Posts Tagged ‘knowledge of God’

Fellowship with God – pt2 – Believe

Posted by Admin

In this class, we’re working our way through Jesus’ unfolding of the New Covenant and what life with the Holy Spirit would like: What’s God’s part? What’s our part? How do we walk out this new relationship?

Part 2 looks at Jesus’ first of four simple, relational commands: believe. Trusting in the Father, and believing what He is like, is the foundation for our New Covenant relationship. The love Jesus calls us to is a love that comes as we abide in Him and as we ask in His name, which our both made possible only through faith. We have to believe in His goodness and in what He desires to give in order to enter into it. Faith comes through revelation, and so the call to believe is a call to an active pursuit. We grow in believing as we position ourselves to let Holy Spirit give us the revelation of the Father through the life of Jesus.

Fellowship with God – pt2 – Believe (mp3: 31.9MB, 56min)

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Pursue Love (Burning Hearts Gathering 1/9/13)

Posted by Tim

As a new year begins, here’s a simple call back to the one thing God calls us to give our lives to: pursue love. God promises that if we value what He values and pursue His priorities, He will take care of the rest, and God’s central motivation and drive in all that He does is love.

This is a practical look at what it really means to give your life to the pursuit of love, given that God is love and love is of God: how to pursue the width and length and height and depth of the love of God – not just how we conceive of love in our brokenness, but the fullness of love as God defines it, flowing from His heart abounding in love, and not stopping until we’ve given all our heart, soul, mind and strength.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 1/9/13 – Pursue Love (21.8MB 76min)

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Simple Faith – Believing and the Person of Christ (Burning Hearts Gathering 9/5/12)

Posted by Tim

We’re continuing to look at the Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ teaching on: Simple Faith

In pursuing living a life of faith in God, there’s one place that journey reaches its peak: the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ. When God became a Person, faith became personal, worship became personal and devotion became personal. In the Person of Jesus of Nazareth, we get to really sit at the feet of God, hear His voice, see His face and know His heart. God goes from being concepts and ideals to being a Person, and that forever shifts what relating with Him is like.

This message is a look at the treasure of God becoming flesh in the Incarnation, and then an introduction to a practical way to meditate on the life of Jesus in the Gospels.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 9/5/12 – Believing and the Person of Christ (18.6MB 65min)

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Simple Faith – Believing and the Word of God (Burning Hearts Gathering 8/29/12)

Posted by Tim

We’re continuing to look at the Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ teaching on: Simple Faith

This message introduces a practical approach to the Word of God, based on a right understanding of the role God wants to play in our walk with Him, and therefore a right understanding of the role Scripture is meant to play in leading us to Him.

God revealing Himself to us in Scripture is a priceless treasure that we don’t want to neglect for fear of getting “religious” about it. We want a hunger and a thirst for His words because they lead us to HisPerson. With a simple shift to our approach to the words of God, they become more than words on a page; they become our escort into prayer-filled, worship-filled, awe-filled times of approaching the Word – the eternal Son of God.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 8/29/12 – Believing and the Word of God (18.6MB 65min)

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Simple Faith – Believe (Burning Hearts Gathering 8/22/12)

Posted by Tim

We’re continuing to look at the Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ teaching on: Simple Faith

This message zeroes in on Jesus’ foundational command: believe. Earlier in John 6, Jesus, when asked, told the Jews it was what they must do to please God: believe in He whom God had sent. Now Jesus teaches His disciples how belief is the only source of the love God desires.

Jesus makes two major points about belief in His teaching in the Upper Room: 1. it’s impossible to love rightly apart from belief, not just in the work of God in salvation, but in the Person of God. 2. it’s possible to believe because the Person of God is revealed to us through the Incarnate Son.

The implication of Jesus’ teaching is clear: every godly ambition must be thoroughly grounded in wholehearted pursuit of the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 8/22/12 – Believe (20.3MB 71min)

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Simple Faith – The Upper Room Discourse (Burning Hearts Gathering 8/15/12)

Posted by Tim

We’re starting a new series on: Simple Faith

In the Upper Room Discourse in John 13-17 Jesus teaches on what life looks like under the New Covenant. It’s beautiful in its simplicity, its loving nature and its accessibility. The Father, in love, has prepared for us a light yoke that is not out of our reach but belongs to little children.

We need to hear again and again Jesus’ message on the simplicity of believing and abiding, because our chief battleground in pursuing God is remaining in the simplicity of faith in and love for the Person of Christ, and not getting distracted and confused by adding to the simplicity of devotion that is in Christ.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 8/15/12 – The Upper Room Discourse (18.6MB 65min)

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Forerunner Ministry DNA (Burning Hearts Gathering 8/1/12)

Posted by Tim

Tim teaches on the DNA of ministry with a forerunner spirit: what are the essential characteristics of doing ministry in a way that makes sense in light of the return of Jesus? How do we make ready a people prepared for the Lord? Scripture tells us a lot about what’s on God’s heart for this generation, and it’s very different than what we’ll find ourselves doing by default. We need a revelation of eternity and the kingdom of God if we’re to partner with God in something of eternal significance.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 8/1/12 – Forerunner Ministry DNA (21.6MB 75min)

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The Priority of a Burning Heart (Burning Hearts Gathering 3/7/12)

Posted by Tim

Part 1 in the series: “Vision for a Burning Heart”

As we kick off our Wednesday night Burning Hearts Gathering, we’re looking at a vision for how and why God wants to raise up a company of burning ones: those who have encountered His beauty, His glory and His love, who can overcome the accusations of the enemy and tear down every lie that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and destroys men and women made to know Him.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 3/7/12 – The Priority of a Burning Heart (16.9MB 59min)

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Loving God 5: With All Your Mind (pt2)

Posted by Tim

Session 5 on Loving God: Loving God With All Your Mind – Beholding the Face of Christ

In the workshop part of this session, we’re looking at how to grow in the knowledge of God through meditating on the Scriptures and specifically on the accounts of the life of Jesus in the Gospels. In seeing Jesus as He walks the earth, we have the unthinkable gift of  being able to look God in the face.

Loving God – Session 5 – 10/31/10 – Loving God With All Your Mind (practicals) (21.2MB 62min)

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Handout: Meditation on Christ

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