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4 Simple Daily Prayer Targets for Family and Friends!
As I pray daily, I ask the Lord of Life to work in the lives of my family and my friends … and those I routinely bump into and meet up with. As I seek to spread the light and … Continue reading
Posted in Prayer
Tagged celebrate, Christ, commitment, courage, crucifixion, discouraged, eternal life, faithfulness, generosity, gentleness, goodness, half-hearted, Jesus, joy, kindness, Kingdom, life, Lord, lost, love, patience, peace, pray, prayer, purpose, self control, serve, surrender, witness
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Transformed Episode #169 – Focused on Accomplishing His Mission!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. The Mission of God has a Church to accomplish the call of God’s Mission. Since the Garden Fall, God has been crying out, “Where are you?” It is the mission of each of the disciples … Continue reading
Posted in Church Health, Transformed
Tagged application, baptism, baptize, Bible study, Christian, church, community, discipleship, guidance, Holy Spirit, hope, hopes, Jesus, mission, obey, power, presence, rededicate, remission, repent, reproduction, resurrection, small group, teach, witness
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Transformed Episode #159 – Jesus, Our Life Guide!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. Is there more to life than consuming and existing? Can we ever know what is right? Can we ever know how to proceed in this life? In today’s study, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor … Continue reading
Posted in Transformed
Tagged Bible, Christ, Christian, coach, condemn, consequences, cop, disciple, eternal life, failure, feast, holiness, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John 3:16, judge, judgement, light, morals, path, performance, rescue, review, sin, tabernacle, witness
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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 135 – How Do I Enjoy a Fruitful Life?
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. In today’s episode, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California will show us from Galatians 5 how we can live a life blessed by the fruitfulness of God! … Continue reading
Posted in Adundant Life, Transformed
Tagged care, character, Christ, Christian, conduct, Corinthians, desire, dominant spirit, feed, fruit, fruitful, Galatians, harvest, Holy Spirit, income, Jesus, marriage, nature, Passion, paycheck, Pharisee, pleasure, praise, project, prompting, retirement, serve, spirit, spiritual, thoughts, weed, witness
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Episode 124 – Spiritual First Responders Search Out the Lost and Wandering!
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 baptism, church, disciple, Great Commission, Jesus, love your neighbors, mission, missional, salvation, small group, witness, worship
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The Christian Celebrity Cult as False Witness
Editor’s Note: We welcome our friend Alan Hirsch today. Writing on a most poignant issue today for the Christian leader, Alan has agreed to share this “gem” with us. It will included in his foreword to Lance Ford’s new book … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Column, Leadership Blog
Tagged biblical, blaspheme, Bonhoeffer, celebrity, Christian, Christlikeness, cult, discipleship, false, glory, hallow, hero, holy, Lance Ford, Leadership, Martin Luther King, primadonna, Unleader, witness, worldview
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Transformed Podcast: Episode #033 – Are You Offended by God's Truth?
A woman stands before judge and jury, places one hand on the Bible and the other in the air, and makes a pledge. For the next few minutes, with God as her helper, she will “tell the truth, the whole … Continue reading
Posted in Transformed
Tagged evangelism, fear, influence, intolerance, offense, Pharisees, relationships, religiosity, Sadduccees, Transformed, witness, worldliness
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