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The Deep-Rooted Marriage

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Marriage is such a special bond, and a beautiful gift from God. But it doesn’t come without its challenges. Dr. Dan Allender teaches how you can work with your spouse to achieve true healing from past trauma to help strengthen your marriage.

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Healing Begins Here: Trauma has a way of lingering, not just in memory, but in the body, in patterns of thought, and sometimes even in the way we relate to God. And yet, what has shaped you does not have to define you.

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Jesus says to us what he said to the disciples on the stormy sea. “It is I, don’t be afraid” (John 6:20). The literal translation of what Jesus said is, “I AM, don’t be afraid.”

I AM. That’s God’s name. When we wonder if God is coming, he answers with his name, I AM. When we wonder if he is able, he declares, I AM. When we see nothing but darkness, feel nothing but doubt, and wonder if God is near or aware, the welcome answer from Jesus is this: I AM.

Pause for a moment and let him tell you his name. Your greatest need is his presence. Yes, you want this storm to pass. Yes, you want the winds to still. But yes, yes, yes, you want to know and need to know and must know that the great I AM is near. Remember friends, you are never alone.

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We're all devoted to something, even if we'd never call it worship. Whatever our hearts cling to and trust becomes the thing that shapes us. In this message, Pastor Philip Miller reveals identity as a kind of worship. Discover why what we love and trust today is shaping who we'll be tomorrow.

This is part one of the sermon, "Living as a Child of God."

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00:03 – Putting a Bow on It: Wrapping up the nine identity traps.
02:13 – Living as a Child of God: The series' final turn.
04:43 – We Need More Than Anything: A prayer to see clearly.
07:17 – What We Serve and Trust: Chasing significance, security, satisfaction.
09:47 – How You Orient Your Life: The tells of what we really worship.
12:21 – What Your Heart Clings To: That's really your god.
15:14 – Diagnostics for Worship: How to tell what we're actually serving.
19:00 – You Become What You Love: Why our loves shape our character.

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When conflict erupts in the Middle East, many wonder if the Bible saw it coming. The prophet Ezekiel once named the nations that will one day march against Israel. In this message, Pastor Lutzer traces those ancient names to the nations of today. Who is Gog of the land of Magog, and why does Scripture point to the far north?

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Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church in Chicago, where he served as Senior Pastor for 36 years. He is a prolific author of over seventy books. A clear expositor of the Bible, he is the featured speaker on "Running To Win" and "Songs In The Night," with programs broadcasting on over a thousand outlets in the U.S. and across more than fifty countries in seven languages. He and his wife, Rebecca, live in the Chicago area. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.

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You know the screens are too much. But homework is online. Their friends have phones. And taking the thing away triggers a meltdown. So how can you get kids off screens without losing your mind? Tech-policy expert and author Clare Morell joins Dave and Ann Wilson with a radical experiment for families ready to find out what life beyond the screen could look like.

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• The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones.
• Wisephone.
• Pinwheel.
• Bark Phone.
• Gabb Phone.
• Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr.: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds.

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Our world is looking for a leader who can finally bring peace. The prophet Daniel's vision of a small horn warns of a dictator the entire world will follow. In this message, Pastor Lutzer traces the Antichrist's rise, his hatred, and his false worship. Hitler promised peace too, so how will we recognize the one who's still to come?

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Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church in Chicago, where he served as Senior Pastor for 36 years. He is a prolific author of over seventy books. A clear expositor of the Bible, he is the featured speaker on "Running To Win" and "Songs In The Night," with programs broadcasting on over a thousand outlets in the U.S. and across more than fifty countries in seven languages. He and his wife, Rebecca, live in the Chicago area. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.

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The setting was a beautiful Christian conference center, nestled in this idyllic spot in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Now Rocky Mountain fans won't be impressed, but some of the mountains around the conference center rise to five or six thousand feet. I had been speaking there, and the director began to tell me some interesting stories from their last few months at the center, like the man they had to go looking for at the top of a nearby mountain in the middle of the night. See, he'd gone too far, and he'd stayed out too long. I asked the obvious question: "Well, was he lost?" The director said: "He didn't think he was."

I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Lost and Not Knowing It."

Being lost can be a dangerous thing. Being lost and not knowing you're lost, or not admitting it, can mean extreme danger—especially if you're spiritually lost. You're away from God, you’re racing without knowing it toward an eternity without Him and you think you're doing just fine. If you're religious, or successful, or smart, things are going pretty well, you may be in the greatest danger of all of being lost and not knowing it, and as a result, ending up lost forever.

Jesus has made a lot of us people who don't seem lost give a second thought with His revealing story of these two men with very different views of their need for Him. In Luke 18, beginning with verse 9, our word for today from the Word of God, the Bible says: "To some who were confident of their own righteousness... Jesus told this parable: 'Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee (that's the most religious people of Jesus' day) and the other a tax collector (usually regarded as some of the most sinful people in Jesus' day). The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'"

Jesus continues: "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' I tell you this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God.'" Wow! You and I are probably one of these two men; the person who looks around at a lot of people who are much worse off and thinks, "Well, you know what? I'm doing okay." But we're not right with God. Or we're the person who says, "I know I'm lost. I know I have no hope of being forgiven. I have no hope of going to heaven except You, Jesus." Which one is you? The difference is the difference between heaven and hell.

Romans 3:10 bursts all our self-sufficient, self-righteous bubbles when it says: "There is none righteous, not even one." But if you don't think or you won't admit you're lost, you'll never reach out in desperate faith to the only One who can bring you home, and that is Jesus, the Son of God. He died for your sins because there was absolutely no other way for you to know God or get into His heaven.

Pride might be the number one reason people will end up in hell instead of the heaven they were sure they were going to. But they never admitted they were lost. They never pinned all their hopes on their only hope, Jesus, the Savior. God’s not willing to just leave you lost. He sent His Son for you. He doesn't want to lose you, and He's come to where you are today to give you this chance to admit that you are what He says you are—lost, and to finally surrender your pride and bow down at Jesus' feet.

This could be your day to say, "God, be merciful to me a sinner and save me, for Jesus' sake." Finally free. Finally His. If you're ready to make the Savior your Savior, would you tell Him that today, "Jesus, I'm yours."

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Could gratitude be the key that opens the door to God’s presence?  Today on BOLD STEPS, Mark Jobe concludes a lesson in Psalm 100 called Breaking Through the Gloom.  We’ll learn how to thank our way in the door, remember who we belong to, and lean on the goodness of a God who never changes. It’s time to break through the cloud layer ... listen to Bold Steps with Pastor Mark Jobe.

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