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This message, Hope Is Born by Pastor Mike Jenkins, uses a deeply personal and historical lens to frame the true meaning of Christmas. Sharing a powerful account of his and his wife Carrie's dramatic salvation experience in 1975, followed by the somber remembrance of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7th, Pastor Jenkins establishes a stark contrast between a world that can change in a second and a God who offers eternal, unwavering hope. He encourages listeners to shift their focus from the holiday rush and frustration to the foundational truth that God sent Himself—not a theory—to live among us.

Into a world filled with the iron fist of Rome, fear, violence, and poverty, hope was born in a quiet stable. The promise of the Prince of Peace means that while trouble may not vanish, it will never have the final word. This Christmas, receive the package deal of hope, peace, and joy that changes the atmosphere of your world and allows hope to arise afresh in your heart.

-- Focus makes the difference; what you focus on determines your experience of the season.

-- Our entire salvation experience is attached to the hope that, no matter what we face, we do not face it alone.

-- God did not send a theory or philosophy to a world of fear and oppression; He sent God in the flesh.

-- Hope makes your world warmer and brighter, changing the atmosphere of any room or situation.

-- The promise of the child in the manger is not that trouble would vanish, but that trouble would never have the final word.

In this timely and powerful message, Apostle Otis B. Young emphasizes that we are standing in a prophetic "Harvest Time"—a season where all the good seed sown is ready for an accelerated return. Drawing deep conviction from his personal prayer time, Apostle Young challenges believers to elevate their spiritual maturity by praying for those who persecute them and for "missing saints." He connects the rain we see not to judgment, but to God's provision and spiritual refreshment, directly linked to our obedience. Discover how to identify your "due season" and what it means to experience an overlap of blessings that supersedes a mere sprinkle.

Here are the main points you'll learn:

-- It's a due season—the appropriate and appointed time for God to bless you.

-- Due season brings Rain (spiritual refreshment, provision), Increase, and Fruit (lasting results).

-- Obedience is the key that unlocks the promise of blessings (Leviticus 26:3).

-- Perseverance and Patience are necessary birthing tools from the previous season to handle your current overflow.

-- God can provide a supernatural "credit" or lump sum blessing that has "no strings attached."

-- Spiritual blessings, like the grace to be "unbothered" by your enemies, are part of the reward of obedience.

Scriptures for Further Study

-- First Timothy 2:1 -- Leviticus 26:3 -- Leviticus 26:4 -- Leviticus 26:5 -- Proverbs 10:22 (The blessing of the Lord makes one rich and adds no sorrow.)

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Join Pastor Omar Ellison as he walks verse-by-verse through John chapter 3, revealing profound truths about true Christian experience. Nicodemus, a learned Pharisee, approaches Jesus, acknowledging his divine origin based on his miracles. Pastor Ellison uses Jesus' response—"Except a man be born again, he cannot see [experience] the kingdom of God"—to expose a common error in modern faith: chasing miracles instead of the Kingdom. This message will shift your perspective from seeking wonders to seeking the Source.

Key Focus Points:

-- The Kingdom is more important than any miracle, wonder, or spiritual gift.

-- Miracles are the automatic byproduct (like fruit on a connected branch) of being focused on and connected to the Kingdom.

-- The new birth is the spiritual prerequisite for experiencing the Kingdom, moving us from a carnal mind to a spiritual one.

-- Jesus, though physically present on earth, was always heavenly minded, operating from the perspective of the Kingdom.

-- Condemnation is defined as preferring ignorance (darkness) over the knowledge and light of truth, because one's deeds are evil.

-- The Bible is a mirror that reveals the ugly, hidden parts of us for the Holy Ghost to correct and bring into the light.

Scriptures for Further Study

-- John 3:1 -- John 3:2 -- John 3:3 -- John 3:5 -- John 3:6 -- John 3:7 -- John 3:8 -- John 3:10 -- John 3:11 -- John 3:12 -- John 3:13 -- John 3:14 -- John 3:16 -- John 3:18 -- John 3:19 -- Romans 8:6 -- Matthew 6:33 -- John 17:3

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Frankincense: The Path to God's Presence and Healing

The gift of frankincense brought by the wise men was a prophetic declaration that the Christ child is the Great High Priest who would stand between sinful humanity and a sinless God, opening our direct access to the throne room. Frankincense, tied closely to the Old Testament altar of incense, symbolizes worship, prayer, and the atmosphere of God's presence. In this powerful message, Pastor Steve Dow explains how Jesus, our High Priest, uses the "fragrance" of our frankincense to bring profound healing to our lives.

The healing power of Christ's high priesthood is seen as He heals us from:

-- Shame - The gift of frankincense at the altar covered the smell of sin; the blood of Jesus cleanses our sin, and His presence heals our shame, bringing redemption and restoration.

-- Brokenness and Bitterness - Frankincense is aromatic and changes the atmosphere; when we bring this gift, the atmosphere of bitterness, broken relationships, and old arguments can be removed and reconciled.

-- Anxiety and Fear - Historically used for medicine, to soothe, and to relieve stress, the frankincense of our prayer and worship invites God's peace, which passes all understanding, to guard our hearts and minds.

We bring our frankincense to Jesus today through:

-- Worship - Surrendering our hearts and acknowledging Him as King and High Priest in every circumstance, even through tears and confusion.

-- Prayer - Maintaining a fresh and vibrant relationship with God, knowing that every whispered prayer rises like incense into His presence.

-- Surrender - Coming to God on His terms, yielding our relationships, secret sins, addictions, bitterness, and diagnoses to His will.

Scriptures for Further Study -- Exodus -- Matthew 2 -- Hebrews 4:14 -- Revelation 5:8 -- Isaiah 53:4-5 -- Hebrews 4:15-16 -- Philippians 4 -- 1 Timothy 3:16

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"A faith that doesn't cost anything is a faith that won't change anything."

- Pastor Ryan Kramer

The Costly Yes: Why Sacrifice Is Your Setup, Not Your Setback

Have you ever wanted a breakthrough in life without any discomfort or surrender? In week five of the "Kingdom Paradox" series, Pastor Ryan Kramer dives into the tension between the world's view of sacrifice as a setback and the Kingdom's view of it as a step forward. Looking at the story of the poor widow in Mark 12:41-44, Ryan reveals that true giving is an overflow of gratitude, not obligation, and that Jesus measures our offerings not by their size, but by the size of the sacrifice.

This message challenges us to move beyond superficial faith and embrace a life that truly costs us something, remembering that just as God delivered us from our "Egypt" (sin and bondage), our full response should be one of complete and loving surrender.

The message explores these main points:

-- This story isn't a money story, it's a love story—a testament to gratitude and remembering God's salvation.

-- The danger of spiritual drift occurs when we stop remembering how bad we were or where God has brought us from.

-- Gratitude isn't measured by the size of the gift; it's measured by the size of the sacrifice (100%).

-- A faith that doesn't cost anything is a faith that won't change anything.

-- Sacrifice is the doorway into new seasons, serving as a "setup" for what God wants to give us next.

-- We must stop trying to carry everything from the last season into the next one.

Scriptures for Further Study

-- Mark 12:41-44

-- 1 Corinthians 6:12

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References:

(1) In the last episode I had begun discussing 2 of the 4 reasons J. Warner Wallace gave in his book Cold Case Christianity to support why the NT Gospels are reliable.  The 2 reasons given were: (1) The Gospels were written EARLY. (2) The Gospels are COROBORATED by archaeology, eyewitnesses, and ancient non-Christian authors like Flavious Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and the Jewish Talmud.

(2) I continue today by referring to J. Warner Wallace’s additional 2 reasons to trust the reliability of the Gospels: Wallace’s third reason: The NT documents have NOT CHANGED as we go from the authors of the books of the NT to their disciples and from them to their disciples.  This is what J. Warner Wallace calls the “CHAIN OF CUSTODY.”

(3) We have the DEAD SEA SCROLLS which gives convincing evidence that the Bible we have today is the SAME Bible the early church had.

(4) J. Warner Wallace’s 4th reason is: The Gospels are NOT BIASED. There are certainly times when witnesses LIE, particularly if they are properly motivated. But what would motivate someone to tell a lie in the first place? Wallace says, “In my experience as a homicide detective, there are only 3 MOTIVES behind any homicide, criminal act, or lesser moral impropriety:

    (1) financial GREED,

    (2) sexual or relational LUST, and

    (3) the pursuit of POWER.

(5) All the authors of the NT books were Jewish, with the possible exception of Luke. The authors of the Gospels included Matthew who was a tax collector from Capernaum (see Matt. 9:9; 10:3). He was one of the 12 disciples chosen by Christ.

(6) Mark was not one of the 12 apostles of Jesus, but according to Papias he got his information from the apostle Peter. Irenaeus and the other church fathers say Papias was  a disciple of the apostle John who became the bishop of Hieropolis.

(7) Neither was Luke  one of the 12 apostles of Jesus, but was by profession a medical doctor (Col. 4:14). Indeed he became a physician of Paul on at least one missionary journey around the Mediterranean. Luke may have been a Gentile.

(8) The authors of the Gospels also included the apostle John, the son of Zebedee, the younger brother of James, and a fisherman from Capernaum. He is the one whom Jesus asked from the cross to take care of His mother Mary. He was the author of his Gospel, the 3 epistles, and the book of Revelation written while he was exiled to the Isle of Patmos.

(9) The Roman Catholic Church was established by the Council of Laodicea (350-363 AD). So when were the Gospels written on the timeline from 33-363 AD? J. Warner Wallace’s book Cold-Case Christianity helps us with establishing the time line from 33 AD to 363 AD.

(10) The first reason to believe the NT is true is that there is good evidence that the NT documents were written EARLY enough in the first century by eyewitnesses to what Jesus said and did.

(11) Acts makes no mention of the DEATHS of Paul (64 AD), or of Peter (65 AD), or James (62 AD) even though Acts mentions the death of the deacon, Stephen. So it is reasonable to conclude that Acts was written BEFORE 61 AD.

(12) So the 2 gospels of Mark and Matthew were written earlier in the first century. While in writing to the Corinthians Paul quotes Luke in around 55 AD. So the 3 synoptic gospels all were written sometime between 33-55 AD.

(13) All the NT books were written in the first century and were written within the lifetimes of many eyewitnesses of the resurrection.

This is episode 253.

In this powerful message, Servant Marcia Carty warns that the world is spiraling back toward the conditions of the days of Noah—a period defined by extreme wickedness, widespread violence, and a physical/genetic corruption caused by the mixture of fallen angels with mankind. She highlights the prophetic warnings in Micah 7 and the interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Daniel 2, showing how worldly kingdoms will always fail and how humanity will mingle itself, but never truly cleave together. The ultimate call is to choose life and escape the coming judgment by pursuing God's righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ.

Here are the five ways to escape God's judgment:

-- Believe in Jesus for your salvation, acknowledging that He is the firm and only way to be saved from the wrath to come.

-- Repent and confess your sins, demonstrating godly sorrow by continuously turning away from your sinful ways and back toward the Lord.

-- Forsake your sins by not returning to them, as this shows that your repentance is genuine.

-- "Go and sin no more," which means pursuing the Lord and remaining faithful and persevering until the end, to receive the crown.

-- Walk in faith and covenant with God, like Noah, to be deemed righteous and live a blessed, multiplying life even amidst the chaos.

Scriptures for Further Study

-- Micah 7:1–7 -- Micah 7:18 -- Daniel 2:18–45 -- Psalms 82 -- Psalms 79 -- Genesis 6:9 -- Psalms 23 -- Philippians [chapter not specified, general reference] -- 2 Corinthians [chapter not specified, general reference] -- Isaiah 32:17 -- Proverbs 21:21 -- Romans 3: [chapter not specified, general reference] -- Romans 5: [chapter not specified, general reference] -- Proverbs 11:5 -- Proverbs 28:13 -- John 8:11 -- Revelation [chapter not specified, general reference]

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What happens when unspeakable tragedy is met with an undeniable miracle? Host Bobbie Agee welcomes Gary Pullen back to the program to share the dramatic, inspiring story of his unexpected battle with and victory over lung cancer. Just days after the heartbreaking loss of his 17-year-old son in an auto accident, Gary was faced with another crisis: a life-threatening illness.

Hear Gary recount the miraculous chain of events—starting with a physician who felt "led" to request a non-routine chest x-ray—that led to the detection of a malignant tumor on his lung. This testimony reveals God's precision and compassion, using the emotional involvement of every person along the way, from his personal doctor to the HMO staff, to guide him to a life-saving procedure. Gary shares how his faith and his wife Debbie's extraordinary strength sustained them through the surgery, pathology, and his ultimate, complete recovery. This is a must-hear episode for anyone who questions if God still performs miracles or gets involved in our daily circumstances.

-- Gary was a healthy 42-year-old with no symptoms when his doctor felt led to request an unusual chest x-ray.

-- The life-threatening diagnosis of lung cancer came in the immediate aftermath of the loss of his son.

-- A mistake by the HMO radiologist, who read the x-rays as "normal," ironically spurred the doctor to order a last-minute CT scan, which revealed the tumor.

-- The tumor was removed through surgical resection without the need for additional chemotherapy or radiation, demonstrating God's complete healing.

-- Gary and his wife, Debbie, maintained their faith on the solid rock of Jesus Christ through the twin tragedies of grief and illness.

-- Gary emphasizes that God's will is for us to prosper and be in health, and that He is intimately concerned with the details of our lives.

Television program initially aired circa March 12, 2019.

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Thru the ages, God has made Himself known to man. His existence, majesty, and power are revealed in His creation but His mind and will have been communicated by His spoken word. The writer of Hebrews tells us that God’s many ways of speaking unto man since the beginning of time culminated in the revelation of His Son, Jesus Christ. Christ then chose and dispatched His apostles to make known this full and final revelation. Is God still speaking to man apart from His already revealed word? We turn to the scriptures for answers in this broadcast of Let the Bible Speak.

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Focusing Our Faith: Why the Church Must Pray for a Nation in Crisis

In this powerful segment of the "Gospel on the Radio Talk Show," Pastor Jack King steps away from the usual talk show format to speak directly from his heart about the national struggles affecting his parishioners. He connects the dots between the war on drugs, rising crime, and the desperation of addiction, explaining why these seemingly political or economic issues are deeply rooted in the life of the church.

He issues a challenging call for believers to look beyond temporary fixes and embrace the foundational solution for every crisis: PRAYER.

Main Points from the Message:

-- The challenges facing the nation, from political radicalism to the intensifying drug crisis (like Fentanyl), directly affect the spiritual health and families within the church.

-- Conventional approaches to the war on drugs have failed; it's time to consider a "radical" new strategy that addresses the source of the supply before it ever hits U.S. shores.

-- Disrupting the drug supply creates a "drug culture economy" crisis, making addicted people more desperate, which in turn drives up local crime and theft.

-- Pastors and clergy are on the front lines, sitting with broken-hearted parents whose children are caught in the throes of addiction and have exhausted all resources.

-- The ultimate response for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is to pray—for those in authority, for leaders who are "doing the right things," and for the brokenness in our society.

-- The ministry is founded on the core belief that "Love Came Calling," and the church must always stand in the love of God and love for humanity.

This is episode 1253.

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