Archive for category: Teaching

JESUS

19 December, 2008 (03:28) | Teaching | By: rickvan

Jesus – the Name above all names – the Name that evokes very different responses in different people. Some people love to hear that Name; some hate it and use it as a curse word. Demons fear and tremble at that Name. What does that Name mean to you? How do you respond to the [...]

REQUIREMENTS FOR LEADERSHIP PART 2

17 December, 2008 (00:55) | Teaching | By: rickvan

  The saying is true and irrefutable: If any man [eagerly] seeks the office of bishop (superintendent, overseer), he desires an excellent task (work).  1 Timothy 3:1 AMP He must rule his own household well, keeping his children under control, with true dignity, commanding their respect in every way and keeping them respectful. 5 For [...]

GOD LOVERS AND CHEERFUL GIVERS

16 December, 2008 (00:28) | Teaching | By: rickvan

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in). Matthew 6:24 AMP   Jesus [...]

DEPEND ON THE HOLY SPIRIT

15 December, 2008 (01:56) | Teaching | By: rickvan

When we were living in the flesh (mere physical lives), the sinful passions that were awakened and aroused up by [what] the Law [makes sin] were constantly operating in our natural powers (in our bodily organs, in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh), so that we bore fruit for death.   6 But [...]

THE POWER IS IN THE MESSAGE

14 December, 2008 (00:50) | Teaching | By: rickvan

For Christ (the Messiah) sent me out not to baptize but [to evangelize by] preaching the glad tidings (the Gospel), and that not with verbal eloquence, lest the cross of Christ should be deprived of force and emptied of its power and rendered vain (fruitless, void of value, and of no effect).   18 For [...]

PREVENTING STRIFE

13 December, 2008 (02:24) | Teaching | By: rickvan

  Proverbs 6:19 says that God hates “he who sows discord (or strife) among his brethren.”   A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. Proverbs 16:28 AMP   A person who sows strife is a person who is perverse – a person who is carnal and deaf to the voice of [...]

THE TRANSFORMED MIND

10 December, 2008 (00:37) | Teaching | By: rickvan

He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but because of His own pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing [bath] of the new birth (regeneration) and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 Which He poured out [so] richly upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior. Titus 3:5-6 AMP Sin [...]

THE LORD IS YOUR BENEFACTOR

8 December, 2008 (13:40) | Teaching | By: rickvan

David was greatly distressed, for the men spoke of stoning him because the souls of them all were bitterly grieved, each man for his sons and daughters. But David encouraged and strengthened himself in the Lord his God. 1 Samuel 30:6 AMP David was a worshiper. He praised God morning, noon, and night. He praised [...]

YOU FOLLOW ME

7 December, 2008 (19:10) | Teaching | By: rickvan

When they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these [others do--with reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion, as one loves the Father]? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You [that I have deep, instinctive, personal affection for You, as for a [...]

NOT EVEN THE SMELL OF SMOKE

6 December, 2008 (11:58) | Teaching | By: rickvan

Rodney Howard Browne shares a teaching from the bible   The stories in the Old Testament are types and shadows of the realities of the New Testament. In the book of Daniel, God’s people were in captivity, living in a foreign land, serving a foreign king. Four men from the tribe of Judah, Daniel, Shadrach, [...]