Apostolic Purpose

In this week’s session of our study in Acts , we look into Acts 2 and the Day of Pentecost. What is the significance of the Feast of Pentecost? Why did Jesus pour out the Spirit on this day? We explore this as well as what happened with the Holy Spirit descended. Join us, and if you enjoy these sessions, kindly share them to a friend. Class notes are available here as a PDF . If you like, you can...

In this week’s session of our study in Acts , we completed our look at Chapter 1, exploring what happened during the ten important days between Jesus’ Ascension into Heaven and the outpouring of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost. If you enjoy these sessions, kindly share them to a friend. Class notes are available here as a PDF . If you like, you can also watch on my YouTube channel . EXCERPT: If...

We’ve begun a new course on the Book of Acts, a verse by verse study that will likely run about six months. In this session we begin to examine the text, exploring the last chapter of Luke and the beginning of Acts. We hope you’ll watch or listen every week, and if you enjoy these sessions that you’ll share them. Class notes are available here as a PDF . If you like, you can also watch on my YouTu...

We’ve begun a new course on the Book of Acts, a verse by verse study that will likely run about six months. This week’s opening session looks at some basics of the Book of Acts and its role in the New Testament. We discuss some of Luke’s likely purposes in writing Luke and Acts. We hope you’ll watch or listen every week, and if you enjoy these sessions that you’ll share them. Class notes are avail...

Here's my sermon yesterday on the presentation of Jesus, called "Seeing The Salvation Of God." If you like, you can also watch on my YouTube channel . EXCERPT: Jesus was a man. Yes, he was fully God, but also fully man. The Bible says He became like us in all things, so He could be our faithful High Priest. He can sympathize with us because He became a part of God’s people in every way. He didn’t...

This week’s session in our healing course is called “Following Jesus In Works of Healing." We talked about how it’s important to spend time in the Gospels and the Acts in order to learn from Jesus’ healing ministry and to increase our faith for healing. We then explored some passages in the Gospels to observe Jesus at work. Class notes are available here as a PDF . If you like, you can also watch...

Painting: “Abraham and Lot Divide The Land,” by Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert (1592-1655) The Departure Of Lot (Genesis 13:5-18) In this section of Genesis, Abraham has come into the Promised Land, but a famine has caused him to go down into Egypt. You may remember how, because of Abraham’s deception, his wife Sarah was taken into the Pharaoh’s harem. Abraham ended up being embarrassed and rebuked b...

This week’s session in our course on healing is called “Questions About Deliverance." We looked into some important issues of terminology in deliverance. What does it mean to rebuke the enemy? Can people bind Satan? What about binding and loosing ? Do these forms of “praying” accomplish anything in the spiritual realm? We also began to make some observations from the healing stories of the Gospel....

This week’s session in our course on healing is called "Basic Principles Of Deliverance." We discuss the Christian's authority to cast out demons, some common terms in deliverance ministry, demonic activity in human beings, and some important considerations concerning expelling demons from people. This was followed by a question-and-answer time. Class notes are available here as a PDF . If you lik...

This week’s session in our course on healing is called "Are the Gifts of the Spirit Available Today?" We discuss the doctrine of cessationism , which asserts that the Gifts of the Spirit have passed away in part or totally, and are therefore not for today. Our arguments include: ( 1 ) that the New Testament gives us no direct statement in favor of cessationism; ( 2 ) that 1 Corinthians 13 doesn't...

In this session, we dig further into the topic of the anointing. Is there such a thing as a transferable anointing? How do we safeguard the anointing upon our lives, and avoid grieving and quenching the Holy Spirit? How can we better cooperate with the Spirit and become His ministry partner? We closed the session out with a time of prophetic and healing ministry. Class notes are available here as...

In this special seminar, we talk about understanding the anointing. We discuss topics such as what the anointing is, who is anointed, and how we can receive the anointing and increase in it.  Class notes are available here as a PDF. If you like, you can also watch on my YouTube channel . EXCERPT: I think in Spirit-filled environments, where worship is powerful and we experience the Gifts of the Sp...

This session in our series about the ministry of healing is called “Religious Traditions That Weaken Biblical Faith.” Is sickness your "cross to bear" – or is it something to resist? We talk about faith and the ingrained religious ideas that can short-circuit it. Class notes are available here as a PDF. If you like, you can also watch on my YouTube channel . EXCERPT: If a physical affliction was t...

This session in our ongoing series about the ministry of healing is called “Prayers Of Command In Jesus’ Name.” We take a look at the Name of Jesus, and how Christians use it to exercise God’s authority in this world at His leading. Jesus has the “Name above every name…”, but what does that mean for us? Class notes are available here as a PDF. If you like, you can also watch on my YouTube channel...

This week’s session in our ongoing healing series is entitled “Contending in Prayer for the Miraculous.” We explore the need to be persistent in prayer for healing. Why do we sometimes have to “knock” in prayer? We should pray for the miraculous like the Early Church – and not accept the normality of powerlessness. Class notes are available here as a PDF. For a fuller version, including a time of...

In this message we looked into some basic questions on the judgments of God and the Judgment Seat of Christ. * Why will God judge people anyway? * What is the judgment of God like? * What is the judgment of unbelievers like? * What is the judgment of believers like? * What can we anticipate at the Judgment Seat of Christ? “According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master build...

In this session we taught on Jesus’ words concerning our qualifications to minister healing, and some practicalities of praying for the sick. We then shared a popular model of prayer for healing and released people to pray for each other in small groups. We were excited to hear that several healings occurred by the end of the night! NOTE: New sessions in this series will be posted weekly until Dec...

We recently began a new course on the ministry of healing. New sessions in this series will be posted about once a week until December. In this week’s session we began with a healing testimony before moving into a time of teaching on the Gifts of the Spirit, followed by prayer. We focused on what is the greatest obstacle for many people who seek to be used by God in the spiritual gifts: understand...

We’ve just begun a new course in our “Life In The Spirit” series on the ministry of healing . If you’re interested in exploring different topics in healing and deliverance, you may enjoy this course. (This won’t be the only topic we’ll be posting on this Fall, so if it’s not for you that’s fine, too. There will be other things to read and hear.) A new session will be posted about once a week until...

“…I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity. Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content : I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer ne...

I hope you enjoy this first audio podcast on Apostolic Purpose. This is a message preached at Harvest Time Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, from James 4:1-10 (see text below). If you enjoy it, please share to a friend and encourage them to subscribe. In this passage James continues to expose the un-Christlike behavior of the believers to whom he was writing. His language is passionate, and he del...