Sun, Apr 03, 2011
Passage: Colossians 1:5 & 1 Thessalonians 5:8-10
Duration: 1 hr 0 mins 56 secs
This lesson also includes Romans 8:20-25
Tue, Apr 17, 2012
Passage: Acts 1-12
Duration: 1 hr 1 mins 36 secs
In Acts 1–7 we see the birth of the church, its growing pains and persecution by the Jewish leaders. By chapter 8, this persecution forces believers to leave Jerusalem and trust God to expand the church. The gospel spreads through Philip’s ministry. Saul is converted, but not trusted at first because of his history of persecution of the church. God leads Peter to the Gentile Cornelius who believed and received the Holy Spirit. Herod Agrippa instigates another reign of persecution but he soon dies and the Word of God “grew and multiplied.” It is God’s work to grow the church, not man’s accomplishment.
Tue, Oct 23, 2012
Passage: Acts 10:9-43
Duration: 1 hr 5 mins 25 secs
Jewish religious practice at this time observed strict separation from Gentile culture, even though the Jews did have a level of missionary activity. To disrupt centuries of tradition was truly revolutionary. Peter’s encounter with Cornelius, carefully orchestrated and revealed by God, signals a complete change of direction from strict observance of the law exclusive to the Jew, to universal inclusion of the Gentile in Grace. Peter had to contemplate the enormity of this change, but lost no time in obeying God and going to Cornelius in Caesarea. Cornelius and his family responded to Peter’s revelation of Truth. See how Cornelius and his family acted to fulfill God’s sign to the Jew of a judgment to come for national rejection of their Messiah.
Tue, Sep 10, 2013
Passage: Acts 19:1-8
Duration: 1 hr 4 mins 47 secs
Imagine everything you believed being turned on its head! Jews who believed Christ was the promised Messiah were still connected to the Temple culturally and were just learning about the Holy Spirit and Christian baptism. Most of the rest of the world still worshiped pagan gods and goddesses. Into this maelstrom stepped the Apostle Paul who began leading people to Christ and forming churches. Dig into this riveting account of the history of baptism, the eight types of baptism, and what distinguishes believers' baptism from all others.
Tue, Sep 17, 2013
Passage: Acts 19:1-10
Duration: 59 mins 40 secs
Want to know more about baptism? Listen to this lesson to learn the difference between wet and dry baptisms and about the one baptism that occurs for every believer at the moment of salvation. See how this baptism is the great equalizer, ensuring that gender, economic, and ethnic distinctions have no spiritual significance as we are identified with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. See how this enables us to live a new life in Christ and how water baptism is an affirmation that we are dead to sin and alive in Christ.
Tue, Sep 24, 2013
Passage: Acts 19:8
Duration: 1 hr 9 mins 33 secs
Can touching a handkerchief or sweat cloth of a holy man heal us of our sicknesses today? Listen to this lesson to learn how these healings and other signs and wonders took place during the transition time in Acts when there was a second offer of the Kingdom of God. Find out three factors that distinguish the Kingdom of God and when it will be established. Discover why it was postponed and the characteristics of the covenants which will be fulfilled during the coming Kingdom of God.
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
Passage: Romans 12:3-4
Duration: 1 hr 2 mins 32 secs
Would you like to know more about "speaking in tongues"? Listen to this lesson to learn what it means, the history of the "tongues" movement, and whether this is a legitimate spiritual gift today. Find out the difference between permanent and temporary spiritual gifts. Discover if prophecy in the Old Testament is the same as the temporary gift of prophecy in the New Testament. See how Paul indicates love is permanent but prophecy, knowledge, and tongues are temporary. Understand that the deaths of all the apostles and the completion of the canon of Scripture abolished the temporary gifts.
Note that the video is incorrectly labeled as Romans Lesson #132 on the opening screen.
Thu, Jun 28, 2018
Passage: 1 Peter 4:10-11 & 1 Corinthians 12
Duration: 1 hr 7 mins 9 secs
Are you spending time wondering what your spiritual gift is? Listen to this lesson to learn that as you serve other Christians under the filling of the Holy Spirit your spiritual gift will become evident over time. Follow a fascinating exploration of spiritual gifts in the Word of God and learn the difference between temporary and permanent gifts and why some gifts ceased. See that spiritual gifts are not the means to maturity but are a result of spiritual growth which comes through walking by means of the Spirit and studying God’s Word.
Sun, Dec 01, 2019
Passage: Ephesians 2:5-6 & Romans 6:3-6
Duration: 57 mins 39 secs
Why do we still sin after we believe in Christ as our Savior? Listen to this lesson to see that although we have been raised up with Christ to new life, our sin nature is still alive and well in us. So what can we do about it? Learn what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is and why it has nothing to do with water baptism. Find out several meanings of “with” and the importance of it being translated correctly. See that as believers we have a unique, distinct spiritual life but that we must walk by means of the Holy Spirit Who enables us to resist our sin natures.
Sun, Aug 09, 2020
Passage: Ephesians 2:21-22
Duration: 55 mins 21 secs
Does the baptism of the Holy Spirit cause believers to speak in tongues? Listen to this lesson to learn what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is, when it occurs, and to hear ten introductory facts about it. Find out it is unique for the Church Age and there are eight different types of baptism, only three of which involve water. See its significance is that we get a new identity in Christ. Hear what the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements teach concerning this issue. See that Christ is the One who baptizes us by means of the Holy Spirit and as a result we are in Christ and have the ability to live our spiritual lives totally differently than before we became believers.