"description":"What is the reason for my existence? Why was I born? We need to live our lives with vision and purpose, or we will go backwards spiritually. As a married person, child, or single, God has a clear purpose for my existence.",
"description":"Our lives should be lived with God's vision and purpose. In the everyday work of life, does Christ flow out of us? It all starts at home, but the ripple effect of Christ's purpose for our lives should reach the world around us. There was a discussion on practical ways that one can reach out personally or as a family.",
"description":"To be able to admonish one another is a mark of a spiritual body of Christ. This message is full of teaching on giving and receiving reproof and admonition, to the end that we may be wise!",
"description":"In this message, Brother Aaron Hurst shares how God often uses trials to exercise us in patient endurance. Aaron talks about how the prophets patiently endured persecution. He also discusses the patience of Job, and tells how Job retained his integrity in spite of intense sufferings. Trials can purify us if we trust in the Lord through the trials.",
"description":"Just as the Galatians began by faith, then foolishly leaned back toward the works of the flesh, we too can be tempted to \"methods\" as we practice the Word of God. The danger is to become principle oriented and lose sight of the God of the principles. This message exhorts us to live BY FAITH.",
"description":"This message is directed to sinners and to Christians. How are we building our lives? We have the option of using gold or wood\u2014enduring substance or temporal. Will we come up higher in our surrender as a living sacrifice, or will we settle for our own will and the old man? God is calling us closer to Himself.",
"description":"Are you a half-baked Christian? Are you trying to live like the world and be a Christian at the same time? This message is a clarion call to forsake the lukewarm mixture of worldliness and Christianity that many people are trying to live, and to consecrate yourself entirely to Christ.",
"description":"An expository teaching on James 2, covering the subjects of partiality and of faith and works. Partiality is showing preference to someone we feel comfortable around. Faith works. Very practical definitions are given to each of these subjects.",
"description":"The essence of sin is self, the big \"I\". Fightings and wars come from knowing God has said \"No,\" and yet taking that which He has forbidden, because I think that I am wiser, and I want what is forbidden. People at war with themselves tend to be at war with others. Unconditional surrender is the only way to complete victory.",
"description":"Jesus is a friend of sinners. He seeks those who go astray and are lost. His heart of love constrains Him to diligently pursue the sinner. He laid down His life for us. When we come to Him in repentance, He accepts and forgives us.",
"description":"The purpose of church discipline is redemptive. If sin in a church member is ignored, it will have a devastating effect on the church. Excommunication must not be done carelessly, but it is necessary at times to preserve the rest of the body. This message also discusses other forms of church discipline that should be used before excommunication.",
"description":"This is a continuing exposition in James. Do I seek the will of God, or do I see His will as bitter medicine that I must take? Am I afraid of God's will? to freely give up? to surrender? As we see God's perfect will worked out in the past, it builds faith to surrender all. The question, \"Do I really want God's will?\" is crucial to understanding and proving the will of God.",
"description":"Are any of you going through a trial? It was said of Jesus that ''..who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross...\" If we go through the trials in our lives looking ahead by faith, we can thank and praise God though the trial. We are also exhorted in God's word to admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.",
"description":"Conclusion of the study of James. When praying for the sick we need to pray in faith expecting an answer, with a surrendered heart for the will of God to be done. To summarize the book of James is to define true faith.",
"description":"There are many lessons in Jude which are relevant to us today. This message warns us of false prophets and false doctrines which are infiltrating the church and society. However, in the midst of this decay, there are those who are seeking for truth and righteousness. Will we make a difference in their lives?",
"description":"This message examines several issues in James 1 that set apart true religion from false. This includes joy in trials, unwavering faith, singleness of mind, enduring temptation, and purity of heart.",
"description":"The Lord our God is one Lord. This message takes us first to the oneness of the Trinity, then God's desire for oneness between man and God, and finally oneness in the body of Christ, with the latter being the main part of the message. What keeps us from that unity? Many verses are explored as we look at God's heart for His body, the bride of Christ.",
"description":"Pastor Aaron Hurst reminds us that all people must die a physical death. But are we prepared to live the spiritual life afterward, or will we die a second time (the spiritual death of the unredeemed and the wicked). When Isaiah told King Hezikaiah that he must die soon and to get his \"house\" in order, the prophet was speaking to all of us. Death can come suddenly and unexpectedly. Are we prepared to meet God at any moment?",
"description":"We as children of God overcome by the blood of Lamb, by the word of our testimony, and in not loving our lives unto death. Is our life a reality of trusting in the blood of Jesus and looking unto the Lamb? Is it a testimony of God's grace? In closing, several examples of faithful men of old from the Word of God were lifted up as an encouragement to us who are now running the race.",
"description":"Practical applications and direction for husbands on cultivating a spirit-filled marriage. Issues covered include humility, communication, moral purity, forgiveness and repentance.",
"description":"Sunday is becoming another ordinary day in today's society. While we are not required to keep the Old Testament sabbath, the principles of it still apply to us today. Those who don't set aside a day for the Lord don't prosper spiritually. Don't let the cares of life distract you on the Lord's Day. Our focus should be on the Lord, not our own pleasure.",
"description":"Our ministry is to deeply appreciate and serve the Lord, then our spouse, thirdly our children (or parents), then the body of Christ. Ministry outside of the body flows from this foundation. As goes the home, so goes the church. This will affect the souls of all of our descendants, which could be in the thousands in just three generations.",
"description":"Ministry outside of the church is vitally important, but we cannot bypass the needs within the church to do so. It is God's heart for us to refresh the inward parts of the saints through encouragement, exhortation, discipleship, prayer, and many other means. This kind of love requires sacrifice, opening up and making ourselves vulnerable.",
"description":"\"First, in Jerusalem...\" Most of us won't go to a foreign mission field, but are we fulfilling God's command to \"Go!\"? The mission fields of our companion, our children, our brethren, our work places and the places we touch in every day life lay at our fingertips. Are we obeying, or do we think that \"going\" means across the ocean, neglecting the very opportunities that we have here?",
"description":"Jesus Christ has come to heal and save. When Jesus came on the scene of the lame man by the pool of Bethesda, a man found healing after thirty-eight years of lying there. Christ's power is also available to us. Are there areas in our lives where we are lame? When we are willing to get real with Him, His healing is also available to us.",
"description":"An in-depth teaching on the qualifications of an elder. The Apostle Paul's words to Timothy and Titus are defined and expounded on, in preparation for an ordination at Charity Christian Fellowship.",
"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.",
"description":"If the people of God would live in the expectancy of His return it would have a sanctifying affect. Works and self righteousness will not do; only the sacrificial blood of Jesus Christ applied to our lives will prepare us for that day. A warning and a blessing from I Thes. 5 as the church prepares to \"multiply\".",
"description":"The wisdom and grace that enables a man to bridle his tongue will be the same wisdom and grace that will enable him to control his actions, attitudes and whole life. A changed tongue is found only in changing the source. No man can tame the tongue\u2014but the Lord can! This message is full of practical teaching.",
"description":"Good things done at the wrong time will not turn out right. God calls us to be sensitive to Him and know His timing. Are we in tune with what He is asking us to do today, whether it be joyous or difficult? He will make everything beautiful in His time.",
"description":"Aaron Hurst presents to us a plea to be made a clean, spotless vessel\u2014fit for the Master's use. He exhorts us to surrender everything and be used by God.",
"description":"It is possible to have been born of the Spirit, but choose to walk in the flesh. Romans says if we live after the flesh, we will die. Brother Aaron challenges us to examine our walk; it is possible to die a very slow death. Which are we walking in\u2014the flesh? or the Spirit?",
"description":"In America you can live the \"good life\", add Christ to it and call yourself a Christian. This message looks at what taking up the cross really is. We either deny self, or we deny Christ. Which are you denying?",
"description":"Does your walk talk what your talk talks? Wisdom is seen in the fruit of a life. A clear teaching on heavenly wisdom versus earthly wisdom from verses 13-18 in James 3.",
"description":"A woman can be a great influence on her husband, in either a positive or a negative way. This message examines the role of a wife from a well-balanced, biblical viewpoint.",
"description":"The name of our precious Lord Jesus is being destroyed by \"western Christians\" in the eyes of many Islamic peoples in the East. The evils of the West and Christianity come together in one package in their minds. Are we being the salt God has meant us to be, or has our life lost its saltiness and our talk no longer matches our walk? What does my life say?",
