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Caring For the Sick!
Photo Credit: fvdb.wordpress.com Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, broken, busy, care, Christ, Christian, compassion, compassionate, disciple, disciples, discipleship, faith, healing, health, heaven, hope, Jesus, needy, pain, people, pressures, problems, sick, spirit, Word of God
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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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Preach Repentance, Heal Lives!
Artwork courtesy of richardgleaves.blogspot.com It’s never too late! No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. -Turkish proverb Disciples proclaim a need for life change to each person they meet! Repentance is the Biblical … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, biblical, bottle, buffet, care, cash, change, compassion, disciple, grace, help, hope, Jesus, joy, Leadership, life-change, Lord, love, mercy, mess, preach, proclaim, relationship, repent, repentance, sacifice, sex, submission
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Episode 140 – Where Is God When Your Family Rejects You?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. When your family rejects you, God is still with you! As the teenage Jacob shows us, God will show up, back up and take up our cause when we trust our lives to His care. … Continue reading
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Tagged appreciative, birthright, broken, delay, destroy, El Elohe Yisrael, Emmanuel, family, Genesis, God's will, honest, hope, hopeful, Immanuel, Jacob, murder, obedient, pain, persistent, plan, presence of God, problem, promise, rejection, relationships, repent, repentant, Satan, vow
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Episode 138 – Where Is God When the World Seems to Be Falling Apart?
2012 hasn’t been a good year for many people. They say things are getting better financially, but few we know have felt the benefit. People are struggling and hurting. If you know your Bible, it sounds a lot like … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, bell ringers, chaos, Christ, Christmas, consumer, draw near, end of the world, faith, grace, heaven, hope, humble, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Mayan, pay attention, pregnant, rescue, save, submit, suffer, taxes
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Episode 129 – How Does God Strengthen My Life?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. As we continue today with our study, 90 Days of Abundance! our fourth study, causes us to focus on the question, How Does God Strengthen My Life? Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor at … Continue reading
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Tagged abundant life, calling, Christian, Confession, disciple, discipler, draw near, faith, faithful, great high priest, Holy Spirit, hope, Jesus, mission
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Episode 128 – How Do I Get God's Guidance in Life?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. As we continue our 90 Days of Abundance! journey with the men and women of Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California, Lead Pastor Matthew Lee Smith is answering the question, “How Do I … Continue reading
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Tagged application, character, cooperate, dispute, faith, God's will, grumpy, guidance, holiness, hope, obeidence, peace, plan, purity, salvation, self-centered
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Episode 126 – What Is the Abundant Life Anyway?”
Welcome to a new series on the Transformed podcast. Today we begin a journey entitled, 90 Days of Abundance! At Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California, God is doing a new thing and we want to invite to join … Continue reading
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Tagged abundance, abundant life, addiction, alcoholism, bullies, captivity, discipleship, dreams, evangelism, fame, favor, finances, freedom, fun, Good News, guidance, hope, meaning in life, peace, porn, purpose, relationship, repent, sin, slave, struggle, suffering, Vision
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When Depression Falls On the Child of God – Part 2
Photo Credit: carroll.edu “Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me?” (Psalm 43:5, HCSB) We return to the anathema subject of depression in the Christian today because the Bible addresses the reality that many suffer from it, even … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Christianity, depressed, depression, faith, God, hope, Jesus, love, pain, questions, ridicule, suffering, worship
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When Depression Falls On the Child of God
“Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me?” (Psalm 42:5, HCSB) There seems to be a stigma to those Christ-followers who profess some sort of sadness of soul these days. Critics scorn them with pious platitudes like, “How … Continue reading
