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Paul arrived in Jerusalem to deliver a love offering for the suffering Jewish believers and for a celebration of Pentecost. It had been 20 years since the first Pentecost. No doubt Paul was anticipating the celebration and how he would recount to the church all that God had done throughout the world! The Gospel has touched both the Jew and the Greek. How big is God?! However, the warm welcome he r...

Imagine being in a trial so deep that even the remembrance of God was troubling. That is where Asaph was! The turbulence around him had become trouble inside his heart causing him not to sleep and even to question God and His goodness. However, everything changed when Asaph came to a point of surrender. This personal prayer of Asaph's is a much needed encouragement for every child of God today.&nb...

Self-preservation is a natural human response in the face of danger, adversity, and struggle. When we observe a life that is totally abandoned to a cause no matter the personal cost, it causes us to marvel. Paul pressed fervently forward in faith and to the finish undeterred by the pleadings of those who loved him. Paul truly loved Christ more than his own life. He provides for us an example of li...

Learn what the local, New Testament church is and what it does.  Thanks for joining us for this episode and please take a moment to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you enjoy this content, please don't hesitate to leave us a 5-star review and share this podcast with your friends.  We'd like to extend an invitation to you and your family to join...

On his way to Jerusalem to celebrate Pentecost with the believers there, Paul had a voyage layover in Miletus. He summoned the Ephesian pastors to travel the thirty miles south to Miletus so that he could encourage them in the ministry. Paul knew that the best way to encourage the Ephesian believers in their faith was to encourage their pastors. He provided an excellent example of the importance o...

On his way to Jerusalem to celebrate Pentecost with the believers there, Paul had a voyage layover in Miletus. He summoned the Ephesian pastors to travel the thirty miles south to Miletus so that he could encourage them in the ministry. Paul knew that the best way to encourage the Ephesian believers in their faith was to encourage their pastors. He provided an excellent example of the importance o...

Paul was in the final stretch of his third missions tour. As usual, this tour was about church planting and discipleship of the new believers and leaders. The Holy Spirit had prompted him that it was time to return to Jerusalem. Paul was diligently obeying these promptings, traveling toward Jerusalem as quickly as he could. During one of the voyage layovers in a town called Miletus, Paul planned a...

Learn how the Bible is the inspired Word of God and how reading it will change your life. Thanks for joining us for this episode and please take a moment to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you enjoy this content, please don't hesitate to leave us a 5-star review and share this podcast with your friends.  We'd like to extend an invitation to you and...

Spiritual trials in the lives of others can dishearten us in the way. Paul was concerned for the Ephesian believers becoming disheartened because of his sufferings. Paul was in prison hundreds of miles away from these precious saints. How could he be of any encouragement to them? Paul chose to pray. Context Paul is in prison. ( Ephesians 3:1) Paul was explaining parenthetical Church Age ( Ephesian...

Jonathan Gillmore teaches through the prayer of Paul for the Colossian believers. This message will be a practical help to your prayer life. 

Jonathan Gillmore teaches on the powerful truth of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

Paul was in the final stretch of his third missions tour. As usual, this tour was about church planting and discipleship of the new believers and leaders. The Holy Spirit had prompted him that it was time to return to Jerusalem. Paul was diligently obeying these promptings, traveling toward Jerusalem as quickly as he could. During one of the voyage layovers in a town called Miletus, Paul planned a...

God had powerfully worked in the city of Ephesus. Many had received Christ and had made decisions to make a clean separation from ungodliness in their personal lives. Their choices effectively impacted the economy of idol sales, the worship of the goddess Artemis as well as the local officials of the city. The power of Christ to change lives was clearly seen, but not liked by all. Following a grea...

Paul prayed for the Ephesian believers to experience life transformation by the power of Christ. Download Sermon Notes ________________ Thanks for joining us for this episode and please take a moment to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you enjoy this content, please don't hesitate to leave us a 5-star review and share this podcast with your friends. &nbs...

During his third missions tour, Paul served Christ in the commercial seaport City of Ephesus. That season of ministry among the Jews and the Gentiles was marked with the demonstration of the power of God’s Word. As Paul preached, both the hearts of the religious and the heathen were changed and many received Christ by faith. The effects of the ministry there reverberated throughout all of Asia. Th...

What does the call out assembly of saints really need. Pastor Kagin shares the answer from Acts 4. Thanks for joining us for this episode and please take a moment to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you enjoy this content, please don't hesitate to leave us a 5-star review and share this podcast with your friends. We'd like to extend an invitation to you...

Learn a powerful lesson from the life of King David and personally realize that it is no time to tarry.  Thanks for joining us for this episode and please take a moment to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you enjoy this content, please don't hesitate to leave us a 5-star review and share this podcast with your friends. We'd like to extend an invitat...

Jamie Jett shares a personal story of trial, perspective on sin and helpful encouragement on what to do when we sin as a child of God from Psalm 38.

David was under a burden that was very deep and difficult. His son Absalom had betrayed him as well as swaying one of David’s dear friends to his side. His life is turned upside down, yet in the midst of this distressing burden, David turned to God for relief. We should as well. Messages Notes > Thanks for joining us for this episode and please take a moment to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spot...

Paul gives a powerful summary of practical instruction for the assemblies on the island of Crete. Titus had been left in Crete to set in order the things that were lacking in the church. This was a huge, spiritual project of developing health in the believers there. The letter that Paul wrote to Titus, as his son in the faith, would be of great help in bringing health to the church. As we conclude...

John 18:38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all. The people of Ephesus were no different than we are today. It was a wealthy, immoral, pluralistic culture that diligently sought the best life for themselves. They found some form of solace in the worship of their many gods. However, even...

The fundamental need of every person in America is Jesus Christ. One to the hindrances to the spread of the Good News of Jesus Christ is religion itself. Religion is a man made system of meriting the favor of God or gods. There is an estimated 4,200 different religions in the world today. Many find a false sense of security in a religious tradition, ritual or experience. Such was the case in Ephes...

Paul is writing to his son in the faith, Titus, who is now a pastor on the island of Crete. There was much perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for him to accomplish with by help of God so that the church would be occupied with good works. Thanks for joining us for this episode and please take a moment to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. If...

What if you were to tell God that your life is His to use as He pleases. Hear the stories of individuals who did. Thanks for joining us for this episode and please take a moment to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you enjoy this content, please don't hesitate to leave us a 5-star review and share this podcast with your friends. We'd like to extend an inv...

How did God assure His people in the midst of the trouble they were in and even deserved? Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: Be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Message Notes > Thanks for joining us for this episode and please take a moment to subscribe on Apple Podcasts,...