ChurchWorks: How You Function, Part 11
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 : By Dan Miller
In segment one of this series we examined the marks of a God-owned Church. Since then we have been seeing how every Christian is gifted by the Holy Spirit to display the character and priorities of Jesus Christ in a particular way to strengthen His Church. Today we will look at the gifts of administration, tongues, and interpretation. MP3 download.
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ChurchWorks: How You Function, Part 10
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 : By Dan Miller
In segment one of this series we examined the marks of a God-owned Church. Since then we have been seeing how every Christian is gifted by the Holy Spirit to display the character and priorities of Jesus Christ in a particular way to strengthen His Church. Today we will look at the gifts of miracles, healings, and helping. MP3 download.
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Final Points—The Work of the Holy Spirit
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 : By Ken Rutherford
On August 3rd, I didn’t quite complete my lesson and I mentioned that I would post the final points to the blog. Well, better late than never! Credit to Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology for the bulk of this lesson.
The Holy Spirit Unifies
When the Spirit was poured out on the church at Pentecost, Peter proclaimed that the prophecy of Joel 2:28-32 was fulfilled (see Acts 2:16-18)
The emphasis is not on the Spirit being poured out on specially anointed leaders (like Moses or Joshua in the OT) but the Spirit was poured out on the entire community of believers (sons and daughters, young and old, masters and servants)
The community of believers was marked by unprecedented unity (Acts 2:44-47)
Several times in the NT, …
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ChurchWorks: How You Function, Part 9
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 : By Dan Miller
In segment one of this series we took three weeks to examine the marks of a God-owned Church – “Knowing Who You Are.” Now we are into segment two – “Knowing How You Function.” In this segment we are seeing how every Christian is gifted by the Holy Spirit to display the character and priorities of Jesus Christ in a particular way to strengthen His Church.
Today we will look at the gifting of evangelists, pastors, and teachers. MP3 download.
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ChurchWorks: How You Function, Part 7
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 : By Ken Rutherford
Have you ever wondered “Who is the Holy Spirit?”, “What does the Holy Spirit do?”, or “How does the Holy Spirit work in the life of a believer?” The doctrine of the Holy Spirit is easily one of the most controversial, disagreed-about, avoided, feared, confused, and neglected subjects in the Bible. Pastor Dan has been teaching on the marks of a God-owned church (Knowing Who You Are) and how God equips his church to carry out his mission (Knowing How You Function). For the next two weeks, we are going to take a slight detour and explore the theological foundation to his teaching by focusing on the Biblical description of the Holy Spirit. MP3 download.
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ChurchWorks: How You Function, Part 6
Sunday, July 20th, 2008 : By Dan Miller
Have you ever wondered why most spiritual people would never refer to themselves as “Apostles?” How about “Prophet?” Well, both terms represent people who followed Christ and yet we don’t often use these terms. Why? Well, in our study today we will see how these terms relate to how a ChurchWorks (pun intended). MP3 download.
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God’s Will
Sunday, January 27th, 2008 : By Ken Rutherford
The Doctrine of God: Week 14
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, by Wayne Grudem.
Chapter 1, The Character of God: “Communicable” Attributes (Part 2)
This week we start to examine the “communicable” attributes of God (those which He has shared in part with us) which are clasified as ‘attributes of purpose’. We begin by discussing an often controversial topic – God’s Will.
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graceTALK, May 2005
Sunday, May 29th, 2005 : By Leadership Team
The Grace Fellowship Leadership Team answers your questions.
Q1 (2:09): In my walk with Christ, I find myself very stale in my relationship with Christ. I mean I feel distant when I worship. I feel distant when I pray, and Scripture doesn’t seem to sink in. When it happens, what do I do to get back where I want to be in my relationship with Christ?
Q2 (10:29): We say that the title of senior pastor has in many was betrayed the intent of the biblical role of a pastor / elder / bishop within the leadership of the modern church. Still, whenever I run across the term ‘pastor’ in Scripture I always …
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graceTALK, December 2004
Sunday, December 26th, 2004 : By Leadership Team
The Grace Fellowship Leadership Team answers your questions.
Q1 (2:23): How does the leadership of Grace Fellowship view Sabbath requirements regarding work and rest? Some of these questions might stretch us.
Q2 (12:20): In the series Making Fruitfullness a Priority, Dan taught that remaining in Christ means to continue in His teaching. Does that mean that all Christians will believe the same thing? Where is there the balance to have different views but still be considered to remain in Christ’s teaching? Also we are told that when the Holy Spirit comes He will guide us into all truth. What does this mean? Does it relate to remaining in Christ?
Q3 (31:58): …
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graceTALK, September 2004
Sunday, September 5th, 2004 : By Leadership Team
The Grace Fellowship Leadership Team answers your questions.
Q1 (2:07): Can you please explain what openness theology is? I heard people discussing it a couple of weeks ago, but was not in the service to hear the teaching.
Q2 (17:45): Who was it that Jacob wrestled with in Genesis 32? Was it an angel or God? Since Jacob was wrestling with God, would this simply have been an angel? Since the angel was from God, would it be like an analogy to Jacob’s overall life up until this point?
Q3 (27:39): I am struggling with developing consistency in my witness at work. I often feel unconfident and frankly embarressed to share …
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