Clear Water Teaching

This class covers the DO step of Tripp's Love-Know-Speak-Do model, working through four practical movements of ongoing ministry: establishing a gospel agenda rooted in Scripture, clarifying the difference between what a person is responsible to obey and what they must trust to God, reminding people of the identity and resources already theirs in Christ through 2 Peter 1:3-9, and providing the gift...

Becoming an instrument in the Redeemer's hands means learning not only how to love and know a person but also how and what to speak. Bringing truth to another's life where it needs change is called a "rebuke." We must learn how to rebuke one another and be rebuked.

Knowing Someone Well Enough to Minister to Their Heart. This class covers the skills of asking good questions and interpreting what you hear through a biblical lens, using four categories to organize information about a person's situation, responses, thoughts, and motives. This podcast was originally a Sunday School Class at Clear Water Presbyterian Church .

A Loving Relationship is the Ground for Personal Ministry. This class works through for elements of that kind of relationship: entering their world, incarnating Christ's love, identifying with suffering, and accepting with agenda. This podcast was originally a Sunday School Class at Clear Water Presbyterian Church .

Every believer has been given the ministry of being Christ’s ambassador. This class examines our calling to be his ambassador and how the Love-Know-Speak-Do model gives us the shape of Christ's method so we can follow it in the relationships God has already placed before us. This podcast was originally a Sunday School Class at Clear Water Presbyterian Church .

The lesson worked through James 4:1–10 to show that conflict is always a heart problem before it's a people problem. Tripp's progression — desire → demand → need → expectation → disappointment → punishment . The key insight: human conflict is rooted in spiritual adultery, giving to something else the love that belongs to God alone.

The fruit of someone's life flows from the roots of their life (Luke 6:43-45). The roots of person's life is their heart. We focus upon behavior typically, seeking to control or make someone (or ourselves) more palatable but unless we go to the hurt there will be no real change.

This class traces the need we all have for help and why it exists. We consider 3 reasons why we need help and where it will be found.

This is the first class taught in a new adult Sunday School series at Clear Water Presbyterian Church. This class is influenced and drawn from Dr. Paul David Tripp's book Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands. Class #2 draws from Chapter 2 of Tripp's book and focuses upon how God calls all his ordinary people to be used for extraordinary ends in others lives

This is the first class taught in a new adult Sunday School series at Clear Water Presbyterian Church. This class is influenced and drawn from Dr. Paul David Tripp's book Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands. Class #1 draws from the Preface and Chapter 1 of the book. We consider what "change" is and how it is a part of our entire existence and what God intends to bring about through change.

Pastor Matt Cline teaches on what the offices are in New Testament church. Christ has given the church Elders and Deacon with specific duties and qualifications, essential to the existence of the Biblical church. This class is week 5 of 5 week class on being the church. This podcast was originally a Sunday School Class at Clear Water Presbyterian Church .

Pastor Matt Cline teaches on the institutional church and how Jesus visibly governs the church as his visible kingdom on earth today. The title of this episode is taken from Guy Water’s great book on Presbyterian church government. This class is week 4 of 5 week class on being the church. This podcast was originally a Sunday School Class at Clear Water Presbyterian Church .

Pastor Matt Cline teaches on what it means to be organic church faithfully, mainly that we are people of the word. The Word of God is how the church grows and believers are enabled to live faithfully in every area of life. And every believer has a part in this word ministry. This class is week 3 of 5 week class on being the church. This podcast was originally a Sunday School Class at Clear Water P...

Pastor Matt Cline teaches on the essential nature of the church, as both organism and institution. The church as an institution mean it is a visible organized body gathered under biblical authority. The church as an organism means it is a living body of believers that the Spirit works through in the world. This class is week 2 of 5 week class on being the church. This podcast was originally a Sund...

Pastor Matt Cline introduces the doctrine of the church by looking at the metaphors the Bible uses to describe it. This class is week 1 of 5 week class on being the church. This podcast was originally a Sunday School Class at Clear Water Presbyterian Church .

Our prayer to God is by the power of the Holy Spirit, through the Son Jesus Christ, to the Father. The difficulty of prayer will be done when we see God face to face.

To teach you the 3 primary patterns the Bible uses to speak about the Trinity and the 3 types of texts we most clearly see the Trinity within, so that while you read the Bible you may see and delight all the more in the Trinity.

God is not some general, "god," like any other so-called god. His supremacy in quality and character is unmatched for his Being is unlike any other. What kind of life flows from believing upon and following this kind of God?

What makes the Holy Spirit "holy?" How does he relate to the Father and the Son? What kind of work should we expect in our lives when it comes to the Holy Spirit?

In this class we talk about why "salvation" is necessary in the first place, how each person of the Trinity is involved in man's salvation, and what is the primary purpose of salvation.

Discussing the Single-Person God vs the Triune God. Showing how creation reveals God's Tri-unity. Dealing with the objection of how a Triune God whose love overflows into creation could ever allow for evil.

Will we choose to define who God is by what our imaginations can conjure up or what our sensibilities will tell us is true? Or will we look at Jesus Christ and realize the Triune nature of the One God in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

The Trinity is the right place to start when you want to learn about Christianity. Our primary problem with this doctrine is not that we've learned too much but learned too little. We've experienced God not too much but too little. The waters are deep, so dive in!

Pastor Matt Cline teaches on the question about the ending of Mark and New Testament reliability. This podcast was originally a Sunday School Class at Clear Water Presbyterian Church .

Pastor Matt Cline teaches about life we have been given because of the gracious working of our Savior. Now we have life with God. This is the final class Covenant Theology. The focus is on the life reintroduced to humanity in God’s gracious covenant. This is true life in the Holy Spirit. It a life growing in sanctification. And it ends in live everlasting. This is week 13 of the class. This podcas...