September 2018 - October 2024
How should we live as believers? Ephesians will inform us of our riches, our spiritual assets, in Christ and how we are to live. Ephesians is the most significant book for understanding our roles and responsibilities as Church Age believers. Listen to the series to put your spiritual growth into hyperdrive.
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Sunday, August 07, 2022
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-21
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 58 mins 18 secs
Buckle up your seat belts and get ready for a lightning-speed ride through the Church Age. Find out how the 11 apostles, Paul, and a few believers began to spread the gospel in the pagan world. Understand the gradual transformation that took place as the New Testament Books were written and distributed and how it began to influence how people understood marriage, family, and government. See that the culture changed as Christianity spread through areas of the world and reached its pinnacle and the philosophies that dominated during those years. Be ready next week to hear how it began to decline and slide toward paganism again.
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Passage: Ephesians 4:20-21
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 1 hr 0 mins 55 secs
How can we learn to conduct our lives in the way God wants us to live? Listen to this lesson to learn that the Truth we need to guide our lives is only found in divine revelation and we learn it as we hear the Word of God, the Bible, taught. See that knowing Jesus and being saved are not the same thing. Learn there has to be a harsh breaking point between God’s Truth and pagan ways in our thinking.
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Passage: Ephesians 4:18-20
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 49 mins 17 secs
Do you live just like the unsaved people around you? Listen to this lesson to learn that after you accept Christ as your Savior you should no longer go along with others just to get along with them. Find out the change must be basically in your thinking. Hear three reasons why unbelievers have futile thinking. Understand that God’s grace provided salvation for all so that we no longer need to become calloused and past feeling.
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-19
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 1 hr 56 mins 8 secs
Are unbelievers unable to respond to the gospel unless they have been chosen to become believers as taught by Calvinism? Listen to this lesson to learn that while Scripture teaches that humans, in and of themselves, cannot save themselves, we have the ability to respond positively to the gospel message with the help of the ministry of God the Holy Spirit. See that Satan is always trying to erase the gospel message from our memories.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-19
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 1 hr 45 mins 37 secs
What differences should there be between the way an unbeliever thinks compared to a believer’s thoughts? Listen to this message to hear that the pagan’s mind is full of worthless and useless thinking while a believer’s mind is to be renewed by learning God’s Word under the ministry of God the Holy Spirit. Find out the difference between darkened and hardened as it refers to thinking. Begin a study of total depravity as it’s taught in the Bible.
Sunday, June 26, 2022
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-19 & Romans 1:18-32
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 55 mins 22 secs
After someone believes in Christ as their Savior what should they do? Listen to this lesson to learn that their mind is to be renovated by learning biblical truths. See that they are to no longer think as the pagans around them think. Find out the meaning of the futility of their minds in this passage. Understand that God created our minds to think the way He intended us to think and that way is found in the Word of God.
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-19
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 1 hr 46 mins 54 secs
If you’ve believed in Christ’s death on the Cross for your salvation and been listening to this series on Ephesians, you have learned how to walk worthy of your calling in Christ Jesus. Listen to this lesson to learn how the Holy Spirit is radically transforming your thinking as you study God’s Word. Get a glimpse of what pagan thinking is like in opposition to a biblical worldview.
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Passage: Ephesians 4:15-16
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 1 hr 43 mins 48 secs
Do Christians need to attend a church in person or are virtual worship services just as good? Listen to this lesson to learn that personal connection and interaction among church members is a necessary part of spiritual growth. See what it means to be fitted together. Find out that it is important for every believer to use his spiritual gift to minister to others in the church. The result of the interaction of believers in a local church is to reach the goal of love for the other believers.
Sunday, June 05, 2022
Passage: Ephesians 4:15-16
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 52 mins 46 secs
Are you doing your part as a member of the body of Christ? Listen to this message to hear that just as our head controls what our body does, so Christ is the Head of the Church. As members we are to use the spiritual gift we have been given to minister to the other members of our local church as we grow to spiritual maturity. Learn how to counteract the many hours we spend daily hearing human viewpoint so our thinking can be transformed and hear fourteen characteristics of love that are to be applied to those around us.
During this lesson Dr. Dean recommended several books: The Genesis of Science by James Hannam Mathematics: Is God Silent? by James Nickel Science and the Knowledge of God by John D. Gibbon – We have several of these books available for free at Dean Bible Ministries. Available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please use the Contact Form to request a copy. Why You Think the Way You do by Glenn S. Sunshine
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Passage: Ephesians 4:15-16
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 1 hr 51 mins 46 secs
Do you use your spiritual gift to care for and help other believers? Listen to this lesson to learn what our role is as part of the body of Christ. Find out that Christ is the head of the body and how that involves His authority, leadership, provision, and guidance. Understand that we don’t go to church just for what we can get out of it but rather to minister to other believers.
