Netcast Church Podcast

<p>Christianity is about the spreading of God's fame and the Lordship of Jesus throughout the nations. The Acts 16 - 19 gives us the details of how this multiplication began.</p>

<p>Diversity is part of being human. God delights in the plethora of differences His human creatures possess. Therefore, we can be sure that the gospel is available to every person regardless of ethnic background, social status, sexual preference or gender.</p>

<p>As the church grows, leadership needs to be dispersed. Here we see some of the things that the apostles did so the church is cared for, and the Word of God continued to be proclaimed.</p>

<p>There's a difference between a biography and a testimony; everyone has a biography but only Christians has testimonies. Today we look at the transformation from Saul to Paul.</p>

<p>Jesus promises to give His people extraordinary power to enable His witnesses to take the gospel to the end of the earth.</p>

<p>The crucifixion of Jesus is the intersection of God’s love and God's justice being put on full display.</p>

<p>Passover and the story of the exodus have great significance for Christians, as Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law and became the Greater Passover.</p>

<p>Jesus didn’t use clever methods to convince those around Him that He is the Son of God, He came in the power of the Holy Spirit.</p>

<p>Aside from the resurrection, the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 is the only miracle recorded in all four Gospels.</p>

<p>A man’s reception of God’s Word is determined by the condition of his heart. May our faith and our lives exemplify the "good soil" in the Parable of the Sower.</p>

<p>After Malachi there was no prophet until John the Baptist came. He appeared first in the wilderness of Judea and the message he preached was repentance. In other words, consider your ways, change your minds: you have thought wrong; now think aright and do accordingly.</p>

<p>God’s final word of the Old Testament concerns judgment for sin and testifies to our inability to love Him without the help of His grace. But when his grace is lovingly received, it leads a believer into radical worship.</p>

<p>We are powerless to revive ourselves from death to life. We cannot think positively to bring life to dry bones, rather, we must surrender our wills and trust God’s power. When we turn to God, we turn to life.</p>

<p>Although human adoption is good, right and necessary, the deepest foundation of adoption is located not in the act of humans adopting humans, but in God adopting humans. And this act is at the heart of the gospel.</p>

<p>Daniel frequently faced temptation to compromise his belief and avoid the threat of suffering and death. However, he chose ordinary faithfulness in the midst of his trials. Jesus faced that too – he knew the path he was on was heading straight to an agonizing crucifixion. Yet that's what He chose.</p>

<p>The first response of to the holiness of God is an acute awareness of personal sin. When the unholy confronts the holy we become very conscious of our own sinfulness and should be in awe of the weight of God's glory.</p>

<p>David is not praying in this Psalm, he is not asking God to do something for him. Rather he is rejoicing in what the Lord has done and continues to do in his life.</p>

<p>Righteousness does not mean that you are always doing the right thing. Often times, righteousness is seen in how you respond when you realize that you didn't do the right thing.</p>

<p>Jesus is greater than our money because everything under heaven and earth is His. The believer in Christ whose heart has been transformed by the power of the gospel understands the incredible responsibility of stewarding their resources in order to fulfill God's purposes.</p>

<p>As a means of pointing to the resurrection power that would one day come through Jesus; the Old Testament prophet, Elisha, gives us a picture of what it looks like to be hidden in Christ.</p>

<p>The only thing worse than sin itself, is trying to cover your sin as if it's not there. The beauty of the gospel of Jesus, is that it frees us to not walk in shame as we acknowledge our failures and brokenness.</p>

<p>Jesus says "I can satisfy your hunger and quench your thirst. He tells us that He is the the resurrection and the life, the light of the world, and everything other than Him leads to death. Why? Because as the creator of all things, He is greater.</p>

<p>The God we serve is capable of defeating any of the giants in our lives as we step out in faith and fight. Beyond that, the giants we defeat today gives us confidence to fight the giants that are still ahead of us.</p>

<p>How did lowly Gideon do his mighty deeds defeating armies that massively out numbered his? Simple, the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, just like the Spirit of the Lord comes upon every believer.</p>

<p>Moses has an assignment to bring people out of slavery and into freedom. Joshua’s assignment was to bring the people of God into battle. You cannot deeply embrace freedom unless you are also engaged in the battle. If you want to see greater freedom in your life, you have to embrace the battle that God has set before you.</p>

<p>God’s glory is constant, and as we journey through life we will see it manifest in a variety of ways. However, there is nothing more clearly visible in seeing the glory of God than looking at the person and work of Christ.</p>

<p>The Old Testament Passover lamb, although a reality in that time, was a mere foreshadowing of the better and final Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ.</p>

<p>The cross of Christ is evidence that a good God uses bad things for our His ultimate purpose and our ultimate good. And that He is always with us along the way.</p>

<p>Joseph had the chance of a lifetime; the opportunity to repay evil for evil. However, his trust in God freed him to forgive.</p>

<p>Joseph went from rags to riches in a day. However, he never let his rise to power and influence deminish his faith in his God.</p>

<p>Joseph was a man who came under extreme hardship. Yet, he was determined to believe that God was with him.</p>

<p>The Christian life is a life of risk and reward. God rewards those who diligently seek Him.</p>

<p>It's possible that your worship and praise is more important than you ever expected.</p>

<p>From day one we see God's unconditional love towards His people. It's rooted into the creation narrative.</p>

<p>The art of confession is something the church should get back to practicing. This message will help us along the way.</p>