Best Calvary Church Of State College PA Podcasts (2024)

Send me a Text Message! In this episode we are looking at a prayer from Paul in the book of Philippians. I’ve called it a finishing prayer. It’s a prayer to finish life well. In Bobby Clinton’s research on leaders, he found that about 1/3 of Christian leaders finish well. He defined finishing well as having a sense of purpose and calling accomplish…

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Praying Scripture #32 -- Philippians 4:6-7 -- "The secret sauce for anxiety--gratitude!" 23:32

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Send me a Text Message! All through the New Testament is an often overlooked spiritual discipline meant shape our prayers. It's the discipline of gratitude, thanksgiving to God. "Don’t be anxious, don’t worry about anything," Paul writes in Philippians 4. But in everything hard situation put these two things together, prayer and thanksgiving and Go…

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Praying Scripture #31 -- Ephesians 3:14-21 -- After 36 hours of prayer & worship, this is my prayer! 24:08

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Send me a Text Message! This one is a bit different. A combination of a report on joining with 10 other congregations and two campus ministries for 36 hours of non-stop prayer and worship and another look at my favorite prayer in all of scripture. Enjoy!By Dan Nold (Pastor of Calvary Church)

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Praying Scripture #30 -- Ephesians 3:14-21 -- "Ask Him for more..." 23:43

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Send me a Text Message! Sometimes people make a distinction between praying big prayers and praying small prayers. But do you realize that according to Paul in Ephesians 3:14-21, every prayer we will ever pray is smaller than His power to accomplish it. They are all small prayers because He can do far beyond the greatest good we can imagine. Someti…

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Praying Scripture #29 -- Ephesians 1:15-23 (part 2) -- "God I need help...." 23:38

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Send me a Text Message! Ephesians 1:15-23 is a prayer for power, resurrection power that is available for us. Can I tell you why this is so important? It's so important because what we need we can't get on our own. Who we need to become we can't become on our own. We can't know God better...on our own. We need help. We can't find the hope we need i…

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Praying Scripture #28 -- Ephesians 1:15-23 -- "Open the eyes of my heart, so I can know you!" 24:39

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Send me a Text Message! In Ephesians 1:15-23, Paul prays a prayer for his friends and in the midst of this prayer are the words, the request, "God give them the Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that they can know you better." Later he will ask God to open the eyes of their heart. His prayer brings to mind the simple question, "How well do I know …

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Praying Scripture #27 -- Romans 8 & 15:13 -- "God of hope, I need some hope!" 21:34

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Send me a Text Message! The prayer for this episode is found in Romans 15:13. It’s a very simple but powerful prayer that Paul prays for his friends. Here it is: "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." God of hope fill us with joy and peace so we …

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Praying Scripture #26 -- Acts 4:1-31 -- "Give us courage to share Jesus with others..." 24:11

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Send me a Text Message! In Acts 4, the church prays for courage and boldness in the face of threats and persecution. I've seen this in other places, Myanmar, Iran. Courage and compassion in the midst of hardship and persecution. And so often the partnering activity in those times are bold prayers. I'm not sure what happens to our bold prayers. Some…

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Ask God for More

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Sometimes people make a distinction between praying big prayers and praying small prayers. But if God can do more than we can even imagine (Ephesians 3:20-21) then every prayer we ever pray is smaller than His power to accomplish it. They are all...By Dan Nold

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Praying Scripture #25 -- John 17:20-26 -- "Father help us to love better..." 22:21

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Send me a Text Message! John 17 contains a dream on Christ's heart. His dream is to unleash upon the world a people who love more, and love deeper, and love longer than anyone else in the world. And so it's not surprising that in John 17, the great dream on Christ's heart becomes the great prayer on Christ's lips. This is the longest recorded praye…

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Praying Scripture #24 -- Luke 5:17-26 -- "Jesus would you do something amazing?" 24:32

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Send me a Text Message! I call this story in Luke 5, the fellowship of the mat. Four guys bring their paralyzed friend to Jesus. But here's the point that grips me, Jesus told the four friends that their faith is what brought their friend in need, a miracle. This is really the heart of this episode. My faith matters for others. Your faith matters f…

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Praying Scripture #23 -- Mark 9:14-29 -- "Jesus I believe...and I don't. Help me in my doubt!" 21:00

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Send me a Text Message! In Mark 9, a man come looking for Jesus. This man came with a need; a parent who found the child of his heart beaten up and locked up by some force beyond his control. He had tried everything else, but nothing worked. Then he heard about Jesus. And even though he's a sensible man, he's a needy man and Jesus is his last hope.…

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Praying Scripture #22 -- Mark 5:21-34 -- "Just a touch Jesus, that's all I need." 21:46

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Send me a Text Message! Mark 5 contains a prayer for healing. A woman who had experienced chronic brokenness that left her spiritually, relationally, and emtionally isolated. She heard about Jesus, so she came. A somewhat common beginning to prayer. She heard about Jesus; she came to Jesus and she touched the hem of his robe. That was her prayer. S…

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Praying Scripture #21 -- Matthew 26:36-46 -- "I surrender..." 23:08

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Send me a Text Message! Be honest, there is at least a bit of our heart that sees the title, "I surrender..." and thinks, maybe I'll just pass this prayer by...get back into it tomorrow. Matthew 26 contains a prayer of surrender made by Jesus before he went to the cross. "Not my will, but your will be done." That was his prayer. But I love what the…

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Extraordinary Prayer for Life

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We can't honestly pray for revival in the church without believing that something has died. But God offers life by the breath of his Spirit.By Dan Nold

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Praying Scripture #20 -- Matthew 15:21-28 -- "Do you ever wonder if God cares?" 22:59

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Send me a Text Message! Matthew 15 contains the prayer of an outsider. She doesn't have an inside track to Jesus. She's an outsider and as far as Jesus' disciples are concerned she's an outcast. She knows it so when she comes to Jesus, she comes with the traditional words of a beggar. "Lord, have mercy on me." And she gets ignored and in some respe…

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Praying Scripture #19 -- Matthew 6:5-15 -- "It's like talking to your father..." 22:43

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Send me a Text Message! If I could sum up in a single phrase what I want to leave you this episode; what I long for us to walk away certain of today, it's this: "God is a Father who loves you like only a father can love you." That's the most compelling point of what we know as "The Lord's Prayer." Jesus was born into a religious culture based on st…

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Praying Scripture #18 -- Malachi 3:10-12 -- "Make my life a prayer..." 23:01

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Send me a Text Message! Malachi 3:10-12 is not a prayer, but it shapes a prayer that I've been praying for a few decades. "God open the floodgates of heaven and pour our your uncontainable blessings on your people!" But the prayer comes with a challenge from God. It wasn't a pray-more challenge, it was a generosity challenge. God basically said, "I…

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Praying Scripture #17 -- Jonah 2 -- "O God, Save Me!" 23:16

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Send me a Text Message! This episode is all about Jonah's prayer from the belly of a fish at the bottom of the sea. We could talk a bit about whether or not it was a whale or a big fish, or is it even a true story, I mean the science of a guy being swallowed by a whale is a little bit undeveloped, right? But if that’s what you are thinking you are …

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Praying Scripture #16 -- Daniel 9:9-14 -- "A prayer to the hero of our story..." 22:23

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Send me a Text Message! Daniel (of Lion's Den fame) was an amazing man, but if we were to sit down with Daniel, he wouldn't have any time for our hero worship. He would simply say, "I'm sorry, but you missed the point. I tried to make it clear over and over again, but let me try again; God is the Hero of my story. God is the one who preserves young…

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The Power of Travail in Prayer

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The sermon on "Travailing Prayer," centered on Habakkuk 3:2, emphasizes the profound longing to experience God's heart and see his hand upon us. The message calls for personal reflection on our own prayer practices, questioning how we...By Isaac Balban

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A Heart For The Lost

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We often don't stop to really analyze the desires of our hearts. They seem to play in the background of our lives while really having a powerful impact on how we live. It's important to ask ourselves the question of whether the desires of...By Scott Leddy

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Praying Scripture #15 -- Ezekiel 37:1-14 -- Breath of life for such dry bones! 20:41

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Send me a Text Message! Ezekiel’s vision and prayer conversation in Ezekiel 37 is about as close as the Old Testament gets to Easter. How do we pray for more life? Perhaps it begins by understanding that resurrection is the work of a force outside of ourselves. I think we could all agree that in death I am helpless, out of control and unable to cha…

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Praying Scripture #14 -- Isaiah 64:1-12 -- "Father Potter, shape my soul!" 21:58

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Send me a Text Message! Isaiah 64 begins as a lament. It is a fight with God for more of God. But the lament becomes travailing prayer, as a sense of expectancy is added. We are covered in sin, wanting to do our own thing in our own time for our own glory, so God turns his back on us; gives us over to our sin. But when we lament; when we cry for hi…

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Praying Scripture #13 -- Psalm 139 -- "A prayer of yada..." 20:46

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Send me a Text Message! Did you ever feel like you were all alone? Like nobody sees you or cares about you. Nobody wants to know you. Nobody is paying attention to you. Psalm 139 is a psalm that resounds with this truth, "God is paying attention to you." God knows when we sit and when we stand. His eyes were on you yesterday when you sat down to ta…

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Praying Scripture #12 -- Psalm 77 -- "O God, thank you!" 20:47

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Send me a Text Message! Psalm 77 is the heart cry of a person who is waiting for bad stuff to stop and good stuff to start. The first half of the Psalm is a lament, a cry to God to show up and show off. The psalmist is stuck in deep trouble. But there is a turning point. It doesn't come when the current circumstances change, that's what many of us …

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Praying Scripture #11 -- Psalm 63 -- "My soul thirsts for you..." 21:35

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Send me a Text Message! There was a time in David’s life where he had lost everything that we would say was necessary for the good life. He was living in caves on the run from a King who wanted to kill him. Lost his family. Lost his home. Lost his reputation. Lost his freedom. And it was during those days that he'd create this song of worship, this…

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Extraordinary Arrow Prayers

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Bill & Sarah Ewing talk about their own personal prayer journey. They talk about how to pray, what to pray and when to pray. Extra resources are at calvarysc.org/extraordinaryBy Bill Ewing

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Praying Scripture #10 -- Psalm 51 -- "Revive our hearts, O God!" 22:24

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Send me a Text Message! We have a heart problem. Revive our hearts O God! We let things into our hearts that we would never let pass our mouths. We let stuff into our eyes that would make us blush if we were there in person. In Psalm 51, David longs for a renewed purity of heart, so that he can reconnect with God, because when sin rules, life is wi…

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Praying Scripture #9 -- Psalm 23 -- "A crazy battle plan!" 21:21

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Send me a Text Message! In Luke 10, Jesus sends his disciples out on a mission. It's really a battle, in a way he is actually sending them into battle, a spiritual battle. When they come back he tells them, "Good job. While you were gone I saw Satan fall like lightening from the sky." But here's the deal, here’s the crazy battle plan. When Jesus se…

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Praying Scripture #8 -- Nehemiah 9 -- "The longest recorded prayer in the Bible!" 21:00

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Send me a Text Message! Nehemiah 9 contains the longest recorded prayer in the Bible. And we can learn a lot about prayer from this prayer. For example, prayer must be radically God-centered. This prayer of Nehemiah is saturated with God. He is our Creator, Redeemer, Grace-Giving, Wonder-Working, Lavishly Loving, Great and Almighty, Chastizer and F…

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Praying Scripture #7 -- Nehemiah 1 -- "Travailing Prayer" 22:30

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Send me a Text Message! Nehemiah is experiencing a great life, great success, influence and power in Susa, but then one day he gets a report of the difficult, discourarging, even tragic circumstances in Jesusalem and God places a holy discontent in his heart. So it says in vs 4, that Nehemiah sat down and wept. He mourned, fasted and prayed to the …

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Praying Scripture #6 -- I Chronicles 4:9-10 -- "The Prayer of Jabez" 21:01

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Send me a Text Message! The name Jabez in Hebrew, literally means "pain" or even worse, "bringer of pain." Can you imagine being given that name? Every time someone called his name, it was a reminder of pain. A reminder that his life was a disappointment or a hardship to someone else. Some of you know what that's like, maybe it's not in your name, …

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A little extra of Jesus

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What if the heart of Jesus shaped our prayer a bit more? What if we added a little extra Jesus to our ordinary prayers?By Dan Nold

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Praying Scripture #5 -- I Samuel 1-3 -- "Praying for the next generation!" 23:02

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Send me a Text Message! Samuel the prophet was a man of great conviction who made a difference in his world at an early age. We might ask ourselves where have the Samuels of the church gone? Where are those people who will stand unmoveable upon the convictions of God. Where are the people who will listen for HIs voice? Where are the people who will…

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Praying Scripture #4 -- Numbers 6:22-27 -- "A people blessed by God..." 21:44

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Send me a Text Message! In this episode, I'm going to talk a little bit about disappointment and a little bit about blessing. Why am I talking about disappointment in the context of blessing? Well where does disappointment come from? A common answer in our day is that it comes from a lack of self-esteem or a failure to accept ourselves as we are. M…

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Praying Scripture #3 -- Exodus 33 -- "God I want to be your friend..." 22:22

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Send me a Text Message! The prayer of Moses in Exodus 33 is "God we need your presence." And God responds, "You have found favor with me for you are my friend." If you know me, you know that few things having driven my life more than the desire to be used by God. But in the last few years God's been refocusing my passion, so nothing would drive me …

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Praying Scripture #2 -- Genesis 4:26 -- "Call upon the name of the Lord!" 22:24

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Send me a Text Message! Genesis 4:26 is the first time prayer is mentioned in the Bible. "At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD." People who pray, people who call upon the name of the Lord are people who are willing to take a posture of brokenness. They are people who are willing to admit that the very best thing I bring to th…

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Praying Scripture #1 -- Mark 4:31-45 -- "Breathe deeply in the storm!" 25:17

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Send me a Text Message! The connection between the Spirit of God and the Word of God and the prayers of God’s people is profound. In fact, my favorite metaphor for this three-way connection is breathing deeply. The Spirit of God is the breath of God. So we breathe in the Word; and we breathe out prayer. Soak your soul in the Word and then lift up y…

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Don't Despise Your Prayer Journey

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Each of us is on a prayer journey as we learn what it means to fully enjoy and express our relationship with God. We may not all be at the same spot of our journey but there are common realities that we'll all experience. Times when prayer seems...By Scott Leddy

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Acts Series #67 -- Acts Summary III -- "Is prayer your first response or your last resort?" 24:46

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Send me a Text Message! The people in Acts were devoted to prayer, not just as a means to an end, but they were devoted to being with God, with Jesus in prayer. The early church prayed like prayer really mattered. They saw prayer as a necessary preparation for God's Work. (In fact you might argue that they saw prayer as the work, not just preparati…

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Acts Series #66 -- Acts Summary II, Acts 2 -- We're standing at a crossroads of decision... 26:07

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Send me a Text Message! You could say that the book of Acts is the story of a people standing at a crossroads of decision. Their next step would set the direction of their lives. They had to make a decision. It was a decision of devotion. To what or whom would their first devotion be given? They had a conviction that they needed to give their heart…

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Acts Series #65 -- Acts Summary I -- Jesus, the Spirit and your mission! 25:12

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Send me a Text Message! Don't miss this, though the book of Acts has been shown time and time again to contain an accurate historical survey, this is not an historical dissertation for Dr. Luke. He's writing to a person, possibly a friend and I want you to picture, his hand shaking with emotion, with excitement, joy, and deep longing as he writes. …

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Acts Series #64 -- Acts 28 -- "No reserves, no retreats, no regrets!" 23:10

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Send me a Text Message! When you read Paul's story in the book of Acts, you find that he had a dream, a compelling vision. He wanted to live for Christ. He wanted to bring Jesus to the whole world and for Paul the whole world was at Rome. He wanted to witness to Caesar. So God brought him to Rome. Probably not the way Paul envisioned. no mass-crusa…

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Acts Series #63 -- Acts 27 -- "It never stopped and it never will!" 23:15

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Send me a Text Message! In Acts 27, we see that Paul had a deep, deep confidence in God’s power to accomplish God’s purpose through God’s plan. God's power, purposes and plan. What is God's purpose? He's taking the gospel global. The Kingdom of God and the good news of Jesus is going global. That’s always been God’s plan, and can I tell you somethi…

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Are you Listening?

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The sermon emphasizes the importance of not only speaking to God in prayer but also actively listening to His voice. It unpacks how God's guidance is present not just in significant moments but also in the everyday, seemingly mundane aspects of...By Isaac Balban

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Acts #62 -- Acts 26 -- "Don't you love to evangelize?" 23:24

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Send me a Text Message! Acts 26 is the culmination of the love story that started in Acts 25, the love story between God and the family of Herod Agrippa. It’s also about evangelism. And let’s be honest, many of us have a love/hate/worry/guilt relationship with evangelism. Maybe that's because we've defined evangelism as, "Getting the hard sell from…

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Acts #61 -- Acts/Galatians -- "We need a soul revolution!" 25:34

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Send me a Text Message! I want to talk to you about seed-planters and soul revolutions. Seed-planters are people with vision. They are people with the patience, the faith and the courage necessary to strive hard for a future they may or may not see. Without seed-planters there is no fruit, no life. Seed-planters are people who love to serve. Seed-p…

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Acts Series #60 -- Acts 25 -- "A great love story..." 23:53

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Send me a Text Message! Acts 25 contains one of my favorite love stories in all of scripture. I’ll never forget the first time it hit me, it settled into my heart. The passionate relentless love of God is so great. The love of Christ is so great, His pursuit so relentless that he would throw his #1 spokesman in jail for two years so that his #1 ene…

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