Fathers Raising Children to Maturity

On Father's Day at Highland Christian Fellowship, I taught on Ephesians 6:4 (part 1 of a series of messages). The audio is now available to stream or download on the "Teaching Audio" page.  You can also subscribe to messages from HCF as a podcast through iTunes. Here are the main ideas:

1.     Fathers raise their children to maturity God’s way, under his authority (Eph 6:4).

2.     Fathers have unique responsibility in raising their children to maturity (Eph 6:4).

3.     Fathers raise their children to maturity as an act of submissive love (Eph 5:21).

4.     Fathers can raise their children to maturity as they are directed and empowered by the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:18).

Below is the prezi I used to present this message. You can follow along while you listen, or just look around.

Workshops @NCHE

I just finished my first workshop at the NCHE Conference. It was a lot of fun; great crowd! Below is the prezi I am using for both workshops. The one I just presented, "Equipping Children for Life with Three Critical Skills" come in the second part of the prezi (the second cloud). The first part, "A Basic Educational Strategy," will be presented tomorrow at 4:50pm.

God's Holy People

Sunday's Bible teaching at Highland Christian Fellowship on Ephesians 5:3-6: God's Holy People is now available. You can listen to it on the Teaching Audio page.

Pursuing a Life of Purpose

Last Sunday I completed a teaching series on "Pursuing a Life of Purpose." Although all the principles presented are biblical, many of the ideas were inspired from Stephen Covey's book, First Things First. You can listen to or download these messages in the audio player in the right sidebar. I have embedded the presentation (made on prezi.com) below if you want to see the main points and scripture references as you listen.

Teaching on Eph 1:5-6

We are studying through the book of Ephesians together as a church. This particular message includes teaching on predestination, but the main idea is that God has blessed us by adopting us. You can listen to it, download it, or subscribe in the teaching audio box in the right side bar.

New Teaching Upload: Our Purpose, Part 3

Check out the next message in my teaching series on Our Purpose, which is Loving God, Loving People, Making Disciples. God is doing a great work in my own heart through this, and I believe in our church, as he gives us his heart for people. This session is about loving others. You can listen, download, or subscribe to our podcast in the Teaching Audio tool on the right sidebar.

Our Purpose, Part 2

I just uploaded the message from Sunday. I am teaching through our fellowship's purpose statement: Love God, Love People, Make Disciples. Unfortunately the first message did not record properly, so this is the second in the series. In the first purpose, love God, we discussed believing the gospel and surrendering all to Christ. This week, still in loving God, we discussed prayer, walking according to God's Word, walking according to God's Spirit, and loving people (as a part of loving God). You can listen to or download it from the teaching audio tool in the sidebar.

New Teaching Audio: Seeking the Lord

I finally got my wireless lapel mic fixed. So, now we are back to recording the teaching in our fellowship. You can listen to it in or download it from the teaching audio tool in the sidebar. On Sunday, we discussed how important it is to seek the Lord, why we don't, and how to do it. Here are the main ideas:

1. When we seek the Lord, our relationship to God is the most important thing (Psalm 32:8-9; James 4:4-10).

2. When we seek the Lord, we will spend time in prayer.

3. When we seek the Lord, we will wait on him to act, provide, and lead (Psalm 33:20).