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Discipleship Tape Ministries
by Russell L. Kelfer
Russell Lee Kelfer was used of God in ways which illustrate the Scriptural principle which is the theme of his homegoing celebration: "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty" (I Corinthians 1:23). God called Russell to a variety of Kingdom tasks for which he had no worldly credentials, proving to all of us that "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.CALL US AT (800) 375-7778 IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS
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The Reapers Are the Angels
The reapers are the angels. Can you imagine the awesomeness of it all? This isn’t some science-fiction movie, beloved, this is a true story. The angelic host will be not only participants, but key figures in the second coming of Christ. They will be present at the rapture, present at the Bema…
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The Angel Said, “Fear Not!”
We live in a world where there is good cause to fear. Drive-by shootings, murders, rapes, senseless killings, senseless abuse. But fear is the absence of faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God. So God’s word to us it this: “Fear not”. This earth is headed for the graveyard, but God’s...
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A Little Lower Than the Angels
So we continue or journey into the recesses of Scripture to see just what angels do all day. Our tour has taken us to the edge of the sea of New Testament reality. We now enter into the life and times of Jesus and ask just what these winged wonders did all day while Jesus walked this earth. They...
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What Do Angels Do All Day? (Part 2)
The angels are God’s heavy artillery, too. They are the ones who frame the heavens with unseen chariots, waiting for their Commander-in-Chief to but blink an eye, and they will move into the fray, and the nations who defy God or who deny Israel its proper respect will go down in utter defeat as...
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What Do Angels Do All Day? (Part 1)
Let’s look at just what these winged wonders do all day. We looked at their fallen counterparts for several weeks and saw what they do: they harass us, tempt us, attack us, and in general try to make our lives miserable. Welcome to the other side of the valley, beloved. Now, let’s look at these...
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Guardians, Choir Directors, Judges & Generals
This lesson will focus on the basics: how angels are structured, how many there are, what they look like, and hopefully what God might be saying to us simply by the manner in which He made them. Scripture again will be our text. Read lesson: 1344A
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Where the Fire Is Never Quenched
The subject of hell is not popular. It is seldom preached and often ignored; but hell is a necessary part of our study of Satan. In this lesson we will look at the reason for hell, the reality of hell, and reflections of hell and our response to it. Read lesson: 1343B
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The Grace of Resistance
In this study, we continue our look at Satan’s tactics, and we hope to come to some conclusions about the grace of resistance. To do that, we must look at another of the names given him and his evil buddies in the Bible, and be thus warned about additional disguises he wears. Read lesson: 1343A
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The Tempter Came
The tempter came. What a simple statement. That is his profession, It is his underlying purpose for living. It is a reflection of the deception that dominates his every thought. He lives to tempt you and me. He lives to trick us by dangling before us something that either appears good (but…
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What Do Demons Do All Day? (Part 3)
What must we do to diminish what these demons do all day? First of all, we must repent. What a dirty word in today’s religious vocabulary. But, it’s a good word in God’s Word. It means to recognize sin for what it is and turn away from it. Not slightly away. All the way around. Read lesson: 1342A
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What Do Demons Do All Day? (Part 2)
So, what do demons so all day? One thing they do is pick fights with God’s angels over nations and over you. Another thing they do all day is try to get God to let them touch your body, or to use a sickness or physical disability as a wedge to get into your life and discourage you spiritually. It...
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What Do Demons Do All Day? (Part 1)
In the weeks to come, we’ll look at all the things the Bible says that demons do all day. They are busy little bees. They tempt, they test, they deceive, they distract, they can be a portrait of wickedness, daring you to try immorality, pretending it provides thrills that last. They can just as...
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Fallen Angels
What happened those many years ago that caused such a spiritual upheaval? Why did God allow it to happen? What is happening today as a result of that moment? And what will happen in the future to bring it to an end? Those are some of the issues we must deal with in this study. We will face the...
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Learn from the Angels
In this study of angels, the Word of God will be our only textbook. Our only purpose will be to find what God is saying to us about the angelic world and what He is teaching us through them. We will look at these important questions: Where did angels come from? How are they organized? What do…
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Assurance of Salvation (Part 2)
Once we are saved, how do we know that we cannot fall from His grace? How can we feel secure in our salvation even though we continue to sin? This is a subject on which the Word of God is very clear. Your ability to remain saved has nothing whatsoever to do with either your worth or your works…
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Assurance of Salvation (Part 1)
It is the will of God to know whether or not we are Christians. If you are having trouble with being assured of your salvation, this lesson will give you both an understanding of what it means to be saved, and the confidence of knowing that once you are saved, it is for all of eternity. Belief in...
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The Other Side of the Road
On the other side – that’s where we are so much of the time when people are hurting. We see them – or do we? We hear them – or do we? We have all kinds of theological gems to toss their way, or to toss out behind their backs. It’s costly to get involved and to cross over to their side of the…
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The Kind of Friend He Is to Me
If we are going to look at the Church’s role in meeting the needs of hurting people, we simply cannot complete our task without looking at one of the most overlooked essentials in the Christian experience: The matter of right relationships. We have to begin by asking ourselves, “What is a…
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Love Never Fails
The most famous passage on love in the Scriptures is 1 Corinthians 13. We are going to take a look at that passage of Scripture and see how love works practically in the life of the believer. We can’t study it in detail, but we need to pause long enough to examine the key points. The very...
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The Greatest of These Is Love
What is love? It is perhaps one of the most misused words in our language. In this lesson we need to establish a definition of love as used in Scripture. Love is an active process of giving oneself away without regard to personal cost. It doesn’t stop to determine whether or not the person is...
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I Can’t Hear; I’m Talking
This lesson is designed for those of us who simply do not know how to stop talking long enough to listen. Those of us who never stop thinking of ourselves long enough to listen, those of us who never stop wanting to be the center of attention long enough to listen, those of us who never hush long...
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Jesus Stopped
In our last lesson, we asked ourselves ten questions concerning the handicapped. In this lesson, we are going to do three things. We are going to turn those questions into precepts; we are going to take the stethoscope of life and try to measure the heartbeat of some men and women who do…
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I’m Human, Too
This study is about the people the world calls “handicapped” – people God calls “blessed”. These are the people that Jesus took the time to minister to and love. This study challenges us with ten questions to ask ourselves concerning how we view those who are afflicted or handicapped. These ten...
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Late Life Leprosy
This lesson is about “Late-life Leprosy”. It is about the elderly of our day, who simply because they are old, have often been separated, treated as untouchable, devoid of love and respect. As a result, they live out the last of their days like lepers; lonely, hopeless, and without self-esteem....
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Made in Heaven, Destroyed in Earth
Hurting hearts in hurting homes is the subject of this lesson. We will be spending much time in Genesis, chapters 1-3, because to get to the root of hurting marriages, we must go back to the beginning of marriage itself. What are the principles established in marriage, and how does Satan try to...
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Better a Millstone
In this lesson we will look at a particular part of the Body that God cares a great deal about – children, in particular hurting children. God intends for us to seriously consider the way we deal with children on a day to day basis, and the way we minister to them as a Church. We will look at six...
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If Only You’d Been Here
As we look at the familiar portion of Scripture that deals with the death of Lazarus, we see Jesus as our model of sensitivity in the midst of grief. Jesus’ spirit was deeply troubled at the death of Lazarus, but He did not move until God’s timing was perfect. He knew Lazarus was about to be…
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Why Do You Run When I’m Crying?
This is the first in a series of messages about sensitizing the Church to minister to those who are hurting. In future lessons, we will look at ministering to those who are grieving and lonely, those children crying out to be themselves in a cookie-cutter world, crumbling marriages, the life of…
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Yet Not I
The New Testament church was not characterized by programs, but by power. It was that amazing thing called grace that enabled a band of nobodys – who had nothing but God – to turn their world upside down. Only God could change the world, and if He were to use the likes of them, it would only be…
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Grace Greater Than All Our Sin
We believe that God’s grace is sufficient for salvation, but we often fail to believe that the same grace can deliver us from the same bondage to the same enemy who once held us captive. We need to take a fresh look at God’s indwelling grace. Are you still chafing under the guilt of sins long…
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My Grace Is Sufficient
Grace in adversity. We have all experienced it or will experience it as Christians. Will God take circumstances away? Not necessarily. Sometimes grace is the ability to endure without defeats of self-pity or bitterness. It could be a calmness that comes over our souls as the storms intensify. One...
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Growing in Grace
Grace: It is God’s power implanted in a human body for divine purposes. It is alive in you and me – doing what we cannot do, being what we cannot be. How can we grow in grace? How can we live in the freedom of God’s grace? Like growing up physically, it requires nourishment, exercise and certain...
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Because He Is. . . Grace
Amazing Grace – what is it all about? We talk a lot about grace, but do we actually understand it. How do we become recipients of God’s grace? What are the four elements that must be remembered for grace to be grace? What are the four enemies of grace? For the next several lessons we will look at...
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Because He Is. . . Mercy
Mercy. It defies every basic characteristic of the natural man. No other attribute of God more greatly benefits sinful man than this one. It is that aspect of God’s nature that allows Him to temper His wrath without compromising His holiness. What does the mercy of God do? Why does God do it? The...
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Because He Is. . . Holy
Holy is our God. What does that mean? Why does the One who created heaven and earth call Himself “Holy”? If God is holy, and we were created to reflect His likeness, shouldn’t we also live a life of holiness? We need to recapture a sense of the holiness of God in the Church today. As we do, we,...
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Because He Is. . . Immutable
God never changes. He is eternal. He is immutable. He is God. Were He to change, He could not be God. Were He to be bound by time, He could not be God. The very essence of His being demands that He be eternal and immutable. Understanding what that means can literally transform our lives. Read...
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Because He Is. . . Omniscient
What does God know? He knows everything. He knows everything that ever happened, is happening, or will happen. He knows our every thought, and the secret motives of our hearts are clear to Him. Because He knows, we need not hide from God, but rather find rest in Him. He knows everything about us...
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Because He Is. . . Omnipotent
Power! We see God’s power at work in nature all around us in hurricanes, tornadoes, the very sun rising in the morning. God never gets tired. He never gets weary. His power never needs to be replenished. He does what He does without effort, and He does not need our aid to accomplish His purposes....
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Because He is. . . God
In our first look at God’s nature, we will look at His supremacy: that aspect of His being that so sets Him apart from man that comparisons with man become meaningless. Snapshots from God’s Word will give us a clue to the incomprehensible nature of God. Though we will not know from this side of...
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Because He Is
How big is God? How powerful is God? How wise is He? The issue at stake is “how well do we know our God?” Until we progressively come to see Him as He is, we will live in frustration and fear. However, the more we know of Him, we will also see the magnificent life of victory as we rest in Who He...
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I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas (Story)
Having a “White Christmas” is more than seeing snowflakes falling on the barren ground. As the Fontaine family found out, Christmas is more than snow, and carols, and lights, and trees, and gift-giving. A truly “White Christmas” comes through the gift of God through Jesus Christ. Through His shed...
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To Whom Be Honor
Once we get a grasp on the Christian life, we often begin to “camp” on one position or another. On the one hand, there are the “doers” in the Body of Christ who determine that if we are to serve as believers, we must get out there and do a work for God. There are others who tune into a…
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You Can’t Take It with You
Paul in his letter to Timothy emphasizes that real godliness is characterized by a spirit of contentment. Your real pleasure should come in doing the will of God, not in the things which money can buy. It is the absence of concern over temporal success. The problem most of us face is relative...
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But Rather Serve Them
What is a slave to do? The issue is really respecting those in authority, because all authority is given by God. The natural response of man is diametrically opposed to the response that would most glorify God. It does not mean that the Church ignores moral wrongs, but how we conduct ourselves...
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Some Men’s Sins
Sin is the one word we don’t like to mention. Paul’s warning to Timothy about sin is that “Some men’s sins are evident; other men’s sins follow after them to the judgement.” Don’t try to judge spirituality by popularity or prosperity or even productivity. Most of all, don’t ever be satisfied with...
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Double Honor
Paul is dealing with issues concerning the church in 1 Timothy. He seems to miss nothing. His letter even addresses paying the staff of the church. What is Paul talking about when he speaks of honoring our pastor? Does that also include our missionaries? Another matter that Paul brings up in this...
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A Widow Indeed (Part 2)
What is the responsibility of the children to their parents? Does the widow, herself, have any responsibilities? How about the church? What is its role in this matter? God does have a plan for the care of those He loves. He is a God of order and even in the matter of the care of the widows, He,...
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A Widow Indeed (Part 1)
God has a special place in His heart for widows. Paul in his letter to Timothy exhorts the church in how to care for the widows. Throughout all of Scripture God not only promises to defend the widow, He commands His children to do the same. It is with this thought in mind that we look at how this...
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In the Last Days
Do you like to read the end of the story first? If so, this is a lesson you will enjoy, because we have been given the ending to our story here on Earth. He lets us in on just what will happen as this world, as we know it, comes to a close. The picture that is painted is not a pretty one, but the...
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A Mystery Solved
God has all sorts of secrets He wants to reveal to His children. These are things that have purposely been hidden by God from the world. What are these secrets that are hidden in God’s Word, and how do they affect us as believers? We are meant to know the end of the story. For us it will no…
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Russell Lee Kelfer was used of God in ways which illustrate the Scriptural principle which is the theme of his homegoing celebration: "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty" (I Corinthians 1:23). God called Russell to a variety of Kingdom tasks for which he had no worldly credentials, proving to all of us that "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.CALL US AT (800) 375-7778 IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS
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