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Gospel of the Kingdom
Living by Kingdom principles: righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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The Kingdom of God
What Scripture means by the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God and the gospel of the kingdom, drawn from the references across the Old and New Testaments, including its character of righteousness, peace and joy, and its freedom from fear.
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Salvation
How a person is saved, why some who “believe” feel nothing has changed, and what Scripture says real salvation looks like.
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Baptism in Water and Fire
What water baptism and the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire mean, whether water baptism is required, how to receive the Spirit, whether healing depends on it, and why the disciples were told to wait.
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In Jesus’s Name
What it means to pray, heal, baptize and live “in the name of Jesus,” traced through the Old and New Testaments, and how far the picture of a bride taking her husband’s name holds.
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Healing
What the healings in Scripture have in common, what a sick person is told to do, why healing sometimes doesn’t come, and how the gift of healing and the baptism of the Holy Spirit fit in.
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Temptation
What temptation is, where it comes from, why God allows it, how Jesus overcame it, and how we can too, both by practical strategy and by a deeper love.
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Overcoming Addiction and the Meaning of Life
Why everyone is a slave to something, how it all goes back to two trees in the garden, why rock bottom can be a gift, and the one answer that sets us free: being one with God.
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Anger, Hate and Murder
Murder is the act; hate and contempt are its seed. Jesus traces the sixth commandment back to the heart, and the cure is both practical restraint and a new way of seeing the person in front of you.
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Adultery
Adultery breaks a covenant with a spouse and mirrors unfaithfulness to God. Jesus traces it to the heart, and the fight against it is both practical and a matter of seeing truly.
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Quarreling in Marriage
What Proverbs says about the quarrelsome wife, what Scripture says about contention in either spouse, where quarrels come from, and how to answer them God’s way.
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Rebuke
What it meant when Jesus rebuked demons, storms and fevers, how believers share in that authority, and what rebuke means between people.
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Shadows and Substance
How earthly things in Scripture picture spiritual things: the law and feasts, childbirth, the Sabbath, marriage, the Exodus from Egypt, and the temple and New Jerusalem.
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The Seven Feasts of the Lord
How each of Israel’s seven appointed feasts remembers a step in the deliverance from Egypt, and points to a step in Jesus’s work and our deliverance from sin.
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Israel
Six themes from the prophets and the New Testament: why Israel was scattered, the promise to regather, the promise never to be uprooted again, the New Testament’s confirmation, God’s defense of Jerusalem, and Israel as a witness that God is real.
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End Times Prophecy
A walk through Daniel, Revelation and related passages: what has already been fulfilled, what remains before Christ’s return and the thousand-year reign, and what follows it, with anchor events for placing things in order.
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