"description":"Where in the life of Christ was one hour of more significance than another? Throughout the New Testament we read of occasions when Jesus' enemies tried to kill him, but were prevented because \"His hour had not yet come.\" What is this \"hour\" of which the Scriptures speak? Major Ian Thomas says, \"It is the hour without which the Lord Jesus would have been born to live in vain.\" He uses John 12:24, in several translations, to describe the hour on which our salvation rests.",
"preacher_description":"Major Ian Thomas (1914 \u2013 2007)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Major Ian Thomas in mp3 format. Evangelical writer, theological teacher and founder of the Torchbearers bible schools. These schools are now world-wide in many countries and provide a teaching base on the person of Christ in the believer and basic Biblical exposition of Bible books.\r\n\r\nAmong the many books that he wrote, the most influential have been: \"The Saving Life Of Christ\" , \"The mystery of godliness\" and \"If I perish, I Perish.\" His burden in ministry was to express and show the indwelling life of Christ in believers and the rest and power that life will have in us as we trust and have faith.",
"preacher_description":"Carter Conlon ( - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Carter Conlon in mp3 format. Carter Conlon is the Senior Pastor of Times Square Church. David Wilkerson is the Founding Pastor of Times Square Church. God called Brother Carter to full-time ministry in Canada by faith and He has been serving the Lord with the same faith till this day. \r\n\r\nGod has used brother Carter Conlon to preach across the world at pastors conferences and evangelism crusades. He has also recently written 2 books with the newest title: \"Fear Not\" in which he is strengthening the body of Christ for what is coming upon the world in the end-times.",
"description":"Michael Brown encourages a radical following of Jesus that mortifies the flesh, denies the self and sacrifices everything to reach the world and burn for Christ. It\u2019s a powerful call to suffer for the sake of taking up the cross to be a part of Christ reaching the world.",
"preacher_description":"Michael L. Brown ( - )\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Michael L. Brown in mp3 format. Michael L. Brown is the founder and president of FIRE School of Ministry in Concord, North Carolina, director of the Coalition of Conscience, and host of the daily, nationally, syndicated talk radio show, The Line of Fire, as well as the host of the Jewish-outreach, documentary TV series, Think It Thru, which airs internationally on the INI network. He became a believer in Jesus 1971 as a sixteen year-old, heroin-shooting, LSD-using Jewish rock drummer. Since then, he has preached throughout America and around the world, bringing a message of repentance, revival, reformation, and cultural revolution.\r\nDr. Brown is a national and international speaker on themes of spiritual renewal and cultural reformation, and he has debated Jewish rabbis, agnostic professors, and gay activists on radio, TV, and college campuses. He is widely considered to be the world's foremost Messianic Jewish apologist. He and his wife Nancy, who is also a Jewish believer in Jesus, have been married since 1976. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.",
"preacher_description":"George Verwer (1938 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker George Verwer in mp3 format. Founder of Operation Mobilization an missions organization that sends out full-time and part-time missionaries to many countries in the world. One of the burdens of brother George has been to distribute powerful literature to Christians such as: \"The Calvary Road by Roy Hession,\" and many others. \r\n\r\nGeorge Verwer has written many books including the powerful book: \"Come, Live, Die!\" He has mobilized and encouraged thousands of Christian workers to fulfill their calling in the Lord to reach the lost world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.",
"preacher_description":"Paris Reidhead (1919 - 1992)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Paris Reidhead in mp3 format. Was a Christian missionary, teacher, writer, and advocate of economic development in impoverished nations. A spiritual crisis during this period\u2014as he described two decades later in what is probably his best-known recorded teaching, \"Ten Shekels and a Shirt\"--left Reidhead with the conviction that much of evangelicalism had adopted utilitarian and humanistic philosophies contradictory to Biblical teaching. The end of all being, he came to believe, was not the happiness of man, but the glorification of God. This theme would recur throughout his later teaching.\r\n\r\nSince Mr. Reidhead's death in 1992, Bible Teaching Ministries, Inc. continues under the leadership of his wife, Marjorie, and daughter, Virginia Teitt, a dedicated Board, and the many people who have donated time and talent after being changed by God\u2019s Word through this message. The message of the Gospel is reaching an ever-widening audience all over the world.",
"preacher_description":"Jackie Pullinger (1944 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Jackie Pullinger in mp3 format. Shortly after her experience of being born-again the Lord called her to take a one-way ticket to Hong Kong, China. Her story is chronicled in the book: \"Chasing the Dragon\" which is a best-seller inspirational missionary story. He has founded St Stephen's Society in Hong Kong that helps serve drug addicts and gives them the life-transforming Gospel message.\r\n\r\nHer burden in ministry has been to show the love of Christ to the hurting and helpless. She saw in the message of the Gospel it had to have a response for us also to go and serve others. She teaches and shows this full-surrender is a simple response to receiving God's love in Jesus Christ.",
"preacher_description":"Bill McLeod (1919 - 2012)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Bill McLeod in mp3 format. Bill Mcleod was the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church for many years where ultimately God sent revival to that affecting much of Canada. He had a passion to know God and His word. Paul Washer said he was one of the most godly men he met in Canada.\r\n\r\nBill Mcleod had been praying and had his congregation praying for revival for years. On, October 17, 1971, God in His sovereignty came in revival. Without human means or explanation, the revival spread from church to church, community to community, city to city, and not long after from province to province. This has become known as the 1971 Canadian Revival movement.",
"description":"The human condition is intrinsically rooted in egocentric living. It is a powerful disposition and therefore requires the most radical dealing at the hand of God before He will entrust His Spirit to any man.",
"preacher_description":"Art Katz (1929 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2007)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Art Katz in mp3 format. He was radically converted by reading the New Testament. God used him to have a powerful prophetic insight into the end-times and the coming suffering of the jewish people before the great accepting of Jesus as Messiah. His eschatological insight is a very needful truth to be realized in the body of Christ. \r\n\r\nArt was a prophetic voice insofar as he called his listeners to purposes in God that would affect both time and eternity, purposes that had to do with the glory of God in the Church. Frequently, his messages called the Church to an awareness of the Last Days [End-times] in such a way that made that time seem imminent and at the door.",
"preacher_description":"Leonard Ravenhill (1907 \u00c2\u2013 1994)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Leonard Ravenhill in mp3 format. A revivalist and man of God who sought God's will above all else. He was a man of prayer who practiced what he preached. He wrote the book: 'Why Revival Tarries' which has become a classic on revival. His prophetic edge and burden made him to be respected by some and disliked by others. Yet he stayed true to God's call on his life prayed and pleading for true heaven sent revival. \r\n\r\n\"Those who know of Leonard Ravenhill recognize in him the religious specialist, the man sent from God to battle the priests of Baal on their own mountain top, to shame the careless priest at the altar, to face the false prophet, and to warn the people who are being led astray by him. \" - Tozer | \"Leonard Ravenhill was one of the few men I have ever known who was a true prophet.\" - David Wilkerson",
"preacher_description":"Alan Redpath (1907 - 1989)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Alan Redpath in mp3 format. Redpath was a well-known preacher from England who pastored the famous Moody church in chicago for 7 years. He ministered at Keswick conventions and also deeper life meetings on the subject of revival, prayer, full-surrender. He spent the later years of his life ministering Capernwray bible school movement founded by Major Ian Thomas.\r\n\r\nDr. Redpath authored six books; the first one, Victorious Christian Living, was published in 1955. Others were Victorious Prayer (1956), Victorious Christian Service (1958), The Royal Route to Heaven (1960), Blessings Out of Buffettings (1965), The Making of a Man of God (1962), and Law and Liberty and Captivity to Conquest (1978).",
"_scripture":[
{
"book":"Galatians",
"chapter":"4"
}
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},
{
"title":"The The Ministry of the Saints\u2014Dying to Self",
"description":"Greatness in the kingdom of God is humility and servanthood, which require dying to self and sacrifice for the spiritual welfare of the saints. If something is a stumbling block or an offense to a brother, we do not have the liberty to do it. Another part of this ministry is speaking to one another when there have been offenses, in the way that Jesus taught.",
