Resources added in December 2008

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It's Christmas again...

Posted on: December 23, 2008

It's Christmas time again, which means, at least for an IHOP guy like me, the onething conference is right around the corner, the prayer room slims down to the people who actually live in Kansas City (since many students and interns leave for the holidays), and many of the prayer room sets and songs are sung around passages relating to the birth of Christ.

I seriously wish we could take an entire month out of each year and corporately meditate on the incarnation. Of all of the things that we should center our lives around, few, if anything at...

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Rock, pop, or jazz?

Posted on: December 11, 2008

Without question, the influence of secular music on musicians that profess the name of Jesus is strong. Church musicians and Christian artists will name many secular bands as their main musical influences. Before you think I am about to give the blanket statement that is heard so often - “secular music is bad” - I’ll say that various musical genres in and of themselves are not “bad”, and by no means am I advocating that all modern worship songs should be in a specific, common “style”. Taking such a stand is to, I believe, remove the multi-faceted nature of music as it expresses God’s...

Audio

Being Complete in our Love

by Mike Bickle
Posted on: December 6, 2008

In this session from Mike Bickle's First Commandment course given in the fall of 2008, Mike focuses on perhaps one of the most neglected and overlooked subjects in the body of Christ today. The breakthrough of mature love on our heart, deeply rooted in the spirit of obedience, is the most important thing in our lives as believers. Whether we attain to the breakthrough in this area is not the most important thing - it's whether we press for it or not. The reason God extends our days is to give us the opportunity to give Him the testimony that we pressed to not hold anything back from Him...

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The Seven Churches: Jesus' Motivation

Posted on: December 1, 2008

In continuing my series on the seven churches of Revelation, I want to spend this post examining a bit of the motivation of Jesus. What was in His heart in actually giving these messages to the churches? As I said in my first post, each letter was carefully thought out and crafted by the Son of God Himself, and then given to both a literal church alive during the first century as well as to anyone in any age reading the text who would have an ear to what the Spirit is saying, with a particular focus on...

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