Gifts, Ministries & Callings…oh my! After establishing these fundamentals, Paul breaks down into three categories, what Christians often lump all together as “gifts”. I have highlighted the three terms with their Strong’s Concordance numbers so you can easily see that all three, are different words. You may already notice that the three words used in the King James version are NOT the same words I used as the heading of this segment of the article. That was on purpose! While nearly every Christian denomination is aware of the term “gifts” in one capacity or another (a.k.a. spiritual gifts, grace gifts, gifts […]
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Review: A Call to Unity
Wednesday 01/08/14 Series – The Ministry of the Holy Spirit Topic: Review: A Call to Unity Part I What about Woman Elders & Teaching in the Church?.mp3 Key Texts: 1 Cor. 11:3-10 Ephesians 5:22-24, 33 1 Cor. 14:26-40 1 Tim. 2:8-14 Acts 13:14-16 &40-52 Luke 4:15-30 1 Peter 3:1-6 Tonight we finished our review of the role of woman in the church. In this last lesson we covered… Who is the head in male/female relationships What does it mean for man to be the head What “authority” is a woman’s covering a symbol of? What […]
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Wednesday 10/23/13 Topic: The Fear of the Lord & Healing Series – And He Healed them all: The Fear of the Lord and our Worship.mp3 Key Text: 2 Peter 1:1-14 Heb. 6:1-7 John 15:1-11 The Fear of the Lord and our Worship… Tonight we deviated off of our normal course and we may not return. We may be done for now with our series on healing. But tonight we took a look at our lives of worship. Worship is a form of the Fear of the Lord in that it means to hold in reverence. Beginning in 2 Peter […]
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Wednesday 10/02/13 Topic: The Fear of the Lord & Healing Series – And He Healed them all: The Fear of the Lord and Health XIII.mp3 Key Text: Prov. 3:7-8 Eph. 4:1-16 The Fear of the Lord and Healing… Tonight we continued from my suggestion to our church last week, that our giftedness will separate us all by itself. It will establish you in your place if only you will follow your natural inclinations. The difficulty comes when, we become self-aware. Like those grade school children, something happens over summer break for most 5th/6th graders and when they return, […]
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Grace, The Law & Tithing VI
Grace, The Law & Tithing VI New Covenant Tithing and Alms Giving II.mp3 We’ve spent a lot more time on this topic of Grace, The Law & Tithing than I had originally anticipated but I believe it has been good and useful. In review this week we went a little deeper concerning some topics previously covered. We also addressed some questions which arose from past material. Such as… If the priestly family received a tithe of the tithe in addition to all the meat and bread portions which were allotted to them from the sacrifices – didn’t a lot […]
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