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If Jesus is the prince of peace, then why is there still war? (Part II)
December 13, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” - John 16:33
If Jesus is the prince of peace, then why is there still war? (Part I)
December 12, 2023 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.77 MBALC Recommends: Spiritual Warfare (helps you remember who the real enemy is) “Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.” - Revelation 12:17 ESV
[Money Monday]: Can Giving Money Promote Peace With People?
December 11, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MB“When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?” He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?” And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish th...
How can the church share Jesus?: Speak new hope
December 08, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.63 MB“And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.” - Luke 1:45 ESV
Jesus was the hope of the world from the beginning (Part III)
December 07, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB“When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.” - Revelation 1:17-18 ESV
Jesus was the hope of the world from the beginning (Part II)
December 06, 2023 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MB“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” - Isaiah 9:6 ESV
Jesus was the hope of the world from the beginning (Part I)
December 05, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBALC Recommends: Seed Faith “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” - Genesis 3:15 ESV
[Money Monday]: How to use money to create hope
December 04, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB“For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness.” - 2 Corinthians 8:13-14 ESV
How can the church share Jesus?: Surprise people with hope
December 01, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MB“And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.” - Romans 5:5 NLT
How can we give to this world and make a difference in Jesus? (Part III)
November 30, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes - 12 MB“In the same way (city lights on a hill, lamp on a stand), let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” - Matthew 5:16 ESV
How can we give to this world and make a difference in Jesus? (Part II)
November 29, 2023 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB“Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.” - Matthew 5:15 ESV
How can we give to this world and make a difference in Jesus? (Part I)
November 28, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBALC Recommends: Giving Tuesday! "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” - Matthew 5:14 ESV
[Money Monday]: How to give to get to give more
November 27, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MB"Give generously and generous gifts will be given back to you, shaken down to make room for more. Abundant gifts will pour out upon you with such an overflowing measure that it will run over the top! The measurement of your generosity becomes the measurement of your return." - Luke 6:38 TPT
How can the church share Jesus?: Give yourself away in the Christmas season
November 24, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MB“In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive." - Acts 20:35 ESV
Three ways giving makes you more thankful and vice versa (Part III)
November 23, 2023 12:00 - 9 minutes - 9.24 MB“...your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness.” - 2 Corinthians 8:14 ESV
Three ways giving makes you more thankful and vice versa (Part II)
November 22, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB"For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.” - 2 Corinthians 8:12 ESV
Three ways giving makes you more thankful and vice versa (Part I)
November 21, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBALC Recommends: Prosperity with a purpose “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.” - 2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV
[Money Monday]: How does giving beyond your means make you more thankful?
November 20, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MB“For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.” - 2 Corinthians 8:3, 5 ESV
How can the church share Jesus?: Sowing into fallow fields
November 17, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutes - 14.7 MBVision for the New Grain Campus
Three principles that make giving to the mission worth it: Unmerited Favor
November 16, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB"And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.” - 2 Corinthians 9:8
Three principles that make giving to the mission worth it: Be Cheerful
November 15, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.76 MB"Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” - 2 Corinthians 9:7
Three principles that make giving to the mission worth it: Sowing & Reaping
November 14, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBALC Recommends: "The Blessed Life" by Robert Morris "The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” - 2 Corinthians 9:6
[Money Monday]: If God is in control, why does he need my money?
November 13, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB“But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themsel...
How can the church share Jesus?: Affirm people who are changing their life
November 10, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.36 MB“And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” - Luke 19:9-10 ESV
Practice giving: How does giving more help prove you belong to Jesus? (Part III)
November 09, 2023 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MB"And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house…" - Luke 19:9 ESV “And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.” - Luke 19:8 ESV
Practice giving: How does giving more help prove you belong to Jesus? (Part II)
November 08, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MB"And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house…" - Luke 19:9 ESV "And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor….” - Luke 19:8 ESV
Practice giving: How does giving more help prove you belong to Jesus? (Part I)
November 07, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBALC Recommends: Host a Small Group in your house And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house…" - Luke 19:9 ESV “And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully.” - Luke 19:5-6 ESV
[Money Monday]: How does a budget help you accomplish more for Jesus?
November 06, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MB“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’” - Luke 14:28-30 ESV
How can the church share Jesus?: Your Holiness changes others
November 03, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB“And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone. She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased. And Jesus said, “Who was it that touched me?” When all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!” But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me...
How do I practically give God my everything in worship?: Rest in Him
November 02, 2023 11:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all...
How do I practically give God my everything in worship?: Who is He?
November 01, 2023 11:00 - 10 minutes - 9.6 MB“Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle! Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory! Selah” - Psalm 24:7-10 ESV
How do I practically give God my everything in worship?: Who are we?
October 31, 2023 11:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBALC Recommends: “Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs” by Shane and Shane “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet...” - Psalm 8:3-6 ESV
[Money Monday]: If it doesn't cost you something, is it really worship?
October 30, 2023 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MB“Then Araunah said to David, “Let my Lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.” But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floo...
How can the church share Jesus?: Grow in wisdom, provision, and warfare
October 27, 2023 11:00 - 9 minutes - 9.01 MB“Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ...” - Ephesians 4:15 ESV
3 stories of people who used faith to move an impossible mountain (Part III)
October 26, 2023 11:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MB“And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” - Genesis 32:24, 26 ESV
3 stories of people who used faith to move an impossible mountain (Part II)
October 25, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MB“And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him...” - Genesis 26:12 ESV
3 stories of people who used faith to move an impossible mountain (Part I)
October 24, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MB(Book ends of Abrham’s faith journey) "All the families on earth will be blessed through you." - Genesis 12:3 NLT “I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,” - Genesis 22:17 ESV
[Money Monday]: How visionaries for Jesus partner with financial givers?
October 23, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes - 14 MB“This is what the Lord says: “Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches. But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lord who demonstrates unfailing love and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth, and that I delight in these things. I, the Lord, have spoken!” - Jeremiah 9:23-24 NLT
How can the church share Jesus?: Practice humility in the way we grow
October 20, 2023 11:00 - 10 minutes - 9.59 MB“Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.” - Isaiah 9:7 ESV
3 Stories of people who humbled themselves for greater success (Part III)
October 19, 2023 23:27 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB“And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.” - Luke 1:38 ESV
3 Stories of people who humbled themselves for greater success (Part II)
October 18, 2023 11:00 - 10 minutes - 9.76 MB“That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “What do you want? Ask, and I will give it to you!” Give me the wisdom and knowledge to lead them properly, for who could possibly govern this great people of yours?” - 2 Chronicles 1:7, 10 NLT
3 Stories of people who humbled themselves for greater success (Part I)
October 17, 2023 11:00 - 9 minutes - 8.78 MBALC Recommends: Humbling yourself in worship "When Joshua was near the town of Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with sword in hand. Joshua went up to him and demanded, “Are you friend or foe?” “Neither one,” he replied. “I am the commander of the Lord’s army.” At this, Joshua fell with his face to the ground in reverence. “I am at your command,” Joshua said. “What do you want your servant to do?” The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, f...
[Money Monday]: How can you hope to grow your wealth with humility?
October 16, 2023 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MB“Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment. Tell them to use their money to do good. They should be rich in good works and generous to those in need, always being ready to share with others. By doing this they will be storing up their treasure as a good foundation for the future so that they may experience true life.” - 1 Timothy 6:17-...
How can the church share Jesus? Share Jesus’ peace to people who need him
October 14, 2023 20:01 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MB“Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. Judges 6:24 ESV
God’s names are amazing: How to successfully know and praise His name (Part III)
October 12, 2023 11:00 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MB“...saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.” - Exodus 15:26 ESV
God’s names are amazing: How to successfully know and praise His name (Part II)
October 11, 2023 11:00 - 10 minutes - 9.46 MB"And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The Lord Is There.” - Ezekiel 48:35 ESV
God’s names are amazing: How to successfully know and praise His name (Part I)
October 10, 2023 11:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBALC Recommends: Memorizing the 8 names of God and using them for prayer "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.” - Jeremiah 23:5-6 ESV
[Money Monday]: How does knowing God as Provider help your finances?
October 09, 2023 11:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MB“So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.” - Genesis 22:14 ESV
How can the church share Jesus?: Send out leaders through fasting & praying
October 06, 2023 11:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB"Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.” - Acts 13:23 ESV
How does fasting help you seek God with greater clarity?: Part III
October 05, 2023 11:00 - 12 minutes - 12 MB“While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.” - Acts 13:2-3 ESV