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Request for prayer

--- Please pray that the Gospel presentation document "How To Get To Heaven" in various languages on this website would be readily accessed, effectively understood, and instrumentally used by the Lord to bring countless numbers of people around the world to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
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An important coming reality:


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Upon the start of the Great Tribulation, believers can lose their salvation.  For details, see the document "End Times Speculations", which is located at the top of the 'Doctrines' web-page.
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? Did you know that:
- - God has assigned all true believers to be functioning as "priests", doing ministry work in a church or ministry.
(For more information, see the document "1 Peter 2:5 - Assigned To Be Ministering In A Priestly Fraternity" in the ' 1 Peter' Sermon or Lesson Outlines web-page.)


 Outlines - for Sermons or Lessons 
 - Topical 

Outlines that are designed to be used as expository preaching sermons or as Bible study teaching lessons - for free download in assorted, series, evangelistic, and Christmas topics in the New Testament, biblical, editable (in .doc) , printable, can be easily customized or projected, available in 4 file formats (.htm, .rtf, .doc, .pdf), NIV-based

To download a document, place your cursor over the format type (.htm, .rtf, .doc, or .pdf) for the document you want, then right mouse click to cause a pop-up menu to appear, then in that menu select "Save Target As..." to copy the document file onto your computer in a directory you designate.

For a List Of Abbreviations used within these documents, click here (to access the list on the "Abbreviations & Copyrights" page).

Assorted Topics:

Ephesians 1:18-20
God Is Not Done Using His Resurrection Power
(can also be used as an Easter sermon)
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Ephesians 4:1, with 2:11-13, 19
Live A Life Worthy Of Your Calling 
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Hebrews 12:1
What's Your Status In The Race?
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Hebrews 12:2-3
Running The Race
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Hebrews 12:4-11
Accepting The Lord’s Discipline
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Hebrews 12:12-13
It's Time To Toughen Up!
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
John 5:1-15
"Do you want to get well?"
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Luke 5:27-32
Intentionally Making Connections

(can also be used as training seminar material to start a Connect Team)
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Matthew 26:57-67, with 1 Peter 2:21-24
Railroaded
(can also be used as an Easter sermon)
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
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The following 7 sermons-or-lessons for Romans 3:9c-25a are designed so that they can also be effectively used as a 7-session thoroughly-explained evangelistic series:
     
Romans 3:9c-12
No Righteousness Or Goodness Of Our Own
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Romans 3:13-19
Accountable For Our Total Depravity
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Romans 3:20
Limits To The Functions Of The Old Testament Law
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Romans 3:21
God Has Revealed The Righteousness We Need
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Romans 3:22
The Righteousness We Need Comes Only Through Faith In Jesus Christ
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Romans 3:23
Corrupted And Thereby Locked Out Of Heaven
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Romans 3:24-25a
Jesus Christ Paid The Full Punishment Ransom For Those Who Believe
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.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Romans 12:13
Some Actions To Pursue That Build Community In A Church

Supplemental PowerPoint download -
.ppt
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
1 Thessalonians 1:1-6
Carrying On The Ministry Work
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf


Topical Series (complete):
How Jesus Interacted With His Disciples

Part 1: The Calling Of The Disciples
Mark 1:16-20; John 1:40-50; Luke 5:1-11; 6:12-16
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 2a: Initial Job Functions or Activities - Teaching To Reshape Their Perspective of Life
Matthew 4:23-5:12
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 2b: Initial Job Functions or Activities - Teaching To Reshape Their New Role In Life
Matthew 5:13-7:27
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 3: Reproof - Accountability Before God
Matthew 8:23-26; 14:22-33; Mark 16:9-14
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 4: Teaching Within Intentionally Great Adversity Situations
Matthew 14:22-33; Psalm 107:24-30; Mark 4:35-41
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 5: Extending Conditional Authority (To Do The Supernatural)
Matthew 10:1,8; 17:14-20; 14:14-21; 14:22-33; 
Mark 6:7,12,13; 9:29
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 6: Teaching That Intentionally Veiled Understanding
John 16:17-18, 25, 29-31; Matthew 13:10-18
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 7: Teaching In Which Its Understanding May Not Be Gained Until Later
John 15:26-16:4, 12-14, 33
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 8: Training Through The Assigning Of Outreach Preaching
Matthew 10:1, 5-16; with Mark 6:7,8,12,13 and 
Luke 9:1,6,10
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 9: Select Disciples Get Privileged Information And Instructions
Matthew 17:1-9; with Mark 9:2-10 and Luke 9:28-36
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 10: Utilizing Seemingly Unreasonableness To Accomplish Divine Purposes
Luke 22:35-38, 49-53; Matthew 26:50b-56
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 11: Some Main Requirements To Be A Disciple
John 8:31; Luke 9:23; 14:27; 14:26
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Part 12: Some Main Assignments To Be A Disciple
John 15:8,16; Matthew 28:18-20
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf


Includes an Evangelistic (Gospel) Presentation:

Colossians 1:5-6  (duplicated listing)
The Gospel Is Intended To Bear Fruit
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Colossians 1:14  (duplicated listing)
This Redemption Buys The Forgiveness Of Sins
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Colossians 1:21-22  (duplicated listing)
Jesus - Switching Our Alienation To Reconciliation
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
John 6:35-40
Benefits Of Eating The Eternal Bread
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
1 Peter 1:3-5  (duplicated listing)
Regenerating Resurrection, Unfading Inheritance, Guaranteed Salvation
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
1 Peter 1:10-12  (duplicated listing)
Completed Full Revelation, For Grace And Salvation From God
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
1 Peter 1:20-21  (duplicated listing)
Our Faith And Hope - Established On And From The Revealing Of Christ Jesus
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
1 Peter 2:6-8  (duplicated listing)
Jesus Christ - Having An Effect Of Causing Rejecting Humans To Stumble and Fall Spiritually
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
1 Peter 2:9-10  (duplicated listing)
A Radical Change Of Our Standing Before God
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
1 Peter 2:24-25  (duplicated listing)
'The Good' That Christ Accomplished From Unjustly Suffering Crucifixion
NEW (July, 2023)
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Philippians 3:4b-9
Rejected Or Accepted
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Romans 3:20-25a
How To Get To Heaven
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Romans 3:9c-25a
an evangelistic series consisting of 7 sermons-or-lessons
(see its listing above, in the " Assorted Topics " section on this web-page)
 
How To Get To Heaven (youths)
NEW (July, 2022)
(a simple and basic Gospel presentation for youths and adults who have little or no training in Christianity)
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
How To Get To Heaven (Hebrew Bible)
NEW (July, 2022)
(an advanced and technical Gospel presentation written from the perspective of primarily the Scriptures of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament), for adults who have substantial religious training or beliefs that are based on those Scriptures
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
 
Other sermon-or-lessons on this website, that contain an abbreviated gospel presentation:
James 5:17-20; 1 Timothy 5:24-25; 1 Timothy 6:13-16
Presenting The Gospel
(a support 'how to...' resource, not a sermon- or- lesson)
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf


Christmas Topics:

Ordeal Of Mary & Joseph
Luke 1:26-35, 38; 2:1-7; Matthew 1:18-24; 2:11-15
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
God's 2nd Message In The Christmas Story
Luke 1:26-38; 2:8-18; Matthew 1:18-21, 24-25;
2:1-2, 9-12; 2:1-8, 13
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
Why Involve The Angels?
Luke 2:1-20
Supplemental PowerPoint download -
.ppt
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf
There's A Problem With The Star
Matthew 2:1-12
.htm .rtf .doc .pdf

 

 

Recursos de ministerio en español.
(Ministry resources in Spanish.)
Recursos do ministério em português.
(Ministry resources in Portuguese.)

"How To Get To Heaven" - in:
Afrikaans , Albanian , Amharic , Arabic , Armenian , Assamese , Aymara , Azerbaijani , Bambara , Basque , Belarusian , Bengali , Bhojpuri , Bosnian , Bulgarian , Catalan , Cebuano , Chichewa , Chinese , Croatian , Czech , Danish , Dogri , Dutch , English-adults , English-youths , English-HB , Estonian , Ewe , Finnish , French , Frisian-Western , Galician , Georgian , German , Greek , Guarani , Gujarati , Haitian-Creole , Hausa , Hebrew , Hindi , Hmong , Hungarian , Icelandic , Igbo , ilocano , Indonesian , Italian , Japanese , Javanese , Kannada , Kazakh , Khmer , Kinyarwanda , Konkani , Korean , Krio , Kurdish-Kurmanji , Kurdish-Sorani , Kyrgyz , Lao , Latvian , Lingala , Lithuanian , Luganda , Luxembourgish , Maithili , Malagasy , Malay , Malayalam , Maltese , Marathi , Mizo , Mongolian , Myanmar-Burmese , Nepali , Norwegian , Odia-Oriya , Oromo , Pashto , Persian , Polish , Portuguese , Punjabi , Quechua , Romanian , Russian , Samoan , Sepedi , Serbian , Sesotho , Shona , Sindhi , Sinhala , Slovak , Slovenian , Somali , Spanish , Sundanese , Swahili , Swedish , Tagalog , Tajik , Tamil , Tatar , Telugu , Thai , Tigrinya , Tsonga , Turkish , Turkmen , Twi , Ukrainian , Urdu , Uyghur , UzbekVietnamese , Welsh , Xhosa , Yoruba , Zulu 

                    What's New:

__________ January, 2024 __________

- - The notice, "Permission To Translate These Documents Into Your Language" (located below at the bottom of this column ), has been amicably expanded.

_________ September, 2023 _________

- - A new counseling document, entitled "Recovering From Ministerial Abuse, Assault, Murder", has been added to the "Counseling" web-page.

__________ August, 2023 __________

- - A new session document, entitled "Session 00 - Overview", has been added to the "Biblical Counseling Training Series for Lay Counselors", which is located near the top of the "Counseling" web-page.

____ December, 2022 - June, 2023 ____

- - The new "Elder Training Series" has been completed, and is located near the top of the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.

_____ May - October, 2022 _____

- - The document, "How To Get To Heaven", has been added in many other languages, as listed in the above box.  These translated documents enable you to share the gospel with people who speak one of these languages.


- - Running out of time:
We (servants of God) are running out of time to get everything done - all of our ministry work, because April 3, 2034 is coming quickly.
  As
" spoken of through the prophet Isaiah [40:4] : " A voice of one calling in the desert, `Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.' ""  (Matthew 3:3)
- - A relating end times event to currently watch for: If the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem indeed will start in the middle of the year 2034, therefore it seems logical and necessary that Jehovah God would need to utterly flatten in an earthquake the Dome Of The Rock mosque years before 2034, which of course could occur any day now until then.
(written in September, 2023)

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- - Expect to increasingly incur property damage and losses of various kinds:
- - During our time, especially since about the year 2020, there has been occurring frequent news and scientific reports about how destructive weather events are becoming increasingly more frequent and more destructive.
- - Furthermore, reports document that there are significant overall increases in the occurrences and destructiveness of other kinds of events in nature, such as wildfires, droughts, floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, famines, plagues, insect infestations, virus pandemics, and etcetera.
- - The world thinks that mankind's actions are contributing to many of these adversities that are increasingly coming upon the earth, which may to some degree be true.
- - But these increases in destructive phenomena may furthermore be due to God's actions, plan, and timing to bring discipline and judgment upon the accelerating wickedness of peoples and societies around the world.
- - In the same way that God causes the rain to fall on "the righteous and the unrighteous"
(Matthew 5:45), He causes destructive weather and catastrophic events in nature to befall the righteous and the unrighteous.
- - As a prime example, in Genesis chapter 19 is recorded that when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
(vv.19:24-25, 27-29) due to their wickedness (v.18:20), Lot lost his house (v.19:2), all of his property and belongings (vv.19:16-17), his wife (v.19:26), and his two future sons-in-law (v.19:14-16), but not his two daughters (v.19:16).
- - Even though Lot experienced huge losses in God's discipline and judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, God did "rescue Lot" from death, being "a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men"
(2 Peter 2:7)
- - As the wickedness on the earth during our time accelerates to perhaps surpass the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah
(Genesis 18:20), we should expect God to inflict more of these calamities, disasters, destructions, and losses.
- - Thereby, we should also expect that we true believers will nevertheless suffer various kinds of losses and incur property damage, albeit collateral damage, from these destructive and catastrophic events that God is now increasingly inflicting on the wickedness of the peoples on the earth. 
- - "The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.  Blessed be the name of the Lord." 
(from Job 1:21)

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- - Permission To Translate These Documents Into Your Language
(Now amicably expanded ( in January, 2024)) :

- - I am hereby offering to grant permission to any true believer who is interested, that you can translate any of my documents in this website into your native foreign language, and then distribute them, or post them on the Internet.
- - I ask that you provide your translated documents for free, and not sell them.  However, you can provide a way for the recipients of your translated documents to extend a freewill monetary donation to you.
- - I ask that you take the time to translate each document as accurately as reasonably possible, and not pervert or adulterate the doctrines, concepts, and meanings of what I have written.
- - You can translate from the New International Version (NIV) the Scripture verses I use, thereby rendering no need for you to secure copyrights from the owners of any Scripture translations.
- - Perhaps you would prayerfully consider the possibility of your church, or Bible college / seminary, or ministry group pulling together a team of select persons with the skills to start and operate your own ministry website like mine here, in which these documents are translated into your native language and posted on your website for free download.

- - I will be very glad to feature on my website a description of and a link to your ministry website, where you have located these translated documents.
- - If you have credible significant need, I may be able to secure some financial funding to help support your translation activities in this regard.
- -  Furthermore, I am available for free consultation to help you get this kind of ministry website going, and to provide you with clarification of the intended meaning of any words, phrases, or sentences that I used in any of these documents.
- - I can be contacted by E-mail at:
CoddingtonHome@Juno.com

- - I am wanting to turn over to, or delegate to, or partner with some person or group the translating of my documents into Portuguese.  This turn over, or delegating, or partnering would include those persons acquiring the 34 of my documents that I have already translated into Portuguese, (which can be viewed in the Portuguese section of my website).
- - Similarly, I am also wanting to turn over to, or delegate to, or partner with some person or group the translating of my documents into Spanish, most of which have already been translated, (and are located in the Spanish section of my website).
- - My goal is to turn over or delegate these two translating activities so that I am free to readily write more ministry documents in English.

Relating notes of praise and prayer requests:
(dated January, 2024)
- - Since first posting this notice of "Permission To Translate These Documents Into Your Language" in July, 2023, I have already seen in my website statistics the presence of substantial convincing evidence that a group has begun working on translating my documents into a foreign language.  PRAISE THE LORD !!!
- - Please pray that more persons and groups would be raised up to translate the documents on my ministry website into their native foreign language and post them on their website for free download.
- - Also please pray that within every group that takes on this ministry objective, there would be: excellent leadership; skilled workers; unity, harmony, collaboration, and godly behaviors amongst them; the maintaining of quality of accurate translations; and the timely-acquiring of sufficient resources to accomplish with excellence the creation of these translated ministry documents on a corresponding ministry website.

 

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