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Mark LaCour | 2023 Fellowship Conference - Session #5 - In Matthew 22 Jesus compares his kingdom to that of a king who gave a wedding feast for his son and invited people to this feast. Have you responded to his invitation? Has it been lost in the mail? Is the clothing you are wearing appropriate? This sermon was preached at the 2023 Fellowship Conference by pastor Mark LaCour (https:// www.graceb...

Michael Durham | 2023 Fellowship Conference | Session 4 | What was the power of Christ's look to Peter after he had denied the LORD? And are you and I looking to the LORD to see His look to us? Are we resting in and trusting the unconditional love of God for us as believers?

Nathan Rages | What is some advice you can give to me when fighting besetting sin? What are some specific verses that you find encouragement from? What about when I feel like the temptation is just too difficult? This clip was taken from the question and answer time at the 2022 Fellowship Conference that was held back in April.

How did King David begin his day? If so we can peer in and see how he often did then could we not glean something about how to imitate this man of God? Psalm 5:1 To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my groaning. 2 Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray. 3 O LORD, in the morning you hear my voice; in th...

This exhortation is from the 2022 Fellowship Conference, which Nathan Rages shared prior to a morning prayer meeting that was had there. As believers, we require the Holy Spirit's help when we pray. Do you rely upon the Spirit when you pray? Do you follow the promptings of the Spirit to pray and how the Spirit burdens you during your time of prayer? Without the Holy Spirit's help, our prayers can...

With every abortion, there’s a mother involved. There’s a woman bearing that child. That’s what I want to talk about here – the woman who has had an abortion. Abortion is not an unforgivable sin. Jesus Christ paid the penalty on that cross for all types of sins and yes, even abortion.

Question: How should I share the gospel with an atheist? So I was saved about two years ago from, well, atheism, and I have a pretty atheistic family. And so I’ve been trying to share the gospel with them. Ever since I was saved. And just finally, recently, I’m engaged in a conversation with my sister, and she’s wanting to get into a discussion about evidence and I’m just curious if you guys can t...

Tim, Michael, Lee | 6:18 | FC2022 Q&A - How can we cultivate a more real sense of God's presence? How can we stir ourselves to be more spiritually minded of the reality when we always see what is temporal around us?

Tim Conway | 2:53 | Excerpt | Has the gospel given you a reason to lose your life? Can you say that the Gospel of Christ is the most glorious thing you have ever come across?

What is the evangelistic responsibility of the church? Are you obeying the command to go and evangelize? Maybe I can help encourage you to pursue one more soul for Christ rather than have yourself excused from evangelism based on some idea that your personality is not by nature one to go evangelize. 0:00 - Pursue one more soul for Christ. 1:24 - Text - Luke 14, considering two verbs and who they a...

Can you give Biblical advice on how to battle in spiritual warfare? How do I win spiritual battles?

Another secret reality that belongs to God can be summed up in this question: Am I one of the elect? Has God chosen me? Often when someone is being urged to come to Christ one of the fiery darts the Devil throws at us is this matter, "Am I elect?" Are you standing on the threshold of following Jesus and yet delaying based upon this question? Why pause at such a question rather than respond to the...

The Lord Jesus was full of pity and compassion and wept and shed tears over the sinner's stubborn unbelief. Yet Jesus also lovingly warned the sinner that they did not have long and they must turn to Him today. So we see in his life that Jesus both weeps as well as warns. May the Lord help us to so imitate this Savior.

Are there mysteries that God has kept a secret? Deuteronomy 29:29 says, "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law." This text teaches us that there are realities that the Lord has kept secret and other things that the Lord has revealed to us. What are some of these mysteries? An...

Nothing can be the object of saving faith except what God has revealed in His Word. So what has the Lord revealed in His Word? He has revealed to us what His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has accomplished on the Cross. In this message, Tim gives a survey of the Gospel of Matthew on how to be saved. This is not about doing as well as you can and being as good as you can, and trying to imagine your si...

I want to speak on the theme, A Parable of Love from Song of Solomon 4:9-10. What else can be said about the love of the Lord Jesus Christ for his church? Over the centuries, men have filled libraries trying to explain His love. But there is one book that declares his great love for us the book of books, the Bible, God's Word of love about his heart towards us, and what more could be said than has...

At times the life of faith might feel risky and dangerous. We are people who don’t like risk, but we crave security and long to have control over our situations. We don’t like being exposed and vulnerable and yet inevitability that is where a life of faith brings us. The Lord will put you and me in situations to test if we really believe in the Lord right here and right now. 0:00 – Is the life of...

Paul speaks about not being anxious but instead having God's peace guard your heart and mind. Do you bring your cares and concerns to Christ and not pick them up again and worry about them, but leave them to the Lord Jesus?

Finding it impossible, on account of the number, to have much conversation with each individual at the inquiry meeting, I at one time abandoned the practice of conversation for a few weeks, and addressed them all together. I found this was unacceptable, and concluded, therefore, to return to the former custom. It was on one of those evenings, when about seventy persons were present, and I was pass...

There are only two religions in this world, only two, a religion of bondage and a religion of freedom, true freedom, absolute freedom. You have either the way of Cain, a way built upon self-reliance, self-sufficiency, and self-accomplishment. And then there's Sarah, the way of Abel. It's a way of faith, a way of complete abandonment, of self, and complete reliance upon the God who made me and his...

In chapter 9 Amos' prophesies shift from speaking of judgment to speaking about a movement of God and about ruins being rebuilt. What is he speaking about and who does this apply to? Is Amos speaking of an abundant ingathering of souls? And if so, when is that harvest and revival? 0:00 - Do the prophets focus too much on judgment? 4:00 - Amos 9.11, we have a shift from judgment. 13:02 - Is this me...

0:00 - Meet the prophet, Amos. 4:40 - Amos gives us nine chapters which the majority of is judgment. 10:45 - Do you recognize the holiness of God and the awfulness of our sin? 12:13 - What is the "day of the Lord"? 19:16 - Did the judgment come upon Israel's enemies or upon them? 24:36 - What characterized Israel? Are you religious? 31:00 - What does the Lord keep denoucning and calling out in reg...

The total teaching and practice asserted by the movement is restricted to that particular sphere to which it addresses itself. For that reason, such movements can be a mixed blessing. They can be a great help to us if we will give heed to the truth to which it draws our attention, repent of our error and add its light and life to that which we are already walking in. But if we drop everything we a...

If your life is in heaven with Christ but your mind is here on earth, it should be no surprise if your spiritual life begins to wither and decay. If you're becoming entangled by the things on earth, one look at the glory of Christ can set you free. The excerpt is taken from the full sermon, "The Delusion of Do Not Religion".

This study is a follow-up to, "What Do I Need To Do To Be Saved? (Part 1)" where Tim continues to examine different ways people get confused when confronted with the question of how to be saved. There are many subtle ways by which a person can turn salvation into a work or qualification that they must complete in order for the Lord to save them. Tim goes through the Scriptures, specifically John's...