Discipleship Tape Ministries

We have been instructed to “love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.” Everything we reach out and touch that does not draw us closer to God’s heart is violating His desire for us to be separate. While the world is reaching out for things and for thrills, the believer is to be reaching out to God for strength and for wisdom and for spiritual blessings even at the cost of materi...

Holiness is not a badge we wear, it is a privilege we bear. It is not a source of personal pride, but an invisible magnet drawing us to humble repentance and deep recognition of personal sin; not in others, in ourselves. It is sovereign, and it is undeserved. Never forget it. But it is free and it is eternal. God will never allow holiness to become something we do to gain recognition. It will alwa...

We now embark on the road of practical Christian living to see just how God goes about providing grace when we need it, and how that provision becomes the beacon that shines through us and leads others to Christ. We are going to begin at our most vulnerable place, for in essence, that is the door where all grace must be initiated; where we are weak. Read lesson: 1349A

Grace, of course is what this series is all about; but then grace is what life is all about, isn’t it? Life is all about a loving God who could not let a corrupted, rebellious creation die in their sins. He possessed a quality called “love” that simply would not let us walk away, so He determined that it didn’t matter what it cost Him, it would have to be free and undeserved for us. So He died in...

Our lives should reflect the sheer joy along with the uncommon humility that comes from being picked up out of the orphanage of losers and adopted into the family of the King of Kings. Our countenance ought to reflect His likeness, because we have spent so much time at His feet. Our behavior ought to never in any way demean the Crown. A child of the King! An undeserving child of the King. He came....

God, the Perfect Father, let the ruthless mob take the life of His only Son, just so He could transplant His precious, sinless heart into the souls of the very people who crucified Him. “It’s free!” we cry, and indeed it was to us. But, beloved, it wasn’t free to Him. Unless and until we come to grips with what it cost the Great Physician to make that transplant, we’ll never really have a grasp of...

It is amazing grace, indeed. There have probably been more songs written about it than all of God’s other attributes combined. It is mentioned in nearly every sermon, referred to in virtually every Christian book. It is key to our salvation. Without it, we are lost and bound for an eternity in hell apart from God, yet once we experience it and are born again into the family of God, we become vesse...

You are an autobiography in the making. No one else is made exactly like you. You have been given specific gifts and talents. Nothing you have experienced is accidental or incidental. It is all part of a life message. God is writing in you. Your design and experiences are vital ingredients to making a man or a woman for God to use somewhere that no one else can go. What about my physical abilities...

We are all caught up in the world’s concepts of what is “good” and what is “bad”. God’s concepts are almost always the opposite. Secular counselors will argue that the deep problems in our personalities and our behavior are the direct result of traumas or abuses or rejections in our childhood. We need not disagree. What they overlook, however, is that the negative traits those incidents produced a...

How are we blessed by our weaknesses? In this lesson, we take a look at five principles revealed in Scripture, concerning how God uses our weaknesses for His glory. Instead of looking at our weaknesses as a detriment, we can begin looking on weakness as God sees it – a springboard for revealing the glory of God. As Paul says, ” My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakne...

Through this lesson we see God saying through the life of Joseph, “Don’t be bitter over your past or those in your past who seemed so to use you or hurt you. God was there! And He says ‘forgive them’.” He was only using them to accomplish His purposes in your life to make you someone He could use to change your world. God takes those broken pieces and rearranges them into prisms that reflect his l...

Through this lesson we see God saying through the life of Joseph, “Don’t be bitter over your past or those in your past who seemed so to use you or hurt you. God was there! And He says ‘forgive them’.” He was only using them to accomplish His purposes in your life to make you someone He could use to change your world. God takes those broken pieces and rearranges them into prisms that reflect his l...

Joseph is a type of Christ. He is an image of the One to come. Pharaoh gave Joseph the task of bringing in the harvest before the time of reckoning came. He gave him all the power at his disposal to bring it to pass. The day of revelation came when Joseph’s brothers, being hungry, came to ask Joseph for food. What was his response? Did he indeed find his brothers repentant? Find the steps Joseph t...

Glory. The purpose of this study is for us to come to more perfectly understand why it is that with every breath we breathe, with every word we speak, the glory belongs only to Him. It isn’t our church, our programs, or our preacher that needs to be glorified, but God alone. One of Satan’s supreme pitfalls is to get us to share the glory that belongs only to God. Our responsibility is to point men...

What was Joseph’s secret of greatness? Joseph had served and submitted until every trace of personal ambition and every hint of personal glory was gone. He had surrendered his life to God. Therefore, he was able to say to Pharaoh, “It is not in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.” Joseph did not take the glory, but rather gave the glory to God. Just as with Joseph, God is teaching us to...

Why do God’s children suffer? Why do the wicked prosper? These are questions that will be covered in this lesson on the life of Joseph. As we take a look at Joseph who was unjustly accused by Potiphar’s wife, we will see how God even turns unjust suffering to our benefit and for His glory. God counted Joseph worthy to suffer for His Name’s sake – because of that he could certainly be counted a liv...

Joseph is a picture of the Christian in the workplace. What should a Christian be like on his job? What if his boss is an unbeliever? It is not by accident that we are in the jobs we are in, but for God’s purpose and to give God the glory. Are we glorifying God today in our workplaces? Read lesson: 1230B

God often uses real people to teach us life’s lessons. Joseph is an example of how greatness is often borne of weakness transformed, rather than strength magnified. God turned insensitivity into survival, vision into foresight, and pride into leadership. There is a great future in failure when God is in it. As we travel through this series, see how God is glorified through what the world would see...

No matter what we have done, the God who framed the worlds has created an even greater miracle than the sun and the moon, and He has packaged it just for us. It is called “Grace.” There is no scar that can exist in our lives today that cannot be covered over with the blood of Jesus Christ. If we have refused to come to Christ – because we feel our sins are too great for God to forgive – this story...

Jesus got more done in three years than anyone else would have in three thousand years, yet He was never rushed. Never panicked. Never frantic. Never distraught. He just took His time, and when the pressure began to build, instead of trying to do more, He spent more time in the Father’s presence, so He could be sure that He did what He did in the Father’s strength. When the time was right, He went...

Jesus had sent the disciples away, because He needed to be alone. What a startling commentary on us in our lives of busyness! Examine why Jesus felt the need to be alone. However, the disciples had taken charge again and had gotten in their boats. A storm arose and Jesus saw that they were afraid. We watch, in this lesson, as Jesus walks on top of the circumstances rather that being tossed about b...

Five little loaves and a pair of fish. What were these among so many? Jesus intended to retreat with His disciples to a quiet place, and He did, but a great number of people appeared. What would Jesus do? He welcomed them, and taught them. He talked to them about the Kingdom of God, and He healed those who had need of healing. Jesus also saw that the people were hungry. He was quite aware of the n...

What is God’s plan for survival in a conflict that will not end until the enemy has been trodden underfoot? In Matthew 10, Jesus gives us some guidelines for surviving the attack of the enemy. We are to identify ourselves with the Lord and recognize the devices of the enemy. We are to stop holding back anything that keeps us from being a good soldier. We will take a good look at things that can ho...

It is time for the disciples to embark on their first real venture of evangelism. Jesus taught them a few things concerning what they would face and what they should do. The Lord warned them about the kind of reception the world would give them, but He also gave them words of encouragement concerning the power of the words they would speak. He also spoke of how much the Father loved them, and with...

Where man’s relationship with God is concerned, true strength comes from known dependence, not from independence. Jesus said clearly, “I am the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” We have a choice to come to God only through accepting Jesus Christ as our Saviour. Our lives become dependent on His. The minute we invite Him in us as our Saviour, we pass fro...