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Spiritual Wisdom from Old Guys
by Dave DeVries
Times change, but the needs and nature of we humans seem to be hardwired into our very core. Experience the wisdom of those who have gone before us.
Episodes
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2005-12-25 A God First Christmas - Understand Gifts
Why is gift-giving the most acknowledged Christmas tradition? What does a gift in purest form communicate? This concluding message explores how Christmas centers on God giving His best gift—Himself—in Jesus Christ, revealing that true Christianity is about being good receivers rather than...
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2005-12-18 A God First Christmas - Does Family Well - Mary Larsen
What three elements constitute shepherding children's hearts effectively? How do values get caught rather than merely taught? This message from Mary Larsen examines how God-first Christmas does family well by shepherding children through teaching God's Word, knowing their inner selves deeply, and...
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2005-12-11 A God First Christmas - Intrudes
How did Christmas intrude upon people's plans and lives when God came close? Why did King Herod violently react to news of Jesus's birth? This message explores how Mary's marriage plans changed, shepherds left work terrified by angels, and prophet Simeon declared eight-day-old Jesus destined to...
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2005-12-04 A God First Christmas - Anticipates
How does Mary's anticipation during nine months before Christ's birth parallel believers' expectation? Why do most first-coming scriptures also address second coming in the same breath? This message explores planning a God-first Christmas by examining the hard-to-contain anticipation believers...
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2005-11-27 A God-First Christmas
What contrast exists between contemporary Christmas and heaven's agenda? Why must a God-first Christmas begin with believing Jesus was truly God? This message explores planning a God-first Christmas by examining four "one thing" passages revealing proper priorities. Discover why Jesus didn't…
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2005-11-20 All About Attitude - 8 - When You Take A Hit
Why does Jesus say "when" rather than "if" you are persecuted? What myth keeps believers from accepting persecution? This concluding Beatitudes message examines Jesus's expanded teaching that blessing comes to those insulted, persecuted, and falsely accused for His sake, with great heavenly…
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2005-11-13 All About Attitude - 7 - Your Mission, Should you Choose to Accept It
What are the ascending metaphors describing relationship with God? How does being a child of God differ from being a servant? This message explores peacemaking by tracing relational progression from potter-clay through shepherd-sheep and Lord-servant to Father-children, friends, and bride of...
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2005-11-06 All About Attitude - 6 - Living From The Inside Out
What is the biblical definition of the heart? How do thinking, feeling, and choosing combine to make up who we are? This message explores Jesus's teaching that the pure in heart will see God by defining the heart as the combined result of thoughts, feelings, and choices that form personality's...
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2005-10-30 All About Attitude - 5 - God, Us and Them
What does it mean that the temperature of our relationship with God is measured by how we treat others? Why is mercy the only way anyone relates to God? This message explores the Beatitude about merciful people receiving mercy by examining how God's relationship with us through the New...
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2005-10-23 All About Attitude - 4 - The Secret of Being Filled
What's the difference between physical and spiritual hunger? Why does attempting to satisfy spiritual hunger with physical things always fail? This message explores Jesus's teaching that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be filled, examining how God created humans with two...
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2005-10-16 All About Attitude - 3 - The Gift of Self Control
What's the difference between being a disciple versus merely a Christian? How is Christianity a life rather than status? This message explores meekness by examining Jesus's invitation to the weary—promising rest not after fixing life but while still struggling, through yoking to Him. Discover how...
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2005-10-09 All About Attitude - 2 - Embracing the Pain - Don Hay
How can mourning lead to blessing and happiness? Why does culture teach us to avoid or numb pain? This message tackles Jesus's counterintuitive teaching that those who mourn will be comforted by examining what divine joy looks like in the midst of pain. Discover why Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry,...
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2005-10-02 All About Attitude - 1
What's the difference between looking for happiness in the world versus in God's kingdom? How is Christianity a life rather than just a status? This message launches a series on the Beatitudes by examining Jesus's Sermon on the Mount as the ultimate Christian manifesto describing what happens…
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2005-09-25 God First - 2 - What God Means to Me
What does it mean to worship God in spirit and truth? How is worship more than Sunday morning singing? This multi-speaker message explores God-first living through worship that responds to God throughout each day, service that activates faith by becoming Christ's hands and feet, and devotional…
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2005-09-18 God First - 1 - Signs of the Times
What does it mean to trivialize God by treating Him like a candle rather than a consuming fire? How does setting God's love against His judgment create proper reverence? This message launches a three-year church plan focused on putting God first by examining whether we're better at predicting...
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2005-09-11 Hebrews 11 Series Conclusion
What difference should studying Hebrews 11 make in everyday living? What does it mean that life of faith is like running a marathon? This message explores three "therefores" in Hebrews 12 that answer "so what?" to our summer faith study. Discover why living by faith is running a lifelong race...
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2005-09-04 Character Issue - 10 - Getting Through the Impossible
What's the difference between paddlers who depend on themselves and sailors who depend on God's Spirit? How does faith enable people to get through impossible situations? This message contrasts those who paddle through life relying on their own abilities with those who raise their sails and let...
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2005-08-28 Character Issue - 9 - Self Discipline
What are the only two ways to live according to Scripture? How does core identity determine every choice we make? This message examines Moses at his defining moment—age 40, prince of Egypt, facing the choice between world's privileges and God's promises. Discover how Moses refused to be known as...
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2005-08-21 Character Issue - 8 - Civil Disobedience
When is it appropriate for Christians to disobey governing authorities? How do we balance Romans 13's command to submit with Acts 5:29's call to obey God rather than man? This message examines Moses's parents who defied Pharaoh's decree to kill Hebrew baby boys, risking their own lives to…
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2005-08-14 Character Issue - 7 - Being an Example
How does God transform flawed, deceptive people into examples of His grace? What does it mean that our lives inevitably serve as examples to others? This message follows Jacob from his birth as a heel-grabbing deceiver through twenty years of being deceived himself by Laban, to his desperate...
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2005-08-07 Character Issue - 6 - Being a Blessing - Don Hay
What makes second-generation faith valuable even without dramatic conversion? How does faithful, steady obedience over a lifetime matter to God? This message explores Isaac's seemingly ordinary life—born into faith, steady in obedience, yet included by God alongside Abraham and Jacob in the...
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2005-07-31 Character Issue - 5 - Sacrifice
Why does God test our faith if He already knows what's in our hearts? What does it mean to hold nothing back from God? This message examines Abraham's agonizing journey to Mount Moriah where God commanded him to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, revealing how true faith refuses to withhold even…
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2005-07-24 Character Issue - 4 - Trusting
What does it mean to live by faith versus living by sight? How does God develop faith in believers through stages of leaving, being led, and finding our ultimate home? This message explores Abraham and Sarah's journey of trusting God even when they couldn't see the path ahead, revealing how faith...
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2005-07-17 Character Issue - 3 - Obedience
Noah earned the superhero name "The Incredible Splash" by building an ark for 120 years when it had never rained on earth—warned by God about things not yet seen, demonstrating that genuine faith always leads to obedience and action. This message explores Noah's parallel to today's believers who...
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2005-07-10 Character Issue - 2 - Hope - Don Hay
Enoch earned the superhero name "Superfriend" because he pleased God so completely that while out walking with God one day, God simply took him—he skipped death entirely. This message explores what it takes to please God and be His friend, recognizing that while relationships don't come…
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2005-06-26 The Creation Connection
Before exploring the incredible heroes of faith in Hebrews 11, this message establishes the all-time fundamental foundational issue being hotly debated today: creationism versus evolution. Discover why there's no sense talking about God's Word until settling understanding of God as Creator, and…
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2005-06-19 Heaven Help the Home - 5 - Understanding Dad
Between Mother's Day and Father's Day, this message explores how men reflect God's nature differently from women across the gender gap God designed. While women ask "Am I beautiful?" men ask "Do I have what it takes?"—a question rooted in Adam's original sin of passivity when he stood right there...
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2005-06-12 Heaven Help the Home - 4 - Cents and Nonsense
Between Mother's Day and Father's Day, money emerges as perhaps the greatest source of marriage and family tension. This message examines three foundational biblical principles that can radically transform how money is handled in homes and marriages. Discover why Jesus elevated money to the same...
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2005-06-05 Heaven Help the Home - 3 - Sexual Sanity
Between Mother's Day and Father's Day, heaven must help homes navigate one of the most assaulted areas of modern life: sexuality. This message traces the disturbing history of cultural assaults within one generation—the 1960s sexual revolution cheapening God's sacred gift into entertainment, the...
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2005-05-29 Heaven Help the Home - 2 - Family Bonding
How can people live under the same roof and still be emotionally isolated from one another? What is the difference between knowing about God's love and letting it reach the heart? On Memorial Day weekend, Pastor Dave DeVries returns to the Heaven Help the Home series to name a quiet problem…
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2005-05-15 Good News in a Bad News World - Chris Hemmerich
We live in a world flooded with bad news—illness, wars, hunger claiming one child's life every 3 seconds. Many avoid watching news because overwhelming sorrow paralyzes them. Yet this bad news backdrop provides the context for understanding why Jesus came and what missions is all about. This...
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2005-05-08 Heaven Help the Home - 1 - Understanding Mom
On this Mother's Day, peel back the layers of cultural and traditional messages about women to rediscover what God declared from the beginning in Genesis. Contrary to popular assumption, Eve—not Adam—was the apex and crowning jewel of God's creation, the crescendo that brought everything to life....
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2005-05-01 Living Beyond Myself - 5 - Watts Up
Jesus gave His followers one new command that would distinguish them from everyone else: love one another as He loved us. By this, the entire world will recognize genuine disciples. This final message in the Living Beyond Myself series challenges believers to examine their spiritual wattage and...
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2005-04-24 Living Beyond Myself - The Power of Doing Good - Don Hay
Are you proud simply because you didn't do damage today—didn't unload on your family, didn't seek revenge in traffic, didn't act on your worst impulses? The Bible calls that elementary Christianity because it falls far short of the Christ-like level of goodness God calls believers toward. This...
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2005-04-17 Living Beyond Myself - 3 - Just Jump In
Remember standing at the top of a water slide for the first time? After waiting in line and climbing those stairs, the moment arrives when you simply must jump in—and the experience proves worth every bit of nervous anticipation. This message applies that metaphor to Christian living, exploring…
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2005-04-10 Living Beyond Myself - 2 - Me, A Priest
Have you ever thought of yourself as a priest? Most Christians never have, yet the Bible declares that every believer belongs to a royal priesthood. This message explores the revolutionary shift from the Old Testament sacrificial system—where priests never sat down because their work was never...
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2005-04-03 Living Beyond Myself - 1 - Fully Alive
King Solomon had everything: unlimited wealth, supreme wisdom, complete freedom to pursue every pleasure, 700 wives, 300 concubines, international fame, elaborate projects, and absolute power. Yet his grand conclusion was that life under the sun is meaningless—chasing after wind. This message...
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2005-03-27 Easter Celebration
Easter represents the best possible reality that could ever happen to a human being. While most people recognize God exists but feel separated from Him, they assume building a bridge to God requires human effort through good works or religious observance. Christianity stands radically apart from...
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2005-03-20 The Bridge
Why was Jesus weeping on Palm Sunday while the crowd was celebrating? What does it mean that we were created in God's image? This Palm Sunday message explores the profound distance between humanity's expectations and God's reality. Discover how people were originally designed as shadows of...
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2005-03-13 Bridging the Prayer Gap
What was Jesus' greatest concern before going to the cross? Why did Jesus pray for unity among believers? Entering the holiest place in Scripture where the Trinity converses, discover Jesus' actual prayer immediately before crucifixion—not deliverance from sins alone but deliverance into union…
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2005-03-06 We Are The Church - 7 - Aware and Alert
Am I professing faith without practicing it in daily life? What lies do I still believe that Satan has deceived me with? While media reports that the BTK serial killer chaired his church council, discover why Satan's chief objective involves allowing Christian profession as long as believers…
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2005-02-27 We Are The Church - 6 - Getting Ready
What if my marriage is not primarily about me? How was the church born from Jesus' wounded side? Discover God's bottom-line activity throughout history: creating for His Son a bride for all eternity, with marriage designed from creation to express this profound mystery. Learn why Eve was created…
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2005-02-20 We Are The Church - 5 - On A Mission
Am I living like a consumer or a player on God's team? Who am I living for—myself or Christ? Discover why Christians don't go to church but are the church wherever they go—Spirit-indwelt people on mission from God whose reason for existing on earth is evangelism since everything else could be…
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2005-02-13 We Are The Church - 4 - A Healthy Body
What makes a church spiritually healthy versus unhealthy? Why is faith more than just believing certain doctrines? Just as physical bodies depend on DNA containing three billion connections with enzymes correcting errors to prevent mutated cells, discover why the church's spiritual DNA consists…
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2005-01-30 We Are The Church - 2 - Value Driven
What truly drives my church—programs or Christ's values? Am I holding onto the clay jar (this life) and missing the treasure (Christ)? Discover why the New Testament surprisingly says little about church architecture, sermon length, music style, or meeting times, calling believers instead to live...
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2005-01-16 We Are The Church - 1 - Meaningful Membership
Am I part of the church or just attending an institution? What shapes my life more—what I believe or what I care about? Setting aside encrusted traditions that prevent hearing God—like the Baptist deacon embarrassed by Jesus making wine or the Adventist declaring "two wrongs don't make a right"...
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2005-01-09 God’s Gift to you is Forgiveness
What does it mean to wash my robes in the Lamb's blood? Am I dressed in Christ's righteousness or my own efforts? Discover the eternal city where God dwells with people, wiping every tear with no more death, mourning, crying, or pain—a place shining with God's glory needing no sun since the Lord...
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Times change, but the needs and nature of we humans seem to be hardwired into our very core. Experience the wisdom of those who have gone before us.
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Dave DeVries
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