Episodes
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Ouch Jesus...This is Difficult
[Sermon on the Mount 3]
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Salt and Light
[Sermon on the Mount 2 of 6] Jesus states the attributes of the Believer and cautions us against letting them fade or be hidden. This portion of the sermon shocks those who sought to twist His coming in an effort to sideline Him. Scripture: Matthew 5:13-20 Preacher: Pastor Mark
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Seven Blessings by Jesus
[Sermon on the Mount 1 of 6] The opening of this groundbreaking teaching by Jesus. The Beatitudes. Jesus communicates what the Believer’s character ought to be and the resulting blessing awarded by Him. The crazy thing is.. His teaching is antithetical to the high religion of the day. Scripture:...
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Insider Threat
Are You An Insider Threat? If we think about it a bit, Christians ARE an insider threat. We are embedded in the world. Paul was an insider threat. The world was changed by a group no larger than this (congregation). Scriptures: Acts 17:16-34 Preacher: Pastor Mark
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What God Won't Give You
God has certain attributes that cannot be imparted to or obtained by humans. They are INCOMMUNICABLE - This sets Him apart. These are part of His being, essential characteristics. BUT, Incommunicable is not incomprehensible. Some of God’s attributes or character CAN be imparted to us. Listen in…
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Fact or Conspiracy?
We Aspen Springers are infamous for conspiracies!! Speculating about mysteries incites a titillating anxiety of the future that relieves boredom and distracts from more pressing dilemmas. Too often, belief in conspiracies as truth come about in the fog of mental illness or substance abuse or...
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Walk This Way
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. What does this mean? During the Exodus, workmen were specifically called to help with the tabernacle that God wanted built. They were given special talent. They…
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The Day of Pentecost - A Religious Disruption
There are points in our history where new technology disrupts the standard that has been used up to that point in time. Grace and Truth disrupted Religion: Prior to Pentecost, the Mosaic Law was the norm. It had been practiced for 2000+ years. Worship in the Temple was the norm. The Law informed...
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What Sort of People Ought You to Be?
What is the church’s purpose? Answer: To get a people ready for the wedding. Salvation of people. By the Gathering, a local church will be worshipping God, learning, refreshing, serving, praying, being healed. Using… song, reading the bible, discipleship, Church fellowship is for adults, couples,...
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A.I. Pastor
Will Artificial Intelligence or Robots take over preaching? Is A.I. a better preacher? Pastoring in the age of A.I. and robots could be a breeze! Have A.I. create the sermon in 60 seconds. Who needs a Christian counselor when A.I. is available? Who needs other Christians to help solve church...
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The Turtledove Offering
Mary and Joseph were simple people living in a poor rural village when God chose them to do something extraordinary. This required them to follow the Mosaic Law—by Faith. They ushered in the One who would bring Grace and Truth. Ironically, they followed the Law to participate in removing the Law...
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Who Doesn't Love Receiving a Gift?
Christmas is about the giving of gifts. To be specific, it is about one gift that has been given. This gift continues to be received by new recipients every year. While it isn’t restrained to one day each year, that specific day does come each year. year in and year out. It’s a day that fractured...
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Simplicity births Extraordinary
Mary and Joseph were simple people who lived their lives doing the extraordinary—participating in God's plan for humanity. Any one of us can do the same! Like them, we too can usher in the spiritual principles into physical reality. Healing is visible, forgiveness is invisible. Forgiveness is...
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The Bible in 30 Minutes
This message gives the listener a big picture overview of the Bible. Having this 30,000 foot view helps the disciple gain greater understanding of the pieces of the Bible. God initiated time and history and has communicated it to man—even up to the end of the world and beyond. It is written down…
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Decisions
How to make them? How to make good ones? What is the impact of bad decisions? How can you recover from a bad one? We'll answer these in this message. God uses the stories of His chosen people so that we learn and believe. Let’s see what we can learn as we travel back to 627 B.C. and check in with...
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What Are We (AGCC) About?
As a church, we have a set of beliefs and behaviors that we promote, that we live, and with the purpose of drawing people in. Call it a 'platform' if you like. It’s what we communicate when we are out meeting with people for the purpose of joining them in. May I introduce the “Gold Party”? What...
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If My People
..who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways*, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. * They didn't and "We the People" haven't either. This if/then equation is from the Mosaic Law. And herein lies...
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Know Jesus Know Peace
No Jesus, No Peace. Jesus says, “blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” (Matt 5:9) King David writes, Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! (Psalm 133:1) Peacemakers do not go around sowing division, deception, and delusion. How do we sow...
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Grace Moments
If our expression of Christianity causes outsiders to find the Bible distasteful, how will they want to seek Jesus? To the unredeemed we might be the only bible they know. Outsiders are much more demanding with their expectations of Christians. They expect us to be perfect. In part, because…
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Believers Authority
We are given delegated authority but we don’t have authority over God. As believers, we serve each other and the Lord. We should do so with confidence and the authority that comes with knowing they are doing God’s work. We are not made gods equal to our Heavenly Father or above Him to command…
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Is This WWIII?
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - Iran launched 181 Ballistic missiles into Israel. Miraculously, it appears only 1 person died who didn’t stay in the bomb bunker. Is This beginning of WWIII? Biblically, What War Is It? Is it the War of Extermination Psalm 83 or the Gog/Magog war in Ezekiel 38,39 or...
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Legalism Parades as Piety
Deceptive spiritualism makes moral perfection consist in abstinence from outward things, they pretended to attain to a higher perfection. Grace is the glue of relationships. Join us as we learn about Living, Loving, and Belonging in the NT Church Pt.2. Scriptures: 1 Timothy 3:14-16; 1 Timothy 4-6...
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Living, Loving, Belonging in the NT Church
How is a church to be organized? How do we know if the church is following the instructions of the Bible? Church is full of relationships. Church is not a performance or ritual. We don’t see anything like this in the scriptures! Not a time of craziness or disorder either. We have all been invited...
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Being of Sound Mind, I Hereby Leave My Estate to..
Ever wonder what it’d be like if you had a rich uncle or parent who will leave their estate to you? What would you do with the money? Would it change how you live prior to receiving it? Would you live with a focus towards that future event of receiving it? In earthly terms Believers are future...
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All Things New
Today, we’re going to take a tour through this new home being offered to us. We’ll also see it through a drone’s view. We’ll find out who else lives in the neighborhood. We’ll get a street view and a community view. God has stated that He is going to create a new heaven, new earth, new Jerusalem....
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Sovereignty of God
Ever been driving along the road and you hit ice, your car starts spinning and there is nothing you can do to stop it? What is making you fear? Loss of control. You can’t control whether you are going to wreck. Life is kinda like that. We can feel like we’re properly driving down the road, got...
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Gods of America
In this message we journey with the apostle Paul on his second missionary trip. We travel to the City of Idols and marvel at how he draws the idolators to the one true God. But we have to put some thought into what a "god" does and who the "Gods" of America are. Certainly, Jesus Christ is brought...
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A Call to Holy Living
This letter was written primarily to bring a message of hope and encouragement to Christians under persecution in modern day Turkey under Nero. AD64-68 Nero-blamed Christians for the great fire in Rome and punished them cruelly. 1st of 6 evil emperors spanning to 211 AD. Christianity wasn’t...
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How to use your Bible
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness. Is that what we think about the Bible? Do we use it as an authoritative source in life? OR, do we use google, siri, and youtube? Is the Bible teaching you? The church is full…
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The Nations Rage
In our present age, the world continues to shake its fist against God. In effect it is saying that it wants to determine its own ruling system in place of that which God commanded through His Word. The world as a whole has turned against God. What was once unthinkable, what was once unacceptable,...
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Distractions
Distraction: One of the Most Effective Tools of Satan. What are you distracted by? What is it distracting you from? What fuels distraction? Distractions are those thorns that Jesus spoke about. They are the "doers" worst enemy. Distractions seek control and have eternal implications. Listen in…
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The Shepherd and the Sheep
This is a unique and beneficial relationship we have with Jesus, our Shepherd. Listen in as we use David's profound psalm to explore this. Scriptures: Psalm 23; Hebrews 13:20,21; Mark 6:34; Ephesians 3:20; John 10:1-18; Psalm 27:1-6 Preacher: Bob Haggerty
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Resurrection
JESUS was raised on the third day. And so were many of the saints who were dead in their graves! These dead were raised and they didn’t loiter around their grave wondering what just happened to them… no, they went into town! to be seen. that there might be undeniable evidence of their own...
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The Wrath of God
We have to come to grips with this. It is not like human anger. There is a time future where it will be poured out and then no more. Wrath Is the final part of the world before the millennial kingdom. The Bible is very clear that it will be poured out on the sons of disobedience, NOT disciples of...
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Heaven is my Home > I'm here Recruiting
The apostles and disciples followed Jesus. They ate together. They worshipped and prayed together. They recruited others to join. When someone became a believer they wanted to be part of that group. To go where they go, do what they do. Social Media knows this about us. Humans are part of groups;...
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Our Plans Are So Small
In Revelation 5, we see God on the throne holding a scroll with seven seals, we have God the Son as the lamb who was slain, and we have the 7 spirits of God which are a reference to the Holy Spirit in the perfection of His manifold ministry. All 3 are present and working in concert; the Trinity....
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Doctrines of Demons
WHO HAS YOUR EAR AND YOUR HEART? Mankind has been searching for Truth since day one. We are either running to Jesus, or away from Jesus, or out in the weeds somewhere. If we find Him, we have found Truth. Meaning for life. And life eternal. The bible tells us in the last days there will be…
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The Trinity Explained
Ever try to explain the Trinity to anyone? How’d it go? Difficult usually. You're not alone. Our bible concordance doesn't index Trinity either. As with many doctrines, understanding comes from the breadth of the Bible. Today we brush over numerous scriptures which expose the Godhead. We'll also...
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The Path of the Gospel
Yes, faithful witness brings great results.. and opposition. As the Acts of the Apostles grows and unfolds, the Gospel is sent out with Barnabus and Paul. From Antioch in modern day Syria to Antioch in modern day Turkey through the Island of Cyprus. Many people wanted to hear it. Because of the...
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Keep Your Eyes on Jesus
What caused Peter to start sinking while he was walking on the water? Does that same thing cause us to sink in the trials that come into our life? Jesus wants to see our faith. And when He does, amazing things can happen. Where should we have our eyes focused in life? Bob illuminates this passage...
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