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How can you grow in devotion to God and skill with finances?
December 08, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 12 MB“No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” - Luke 16:13 ESV
Practical ways that will help you be faithful with other people’s money
December 07, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB“And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?” - Luke 16:12 ESV
How can you avoid financial failure and be faithful in Jesus?
December 06, 2022 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MB“If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?” - Luke 16:11 ESV
[Money Monday]: Why is managing money a skill rather than a gift?
December 05, 2022 12:00 - 11 minutes - 11 MB“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.” - Luke 16:10 ESV
What would Jesus say?: Is there a Bible lesson in the song Mr. Grinch?
December 02, 2022 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB“He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.” - Luke 14:12-14 ESV
4 Practical steps that empower you to give up everything to follow Jesus: Part III
December 01, 2022 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB“...that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.” - Philippians 3:10-11 ESV
4 Practical steps that empower you to give up everything to follow Jesus: Part II
November 30, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 9.09 MB“...and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—” - Philippians 3:9 ESV
4 Practical steps that empower you to give up everything to follow Jesus: Part I
November 29, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.81 MBALC Recommends: The Blessed Life by Robert Morris "Have you ever wished you could multiply your money? Well, I have wonderful news for you: God is able to do it." “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ” - Philippians 3:7-8 ESV
[Money Monday]: How is money a test from God?
November 28, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MB“If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?” - Luke 16:11 ESV
What would Jesus say?: Can the Christmas season help people find Jesus?
November 25, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.41 MB“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.” John 6:40, 44 ESV
How generous giving make you more thankful and loyal in Jesus: Part II
November 24, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.82 MB“I have received full payment and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.” - Philippians 4:18 ESV
How generous giving make you more thankful and loyal in Jesus: Part I
November 23, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.86 MB"Even in Thessalonica, you sent me help for my needs once and again. Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.” - Philippians 4:16-17
How does generous giving make you more loyal to Jesus?
November 22, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.47 MBALC recommends: Blessed Life by Robert Morris "You cannot outgive God." "And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into a partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only.” - Philippians 4:15 ESV
[Money Monday]: Does God promise to meet every financial need we have?
November 21, 2022 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB“And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” - Philippians 4:19 ESV
What would Jesus say?: Are we supposed to do greater works than Jesus did?
November 18, 2022 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MB“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.” - John 14:12-14 ESV
How can God work Jesus in you for something greater?: Be Glad and Rejoice
November 17, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MB“...for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." "Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.” - Philippians 2:13, 17-18 ESV
How can God work Jesus in you for something greater?: Holding Firm
November 16, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MB“...for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." "...holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.” Philippians 2:13, 16 ESV
How can God work Jesus in you for something greater?: Become Blameless
November 15, 2022 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB“...for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world...” - Philippians 2:13-15 ESV
[Money Monday]: How can God work Jesus in you for something greater?
November 14, 2022 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.8 MB"Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." - Philippians 2:12-13 ESV
What would Jesus say?: Does God need your money to help other people?
November 11, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB“As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. And as Jesus reclined at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, bu...
How God uses people with bad intentions for good in your circumstances
November 10, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.96 MB"Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.” - Philippians 1:15-16 ESV "The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice...” - Philippians 1:17-18 ESV
How God works in your circumstances to make you bolder in Jesus
November 09, 2022 12:00 - 8 minutes - 7.95 MB“And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.” - Philippians 1:14 ESV
How God works in your circumstances for a greater good in Jesus
November 08, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 9.14 MBALC Recommends: "The Blessed Life" by Robert Morris "I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.” - Philippians 1:12-13 ESV
[Money Monday]: How to partner with God using money
November 07, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB"...because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.” - Philippians 1:5 ESV
What would Jesus say?: How can you put your past behind you?
November 04, 2022 11:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MB“Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” - John 8:10-11 ESV
How God offers a new generation a new beginning through judgment?
November 03, 2022 11:00 - 9 minutes - 8.74 MB“But every one shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.” - Jeremiah 31:30 ESV
How does God offer a new generation a new beginning?
November 02, 2022 11:00 - 9 minutes - 8.87 MB“In those days they shall no longer say: “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’” - Jeremiah 31:29 ESV
What if God is offering to help you build a new beginning?
November 01, 2022 11:00 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB“And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the Lord.” - Jeremiah 31:28 ESV
God offers new beginnings one small step at a time
October 31, 2022 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBALC Recommends: Seed Faith By Oral Roberts “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.” - Jeremiah 31:27 ESV
What would Jesus say?: Does God let you pick your own pastor?
October 28, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB“For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream, for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, declares the Lord.” - Jeremiah 29:8-9 ESV
How Jesus wants to make you successful so you can make others successful
October 27, 2022 11:00 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MB"These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.” - Jeremiah 29:1 ESV
How your effort to help others succeed will help you succeed in Jesus
October 26, 2022 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MB“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.” - Jeremiah 29:7 ESV
How Celebrating the success of others will make you succeed
October 25, 2022 11:00 - 14 minutes - 13.8 MB“Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.” - Jeremiah 29:6
How making others successful will make you succeed in Jesus
October 24, 2022 11:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBALC Recommends: ALC small groups “Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.” - Jeremiah 29:5 ESV
What would Jesus say?: Is God both sovereign and good at the same time?
October 21, 2022 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MB"And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me. Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.” ...
Should you expect God to challenge you to become more like Jesus?
October 20, 2022 11:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB“If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.” - Jeremiah 18:7-10 ESV
Should you expect God to sovereignly change and make you more like Jesus?
October 19, 2022 11:00 - 8 minutes - 8.2 MB“Then the word of the Lord came to me: “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.” - Jeremiah 18:5-6
Should you expect God to mold and change you to make you more like Jesus?
October 18, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes - 12 MB"Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.” - Jeremiah 18:2-4 ESV
Should you expect God to speak to you to make you more like Jesus?
October 17, 2022 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBALC Recommends: God is Good! by Cody Carnes "The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” - Jeremiah 18:1-2 ESV
What would Jesus say?: How can youth grow and become stronger in Jesus?
October 14, 2022 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MB“(At 12 years old) Jesus went down with them (his parents) and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them….And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.” - Luke 2:51-52 ESV
How youth can speak and serve the Lord and make a difference - Part IV
October 13, 2022 11:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB“Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.” - Jeremiah 1:8 ESV
How youth can speak and serve the Lord and make a difference - Part III
October 12, 2022 11:00 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB“But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.” - Jeremiah 1:7 ESV
How youth can speak and serve the Lord and make a difference - Part II
October 11, 2022 11:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB“Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” - Jeremiah 1:6 ESV
How youth can speak and serve the Lord and make a difference - Part I
October 10, 2022 11:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” - Jeremiah 1:5
What would Jesus say?: How much authority do you have over demons?
October 07, 2022 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MB“The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” - Luke 10:17-20 ESV
5 pieces of God's armor that provide hope to beat the devil: Salvation
October 06, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB"...and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God...” Ephesians 6:17 ESV
5 pieces of God's armor that provide hope to beat the devil: Faith
October 05, 2022 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MB“In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one...” - Ephesians 6:16 ESV
5 pieces of God's armor that provide hope to beat the devil: Peace
October 04, 2022 11:00 - 9 minutes - 8.92 MB"...and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.” - Ephesians 6:15 ESV
5 pieces of God's armor that provide hope to beat the devil: Truth
October 03, 2022 11:00 - 14 minutes - 13 MBALC Recommends: This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness...” - Ephesians 6:13-14 ESV
What would Jesus say?: Will people want relationships in heaven?
September 30, 2022 11:00 - 11 minutes - 11 MB"Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.” - Matthew 7:21-23 ESV