Faith eFree Sermon Podcast

David, Nabal, and Abigail

Chris — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:00:14 +0000

As we continue our study of the life of David, let’s look at 1 Samuel 25 and allow it to warn and challenge us.

Length 27:52

Receiving What God Wants to Give

Chris — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:00:54 +0000

Today we are going to consider a couple of passages that emphasize what God wants us to receive when we enter His presence.

Length 27:22

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The Power of a Friend

Chris — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:00:06 +0000

Friends encourage. They believe in us. They love us even knowing the worst about us. They will shoot straight with us and point out our sin and mixed up priorities. They hold us accountable. They are someone with whom you truly face life together.

Length 29:06

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The Battles We Fight

Chris — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:00:59 +0000

This morning we are going to discuss a perspective on the battles we are fighting. Specifically we are going to consider what difference it makes when you are in covenant with the one, true living God.

Length 26:52

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Hearts Trained by the Ordinary

Chris — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:00:50 +0000

Today we begin a sermon series on the life of David. There are a lot of reasons for studying the life of David. One of the most obvious reasons is because the Scriptures give more space to describing the life of David more than anybody except Jesus Himself.

Length 28:07

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Environmental Missions at the Point of Love

Chris — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:00:56 +0000

Lowell Bliss shares about Environmental Missions. Learn more at www.edenvigil.org.

Length 30:34

As the Father Has Sent Me…

Chris — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:00:45 +0000

Dr. Steve Coffey, President of Christar, shared about undersatanding the Heart of a Missional Lifestyle.

Length 30:11

Praying for Others’ Spiritual Progress

Chris — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:00:53 +0000

“There’s something else that Paul did. He prayed for people. He believed that his prayers had an impact on their spiritual progress. Today we are going to examine Paul’s prayer for the Colossians recorded in Colossians 1:9-14.”

Length 30:01

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Prayer and God’s view of Pride and Humility

Chris — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:00:22 +0000

Today we are going to examine a parable in Luke 18 in which Jesus puts prayers on the lips of two people – a Pharisee and a tax collector. One prayed in light of the character of God and one didn’t.

Length 30:02

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Confession: The Path to True Happiness

Chris — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:00:48 +0000

Today as we continue our study of various prayers in the Bible we are going to look at Psalm 32, which is a prayer of David. This psalm gives us wonderful guidance for how to pray in dealing with the barrier of sin.

Length 26:05

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Prayer and God’s Covenant Love

Chris — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:00:39 +0000

Today we are going to consider Psalm 42 and 43 – psalms that gives us permission to go directly to God and talk things out when we’re disappointed with Him.

Length 28:10

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Prayer & the Promises of God

Chris — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:00:11 +0000

Lowell launched our new series on prayer this week setting up the series with several promises from God.

Length 32:49

God’s Compassion, Our Compassion

Chris — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:00:35 +0000

Today we finish up our study in thebook of Jonah. Jonah 4 is a case study in how to love our enemies.

Length 24:10

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The God Who Relents

Chris — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:00:14 +0000

Today we are going to look at Jonah 3. The simple truth that is illustrated in this chapter is that God notices genuine repentance. And God is predisposed to pour out His grace upon us when we repent.

Length 30:30

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Crying Out from the Depths

Chris — Sun, 23 May 2010 18:00:15 +0000

Like Jonah, perhaps God has given you a difficult assignment in some area of your life – a vocation that’s different from what you would have chosen for yourself, a difficult marriage, or you are required to make sacrifices that others don’t have to make.

Length 24:57

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Running from God

Chris — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:00:12 +0000

Today, we begin a four week series on the book of Jonah and as we will see Jonah tried to run from God. We are going to look at chapter one of Jonah this morning.

Length 24:16

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Discipleship: Mission, Identity, Lifestyle

Chris — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:00:40 +0000

Jesus never intended for a disciple to care only about his/her own well-being and not the overall mission of the church. Both the individual disciple and the church will suffer if we’re not all committed to each other and the mission that Jesus gave us.

Length 27:13

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Two Foundations

Chris — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:00:24 +0000

All of us want strength and stability in our lives, but we need to be honest about whether or not we’re pursuing a lifestyle that makes it possible. Today we look at Matthew 7:24-27 in which Jesus tells us very directly the determining factor for whether or not we will have strength and stability in our lives: whether or not we put into practice the things He taught.

Length 24:51

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The Accuracy of Fruit

Chris — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:00:25 +0000

In Matthew 7:15-23 Jesus teaches that there will be some who only masquerade as His disciples. Some people intentionally deceive others; some people are deceived themselves. In either case, you will know them by their fruit; the fruit of their lives will make obvious that they’re not truly apprenticed to Jesus.

Length 31:06

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The Story of the Lost Sons

Chris — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:00:34 +0000

Steve P shares about the two sons in the passage from Luke 15:1-32.

Length 25:39

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The Vindication of Jesus

Chris — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:00:30 +0000

There was really only one thing that could vindicate Jesus: being raised from the dead. That is exactly what the New Testament claims happened. The early followers of Jesus went around the entire known world arguing that the resurrection of Jesus demanded that people consider the teachings and claims of His life.

Length 22:09

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God’s Solution for Our Sin

Chris — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:00:13 +0000

This morning we are going to discuss how challenging and difficult it can be to see Jesus Christ, especially His humiliation. Looking at Jesus in this way is not easy because the depth of His suffering reveals the enormity of our sin. And when we look at our lives in light of His humiliation, we might find that we’re ashamed of old habits that we never really noticed before.

Length 28:14

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Two Ways; One Choice

Chris — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:00:30 +0000

As we come to the passage we are considering today, Jesus is very clear that when it comes to our lives, we don’t have a lot of choices about how we will live. In fact, we have really only have one choice and that is to follow Jesus or not.

Length 26:03

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Persisting in Prayer

Chris — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:00:44 +0000

This morning we are looking at Matthew 7:7-11. This is the third time in the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus addresses the issue of prayer. At the heart of what He does here, he issues a grand invitation.

Length 24:33

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Judging vs. Helping

Chris — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:00:47 +0000

The perception – both inside and outside the church – is that Christians are more focused on condemning people than helping them become more like Jesus.

Length 29:20

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How God Views Our Worrying

Chris — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Today we are going to consider Matthew 6:25-34, a passage of Scripture in which Jesus tells His disciples “Do not worry.” Three times in ten verses He will say this. Generally speaking, merely telling an anxious person not to worry isn’t very helpful. What is needed is often a radical change of mindset/thinking – a whole different way of framing up how you think about the future. That’s exactly what Jesus does in this passage.

Length 29:46

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Single-Minded Devotion

Chris — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:00:02 +0000

Do you really have a church if the people in it aren’t actually disciples who deny themselves, take up their crosses daily, and follow Him – whatever the cost.

Length 25:45

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Our Vision for Faith EFC

Chris — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:00:52 +0000

We as human beings have an amazing capacity to adapt and make lifestyle changes if we think it’s worth it… As I did in October of 2008, I am going to try to paint a picture/vision of what this church might look like as we make progress in these five areas.

Length 32:28

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Secret Virtues: Fasting

Chris — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:00:10 +0000

Today, we are talking about fasting. It’s one of the spiritual practices that we can engage in that can awaken our hunger for God. It is one of the ways we can say to Him, “I want you. This much, O God, I want you.”

Length 27:01

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The Disciples’ Prayer

Chris — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:00:34 +0000

Today we are going to study one of the most familiar passages of Scripture in the Bible. It’s commonly called “the Lord’s Prayer,” but some have suggested that we call it the Disciples’ Prayer since it’s the prayer that Jesus taught His disciples to pray.

Length 26:25

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Secret Virtues: Prayer

Chris — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:00:30 +0000

I hear people talk about prayer as an obligation. People feel like they should pray, but they don’t pray much; and when they do it’s not very satisfying. Can you relate to that at all?

Length 23:40

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Secret Virtues: Giving to the Poor

Chris — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:00:32 +0000

What if your secrets – things that nobody else knows about – were great virtues? What if your secrets were such that if they were revealed you would look good instead of bad?

Length 24:28

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Prayer, Faith and Weariness

Chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:00:20 +0000

This week Lowell Bliss taught on persevering prayer and God’s response to prayer.

Length 35:57

A Reflective Approach to Scripture

Chris — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:00:49 +0000

A few weeks ago I decided to spend about a month reading and re-reading Psalm 119 in hopes that God would sort of refresh my desire to be in His Word. If you are not fa- miliar with Psalm 119, it’s the longest Psalm in the book of Psalms. It has 176 verses and in nearly every verse the psalmist speaks of God’s Word. It is a psalm of devotion to God and His Word.

Length 32:44

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Faith and Foolishness

Chris — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:00:41 +0000

Life in this world is always a mixture of satisfactions and disappointments. This is not only true of life in general. This is also true of our lives. One way to say it is to say that In this world, our lives are a mixture of faith and foolishness.

Length 29:05

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KMAN Alpha Radio Interview

Chris — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:47:47 +0000

Justin Kastner, Steve Ratliff and Michael Ide talk with Cathy Dawes of KMAN about the Alpha Course. The caller questions were not recorded; thus there will be some missing pieces as you listen.

Length 17:59

Mary’s Surrender

Chris — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:00:55 +0000

Today we finish up our Advent series on the life of Mary, Jesus’ mother. We are going to look at a series of events in the life of Mary that forced her to relate to Jesus differently. Instead of being His mother, Mary had to learn how to be His disciple. She had to lay aside the normal expectations of a mother and adopt the unqualified surrender of a disciple.

Length 31:19

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Mary’s Sorrow

Chris — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:00:55 +0000

This Advent season we’ve been teaching on the life of Jesus’ mother, Mary, the person who was closer to the first Christmas than anybody else. So far we’ve seen her response to God before the birth of her Child. She responded with faith when the angel told her she would bear a child who would be the Savior of the world. And she responded with a Song (which we call the Magnificat) that gave us an amazing vision of the Kingdom in which her son would reign.

Length 26:19

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Faith Café #51: Mary’s Song: A Vision of God’s Reign

Chris — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:41:22 +0000

Faith Café is a weekly round table discussion regarding the weekly teachings and events at Faith eFree in Manhattan, KS. This week we discuss the holiday schedule and Mary’s vision of God’s Reign.

Length 15:10

Mary’s Song: A Vision of God’s Reign

Chris — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:00:58 +0000

This week we are going to consider Mary’s Song, also called the Magnificat. In this song Mary expresses great confidence that God will establish a Kingdom through her son that is marked by justice.

Length 26:01

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Faith Café 50: Mary: Faith and Difficult Assignments

Chris — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:48 +0000

Faith Café is a weekly round table discussion regarding the weekly teachings and events at Faith eFree in Manhattan, KS.

Length 17:58

Mary: Faith and Difficult Assignments

Chris — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:00:02 +0000

This year we are taking a look at Mary the mother of Jesus. What an incredible role she was called to play in salvation history. Today we are going to start by looking at the difficult assignment that she received from God and how she responded.

Length 29:45

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Telling God “Thank You”

Chris — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:00:01 +0000

What do you give the God who has everything?

Length 26:44

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Faith Cafe #049: Indiscriminate Love

Chris — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:28:57 +0000

Faith Café is a weekly round table discussion regarding the weekly teachings and events at Faith eFree in Manhattan, KS. This week we touch base on how to love one’s enemies.

Length 16:16

Apprenticed to Jesus: Indiscriminate Love

Chris — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:00:45 +0000

In Matthew 5 Jesus tells us to love our enemies. Most people treat their enemies based on how they feel or what they think is fair. But if you are going to love your enemies, you are going to have to perceive the heart of God.

Length 30:59

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Faith Café #048: Revenge and Generosity

Chris — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:59:33 +0000

Faith Café is a weekly round table discussion regarding the weekly teachings and events at Faith eFree in Manhattan, KS. This week we touch base on applications to Matthew 5:38-42.

Length 14:38

Apprenticed to Jesus: Revenge and Generosity

Chris — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:00:40 +0000

It is incredibly difficult to know how to apply Jesus’ command to “turn the other cheek.” In theory the idea of not taking revenge on people who mistreat us sounds good. But in real life it just doesn’t seem very practical. Peterson’s example of the neighborhood bully highlights the tension. We don’t want our kids to grow up thinking that they should solve their problems with their fists; but we also don’t want them to live with the dread of being bullied.

Length 30:09

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Faith Café #047: Radical Truthfulness

Chris — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:39:49 +0000

Faith Café is a weekly round table discussion regarding the weekly teachings and events at Faith eFree in Manhattan, KS. This week we tackle the importance of upholding one’s word.

Length 14:40

Apprenticed to Jesus: Radical Truthfulness

Chris — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:00:13 +0000

Matthew 5:33 as a summation of Old Testament teaching about vows essential- ly is saying, first, do not make vows that you know you will not keep; and, secondly, if you do make a vow, make sure you fulfill it.

Length 26:26

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Faith Café #46: Lectio Divina

Chris — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:41:28 +0000

Faith Café is a weekly round table discussion regarding the weekly teachings and events at Faith eFree in Manhattan, KS. This week we are talking about Sunday’s service where we participated in a tradition called Lectio Divina. You can read more about Lectio Divina at this link.

Length 17:18

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Faith Café #45: Marriage and Divorce

Chris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:25:37 +0000

Faith Café is a weekly round table discussion regarding the weekly teachings and events at Faith eFree in Manhattan, KS. This week we talk about marriage and divorce.

Length: 21:12

Apprenticed to Jesus: Marriage

Chris — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:00:51 +0000

This passage before us is notoriously difficult both in terms of interpretation and application. People tend to have strong convictions about divorce and remarriage.

Length 26:26

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