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Episode 129 – How Does God Strengthen My Life?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. As we continue today with our study, 90 Days of Abundance! our fourth study, causes us to focus on the question, How Does God Strengthen My Life? Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor at … Continue reading
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Tagged abundant life, calling, Christian, Confession, disciple, discipler, draw near, faith, faithful, great high priest, Holy Spirit, hope, Jesus, mission
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Episode 128 – How Do I Get God's Guidance in Life?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. As we continue our 90 Days of Abundance! journey with the men and women of Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California, Lead Pastor Matthew Lee Smith is answering the question, “How Do I … Continue reading
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Tagged application, character, cooperate, dispute, faith, God's will, grumpy, guidance, holiness, hope, obeidence, peace, plan, purity, salvation, self-centered
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Episode 126 – What Is the Abundant Life Anyway?”
Welcome to a new series on the Transformed podcast. Today we begin a journey entitled, 90 Days of Abundance! At Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California, God is doing a new thing and we want to invite to join … Continue reading
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Tagged abundance, abundant life, addiction, alcoholism, bullies, captivity, discipleship, dreams, evangelism, fame, favor, finances, freedom, fun, Good News, guidance, hope, meaning in life, peace, porn, purpose, relationship, repent, sin, slave, struggle, suffering, Vision
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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
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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
When All Seems Lost! (Psalm 74:18-23)
Photo Credit: medicaltipsinfo.blogspot.com You probably know the feeling – life was supposed to turn out differently, but it didn’t. You thought God would rescue you, but he hasn’t. You know the dire hopelessness as God has stopped speaking and … Continue reading
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Tagged Despair, desperation, hope, hopeless, hopelessness, Old Testament, psalm 74, Psalms
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7 Reasons to Hope In God
Photo Credit: itswonderfulgood.blogspot.com For so many, fulltime employment seems to be an elusive dream. Unemployment rates are high, and the gap between jobs can be paralyzing for many. I know because it has been 15 months since I’ve had a … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, crafty, God, hope, Job, lowly, mighty, mourning, prayer, unemployment, wily
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Casting Vision – Nehemiah Style
Artwork Credit: huntingtoncopper.com “Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.” And … Continue reading
