If you have ever felt like Heaven was silent, you’re not alone. Even Jesus Himself cried out, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” But here's what we’ll learn this Good Friday as we reflect on Jesus Christ’s ultimate sacrifice: it’s often in the silence that God is doing His greatest work.
 
Notes:

Focus verse: Matthew 27:45–54 (NLT)
 
#1 The Cry Met With Silence
 
#2 The Plan Behind the Silence
Isaiah 53:5–7 (NLT)
 
The silence from Heaven wasn’t indifference.
The silence from the cross wasn’t weakness.
It was fulfillment.
 
#3 The Purpose of the Silence
John 19:28–30 (NLT)

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Easter is the most important holiday on the Christian calendar. It’s the remembrance of the sacrifice of Christ, and the celebration of a risen Savior. It commemorates the day our eternal life became possible. And today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie highlights practical truths about the Lord’s Resurrection and the difference it makes for us today. How important is the Resurrection? Paul said if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

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We’re all used to seeing before and after pictures. Before the diet, after the diet. Before the haircut, after the haircut. Crinkled up fender, un-crinkled up fender. Well, we’re all living the before picture with our earthly bodies. We don’t know exactly what the after picture will look like but it’s clear it’ll blow our minds. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us get a glimpse of how the Lord’s Resurrection paves the way for a glorified body, no crinkles.

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Whether you’re an electrician or a chef, an auto mechanic or a roofer, chances are you served some sort of apprenticeship. You learned the trade from someone with a few years under his or her tool belt. Well the Lord has a similar plan for how believers can pass knowledge from older to younger. And today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie shares the kinds of precepts that we should be passing on. If you missed the first 14 precepts in this thoughtful message, get a replay at harvest.org.

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There’s a certain wisdom that comes from growing older . . . from learning some of the lessons of life. There’s even more wisdom that comes when we embrace God’s Word as our pattern of living. And today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie looks to the Bible for practical principles we can put to use. If you missed some of the principles he’s already covered, we invite you to catch up by listening to the previous two programs on-line at harvest.org. There’s good insight coming your way worth taking some notes.

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No one ever teaches us how to worry. Our parents don’t sit us down and say, “Okay, kids, I want you to put your head in your hands, look really discouraged, and stress out on something you can’t change.” No, we pretty much picked it up on our own. Well today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us lay down that which we’ve picked up. He’ll offer up some practical precepts in a message called What I Would Tell My Younger Self. Insight for everyone, particularly young people.

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Jesus is calling us to put our sinful nature to death and be raised to new life—not just once, but daily. In this message, we look at someone who embraced this truth: Saul of Tarsus.

Notes:

Focus verses - Acts 7–9

Being friends with your kids is a reward you receive after being a good parent.

It is biblical to think about death.
James 4:14 (ESV)
Psalm 90:12 (NKJV)
 
Christopher Laurie pointed others to Jesus.
  
Jesus wants us to put our sinful nature to death and raise us to new life, daily.
 
Read Acts 7:57–8:4 (NKJV)
 
#1 A Man of Death
 
Saul cast his vote; he oversaw and led the stoning of Stephen.
 
Acts 26:11 (NKJV)
 
Saul was a man of death.
 
Saul was sincere. Yet he was sincerely wrong.
 
Saul depended on his own righteousness, and not on the righteousness of God.
 
Jesus saw a future apostle, a bold witness; Jesus saw Paul.
1 Samuel 16:7 (NKJV)
  
Nobody is beyond the reach of God.
 
Saul was a man of death, but Jesus was calling him to put that life to death
so that he might truly live.
 
#2 A Man Who Had to Die
Acts 9:1–5 (NKJV)
 
Jesus didn’t just reform Saul, He replaced him.
Saul became Paul.
 
Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good.
He came to make dead people live.
 
Philippians 3:8–11 (MSG)
  
#3 A Man Who Died Daily
Romans 8:13–18 (NKJV)
 
“I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.”
1 Corinthians 15:31 (NKJV)
 
The Christian life is a daily burial of the old self.
 
Jesus came to make you new.

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Former top Mafia member, Michael Franzese, joins Pastor Greg Laurie to share one of the most captivating stories ever discussed on this podcast. Hear everything, from which movies truly replicate the real-life mafia, to the highs and lows of Franzese's faith.

When Jesus came into that prison, Franzese's life completely turned for the better. It's a story of how nobody is beyond God's reach. Listen in!

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Have you noticed how our perspective changes in life? Some of us hated certain vegetables when we were kids. And now? Well, we may still hate those vegetables but that’s not the point! The point is our perspective changes. Right? We eat vegetables ‘cause they’re good for us. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us realize that a changing perspective is good evidence that we’re maturing. And today we’ll see how we can embrace and enhance that maturing process.

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We know prayer is a privilege. We know prayer is powerful. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. But what some don’t realize is that God WANTS us to come to Him. He welcomes our petitions. He listens to our cries. And prayer can make a difference, even if we don’t feel worthy for such an important role. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie brings us insights on prayer straight from the Word of God. It’s good encouragement to be on “speaking terms” with our Heavenly Father.

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