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Transformed Episode #213: Courage to Worship!
How do we make courageous choices for God? Welcome to the Transformed podcast. I’m your host, Mike Powers. When we seek God’s favor, we must request every mercy that is favor from God for our lives and worship. God delights … Continue reading
Posted in Love of God, Transformed
Tagged anger, benefits, brag, command, Confession, conformity, courage, disobedience, display, draw near, favor, glorify, guilt, hero, himself, joy, mercy, pain, position, rescue, stand, word, Word of God, worship
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Transformed Episode #212: Exercises for a Healthy Spiritual Heart
How do we maintain a healthy heart for God? Welcome to the Transformed podcast. Setting things straight with God is often painful at first. When we have become entwined in a way of life, extricating ourselves can be difficult. Like … Continue reading
Posted in Love of God, Transformed
Tagged acknowledge, attacks, captivity, celebrate, commitment, confess, Despair, discipline, encourage, encouragement, God, grace, heart, obedience, obey, pain, persist, praise, rebuild, repent, stroke
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Transformed Episode #211: Searching God’s Heart for God’s Will
How do we discern God’s will? Welcome to the Transformed podcast. Time has a way of exposing the wisdom of our choices. Jesus taught this truth by saying, “But wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those … Continue reading
Posted in Love of God, Transformed
Tagged choose poorly, devoted, draw near, face to face with God, finances, financial ruin, generosity, God's will, humble, Leadership, Love God, pain, reach out, repent, respond, return, seek after, sin, submit, suffer
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Transformed Podcast #182: We Refuse to Obey and Are Belligerent!
Rebellion carries with it a whole new level of hurt and destruction. Pride makes us believe we are smarter than God. Life has a way of showing us that is far from accurate. Welcome to the transformed podcast! Dr. Matthew … Continue reading
Posted in Suffering, Transformed
Tagged abandon, appreciative, Bible, catastrophe, Christ, Christianity, deceive, depressed, enslaved, failure, faith, grace, Jesus, judge, judged, lip service, neglect, pain, proud, rebel, rebellious, refocus, refuse, reject, rejected, remove, repent, resist, sin, suffering, tragedy
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Transformed Episode #170 – Before He Takes Us to Heaven!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. The Church of Jesus understands these are our “last days.” In our final study on the Church, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California shows us that the … Continue reading
Posted in Church Health, Transformed
Tagged archangel, call of God, Christ, church, city, dead in Christ, generosity, God, grieve, heaven, hope, ignorant, imminent return, Jesus, last days, make disciples, new, pain, pretenders, return, rose, shofar
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Caring For the Sick!
Photo Credit: fvdb.wordpress.com Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Like Jesus
Tagged Bible, broken, busy, care, Christ, Christian, compassion, compassionate, disciple, disciples, discipleship, faith, healing, health, heaven, hope, Jesus, needy, pain, people, pressures, problems, sick, spirit, Word of God
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Changed Lives Get Noticed!
Artwork courtesy of campusfellowship.com Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead When people truly change, no one can keep quiet … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Like Jesus
Tagged change, confess, Confession, disciple, discipleship, family, father, friend, God, Gospel, Jesus, life, marriage, mission, neighbor, pain, possess, possession, prison, publiicity, repent, surrender, transform, transformation, twelve
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Episode 140 – Where Is God When Your Family Rejects You?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. When your family rejects you, God is still with you! As the teenage Jacob shows us, God will show up, back up and take up our cause when we trust our lives to His care. … Continue reading
Posted in God Is With Us!, Transformed
Tagged appreciative, birthright, broken, delay, destroy, El Elohe Yisrael, Emmanuel, family, Genesis, God's will, honest, hope, hopeful, Immanuel, Jacob, murder, obedient, pain, persistent, plan, presence of God, problem, promise, rejection, relationships, repent, repentant, Satan, vow
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When Depression Falls On the Child of God – Part 2
Photo Credit: carroll.edu “Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me?” (Psalm 43:5, HCSB) We return to the anathema subject of depression in the Christian today because the Bible addresses the reality that many suffer from it, even … Continue reading
Posted in faith, Leadership Blog, Suffering
Tagged Christian, Christianity, depressed, depression, faith, God, hope, Jesus, love, pain, questions, ridicule, suffering, worship
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When Depression Falls On the Child of God
“Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me?” (Psalm 42:5, HCSB) There seems to be a stigma to those Christ-followers who profess some sort of sadness of soul these days. Critics scorn them with pious platitudes like, “How … Continue reading
