Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Passage: Judges 2:6-11
Series: Judges (2021)
Duration: 1 hr 6 mins 3 secs
What happens in a culture when it divorces itself from divine truth? Listen to this lesson to see how a nation erodes over time and loses its vitality and ability to make good decisions when it ignores God and His Word. Hear the characteristics of the first three generations of Israelites and how they abandoned God and accepted the values and gods of the pagans around them. Review the essence of God with an emphasis on righteousness, justice, and love which govern His plan for mankind.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Passage: Judges
Series: Judges (2021)
Duration: 1 hr 6 mins 7 secs
Why should we study Judges? Isn’t it just an old history of people who messed up their lives long ago? Listen to this lesson to learn that the context of the Book of Judges describes a nation much as our nation and other nations in the world are today. Hear a review beginning in Genesis of the first six books of the Bible to see how mankind after the Fall continued to defy God over and over again and reap the horrible consequences that come with that. Find out four life-changing lessons we can learn from Judges that apply to our lives today and show us how we are to live in a pagan nation so we can fulfill God’s plan while depending on His never-failing grace.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Passage: Judges 1-21
Series: Judges (2021)
Duration: 1 hr 11 mins 48 secs
Moral Relativism Destroys a Nation
What happens to a country when it abandons God and each one does what is right in his own eyes? Listen to this lesson to hear the example of Israel when it went off the rails and had to learn lessons in the school of hard knocks. Find out there are three sections in the book and hear about the leaders, called judges, who descended into paganism and led the people astray. See how what happened to those people parallels in many ways what we are facing in our country today. As we study these people in the Bible we can be thankful for the lessons we can learn and remind ourselves that God in His grace rewards even our smallest acts of faithfulness to Him.
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Passage: Proverbs 14:34 & Proverbs 29:2
Series: How Should We Then Vote? (2020)
Duration: 1 hr 9 mins 33 secs
Can the Bible help us to decide how we should vote? Listen to this lesson that begins a new series on understanding and applying a Judeo-Christian worldview. Hear two verses in Proverbs that show the importance of having a righteous standard as the foundation of a nation. Find out where this standard comes from. See the four ways of thinking that help us come to conclusions. Use this opportunity to learn what a good, wise government looks like.
During this lesson Dr. Dean mentioned the book The Universe Next Door by James Sires.
Sunday, May 01, 2016
Passage: 1 Peter 2:1-3
Series: 2016 Bruce Fong
Duration: 1 hr 49 mins 42 secs
Doing the Right Thing in the Right Way. 1 Peter 2:1-3.
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Passage: 1 Samuel 12:1-25
Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel (2015)
Duration: 1 hr 3 mins 59 secs
Coronation Day! Long live the king! At last the people of Israel had the king they wanted. Hear Samuel’s speech as he reminds them of the covenant God had with them and the warning of what would happen if they weren’t obedient. See how he emphasizes God’s faithfulness to them but assures them that a part of God’s grace is discipline. Learn about the pattern the people were following and ask yourself is you are putting the details and pleasures of life first in your life instead of growing to spiritual maturity.
Tuesday, September 01, 2015
Passage: 1 Samuel 4:1
Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel (2015)
Duration: 57 mins 48 secs
What does morality have to do with freedom? Listen to this lesson to learn that obedience to God’s standards has consequences in all areas of life. Begin an outline of the book of 1 Samuel and see how God works to bring about a shift in the direction of Israel. Learn the time frame for these events and the correlation between Judges and 1 Samuel. When problems in our life or in our nation have us in a downward spiral, accept that the only solution is to turn to the Word of God which is sufficient for all of our needs.
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Passage: Proverbs 8:22-36
Series: Proverbs (2013)
Duration: 45 mins 29 secs
Does God know more today than He did in the past? Is He learning from what is happening around Him? Listen to this lesson to find out how God's knowledge has no beginning and no end and that when He began His creation, He already knew all that is knowable. See how living by God's truths leads to stability, contentment, and happiness that doesn't depend on what's going on around us. Discover the contrast between the rich full life of those who find wisdom and the death-like existence of those who hate wisdom.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Passage: Colossians 2:10-11
Series: Colossians (2011)
Duration: 56 mins 6 secs
As we continue learning more and more about walking in Christ, we must examine how the meaning of life is defined. Is it determined by what gives us our own personal sense of pleasure? When we suffer, do we get the feeling that God is perhaps withholding from us something good we would otherwise experience? And do we think we know what it takes to solve our own problems?As we grapple with today's worldviews of self-sufficiency, we learn more in this lesson what God's Word means by the word "sufficient."
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Passage: Jeremiah 26-27
Series: Daniel (2001)
Duration: 54 mins 36 secs
