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After Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection he commissions his disciples to take the gospel “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1: 8). And they do just that. Those who were eyewitnesses to Jesus’ life and works travel throughout the Roman Empire, telling stories about him: What he said, what he did, miracles he performed, conversations and debates he had. Over time, those oral stories take on shape and form—not changing from telling to telling, as many insist—but solidifying into a standardized form.

The abolitionist, essayist, teacher, and women’s rights activist Maria W. Stewart is thought to have been the first African American woman to raise matters of equality and justice in a US public forum, the New England Anti-Slavery Society in Boston. In her 1832 lecture, Why Sit Ye Here and Die?, she demanded equal rights for African American women while criticizing both the slavery of the South and the lack of opportunity and equality in the North. Her biblical style of oratory and fierce opposition to injustice still inspire today.

How is a church to operate? What is the role of the elders? Church members? In this series Pastor Skip Heitzig takes a look at the operations manual for God's church, specifically at the behavior expected of its members.

In Second Corinthians, the apostle Paul defends his ministry while stressing the encouragement that believers should offer to one another. Pastor Skip Heitzig highlights this very personal letter.

Rooted in the book of Genesis, this series is all about the patriarchs - the great fathers of our faith. Join Skip Heitzig for this study and see how God can use flawed people to accomplish His great purposes.

This is a eloquent course on the Gospel of Matthew. It represents a lifetime of scholarship and research by one of the world’s leading experts on the New Testament. He points out what and why the various protestant scholars stress certain passages and not others and shows how these differ from the numerous Catholic approaches. He even brings out how the various religious orders, Dominican, Franciscan, and Jesuits will approach the scripture from different angles determined in part by their own spiritualties and charisms.

Baptist-Calvinist preacher Archibald Brown denounces modern theology with reference to the flood of Noah and the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. Besides Scripture, his visits to Pompeii and mount Vesuvius also inspired him to paint these fearful scenarios.

First Chronicles focuses on the genealogy that led to King David, and his exploits. Skip Heitzig reveals how this book served as a link to the Jewish past after their captivity in Babylon.

Ezekiel prophesied to the Israelites in exile, to draw them back to the God they had deserted. Skip Heitzig looks at the amazing visions of Ezekiel, some of which mirror those in Revelation.

At a time when the institution of marriage is failing in our culture, Christians are making a renewed commitment to discover the richness of biblical marriages as the foundation of society. In this collection of wedding sermons, Peter Leithart illuminates the subject from many perspectives, forming a loose, down-to-earth "systematic theology of marriage" that connects marriage with the doctrines of creation, salvation, sacraments, church, eschatology, and more.

>"None But Jesus - Part 2" is a classic sermon by Charles Spurgeon, first delieved on February 17th, 1861. This narration is beautifully performed by Bryan Nyman.

A desire is a hunger, a craving, a preoccupation, and an internal aim for an external conquest. A desire, when broken down to one word, is a wish. No one has ever taught us how to desire. You can accomplish desire without practicing. Sickness and even old age do not diminish desire; they just change what we desire. To stop desiring we would have to be in a complete vegetative or meditative state, and even then we would have to desire not to desire.

A deceptive spirit that is still dangerously active in the earth today, especially in the church, controlled Jezebel the infamous wife of King Ahab, and Queen of Israel. As believers we must understand, that beneath the physical manifestation of Jezebel is a chameleon spirit that can influence both men and women equally. This message was preached live at Rod Parsley’s Dominion Camp Meeting 2004.

Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant teaches powerful and proven principles using our childhood toys in a powerful two part series featuring “Principles from Playdoh” and “Lessons From A Webble Wobble”. Radical, Revolutionary, Innovative, Anointed, and Cutting edge are some of the words often used to describe Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant.

This audiobook contains 45 selected passages from the Book of Mormon, chosen for their focus on the core doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each passage is prefaced by a brief introduction, identifying the circumstances of the sermon, prophecy, or vision. The selected passage is then read by one of seven narrators - men and women of a variety of ages.

Second Samuel is the book which relates the triumphs, transgressions, and troubles of David, Israel’s greatest king. Pastor Skip Heitzig tells the story of the "man after God’s own heart."

When you hear the word style, you usually think of fashion. But there is much more to style than the clothes we wear. People are different and look at situations differently. These distinctions influence opinions and behaviors producing a variety of styles. Learning about your styles and the styles of others can increase happiness, generate success, and reduce conflict in your life. Discovering your personal style can help you understand why you do certain things, why you react in particular ways, and why others act the way they do.

Each chapter in this book lends itself to the spiritual growth of the believer. We are to be aware of the very likely possibility that we will encounter false teachers and how to discern and deal with them. We are to be diligent and avoid deceptive teachings and avoid the wiles of Satan as he continually attempts to tempt us, to draw us away from our loving heavenly father. As you listen to this book, my prayer is you will hear from the heart of God as he continues to reach out and speak to his beloved church, his people, his called-out ones, as we rapidly approach the return of the king.

Whether or not we attend church, deep down we wonder if the biblical story of faith is really enough for the complexity of the world in which we live. We fill our lives with other things, hoping that maybe the next experience or accomplishment will complete us. Yet with every goal we reach, we still feel discouraged and anxious. In Searching for Enough, Pastor Tyler Staton draws on ancient and modern insights to introduce us, as if for the first time, to Jesus' disciple Thomas: history's most notorious sceptic.

After being sold into slavery by his brothers, Joseph soon becomes “prime minister” of Egypt, second only to Pharaoh himself. The boy is handsome, smart and he always lands on his feet!