Return Ministries episodes:

• April 15, 2018God's Primary Purpose - The Rescue and the Race

  The text for this lesson is from Hebrews 12:1-2 "Let us run with patience

  the race that is set before us”, but before we can run the race, we all

  need to be rescued. Many believers fall into a works-based theology because

  they get the race confused with the rescue. As we run the race, we must

  learn that it is about growing in our relationship with Jesus Christ and

  not about working hard to keep a bunch of man-made rules, regulations and

  religious rituals. God wants us to grow in our spiritual relationship...

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• April 08, 2018God's Primary Purpose - What is God's Ultimate Intention

  Often when we think of purpose, our minds go to what is man's purpose in

  life. This is because we are so man-centered in our thinking. In this

  lesson we ask the question, what is the primary purpose of God, or what is

  God’s ultimate intention. If we go back to the beginning, before creation,

  we see that the Father's delight was in His relationship with His Son. In

  creation, we see that God wanted sons and daughters to eat of the Tree of

  Life and be filled with the life of Christ...

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• April 01, 2018Resurrection Life

  As we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, we are reminded

  that we can walk in the power of His Resurrection life because He lives

  within us. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit, but more

  importantly on the day we got born again, God regenerated a new man within

  our spirits.

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• February 18, 2018God's Amazing Goodness

  In this lesson, we learn about the goodness of God and how His goodness

  completes us “in Christ”. The story of Hosea and Gomer is a picture of the

  Gospel of Jesus Christ. Hosea was a prophet and God told him to go and

  marry Gomer, a prostitute. They had 3 kids and then she left Hosea and her

  children and went back to being a prostitute again. God then told Hosea to

  go and find her and buy her back. This is a picture of how God already owns

  us because He created us, but as we sinned or sold out to...

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• February 17, 2018Amazing Grace Produces Amazing Generosity

  Grace is the unearned, undeserved, unmerited kindness and favor of God. It

  is important that we learn to live in grace or live under the continual

  stream of God’s grace. Jesus saved me many years ago from drowning in my

  sins, and I was so excited and full of first love passion for Him, but then

  I learned to swim. Years of standing on the shore, knowing how to swim

  caused me to lose my gratitude for being saved from drowning. But if the

  enemy were to capture me, put me in a boat and take me...

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• January 28, 2018Suffering

  Suffering is unavoidable to the believer and the unbeliever. Life is full

  of pain and suffering. The problem with pain and suffering is that it can

  cause someone to doubt God’s love. Christians may not be aware of this, but

  underneath, in their subconscious, they wonder if God really loves them as

  they endure suffering. There are perhaps thousands of reasons that

  Christians suffer and we should never have one pat answer as to why someone

  is suffering. A big problem with suffering is that...

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• January 14, 2018Renewing Your Mind

  Romans 12:1-2 says that the Lord wants to transform us by renewing our

  mind.  He wants to change us by changing our thinking.  When we start

  thinking and walking in our new identity, then we will live the victorious,

  joyful life through Jesus. We are not who the world says we are or what

  experiences in life say about us.  If you are saved through the blood of

  Jesus Christ, then you are a child of the King with access to His unlimited

  resources!  King David knew his identity was in the Lord.  At a young age,

  he was empowered and enabled to kill Goliath and not even hesitate.  He

  knew who he was and whose he was.

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• January 07, 2018Poverty - Blessed Be The Poor

  There is no concept in the Bible any clearer or any basic command any

  stronger than a Christian’s duty and responsibility to care for the poor,

  the needy and the vulnerable of society. In this lesson we look at what the

  Bible says about caring for and helping the poor, while at the same time we

  study what it really means to be poor in spirit. We need to understand our

  spiritual bankruptcy in order to completely depend upon Jesus to save us.

  The people that are rich, increased with good and in need of nothing are

  like the Pharisee quite proud of his righteousness while the publican knew

  he was a sinner, in need of a savior.

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• December 31, 2017Three Keys To An Intimate Relationship With God

  In Matthew chapter 6, Jesus gives us the 3 keys to intimacy with God.

  Prayer, Fasting and Giving Alms are 3 spiritual disciplines that help us

  humble ourselves and become dependent upon God. Food is not the source of

  our life nor is it the fuel of our lives, neither is money our source, our

  security or our the fuel of our life. When we pray, fast and give alms, we

  demonstrate that we are totally dependent upon God and He is our source of

  life, He is the fuel of life that keeps us going. Pride wants to steal our

  relationship with God...

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• December 24, 2017The Christmas Story: Grace

  The Christmas story is all about God’s amazing grace. As we live our

  Christian lives, we will one day come to a fork in the road and we will

  have to choose to either please God or to trust God. The road of pleasing

  God turns into a lot of self-effort as we try to work on our sin problem

  and we develop a works based ideology full of self-confidence and

  self-righteousness. But when we walk down the path of trusting God, we find

  that by trusting God is the only way to please God. We are saved by grace,

  through faith. We need to learn to put our trust in the grace and love of

  God instead of trusting in ...

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