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Audio by year 2009

Teach Us to Pray

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Earnest Prayer

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Designer Church

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God is calling you to unleash your full potential in Christ. What could happen if you took the lid off—off the things holding you back in ministry and service? off obstacles preventing you from growing deeper in God? off the disappointments and failures of the past that cloud your thinking and attack your faith? What could happen if you took the lid off?

Cut Loose

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Full Throttle

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How many of you enjoy driving in Minneapolis? • During rush hour?

Peak Performance

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Unleashed

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For the past four weekends I've been talking about what all the church could really be if we didn't limit ministry to just a few but instead equipped each church member to serve and minister.

We've been reading about this in Ephesians, the NT letter written by the Apostle Paul, 4:11-13.

Now today I want to discuss one more thing from Ephesians—something that hinders the church from becoming what God intended.

Getting a Grip at Home

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Getting a Grip at Work

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Getting a Grip on Your Future

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Where To Find the Power You Need

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Tapping God's Reservoir

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David prayed, "O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Ps 63:1); "I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land" (Ps 143:6).

How thirsty are you? Are you strongly motivated to seek the Lord? How hungry are you for the things of God? Are you ready to go the distance to have God bless your life?

Roadmap for Change

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The Deepest Need of the Human Soul

The World's Biggest Loser

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Open Your Ears

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Have you ever had trouble communicating with someone? Where you're just not connecting? Where you're not "tune in"—you're on a different frequency...where you pick up the wrong signal (misunderstood)...where there is too much static (too much other "noise")...where the message is garbled (mixed in with other messages)...where there is no signal (nothing comes through)?

God Uses Ordinary People

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Following Directions

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Knowing Him

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Sharpening Iron with Tim Mettner

Hearing Aids

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An Open Door Set Before You

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Focus Your Call

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Sharpening Iron with Dr. Jim Rogers

In Over Your Head

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Let It Down

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Following Jesus

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An Audience of One

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Letting Go

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Getting It

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Refreshed

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The Body of Christ

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Made to Worship

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Hearts In Tune

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The Father's Love for Us

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Why Jesus Seeks the Lost

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Kyle Ashcroft Story

Faith

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How To Be Blessed

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Four Kinds of Love

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Loving God With All Your Heart

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Loving God With All Your Soul

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Loving God with our soul—the Choices We Make

How often do we make choices without even realizing what we're doing? When we spontaneously choose something (impulse buying), when our reflexes react to something, when we "go with our gut" without considering the matter?

On the flip side, how often do we make a choice when we think we're delaying the decision? We might think we're considering the matter when really we're dodging the issue! Avoiding the decision is actually a decision!

Loving God With All Your Mind

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Loving God With All Your Strength

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Loving Your Neighbor As Yourself

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When We Don't Trust What's True

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Seeing God With Fresh Eyes

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Seeking God With All Our Heart

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Reaching the Unreached

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Around the World video from Bluefish TV.
This is a fast-paced, visual tour around the world that reveals the enormous challenge the church faces to reach those who have never heard the story of God's love through Jesus Christ. Nathan refers to this video in his message to the church.

Presence

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Luke 19:1-9 (NASB)

Presence is important to Jesus

Matt. 1:23 (NASB)
Luke 23:43 (NASB)
John 14:3 (NASB)
1 Thess. 4:17 (NASB)

Presence is important to people

Acts 2:44-46 (NASB)
Acts 4:32 (NASB)

How to give the gift of presence:

Unplug

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Celebrate

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Saturate

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Redeeming the Time

End of the year/start of new year...
Typical to take time to reflect. To remember events of last year. To consider what's happened, what's changed.
Over the last year...some unexpected events, surprises. Some challenging, some stretching, some devastating. [Accidents, deaths, loss, setbacks.]
Others were rewarding, encouraging, exciting. [Births, engagements, marriage.]
So we remember, we look back.

But we also look ahead. We consider what still needs to change.