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With Honor
Filed under: By Nan Kuhlman | Tags: Christian Living, disciples of Christ, Followers of Jesus
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It’s 6:00 a.m. and many of us have been up since 3:00. The airport hangar in Toledo echoes with chatter, the occasional announcement coming over the loudspeaker. We’re standing in a long line, and from my vantage point, I see white caps on gray heads and bright gold t-shirts with a quote from John F. Kennedy on the back lining up to go through airport security. The quote says, “A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”
Veterans of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, along with their guardians (some family, some newfound acquaintances) await the opportunity to board the Flag City Honor Flight to spend one day in Washington, D.C., visiting the war memorials. I am guardian for the day for my dad, a Korean War vet, and throughout our trip, I am struck again and again at the respect that is shown the veterans.
Leaving the plane, we are greeted by a long row of active service people, shaking hands and welcoming our group to Baltimore. After loading the bus, there are some issues with the wheelchair lift so we are delayed by about 30 minutes, just sitting on the bus waiting to go. Outside the bus, a row of active service people stand in their dress uniforms at parade rest for that half hour, solemnly staring straight ahead while it lightly rains on them. As the bus pulls away to take us to the memorials, they salute, holding the posture until the buses are past.
At the WWII memorial, there are a number of school groups taking field trips. “Thank you for your service,” a few of them tell my dad, shaking his hand. Later, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, signs posted say “Silence, please, as a gesture of respect.” Small stones are lined up in a row on the top of some tombstones, along with coins, a tangible indication of honor and respect paid by visitors.
We observe the changing of the guard, the meticulously choreographed routine that honors the Unknown Soldier as representative of all who never made it home. Normally, the sentry picks up his feet in a precise manner, and he does not acknowledge the crowd in any way. However, to honor veterans who visit the memorial, the sentry will scuff his shoes as he passes by. Those in our group, some in wheelchairs and some standing, hear a number of scuffs as we watch the practice of honoring in action. I am honored, feeling very special, and I am not even a veteran. When we witness others being honored and shown respect, it is contagious and uplifting.
This trip makes me think about honor, respect, and love, and how they are very much a part of the relationship among the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If we consider the story of Jesus’s baptism, Jesus is honored by both the Father, who announces, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased,” and the Holy Spirit who appears as a dove (Matt 3:16-17 NIV). Honor and respect is an integral part of love, and anytime we show honor and respect to others, we are participating in a practice that started before the foundation of the world.
Your practice of honoring others might not take place on an Honor Flight, but it might happen in a long line at the bank with a teller who is trying to do her best. I might show honor and respect as I grade my students’ papers, attempting to find something they’re doing well along with pointing out areas they could do better. In our families we honor each other by showing little considerations, small gestures of kindness and concern. It is through these practices which may seem insignificant that the love of the Triune God flows.
The Honor Flight may have been intended to honor veterans, but I felt honored, too. I learned about the positive effect of honor on all those who witness it, and I recognized the goodness of God as it was revealed that day.Though JFK’s quote is inspiring, I’ve decided to tweak it a little: “A person reveals the love of God by the way he or she honors others, and when a person is honored, everyone including God celebrates.”
~by Nan Kuhlman
Why Jesus’ Church Fellowships More And More! pt.5(b)
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On this 4th Sunday after Pentecost, Pastor Timothy Brassell of New Life Fellowship of Baltimore, Proclaims the GOOD NEWS of The God Revealed in Jesus Christ in the continuation of pt. 5 of this Gospel Series, entitled, “Why Jesus’ Church Fellowships More And More!” and continues to show through Hebrews 10: 1-25 and 1 Thessalonians 2 that the historical context of Hebrews demonstrates that living in God’s image (in relationship together!) is SO CRUCIAL to our well-being that we ARE CALLED to FELLOWSHIP WITH EACH OTHER, all the more, even in the middle of persecution!
We hear in this message:
- Through a quote by Deitrich Bonhoeffer that “the Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s Word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth. He needs his brother man as a bearer and proclaimer of the divine word of salvation. He needs his brother solely because of Jesus Christ. The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother’s is sure.” – Life Together, p.22-23. This is why we meet. We were meant to hear the Gospel proclaimed to us!
- There are many pressures placed on us, especially on fathers, because of society’s myth which is that the primary goal of life is the American work ethic and how it will give you power and save you, especially since our jobs are where we get our paychecks, or livelihoods.
- A more detailed answer to the question: “How do we sort out our calling to the Body of Christ and our calling to our Civic Responsibilities including our jobs?” Specifically we understand the responses to that question to be that:
- (1) In this world we have dual responsibilities and they relate around one true center – JESUS CHRIST, so we should NOT rank our responsibilities but prioritize CHRIST IN ALL OUR RESPONSIBILITIES!
- (2) We should NOT conceive of our job or the Body of Christ as independent of one another because in Christ, the Kingdom of God has broken into THIS AGE so that Jesus has the SAME END RESULT for BOTH YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE AND YOUR WORK LIFE!
- Jesus IS our Work and our Ethic even if that appears confusing or troubling to us! Our Identity IS in Him! The right thing to do is whatever God is doing through us, in participation with Jesus and in the Holy Spirit. We not only live FOR Jesus, but we also live FROM Jesus!
Listen and understand more clearly that we can and need to think of our participation in life as DUAL CITIZENS who relate in our dual roles around the One Center of reality: Jesus!
Why Jesus’ Church Fellowships More And More! pt.5a
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On this 3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Pastor Timothy Brassell of New Life Fellowship of Baltimore, Proclaims the GOOD NEWS of The God Revealed in Jesus Christ in pt. 5 (a) of this Gospel Series, entitled, “Why Jesus’ Church Fellowships More And More!” and shows through Hebrews 10: 1-25 that the historical context of Hebrews demonstrates that living in God’s image (in relationship together!) is SO CRUCIAL to our well being that we ARE CALLED to FELLOWSHIP WITH EACH OTHER, all the more, even in the middle of persecution!
We hear in this message:
- Simply, and positively, that, the reason we meet together more and more is simply because we have Trinitarian “DNA”! God through Jesus Christ, by the Spirit, shares HIS RELATIONAL LIFE with us and Relating together in the Spirit is what HIS LIFE looks like! Christianity IS Union with Christ!
- We can only be who we are in Jesus, the New Humanity, as we relate WITH Jesus AND other people – The Great Commandment: Loving God, and Loving our neighbors as yourself! This is especially true of the Body of Christ of which Dietrich Bonhoeffer has said: “The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself …. He needs his brother man [or sister girl!] as a bearer and proclaimer of the divine word of salvation.”
- A 4TH MYTH EXPOSED! THAT MYTH?: The Primary Goal of Christianity is the American Work Ethic! Get a bit of the context about why the American Work life puts such a negative pressure on you the way it does and a little handle on what you are up against and why!
- A good first response to the question: How do you sort out your calling to the Body of Christ and your calling to your civic responsibilities, including your job, in a world that runs at the pace of 24/7?!
- A more REALISTIC picture as to the conflict and cost involved in being a Christian in this world, living between “The present evil age” and “The Age to Come.”
- An invitation to respond to Jesus calling you to His Body and you having the greatest kind of hope because, in the Spirit, the Father and Jesus bring the future into the present through those in union with Jesus!
Taste And See That The Lord Is Good!
Filed under: Bible, By Richard Andrews, Christian Living, Church, Evangelism, Gospel, Grace Communion International, Humor, Liturgy, Love, Ministry, Perichoresis, Prayer, Relationships, Scripture Paraphrases, Sermons, Song, The Dance and Dream of the Trinity, The Plan of Adoption, Trinity, Uncategorized, Worship | Tags: Bible, blessings, Christ in our place, Christ in us, Christian Living, Christianity, Church, compassion, disciples, disciples of Christ, Discipleship, Evangelism, Followers of Jesus, Forgiveness, Forgiveness of Sin, God, God Father Son and Spirit, god the father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God the Trinity, God's adopted sons and daughters, God's good news, God's goodness, God's Grace, God's Will, good news, Gospel, Grace, Grace Communion International, gratitude, Holy Spirit, human, Identity, Image of God, Incarnation, Jesus, Jesus Christ, JESUS THE CHRIST, life, Love, new life fellowship, Oneness, Participation, Participation with Christ, Partnership, Pastor Richard Andrews, Pastor Timothy Brassell, Preaching, Psalm 34, Psalm 34:8, Reality, Receiving Christ, Receiving God's Love, Reconciliation, Relational God Revealed, relationship with God, Relationships, repent, repentance, response, Salvation, Scriptures, sharing your faith, Sin, sovereignty, taste and see that God is good, Theology, together, Trinitarian Theology, Trinity, Trust, Will of God, Worship
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In this Gospel Message, Pastor Richard Andrews of New Life Fellowship of Baltimore, Proclaims the GOOD NEWS of The God Revealed in Jesus Christ with a message entitled “Taste And See That The Lord Is Good!” and asks the question “Are we ready to take that exhortation we find in Psalms 34 and make it something we LIVE BY, LIVE THROUGH and LIVE WITH?”
In this message we learn what trials REALLY represent and hear that:
- Our foolishness does NOT determine God’s actions towards us! There is no circumstance we can go through that is too big or complicated that can change who God is!
- No matter the circumstance, God invites us to open up our mouths and have an experience with him. God invites us to experience HIS presence.
- Our trials help us to taste and see God’s goodness. They make God REAL. The more we TASTE, the more we SEE, the more we TRUST!
Listen and be comforted knowing that God loves us too much not to let us experience HIM, and because of that there WILL be points of pain and trials.
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Christianity Isn’t meant to Answer Humanity’s Questions?! Say What?!
Filed under: By Tim Brassell, Christian Living, Church, Gospel, Grace Communion International, Humor, Relationships, Uncategorized, Worship | Tags: Bible, Christian Living, Christianity, Followers of Jesus, god the father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God the Trinity, good news, Gospel, Grace, Jesus, Participation, Pastor Tim, Relational God Revealed, Relationships, Timothy Brassell, Trinitarian Theology, Trinity, Worship
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Wow! You know how it is. Every once in a while something “leaps off the page” or is suddenly unveiled and thrills you and throws you off-balance at the same time! Like when my daughter and I thought we saw a new, unique and scary animal under the bushes in our yard, slithering around like a “ratty-looking snake-mole” kind of creature that ended up being a Wal-mart bag trapped in limbs and poor lighting! LOL! We were first thrown off and afraid to get out of the car, and then we were thrilled that the illusion was interrupted by truth unveiled (or bag blowing away in the wind! heehee…nothing funnier than true life!)
Another shocker happened to me recently when I read these words from Thomas F. Torrance in his book called “The School of Faith”: “Christianity doesn’t set out to answer man’s questions. If it did it would only give him what he already desires to know and has secretly determined how he will know it. Christianity is above all the question the Truth puts to man at every point in his life, so that it teaches him to ask the right, the true questions about himself…”
My reactions: “What the….?!?!?!?!” *Sputter..gasp…unique sounds issuing from back of throat* (This isn’t Pentecost Sunday on a Tuesday, is it?! LOL) “Wowsa!” Followed by LOUD RAUCOUS laughter! “Yes, Yes, YES! That’s what I’m talkin’ bout, but didn’t know how to speak as clearly before now!”
Now be honest, isn’t that what most people think Christianity IS, and is supposed to do? Isn’t that what YOU think? You’ve got questions, Christianity may have the answers, right?! Religious answers, or things you can do to?????? You know the ones: Why am I here? What’s my purpose? How can I be happy and blessed? How can I improve my marriage and relationships? How can I see my father and mother wounds healed? How can I overcome these generational dysfunctions and bless the next generation? How can I take so and so out of the picture with “righteous” indignation and “godly” wrath cause their messing with me and god’s religious system?! Haha!
Being a pastor and preacher, I know firsthand the kinds of pressures these questions bring to ministers preaching the Gospel; the pressure to be “need-oriented”, “practical”, “relevant”, or proclaiming to the people what they think they need and want. But I am also experiencing and understanding from the Father, through the Son, and by the Spirit, my need to proclaim God as being His own Gospel or Good News, Revealed specifically in Jesus! Being human and fallen ourselves, we preachers will tend to bend to the pressure of the people because they are so present and visible in human ways, and we need the people to stay visible and present so we can sustain a living for our families. I’m feeling you pastors!
What we pastors and people REALLY need, though, is the corrective offered by Torrance! Actually, as Christians, I believe we can only ultimately agree with what he wrote because it is both personal and biblical. Let’s look at a quick example from scripture:
Acts 9:1-6 New International Version (NIV)
Saul’s Conversion
9 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.3 As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him,“Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
5 “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.
“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. 6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
Can you see it? Him? Jesus? Can’t you read this story and remember how you ACTUALLY came to be a Christian, if you are one? If you are not one, this is how Christianity looks and works in many ways:
1.) v.1-2 You had your own questions about life that you thought were so right you might have killed to answer, defend, and fulfill them!
2.) v.3 As you journeyed in your own self-chosen way, you were met and confronted by Jesus, the Light, the Person, and He didn’t start with your questions but His own! He spoke clearly enough to you, clarifying that for you to go your own way and ask your own questions about “your” life was to be against Him, Jesus the God Man!
3.) v.5 As a result of Him questioning you personally, He caused you to question all your questions! Jesus helped you to see that it was Him, the Person, you were actually fighting. With His direct question to you about why you were rejecting Him, He caused you to ask a new personal question, “Who are you Lord?” Being the Truth in Person, Jesus put the right question to you that made you question your entire life and compelled you to ask what was REALLY correct. The correct question was one about HIMSELF and was given to you so that you could personally ask it AND He could answer it and show HIMSELF to you!
4.) v.6 Now He’s telling you where to go and what to do, and you’re discovering that He’s always right and never wrong! That’s union with Christ, or Christianity!
Like with Saul, you may be thrown and blinded by the Light for a few days! Jesus will, however, send others to encourage and confirm His leading in your life! Hopefully you’ll end up as thrilled as Saul and find yourself sharing HIM with all the world too, His chosen instrument, proclaiming and suffering in His name! And NO, Christianity doesn’t give you what you already desire to know and is not driven by your agenda, especially your sinful one. Neither does it give you what you want to know in the way you have decided you want to know it, with your self-chosen questions, especially in your sinfulness! You ask good and proper questions as Jesus confronts, summons and shares them with you, personally giving Himself to you as He and His Father have determined, in the Spirit!
By the way, I believe that Jesus is the Light of the World and we can and should talk about ALL things in the Light of Him, but be happy and not too discouraged if all your pastor can talk about is Jesus and the One God Being in Three Persons revealed in Him. With Christianity Jesus is always the main question and His main answer to you/us is always HIMSELF! Jesus is the Question AND the Answer!
– tjbrassell
Men And Women TOGETHER – Imaging God FOREVER!
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In this Gospel Message entitled “Men And Women TOGETHER – Imaging God FOREVER!”, Pastor Timothy Brassell of New Life Fellowship of Baltimore, Proclaims the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ who has taken up our humanity in Himself, sharing with us HIS life of union and communion with His Father through the Holy Spirit. He shows through the scriptures that all barriers between men and women and the dividing wall of hostility between all humanity has been destroyed, and our humanity renewed and healed, in Jesus Christ!
Hear in this message:
- That Jesus Christ is the first image of God of man and woman together and is not just an after-thought. As women and men, we were always meant to be conformed to Jesus Christ’s image and what He made of our humanity in Himself. We understand that HE is the Reality, and Adam and Eve (and us!) are only the shadow of Him in this first phase of our humanity!
- That because Jesus is the Image of God, it is best to think of men and women, male and female, as created in the Image of The Image of God!
- That ONLY FEMALE AND MALE TOGETHER show GOD toward creation and how ONLY TOGETHER do we show creation back to God in the fitting response Jesus shares with us. This doesn’t always mean marriage between men and women, but it always means gender partnership and complementing each other!
- The Good News of what IS superior about being female and male, and what is not! Learn how we ARE equal and how we are not! Understand our participation and roles as Kings and Queens of creation!
- About The Great Grace that has been lavished on us as male and female in the person of Jesus Christ , and the Great and Loving Judgment against our broken humanity that compels us to reconsider and take part with Jesus as Life actually is!
You are encouraged to Participate with Christ, and in His shared humility, learning to admit your faults and receiving the forgiveness that leads to ACTUAL & REAL reconciliation and peace between human persons, plus LOTS MORE GOSPEL INSIGHT!
The Good News Of Restorative Justice!
Filed under: By Mako Nagasawa, Christian Living, Church, Evangelism, Gospel, Grace Communion International, Humor, Liturgy, Love, Ministry, Perichoresis, Prayer, Relationships, Scripture Paraphrases, Sermons, Song, Spiritual Warfare, The Dance and Dream of the Trinity, The Plan of Adoption, Trinity, Uncategorized | Tags: Adoption, Baltimore, Baltimore Riots, Banking, Banking Practices, Bible, Body of Christ, Budgeting, Christian Living, Christianity, Church, Church Fellowship, Easter, Easter Season, Economics, Evangelism, Faith, Family, Family Life, Family of God, Fellowship, Followers of Jesus, Friendship, god the father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God the Trinity, good news, Good Works, Gospel, Grace, Grace Communion International, Heaven, Hebrews, Holy Spirit, Hope, identity in Christ, Incarnation, Interest, Jesus, Jesus Christ, jesus ministry, Justice, Lectionary, Lent, Love, Mako Nagasawa, MD., Ministry, money, new life fellowship, New Life Fellowship Of Baltimore Maryland, Participation, Pastor Tim, Pastor Tim of New Life Fellowship, Pastor Timothy Brassell, Prayer, Preaching, Protests, Relational God Revealed, Relationships, Restorative Justice, Salvation, Scripture, Scriptures, Sermons, Sin, Single, Sinners, Social Justice, Struggle, Suffering, Temptation, Theology, Timothy Brassell, trials, Trinitarian Theology, Trinity, Uncategorized Bible, Worship
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In this Gospel message entitled “THE GOOD NEWS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE!” guest speaker, Mako Nagasawa, Proclaims the GOOD NEWS of The God Revealed in Jesus Christ at New Life Fellowship of Baltimore! Mako proclaims God’s vision for GENEROUS giving and the importance of Jesus giving us A NEW HUMANITY, EMPOWERING US to bring more of His JUSTICE and LOVE into this world!
In this message we understand that:
- God has a GREAT vision for EVERY kind of relationship including Economic and Political relationships, and involving Historic Injustice. He has been very specific with us, biblically, about what that should look like on the lending and borrowing of money by fostering good banking practices, and opposing bad banking practices!
- Jesus took OUR HUMANITY to himself and, by His Spirit, shares with us a new humanity that filters out the toxins in us such as fear, jealousy,and grief, enabling us to reach out to the poor in mercy, forgiving others their debts even as we have been forgiven our debts from God our Father.
- We are called to manifest the LOVE and RELATIONSHIP that exists within the TRIUNE GOD, and extend THAT kind of love to others; that love looks like the Father stirring up in us a deep concern and right way about how to care for each other in our communities and through the difficult times many people have fallen into!
Check out this practically challenging message!
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Why Jesus’ Church Fellowships More And More!, pt.4 (or WHO Baltimore Needs!)
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In pt. 4 of this Gospel Series, Timothy Brassell of New Life Fellowship of Baltimore, Proclaims the GOOD NEWS of The God Revealed in Jesus Christ with a new message entitled, “Why Jesus’ Church Fellowships MORE And MORE!” pt.4 (WHO Baltimore needs!).
As you grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ learn:
- How much the current Baltimore troubles and the book of Hebrews in scripture have in common!
- That the one way forward in the middle of the current passion and protest in Baltimore, MD. is for the body of Christ to BE the Body of Christ!
- How to think out and share Christ-centered responses to current pressing questions such as: What does Baltimore need? and Who does Baltimore need? and Where is God in all of this?
- the importance of remembering that behind every law and system is the person or persons who created or promotes those laws or systems!
- What it means that we are made in the image of God and why this is important for addressing Baltimore’s current issues and the issues in your city, and even in all the world!
Also get Gospel insight and learn:
- More about the myths and idols concerning marriage, singleness, sex, celibacy and family life and be reminded that ANYTHING we idolize WILL kill us!
- That in God’s Grace we have been given various forms of living in relationship but these are ONLY ways of living in Christ now in our present form but are NOT fully the end goal for our lives in relationship!
- Why we all struggle so much and how WE CAN LIVE MORE IN THE RECONCILIATION worked out it in the entire human life of Jesus!
- What process God uses to strengthen families in the world, bringing the future family of God into the present!
Hear in this message that ___________________ in Christ is the goal of Christ no matter your station in life or your current status as the Father’s Child. You CAN receive every day as a gift and receive it BEST by _______________ ! And that it isn’t ____________ that is wearing you out but ______________!
Tune in and participate by filling in all the blanks! 🙂
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Why Jesus’ Church Fellowships More And More! pt.3
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In pt. 3 of this Gospel Series, Timothy Brassell of New Life Fellowship of Baltimore, Proclaims the GOOD NEWS of The God Revealed in Jesus Christ with a new message entitled, “Why Jesus’ Church Fellowships MORE And MORE!” pt.3.
In this message you’ll:
- Hear the Truly Good News in two awesome quotes that will fill your soul with God’s Goodness – one VERY OLD and one more recent!
- Learn more of what the Church actually is and reconsider thinking of it the way the Apostle Paul does!
- Have THREE MODERN MYTHS about the Church exposed in the Light of what the Church actually is!
- Start to learn the place and importance of marriage, singleness and friendship as they relate to the Church and be challenged by missionary Gracia Burnham’s statement that “The point isn’t to grow old with your mate. That’s not the point. The point is …”
Tune in to hear the rest of that statement and MUCH MORE!
Why Jesus’ Church Fellowships More And More! pt.2
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In this Gospel Message Timothy Brassell of New Life Fellowship of Baltimore, Proclaims the GOOD NEWS of The God Revealed in Jesus Christ through his Part 2 series entitled, “Why Jesus’s Church Fellowships MORE And MORE!” pt.2. He explores the Church in the Light of Jesus by reading through Hebrews 10: 19-39, including comments and discussion with the congregation!
In this message you’ll learn some Church “basics” and things you can consider if you’re interested in being Jesus’ disciple or encouraging others to be His disciples, including:
- The main positive of the Church in this world AND some of the challenges the Church faces as it stands for and against this world!
- Who and what your main enemy is and why you absolutely CAN BE COURAGEOUS AND NOT AFRAID!
- The fatal error in the old phrase which says “I think, therefore I am!”
- The fact that as you take part in and with Jesus there is definitely Some One to say YES to, and some one to say NO to!
- What Heaven REALLY is!
- That the “The Church may have a building but that is not its place. The building may be the Church’s location, but it’s space is in ….”
Listen in as the rest of that last sentence is given and clarity is shed about the Church’s Life, including one major myth we have about Church!