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Walter Spires - Only Jesus Saves
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- Walter Spires - Only Jesus Saves
Mirror, mirror on the wall, do I look like Jesus at all?
Key Bible Verse: "You are the light of the world.... Your light must shine before people in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your…
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Five Callings (Commands) of Jesus That Changed the World - Series Summary
Key Bible Verse: "When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities." Matthew 11:1
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Halloween Explained
Key Bible Verse: "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit." Galatians 5:25
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The Final Calling of Jesus that Changed the World: "Love One Another P2
Key Bible Verse: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that…
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The Final Calling of Jesus that Changed the World: "Love One Another P1
Key Bible Verse: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that…
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The Fourth of Five Callings of Jesus: "Love as I have loved you." #4 "Love Your Enemies" (P3)
Key Bible Verse: "For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by…
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The Fourth of Five Callings of Jesus: "Love as I have loved you." #4 "Love Your Enemies" (P2) How?
Key Bible Verse: "You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those…
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The Fourth of Five Callings of Jesus: "Love as I have loved you." #4 "Love Your Enemies" - The Hardest Command Jesus Ever Gave Us
Key Bible Verse: "You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies..." Matthew 5:43-44a
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Five Callings of Jesus #5 "Love as I have loved you." For Those Who Really Do Not Understand the Parable of the Good Samaritan
Key Bible Verse: "But a Samaritan who was on a journey came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion, and came to him and bandaged up his wounds…
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Five Callings of Jesus #5 "Love as I have loved you." - Love Your Neighbor (P4): Two Men of God who did not Stop
Key Bible Verse: "Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to…
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Five Callings of Jesus #5 "Love as I have loved you." - Love Your Neighbor (P3): Who is my neighbor?
Key Bible Verse: "And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.” But wanting to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is…
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Five Callings of Jesus #5 "Love as I have loved you." - Love Your Neighbor (P2): Trapped in our own Self-righteousness
Key Bible Verse: "And behold, a lawyer stood up and put (Jesus) to the test saying, Teacher, What must I do to inherit eternal life?" Luke 10: 25
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Five Callings of Jesus #5 "Love as I have loved you." - Love Your Neighbor and the Stranger as Yourself (P1)
Key Bible Verse: "‘When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native…
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Five Callings of Jesus #5 "Love as I have loved you." - Learning to Love Yourself (P3) - Four "Christ-like" Outcomes
Key Bible Verse: "for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church," Ephesians 5:29
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Five Callings of Jesus #5 "Love as I have loved you." P2 - Why People Don't Love Themselves
Key Bible Verse: "(The devil) He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native…
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Five Callings of Jesus #5 "Love as I have loved you." P2 - Loving Yourself
Key Bible Verses: "but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD." Leviticus 19: 18b,34; Matthew 19:19; 22:39
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #5 "Loved as I have loved you." (P2) Learning to Love Ourselves
Key Bible Verses: The phase "love your neighbor AS YOURSELF" is said many times in both the OT and NT. Listen to find out why
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #5 - "Loved as I have loved you." (P3) Jesus Declared His Love for God His Father
Key Bible Verse: "...so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me." John 14:29
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #5 - "Loved as I have loved you." (P2 Loving God the Father and God the Son)
Key Bible Verse: "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." John 14:15
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #5 - "Loved as I have loved you." (P1 Loving God)
Key Bible Verse: "And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength." Deuteronomy 6:5
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #4 - "Die with Me" (P3) Are You Prepared to Answer His Call?
Key Bible Verse: "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and [t]the life which I now live in the flesh I…
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #4 - "Die with Me" (P2)
Key Bible Verse: "Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled." Matthew 26:56
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #4 - "Die with Me"
Key Bible Verse: "“Now My soul has become troubled; and what am I to say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour." John…
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #3 "Abide in Me" (P2)
Key Bible Verse: "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears…
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #3 "Abide in Me" (P1)
Key Bible Verse: "Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain…
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The Most Amazing "Labor Day" Ever Observed
Key Bible Verse: "Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him away. Carrying His own cross, He went out to what is called Skull…
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #2 Rise Up and Walk - Spiritual "Paralysis of Analysis"
Key Bible Verse: "Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.” So they said to Him, “What then are You…
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #2 Rise Up and Walk - Spiritual Paralysis of the Sluggard (Laziness)
Key Bible Verse: "I passed by the field of a lazy one, and by the vineyard of a person lacking sense (fool), and behold, it was completely overgrown with…
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Five Callings of Jesus: Calling #2 Rise Up and Walk - Spiritual Paralysis of Fear
Key Bible Verse: "the entire congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or even if we had died in this wilderness!" Numbers 14:2 All…
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Five Callings of Jesus that Changed the World and Can Change Our Lives - #1 Come Out and Live!" (P2)
Key Bible Verse: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came so that they would have life, and have it abundantly." John 10:10
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Five Callings of Jesus that Can Change Your Life (P1) "Come Out and Live"
Key Bible Verse: "When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out," John 11:43-44a
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Reinforcing the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith: Truth or Consequences?
Key Bible Verse: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." John…
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Reinforcing the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith: Now Comes Our Part
Key Bible Verse: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him..." John 3:16
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Reinforcing the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith: A Key Word Some Bibles Leave Out
Key Bible Verse: "For God so love the world He gave His only begotten Son..." John 3:16
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Reinforcing the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith: It is not a "Gift" unless you receive it
key Bible Verse: "For God so loved the world that He gave..." John 3:16
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Reinforcing the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith: "So" - the most powerful small word
Key Bible Verse: "For God so love the world..." John :16
Walter Spires - Only Jesus SavesPrevailing Prayer (Part One) When We Really Need to Hear from God
D.L. Moody defined prevailing prayer as "prayer that involves our whole of our being."
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Reinforcing the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith: "How can a man be born again?"
Key Bible Verse: "Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”" John 3:3
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Re-enforcing the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith: Explanations from Jesus
Key Bible Verse: "“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." John…
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LORD, You are my __________ (P3)
Key Bible Verse: "The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want." Psalm 23:1
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LORD, You are my __________________ (P2)
Key Bible Verse: "I love You O LORD my strength." Psalm 18:1
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LORD, You are my ________________________ (P1)
Key Bible Verse: "I said to the LORD, You are my LORD, I have no good but You." Psalm 16:2
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Praise the Lord (P3): No Matter Where We Are
Key Bible Verse: "Now about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them" Acts 16:25
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Praise the Lord (P2): The Origin of the Phrase - "God inhabits the praises of His people."
Key Bible Verse: "Let everything that has breath praise the LORD; Praise the LORD." Psalm 150:6
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Praise the Lord (P1) The First Use of the Word in the Bible
Key Bible Verse: "And she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” Therefore she named him Judah." Genesis 29:35
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Prevailing Prayer: The Last Words
Key Bible Verse: “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.” Luke 22:42
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Prevailing Prayer: Sweating Drops of Blood ... You can't pray more Fervently than that
Key Bible Verse: "And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly: and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." Luke 22:44
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Prevailing Prayers: "Jesus, I do believe, help my unbelief
Key Bible Verse: "Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”" Mark9:24
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Prevailing Prayer: Praying with Resurrection Power Not Our Own
Key Bible Verse: "Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes…
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A Prayer of Confession to Open the Ears of God to Our Prevailing Prayers
Key Bible Verse: "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:" Psalm 66:18
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Prevailing Prayers (P3) - Pleading, Persevering, and Surrendering to God's Sovereign Will
Key Bible Verse: "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours be done.” Luke 22:42
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Learning to Pray "Prevailing" Prayers (P2)
Key Bible Verse: "...and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in…
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Learning How to Pray When You Need God Most - Prevailing Prayer (P1)
Key Bible Verse: "If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened." Psalm 66:18
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God is Pro-Life (P3): How Christians Must Respond & How to Experience God's Love and Forgiveness
Key Bible Verse: "for He Himself has said, “I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER ABANDON YOU,” Hebrews 13:5b
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God is Pro-Life (P2): God Said Life Begins at Conception
Key Bible Verse: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you," Jeremiah 1:5a
Walter Spires - Only Jesus SavesFreedom is Never Really Free - Someone Paid the Ultimate Cost
Key Bible Verse: "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." John 8:34
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God is Pro-Life (P1): Overturning Roe v Wade - What it did and did not do
Key Bible Verse: "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who [o]substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who [p]substitute bitter for…
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When God Speaks Clearly ... So Must We (P9) Finding the Love, Forgiveness, Grace, and Mercy of God
Key Bible Verse: “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins." Isaiah 43:25
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When God Speaks Clearly ... So Must We (P8) - Temptation is not Sin
Key Bible Verse: "For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things just as we are, yet…
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When God Speaks Clearly ... So Must We (P7) Knowing What to Stand On When You Take Your Stand
Key Bible Verses: "Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But evil people and impostors will proceed from bad to…