Bethany Community Fellowship Podcast: Recent Episodes
Bethany Community Fellowship
Anatomy of the Church: Its Purpose, Pt 2
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Fellowshipping together
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Observing the ordinances
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Praying
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Meeting practical needs
Anatomy of the Church: Its Nature
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Unique New Testament Entity
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Living Organism
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Universal in scope, local in expression
Three motivations to boldly preach the gospel-
The gospel is
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Good news
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For everyone
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Relies on God
God reveals his plan for judgment on the nation Israel through the agency of the coming Messiah and the future Antichrist.
...But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him... or, "12 men went to spy out Canaan, 10 were bad and 2 were good"
True conversion will evidence itself by a changed life. An apparent change (which is actually false) will eventually become evident as well. We must continue to proclaim the only thing that can change lives - the clear preaching of God's Word with prayerful hope of application of it through the Spirit.
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Mary Magdalene finds the empty tomb.
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Peter and John see the empty tomb.
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Mary Magdalene encounters the risen Christ.
Let's look at how God's people should respond to a world that is rebellion against the King.
He is the vine, we are the branches. If we abide in Him we will bear much fruit. It is a tremendous encouragement to know that as we go about working for Him in this fruit-bearing, that we do so as friends and not as slaves.
Many believe that they can work their way to heaven. Christians understand that we work not FOR salvation but as a RESULT of salvation
Three important lessons for those who want to be good followers of Jesus. Serve others, deny ourselves, and avoid sin at all cost.
Three reasons to praise God from the Song of Moses. Praise him for who he is. Praise him for what he has done. Praise him for what he will do.
How Paul dealt with personal attacks and disrupted plans by remembering Christ was already triumphant. Our gospel ministry is to some the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life.
How to understand Jesus promise to all believers that they will do greater works so that the Father would be glorified in the Son.
Ephesians 1 describes many ways God blesses his people, and perhaps none of these is greater than adoption, in which God takes his former enemies and makes them his own children.
Habakkuk expresses confidence that, no matter the circumstances, God may be trusted because he is great and because he is good.
God assures Habakkuk that he will set things straight through a series of promises: (1) The righteous will live by his faith; (2) The earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord-someday; and (3) The Lord is in his holy temple-today!
Habakkuk expresses dismay that God is silent while the world spirals out of control, then offers us a pattern of how we may prepare for life's inevitable inequities and tragedies.
Love for one another is a distinguishing and defining mark of true Christians, and in this text the apostle John provides for us all 3 reasons why it is that we ought to love.
The story of the prophet Jonah gives us a just a glimpse into the character of God - that he is sovereign over all things and that he is incomparably merciful. We also learn from this book that the mercy of God compels us all to repent and turn to him.
The story of the prophet Jonah gives us a just a glimpse into the character of God - that he is sovereign over all things and that he is incomparably merciful. We also learn from this book that the mercy of God compels us all to repent and turn to him.
The Apostle Paul provides a one-verse practical implication following his doctrinal exposition of the necessity of the resurrection of Christ. He calls us to remain steady, to remain busy, and to remain confident in our labors.
Jesus' compassion for sinners is beyond comprehension; it is exactly what those who are lost need. Yet his confrontation of the self-righteous offers a sober warning to those who still would want to assess themselves in comparison to others instead.
One of the clearest pictures we can have of the person of Christ is what we read in the book of his Revelation. The end of the matter is that Jesus Christ is in himself worthy and glorious above everything.
The grace and goodness and mercy of God is displaying in that he has most clearly revealed himself to his creatures. He has done so through his creation and through his written Scriptures, and these forms of revelation demand a necessary response from the creature.
We may not have the means to meet the world's desire for alms, but we do have that which will satisfy the heart of man for all eternity. We give the world Jesus.
The context of the parable of the Good Samaritan provides the framework that helps us know why Jesus told the parable. The context and the parable give understanding of God's righteous requirement for entry to His kingdom, and man's need for Christ.
Jesus is God's ultimate revelation, the supreme king, and the only priest who can save. How are we to respond to him?
The Day of Atonement was the highest, holiest day for Israel. Jesus fulfilled it, surpassed it, and brought it to an end.