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Our Teaching Center tend to explore Biblical solutions and guidance for real life issues, using God’s Word as a model. Here are some examples which are available for purchase as CDs and downloadable MP3s:
(Do you want to hear a sample teaching? Go to Bible Study, and select where & when)
Character Development
*Difficult Conversations
Matthew 5.9 says “Blessed are the peacemakers…” It does not say "Blessed are the peacekeepers." At times, the most loving thing you can do for someone else is to confront them and speak the truth in love to them. If you’ve been avoiding a difficult conversation; this teaching is definitely for you!!!
- Discern the type of person you are dealing with
- Season your words with salt and speak the truth in love
- Stay focused and don't let the other person’s response take the conversation in a direction it was never intended
- Differentiate hurt and harm
- Have a difficult conversation with yourself…
Advancing Through Adversity
Biblical Communication
This ten-week series covers every aspect of communication, such as:
- Having a difficult conversation.
- Why Satan uses people closest to you to distract you.
- How to balance grace and truth.
- Motivating your man God’s way.
- The difference in communication styles between men and women.
- The difference between unconditional love and unconditional respect.
- The art of biblical confrontation.
- The difference between forgiveness, reconciliation, and trust.
- Biblical job descriptions of a husband and wife.
- The power of specificity.
Choices that Will Change Your Family
Cost of Following Christ
Christ encountered three major pitstops in route to fulfilling His purpose:
1. The Jordan River - Dying to self
2. The Wilderness - Satan tempting Him
3. Nazareth - People who should have supported Him rejected Him
Learn how He overcame these pitstops and how you can overcome them as well.
Dangerous Attitudes
Attitude is a powerful force that can benefit or endanger you. Sad to say that in our Christian walk, there are certain attitudes that sabotage our growth and development. These attitudes tend to reach full expansion when we are waiting on a promise of God to manifest in our life. Whether we consciously or unconsciously engage in those attitudes, they must be addressed. Self-pity, dread, regret, comparison or the inability to integrate the strengths & weaknesses in people are some of the attitudes that are more detrimental than one would expect. This teaching will help you break free from these and more…
Eight Relationships We Must Master
Maximizing the benefits from the right relationships and minimizing the damages caused by the wrong relationships will promote fulfillment in life! Taken from the life of the Apostle Paul, this teaching series will help you do just that... Topics covered are:
- Your relationship with yourself
- Disappointing relationships
- Long distance relationships
- Relationships with faithful people
- Strained relationships that are now restored
- Hurtful relationships
- Mentor/Mentee relationships
- Your relationship with Jesus Christ...
Failing Forward
Failure doesn’t have to be fatal! With the right attitude, failure can propel you forward in life. Most of the people God used in the bible experienced failure one way or another. This did not stop God from using them as long as they responded positively. The way you perceive and respond to failure can make a huge difference in your life. Learn how to turn setbacks into stepping stones today!
Faith
Faith is a term that we often hear tossed around in the body of Christ, but do you really know what faith is and how it is expressed in your life? There is supernatural power in faith and this teaching will help you unleash it. We must learn how to handle the spiritual warfare between our prayers and waiting for God's answers. God wants to change your perspective on the problem, before he changes the problem itself. A victorious person realizes that fear and faith operate in the invisible and will release blessings or curses in the visible. Money is the currency that we use in the natural realm; faith and obedience is the currency that we use in the spiritual realm. Its time to put our money on faith!
Forgiveness: The Gift that Sets You Free
The word forgiveness means to cancel a debt and relinquish all rights to collect on it. To hold on to this debt keeps you chained to the perpetrator emotionally. Satan will deceive you into believing that not forgiving someone will punish them, but the only person who is punished is you. Holding on to un-forgiveness keeps your mind and soul imprisoned with the person. We must examine our hearts to see how many relatives, boyfriends, girlfriends, or employers are behind bars with us. Staying in un-forgiveness victimizes you far worse than the actual offense. It has the power to cripple you emotionally and spiritually. This teaching examines the differences between forgiveness, reconciliation, and trust. It identifies that forgiveness is not approving, excusing, justifying, nor reconciling with the person or what they did to you. Walking in forgiveness can be a reality for you and this teaching will show you how.
How to Create a New Season
We all have had seasons when we felt we were trapped. A person's identity can become distorted by the many pressures they face and the frantic pace of life that leaves many asking, 'Will it always be like this? Well the answer is "No!” Help is on the way! The secret to changing your season is to realize that all change starts on the inside and then works its way out. In this teaching you will learn the 7 steps to help you change any season you’re in. The principles outlined in this series have helped countless number of individuals move from frustration to fulfillment!
How to Finish Strong
How to Handle Anger
Living An Excuse Free Life
Pride: The Sin that God Hates
Reasons Why People Do Not Receive God's Best.
Do you realize that according to the parable of the sower in the gospels that only 25% of the people who go to the average church service will do anything productive with what they learn? It's sobering to know that you can go to church, hear the message, take good notes, buy the CD’s, and yet what you heard will not be translated into anything productive in your life. In this provocative teaching we will examine the reasons why people hear the word of God, yet do not receive God's best.
A few of those reasons this teaching discusses are: (1) Allowing a deep disappointment in your career, finances, relationship, or health to cause you to stop serving God. (2) An inability to learn how to leverage your spiritual family and consequently going through difficult times by yourself. (3) An underestimation of the amount of patience that is needed after you obey the Word of God. (4) Having a consumer mentality in the things of God rather than that of an investor.
If you desire God's best and refuse to go another day in mediocrity then this teaching is for you!
Stubbornness
Webster's defines stubbornness as being unreasonably determined to exert one's will. This teaching challenges us to examine the choices we make in our lives; whether it has to do with our credit card spending, our relationships, our eating habits, or always needing to have the last word. Stubbornness is a form of pride and the bible tells us that God resists the proud and this is clearly illustrated in Exodus. Pharaoh had to go through 10 plagues before he decided to let the children of Israel go. Pharaoh did not have a teachable spirit and had to go through the pain of learning the same lesson over and over again. Like Pharaoh are we getting into trouble over and over, or are we repeating the same patterns again and because we're too stubborn to see the “plagues” in our lives? Are we simply too stubborn to change? When God delivers us, when He gives us relief do we revert back to our disobedient behavior? Or do we desire a change of heart? We should desire change in our inward beings and not just a change in our circumstances. Making the same mistakes over and over again is painful. This teaching on stubbornness will show you how to develop a teachable spirit so that you'll be motivated to change without the pain.
Temptations, Tests & Trials
Knowing the difference between temptation, test, and trial is critical. Those three words are frequently used in the Bible but they each have a different origin, purpose, and desired outcome. We must learn how properly respond to each or we will not live out the life God has designed for us. God will test us in order develop and promote us. Satan will use our own lust to tempt us in order to demote us. Trials are challenges we encounter in life. The appropriate response to a test is to pass it in order to graduate to the place God desires. When it comes to temptation, we must take the way of escape less we compromise. As it relates to trials, we need to keep a right attitude…
The Danger of Complaining
Is God speaking to you about moral purity, church attendance, tithing, forgiveness, or even your love walk and all you do is complain? Complaining is a form of inner dialogue that erodes your self confidence, resolve, and will. When we complain we mentally focus on the bad things in our lives rather than the good. The enemy loves it when we complain--he wants us to speak about what we are experiencing rather than what we are expecting--that's his goal, because when we complain we remain right where we are. Complaining makes us feel like victims, attracts other complainers, and we wind up focusing on our problems rather than the solutions. To complain in Greek means “to have a secret debate” about a displeasure that is not openly expressed. The Israelites constant complaining, their "secret debate” caused an 11 day journey to turn into 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. What the Israelites did not realize is that it is not what you lack that holds you back it’s what you think you need. What are the secret debates in your life? This teaching will explore the dangers of complaining and help you take the steps to adopting a positive mindset.
The Life of Honor
The Power of Attitude
The Power of Choices
Your life is a photograph of your decision making ability. God, Satan, circumstances, and other people only have the ability to influence your decisions but they don’t control them. So you must be mindful that you have the power to choose. After the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, the most powerful tool you have at your disposal is choice. If you do not like your present circumstances or past experiences one right decision can make you a candidate for the future you desire. On the other hand, Satan's desire is to turn your past experiences or decisions into a definition of your present and future. Recognize that all past decisions are based on who you were at that time, what information you had, and how you expressed it. This teaching will help you use wisdom in your decision making. Learn to live a life out of revelation and not desperation.
The Power of Contentment
One of the biggest challenges in our Christian life is learning how to be content while we are waiting for breakthrough in certain areas of our lives. Paul said, "I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances" (Philippians 4:11). In this powerful teaching, you will discover that contentment is a learned behavior that is possible regardless of your external circumstances. Learn how to enjoy the journey in route to the destination that God has for you!
PLEASE NOTE: THIS TEACHING IS A SUBSET OF THE POWER OF ATTITUDE.
The Power of Courage
The Power of Discipline
Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. We all have to suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is that discipline weighs ounces, while regret weighs tons. Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it regardless of your feelings. When you lack discipline you lose credibility with yourself!!! Don't wait for things to deteriorate so drastically that someone else must impose discipline into your life. The primary reason people fail is that they are more concerned with pleasing methods than pleasing results. The battle in life is not doing things that are tension relieving, but rather things that are goal achieving!
The Power of Focus
Did you realize that the things in your life don’t impact you as much as the thoughts in your mind? If the enemy can get you distracted as a matador would distract a bull with a red cape then he can endeavor to kill, still and destroy the bright future God has in store for you. There is power in living a focused life as you can:
· Organize and simplify your life· Discern the things Satan uses to distract you
· Remain optimistic at all times
· Appreciate the power there is in each and every single day
· Learn how to progress rather than surviving or maintaining a status quo
The Power of Gratitude
Gratitude is one of the most powerful tools you can ever use to transform your life into total joy. When you listen to this series and start acknowledging all the things in your life you should be grateful for, you will be amazed at the never-ending list of things that come to the surface. By practicing gratitude daily you can live life beyond your wildest dreams!!
This series contains an introductory session.
The Power of Persistence
People, events and obstacles can stop you temporarily, but only you can stop yourself permanently! If you are tempted to quit, tired of waiting, running out of energy and sincerely desire to have your Christian walk jump-started TODAY then this four-part CD teaching is just for you. This indispensable teaching will provide you with essential and biblically based tools to
develop persistence. You will learn that obstacles will be part of your autobiography if you are going to do anything big for God. Also, you will learn the six most common reasons why people give up and see if any of these apply to you. Discover how failure does not have to be final if you will adopt the right attitude. Learn how to turn stumbling blocks into stepping-stones. If you are going to be all that God has called you to be, you have to develop persistence.
The Power of Words
The Wilderness: God's Classroom
When the children of Israel left Egypt they entered into the wilderness en route to the promised land. This migration resembles the journey that Christians take as they leave a sinful life and move into their purpose. The wilderness is the classroom that God uses to prepare you for His best and to wean you from the dysfunctional attitudes and appetites that were developed in Egypt. Our attitude in the wilderness determines how long the trip will take. To successfully go through the wilderness we must realize the enemy is the 'inner me'! God has to first take you out of Egypt, then take Egypt out of you! Satan will use delay, disappointment, and discouragement to elongate the trip in order to make you feel like quitting. There is a great temptation to want to act out in the flesh by looking back at Egypt, because it seems like God is taking too long. Just like Jesus, God will always prepare you privately before he releases you into public ministry. It’s time to stop taking the same classes over and over, but to finally graduate!
The Wisdom Journey - The Book of Proverbs
Proverbs can transform your way of thinking by providing a realistic picture of the spiritual life at work. With practical topics covering people skills, money management, conflicts, struggles, workplace and more, the book of Proverbs offers godly perspective on issues you face every day. Subjects covered in this series: anger, generosity, children, gossip, friendship, laziness, diligence, pride, strife, the tongue, and wealth…
Trusting in God - The Next Dimension of Faith
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