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Mark continues his study in Colossians chapter 1:
"...The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." >>Watch on YouTubeDr. Mark Gignilliat is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, where he teaches courses in Old Testament and Hebrew. Mark also serves as theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham. Dr. Gignilliat is married to Naomi, and they have four children.
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What does true freedom look like in our lives?
The parable of the prodigal son is what I consider one of the most significant of all of Jesus' parables, taken from Luke 15:11-32.I discussed this parable with some of the older men in our Bible studies, and several of them said they didn't like this parable because the older brother gets "the short end of the stick."
Today we are focus on the younger brother, but when we get to the older brother you'll see that both brothers play significant roles that we can all relate to. >>Watch on YouTube
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Do you need encouragement in your prayer life? We are studying another powerful prayer of Paul to believers from the first chapter of Colossians.
Paul is talking about a knowledge that goes deep into the very fabric of who you are in your affections, your feelings and in your mind.
What is this knowledge—this deep intimacy with the Almighty that he's calling us to? It's the knowledge of what God's will is:
"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of His holy people in the kingdom of light.
For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." >>Watch on YouTube
Dr. Mark Gignilliat is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, where he teaches courses in Old Testament and Hebrew, and also serves as theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham. Mark is married to Naomi, and they have four children.
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Where does true belief begin? True belief is an issue of the heart, not the head.
Many people believe that a God of love cannot also be a God of wrath. Think about that. But author and pastor Tim Keller says there is no love without wrath.
In the book Hope Has Its Reasons Becky Pippert writes, "Think how we feel when we see someone we love ravaged by unwise actions or relationships. Do we respond with benign tolerance as we might toward strangers? Far from it. Anger isn't the opposite of love—hate is, and the final form of hate is indifference."
Join us as we study Luke 16:19-31 and see what Jesus had to say about Hell. >>Watch on YouTube
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Is Hell real?
In the past most people did not have a difficult time with the idea of hell. But modern American sentimentalism is one indication that people today tend to care only for the softer virtues of God like love and tenderness. They have forgotten the hard virtues of holiness, righteousness and justice.
So as we seek to come to terms with the hard issues like hell, we must consider the question, "What is my spiritual authority?"
Is my spiritual authority God's Word - the Bible - or is my spiritual authority my feelings and my sentiment? >>Watch on YouTube
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How much is enough?
This question can apply to many different areas of our lives, but today we're looking at this question in regard to money and wealth.
Other than theological issues like faith and God's kingdom, the number one issue that Jesus addresses in the Bible is the issue of money and wealth.
He doesn't condemn wealth. He doesn't say that money is inherently evil, but Jesus sternly warns us against the dangers of the love of money. >>Watch on YouTube
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Have you given much thought to retiring someday?
Richard's guest is Phil Reddick leading this seminar on how to maximize your impact as you think about retirement or are already retired.
Meet our guest panelists:
Mark and Julie Edwards - Mark is with McGriff Insurance Services. Julie is a full-time homemaker.Felix "Tank" Tankersley - Tank is a Senior Wealth Advisor at BMSS Wesson Wealth Solutions.Roger F. Cartwright, Architect - Roger is a retired Architect and now a consultant with Cartwright Consulting>>Watch on YouTube
FinishWell is a ministry of The Center, and is led by Phil Reddick. This seminar was co-hosted by Young Business Leaders (YBL) and Women Business Leaders (WBL).
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What kind of man are you? What kind of man am I?
Jesus' well-known "Beatitudes" from His Sermon on the Mount contains some of His most vital promises to us. These verses are Jesus' formula for how to have a successful life and a successful eternity
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." - Matthew 5:6 >>Watch on YouTube -
Are you looking to strengthen your prayer life? Join Richard's guest Dr. Mark Gignilliat as he teaches on the prayers of the apostle Paul.
Paul's prayer to believers, from the first chapter of Colossians:
"...Grace and peace to you from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people—the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel that has come to you.In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace."
Dr. Mark Gignilliat is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, where he teaches courses in Old Testament and Hebrew, and also serves as theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Gignilliat is married to Naomi, and they have four children.
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Did Jesus have an opinion on money and wealth?
There are five primary teachings given by Jesus in the Bible.
The Kingdom of GodGod the FatherFaithThe nature of Satan and the power of sinLife and everyday living, money and wealthJesus says a lot about money—He says a lot of hard things about it as well. Why do you think he taught on money and wealth? I believe one of the main reasons is because we struggle with money, primarily because it is hard to see money's real effect on our lives. Like the concept of greed; it seems easy for us to see the problem in other people's lives but not our own.
Jesus tells us that a man's life is not measured by the abundance of his possessions. Yet too many people—men particularly—find their identity in what they possess because we think our possessions tell the world that we have power and influence and prestige.
In Luke 12:13-34, Jesus tells a chilling parable about the rich fool:
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?”
Then He said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
And He told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.' And I’ll say to myself, 'You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.'
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”>>Watch on YouTube
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What is Epiphany?
The idea of epiphany is a pulling back of the curtain, so that one can see something clearly. These are normal, historical events that can be explained by natural cause and effect.
Yet these epiphany moments reveal that there's a lot more going on here than what you see on the surface. This is the unveiling. It is a revealing. >>Watch on YouTube
Dr. Mark Gignilliat is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, where he teaches courses in Old Testament and Hebrew, and also serves as theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham. Dr. Gignilliat is married to Naomi, and they have four children.
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Where do you find community? Do you feel isolated from others?
Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist who taught at Stanford, and by the way was a Christian, says this:"There's nothing more detrimental to a person's life than isolation. There's no more destructive influence on physical and mental health than the isolation of you from me and us from them."
Zimbardo believed a primary strategy of the evil one in the times that we currently live is to trivialize human existence by isolating us from one another, so that we lose the power of community. Then he creates the delusion that the reasons for our isolation are merely time-pressures, work demands, economic uncertainties, etc.
What can we conclude from these observations?
Living in isolation without being in relationship with others is not only detrimental to our mental and emotional health, but it can lead to destructiveness. >>Watch on YouTube -
Why is instruction important? The purpose of instruction is to help us understand the basis and foundation of our faith.
Deuteronomy 5:32-33 gives us this wise instruction:
"So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.">>Watch on YouTube
Dr. Mark Gignilliat is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, where he teaches courses in Old Testament and Hebrew, and also serves as theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham. Dr. Gignilliat is married to Naomi, and they have four children.
This message was hosted by FinishWell, a ministry of The Center. >> Learn More about FinishWell
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As we start this new year, what kind of plans, thoughts and ideas have you been having? Have you made any resolutions.
Two days ago I went to the gym early in the morning - usually only a few people there, but this day the parking lot was jam packed! Of course by mid-February things will probably be back to normal.
My question to each of us today is, "Do we need to make any sort of resolutions regarding our spiritual lives?" And before we can answer that, we must first ask ourselves, "Where am I spiritually?"
Revelation 21:5-7 tells us this faithful promise from God, "And He who was seated on the throne said, 'Behold, I am making all things new.'
Also He said, 'Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.' And He said to me, 'It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be My son.'" >>Watch on YouTube
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Both CS Lewis and RC Sproul asked, "If you could boil down take Christian theology and boil it into one word, what would it be?"
Love? Faith? They answered that the one word would be Grace.
Grace is like a huge bank account and faith is the account number to get access to it. God provides the grace, and we respond to it with faith.
Another way to look at it is to contrast 3 words and what they mean:
Judgement - getting what you deserve Mercy - not getting what you deserve Grace - getting something that you don't deserveGrace is something that costs everything for the Giver (Jesus) and nothing for the recipient (you and I).
John 1:14 tells us that, "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, ...full of grace and truth."
Today we're studying Matthew 20:1-16.
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What does God promise to those who hope in Him?
Last week was an overview of chapters 1-39 of the book of Isaiah . Something occurs between chapter 39 and chapter 40 that is kind of seismic. It's like the car of the prophet Isaiah just shifted into a different gear.
Chapter 40 describes where God is moving from judgement to redemption, pronouncing comfort and peace to His people:
"Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and His understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint."In this episode we'll cover the rest of the book, chapters 40-66.
Dr. Mark Gignilliat is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, where he teaches courses in Old Testament and Hebrew, and also serves as theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham. Dr. Gignilliat is married to Naomi, and they have four children.
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How does Isaiah present the gospel?
Early church fathers, interestingly enough, would refer to Isaiah as the fifth Gospel. I love that term. It would be Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and then Isaiah, right?
Because Isaiah is a prophet, he prepares us for the gospel in ways that are pretty unique in the Bible. Isaiah points us to Christ. Then we can see our need for Christ - our need for the new covenant.
In Luke 24 where Jesus is walking on the road to Emmaus with the two men, Luke says, "And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He (Jesus) explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself... When He was at the table with them, He took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, and He disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, 'Were not our hearts burning within us while He talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?'"
Today is an overview of chapters 1-39. Next week we'll cover the rest of the book, chapters 40-66.
Dr. Mark Gignilliat is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, where he teaches courses in Old Testament and Hebrew, and also serves as theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham. Dr. Gignilliat is married to Naomi, and they have four children.
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Where do you look when you need help?
Jesus boldly claims who He is in John chapter 10:
"Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the Gate for the sheep. All who have come before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them.
I am the Gate; whoever enters through Me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep." - John 10:7-11 >>Watch on YouTube
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What Child is this? We sing the familiar song at Christmas, but who are we singing about?
John 1:14 explains who this Child is to us. This is the scripture that I think so much of our Christian faith hangs on:
"The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." - John 1:14
Jesus. The Word, who is the very being of God Himself, at one with the Father, the Instrument of creation, the beginning One, has taken on human flesh and He has tabernacled among us. He is the Temple of God's presence in our midst.
He is the light of God's countenance shining on us. He is the light that has come into the world to expel the darkness.
>>Watch on YouTube
Dr. Mark Gignilliat is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, where he teaches courses in Old Testament and Hebrew, and also serves as theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham. Dr. Gignilliat is married to Naomi, and they have four children.
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What kind of man or woman are you?
Just after the 911 attack, I was in New York City. I've seen some real heroes to me from the New York City Fire Department. I remember their courage and selfless service to save lives - to give up their lives.
I want you to open your hearts and really examine yourself. What kind of man or woman are you?
Each one of us is called to lead in some fashion. Ask yourself these questions: Are you doing it? Have you stepped up to the plate? Are you doing your part?
When we talk about leadership, there are some men who are going to help win the war. And there are some men who are just never gonna really do anything.
What kind of man or woman are you? What kind of man am I?
Jerry Leachman of Leachman Ministries is a favorite speaker at The Center's events. Along with being an associate Chaplain in The NFL for many years, Jerry has done ministry in Guatemala, Scotland, Russia, Europe and Africa as well as all over the U.S. He and his wife Holly have been on Young Life Staff and continue to be involved with Young Life here and also internationally.
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