I'll Be Honest

A woman approached a pastor, troubled by a recurring dream. She described living in a protective bubble, impervious to illness, spite, accidents, and disasters until an authoritative voice granted these misfortunes passage, allowing them to affect her. Seeking an explanation, she learned from the pastor that this was not merely a dream, but it reflected a Biblical reality where nothing could harm her without God's permission.

Stuart Olyott | 2024 Fellowship Conference | Session 2 | Acts 17:27 - So that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

0:00 - Introduction and a Comment on America and Texas

1:42 - Text - Acts 17:27

2:53 - Is God Far Away?

4:51 - Point 1 - How Does the Bible Teach the Nearness of God?

16:48 - Point 2 - A Message to Those Who Don't Know God

28:17 - Point 3 - To Those Who Do Know the Lord

34:51 - Do You Want to Win Souls to Christ?

36:13 - Lastly, Let Us Think About Your Death

Lee Dodd | Session 1 | 2024 Fellowship Conference | Here in Joshua 5 we have a theophany. God appears to Joshua in the form of a man. Does God join us or we join Him? Are we in our place? Is it about how God fits into our plans or how we fit into His plans? Who's Captain and King? Do we exalt God enough as a Man of War?

0:00 Joshua Chapter 5

1:52 Opening Prayer

3:03 Introduction to Sermon

5:16 What Is a Theophany?

7:38 What Led Up to These Three Verses?

10:51 Point 1 - The Commander's Identity

25:13 Point 2 - The Commander's Worship

29:51 Point 3 - The Commander's Orders

40:02 Closing Prayer

Stuart Olyott delves into the profound miracles at Calvary, exploring the mysterious darkness, the tearing of the temple veil, a mighty earthquake, and the resurrection of saints, as recounted in Matthew 27.

0:00 Introduction and Scripture Reading

2:44 Overview: The Four Miracles at Calvary

3:19 Miracle 1: The Mysterious Darkness

5:43 Miracle 2: The Veil of the Temple Torn

8:43 Miracle 3: The Earthquake and Splitting Rocks

11:01 Miracle 4: Resurrection of the Saints

14:04 Reflecting on Our Response to Christ's Sacrifice

Jimmy Downing | 2024 Men's Retreat | Session 4 | This Christian life involves actively receiving, believing, and applying the word to our lives. Being like the Bereans, who critically engaged with the scriptures, is crucial. Our faith must translate into action, embodying the teachings of Christ in every aspect of our lives. This commitment to doing the word should not be burdensome but a joyous expression of our love for Christ, mirroring Jacob's labor for Rachel, where his service was fueled by love, making the years seem fleeting.

In this video, Jimmy shares about his and his wife's conversion through someone in the Air Force who was providentially placed next to him and boldly gave them the gospel. Then, decades later, his son, who was angry and would say, "You raised me in a cult," came to know Christ.

Tim Conway | 1:09:18 | A Theology of Sin Part 2 | "The eye of the conscience is now redirected. It doesn't focus on my sins and on my guilt and on my inward pollution. Where does it go, when I'm under the blood and my conscience is free and it's all liberated? Then where's my heart going? Well, it's going to the glories in Revelation four and five. And I'm thinking of Christ high and lifted up. And I'm thinking of all of his perfections and his blood and his glories, and the unsearchable riches of Christ and all of it. The deliverance by that blood, and the wonders of his righteousness of Christ sitting on that throne. And there he is, and he's the one who is worthy, worthy, worthy. And he can open the scroll. And I'm thinking of all those things, and I'm lifted up and I'm carried away. And yes, my conscience is well aware that I still sin, but my conscience is well aware that there's a courtroom of God. And because of the blood, none of these things can be laid to my account anymore. They're not accusing me anymore. And so I'm free." - Tim Conway

0:00 Hebrews 9 and 10: A Theology of Sin, Part 2.

2:16 "Put yourselves in this verse... 'It is appointed for ME...'."

8:47 Why Are We There on Judgment Day?

13:38 Believe in Christ and You Won't Come into Judgment.

20:11 Beware of Your Calvinism.

21:16 My Main Question: How Do I Know My Sin Has Truly Been Dealt With?

26:23 Sin and Conscience...

28:10 What Does "Cannot Perfect the Conscience" Mean in Hebrews?

37:28 "God Cleanses the Conscience from Three Things."

45:05 Secondly, A Conscience Cleansed from a Consciousness of Sin.

49:08 Thirdly, A Conscience Cleansed from Dead Works.

56:39 Find That Your Life Is in Christ!

1:01:41 One Word from the Lord Speaking Peace to Your Conscience.

1:04:23 Don't Settle for a Christianity That Leaves Us at a Distance from God.

1:06:22 What Does Your Conscience Indicate?

1:08:48 Closing Prayer.

Jimmy Downing | Session #3 | All right. James, chapter one. James is one of my favorite books in all of the scriptures. I love how practical it is. I told our folks back home, I said, "If James was from the United States, he'd be from the state of Missouri." James doesn't want to just hear about your faith. He wants to see it. "Show me your faith by your works." We'll start reading from verse 17, and we'll go to 25, but we'll really be focusing on verse 21 and the verses that follow.

Verse 17 says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth." I'm so glad that it was by His will because if it was by mine, it would have never happened. But He made me willing in the day of His power, as He did with you, my beloved brethren, born again by the incorruptible seed of the Word of God. "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." So, of His own will, He brought us forth by the word of truth that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures, new creations in Christ. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, if any woman be in Christ, if any boy or girl be in Christ, they are a new creation. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. They are new. They have a new nature. They have a new heart. They have new wants. They have a new love. And it's the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jimmy Downing | Session #2 from the 2024 Men's Retreat in Hondo, Texas. Beloved, God has not forgotten to be gracious; He remains so, as I can attest from my recent experiences and from our focus on Psalm 77 today. In many Psalms, the psalmist starts by crying out to God in distress, possibly filled with doubts and in a dark place regarding God. But then, as in this Psalm, there's a shift, and the psalmist starts to recall how God had been gracious to the people of Israel and to him personally.

Think you're not involved in assassination? Consider this form: damaging someone's reputation through false or malicious statements. Discover the peril of character assassination in 'Slander's Silent Poison'.

0:00 - Character assassination?

1:50 - What motivated them to poison through slander?

3:23 - Do you and I take our words seriously enough?

5:16 - How should we react to harmful slander directed at us?

9:14 - Christians should take proactive steps to avoid false accusations and slander.

12:54 - Consider Absalom's campaign of slander and stealing the hearts of the people from his father.

14:24 - In closing, let us have some self-reflection.