Hospital Church Video Podcast of the Message
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Podcast Description
Jesus came to this earth to bring healing and grace. He came to show us who God really was, and to restore our relationship with Him. At the Hospital Church, our mission is the same. We seek to love people into a life-long friendship with God. This podcast is the video podcast of the weekly message from our worship services.
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| 1 | VideoThe Story Through the Eyes of Peter | Hear the story of the final week of Jesus’ life through the eyes of Peter. The darkness of death contrasted with the Illuminating power of the Resurrection. | 4/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoGiving Away Our Leftovers | The rules for presenting a sacrifice to God was that it had to be “without spot or blemish.” If you were in the sheep farming business and you were breeding your sheep for the whitest natural wool possible, when it came time to give one of your sheep as an offering to be consumed by you and the priests, it would only make economic sense to bring a speckled or brown or black sheep. The meat wouldn’t be any different. The aroma of the lamb roasting would smell just the same, and you would be giving from your flock - just not your specially bred extra white wool flock. How often does the church and kingdom work get leftovers? A life of giving something away that we could use reminds us that we don’t really take care of ourselves, and we are meant to be a channel - not for junk or leftovers, but to practice letting go of that which we could use! | 4/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoI Did It My Way | Our lives are pretty good. Compared to most of the billions of our planet, we are in high cotton. And there are some illusions we can begin to believe: 1) It was my mind, my energy, my hard work that has put me it the good position I’m in today (even in hard times it is so much better than so many); 2) People with less would be so much better off if they just were more like me—hard working, diligent, smart, etc.; 3) All my good stuff will last, and I’ll get even get more; 4) The comfort of stuff is a temptation to forget the Lord and begin to look to my stuff for security. | 4/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoHijacking Christianity: Eternal Life for All? | Rob Bell's new book "Love Wins" has created a lot of controversy in some Christian circles. Bell is accused of making God into a universalist and Christianity into Universalism. I wonder if this accused hijacking (that word is actually used in some published comments on the book) of Christianity is really just the natural thought conclusion based on an earlier hijacking. With the deeply-rooted hijacking that humans have an eternal "soul," one is forced to do something with it eternally. Bell seems to have a point: What kind of loving God keeps people alive for eternity so he can torture them for not following a certain formula to avoid that fate? Does God end up saving everyone regardless? Jesus did die for the sins of the whole world! Within our own denomination, when we recognize that - of course - other Christians will be in heaven, how big of a leap is it to "everyone goes?" | 3/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoHijacking Christianity: The Battle Within | How do we handle someone who disagrees with us? Can someone using vitriolic writings against people who disagree with them be called “Christian”? What would happen if Christians became “Christian” on just this point? Those who scream for the right to choose battle and catch hate from those who scream for the right to life. Those who ordain gay clergy join in a shouting match with those who support the bullying of a gay child. Is it right to attempt to legislate for their choice in this ongoing ideological war? | 3/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoHijacking Christianity: Three Strikes and You're Out | Everyone wants to get the bad guys off the street, but where is the forgiveness and compassion among Christians? If criminals are our enemies, what do we do with them? After being released from prison, with no help or no hand-up, the recidivism rate goes up. Are we interested in the beatitudes as a thing of beauty or a way of life? Is “blessed are the merciful” just a platitude? Do we hunger and thirst after righteousness for ourselves only, or are we willing to seek justice and righteousness lobbying for not just tougher sentencing, but also a more fair and just court system? | 3/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoHijacking Christianity: Who Is God For? | There is a tendency to believe that God is on “our” side. The North and South armies during the Civil War both claimed God’s support. Does God love any group less? Many Americans – even those skeptical of religion – would agree that, if there is a God, he must be on America’s side. | 3/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoHijacking Christianity: To Have and To Hold | Christianity and gluttony - rich Christians in a world of hunger. The prosperity gospel says that God wants to bless you with “this” and bless you with “that” so you can be blessed. Is “Selfish Christian” an oxymoron? We regularly wish to “claim” a blessing, but once we’ve received the blessing, what obligation is there to be a blessing? | 2/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoGlorifying God in Diverse Ways | Our God is a diverse God, and we are a diverse people. This means that each one of us will have a unique relationship with God and will connect with Him, worship Him and serve Him in a different way. This is something to embrace and celebrate. | 2/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoEveryone Worships… In Some Way | Without Jesus, that which should be secondary becomes primary. Without Jesus, Peter went back to fishing. Without Jesus, Paul’s religious accomplishments became a source of security. In the same way, when we are without Jesus, something else will be lifted up as a false savior and something else will be demonized as a false sin. From worship styles to lifestyles, everyone is prone to worshipping something other than God and shunning something other than sin. In order to be free to worship God, we need to be aware what style we are prone to worship so we can worship the true God. (John 21:1-14, Phil. 3:1-11, Psalm 127) | 2/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoWorship Question and Answer | 1) If we're supposed to be focusing on God alone with no thought about ourselves, what about asking God for stuff? Is that wrong to do? 2) How does the Sabbath work with worship... Is worship merely acts...singing, praying, doing good toward others, resting on the Sabbath or does motive and attitude have something to do with it...the Pharisees acted perfectly in their worship. 3) You live in a remote area with no other churches of your denomination to choose from. You're not satisfied with the style of worship, but another denomination in the area offers your style. What should you do? 4) If worship should be all about praising and thanking God, where does the "business" of worship come in? I'm talking about the announcements, membership transfers, etc. 5) If God's return is delayed, how do you think our great-grandchildren will worship (corporately) differently than we do here today? 6) This week's blog talked about the use of our Worship Center for other events. Would this usage be different if our sanctuary was "dedicated"? 7) If worship is not about me, what role does my style preference play? 8) If the definition of worship is to focus on God without mentioning ourselves, is giving glory to God for something He's done for us worship? (ie, "Thank you for being the God who saves us!") 9) At least twice in this series I've heard you mention the passage in Genesis that says "You may eat of any tree in the garden" and you seemed to be using this passage to say anything is OK. You then followed it with the portion of the text that says "do not eat of the tree in the center of the garden" and the "not all things are profitable" passage. I'm pretty sure I've missed your point, are you saying our behavior is of no importance? or that it's of ultimate importance? or something else? | 2/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoEveryone Worships… For Some Reason | After Job suffers extreme pain and loss, he finally gets up the courage to question God about his experience. The reply he gets gives us a window into the love, compassion and care of our creator God who redeems us. What’s amazing is that this God is not only infinitely powerful, but intimately personal. Even as we fail God and bow down to lesser gods, he still stands at the door and knocks, wanting to come into our lives. (Job 38-40:2 & 40:3-5, Rev. 3:19-20) | 2/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoEveryone Worships… At Some Time | Everyone worships something all the time. The Christian, however, worships God all the time. Contrary to popular belief, worship is not something that happens only during songs and sermons. Worship is a lifestyle where everything is done for the glory of God. What’s the hallmark of a life lived in total worship? This is seen in the life of a person who ceases to seek his own good, but the good of others for the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:33). How is this possible? Only through a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ can we become never-ending sources of water for the world (John 4). | 1/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoEveryone Worships… Something | What is “worship?” Worship is when a people live life, individually or corporately, for the beauty of a person or thing. We can observe what this looks like as people around the world every day make sacrifices to their object of ultimate allegiance. Scripture says, however, that we were created for the purpose of worshipping God. Apart from God, this means people will hold a person or thing in a place of glory. Second, when that thing (or person) is in the place of glory, it will be worshipped. Third, sacrifices will be made to one’s object of worship. Everyone worships. What sets a Christian apart, however, is the object of worship. (Romans 1:25, Psalm 96) | 1/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoThe Call: Be Sacrificial | The disciples all wanted a great benefits packages with no sacrifice. Jesus said even he, God incarnate, didn’t come to be served but to serve and sacrifice his life as a ransom for many. This call is counter-cultural but continues today. (Mark 10:41-45) | 1/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoThe Call: Be Compassionate | Jesus commands us to love one another, and He gives us examples by being pro-actively involved in the lives of those around him. We need to understand what blocks our compassion in order to become people of God. (Luke 10) | 1/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoThe Call: Be Real | Let your light shine. There’s nothing more unattractive than a phony Christian. Our lives should be ones of authenticity. Relationships and friendship made with an ulterior motive (so I can convert the “friend”) are deceiving and insincere. What did the most significant person in your life do for you? That is what Jesus does for us, and what we are to authentically do for others. We must be good news before we share good news. (Matthew 5) | 1/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoChristmas Prayers: A Prayer of Completion (Luke 2:29-32) | This prayer occurs in the temple, an institutional setting. Forty days after giving birth, a woman was to come for “purification.” So Mary and Joseph bring Jesus to the temple, and they are met by Simeon. He is old. For his whole life he has studied the scripture. When some would scoff and question if the Messiah would ever come, if a Savior would ever come, Simeon held out hope. He prayed for the salvation not only of his people (his ethnic corner and cultural comfort zone), he prayed for One who would come and bring salvation to all people. There were days of doubt, but he always came back to faith. When he holds this little baby boy, the Holy Spirit whispers, “This is the one!” Simeon prays a prayer of completion, of letting go or relinquishment, and this prayer brings our Christmas Prayers series full circle, using the phrase “according to your word” - identical to what Mary prayed. Mary accepted the call and, at the end of his years - after seeing Jesus - Simeon now steps aside and gives place to Jesus. (Luke 2:29-32) | 12/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoChristmas Prayers: The Angels' Prayer (Luke 2:14) | The ordinariness of life, the regular rhythms of work and rest, the variety of vocation that we label as important and unimportant are all linked in the prayer of the angels. Those shepherds that night were considered involved in menial work. A poor couple comes to pay taxes in Bethlehem and is bedded down in a barn. The young virgin has just given birth not far away. Suddenly an angel announces Jesus’ birth. Just hearing that announcement assembles great company, a huge angel choir, and they sing this prayer: “Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth to all whom God favors.” Jesus will later teach his disciples to pray “on earth as it is in heaven,” and this is the angel’s prayer. Regardless of our station in life - our joys or sorrows, highs or lows - when we pray, we join this choir and become part of the whole company of heaven. We celebrate that God has joined us back to himself through Jesus. (Luke 2:14) | 12/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoChristmas Prayers: A Pregnant Pause (Luke 1:68-79) | When God sends the angel to announce that Zechariah and Elizabeth will have a son, Zechariah’s immediate word of response his “prayer” - was one of seeking certainty, “How can I be sure of this?” Seeking certainty is not an act of faith. So for nine months Zechariah is struck dumb. It’s not just a sign but symbol that silence is better than seeking certainty when God is pleased by faith. For nine months the Holy Spirit work, giving Zechariah an understanding that his son is the one who will go before the Lord to prepare the way. In other words, Salvation is on the way. Even though we may forget faith and seek certainty, God can use those times to re-educate and re-convert us to his ways. (Luke 1:68-79) | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoChristmas Prayers: The Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55) | Mary prays again in response to God’s blessing in the life of her relative Elizabeth who is five months pregnant. Her prayer involves three great reversals: 1) God established his strength and disestablishes the proud-Luke 1:51. 2) God puts down the people at the top and lifts up the people at the bottom-vs. 52. 3) God fills the hungry and sends the rich away empty-vs. 53. God’s revolution is on the way. His promise is in the process of fulfillment. Jesus’ eventual reading of Isaiah is that he has come to preach good news to the poor, proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight of the blind, to release the oppressed and to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. The manificat is the preamble to Jesus’ work. We please God when we are with him in this revolution. (Luke 1:46-55) | 12/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoChristmas Prayers: Let It Be (Luke 1:38) | This is Mary’s response to the angel’s announcement that she will conceive and bear a child, the “Son of God.” This young girl’s response is epic and a model for the heart of all prayer, “…let it be to me, according to your word.” All prayer begins, not with our words to God, but God’s word to us. He speaks and our response, our answer, is prayer. Even when we think we are initiating prayer, the reality is that before we pray something has happened and someone has spoken to us. Our learned language of prayer is in response to the work of the Holy Spirit in us, and then the spirit even takes our prayer and translates it into heavenly language. (Luke 1:38) | 12/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoLessons on Mingling: Matthew's Party | As we celebrated Thanksgiving, many of us may have mentioned how thankful we are for our friends. It feels good and safe to be with people who think like we do. Some of you may have experienced the discomfort of being with relatives over the holiday that are very different politically, or socially, or spiritually from you, and the awkwardness that may have been in the air. And that experience reminds us again of how thankful we are for our friends, where we can just have fun and sort of think the same. So if you were going to throw a party, who would you invite? Seriously. Pretend that next Saturday night, a week from today, you are having an early Christmas party. Think about names to include on your guest list; maybe write down a list. Now take a look mentally or actually on paper at how many names are there. Are any of them pre-Christian? Would most of the people you invite to a party be people with whom you have church beliefs in common? What are our steps to fixing our guest list? (Luke 5:27-32) | 11/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoLessons on Mingling: All Things to All People | A mingler is at risk of being thought of as a fake. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 9:22-23 his famous “All things to all people.” When the Pharisee types see him acting all okay with gentile publicans, and then all okay with Jewish high ups, and then all okay with all different strata of people, he might come across like a slick Politician just out to get your vote. But Paul’s purpose isn’t to be a cultural chameleon and just take on whatever he’s around. He takes it on not to “fake it” but to find identity. It isn’t slick to talk to people about things they are interested in: topics, interests, job, themselves, etc. The call is to be real, to love, and to be authentic to who we are but interested in identifying with others. Just like Jesus used the common scenes of the day for illustration, we can find opportunity to acknowledge common ground. (1 Corinthians 9:22-23) | 11/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoLessons on Mingling: A Friend of Sinners | Philippians 2 makes it clear that Jesus didn’t cling to his rights as God but made himself one of us. He was known as the “friend of sinners”. Imagine—God incarnate, perfect in every way, willing to be accused of being a glutton and drunkard. Jesus was willing to risk his reputation and being misunderstood because the people with whom he mingled so needed his mingling. How far is too far? Are we willing to risk our “good name” our “reputation” for the sake of those who need our mingling? Jesus broke taboos: touched lepers, healed on Sabbath, let a sinful woman anoint him, spoke to women in public, went to a tax collector’s home, etc. etc. (Philippians 2; Luke 7:33-35) | 11/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoLessons on Mingling: Mingling, Not Immersing | What scares parents about their children “mingling” is being “guilty by association”! So the Bible seems to have some counsel against the whole notion of mingling with the world or pagan culture. Reasons not to mingle: You may worship their gods or lose yourself by marrying into a heathen family. Paul says to not be unequally yoked, friendship with the world is hatred toward God. James 1:27 encourages us to keep from being polluted by the world. If we are out mingling in the mud puddle, we’re bound to get muddy! Of course Jesus’ counsel was that we are to be in the world but not of it. Jesus prayed for our protection from the world as he prayed to his father, “As you sent me into the world, in just the same way I am sending them (followers) into the world.” Much of our fear and challenge comes with our own love of sin. If we are mingling so we can vicariously enjoy and get just as close to sinful pleasure as possible, we aren’t mature enough to do much mingling. We mingle with lost, distraught, needy, hurting, healthy and sick people because Jesus showed us the way. He left heaven not to join in sin but to die for our sins that we might be set right with God. (1 John 3:11-18; John 17:15-18) | 11/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoIf I Die Before I Wake: The Ghost at the Door | We’ve talked about death, the non-immortal soul, the hope of heaven and a hell to shun, but to grasp the fullness of the subject we need to explore the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. We will touch on the nature of Christ - that he is the second Adam. He REALLY died. He was dead - verified by sword in his side. He was placed in a tomb. Then there was a resurrection, special resurrection, and scared disciples. But it is the resurrection that validates the sacrifice and changes a struggling band of misfit men into the community of the resurrection which is what we still are today. Post death experiences come via resurrection, not via a séance or a visit to a medium. Only Christ has beaten death and offers life. | 10/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoIf I Die Before I Wake: Hell | All the images of a hot place, devil and pitchfork, and torment don’t do hell justice. We will look at the Bible’s promise of hell, who it is for, how long it will last, and we will try and grasp just a smidgen of how bad it is. We will explore its purpose and whether it is inflicted upon beings or, in actuality, chosen by them. “We know from scripture that there is a hell, but we can pray it is empty!” No one need find themselves in hell. | 10/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoIf I Die Before I Wake: Heaven | There have been so many movie portrayals of heaven. We’ve all heard or shared something like, “A man went to heaven and met St Peter at the gate….” But last week we discovered or had re-affirmed the reality that dead people are dead, not somewhere doing something. So when do we get to go to heaven? Where is heaven? What is going on there? Do we stay there forever? What is it that makes heaven heavenly—gold streets, abundant food, friends, mansions, eternal life, Jesus, no more sin, perfect health…? Biblical descriptions of the new earth post Jesus’ third coming isn’t some ethereal place where we float on clouds and strum harps. It is real and concrete and beyond our wildest imagination as well. Whatever heaven and the new earth are, they are better than we can imagine and accessible through a free ticket from Jesus. | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoIf I Die Before I Wake: One Minute After You Die | The first lie told to humanity was “You will not surely die!” Satan’s position was that God was withholding good stuff from his kids. Eventually the deception moves on from “you won’t die” to you will move onto something better. Part of the deception has been fostered by teaching that there is in every human an immortal part called the soul. Scripture is clear that only God has immortality. The Bible is clear that the wages of sin is death, and death is often referred to as “sleep,” as in the Lazarus’ story. One minute after Abraham Lincoln died is no different for him than all these years later because he knows nothing (Ecc. 9:5) and his thoughts have perished (Ps. 146:3-4). Of course, from the point of the deceased there is no sense of time passing—like a good nights sleep for an exhausted person who closes their eyes only to in a flash open them and the night is passed. So from the point of the dead, no time passes; it is as if pause is pressed on the DVD of their life and, at the second coming of Christ, he hits resume or play. | 10/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoFinding Clear Vision | Ever driven in the rain with windshield wipers that won't work? There's no clear vision--you can't really see where you're going. With blurred vision tension increases and even fear may creep up on us. But when the rain stops or the wipers start working there's a renewed sense of well being, hope, and future because you once again have clear vision. When you think about your church, do you think "clear" or "fuzzy" vision? This week we will work together to make sure we are finding clear vision. | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoSummer in Rome: Partners in the Gospel | Fellowship makes a difference. It builds memories. It creates family. It softens to seek another’s prayer. It creates gratitude. If fosters feelings of love. It unifies. It supports. It creates longing to be in one another’s presence. It is permanent regardless of the miles of separation. And it is a foretaste of eternity now. Romans 15:14-16:27. | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoSummer in Rome: No Solo's Here | Dependent, independent, to interdependent. That’s the journey. Sometimes it gets short circuited and wants to end when the move is made from dependent to independent. But the reality of Romans teaches us that we are part of a body interdependent—sometimes needing help sometimes giving it. The “I can do it myself” way of thinking may be heard in some circles but it has no place in the Body of Christ. We all need somebody. Romans 14:1-15:13. | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoSummer in Rome: Controlled by Love | This chapter discusses obeying authority, loving others as fulfillment of the law, and living with anticipation and a sense of urgency. As Christians, it is important that everything we say and do communicates clearly that we love God and others. This is such a contrast to the actions of September 11 where terrorists made choices to submit to the authority of their faith and the called for actions were certainly not loving to others. The greatest commandment (love God) and the second (love people) is evidence of genuine Christianity. Romans 13. | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoSummer in Rome: Becoming a Living Sacrifice | Sacrifice for the Christian is about surrendering ourselves to the will of God. We do this out of a heart of gratitude for what God has already done for us, not in any way to gain or merit something. Being a living sacrifice is about not focusing on our needs and wants, it is curbing our insatiable hunger for more and instead to give, serve, and love the world as the body of Christ in the world today. Romans 12. | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoSummer in Rome: Pursuing the Law and Missing Jesus | Israel got tangled up. Being the chosen people isn’t necessarily always an advantage. Somewhere they bought into the idea that pursuing the Law would enable them to arrive in paradise. (There may be some inferences to the SDA Church.) But God isn’t into human works meriting anything, no matter how good the law. It is all by God’s mercy in Jesus Christ. Romans 9, 10, 11. | 8/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoSummer in Rome: The Key to Confident Living | When you know you aren’t condemned—When the Spirit lives in you—When the will guarantees a great inheritance—When even our bumbling attempts at prayer are reinterpreted by God’s Spirit—When we are promised that everything works out—When we are assured that nothing can separate us from the love of God—Why wouldn’t we live a confident life? Romans 8. | 8/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoSummer in Rome: Jekyll & Hyde - The War Within | Living in this sinful world, infected with the disease of sin, we vacillate. We want to do good and don’t and we don’t want to do evil and we do it. We are trapped. Where’s the relief? Is there any rescue, any hope? Romans 7. | 8/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoSummer in Rome: A Model of Faith: Abraham | Biblical faith is more than just believing something will come to pass—it is believing that God is the faithful God who will keep his promises. It is about relying on God - that he can work things out and not taking things over to work them out ourselves. Abraham is a great model of faith and a tragic model of self-direction with consequences still affecting world history. Romans 4. | 8/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoSummer in Rome: Not Under the Law | If I work for Ford I’m free from all the rules at GM. But if I’m an employee at GM I’m not free of those GM rules but I have no obligation regarding Ford’s regulations. We are not under the law, we have been set free from sin that came by the law and we are now under grace and slaves to God and holiness and eternal life. It is a free life. All the demands of the law are met in Jesus. Romans 6. | 8/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoSummer in Rome: Finding Peace With God | Whose child are you? We can live as Adam’s kids with all the mess of that inheritance or we can live as God’s children and receive all the inheritance that is ours in Jesus. We don’t have to make peace with God, that’s already been done for us through Jesus. We are privileged to just receive the gift of Peace with God. Romans 5. | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoSummer in Rome: Not Guilty | There’s not a much worse feeling than being guilty. It may be something as simple as being guilty of striking out when you are the last batter that could tie or win the game, or it could be some huge life-altering mess you’ve made. Either way, the sick sinking feeling when you know you're guilty is miserable. When it comes to being set right again, the verdict of “Not Guilty” must come from beyond ourselves to be effective. Romans 2:17-3:31. | 7/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoSummer in Rome: Whatever Became of Sin? | God hates sin, and he wants us to hate it to, too. But that isn’t so easy. It too easily finds a responsive chord in us. All around us are plenty of immoral behaviors that are most often either “winked” at by our culture or defended as a personal right or choice. Compromise and tolerance are the great virtues of our society. But what about God’s expectations? Whatever became of sin? How has sin affected our personal codes of conduct and standards, and how can we raise the bar? Romans 1:18-2:16. | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoSummer in Rome: The Introduction of Freedom | With Christianity spreading and more stepping up to preach the Gospel of Christ, it wasn’t long before a church was formed at the center of the Roman Empire. The Church in Rome, though predominantly former Jews, still had a great number of Gentile converts. Along with introducing himself, Paul introduces the members of the newly founded Christian Church of Rome to a new form of Spiritual Liberty that none of them have ever experienced. Paul explains to them that real Freedom must be guided by love as we build each other up in the faith, being sensitive and helpful to those who are weak. His freedom does not come from a self-sustained defiance but from a bold understanding of the gospel. As he states in the first chapter of Romans, “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God for the Salvation of everyone.” It is this confidence in his status in the Kingdom of God that brings a holy contentment in even the worst time of persecutions and oppression. It is with this introduction that Paul, helps the Romans to see that true freedom is made manifest by the power and love of Christ. Romans 1:1-17. | 7/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoExcept You Become As A Child | It seems we've complicated things; made them too "grown up." Our transition to the world of grown ups has not done favors to building God's kingdom. Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3. What will it mean for us to "become like little children?" Why is this so important? This is what we will explore in the sermon this week. | 6/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoThe Prodigal God: The Feast of the Father | In Jesus story of the two lost sons, the Father stands as a beacon of grace, forgiveness and understanding (Luke 15:20-31). While the younger son has been caught up in his selfishness and the older son in his self-righteousness, the father stands in the middle saying "come into the feast." In this parable, Jesus shows that salvation is not only objective and legal, but also subjective and experiential. Understanding this is like believing honey is sweet vs. having an actual sense of it's sweetness. God, the father, longs for us to have a sense of the sweetness of salvation. Only in knowing and experiencing the love of the Father can we get over ourselves and enter in to what he has provided for us--a feast! (Isaiah 25) | 6/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoThe Prodigal God: Redefining Hope | In the parable of the lost sons, we see from the experience of the younger son, an experience of exile. Although he is raised in a home where he has all the comforts imaginable and a loving father--he grows dissatisfied and chooses to leave. Only a short time later he finds himself living as an exile, longing for the home he once had (Luke 15:17). This is the story of the human race. In telling this story, Jesus has retold the story of humanity, and promised nothing less than hope for the world. Just as the younger son longs for the food in his fathers house, so do we all. At the end of the story of the prodigal sons, there is a feast of homecoming. So too at the end of history, there will be a feast and we are all invited to come in. | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoThe Prodigal God: The True Elder Brother | What do we need to escape the shackles of our particular brand of lostness? How can the inner dynamic of the heart be changed from one of fear and anger to one of joy, love and gratitude? This happens only through the initiating love of God personified in Jesus. The incarnation of Jesus shows that all our own efforts to impress God are silly and causes us to repent even of the reasons we ever did anything right. Tim Keller shows us that while we fall short of God's glory, Jesus became exactly what we needed at exactly the right time. You won't want to miss this. | 6/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoThe Prodigal God: The Elder Brother | The Child Development Institute lists 3 traits of first-born children: 1) Being right is often important; 2) Strives to maintain parents’ attention through conformity; 3) Strives to please. While not necessarily true for all first born children, there are patterns of similarity, and these patterns can also apply spiritually. This week as we focus on the “Elder Brother” in Luke 15 we will notice some of these first-born tendencies in many of us and realize that the gospel has the answer! | 5/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoThe Prodigal God: Two Lost Sons | As Jesus tells the story of two wayward sons, he teaches that there are two ways to be lost. You can be lost through your self-discovery (like the younger son in the story) or through your good works (like the older son in the story). While society tells us these are the only two ways to live, could there be another way? Jesus shows that while both sons are wrong, both are loved. The gospel happens when we come face to face with this reality and accept the power to change, and live in a way that is neither the way of "self-discovery" or "moral conformity." | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoThe Prodigal God: The People Around Jesus | In Luke 15:1-10, all the "sinners" were crowding around Jesus. The Pharisees were offended by this, so Jesus tells a story. In the story, a sheep strays from it's shepherd. Using this parable, Jesus teaches that, humans are like sheep. Humans are unable to avoid this same type of behavior, because of our sinful nature. Because of this, we are in total need of rescue by Jesus, our good shepherd. In rescuing us from our sin, Jesus is not shows the power of grace to bring about individual redemption. Through his ministry, he also demonstrates the power of grace to create a new kind of community that bonds all kinds of people together, freely confesses sin, and offers healing and acceptance by the grace of Jesus Christ. | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoPractical Atheist: I Believe in God, But I Don't Know Her | Jesus taught us to pray “Our Father.” Was that imagery all inclusive? Did the incarnation make it necessary to not confuse things—Mary was Jesus mother, so it would be important to think of God as Father. Pre-incarnation, at the dawn of our creation as humans God said, “‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:26-27 Humans are created in God’s image so the “us” in this text must comprise both the his and her. What does it all mean? What difference does it make? That’s what we’ll explore this week. | 5/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoPractical Atheist: I Believe in God, But I Trust in Money | We trust money to provide happiness and security. The number one competitor for our hearts is money. Two rich men encounter Jesus: The Rich Young Ruler and Zacchaeus. When you fall in love with Jesus, you become strangely content and irrationally generous. | 5/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoPractical Atheist: I Believe in God, But Don't Go Overboard | In Revelation 3:16 God warns that, “because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” What does it mean to be a “lukewarm” Christian? Should belief in God affect your actions, your thoughts, your standard of living, your relationship with others? Or is that just “going overboard”? Is it possible to enjoy the benefits of what Christ did without conforming to who He is? | 4/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoPractical Atheist: I Believe in God, But I Don't Fear Him | A Practical Atheist is someone who believes in God but lives as if He doesn’t exist. When you truly fear God, you serve him wholeheartedly without any conditions. You will be forever ruined. | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 55 Episodes |
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