Posts Tagged ‘the gospel’

Simple Faith – Loving as Jesus Loves (Burning Hearts Gathering 10/3/12)

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Part 8 in a series on the Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ teaching on: Simple Faith

Jesus’ main command, although He doesn’t get to explaining it until late in the teaching, is to love. But not just any kind of love: to love as He has loved. In saying that, Jesus changes what the standard of love is, and where love comes from. No longer is it about basic human rights and common courtesy – it’s about living in the testimony of how God feels about human beings. It changes our approach to loving our neighbor to one that’s rooted and grounded in faith and in the testimony of Jesus, so that it’s Jesus loving them through us.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 10/3/12 – Loving as Jesus Loves (20.3MB 71min)

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Abiding and a Life of Prayer (Burning Hearts Gathering 9/26/12)

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

Continuing from last session, we’re talking about a life of abiding in Christ and how as a practical daily reality we walk in the truth of who He is and who we are in Him. Paul describes our life in this age as one of warfare against real spiritual enemies of Christ in the heavenly places whose weapons of warfare are continual lies and accusations against God and men. We, too, have been given weapons of warfare – mighty for tearing down strongholds and those things that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God.

Daily life as a believer requires taking up the armor of God which is the truth of the gospel and wielding it in a life of ceaseless prayer, taking captive every thought and making it obedient to Christ. This message is a look at what that lifestyle looks like in practice.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 9/26/12 – Abiding and a Life of Prayer (19.3MB 67min)

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Abiding, the Word of God, and a Life of Prayer (Burning Hearts Gathering 9/19/12)

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

This session takes a practical look at a lifestyle of abiding in Christ. Remembering that it’s already done at the Cross – Christ is in us and we are in Him – we want a lifestyle that brings our heart and mind into agreement with and connection with that reality because often they are not.

This is a look at the process Jesus describes of the word of God growing and bearing fruit in our hearts, and how we can answer His charge to guard and take care of what we hear until it’s worked its work of transformation in us. Specifically, a model for meditating on the Word in a way that both gets it deep in our hearts and gets it flowing out of our hearts in our prayer life.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 9/19/12 – Abiding, the Word of God, and a Life of Prayer (19.8MB 70min)

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Simple Faith – Abiding (Burning Hearts Gathering 9/12/12)

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

We’re moving on to the second command of Jesus: abide. Jesus says abiding in Him is absolutely crucial. Those who do will bear much fruit; those who don’t cannot possibly bear any fruit and will be cast into the fire.

It’s both a mysterious and a simple command. The mystery is in what God has done in joining us to Him; the simplicity is in what we calls us to do in response – to abide literally just means “remain.” We are to know where we have been placed in Christ and we are to let nothing move us from living there by faith.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 9/12/12 – Abiding (20.0MB 70min)

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Jesus, Merciful Redeemer (Burning Hearts Gathering 3/28/12)

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Part 2 in the series:  Gospel Perspective: The Glory of God

The second message in this series on the central place of the glory of God in the story of creation, redemption and eternity is about who Jesus is as a Merciful Redeemer. God chose to reveal Himself to humanity through the story of mercy and redemption – through the Cross. He reveals Himself as a Bridegroom God, pursuing the love of His bride because of His commitment to us.

Loving mercy is basic to entering the kingdom, and we can only do it when we encounter Jesus’ mercy toward us – He loves without demands.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 3/28/12 – Jesus, Merciful Redeemer (18.5MB 65min)

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Jesus, Perfect Creator (Burning Hearts Gathering 3/21/12)

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Part 1 in a new series:  Gospel Perspective: The Glory of God

This message introduces the Biblical perspective on history: it’s all about the glory of God, it’s the story of who He is, not the story of fixing man’s problem. It’s about the everlasting God who is a Perfect Creator, a Merciful Redeemer and a Righteous King.

In this first part, we’re looking at Jesus the Perfect Creator who always was and who perfectly imagined and perfectly formed all of creation out of the abundance of love that was in His heart… and the glory of what that means today.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 3/21/12 – Jesus, Perfect Creator (18.3MB 64min)

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The Transforming Power of Encountering Jesus (Burning Hearts Gathering 3/14/12)

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Part 2 in a series on “Vision for a Burning Heart”

In Part 2 of this series laying the vision for our Wednesday night Burning Hearts Gathering, we’re looking at the scope and the vision of the gospel. It’s meant to be so much more than a salvation message – it’s our entry into ongoing, transforming encounter with the Man Christ Jesus that leaves us fascinated, healed, delivered, transformed and empowered for holy love.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 3/14/12 – The Transforming Power of Encountering (15.9MB 56min)

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