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“Real Marriage #5: Understanding and Appreciating Roles [part 2] — Pastor Shane Idleman – 3/3/2012
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Tagged Christ, Christian, Destructive influences, Divorce, Emotional roller coaster, God, Gospel, Humility, Husband and wife, John Piper, John Wesley, Marriage builders, Needs of the family, Re-marriage, Sermon, Service, Shane Idleman, Spiritual adultery, Westside Christian Fellowship, Worship
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Where Are The Bold, Authoritative Preachers Today?
A friend recently asked, “Where are those with uncompromising power and God-given authority in our pulpits today?” His statement reminded me of the desperate need for passionate, spirit-filled preachers focused on pleasing God rather than man. Our culture’s false perception of God as a cosmic ball of love, or a doting grandfather desperately needs to be challenged.
Unfortunately, difficult truths are often compromised, watered-down, or avoided altogether in the hope of “not offending,” “securing an audience,” or building a “mega-ministry.” As a result, the church is a mile wide but only an inch deep; judgment is never mentioned, repentance is never sought, sin is often excused, and lives are not radically changed. Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 Timothy 2:4, Antelope Valley Press, Article, Authority, AV Press, Calvin Miller, Charles Spurgeon, Christianity, Cross, Culture, D.L. Moody, God, Holiness, Huss, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jeremiah 23, Jesus, John Wesley, Judgement, Man, Martin Luther, Martyr, Newspaper, Paul, Peter, Power, Preaching, Pulpit, Revival, Richard Baxter, Robert Murray McCheyne, Sin, Teaching, Tyndale, Witnessing
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The Holy Spirit… Not Just for Charismatics
This is part III in a series on the Holy Spirit
Last week, I asked how many can say like Jeremiah, “His word was in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, and I could not” (20:9)?
If we are honest, we realize that the power of the Holy Spirit is clearly missing in the lives of many Christians.
I came across an encouraging book a few years ago entitled, They Found The Secret. It contains brief biographies of Christian leaders such as D.L. Moody, John Bunyan, Amy Carmichael, Charles Finney, Adoniram Judson, Oswald Chambers, Hudson Taylor, Andrew Murray, and more who (in their opinion) received the baptism of the Spirit after conversion…sometimes years later. In many cases, it wasn’t until they finally surrendered their entire life to God that they experienced such intensity that could only be born of the Spirit.
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Tagged A.W. Tozer, Acts 1:8, Adoniram Judson, Adrian Rogers, Amy Carmichael, Andrew Murray, Antelope Valley Press, Article, Author, AV Press, Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Billy Graham, burning fire, Calvin, Calvinistic, Charismatic, Charles Finney, complacency, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, D.L. Moody, David Brainerd, doubt, fear, George Whitefield, Holy Spirit, Hudson Taylor, Jeremiah 20:9, John Bunyan, John Owen, John Piper, John Wesley, judgmentalism, Newspaper, Oswald Chambers, Pastor, Power, pride, Reformed, Series, Sermon, Shane Idleman, stubbornness, Surrender, The Forgotten God, They Found The Secret, Thomas Goodwin, Who is the Holy Spirit
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