This 13-message series from Pastor Jim consists of the following titles:Sower, Seeds And Soils Seeds And Soils The Unforgiving Debtor The Unforgiving Debtor Part 2 A Woman With A History A Woman With A History - Part 2 The Unforgiveable Father Destroying Prejudice The Good Samaritan The Heart Of A Prayer Humility The Power Of One Tale Of The Ten This series can be purchased as a CD boxed set for $57 by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen to the individual messages online or download them for free.

The Heart Of A Prayer

Is there an enemy that Jesus cannot defeat? God "desires all people to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth." But that will is thwarted in some, because of their pride. Self-righteousness isn't a disease that strikes only Pharisees; those of us who were good church boys and girls have to watch out for it, too. Jesus told a story about this. Jim's message is called, The Heart of a Prayer.

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Catalog Number
CA-1008-00
Scripture References
Luke 18:9-14
Series
Stories Jesus Told - Volume 1
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The Good Samaritan

No Samaritans Need Apply! "No Irish," "No Chinamen," "No Colored"... the out-group may change, but prejudice remains. In a different time and location, the Samaritans were the despised race. Why was that? Why did "the Jews have no dealings with Samaritans?" The Bible gives us a fair bit of information on that question. Today Pastor Jim will help us gather the scattered references so that we can appreciate the absurdity of the idea of a "good Samarian."

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Catalog Number
CP-1002-00
Scripture References
Luke 10:25-37
Series
Stories Jesus Told - Volume 1
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Destroying Prejudice

The lawyer thought he was interrogating Jesus, but he was the one being tested! The best teachers don't just spoon-feed you the answers all the time. They answer your question with a question - or maybe just hand your own question back to you. In Luke 10 we meet an expert in the Mosaic Law whose questions for Jesus would prompt a lesson that the world will never forget. Continuing our series on parables, today we open a new message from Jim called, Destroying Prejudice.

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Catalog Number
CA-1001-00
Scripture References
Luke 10:30-37
Series
Stories Jesus Told - Volume 1
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The Unforgiveable Father

"Jesus, you're saving the wrong people!" As we continue our series on the Stories Jesus Told, we come to some very familiar parables in Luke, chapter 15. And here's the context: the religious elite had objected that the Lord was attracting a bad crowd. Surely these tax collectors and other deplorables weren't Kingdom material! So Jesus tried to show the Scribes and Pharisees where their thinking had gone off track.

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Catalog Number
CA-0924-00
Scripture References
Luke 15:11-32
Series
Stories Jesus Told - Volume 1
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A Woman With A History - Part 2

It was "deja vu all over again." Twice in the Gospels we see a woman anointing Jesus' feet during dinner - and we mustn't confuse the two incidents! Lately we've talked about the reception at Simon the Pharisee's home, and the woman who caused such a stir there. Today Jim will compare-and-contrast this with the second occasion, later in the Lord's ministry. Different time, different woman, different purpose for the anointing - and different lessons to be drawn.

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Catalog Number
CP-0918-00
Scripture References
Luke 7
Series
Stories Jesus Told - Volume 1
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A Woman With A History

There were two sinners at dinner. The Pharisees were concerned with holiness - and to them that meant keeping the maximum possible distance from anything, or anyone, unclean. So the religious man who invited Jesus to dinner couldn't imagine a kind of holiness that reaches down into the gutter to pull sinners out. And more importantly, he didn't know that there were at least 2 lost souls in that dining room! Today and Monday Jim will help us consider A Woman with a History.

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Catalog Number
CA-0917-00
Scripture References
Luke 7:36-50
Series
Stories Jesus Told - Volume 1
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The Unforgiving Debtor Part 2

What kind of King is God? Human kings come in all varieties. Some are capricious and tyrannical; some are compassionate and generous. Heaven's King, also, has a unique personality. He's not a theological construct; He's real! And, like all real Persons, He's sometimes surprising. In the Parable of the Unforgiving Debtor Jesus reveals several traits of our King. Here's Pastor Jim, to open with prayer.

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Catalog Number
CP-0911-00
Scripture References
Matthew 18
Series
Stories Jesus Told - Volume 1
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The Unforgiving Debtor

"Love means never having to say you're sorry" - one of the dumbest movie lines of all time! If we want successful relationships with other human beings, and with God, we'll end up saying "sorry" a lot. So much so, that today Jim will tell us that the foundation of all relationships is forgiveness. But isn't there a limit to all the apologizing and forgiving? Doesn't it get ridiculous at some point? Let's dive into Jesus' story of The Unforgiving Debtor.

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Catalog Number
CA-0910-00
Scripture References
Matthew 18:21-35
Series
Stories Jesus Told - Volume 1
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Seeds And Soils

The bad seeds look just like the good seeds. You've heard the phrase, "He's just a bad seed." Well, Jesus spoke a parable about that, and you may be surprised how many bad seeds are in this field with us, how bad they are, and how the Farmer plans to deal with them. Today we'll look at this agricultural allegory and its meaning. It's the Parable of the Tares. A tare is a plant that looks like wheat, but it's a noxious weed. Here's Pastor Jim to tell us about Seeds and Soils.

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Catalog Number
CA-0903-00
Scripture References
Matthew 13:24-43
Series
Stories Jesus Told - Volume 1
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Sower, Seeds And Soils

If it "oinks" like a pig, and smells like a pig...maybe it's a pig! The crowds were eager to listen to Jesus, as long as He fed them! That's very porcine behavior, isn't it? And the Lord was certainly going to take His own advice about "not casting pearls before swine." So He began speaking in parables. We're beginning a new study of those coded messages today. We'll start with the story that Jesus ranked as the easiest to understand: the Parable of the Sower.

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Catalog Number
CA-0827-00
Scripture References
Matthew 13:10-23
Series
Stories Jesus Told - Volume 1
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