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Author Archives: Dr. Matthew Lee Smith
Give What You Have to Meet the Need!
“The loving person is a generous person. Generosity is giving your attention, time, abilities, and money freely to others.” ~ Gary Chapman How many times have you felt like the little you have isn’t worth contributing to the enormous … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Like Jesus
Tagged abilities, attention, dollars, feed, generous, hungry, love, loving, money, need, possessions, time
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Episode 149 – Can Anyone Ever Be Financially Free?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. In order to be financially free, we will need to know and practice all three factors that are involved in financial freedom. Unsurprisingly, the first one corresponds directly to the three “love commands” of the … Continue reading
Posted in Transformed
Tagged anxiety, baptism, bitterness, Christian, consumerism, Debt, disillusionment, envy, fear, Financial decisions, financial freedom, financially free, generosity, giving, insecurity, labor, loss of sleep, manager, money, offering, pay bills, poor, possessions, prayer, prosperity, reproof, sales, sales resistence, tithe, ungrateful, ungratefulness
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Mourning Will Have to Wait, There’s Ministry To Do!
“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Matthew 16:24, NKJV) Personal needs often take a back seat to the disciple of … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, disciple, discipleship, Jesus, King Jesus, Lord Jesus, ministry, needs, recover, regroup, rest, retreat
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Episode 148 – Why Did God Make Money Anyway?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. I’m your host Mike Powers. Money. Just the word incites a flurry of emotions. People long for it, work hard to get it, will do many things in order to have more of it and … Continue reading
It Doesn’t Always End Well!
Truth is not always popular, but it is always right. There is a pernicious lie in the religion of Churchianity: If you do well, life will be incredible! Unfortunately, this is a truth from a different faith. One need … Continue reading
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Tagged adulterer, adultery, adversary, carnality, Christianity, Churchianty, disciple, faith, Jesus, lie, life, Master, right, truth, will of God, Word of God
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Episode 147 – Going After the Life of God!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. It’s easier to do what you know and get what you’ve gotten than to do what God says and get what He promises. But we don’t want 2013 to be a rerun of 2012 for … Continue reading
Posted in Fasting, Transformed
Tagged ability, compassionate, give, God, grace, hypocrites, inability, loveing, mercy, offering, orphan, parent, pastor, performance, poor, promise, rewards, share, support, tithe, widow
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Inspired, Not Transformed!
It says something about our times that we rarely use the word sinful, except to describe a really good dessert. ~ Willard Ferrell Too many long for the inspiration of faith in King Jesus without the transformation of its … Continue reading
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Tagged adutery, benefits, Christ, Christian, confront, counsel, discipline, divorce, faith, Herod, inspiration, leader, Leadership, marriage, Phi;lip, purity faith, remarriage, restoration, sinful, suffer, transformation
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Episode 146 – Going After the Giver of Life!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. Can you imagine going on a date with your beloved and all they do for the entire time you are away is talk! They never let you get a word in. They simply … Continue reading
Posted in Fasting, Transformed
Tagged blessing, Christian, confess, devil, disciple, fast, forgive, forgiven, forsake, glory, honor, hypocrite, John, life, pardon, popularity, power, pray, prayer, priorities, priority, protection, provision, purity, reward, seek, tempt, tempted, thank
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Episode 145 – Going After the Heart of God!
God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him! According to Hebrews 11.6, God rewards when we diligently seek Him … In today’s episode, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California shares … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, bless, blessing, breakthrough, Christian, disciple, discipleship, extra mile, fast, forgiveness, God, Holy Spirit, hypocrite, Kingdom, love your neighbor, ministry, paycheck, Pharisee, poor, prayer, pretender, reward, sacrifice, spring cleaning
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Episode 144 – Going After a Life God Rewards!
2013 is finally here! Over the last 3 months of 2012 Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church prayed, fasted and sought God’s face for His will and direction for the congregation there in El Segundo, California … Continue reading
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Tagged breakthrough, Christian, extra mile, faith, fast, first place, generosity, give, God, Jesus, life, misthos, obedience, obey, please God, poor, pray, reward, sacrifice, seek, treasure, Trust
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