Lesson 2: “What is the Gospel?” The Gospel of King Jesus is a message of “good news” that essentially has One Foundation: which is Union with Christ; and Three distinct components: which are Regeneration, Justification, and Adoption. In this video, we explore the historical background of the meaning and robust nature of the Gospel of King Jesus and how it contrasted with the Roman Gospel that was pervasive in the time of the New Testament.
Continue reading “2. What is the Gospel?”If you can help us financially, big or small, we would be so grateful and we give our word that we’ll be as faithful in using your gift as you were in giving it.
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Continue reading “Can you help Hope Christian Counseling?”Friends and loved ones, Martha Jo and I are very excited about the upcoming year. As many of you know, we resigned our positions from Surfside Presbyterian Church this past August. As we consider what ministry Christ will call us to next, we are both convinced that a large part of our ministry will include Christian counseling and discipleship. This ministry will be called Hope Christian Counseling.
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We offer an online Devotional Study Guide that will accompany the video series, “Christian Discipleship and King Jesus.” Each video lesson will have four to five devotionals that will Biblically affirm and unpack the teaching in the video. Continue reading “Devotional Study Guide”
Use with Video 1 / Learning to Depend on King Jesus 
Read: Matthew 11:25-30
25 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; Continue reading “1a: The Yoke of Christ”
Use with Video 1: / Learning to Depend on King Jesus 
Read: Romans 12:1
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
Refreshment from the Valley of Vision
One of the things we offer on Hope Discipleship, is re-writing a selection of prayers taken from ”The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions.”
Adapted from “Valley of Vision”, Valley of Vision – p. 1
Lord, High and Holy, meek and lowly,
You have brought me to the Valley of Vision,
Where I live in the depths that I might see You in the heights;
Where I am hemmed in by mountains of sin, I behold Your glory.
God. You are the fountain of everything that is good.
And yet there is in me the desire
to imagine myself to be this fountain, instead of you
In my sin, I imagine myself to be a god –
self-dependent, self-powered, and self-glorified
This estimation of myself needs to die
My God, Your grace is like a magnet – drawing me to all that is truly attractive. And what I find truly attractive is most beautiful in you.
