I. EXPOSITIONAL SERMONS II. TOPICAL SERMONS ____ I. EXPOSITIONAL SERMONS GENESIS 1: “Putting People in Their Place” 2: “The Gardener, the Guardian and the Girl” 3: “The Bigger They Come the Harder They Fall” 10:1-11:9: “Faulty Tower” 12:1-4: “Great Expectations” 13-14: “A Short Goodbye” 15: “Out for the Count” 20-21: “Sister Act 2″ 21:1-21: “Give [...]
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The Importance of the Doctrine of the Deity of Christ and the Trinity
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011The following is an excerpt from Carl Trueman’s video lecture on Athanasius: Carl Trueman remembers an occasion when he was teaching on the Trinity. An ordained minister put up his hand and said, “I think this Trinity stuff is all nonsense. It’s just speculation. So I just tell my people on Sunday that God the [...]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011African Traditional Religious System as Basis of Understanding Christian Spiritual Warfare (Lausanne Movement) Christian Witness to People of African Traditional Religions (Lausanne Occasional Papers 18) Christian Witness to Traditional Religionists of Asia and Oceania (Lausanne Occasional Papers 16) Christian Witness to Traditional Religionists of Latin America and Caribbean (Lausanne Occasional Papers 17) Spiritual Conflict and [...]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011Aseret ha-Dibrot: The “Ten Commandments” (Judaism 101; traditional Jewish attitudes and beliefs concerning the Decalogue) Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews (Judaism 101) Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah and Confirmation (Judaism 101) Birth and the First Month of Life (Judaism 101; discussion of birth, baby showers, naming a child, brit milah: circumcision, pidyon ha-ben: redemption of the first-born, [...]
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Monday, December 19th, 20111. General 2. Hindu Websites 3. Videos ____ 1. General Aradhna: From Comfort to Discomfort, From Church to Temple (International Journal of Frontier Missiology) Break the Christian Cocoon – Let Hindus See Jesus (Mission Frontiers) Bridging the Gap between Western Workers and India’s Hindus (International Journal of Frontier Missiology) The Burden of the Past (Mission [...]
Read more...What is Taught in the Hadith Series
Monday, December 19th, 20111. Prayer, Fasting and Alms-Giving and Salvation 2. The Object of Supreme Love 3. The Direction of Prayer 4. Jihad 5. Apostasy
Read more...Islam and Conflict Series
Monday, December 19th, 20111. Roots of Jihad 2. The Battle of Uhud and Basic Dogmas 3. The Problem of Succession 4. The Kharijis & Ali 5. Breakdown in Dialogue with the Jews
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Monday, December 19th, 20111. Particular Religions 2. General 3. Video ____ 1. Particular Religions Buddhism Folk Religion Hinduism Islam Judaism ____ 2. General Apologetic Sound Bites: How Can You Claim There’s Only One True Religion? (Tim Chester) Atheism and Religious Education Cargo Cult and Culture Worshipers Carl Jung’s Monism and Neo-Paganism Challenge of Other Religions 1 Colin Chapman [...]
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Sunday, December 18th, 20111. Face to Face Resources 2. Other Resources ____ 1. Face to Face Resources Abdullah Saeed / Islamic Religious Education and its Reform The All-Encompassing Nature of Islam Amin Saikal / Islam and the West: Containing the Rage? And we for the sake of Christ all things bear: Fatima Al-Mutairi’s poem before her martyrdom Aziz [...]
Read more...The Garden (Paradise) in the Bible and the Qur’an Series
Sunday, December 18th, 2011#1: Surah 2:25, 35 But give glad tidings to those who believe and work righteousness, that their portion is Gardens, beneath which rivers flow. Every time they are fed with fruits therefrom, they say: “Why, this is what we were fed with before,” for they are given things in similitude; and they have therein companions [...]
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