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Transformed Episode #172 – Love Honors Our God Personally!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. How does one really love God? What does He require? What should we do to show our love for God? Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California helps … Continue reading
Posted in Love of God, Transformed
Tagged 1 Corinthians, angry, dedicate, deference, disappointed, heart, mind, mission, missional, seek, soul, spiritual hunger, strength, surrender, tempted, Trust, unstable, Value, vulnerable, weak, worship, worth
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Hard Sayings and Shallow Faith!
Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. ~ Joseph Fort Newton Faith in Jesus isn’t an app we can turn on and turn off when we want to. Faith is an absolute calling … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged app, belief, call, Capernaum, commitment, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, disciple, faith, God, heart, Jesus, Kingdom, Lamb, lamb of God, loyalty, ministry, passover, tenacity, Trust, will
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Episode 143 – Where Is God When You Are In Need of Hope?
In our recent national election in the United States, people on both sides of the political aisle were touting their candidate as the solution for what ails the country. However, as we have said before again and again, politicians … Continue reading
Posted in God Is With Us!, Transformed
Tagged affliction, afraid, Ahaz, angry, beligerant, broken, calm down, civil war, cooperate, cowardly, decimation, destroyed, encouragement, enemies, enemy, fear, fiscal cliff, future, God, government, heart, heaven, hesitant, hope, humiliation, Immanuel, Jesus, long-term, obstinate, plot, quiet, rebellious, Shady Hook Elementary, shield, short-term, spiritual, starvation, storm, threatened, throne room, Trust
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Episode 131 – How Do I Live Without The Burden of Guilt?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. Thank you for joining us today as Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California, talks about understanding and enjoying the abundance of Jesus in your everyday life. If … Continue reading
Posted in Adundant Life, Suffering, Transformed
Tagged act, attitude, Christianity, cleansing, confess, Confession, deed, freedom, guilt, heart, improvement, intentions, Jesus, judgment, right, rigtheousness, testing, thought, thoughts, Throne of God, Throne of Grace, violate, violation, virus, word
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When Lust Ruins Your Life!
Artwork Credit: positive-parents.org “For I am conscious of my rebellion, and my sin is always before me. Against You—You alone—I have sinned and done this evil in Your sight. So You are right when You pass sentence; You are blameless … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog
Tagged Christian, consequences, emotion, failure, heart, lust, mind, rebellion, sin, soul
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Nehemiah – Nehemiah's Political Career (1-7)
Artwork Credit: dayofchange.org Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the … Continue reading
Posted in Just Read It!
Tagged Bible, Bible study, Burden, Christian, God's will, heart, Leadership, Nehemiah, Old Testament
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Mobilizing a Missional Heart
Artwork Credit: chuckk.sacreddigital.com When a church recently asked me to help them “mobilize their church toward a greater involvement in evangelism” I shared with them … Six Keys to a Missional Heart Evangelism is about relationship 95% of the time. … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Multi-ethnic / Urban
Tagged Christian, church, church growth, evangelism, heart, missional
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Weeding the Garden of Our Soul
Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. … Continue reading
Posted in forgiveness, Leadership Blog
Tagged anxieties, heart, iniquities, repent, repentance, repenting, sin, transgression, wicked
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Your Passion is YOUR Passion!
“When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. Yet his sons did not walk in his ways … Continue reading
Posted in Just Read It!, Leadership Blog
Tagged abilities, calling, Christian, experiences, gift mix, heart, kingdom of God, Passion, SHAPE, spiritual gifts, will of God
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Building a Love for God!
Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. … Continue reading
Posted in Just Read It!, Leadership Blog
Tagged Bible study, Christian, God, heart, heart for God, love, loving God
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