We don't think this way. xxv. I keep saying Peter wrote, Peter wrote, Peter wrote… but I hope you understand… God's Spirit penned this through Peter. Because Peter would have never said this in his own flesh. Indeed, Peter was the one who armed himself with an actual sword and sliced off someone's ear defending this meek Christ as He went obediently to the cross for our sins. xxvi. Now he tells his audience… arm yourselves with the attitude of Christ. xxvii. In many ways this is part of Peter's ongoing repentance. Don't be like me. Be like Christ. xxviii. But this isn't the only thing in this text that we will see that seems backward… b. [Slide 3] Because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin, i. What? ii. Haven't most people suffered in life? Does this mean that all people who suffer no longer sin? iii. Well, it certainly can't mean that. So, what does this challenging little phrase mean? iv. First, By suffering in the flesh, we must assume that he means suffering for doing good in the will of God. To pare it down to simply suffering would violate all that Peter has been saying since chapter 2. v. Now the tricky phrase – has finished with sin. vi. I could enter into a longish explanation about what is happening here in the Greek… but the conclusion is that the Greek doesn't help us. Why? Because the best translation is something like “He has been stopped from sin.” vii. How is it that a person who is suffering for doing good has been stopped from sin? viii. Although there are many views, Peter is making a statement that at first seems quite unlikely but will later demonstrate it to be true. So, let's, for the time, assume it to be true outright. ix. And let's keep reading. c. [Slide 4] 2 – in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires. i. This phrase explains what it means to have been stopped from sin. ii. In this it is implied heavily in this text and verified in others that it was our sin that kept us from truly being concerned about the will of God and enslaved us to human desires. iii. In other words, the only reason that Peter can command them to have the attitude of Christ is because they have been stopped from sin and freed to concern themselves with the things of God and stop concerning themselves with human desires. iv. Now that we have been stopped from sin – we can spend the rest of our lives in the flesh (or on earth as the NET says) being busy about God's business. Seeking His kingdom and righteousness. d. [Slide 5] 3 – For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. i. Peter stays on the topic of time. ii. You've been stopped from sin so that you can spend all your remaining time on earth concerned about God's things and not natural desires. iii. Because the time (on earth) you had before being stopped from sin was more than sufficient for you to have fulfilled those desires. iv. Now what is Peter saying here? Is this the “sow your wild oats” passage? Is Peter saying that it is ok to allow young people to spend time indulging their sinful desires – get it out of their system – so they can come back ready to focus on heavenly things? v. No. In fact, I think Peter is saying the opposite. vi. The shortest amount of time spent with sin, is more than sufficient to allow you to experience the depth and darkness of your wickedness. vii. Indeed, speaking to persecuted Christians suffering for doing good – it may be in their minds to dabble in some of their old ways in order to get some relief. viii. But Peter says… no. ix. That time has passed. It is gone. You can't get it back. x. And would you want to? xi. Don't you remember who you were? Before we look at Peter's reminder to them, for who they were… why don't you spend some time thinking about who you were before God opened your eyes. Before God lavished His grace on you. Who were you? What did you live in? What has Christ freed you from? e. [Slide 6] You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wonton idolatries. i. Peter calls out his audience for all that they were and it wasn't a pretty picture. ii. I'll not go into each of these words in too much depth. Essentially at the core they lived lives that were governed by their desires. Their bodies, their relationships, and even their spiritual selves were turned in on themselves. There was nothing they weren't willing to do for themselves. And if it was worth doing… it was worth doing to excessive proportions. iii. If we take what we have already seen about sin, how it prevents mankind from being concerned about the things of God, and makes it impossible for mankind to stop sinning, we can position ourselves to interpret Peter's words accurately here. iv. We can see that such is the natural disposition of all men's hearts. They may not commit every sin or be the vilest of sinners. But sinners will sin. That is what they do. Although to varying degrees – they are slaves. Not just to sin, but to Satan as well. v. Cast off the illusion that in order to be enslaved to Satan you must die and go to his domain and be tortured by him. My friends that is myth designed to disguise the truth. That is happening right now. Every single person who is not in Christ is a slave to the vicious will of their father the devil. vi. Understanding this helps us to realize… vii. We ought not look at Peter's audience and think – wow what a loathsome bunch of pagans they were. Nor should we see their testimony and pine for ours to be like it. viii. People get really weird when they see the testimony of another believer that is particularly jarring. 1. On the one hand you have some who have convinced themselves that they have always believed in God, and have always tried to live a life for Him. So, the testimony of someone like this is appalling to them because after all- they were never THAT bad. 2. On the other hand, you have some who hear a testimony like this and wish they had one similar. “Wow God saved them from so much sin and muck… it makes my testimony of getting saved in Sunday School at the ripe age of 6 seem so anticlimactic!” ix. Both of these conclusions make the same error. The error is the assumption that their personal sin is less than these listed. 1. To those who may say that they have always believed in God and always tried to do as He instructed. To those who look at these kinds of people thinking – wow I am glad I was never that bad. a. [Slide 7] I have put Luke 18:9-14 on the screen behind me. It serves as the justification for my next statement. b. You may want to reevaluate if you are a Christian or not. c. My friends if our sin prevents us from being concerned about the things of God, if our sin has enslaved us to fulfill its desires and the desires of Satan as the scriptures says, if our sin has separated us from God… then to say you have always believed in God or always tried to live as He wanted you to. To look at Peter's audience or others around you and think – well I'm glad God got me before I was that bad – to do this is to suggest that you don't understand sin and that you don't understand God. d. Meaning that your claim to have always believed in God and tried to serve Him is false. And your satisfaction over not being as bad as others… is a delusion you have made for yourself. e. You were as bad… and more, as we'll see in a moment. 2. And to those who hear this kind of testimony and wish your testimony of salvation was as dramatic or exciting, you too have the same problem. a. The scriptures do not teach us that we all start out in a neutral position to which the sins we commit makes us a vile sinner. b. Rather we begin as a child of wrath enslaved to sin. As we live it manifests in various expressions, the most heinous of which we learn to hide quickly like lying, jealousy, hatred, pride and idolatry. The more obvious expressions of sin like these listed in this text are the natural outpouring of a heart that already has all of these more egregious sins fully gripping it. c. That being said – if the Lord lavished grace on you early, catching you before you descended to these baser and more obvious expressions of wickedness – your testimony is the same as a prostitute, a drug addict, a murderer. For the core of all these sins was fully formed and operational in you when the Lord delivered you from sin. d. Stop cheapening God's grace by thinking it was no big deal to save you. Stop arrogantly assuming that you were not a vile sinner at the age of 5. Your parents know better. x. That is why Peter says the time has been sufficient for you to do as the non-Christians desire. xi. The time of your slavery, however long it was, was enough. xii. But we still lack clarity on the end of verse 1. How does someone suffering for doing good prove or show that they have been stopped from sin? xiii. Are you ready? Peter will draw the conclusion. f. [Slide 8] 4 – So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, i. The natural mind of man cannot comprehend the fact that former sinners are not now pursuing sin. ii. This sharpens what Peter means when he says “he has been stopped from sin.” It is not a declaration of wholesale cessation from sin. We aren't talking about perfectionism here. iii. But we are talking about the death of sin in the heart of someone in Christ. iv. And when non-Christians don't see even a desire in you to do as they do… if you looked at this list and thought ugh… who would want to do these things? v. If you look at this list and started putting in sins you used to do before you were converted…. vi. Is there even a desire for them anymore? vii. The world will not understand this. viii. They can understand you wanting to “drink a little less” but that doesn't mean you have to stop coming to the party! ix. They may understand that you got a new “religion” but that doesn't mean you can't work on Sunday. x. Ok, so you are committed to your wife – but that doesn't mean you can't come to the strip club! xi. Right, so people matter to you, that's great, but you need to make your employees afraid they'll get fired if you want them to be productive. xii. My friends, the world… just… doesn't… get it. xiii. They can accept minor life changes with subtly new passions and priorities. They can even accept people turning over a new leaf to engage in culturally accepted behavior. But they cannot wrap their minds around wholesale life change based on the work of an invisible force, purchased by a man who was killed 2000 years ago, revealed in an ancient book, that cuts across what is culturally acceptable. xiv. And what do we humans do when we don't understand something in this way? g. [Slide 9] And they vilify you. i. If you swim against the stream everyone thinks YOU are the problem. ii. If you stick out, everyone makes YOU a target. iii. And doing all this while claiming to be following a God that THEY should be following too? iv. Well, those are fighting words. Because to live a holy life before the ungodly is to instantly reveal their own sin to them. And that is not comfortable. v. Pretty soon, they will make you out to be everything that is wrong with the country, the company, or society in general. Since you won't join them, they'll make sure you never can. vi. And this is Peter's point. vii. This is why Peter can confidently say that if you suffer for doing good you have been stopped from sin. viii. The evidence of the death of your sin, is that you resist it to the point of suffering for doing so. That is the true test for whether your sin is truly dead. ix. The answer to this riddle is revealed. x. And it proves to be just as Peter said. To suffer in this temporary life for doing good and abstaining from the desires of the flesh, is to prove beyond shadow of doubt that you have been stopped from sin. xi. Why? xii. Because if you haven't been stopped from sin… you could not and you would not suffer for doing good. You would simply go back to what you did before. h. [Slide 10] Passage Truth: Peter reminds his audience that their present suffering for not continuing their sinful practices of their former life, proves that they have been stopped from sin. Not sinless – but certainly these sins have been put to death. Based on the fact that their suffering for doing good proves this to be true of them… how ought they to view suffering for doing good? i. [Slide 11] Passage Application: They must arm themselves with the same attitude of their suffering Savior. His attitude of faithfulness to fear and love His Father above His own human fears. His meekness when facing intense suffering for doing good. This is the attitude of Christ, and it must be taken up as their weapon. j. [Slide 12] Broader Biblical Truth: Zooming out to the rest of scripture can we find this truth? Indeed, we can. If we are bound by sin, enslaved to it. If we are children of wrath. If every man is not righteous. If no one seeks after God. If all men's hearts are evil and desperately wicked. If even David admits to having been sinful at conception. And if sin prevents us from being concerned about God or seeking Him or His ways. Then what happens when you find someone resisting sin to the point of their own physical suffering. What do you know of that person? That sin – whatever they are resisting – is dead. It has ceased. Indeed, this was the primary concern of the writer of Hebrews toward his/her audience. In fact, the contexts are so similar with differing conclusions we need to go there to see it. READ HEBREWS 12:1-4. Peter's audience and the author of Hebrews' audience have the same truth presented to them but with different conclusions. Peter is assuring his audience that their struggle against sin to the point of suffering for not doing it is proving them to be of the faith. Whereas the writer of Hebrews states this as a reason for why he/she has doubts about some of them. k. [Slide 13] Broader Biblical Application: So, my friends, what does this mean for us? We too must arm ourselves with that Christlike attitude. He obeyed His Father, doing what He was commanded, even though it would mean great suffering. He set his eyes to the cross and went there meekly and gently. He hung there willingly though He could call all the host of heaven to His defense. And He stayed there until He fully paid the penalty for our sin. We then must arm ourselves with that same faithfulness and meekness. We too must be fearful of our God above the pressures of this world. If we are truly believers, those in Christ would rather suffer in their bodies then sin against their God. And as they suffer they meekly and gently face those who harm them with an answer for the hope they have. This must be us. We too must arm ourselves in the fight against our sin – even if comes to the point of bloodshed. And the only way we can arm ourselves – is with fear for our God and meekness toward others. Transition: [Slide 14(blank)] But there is another attitude of Christ that the writer of Hebrews displays that Peter now raises. For Christ endured the cross and suffered the shame for the joy set before Him – the promise of sitting down in approval and victory at the right hand of God. His victory is also why we continue to arm ourselves with his attitude. II.) Because all men will be judged according to God's standard, we must arm ourselves with Christ's attitude. (5-6) a. [Slide 15] 5 – They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ i. Peter has one more riddle for us in this text. ii. He sets it up first by assuring his audience that for all the persecution that they are experiencing at the hands of the wicked, not one bit of it has been overlooked. Not one injustice has been forgotten. Not one insult to the people of God will be unaccounted for. iii. Every sin against God's people is a sin against Him. And one day, there will be a reckoning. This is why WE must be meek and gentle with those who would oppose us. iv. As God says “Vengeance is MINE, I will repay.” v. His vengeance is just and measured. His vengeance will not exceed what is due and will not come from selfish motives. vi. As the Holy God, creator of all there is, possessing all control, all authority, seated on the throne above all thrones… Jesus Christ will justly give what all people have earned. b. [Slide 16] Who stands ready to judge the living and the dead. i. Who are the living and the dead? ii. Jesus stands ready to judge them. iii. Based on the previous statement about a reckoning we may conclude that the living and the dead are those who are living and dead who are non-Christians. iv. Or perhaps we could conclude that this is talking about judging the physically living and physically dead, Christian and non-Christian alike. v. However, then Peter says this. c. [Slide 17] 6 – Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, i. So now we have to wonder where Peter is going. ii. Is he talking about dead people getting another chance to hear the gospel? iii. You might say – no it says those who are “now dead.” But here is the thing – the word now is not in the text. It has been added for clarity. iv. Why was it added? v. Peter continues… d. [Slide 18] So that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God's standards. i. Peter is playing jump rope with the terms living and dead. ii. With this last statement it is clear that the ones to whom the gospel was preached who are dead, are those who like Christ have died in their physical body. iii. Even though all of humanity considers them dead – by all human standards they are dead. iv. God actually determines whether or not someone is dead. Because though physically dead, they are spiritually alive in Christ. Just as Christ was made alive in the spirit. v. So when he says that Jesus stands ready to judge the living and the dead – he is not speaking in physical terms. Rather, he is talking in spiritual terms. vi. In this he both comforts his audience that death in this life is not always a defeat. But he also warns that the living are not necessarily the victors either. vii. God determines who is living and dead. And Jesus will judge those who are either spiritually alive or dead. e. [Slide 19] Passage Truth: Peter reminds his audience that God alone determines who is alive or dead. That your physical existence is little more than a blimp on the way to your eternal existence. Peter reveals that this world is oftentimes the mirror image of the world that is to come. What seems one way is often the other. And Peter makes it clear that God's perspective is how things actually are. f. [Slide 20] Passage Application: Therefore, they must arm themselves with the attitude of Christ. For His attitude reflects the world through the mirror. The world that is right. g. [Slide 21] Broader Biblical Truth: So much in scripture is written to get God's people to stop focusing on this world. Although it is true that God created this world and when He created it, it was very good. What is certain is that His plan was never to have His people dwell in this place. He would have them dwell with Him. In scripture it says that the sufferings here is not worthy to be compared to the glory to come. God remains the judge of all things. And so many things in this life work opposite of the way God says they actually are. Death is not the end, nor is life all there is. Yet spiritual death is the end and spiritual life is all there is. To determine anything by what we see or feel, is to be like a person observing the world around them by looking at a mirror. It is oftentimes… backward. But the one thing we know is that God's perspective is all that matters. h. [Slide 22] Broader Biblical Application: So for us CBC, we must have the attitude of Christ. We must face suffering for doing good boldly. We must be faithful to our God, fearing Him more than any earthly thing. Knowing that all this is temporary. We must instead fear God who has the power to cast us into hell. We must love Him and serve Him with our lives. And when we suffer for doing this, may we meekly and gently face those who would scoff at us. May we have an answer ready for the hope we have. Conclusion: [Slide 23 (end)] Peter gives two reasons in this text that we ought to arm ourselves with the attitude of Christ. First, because suffering for obeying God and resisting sin is evidence that sin has been put to death in our lives. Second, because this life is temporary and all that happens here will be judged by God and none other. In light of both of these – we must arm ourselves with the same attitude that Christ had when He endured suffering for us. How did Christ endure suffering for us? What was His attitude going to the cross? It wasn't masochistic. He didn't enjoy suffering or desire death. He wasn't seeking it out. In fact, he left Jerusalem in the early part of his ministry to delay His crucifixion. And even in the Garden of Gethsemane he did not desire it. Not really. But what was His one desire? The will of God to be done. And what was the will of God? That Christ would atone for the sins of His people with His death on the cross. And once resolved to obey the Lord, how did he treat his captors? His judges? His persecutors? His executioners? His deserters? My friends the world we live in is consumed with us vs. them. Left vs. Right. White vs. Colored. Can we just take a moment to recognize that all of this is a farce? Do you want to know how the world is actually split? The spiritually living and the spiritually dead. The seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. The children of God and the children of Wrath. And here is the key. Only God sets the standard for who's who. And what does Peter say in this text? Suffering for doing good and resisting sin shows you are alive. Even if the world kills you for it… you are alive. How are you going to possibly suffer for doing good and resisting sin without the attitude of Christ going into that? What are you willing to suffer for? When is the last time you suffered to the point of physical harm in order to not sin against God? My friends very soon our culture will turn on us. It has already begun. Things that have been age old beliefs of the church for faith and practice are beginning to be hurtful, misogynistic, abusive, and counter to progress and a free society. Very soon the Christian faith will be classified as it was in Peter's day. You see the Romans at this time thought their civilization was the peak of human progress and advancement too. They too thought that their society was free and the best chance at happiness that the world had ever known. And how did they come to view Christianity? It was known as a “pernicious superstition” that sought to topple the established order because they refused to honor Caesar as a god, ensuring of course that calamities of the gods would fall on them. Thus they became enemies of the state. They were accused of “hating the human race” because they believed and lived the way they did. My friends, we are only a few steps away from this being the prevailing thought about Christianity in this nation. Why do I bring this up? Why all the doom and gloom? Remember the words of Peter. Arm yourselves with the attitude of Christ. Very soon resisting sin may come with a price tag. Very soon doing good may cost you a pound of flesh. Very soon being humble and harmonious with people may mean they laugh while killing you for it. Or your wife. Or your kids. Know that God sets the standard for who is among the living. And realize that suffering for resisting sin is an assurance of its death in you. For if we are alive to God, we are dead to sin. And with this in mind… Arm yourself with the attitude of Christ.

Pastor Shawn Thornton January 16, 2022 Book of Ephesians

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"WOW God," a sermon by Pastor Troy Savage. Part of the Transformational sermon series at Victory Church of Charlottesville.

Y'all this is the VERY LAST EPISODE! Wow God is good! I love my faithful listeners, I have a quick word for you in the beginning and then a powerful song towards the end! I'll come back next year around end of April-behinning of May-ish for the THIRD SEASON! I'm definitely excited. So please listen, stay encouraged and until season 3, I love you, be blessed and THANK YOU for listening. ❤

  TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com    97X     PODBEAN   Apple Podcast    webstix.com Tony Herman - the coolest cat on the net     Code: wellbuilttda 15% off   Here's a sharable link: https://wellbuiltsupplements.com/discount/wellbuilttda   Daily Greens probiotic, vegan protein, whey protein, Digestive enzymes, Omega 3's, Performance energy, Performance BCCA's, Vitamins for men, Vitamins for women and a whole lot more.  Right now I am pumping the greens and Pre-workout and loving them both… Heres a secret “I'm on them right now as I do my podcast”.      revolution4fathers.com Jesus t-shirt!  Giant slayer water bottles, hoodies, t shirts     There a few things we all hate… I hate cauliflower, I hate slivers, I hate dentists… I hate waiting. Wow what if you had to wait at a dentists office with a sliver of cauliflower stuck in your teeth… torture! just saying!       Have you ever been put on hold - I was on hold for 2 hours once…. Ever wait in line…   Just wait… what does that mean to you? Slow burn Anger Change your plans Time to rest   Did you know that airports put your baggage claim stations as far away from your arrival gate as possible, that way once you get there it feels like you barely wait for your luggage.   What you do while you wait, will determine wether you will be average or be great!      We hate waiting…   What do you do when you wait? I always have a book on me… on my phone. When I watch TV I am either on my computer, or on my guitar… rather than waiting on a commercial break. When I am in my car I have about 60 podcasts that I listen to (or at least have to chose from to listen to) so I am not stuck in traffic for nothing.   When a project is in limbo, I start to plan what to do when it takes off or if it bombs.   Waiting is my bonus time to work on that which needs sharpening.    I have also had to wait 3 agonizing days to see if Cancer had spread through out my body. Now that waiting was simply the most intense waiting I had ever gone through. But even in that I was still sharpening my plans for the future. I was thinking through my wife's future, my kids and even my grandkids - and I didn't have any at that point.      Is. 40:31 Those that wait upon the Lord… but those who wait/hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.   Wait/hope = you are expectantly waiting for God to show up in your circumstances.    It puts a whole new spin on waiting. I commissioned an artist years ago for some paintings. He said it would take about a year…  Now I had a few options when he said “year”. I could have thought- is he lazy, does he not know what he is doing? Are others ahead of me? Why does this take so long, its just 3 paintings… But because I knew him my first thought was simply this… Wow these are going to be awesome!    When you are stuck in a time of waiting… use it for your good and also change your mindset from a negative… why me… to a positive Wow God!   

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This morning as I sit in my study there is a fly buzzing around, and I am determined to hunt it down and swat it. As I think about my place in the history of this earth I know that life is but a vapor. Along with all the billions of people that have lived here before me, I know that I and that fly will soon be nothing but dust. The Word of God tells us this, it says, "from dust you were taken and to dust you will return”. Please listen to this podcast to hear more.

We know God- Which means we are--1. Amazed. Wow- God lets us know Himself- -v.1--2. Compound-blessed. We get more and more blessings. -v.2--3. Supplied. By knowing God, we have all that we need. -v.3--Name a theme in 2 Peter-What if we do not value the knowledge of God- Rom 1-28-How does knowing God link to eternal life- John 17-3-Whom do we most want to know- Phil. 3-8-10

Hey Flow Family , I'm so excited to dive into having a heart of gratitude . I love that God is so patient with me . Has God been patient with you in your life ? I would love to hear your testimony . Feel free to share below in the comments . Wow God is amazing . I'm so grateful that he has never given up on me . We must remember in order for us to be grateful for this patience God gives us we must understand it is also linked to him saving us . I challenge you to look at areas in your life where you can be more patient whether it's with people , situations & overall yourself . When was the last time you appreciated the wait for things to happen in your life ? Be still & patient and know God will reveal his rewards he has for you . If you aren't grateful for the time he is sparing you then it's time to do a self evaluation ✨

Hello friends, and happy Monday. Another week begins. A week of uncertainty in the U.S. as many are still in lockdown - such as us in California, and others are beginning to come out of lockdown, and wondering if it is safe to do so. Regardless of your situation, I want to encourage us all to remember that God is our ever-present refuge. Whether you are locked down and antsy, or being released back into work and other situations, the safest place we have in all of the earth is in the refuge of God Almighty. Go back to Psalms 46 again and again this week if your heart tries to stray into fear, frustration, anxiety and other tough emotions. Today's Bible readings are Numbers 11, Psalms 48, Isaiah 1, and Hebrews 9. Tomorrow we will continue our series on the Perseverance of the Saints, but today our topic is a more basic and central topic: Is God pleased by our religious activities. Most people would probably answer 'yes,' to that question, but the answer isn't quite as cut and dried as that, as Isaiah 1 is about to show us. Dictionary.com gives a definition of religion as, "the practice of religious beliefs; ritual observance of faith." And Merriam Webster's second definition of religion is, "a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices." So in the eyes of many, religion is a ritual observation of faith in one's beliefs, attitudes and practices. The basic question of religion in almost all of its forms is this, "What can I do to please God?" Or, if one's faith is polytheistic, "what can I do to please the gods?" Most of those who are not Bible-believing Christians would assume that Christianity is much the same as that - basically a set of dos and don'ts (as typified in the Ten Commandments), mixed with the call of Jesus to love people, mixed with going to church regularly enough to keep God and the pastor/priest/rector/bishop/whatever happy. Is that what God requires? Let's read Isaiah 1 and find out! Here's the pertinent part for us to review again: “What are all your sacrifices to me?” asks the Lord. “I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I have no desire for the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who requires this from you— this trampling of my courts? 13 Stop bringing useless offerings. Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons and Sabbaths, and the calling of solemn assemblies— I cannot stand iniquity with a festival. 14 I hate your New Moons and prescribed festivals. They have become a burden to me; I am tired of putting up with them. 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. Isaiah 1:11-15 What's the deal here? A good observant Jewish person, upon hearing the words of the prophet Isaiah, would probably be thunderstruck, thinking,  "I thought God liked us to pray, and go to times of worship, and make offerings and celebrate the festivals of the Bible and sacrifice animals?!" And the issue here is that God is NOT pleased with outward and external works of religion that are not accompanied by inward heart change, repentance, the no-compromise embrace of the truth of God's Word, the practice of biblical justice/love and compassion and relationship with Him. Put it another way, God does not want us to merely go to church and then live however else we want to live otherwise. God is not pleased by our church attendance, our offerings, our outward religious practices, our sacrifices or our worship if we are not transformed followers of His bringing His Kingdom and His ways to the world. You don't just have to take my word for it, or Isaiah's either, because this theme permeates Scripture: I hate, I despise, your feasts! I can’t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. 22 Even if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle. 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 24 But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream. Amos 5:21-24 Wow - God can HATE church assemblies?! That's fairly mind-blowing. What is the problem here - we see it a little bit in vs 24, and more clearly a few verses earlier: Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. 12 For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates. Amos 5:11-12 God cares deeply about the poor and the oppressed - He cares deeply about justice, and He calls His people to care deeply about the same things He cares about! More evidence: 10 “I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Armies, “and I will accept no offering from your hands. Malachi 1:10 One more bit of evidence, from Isaiah 58: Tell my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 They seek me day after day and delight to know my ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not abandon the justice of their God. They ask me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.” 3 “Why have we fasted, but you have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed!” “Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers. 4 You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high. 5 Will the fast I choose be like this: A day for a person to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord? 6 Isn’t this the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to ignore your own flesh and blood? 8 Then your light will appear like the dawn, and your recovery will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard. Isaiah 58:3-8 Our conclusion is this: God does not merely call people to be religious and to engage in the trappings of religion - going to church, giving offerings, worshipping, praying, etc. Yes - those things are good and Godly and Holy, and profitable - but, unaccompanied by a life transformed by Jesus, they are empty and hollow and meaningless. We are not saved by offerings, or church attendance, or sacrifices, or ANY external act of religion. Rather, we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus alone. As saved followers of Jesus, our lives are to be characterized by transformation, by love and mercy, justice for the oppressed, acts of kindness to all, and intimate abiding with Jesus, His Spirit, and His Word. Apart from those things, the external trappings of religion like church attendance, giving offerings, etc - don't really matter. God is not looking for church attenders - as good  as that is - but followers of Jesus who exemplify God's call in Isaiah 1: Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil. 17 Learn to do what is good. Pursue justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause18 “Come, let’s settle this,” says the Lord.“Though your sins are scarlet,they will be as white as snow;though they are crimson red,they will be like wool.19 If you are willing and obedient,you will eat the good things of the land. Isaiah 1:16-19 As a closing, let's ponder this wisdom from the book of James: 26 If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, his religion is useless and he deceives himself. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world. James 1:26-27  

Hello friends, and happy Monday. Another week begins. A week of uncertainty in the U.S. as many are still in lockdown - such as us in California, and others are beginning to come out of lockdown, and wondering if it is safe to do so. Regardless of your situation, I want to encourage us all to remember that God is our ever-present refuge. Whether you are locked down and antsy, or being released back into work and other situations, the safest place we have in all of the earth is in the refuge of God Almighty. Go back to Psalms 46 again and again this week if your heart tries to stray into fear, frustration, anxiety and other tough emotions. Today's Bible readings are Numbers 11, Psalms 48, Isaiah 1, and Hebrews 9. Tomorrow we will continue our series on the Perseverance of the Saints, but today our topic is a more basic and central topic: Is God pleased by our religious activities. Most people would probably answer 'yes,' to that question, but the answer isn't quite as cut and dried as that, as Isaiah 1 is about to show us. Dictionary.com gives a definition of religion as, "the practice of religious beliefs; ritual observance of faith." And Merriam Webster's second definition of religion is, "a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices." So in the eyes of many, religion is a ritual observation of faith in one's beliefs, attitudes and practices. The basic question of religion in almost all of its forms is this, "What can I do to please God?" Or, if one's faith is polytheistic, "what can I do to please the gods?" Most of those who are not Bible-believing Christians would assume that Christianity is much the same as that - basically a set of dos and don'ts (as typified in the Ten Commandments), mixed with the call of Jesus to love people, mixed with going to church regularly enough to keep God and the pastor/priest/rector/bishop/whatever happy. Is that what God requires? Let's read Isaiah 1 and find out! Here's the pertinent part for us to review again: “What are all your sacrifices to me?” asks the Lord. “I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I have no desire for the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who requires this from you— this trampling of my courts? 13 Stop bringing useless offerings. Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons and Sabbaths, and the calling of solemn assemblies— I cannot stand iniquity with a festival. 14 I hate your New Moons and prescribed festivals. They have become a burden to me; I am tired of putting up with them. 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. Isaiah 1:11-15 What's the deal here? A good observant Jewish person, upon hearing the words of the prophet Isaiah, would probably be thunderstruck, thinking,  "I thought God liked us to pray, and go to times of worship, and make offerings and celebrate the festivals of the Bible and sacrifice animals?!" And the issue here is that God is NOT pleased with outward and external works of religion that are not accompanied by inward heart change, repentance, the no-compromise embrace of the truth of God's Word, the practice of biblical justice/love and compassion and relationship with Him. Put it another way, God does not want us to merely go to church and then live however else we want to live otherwise. God is not pleased by our church attendance, our offerings, our outward religious practices, our sacrifices or our worship if we are not transformed followers of His bringing His Kingdom and His ways to the world. You don't just have to take my word for it, or Isaiah's either, because this theme permeates Scripture: I hate, I despise, your feasts! I can’t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. 22 Even if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle. 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 24 But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream. Amos 5:21-24 Wow - God can HATE church assemblies?! That's fairly mind-blowing. What is the problem here - we see it a little bit in vs 24, and more clearly a few verses earlier: Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. 12 For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates. Amos 5:11-12 God cares deeply about the poor and the oppressed - He cares deeply about justice, and He calls His people to care deeply about the same things He cares about! More evidence: 10 “I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Armies, “and I will accept no offering from your hands. Malachi 1:10 One more bit of evidence, from Isaiah 58: Tell my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 They seek me day after day and delight to know my ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not abandon the justice of their God. They ask me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.” 3 “Why have we fasted, but you have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed!” “Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers. 4 You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high. 5 Will the fast I choose be like this: A day for a person to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord? 6 Isn’t this the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to ignore your own flesh and blood? 8 Then your light will appear like the dawn, and your recovery will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard. Isaiah 58:3-8 Our conclusion is this: God does not merely call people to be religious and to engage in the trappings of religion - going to church, giving offerings, worshipping, praying, etc. Yes - those things are good and Godly and Holy, and profitable - but, unaccompanied by a life transformed by Jesus, they are empty and hollow and meaningless. We are not saved by offerings, or church attendance, or sacrifices, or ANY external act of religion. Rather, we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus alone. As saved followers of Jesus, our lives are to be characterized by transformation, by love and mercy, justice for the oppressed, acts of kindness to all, and intimate abiding with Jesus, His Spirit, and His Word. Apart from those things, the external trappings of religion like church attendance, giving offerings, etc - don't really matter. God is not looking for church attenders - as good  as that is - but followers of Jesus who exemplify God's call in Isaiah 1: Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil. 17 Learn to do what is good. Pursue justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause18 “Come, let’s settle this,” says the Lord.“Though your sins are scarlet,they will be as white as snow;though they are crimson red,they will be like wool.19 If you are willing and obedient,you will eat the good things of the land. Isaiah 1:16-19 As a closing, let's ponder this wisdom from the book of James: 26 If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, his religion is useless and he deceives himself. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world. James 1:26-27  

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Guest speaker Justin Davenport shares with us some of his testimony and his "Wow God" moments. Sometimes when we release resistance and simplify our prayers it makes it much easier for the Lord to work inside our lives. What are some of your prayers that you would love to just be able to say Wow God! Thank you

Guest speaker Justin Davenport shares with us some of his testimony and his "Wow God" moments. Sometimes when we release resistance and simplify our prayers it makes it much easier for the Lord to work inside our lives. What are some of your prayers that you would love to just be able to say Wow God! Thank you

Senada Perkins, Chais Price, and Bailey Bryant in a tag team effort bring a camp update from our elementary age Shiloh kiddos! Wow God showed up and did some amazing things! We hope you enjoy this different and exciting message!

Ds Gert preek uit Handelinge 2:14-24, 32-33

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Did you know? God is so deep that he is willing to meet us all the way down deep in the heart and soul of our sin. Did you know? God became human so he could die. In his own body, Christ suffered every punishment of sin – but he did it as an infinite God who loves us deeply.

Sometimes small can be pretty big. A smile can be small but lift a sad heart to higher ground when it's warm and real. God is at work all around us, so don't underestimate Him. Small is big when God is in it. But maybe it doesn't feel that way to you, what then?

If any season deserves a "Wow God!" - it's Christmas! The Almighty God made himself known as a newborn baby to be the solution to the sin problem in our world. Society was a mess then and it's still a mess now wouldn't you agree? The Good News is that God hasn't given up on us. ChristJourney.org

Tristin and I discuss the power of giving thanks. What happens when you receive from those giving to you? And what is the first thing you think of when you hear or see, "Giving thanks."Join us today with your favorite hot drink and giggle and laugh, ponder and be in awe of GOD with us...let's in unison say together, "OH...Wow GOD!"

Wow God has been over the top awesome per usual! I’m excited to bring you guys such an amazing update on how God has just opened up the heavens over my family. Not only that, we are starting a new series on “fellowship” and I wanted to give some insight to what true fellowship is. Hope you all enjoy and I’m praying that the Lord rends the heavens over all who have been waiting patiently for the promise! Love you all! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenny-ruidiaz/message

Let your light shine so others will see the good that you do and praise The Father. Spread the good news. Wow God!

Coming out of our kids' Vacation Bible School week, Jonathan shares a message for all ages about what it means to be made by God, known by God, and loved by God.

It is because of His love for you that He sent Jesus, His only begotten Son as a sacrifice for you. Jesus the Son of God was crucified for your sins. He died, was buried and rose again so that you can receive forgiveness. In the grand scheme of things, on this earth your life is but a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow. But if you believe in Jesus and trust Him with the speck of dust that is your life you can live forever in the presence of God in heaven.

                       WELCOME TO "LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY JESUS,                                       HE CAN BE YOUR JESUS TOO"                                                         WITH                                        EVANGELIST LACEY KAY GREEN MAN HAVE I GOT A TESTAMONY FOR YA'LL,  FOR REAL MY BEAUTIFUL LOVES AND I (facebook friends)  HEY, HOTLINE STRAIGHT TO THE FATHER, YES, YES AND AMEN I'M SO EXCITED, TRUE STORY, OH GLORY. HE HEARS AND ANSWERS PRAYERS. JOIN US WILL YA.  PRAY WITH STOPPING, FOR WHAT THE LORD HAS PUT ON YOUR HEART, NEVER GIVE UP NEVER GIVE IN.  MAKE SURE IT'S IN THE CENTER OF HIS WILL.  OK. YOU KNOW DEEP DOWN IF YOU ARE PRAYING FOR SOMETHING YOU KNOW ISN'T RIGHT.   "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM" BLESSINGS AND SHALOM, EVANGELIST LACEY KAY GREEN www.laceykayministries.org.    contact me.                       W H O L E  W I D E  W O R LD  W E L C O M E            JESUS THOU ART WORTHY TO BE PRAISED IN THIS PLACE 

Pastor John Townley talks on “letting God be God” using the book of Habbakuk and his complaints to God as an example to us on how to trust God and let him do his will.

Sunday morning worship at Altadena Baptist Church, May 8, 2016. Sermon by Pastor Connie Larson De Vaughn: “A Wow God".

2011-06-19-1800 Pastor Evan Albertyn is the speaker this evening June 19th, 2011 in the 6:00 service. Scripture: John 9 Topic: Humility Notes:

Dr. Stephen E. Hasper on Soaring in September Wow. God. Ruth 4 13-17 Ephesians 2 14-19