Unto Us a Child Is Born (Burning Hearts Gathering 12/12/12)

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It’s Christmas time! Time to remember and marvel at the Incarnation – when God became a Man – Immanuel, God With Us. The reality of the Incarnation is one of the most profound guiding truths for our hearts in daily life – it reveals the heart of the Father towards us, our day-to-day lives, our struggles and trials, our labors and sacrifices. It reveals just how relatable our God truly is, and how far He went to have that relationship.

It’s well worth kneeling at the Manger, not only in this season, but as a lifestyle!

Burning Hearts Gathering – 12/12/12 – Unto Us a Child Is Born (21.2MB 74min)

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Then They Will Fast (Burning Hearts Gathering 11/28/12)

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Another look at the key pieces of the heart God is relaying through the house of prayer, specifically this week at the key place fasting, prayer and longing for more of God has in the New Covenant.

For many it’s hard to see the place for fasting in the New Covenant. After all, what we see in the Old Covenant is mostly fasting as a sign of mourning over sin that has separated men from God. What’s to mourn about now that nothing can separate us from His love? When Jesus is questioned about fasting in Matthew 9:14-17, that’s exactly what He says: “How can the friends of the Bridegroom mourn while He is with them?” But then He adds, “but the day is coming when the Bridegroom will be taken away, and then they will fast.”

In the New Covenant we fast because we’re separated, no longer by any barrier, but simply by time and space. We fast because we know what’s ours – we remember what it’s like to be with Jesus, and we long for a day of fullness when our greatest moments with God are multiplied by 1000 and strung end-to-end without ceasing. The new wineskin that holds the power of New Covenant life is the remembrance of Jesus that fills us with anticipation for more of Jesus – today and That Day.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 11/28/12 – Then They Will Fast (19.3MB 68min)

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Pray the Lord of the Harvest (Burning Hearts Gathering 11/21/12)

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Another look at the story God is telling through the house of prayer, specifically this week at the connection between the house of prayer and God’s heart for missions and the lost.

Jesus turns to His disciples in Matthew 9:36-38 and because His heart is moved, calls them to pray for Him to send forth laborers into His harvest field. God is after establishing a culture where the Lord of the Harvest is put in His rightful place in Christian mission and the story is not us going, but rather Him sending because His heart is longing for His lost children. When that happens it radically reshapes how we do church, mission, evangelism, discipleship… and how we feel about all of those things.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 11/21/12 – Pray the Lord of the Harvest (17.3MB 61min)

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For I Have Desired It (Burning Hearts Gathering 11/14/12)

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Tim sharing on the prophetic history of the house of prayer, not just in our generation, but throughout the story of redemption, and the testimony about the heart of God that we carry when we enter in to that story.

We’re invited to enter into a culture of corporate prayer and worship not simply as a good idea or an effective strategy for doing church, but as a response to the dream of God’s heart to dwell among men, to be our God and us His people.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 11/14/12 – For I Have Desired It (21.0MB 73min)

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Asking and a Life of Prayer (Burning Hearts Gathering 10/17/12)

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Part 10 in a series on the Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ teaching on: Simple Faith

In the final part of this series, we look at what Jesus’ teaching on asking tells us about how to develop a life of prayer. Jesus tells us a lot about what our perspective on prayer ought to be, what to be asking for, and how to be asking that helps us enter into a continual, joy-filled life of asking and receiving.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 10/17/12 – Asking and a Life of Prayer (20.0MB 70min)

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Simple Faith – Asking (Burning Hearts Gathering 10/10/12)

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Part 9 in a series on the Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ teaching on: Simple Faith

The final call of the Upper Room Discourse is to ask. Though never commanded, asking is the assumed response to believing, and Jesus promises that when we ask, He will answer. He will give us the Holy Spirit that we can abide in Him and will have power to love as He loves and even do greater works than He did.

Asking is not a command, it’s an inheritance. In love, God calls us to “ask and receive that your joy may be full.” The glory of love is to gaze upon the beauty of the One we love, to desire what we see, and to ask of Him to give us Himself, knowing confidently that He will because He loves us.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 10/10/12 – Asking (19.9MB 70min)

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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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