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These books will help guide your daily Bible reading with insights into each passage you read. This series is a practical, passionate, Biblical mentoring journey for individuals, small groups, leadership teams and congregations who desire to win their world for Christ.

These journals will help you keep track of your daily reading and prayer requests.
Hope Enabler is the real-life story of one Christian parent’s struggle with a runaway child and the hope that God enabled her to have during the darkest moments of that struggle.
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My Daily Prayer
What’s your daily focus when you kneel in God’s presence? Each day, when we stop and drop before the Lord of Life, we all focus our hearts. Where do your words take you before Him? Here’s how I choose to surrender daily: … Continue reading
3 Steps I Use to Communicate God’s Word to Others
Often I’m asked questions about what I do to bring clarity to the Biblical teachings. For me, I follow a three-step process. Perhaps they will be helpful to you. Phase One: Search and seek. This is the discipline of entering … Continue reading
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Questions for the New Year
As the calendar counts down its last days of this year, I stop as I always do and ponder a few questions that help me refocus. As Paul so clearly told us, “When Christ who is your life appears, then … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, breakthrough, Christian, ealthy, eternity, focus, God, helathh, Holy Spirit, Inventory, Jesus, New Year, promptings, questions, weight loss, Worldiness
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Transformed #296: Celebrate His Peace!
The Transformed Podcast and Video Teaching Ministry features Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor at Woodland Drive Baptist Church, Visalia. Celebrate His Peace (Christmas 2016) It is an amazing story that has been told for over … Continue reading
Walking By Faith or By Sight?
All this past week I have been thinking about this verse. Perhaps I should say, I have been thinking about the reality of this verse. And maybe its been longer than the past week. Either way, what does “walking by … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, Christian, complain, complaining, faith, intentional, kingdom of God, meditate, natural, pondering, preference, sacrifice, self, selfishness, sight, spiritual, whining
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Studying 1 John 1.10!
Welcome back! We return to our study of what it means to walk in the faith by walking with Jesus today here on the Transformed Podcast! We are here to guide you through this intensive, verse – by – verse … Continue reading
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Studying 1 John 1.9!
Welcome back! We return to our study of what it means to walk in the faith by walking with Jesus today here on the Transformed Podcast! We are here to guide you through this intensive, verse – by – verse … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, confess, Confession, faithful, faithfulness, forgive, God, right, sin, unrighteousness
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Studying 1 John 1.8!
Welcome back! We return to our study of what it means to walk in the faith by walking with Jesus today here on the Transformed Podcast! We are here to guide you through this intensive, verse – by – verse … Continue reading
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Hope For Today – Remove All Fear From Me!
FEAR – it paralyzes us faster than Novocain in the dentist’s chair! The problem seems to be – at least for me – that I unthaw very slowly! I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope … Continue reading
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Studying 1 John 1:5!
Welcome back! We return to our study of what it means to walk in the faith by walking with Jesus today here on the Transformed Podcast! We are here to guide you through this intensive, verse – by – verse … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, church, communion, discipleship, eternal, evangelism, faith, fellowship, God's plan, Gospel, Jesus, joy, knowledge, life, Logos, mediation, moral excellence, purity, purpose, revelation, spiritual perfection, utter transcendence, witness
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