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Transformed Episode #173 – Love Helps Our Community Sacrificially!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. True love is always manifested in the proportion one gives to another. Sacrifice and love are synonyms. Looking into a very familiar story of Jesus, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church … Continue reading
Posted in Love of God, Transformed
Tagged cares, compassion, connection, contribution, empathy, inconvenience, levite, love, love your neighbor, outreach, Outreach Magazine, Samaritan, selfishness, wounded people
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Transformed Episode #162 – Jesus, Our Eternal God!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. What’s so special about Jesus? Wasn’t He just another religious leader? Wasn’t He just a good teacher? In today’s study, Brandon Lyons speaks at Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California shows us that Jesus … Continue reading
Posted in Jesus, Transformed
Tagged Brandon Lyons, care, Christian, Christianity, compassion, dependence, diety of Jesus, eternal life, fellowship, Jesus, needs
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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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Preach Repentance, Heal Lives!
Artwork courtesy of richardgleaves.blogspot.com It’s never too late! No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. -Turkish proverb Disciples proclaim a need for life change to each person they meet! Repentance is the Biblical … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Like Jesus
Tagged Bible, biblical, bottle, buffet, care, cash, change, compassion, disciple, grace, help, hope, Jesus, joy, Leadership, life-change, Lord, love, mercy, mess, preach, proclaim, relationship, repent, repentance, sacifice, sex, submission
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Confess or Deny?
Artwork by godsbreath.wordpress.com If Peter walked away from Christ and his friends (Matthew 26:56), THEN tried to follow Jesus at a distance AND also placed himself in a very unhealthy environment (Matthew 26:58) which led to him eventually denying Christ … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Like Jesus
Tagged compassion, confess, deny, father, God, heaven, hostile, Jesus, love, relationship, skeptic, witness
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Episode 123 – Spiritual First Responders Rescue Those In Need!
Thank you for returning for another edition of the Transformed podcast. We continue our series entitled, Where Is God Taking Us? today. God is launching the men and women of Pacific Baptist Church into their neighborhoods as care givers – … Continue reading
Posted in Missional, Transformed
Tagged appreciation, Bible, care, compassion, dignity, disciple, discipleship, emergency, evangelism, fatherless, finanical predator, first responder, homeless, influence, Job, justice, legally oppressed, love, love your neighbor, need, poor, reconcile, reconciliaton, small groups, unjust, widow
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Episode 110 – Nothing is Impossible for the Service Hearted Church!
“Nothing is impossible when we put our trust in God.” Why? Because Jesus Christ leads us into victory every day – through His Word. In today’s episode, we look at Jesus’ words to find out what makes a great church! … Continue reading
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Tagged care, Christianity, church, compassion, compassionate, faith, God, guests, Impossible, service, Trust, victory, Word of God
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Episode 105 – There Are No Hopeless Causes!
There are no hopeless causes! While some people’s problems seem so overwhelming and persistent, we learn in today’s episode that God’s redemptive power can transform them into “strong and graceful oaks for His own glory.” In our series, … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, Christian, compassion, counsel, counseling, forgiveness, hopeless, love, transformation, wounded
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Episode 104 – “We Are On a Journey to Compassion!”
Thank you for joining us today and welcome back to the Transformed podcast. People are watching you every day – they are watching to see how you treat the wounded all around you. In our series, “Walking with the … Continue reading
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Tagged accuse, accuser, accusers, Christian, compassion, faith, forgiveness, hurting, John 8, love, love your neighbor, neighbor, wounded
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Episode 103: We Are Called to Care!
Welcome back to the Transformed podcast. Thank you for joining us! Have you ever wondered what God thinks of your next-door neighbors? In our new series, “Walking with the Wounded,” Dr. Matthew Smith, lead pastor at Pacific Baptist Church of … Continue reading
Posted in Church Health, Discipleship, Missional, Multi-ethnic / Urban, Transformed, Uncategorized
Tagged care, Christianity, church, compassion, God's love, love, love of Christ, love of God, Luke 10, missional, outreach
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