The Heart_06_Renewing Our Desires

2010 July 22 / Filed in: The Heart
In our final session we look at renewing our desires. Our will, our movement through life is driven by our desires. We are guided by our thoughts, moved by our emotions, driven by our desires. Father God wants our desires to be shaped by our primary concern for His glory which in turn cultivates our love.

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The Heart_05_Renewing Our Emotions

2010 July 15 / Filed in: The Heart
We are moved by our emotions. Father God desires that our emotions be shaped by us tasting, experiencing His Goodness which in turn leads us to trust Him. The renewal of our emotions - our negative, destructive emotions and feelings - begins with us finding our ultimate source of security in being the Beloved Children of God now. Once we are secure in Father God’s love for us, we are free to follow the Spirit wherever He may lead us, even into suffering and distress.

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The Heart_04_Renewing Our Thoughts

2010 July 12 / Filed in: The Heart
Our thoughts are the ideas, images and information that we process through our intellectual capacities. Father God desires that our thoughts be shaped by His Truth which in turn cultivates our Hope. The “eyes of our hearts” are enlightened by the Gospel and the Spirit of Christ dwelling within us by faith. Now we can focus on Christ, setting minds and our thoughts on Him.

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The Heart_03_How Are We Transformed?

2010 July 01 / Filed in: The Heart
Our transformation comes to us as a gift of God’s grace that we receive through faith. In this session, we begin to consider how the Father transforms us by the grace of Christ through the Holy Spirit. As we behold the reflection of the glory of God in the face of Christ that we receive in the Gospel, the message of truth, we are transformed degree by degree to be more like Christ.

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The Heart_02_What Went Wrong?

2010 June 24 / Filed in: The Heart
In this session, we explore what has gone wrong with the heart. When the truth of the One True God is suppressed, the thinking becomes futile and the heart is darkened. This soon results in corrupt desires and ultimately idolatry: seeking some ultimate source of 1) significance, 2) security or 3) soul satisfaction other than Father God’s love given to us in the grace of Christ through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. The good news is that our Father illuminates our darkened hearts through the Gospel and fills them with the presence of His Spirit through faith.

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The Heart_01_What is the Heart?

2010 June 17 / Filed in: The Heart
In this first session, we will explore what the Heart is. We have two hearts: 1) the physical organ that pumps blood through our bodies and 2) the spiritual organ from which all our life flows. From our Heart flows our thoughts, desires, emotions. Understanding that the Heart is core, central to who we are is the foundation for understanding what Father God is doing in Christ in us through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.

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Thessalonians: Session 14 / 2 Th Chpt 3

2010 April 22 / Filed in: Thessalonians
In this final session, we conclude our look at 2 Thessalonians. In the final chapter of this book, Paul deals with some practical issues of how to deal with those who have become undisciplined in the community. In the end, Paul is confident that the work that the Lord has begun in their midst will be completed because He is faithful.
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Thessalonians: Session 13 / 2 Th Chpt 2 Pt 2

2010 April 10 / Filed in: Thessalonians
We continue our discussion of the Rebellion and the revealing of the Lawless One that must precede the coming Day of Lord. This Lawless One (also known as the Antichrist, the Beast, the Son of Destruction) will stand opposed to all “gods,” particularly the One True God in the Last Days. Yet Christ will destroy him at His arrival.
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Thessalonians: Session 12 / 2 Th Chpt 2

2010 April 04 / Filed in: Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians chapter 2 is one of the more difficult passages in Paul’s writings. Disturbed by a false teaching that they have already entered the Day of the Lord - the time of final judgment - Paul assuages the Thessalonians fears that this Day has already arrived. This Day of the Lord will not arrive until two things happen first: 1) The Rebellion occurs and 2) the Lawless One is revealed.
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Thessalonians: Session 11 / 2 Th Chpt 1

2010 April 04 / Filed in: Thessalonians
In this session we finish our tour of 1 Thessalonians and begin 2 Thessalonians. Paul praises the church for continuing in their steadfastness, despite lingering affliction, reminding them that God will justly repay those who do not know Him and have not obeyed the Gospel at the arrival of Christ.
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Thessalonians: Session 10 / Chapter 5

2010 March 21 / Filed in: Thessalonians
In this session we consider what Paul says about The Day of the Lord in chapter 5. This day, a day of destruction and doom for those who do not know Christ, will not be a day that takes followers by surprise. Jesus’ arrival will be to deliver His people from the coming wrath and the herald of that wrath for those who are trusting in others false messiahs.
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Thessalonians: Session 09 / Chapter 4

2010 March 21 / Filed in: Thessalonians
In this session we consider Paul’s teaching about the arrival of the Lord in terms of those who have already “fallen asleep through Jesus” in the last verses of chapter 4. When Jesus arrives, He will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Him. He will first raise the bodies of these and then He will “snatch up” those who are left behind to join Him in the air. This passage serves as one of the foundational passages on the doctrine of the Rapture of the Church.
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