"description":"Douglas Moo gives a broad overview of the book of Colossians of how they were trying to fit Christ into the worldview they'd already adopted. He homes on some key thoughts in the book, such as bearing fruit and growing and God's rescue and redemption, like that in Exodus.",
"description":"The message of Colossians is that you don't need to go running after spiritual truth in other places in the \"religious marketplace\" outside of Christ. What is a life lived in Christ look like? It's rooted in Him, built up in Him, strengthened in Him, and full in Him.",
"description":"This section of Colossians celebrates the supremacy of Christ in creation and the new creation. All you could possibly know about God is found in Christ. He is not some \"blurry, impressionistic view\" of God but the exact image of the Father.",
"description":"McGee recalls that early in his ministry he was an \u2018apologetics preacher\u2019 but in later years he moved away from this emphasis. He explains this by observing that apologetics are helpful to helping a person believe the Bible is the Word of God, but only the Spirit can allow a person to know this. He reemphasizes this point by saying that we can\u2019t rely on biblical archaeology or science to confirm the Word of God\u2026the Holy Spirit must become real to us.",
"preacher_description":"J. Vernon McGee (1904 - 1988)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker J. Vernon McGee in mp3 format. Brother McGee pastored an inter-denominational church, Church Of The Open Door in California. In 1967 he started the now famous \"Through The Bible\" radio program that airs on thousands of stations world-wide.\r\n\r\nHis burden has been to do systematic simple bible teaching to equip believers, protect them against false doctrines and share the whole counsel of God. He also has been a guest lecturer at the Dallas Theological Seminary.",
"_scripture":[
{
"book":"Colossians",
"chapter":"1"
}
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},
{
"title":"(Presenting Christ #3) Fullness And Glory",
"description":"\"If we want our lives to be summed up and full of Christ,\" says brother Dana, \"there is a subtraction process.\" Tribulation in our lives teaches us to value the glory of Christ. If you set your heart to seek Him, you can be guaranteed to be resisted by the devil, the world and your flesh.",
"description":"\"You've been designed by God,\" teaches Ernie Hile, \"to live in spiritual fullness.\" Are you being satisfied with something other than the Lord Jesus, or are you seeking for practical ways to take Him up on His offer to come to Him and drink and experience those rivers of living water? (This message was delivered at Harvey-Cedars Conference 2006)",
"preacher_description":"Chuck Smith (1927 - 2013)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Chuck Smith in mp3 format. Pastor Chuck was used in the Jesus People revival where he was used along with others to minister to the hippy young people. They saw a work of the Spirit where many were added to the church and discipled. He has raised up many pastors who are a part of the Calvary Chapel movement now and where he pastors the large Costa Mesa church in California.\r\n\r\nThe Calvary Chapel movement is based of simple principles that Chuck Smith taught over the years such as: The priority of agape love, Simple fellowship amongst the saints, the breaking of bread, the teaching of God's word chapter by chapter and verse by verse. And lastly and most importantly the principle not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord.",
"_scripture":[
{
"book":"Colossians",
"chapter":"1"
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{
"title":"05 Principle 1 - Solely Looking to the Person of Jesus Christ",
"description":"We need the kind of humility that was expressed in the early Church as recorded in the Book of Acts. This kind of humility is today manifested in many underground and persecuted Churches across the world because they have dealt the death blow to pride and independence.39 These persecuted believers have become solely dependent on Jesus Christ as the Head to lead them and guide their meeting as Churches.40 A brother stated this truth, in another way: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Christ should be the gathering center of His people. We should be drawn by His presence, not by a man. When believers see this and act upon it, the local Assembly need not be shaken by the departure of any man. An Assembly where Christians gather to Christ has strength, stability and solidarity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
"description":"The Headship of Jesus Christ was not just a doctrine or an idea to the early Apostles but rather a present reality to them. The Lord was the active Head of the Church. They realized it was His Church and everything was done in His Name for Him and through Him.224 This apostolic dependency on the person of Jesus Christ allowed the Lord to be in control of each Assembly. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be Head over everything for the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
"description":"The Lord is crystal clear in the priority and importance He puts on our love one for another. This is not an option but a reality that will manifest when true believers are together.447 If love is lacking there should be a sense of alarm that something is wrong in the body life.448 The law of love says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d449 Our Lord not only commanded the early disciples to love one another but said that it would be a fruit that would show the world that God has assembled a Church on the earth. Every believer should consider reading through 1 Corinthians chapter 13 on a regular basis to keep the right priority in Christian discipleship.",
"description":"The Chinese believers see the Gospel of Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 death and resurrection in all their activities. Out of a great love for this Savior they speak to Him and of Him often to everyone they meet. The simplicity of the message of the cross of Christ581 has gripped them and persecution has allowed the Church as a whole to keep this as their main message. In every meeting of the underground Church, Jesus Christ is given the rightful place as Head582 of the meeting and He is recognized in the midst.",
"scripture":"Colossians 1:5, Matthew 24:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"A group of Christians was discovered in North Korea. They had worshiped God and His Son Jesus. Their children were with them. The adults were told by those who had captured them: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you do not acknowledge our Dear leader as god and if you do not renounce Christ, your children will be hanged.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d One of the children looked up at her mother. What would she do? Earlier that morning, twenty-eight other Christians had been bound and taken before a screaming crowd of North Koreans. The guards made it clear: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny your Christ you will die.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The mother thought of her child but she could not deny her Lord. The other Christians quietly made the same decision. Their God was real.",
"scripture":"Colossians 1:18, 1 Peter 5:3, Revelation 2:7",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"This book has been prepared to encourage believers to gather in small gatherings under the Headship of Jesus Christ.795 Thus no man is head over the fellowships as a whole that gather in this way. Though servant leaders are submitted to, there is no one brother over all fellowships controlling them. True submission to authority in the Church should not be because of someone who was voted in or hired but because of their spiritual walk with the Lord. Thus people submit to them willingly seeing Christ formed in them and desiring to emulate their walk with the Lord.",
"description":"Dr. Stanley examines Paul's prayer found in Colossians 1:9-14. He says that is exactly the prayer that he wants someone to pray for him, and the prayer that you and I should pray for each other. He adds that the most powerful thing that anyone can do for anyone else \"on the face of this earth is to pray for them.\"",
"preacher_description":"T. Austin Sparks (1888 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1971)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker T. Austin Sparks in mp3 format. He was ordained as a Baptist pastor at the age of 24, and from 1912 to 1926 led three congregations in Greater London. During these years, he was also closely related to Jessie Penn-Lewis and her publication and speaking ministry, the \"Overcomer Testimony.\"\r\n\r\nAmong the many books that he wrote, at least three are regarded as Christian classics: The School of Christ, The Centrality and Supremacy of the Lord Jesus Christ and We Beheld His Glory. The primary theme of Sparks' books is the exaltation of the Lord Jesus Christ. He mentored Watchman Nee for many years and was very influential in his understanding of the Church Life.",
"preacher_description":"T. Austin Sparks (1888 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1971)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker T. Austin Sparks in mp3 format. He was ordained as a Baptist pastor at the age of 24, and from 1912 to 1926 led three congregations in Greater London. During these years, he was also closely related to Jessie Penn-Lewis and her publication and speaking ministry, the \"Overcomer Testimony.\"\r\n\r\nAmong the many books that he wrote, at least three are regarded as Christian classics: The School of Christ, The Centrality and Supremacy of the Lord Jesus Christ and We Beheld His Glory. The primary theme of Sparks' books is the exaltation of the Lord Jesus Christ. He mentored Watchman Nee for many years and was very influential in his understanding of the Church Life.",
"description":"\"We can talk a big talk,\" David Smithers exhorts, \"but unless we can love one another we're not going to go deeper.\" The end of all Christian growth is love, and we're to abound in it. Smithers addresses many hard hitting issues of lovelessness and a lack of God's grace that hinder Christlikeness in our lives. How does our love measure up to Jesus Christ?",
"description":"\u201cFor it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.\u201d \u2014 Colossians 1:19. THE preacher is under no difficulties this morning as to the practical object to be aimed at in his discourse. Every subject should be considered with an object, every discourse should have a definite spiritual aim; otherwise we do not so much preach as play at preaching. The connection plainly indicates what our drift should be. Read the words immediately preceding the text, and you find it declared that our Lord Jesus is in all things to have the pre-eminence. We would seer; by this text to yield honor and glory to the ever-blessed Redeemer, and enthrone him in the highest seat in our hearts. O that we may all be in an adoring frame of mind, and may give him the pre-eminence in our thoughts, beyond all things or persons in heaven or earth. Blessed is he who can do or think: the most to honor such a Lord as our Immanuel. The verse which succeeds the text, shows us how we may best promote the glory of Christ, for since he came into this world that he might reconcile the things in heaven and the things in earth to himself, we shall best glorify him by falling in with his great design of mercy. By seeking to bring sinners into a state of reconciliation with God, we are giving to the great Reconciler the pre-eminence...",
"preacher_description":"C.H. Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker C.H. Spurgeon in mp3 format. Spurgeon quickly became known as one of the most influential preachers of his time. Well known for his biblical powerful expositions of scripture and oratory ability. In modern evangelical circles he is stated to be the \"Prince of Preachers.\" He pastored the Metropolitan Tabernacle in downtown London, England. \r\n\r\nHis church was part of a particular baptist church movement and they defended and preached Christ and Him crucified and the purity of the Gospel message. Spurgeon never gave altar calls but always extended the invitation to come to Christ. He was a faithful minister in his time that glorified God and brought many to the living Christ.",
"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",
"description":"Much error that comes into Christianity is not because people teach error but because one truth is magnified so much at the expense of another truth. Zac Poonen concentrates on six areas where we need to be balanced, the first two expounded in this sermon: 1) faith and works, and 2) love for God and love for man.",
"preacher_description":"Zac Poonen ( - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Zac Poonen in mp3 format. God called brother Zac Poonen to a new work early on in his Christian experience. The movement is now called Christian Fellowship Churches where the New Covenant of New Testament Christianity is clearly preached. \r\n\r\nBrother Zac Poonen has written 25 books most of them being on the deeper Christian life. Many of these have been translated into a number of languages and have been circulated widely around the world. He clearly and passionately shares the narrow way of Christian discipleship that is neglected by so many modern preachers.",
"_scripture":[
{
"book":"Colossians",
"chapter":"1"
},
{
"book":"2 Timothy",
"chapter":"3"
}
]
},
{
"title":"Choose your overcomer: Christ or the flesh",
"description":"I was making mention of an article in Time magazine the other day where churchmen of different churches and of great renown were expressing themselves about the conditions in the world, and what place the church held, and the preaching of the gospel. They said very nice things, but all of them missed the main thing. We have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153turned to God from idols\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to wait for His Son from heaven.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Every Christian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s job and responsibility is to prepare the way for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But you cannot know \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jesus Christ whom He has sent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d until you experience Him\u00e2\u20ac\u201duntil you live Him, praise God!\u00e2\u20ac\u201duntil He takes over.",
"preacher_description":"Hans R. Waldvogel (1893 - 1969)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Hans R. Waldvogel in mp3 format. A powerful preacher who ministered as a pentecostal minister. He did not believe in sectarian groups but rather saw the Church as a whole who have the person of Christ in them. Brother Waldvogel gleamed from many different men of God including A.B. Simpson.\r\n\r\nHis preaching was centred around the very person of Jesus Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit. He spoke much of the rest of the Lord in Christian work and experience and the Spirit-filled life.",
"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":"J. Glyn Owen ( - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker J. Glyn Owen in mp3 format. A welshman, Dr. Glyn Owen pastored many congregations with solid biblical exposition of the Holy Scriptures. He took over the pastorate from Martyn Lloyd-Jones after his retirement for 3 years. His preached in some Keswick convention meetings in England and has a heart for Biblical revival.\r\n\r\nDuring his pastorate at Knox Presbyterian Church in downtown Toronto, his preaching ministry attracted many young people who had come to Christ in the counter-culture Jesus Movement, and who were longing for solid biblical teaching.",
"preacher_description":"J. Glyn Owen ( - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker J. Glyn Owen in mp3 format. A welshman, Dr. Glyn Owen pastored many congregations with solid biblical exposition of the Holy Scriptures. He took over the pastorate from Martyn Lloyd-Jones after his retirement for 3 years. His preached in some Keswick convention meetings in England and has a heart for Biblical revival.\r\n\r\nDuring his pastorate at Knox Presbyterian Church in downtown Toronto, his preaching ministry attracted many young people who had come to Christ in the counter-culture Jesus Movement, and who were longing for solid biblical teaching.",
"preacher_description":"J. Glyn Owen ( - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker J. Glyn Owen in mp3 format. A welshman, Dr. Glyn Owen pastored many congregations with solid biblical exposition of the Holy Scriptures. He took over the pastorate from Martyn Lloyd-Jones after his retirement for 3 years. His preached in some Keswick convention meetings in England and has a heart for Biblical revival.\r\n\r\nDuring his pastorate at Knox Presbyterian Church in downtown Toronto, his preaching ministry attracted many young people who had come to Christ in the counter-culture Jesus Movement, and who were longing for solid biblical teaching.",
"preacher_description":"J. Glyn Owen ( - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker J. Glyn Owen in mp3 format. A welshman, Dr. Glyn Owen pastored many congregations with solid biblical exposition of the Holy Scriptures. He took over the pastorate from Martyn Lloyd-Jones after his retirement for 3 years. His preached in some Keswick convention meetings in England and has a heart for Biblical revival.\r\n\r\nDuring his pastorate at Knox Presbyterian Church in downtown Toronto, his preaching ministry attracted many young people who had come to Christ in the counter-culture Jesus Movement, and who were longing for solid biblical teaching.",
"description":"\"The closest relationship you've ever had with Jesus,\" shares Ed Miller, \"is only a handful of corn compared to what's coming.\" Creation, the Christian, and the Spirit all groan in sympathy with what God's future plan that brings comfort and assurance of true holiness today. Holiness does not come by studying holiness but entering into the substitution of the Savior.",
"preacher_description":"Paul Washer (1961 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Paul Washer in mp3 format. Brother Washer is the founder of Heart Cry Missionary society that funds and supports indigenous missionaries all across the world. He served as a missionary personally in Peru for many years. He has a passion for the glory of God and the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\r\n\r\nWell-known on the internet for the audio and video message: \"Shocking Message to Youth\" he has been an in-demand speaker for many conventions and gatherings. He has recently published a new book: \"The Gospel's Power and Message\" that is highly recommended by many.",
"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.",
"_scripture":[
{
"book":"Colossians",
"chapter":"1"
}
]
},
{
"title":"Finishing the Course - 02 Filling up what is lacking",
"preacher_description":"Zac Poonen ( - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Zac Poonen in mp3 format. God called brother Zac Poonen to a new work early on in his Christian experience. The movement is now called Christian Fellowship Churches where the New Covenant of New Testament Christianity is clearly preached. \r\n\r\nBrother Zac Poonen has written 25 books most of them being on the deeper Christian life. Many of these have been translated into a number of languages and have been circulated widely around the world. He clearly and passionately shares the narrow way of Christian discipleship that is neglected by so many modern preachers.",
"preacher_description":"Jim Cymbala (1949 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Jim Cymbala in mp3 format. Brother Jim Cymbala was called into ministry without formal training in Brooklyn, New York to pastor a small gathering. God showed him the great need of prayer and depending on the work of the Holy Spirit in the ministry. God blessed and grew the brooklyn tabernacle to a large church of thousands because of this reliance.\r\n\r\nThe burden of his ministry is to show the vital need for prayer, deependence on God and that God uses the weak and lowly to build His kingdom. He has written many books including the best-selling: \"Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire\" and his newer book \"Spirit Rising\" speaking of the neglected work of the Holy Spirit in our churches these days.",
"description":"November 7, 2004 - It pleases God when we are a diligent seeker after Him. Out of seeking Him , the love that flows from Him will flow out to the body. This is a commandment of God to love the Lord and our neighbor as ourselves. But it doesn\u2019t stop there we must be willing to go out into the streets and seek out the lost and hurting souls that don\u2019t know about the love of Jesus.",
"preacher_description":"David Wilkerson (1931 \u2013 2011)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker David Wilkerson in mp3 format. Founder of Times Square Church in New York City with over 100 different languages spoken in the congregation. Wilkerson wrote many powerful books such as: The Vision and Cross and the Switchblade. His ministry was prophetic as God called him to be a watchman to the Church in North America. He gave clear messages on repentance to the Church. \r\n\r\nWilkerson also founded Teen Challenge where there are hundreds of centres for Christ-centered drug recovery and addiction recovery. He also organized and spoke at pastors gatherings in many countries where he gave prophetic strong messages to encourage pastors and leaders.",
"preacher_description":"Jim Cymbala (1949 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Jim Cymbala in mp3 format. Brother Jim Cymbala was called into ministry without formal training in Brooklyn, New York to pastor a small gathering. God showed him the great need of prayer and depending on the work of the Holy Spirit in the ministry. God blessed and grew the brooklyn tabernacle to a large church of thousands because of this reliance.\r\n\r\nThe burden of his ministry is to show the vital need for prayer, deependence on God and that God uses the weak and lowly to build His kingdom. He has written many books including the best-selling: \"Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire\" and his newer book \"Spirit Rising\" speaking of the neglected work of the Holy Spirit in our churches these days.",
"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",
"scripture":"Matthew 16:24, Colossians 1:24, 1 Peter 2:21",
"topic":"Cross Of Christ",
"description":"Starting with a quote from C.H. Spurgeon, \"Jesus bears not the cross so that you may escape it, but that you may endure it,\" this sermon delivers a message which adopts and adheres the previous two messages into our own bearing of the cross. It is stated herein that one of the greatest libels against the cross in our day is the idea that the believer in the cross is absented from any form of suffering. It is the cruciform life which will generate a necessary friction against the kingdoms of this world. We must apprehend that this conflict is an intention of God through his people, and in every sense, a diet of the things of this world will by nature slicken any apprehension of this cross-centered friction. The hearing of this sermon in its deepest of intentions will bring you face to face with Jesus calling you Satan, that is to say...you are Satanic if you cherish not the things of God over the things of man. We are admonished to take up the cross and follow Christ for, \"Natural man is always the instrument by which Satanic things are brought into being in the collision between kingdoms.\"",
"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":"David Wilkerson (1931 \u2013 2011)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker David Wilkerson in mp3 format. Founder of Times Square Church in New York City with over 100 different languages spoken in the congregation. Wilkerson wrote many powerful books such as: The Vision and Cross and the Switchblade. His ministry was prophetic as God called him to be a watchman to the Church in North America. He gave clear messages on repentance to the Church. \r\n\r\nWilkerson also founded Teen Challenge where there are hundreds of centres for Christ-centered drug recovery and addiction recovery. He also organized and spoke at pastors gatherings in many countries where he gave prophetic strong messages to encourage pastors and leaders.",
"description":"Does Jesus Christ have an exalted place in your heart? Jesus is worthy of all of your hearts adoration. How is it with your first love for Christ? Are you enthralled with the fact that Jesus loves you and has forgiven your sins, or do you take it for granted?",
"description":"Billy Graham gives an opening statement at the Lausanne congress 1974 asking for prayer and introduces Corrie Ten Boom in the meeting. Corrie speaks on the need of the Holy Spirit Power in the Christian life. She speaks on how we can have God's boundless resources when we obey the happy commandment to be filled with the Spirit. The Spirit of God gives us the power to be witnesses for the great commission.",
"preacher_description":"Corrie Ten Boom (1892 - 1983)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Corrie Ten Boom in mp3 format. Known for the book the \"Hiding Place\" where she smuggled Jewish people during the great World Wars under the Nazi regime. She had a vibrant faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that showed in her love for others especially the people of Israel. She ended up going to a concentration camp where she suffered greatly and survived to share the story of faith. \r\n\r\nCorrie's faith story and testimony was shared in many settings especially in the 60-70's where she toured all across North America encouraging Christians of how to endure coming persecution. Her ministry was to encourage faith and love in the hardest circumstances.",
"preacher_description":"Jim Cymbala (1949 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Jim Cymbala in mp3 format. Brother Jim Cymbala was called into ministry without formal training in Brooklyn, New York to pastor a small gathering. God showed him the great need of prayer and depending on the work of the Holy Spirit in the ministry. God blessed and grew the brooklyn tabernacle to a large church of thousands because of this reliance.\r\n\r\nThe burden of his ministry is to show the vital need for prayer, deependence on God and that God uses the weak and lowly to build His kingdom. He has written many books including the best-selling: \"Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire\" and his newer book \"Spirit Rising\" speaking of the neglected work of the Holy Spirit in our churches these days.",
"_scripture":[
{
"book":"Colossians",
"chapter":"1"
}
]
},
{
"title":"The Pleasure of God in the Gospel of His Son",
"description":"This message was preached on September 6, 2009, at the Guinavah Campground amphitheater. \"For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight.\" (Colossians 1:19-22) Contrary to what we might feel, God does not reluctantly forgive sins but He is pleased and full of joy to reconcile His enemies unto Himself. It pleased the Lord to crush His Son for our sakes, and when we apprehend this wonderful knowledge of God's good pleasure in the gospel, our hearts will be liberated and our lives transformed.",
"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",
"_scripture":[
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"book":"Colossians",
"chapter":"1"
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{
"title":"The Supremacy of Christ in Truth in a Postmodern World",
"description":"Every human being is asking, has asked, or will ask these questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is wrong with the world? and Can what is wrong be made right? It is very important that Christians not only answer these questions, but answer them in a manner that distinguishes the Christian worldview from all others. Paul gives us a model for doing so in Colossians chapter one.",
"description":"A wonderfully encouraging and challenging message for any true believer who has struggled with striving and works to prove themselves worthy of God. Paul takes us deeper into the true meaning of Jesus' words \"Abide in Me\" and how through abiding, we bear His fruit.",
"preacher_description":"Paul Washer (1961 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Paul Washer in mp3 format. Brother Washer is the founder of Heart Cry Missionary society that funds and supports indigenous missionaries all across the world. He served as a missionary personally in Peru for many years. He has a passion for the glory of God and the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\r\n\r\nWell-known on the internet for the audio and video message: \"Shocking Message to Youth\" he has been an in-demand speaker for many conventions and gatherings. He has recently published a new book: \"The Gospel's Power and Message\" that is highly recommended by many.",
"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.",
"description":"Ed Miller offers refreshing insight of Christ revealed in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, particularly how it is all about two kingdoms: the kingdom of man and the kingdom of God. If you have ever asked yourself, \"How can I be delivered completely from the kingdom of man?\" this message may cause you to expect Jesus Christ to work in your life in a bold way.",
"description":"In this teaching, Pastor Cymbala gives a clear picture of what it would have been like if we were present when Jesus entered Zacchaeus's house. Col 1:15-20; 3:12-13 (NIV)",
"preacher_description":"Jim Cymbala (1949 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Jim Cymbala in mp3 format. Brother Jim Cymbala was called into ministry without formal training in Brooklyn, New York to pastor a small gathering. God showed him the great need of prayer and depending on the work of the Holy Spirit in the ministry. God blessed and grew the brooklyn tabernacle to a large church of thousands because of this reliance.\r\n\r\nThe burden of his ministry is to show the vital need for prayer, deependence on God and that God uses the weak and lowly to build His kingdom. He has written many books including the best-selling: \"Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire\" and his newer book \"Spirit Rising\" speaking of the neglected work of the Holy Spirit in our churches these days.",
