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Corporate Worship Services: Worship Series Part 6
Our corporate worship should inspire our personal worship and our personal worship should culminate in our corporate worship. Learn practical ways your weekly worship can be more edifying to you and honoring to God in this new episode on worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.
Wholehearted Worship - Existential Perspective: Worship Series Part 5
Learn how to worship God with your whole being, including your mind, affections, and intentional, physical acts of your body in this new episode on existential perspective of Worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.
The Cultural Perspective of Worship: Worship Series Part 4
Should I lift up my arms in worship? Should I bow down? Learn how to avoid the twin dangers of blindly neglecting the worship practices of the past and rigidly adhering to them in the present in this new episode on cultural perspective of Worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.
The Biblical Perspective of Worship: Worship Series Part 3
How should you respond to church leaders who accuse you of displeasing God if you don’t worship according to their practices, when you can’t see these practices condemned or required in the Bible? Learn how in this new episode on Biblical Worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.
Hope: Longing for One Kiss and One Song that Never Played
“I love that it [this line] is being questioned in that it means the poetry of the lyric is doing its job. And that job, or one of them, is to evoke deep feeling and imagery in an expansive way so that each reader/singer can see some of their deepest moments within them though having lived very different circumstances from one another.” – T. L. Moody
Vertical and Horizontal Worship: Worship Series Part 2
In our last episode, we learned about the broad and narrow focus in biblical worship. In this episode we learn about the vertical and horizontal focus in biblical worship. Our vertical focus is on God and our horizontal focus is on others. Learn more.
Broad and Narrow Worship: Worship Series Part 1
Learn how to deepen your understanding and experience of true worship in the new Worship Series by Drs John Frame and Steve Childers. In this episode, learn what the Bible teaches about a broad and narrow sense of worship.
The Ministry of Mercy (Mercy, Part 1)
Biblical mercy is much broader than mere physical acts of charity or development for the materially poor. Mercy seeks to alleviate not only suffering from physical brokenness, but also all forms of spiritual, mental, emotional, and relational brokenness because of sin. In this part, you'll learn how to explain why the church is the most effective mercy ministry under heaven.
The Marks of Mercy (Mercy, Part 2)
Biblical mercy is much broader than mere physical acts of charity or development for the materially poor. Mercy seeks to alleviate not only suffering from physical brokenness, but also all forms of spiritual, mental, emotional, and relational brokenness because of sin. In this part, you'll learn how to recognize how mercy ministry reflects the mercy God shows us in Christ.
The Vision for Mercy (Mercy, Part 3)
iblical mercy is much broader than mere physical acts of charity or development for the materially poor. Mercy seeks to alleviate not only suffering from physical brokenness, but also all forms of spiritual, mental, emotional, and relational brokenness because of sin. In this part, you'll learn how to teach how church mercy ministry is a sign and instrument of God's kingdom.
The Revelation of God (Perspectives in Theology, Part 1)
The revelation of God’s Triune Lordship in the gospel is not just a set of theological beliefs. It’s also a way of seeing God and all things that gives meaning and purpose to life. It’s a biblical worldview through which we are meant to understand everything that happens so we will know, love, serve, and worship God as Triune Lord in all areas of life.
The Revelation of God's Attributes (Perspectives in Theology, Part 2)
Deepen your knowledge of God by examining analogies he’s given us about himself. Then, take a closer look at God’s knowledge (omniscience), power (omnipotence), and presence (omnipresence).
God’s Triune Nature and Work (Perspectives in Theology, Part 3)
Learn how God reveals who he is and what he does as Triune Lord in the creation and redemption of all things.
God’s Creation and the Fall (Perspectives in Theology, Part 4)
Recognize how God created the world to be his kingdom on earth, and understand how the Father’s kingdom on earth was overthrown. Learn how God’s good creation of the world and humanity did not lose its original God-ordained order, structure, and laws.
God’s Redemption and Restoration (Perspectives in Theology, Part 5)
Learn how God’s kingdom has already come on the earth, and understand the way God’s Kingdom will one day be on earth.
God’s Triune Lordship in All Things (Perspectives in Theology, Part 6)
The Bible’s revelation of God’s Triune Lordship in the gospel is not just a set of theological beliefs. It’s also a way of seeing God and all things, a biblical worldview, that helps you know and worship God as Triune Lord in all areas of your life. Learn how to see the person and work of the Triune God in everything so you will know, love, serve, and worship God as Triune Lord in all areas of your life.
Core Convictions (Preaching, Part 1)
In a world that no longer wants to listen, the essential secret is not mastering certain preaching techniques, but being mastered by certain core convictions. Understand the necessary core convictions in preaching.
The Music and The Dance (Preaching, Part 2)
A core conviction in preaching is the need to communicate both: 1) the music of God’s radical love in Christ, and 2) the call to dance to that music, i.e. God’s radical call to gospel obedience.
A Walk Through Ephesians (Preaching, Part 3)
The Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians displays a pattern for Gospel-centered preaching that includes both indicatives and imperatives. In Ephesians, the Apostle Paul demonstrates a model for Gospel-centered preaching that includes both indicatives (chapters 1-3: who we are in Christ) and imperatives (chapters 4-6: what we do for Christ).
Preaching Methods: Part 1 (Preaching, Part 4)
Harvard medical doctor, Atul Gawande, made an amazing discovery of a simple, practical tool that is proven to help pilots and surgeons be more effective. Learn how this tool can help preachers too.