This 30-message series from Pastor Jim consists of the following titles:Wanna Be Like Dad The Election Of The King Thy Kingdom Come Called To The Good Life - Part 1 Called To The Good Life - Part 2 Being Good For Nothing Promises Made To Be Kept Principles, Applications and The Prophets Values Worthy Of Death Eye To I Communication Divorce: Guilt By Association Adultery & Divorce Talk That Shapes The World The Power of Language Balancing The Wheels Of Living Salt & Light Where The Salt Hits The Tongue Living the Christian Life The Quick Fix Fasting & Rewards God's Secret Promise Why Pray? Balancing Your Portfolio Managing Your Stress The Goal Of Education Don't Ask Choose Your Career A Very Present Danger In That Day The Rock Holds This series can be purchased as a CD boxed set for $104 by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen to the individual messages online or download them for free.

Managing Your Stress

In the "hierarchy of needs," Jesus invites us to skip Level 1. Poor Abe Maslow: He didn't know that our most basic needs - food, clothing, shelter - could be charged to the account of a heavenly Father. He should have studied the Sermon on the Mount! That's what we've been doing; and we'll continue today with the opening of a message on Managing Your Stress. Now that everyone has turned the volume up, here's Jim.

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Catalog Number
CA-0528-00
Scripture References
Matthew 6:24-34
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Balancing Your Portfolio

What if you win the rat race, and all you get is a hunk of cheese? We're all pursuing something. We're investing our limited time and energy toward attaining a treasure of some kind. So it's important that the prize be worth the price. As we continue to read through Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we come to the oft-quoted section about money and possessions - and worry. It may sound a bit different to us than it did to the original audience. Here's Jim with Part 1 of Balancing Your Portfolio.

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Catalog Number
CA-0521-00
Scripture References
Matthew 6:19-24
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What A Way To Live!
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Why Pray?

If God knows what we're going to ask for before we ask...then why ask? It's a logical question, and it's the title of a sermon we're starting today: Why Pray? Well, it's not to convince our heavenly Father, as we once tried to do with our earthly parents: "Please, please, P L E A S E?" We can glean some motivations for prayer from the text of Matthew 6, where we've been studying. And there are quite a few more reasons to spend time in dialog with the Lover of our souls.

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Catalog Number
CP-0410-00
Scripture References
Matthew 6:5-15
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God's Secret Promise

Our Father has promised to give us all that we need... but not if we don't pray! "You have not because you ask not," as the Apostle James put it so succinctly. But doesn't this seem rather cold of God? He knows what we need, He has it ready to ship, but He waits for us to initiate the transaction. Jesus gave us some clues concerning the mysterious relationship between prayer and divine sovereignty. We'll talk about them in a sermon Jim calls God's Secret Promise

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Catalog Number
CA-0409-00
Scripture References
Matthew 6:5-15
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Fasting & Rewards

Every time I've heard a sermon on fasting, it's made me feel guilty. This sermon will not make you feel guilty. Before Jim explains the biblical view of fasting, he'll have to tear down some religious ideas about using it to "earn" things from God. There are even Christians who think that fasting is a method for atoning for their bad deeds! It looks like the devil has used guilt to keep us ignorant about this, and then filled up the void in our knowledge with misinformation. So let's learn. Here's Part 1 of Fasting and Rewards

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Catalog Number
CP-0403-00
Scripture References
Matthew 6:1-18
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The Quick Fix

We're all jonesing for approval. Jesus told us to beware the quick fix! As social beings, we need feedback from others. Only sociopaths really don't care at all what anyone thinks about them. But we have to be careful where we seek our applause. If we want to hear that "Well done, thou good and faithful servant" one day, we'll be giving up some praise from our fellow humans now. We'll move from Matthew 5 to chapter 6 today. Jim's message is called The Quick Fix.

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Catalog Number
CA-0402-00
Scripture References
Matthew 5:46-6:7
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Living the Christian Life

The Law of God is like the law of gravity: You don't break it; it breaks you. In our post-reality world people think that all rules are arbitrary... that God could just as well have said, "Lie all you want to, and sleep around - it's fun!" But the moral law is as solid as a steel guardrail, and the consequences for breaking it are as real as the rocks at the bottom of the canyon. When we realize this and try to live by God's words, another problem pops up.

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Catalog Number
CP-0327-00
Scripture References
Matthew 5:19-20; 16
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Where The Salt Hits The Tongue

Love our enemies? We ridicule anyone who merely disagrees with us! The social media landscape in 2021 is a good picture of the opposite of the Kingdom of God. Tribalistic, dehumanizing, venomous. We couldn't see the darkest corners of the human heart and mind until the internet age - but Jesus could. And He gave a command that should bring every Christian to his or her knees: "Love your enemies." Jim's new sermon is: Where the Salt Hits the Tongue.

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Catalog Number
CA-0326-00
Scripture References
Matthew 5:43-48
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Salt & Light

When Jesus marched against injustice He wasn't carrying a protest sign, but a cross. We've become a little cloudy on the issue of how to combat evils - after all, we have several weapons at our disposal, from prayers to tweets to military "operations." So Jim would like to think-through the application of the Lord's words, "Do not resist an evil person," recorded in Matthew 5. If we get this wrong, we may find that we've become part of the problem. Here's Part 1 of Jim's sermon, Salt and Light.

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Catalog Number
CP-0320-00
Scripture References
Matthew 5; Romans 12 & 13
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Balancing The Wheels Of Living

What if everyone on earth were either a Hatfield or a McCoy? You know about the infamous feud that took 13 lives over the course of 3 decades. It started, some say, as a dispute over a pig. Well, that's the kind of escalating "justice" that God's "eye for an eye" rule was supposed to prevent. But He didn't mean for that to be the best way of dealing with evil. Jesus made that clear. Today Pastor Jim starts a message called Balancing the Wheels of Living

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Catalog Number
CA-0319-00
Scripture References
Matthew 5:38-42
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What A Way To Live!
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