Teaching by Speaker: Jim Supp
Living Faith, Part 7: Watch Your Mouth
With the words we use, we can breathe life into others, or we can breathe death. It is incumbent on each of us to evaluate what comes out of our mouths by examining our hearts and spheres of influence, being purposefully encouraging, and speaking the truth in love.
Watch / ListenLiving Faith, Part 6: A Living Faith Validated by Works
Faith comes to its full fruition, validation, and completion when it finds its natural outgrowth in effective works that reflect the faith we say we have.
Watch / ListenLiving Faith, Part 5: Partiality
To avoid the sin of partiality, we do not seek out others for personal gain, we give to others who are unlikely to give back to us, and we build relationship with people who are not like us.
Watch / ListenLiving Faith, Part 4: True and Living Faith
If we really believe in Jesus and are truly committed to a love relationship with Him, that is going to reveal itself in how we live.
Watch / ListenLiving Faith, Part 3: Battling Temptation
The temptation to sin is a process that we can interrupt. In the power of the Holy Spirit, engaging His Word and through community, we can be proactive to stop at temptation and not step into sin.
Watch / ListenLiving Faith, Part 2: How to Find Wisdom
If we seek wisdom apart from seeking God, we will not see the wisdom He provides. Instead, we must seek Him and His will, ask for wisdom in faith, and pursue that wisdom by the Spirit, through the Scripture, and with wise counsel.
Watch / ListenLiving Faith, Part 1: A Biblical Theology of Suffering
If you are a follower of Jesus, you have God’s guarantee that He is in the process of transforming you into the image of Jesus Christ. Because His primary tool for this transformation is suffering, any and all pain you experience in this life He can and He will redeem for this purpose.
Watch / ListenThe Names of God: Jehovah Sabaoth
We do and should call out to Jehovah Sabaoth, the Lord of Hosts, in our moments of desperation. Yet we must avoid presumption, placing our confidence is in the power and will of the God of heavenly armies, who is always with us.
Watch / ListenThe Names of God: Jehovah Rapha
God can and sometimes does bring physical healing, but His primary priority is for our spiritual healing. And He uses the brokenness of this world to shape us into the people He wants us to be.
Watch / ListenThe Names of God: Jehovah Nissi
As our Banner, Jesus Christ provides our salvation, our identity, and our power in the battle.
Watch / ListenThe Names of God: Jehovah Jireh
In our seasons of being tested, God’s ultimate goal as our Lord (Adonai) and our provider (Jehovah Jireh) is for us to be mature, complete, and not lacking in anything.
Watch / ListenThe Names of God: Jehovah Mekaddishkem
We, as Christians, are called to be set apart from the rest of the world. But that sanctification is God’s work, not ours, though it is a process that requires our cooperation and is based on the truth of His Word.
Watch / ListenThe Names of God: Jehovah Shalom
The term shalom, in the Old Testament, expresses profound wholeness and well-being. True peace and wholeness can only be found in our Lord Jesus Christ, who doesn’t just provide peace, but He is peace.
Watch / ListenThe Names of God: El Shaddai
El Shaddai—God Almighty, the All-Sufficient One—moves in His creation beyond what it was created to do, and He is responsible to provide an abundant supply to all that He has created.
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