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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 #197: Building a Heart of Love for God!
God’s love, once truly experienced, draws us back to His side time and time again! Welcome to the transformed podcast. Such a friendship is built one day at a time and deepened month after month and year after year. As … Continue reading
Posted in Love of God, Transformed
Tagged cleanse, discernment, enjoy, exercise, fear, foreigners, God, heart, immigration, joy, love, motivation, obedience, obey, praise, redeem, stubborn, tremble, trembling, will of God
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Studying James 1:26
Welcome to the Transformed Podcast! Dr. Matthew Smith, director of Eagles In Leadership, continues to teach verse by verse through the book of James, one verse per podcast. These studies were recorded live in his … Continue reading
Posted in James Study, Transformed
Tagged anger, deception, faith, heart, Jesus, obedience, relationships, religion, self-deception, selfishness, tongue
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Transformed Podcast Episode #176 – The Lord Doesn’t Treat Us As Our Sins Deserve!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. David reminds us again and again of God goodness! The source of constant motivations to return to His side and proclaim His praises in the midst of the Great Assembly each week, God’s compassion draws … Continue reading
Posted in Transformed, Worship
Tagged comfort, compassion, condemnation, conviction, deserve, grace, guilt, heart, hope, love, mercy, patience, sin
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Transformed Episode #172 – Love Honors Our God Personally!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. How does one really love God? What does He require? What should we do to show our love for God? Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California helps … Continue reading
Posted in Love of God, Transformed
Tagged 1 Corinthians, angry, dedicate, deference, disappointed, heart, mind, mission, missional, seek, soul, spiritual hunger, strength, surrender, tempted, Trust, unstable, Value, vulnerable, weak, worship, worth
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Hard Sayings and Shallow Faith!
Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. ~ Joseph Fort Newton Faith in Jesus isn’t an app we can turn on and turn off when we want to. Faith is an absolute calling … Continue reading
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Tagged app, belief, call, Capernaum, commitment, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, disciple, faith, God, heart, Jesus, Kingdom, Lamb, lamb of God, loyalty, ministry, passover, tenacity, Trust, will
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Episode 143 – Where Is God When You Are In Need of Hope?
In our recent national election in the United States, people on both sides of the political aisle were touting their candidate as the solution for what ails the country. However, as we have said before again and again, politicians … Continue reading
Posted in God Is With Us!, Transformed
Tagged affliction, afraid, Ahaz, angry, beligerant, broken, calm down, civil war, cooperate, cowardly, decimation, destroyed, encouragement, enemies, enemy, fear, fiscal cliff, future, God, government, heart, heaven, hesitant, hope, humiliation, Immanuel, Jesus, long-term, obstinate, plot, quiet, rebellious, Shady Hook Elementary, shield, short-term, spiritual, starvation, storm, threatened, throne room, Trust
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Episode 131 – How Do I Live Without The Burden of Guilt?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. Thank you for joining us today as Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California, talks about understanding and enjoying the abundance of Jesus in your everyday life. If … Continue reading
Posted in Adundant Life, Suffering, Transformed
Tagged act, attitude, Christianity, cleansing, confess, Confession, deed, freedom, guilt, heart, improvement, intentions, Jesus, judgment, right, rigtheousness, testing, thought, thoughts, Throne of God, Throne of Grace, violate, violation, virus, word
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When Lust Ruins Your Life!
Artwork Credit: positive-parents.org “For I am conscious of my rebellion, and my sin is always before me. Against You—You alone—I have sinned and done this evil in Your sight. So You are right when You pass sentence; You are blameless … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog
Tagged Christian, consequences, emotion, failure, heart, lust, mind, rebellion, sin, soul
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Nehemiah – Nehemiah's Political Career (1-7)
Artwork Credit: dayofchange.org Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the … Continue reading
Posted in Just Read It!
Tagged Bible, Bible study, Burden, Christian, God's will, heart, Leadership, Nehemiah, Old Testament
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