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Extraordinary empowering by God:

--- If you want to be extraordinarily empowered by God as you do ministry, then see the information on how to acquire that empowering from God, which is contained within the document "Session 10 - Mandates Relating To 'Godliness' And 'Empowering' ", on the web page "Home Page - Ministry".
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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:

--- 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.)

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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

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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
--------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------	.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

Series: Pursue Wisdom (complete)

Part 1: Definitions And Sources For Wisdom And For Foolishness NEW (September, 2024)	.htm	.rtf	.doc	.pdf
Part 2: Descriptions Of The 3 Kinds Of Wisdom NEW (September, 2024)	.htm	.rtf	.doc	.pdf
Part 3: Additional Purposes Of Spiritual Wisdom NEW (September, 2024)	.htm	.rtf	.doc	.pdf
Part 4: Reasons For Having or Not Having Spiritual Wisdom, In Relation To Spiritual Knowledge NEW (September, 2024)	.htm	.rtf	.doc	.pdf
Part 5: Other Characteristics Of Spiritual Wisdom NEW (September, 2024)	.htm	.rtf	.doc	.pdf
Part 6: Behaviors Produced By Spiritual Wisdom NEW (September, 2024)	.htm	.rtf	.doc	.pdf
Part 7: Other Experiential Benefits Produced By Spiritual Wisdom NEW (October, 2024)	.htm	.rtf	.doc	.pdf
Part 8: Thinking And Corresponding Behaviors That Are Characteristic Of Foolishness NEW (October, 2024)	.htm	.rtf	.doc	.pdf
Part 9: Exhortative Directives For Spiritual Wisdom NEW (October, 2024)	.htm	.rtf	.doc	.pdf
Part 10: Steps To Pursue, Acquire, And Implement Spiritual Wisdom NEW (October, 2024)	.htm	.rtf	.doc	.pdf
These are all of the documents for the Pursue Wisdom Series herein above.

Series: 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*	.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)* (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)* (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

Sección de recursos en español.
(Resources section in Spanish.)
Seção do recursos em português.
(Resources section in Portuguese.)

"How To Get To Heaven" - in:
(These documents can be printed to give the gospel to people who speak one of these languages.)
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 , Uzbek , Vietnamese , Welsh , Xhosa , Yoruba , Zulu

What's New:

__________ November, 2024 _________

- - New 'Sermon or Lesson Outline' documents have been added for the Book of 1 Peter.

__________ October, 2024 __________

- - A new 'Ministry Tips' document, entitled "The Walking Wounded", has been added to the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.

- - The 'Ministry Tips' topic about 'Church-planting: Failure Dynamics', has been substantially amended and is located near the bottom of the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.

- - The new 'sermon or lesson' series, entitled " Pursue Wisdom ", is now complete and located near the middle of this "Topical" web-page.

___________ August, 2024 __________

- - A new ' Ministry Tips ' document, entitled "Precautions For New Workers And Leaders In Ministry", has been added to the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.

_________ 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.

___________ June, 2023 ___________

- - The new "Elder Training Series" is located near the top of the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page and contains important and useful training for anyone who leads a ministry.

- - Persons newly distinctly moving towards full-time ministry:
- - Because it happens so rarely, it is quite thrilling and exhilarating to see when a person or married couple pops-up and starts distinctly moving in the direction towards possibly one day going into full-time ministry.
- - When this movement first starts to become evident, it would be a good idea and important at that time to have a suitable leader in the church assigned to them to personally coach, train, equip, monitor, assist, and advise them, checking-in or meeting with them preferably once at least every 3 weeks.
- - At each of these check-in's, it is furthermore very important to ask them if they are having or are experiencing any difficulties, or problems, or issues, or hindering challenges in their ministry functioning and/or their academic ministry schooling.
- - Otherwise, they are not likely to bring up or mention struggles that they are having if they are not directly asked if they are having any.
- - Even though each of these new potentially-full-time ministry workers obviously may have already demonstrated God-given abilities to do ministry well, nevertheless it would be wise to ensure at this early stage that they get off to a good start and not become derailed or crash-and-burn while they are learning how to do and lead a ministry in a church environment.
- - Furthermore, be aware that if God wants and is moving those particular persons in your church to indeed one day be in full-time ministry, then God has obligated your church to now help them in every way that your church and its members can. God has placed and raised up those persons in your church, which therefore makes it your church's responsibility and duty to help them.
- - Consequently and logically, such help should include providing: needed financial support; housing support, perhaps in the parsonage (if applicable); support for tuition and other related expenses for ministry training by a sound-doctrined Bible college or seminary; exposure to how church leadership functions, by observing your leadership meetings; hands-on experience in doing and leading a ministry; intentional mentoring from seasoned excellent top leaders in your church; and etcetera.
- - To ignore or skimp in supplying these forms of needed support that your church can provide to your persons who are moving towards full-time ministry is a gross failure to fulfill this duty that God has assigned to your church.

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- - 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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- - Details about 'Permission To Translate These Documents Into Your Language' can be found in the 'Copyrights' section on the "Abbreviations, Copyrights, Resources" web page.

Translating Help Needed:
- - I am wanting to partner with a person (or group) in the ministry work of translating some of my ministry documents from English into Spanish, to be placed in the Spanish section of my website.
- - Similarly, I am wanting a person (or group) to translate my ministry website documents from English into Portuguese, to be placed in the Portuguese section of my website.
- - Do you know of anyone (or group) who may be interested in doing this kind of ministry work that has proven to reach countless numbers of people in various places in the world?
- - 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.

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