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Romans Road, part 2 The rest of the journey home

December 7, 2019 by bible805

If you invited someone to your home for dinner and they stopped halfway there, what would you think? That they didn’t care? Didn’t really want to be with you?
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In our podcast today we’ll see how that is a little like what it is like if we accept Jesus to be our Savior, but then we quit God’s plans for us only halfway to where He wants us to be.

Click the following link for a download of the PDF of the notes: NOTES Romans Road, part 2, the rest of the journey home

#57 The Romans Road, part one—The Road to Salvation

December 7, 2019 by bible805

Podcast on Romans, The Roman Road, part 1

Christians often refer to themselves as “saved”, but what does it mean to be “saved”? Saved from what?

In today’s podcast we’ll talk about the meaning of salvation and how to get from wherever we are to this spiritual destination. Our roadmap for this journey is found in the book of Romans.

Click the following link to download the notes: NOTES The Romans Road, part 1—the plan of salvation

The Early Church—what to learn from, what to follow

November 25, 2019 by bible805

As we read Acts and the early letters of Paul, we see the people of the early church selling everything, constantly in worship, doing miracles. Does that mean we should do these things also?

The history of the early church is no doubt exciting, as they worked miracles, held everything in common and lived a life of continual worship.

However, a key question for us living today is which of their actions should we follow as a normative command for the church today—meaning we should keep doing it because they did it and what should we understand simply as a history of the birth of the church, something to learn from in principle, but not necessarily a practice to precisely follow?

That’s what this podcast is about. Below you can listen and below that is a PDF of the notes.

To download a copy of the PDF of the notes, Click the following link: NOTES for The Early Church—what to learn from, what to follow

Changed lives and a world turned upside down Acts, James, Galatians

November 20, 2019 by bible805

What does it take to change a habit?

We’ve all struggled to lose weight or exercise or get up earlier or all sorts of things we wish we’d do differently.

But it’s never easy to change something we’ve been doing for many years, is it?

It’s never easy to change even the most simple of habits, but in our podcast today we’ll see that the followers of Jesus not only changed their personal behavior from that of fearful cowards to fearless leaders, but that thousands of Jewish believers totally changed the faith practices that had been the core of their identity since the time of Abraham.

In our podcast, we’ll look at the history of the incredible changes that took place after Jesus Resurrection that we read about in the book of Acts and then we’ll look at two of the earliest books that were written to the early church, James and Galatians.

CLICK the following link to download the PDF of the notes for the podcast and then below the podcast is a print out of the notes: Notes Birth of the Christian Church, Acts, James, Galatians

Who is Jesus? Answers from history, religions, and the Bible

November 14, 2019 by bible805

Who is Jesus?

Secular history and all the major religions of the world agree He existed, but they have very different answers as to who He is.

In our podcast today we’ll look at the history that verifies His existence, the beliefs about Him that have no basis in history all to help us answer the most important question of time and eternity—Who do you think Jesus is?

Click the following link for a copy of the PDF notes for the Podcast: PDF NOTES Who is Jesus, Answers from history, other religions and the Bible

Below the podcast is a copy of the notes:

Intro to the Gospels: Images of the Incarnation

October 27, 2019 by bible805

What is the most important thing about the Christian faith? How does it claim to connect you with God, forgive your sins, and give you eternal life?

So back to our question: what is the most important thing about the Christian faith?

• Is it knowing all the things you learned about the Old Testament if you’ve been listening to this podcast the last few months?

• Is it holding to certain beliefs like a 6-day Creation theory or 5-point Calvinism?

• Or is it what you do like being sure that you don’t do cheat on your spouse or taxes?

• As we will see in our lesson today it isn’t a what or a what you do, that is the most important thing about Christianity, that is at the core of what it takes to connect you with God, it’s a WHO