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Alabaster Group
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Alabaster Group services and events.
Episodes
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260913 You Will Not Always Have Me
Some acts of obedience are available every day of life, like prayer or giving to the poor, but others exist only in a single moment and missing it means it's gone for good. Mary’s anointing of Jesus could not have happened at any other time. Isaiah’s calling could have only started once King…
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260906 Your Sins Are Forgiven
When reading about the paralyzed man who is lowered through the roof to Jesus, most people expect a healing, yet before anything else, Jesus says, "your sins are forgiven." Healing is easy to depict and dramatic to witness, but forgiveness is subtle and deeply personal, which is why conviction of...
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260830 Who Are My Brothers
What binds the people of God is not a family lineage, location, or culture, but a shared commitment to do the Father’s will. Judges 17 shows us that when we lose sight of this, we begin to produce convenient religion that meets the demands of men, yet is oblivious to the desires of God. But those...
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260809 Write Yourself Into the Story
The Shunammite woman is never named, yet Scripture ties her permanently to Elisha's story. She had no special calling upon her life, but she made herself relevant by noticing his needs and meeting them. Her initiative to think outside of herself compelled Elisha to meet her desires and needs even...
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260802 Walk Together
Real unity isn't the absence of conflict or bonding over a shared enemy. It's two people choosing to walk together in the same direction. When God calls us to be united with him, it is an invitation to walk the same path that He walks. It requires the unseen, daily practice of aligning every…
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260726 Neither Poverty Nor Riches
Both poverty and abundance pull the heart away from trusting God. The writer of Proverbs understood this, asking God for neither poverty nor riches but only enough for the day, because either extreme tends to land in the same place: a heart drowning in anxiety. Real peace doesn't come from...
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260719 Accepted By God
Being accepted by God should never be taken for granted. Before David was anointed by Samuel, Saul and all seven of David’s brothers were rejected by God. Even David, a man after God’s own heart, was denied the opportunity to build a house for him. When God does accept our offerings, He gives us...
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260712 Dare to Dream
Poverty isn't defined by what someone has, but by the size of their dreams. The woman with the issue of blood dared to believe that her ailment was not the end of her story, but Lazarus could not dream of much beyond his next meal. When the gifts that God blesses us with begin to outgrow our...
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260705 Inspire, Don't Be Envied
There's a world of difference between people wanting what you have and people wanting to become who you are. Envy chases another person's stuff, but inspiration moves someone to live the way they live. Jonathan never sought to be admired; his courage to move toward the enemy without a sign or...
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HMW 26 | Day 7 Morning | Q&A
In this session, Heidi and Rolland Baker, along with Rapha and Ana Vaney, answer a series of questions from the Missions Week audience based on their personal experiences on the field. Homeward Missions Week 2026 | Day 7 Morning Service
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HMW 26 | Day 6 Evening | Heidi Baker - Our Lives Are Not Our Own
Our lives are not our own, and there is no bargaining with a God who calls us to obey no matter the cost. Real surrender means yielding when he says to yield, and being stubborn when he says to be stubborn even when it appears strange to everyone around you. When we become this pliable in his...
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HMW 26 | Day 4 Morning | The Altar is Worth More Than the Gold
Money is not scarce, but good places to give it are. Ministries hold something far more valuable than any donor's wallet: the altar where an offering becomes holy. Missionaries should believe that their calling is worth more than the gold being offered to it, since without the altar, the gold has...
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HMW 26 | Day 6 Morning | A Lion is a Lion
A person's worth before God has nothing to do with the size of their crowd, their stadium, or their subscriber count — a lion is a lion whether or not hyenas surround him. The only thing anyone truly possesses in this life is God's opinion of them, and chasing the glory of men will always cost us...
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HMW 26 | Day 5 Evening | Heidi Baker - Never Fast Jesus
We are never called to fast Jesus because the world is hungry for more of him, not less, and we can only distribute what we carry. When we offer the fresh bread of his presence, a starving world will always run toward it, no matter how hard a place is said to be. John 6 Homeward Missions Week…
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HMW 26 | Day 3 Evening | You Have Me
The parable of the prodigal son is told in three acts, and the last act is arguably the most important. The older brother’s response to mercy being poured out reveals an underlying bitterness that festers when we feel we have gone unnoticed. Faithful service in the father's house can produce its...
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HMW 26 | Day 1 Evening | Heidi Baker - Catch the Wind of the Spirit
Heidi Baker encourages us to persevere when we face trials of various kinds as she shares stories from the missions field of ship wrecks, fire ants, and a miraculous rescue by fishermen. In the face of repeated setbacks, she reminds us that if we hold fast to God, eventually we will catch the…
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260621 Seek to Know His Ways
Ahab's downfall at Ramoth Gilead was settled in heaven before the method was, and God still cared which method was chosen. Among many viable paths, He picks one. Jesus required John to baptize Him rather than the reverse, not because John's desire was wrong, but because that path fell short of...
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260614 The Sovereignty of God's Timing
The story of Jonah gives us unique insight into the sovereignty of God’s timing. Our foolish and rebellious decisions never catch God by surprise and his plans unfold in ways that account for our cooperation with Him or lack thereof. Nothing that we say or do can delay or expedite God’s will, but...
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260607 Grace Cannot be Replaced
There are rewards for our good works, but only God’s grace is sufficient to cleanse us from the sin that so easily clings to our hearts. If we are diligent in pursuing righteousness, we can become deceived somewhere along the way that our own righteousness can make up for our faults, but this is…
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260531 Ground Truth and Permanent Possession
When our religious efforts bear no fruit, the problem is not wrong methods but a defective science that cannot be engineered away. If true spiritual possession is the fruit we seek in the Kingdom, and we have yet to see it, we must reinvestigate our science, i.e., our “ground truth.” Joseph is a...
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260516 David Hogan - The Need for Endurance
David Hogan, accompanied by his wife Debbie and family, shares a series of somber yet powerful testimonies highlighting the necessity of endurance in our walk with God. Despite the loss and suffering that we experience in this life, our hearts must be steadfast in our call to make disciples and...
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260524 Endowed with Dignity
While often overlooked, dignity is an attribute that God expects us to not only embrace but to grow in over time. A lion is endowed with a certain majesty that is not dependent on its environment. In the same way, the Lord has made us and crowned us with a certain glory that is not defined by our...
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260517 Q&A with David and Debbie Hogan
During this Q&A session, David Hogan, and his wife Debbie, share with us stories, testimonies, and wisdom that they have gained over decades serving the Lord in Mexico. The Hogans reflect on the nuances of balancing ministry and family, the personal costs and discipline required for a life…
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260510 The Catalyst of Injustice
Stories throughout the Bible show us that spiritual inheritance is often gained through a breakthrough triggered by injustice. The promise spoken to Abraham was not only realized because of his faith, but because of the injustice that his descendants experienced. The persistent widow received an...
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260503 The Restraint of the Lord
Freedom is merely the foundation of faith; maturity comes through the restraint of the Lord that narrows our path. Unlike King Uzziah, who overstepped his calling, when we embrace God's specific harness on our lives, it prevents self-destruction. By choosing this narrow way over broad...
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260426 Live to Please Him
The story of King’s Saul disobedience reveals to us what God means by desiring someone “after his own heart.” By disregarding Samuel’s instructions, Saul demonstrated that he had elevated the opinions of men over the pleasure of God—the exact opposite of what the Lord is looking for. Like…
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260419 The Beauty of Wisdom
True wisdom is not transferable knowledge but a spirit that cries out in every facet of life, inviting us to learn from our mistakes and think like God. The more we do so, the more we reflect the beauty of God’s character. Just as the Queen of Sheba was left breathless not by Solomon’s arguments,...
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260405 Free to Choose
True spiritual maturity is found in moving beyond a relationship with God defined by needs and wants to one anchored in free will and choice. While God faithfully meets our basic needs to deliver us from the "slavery" of survival, His ultimate desire is for us to relate to Him as free sons and...
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260329 The Testimony of Righteousness
Righteousness is not merely a moral attribute but a tangible form of spiritual power. When we perform acts of integrity—such as returning a poor man’s pledge or giving alms like Cornelius—we are accruing a memorial of righteousness that carries weight in the heavens. Like a pendulum raised to its...
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260322 Unique Love
In different areas of our lives, we can easily become one of many: one of many students, employees, citizens, customers, residents, etc. But to God, we each hold a unique place in His heart and He desires to relate to us in a way that can’t be replicated or replaced. When we recognize this about...
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260315 Dignity: The Bedrock of the Soul
Many times, the healing that Jesus offers us restores not only our bodies, but our souls. Suffering over long periods of time can take a toll on us such that our dignity begins to erode, and it becomes harder for us to believe that we are valuable in God’s eyes. When Jesus encounters the leper…
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260308 What is Mine is Yours
True relationship with God is not measured by the "mighty works" we perform or the hours we log in service to Him, but by the alignment of our hearts with His. It is possible to be an "employee" of the Kingdom, using God’s power and gifts while remaining a stranger to Him, but we are called to a...
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260301 Sincere Faith
The story of Ananias and Sapphira teaches us a very important lesson: the only faith that is acceptable to God is an authentic one. The Lord is not interested in a version of ourselves that is contrived or curated for the eyes of men; He’s interested in a sincere faith that is consistent…
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260222 Sanctifying the Mixture
Life often feels like a complex mixture of the good and the broken, leading us to dismiss certain parts of our history as worthless or distracting from our ultimate purpose. However, the Scriptures reveal that small things, whether good or bad, can have a large impact on our direction, acting…
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260215 Times and Seasons
God has ordained specific times and seasons for every purpose, and these are determined by His divine timeline rather than our own human milestones. While we often struggle with delays, the life of Abraham reveals that God can use our trials—even our "barren" seasons—to preserve us from the...
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260208 A Discerning Mind
Whether we are in positions of great authority or trying to live a life pleasing before God, discernment is an indispensable tool that we will always have to use. Maintaining adequate discernment, however, is not trivial. Anything in our hearts that has not been surrendered to God will cloud our...
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260201 Righteous Justice and Righteous Mercy
The decisions we make have ramifications far beyond the present moment we find ourselves in, and none of us have the ability to predict those effects ahead of time. On issues of right and wrong, we may be tempted to trust our own judgements, even over and above the Lord’s, but doing so would…
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260131 Intentional Humility
The Bible tells us that God opposes the proud, but He gives grace to the humble. For those who desire to live a righteous life, this truth presents a significant problem: many of the good things that we are called to do can become the very source of our pride. Acquiring knowledge, avoiding sin,...
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260130 The Value of Loneliness
The tools that God uses to shape us into the man or woman He has called us to be are often the very things that make us the most uncomfortable. One of those tools is loneliness. While we were not created to be alone in perpetuity, God allows us to go through seasons of solitude so that we might...
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260125 He Draws Faith Out of Us
A quick survey of our lives and the Scriptures reveals that God does not treat us all equally. As we walk with God, He allows us to go through circumstances that are in proportion to the measure of the faith that He wants to draw out of us. As sons and daughters, we should not expect this journey...
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260118 Power in Weakness
Weakness is not something that we readily embrace. It is uncomfortable to be put in situations where our human strength and abilities come up short, but such moments are precisely when the power of God is made manifest through us. God allows us to be weak, vulnerable, and stretched beyond our...
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260111 God Renews the Weary
It is true that God gives rest to his loved ones, but in order to receive rest, we must have come to a place of weariness. We should not be surprised when the good things that God has asked us to do make us tired—this is a sign that we have given ourselves to his work, and in doing so, are…
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260104 Amber & Kenisha - Dealing With Disappointment
If not dealt with properly, sustained disappointment can cause our hearts to grow cold and callous. When our hearts become hard, it is easy to drift away from the Lord and from his people, but these are precisely the people that we need to persevere in hope and faith. In this service, two of our...
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251214 The Discipline of Delay
After David was anointed king, years passed before God’s purpose for him was fulfilled. In the time in between his anointing and his ascension to the throne, David had many opportunities to seize the crown for himself, but he never took them. Instead, he chose to wait for the kingship to be…
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251207 Faith that Moves
When God asks us to place our faith in Him, He is extending an invitation for us to partner with Him in the work that He is doing in the Earth. This invitation often requires that we don’t simply believe Him with our words, but with our actions. Without these invitations to partner with God in...
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251130 The King's Seat is Among the Suffering
Although Jesus is King and Judge over all the Earth, He chooses to not only empathize with the lowly, but to become lowly Himself. Among the poor, the broken, the needy, the blind, the brokenhearted—that is where He makes his dwelling. For most people, life progresses in such a way that we obtain...
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251123 The Height and Depth of God's Love
As we walk with God, He reveals his love for us in ways that other people can see, but also in ways that others cannot. Over time, the blessings that God pours out into our lives accumulate and stand as a layered testimony of God’s love that the people around us can bear witness to and celebrate....
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251109 Fill Up What is Lacking
God in his infinite power could solve all of the world’s problems in an instant, but if He did, we would miss out on a key experience of what it means to be like Him. Instead, in his infinite wisdom, He has made room for us to participate in his sufferings so that we may find our place in his…
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251116 Find Your Identity in God
The culture today tells us that we should discover our identity by looking inward. Ironically, this practice of navel-gazing will eventually produce anxieties and insecurities within us that cause us to doubt who we are. When we look outside of ourselves, however, and focus on what God has spoken...
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251115 Offer Something to God
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