Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Restorationists would say the model for the “new birth” and Christian living is in the New Testament, and that’s what we should follow; If you don’t embrace that teaching, on what authority do you get to say that the normative experiences of the New Testament are no longer valid?; Speaking in tongues is a normative experience in the book of Acts, and seems to be linked with the reception of the Holy Spirit; If you say that speaking in tongues was for the apostles but not for today, on what authority can you say that?; Epistemology – How can you know something is true and on what authority?; Those questions go away when you simply lift up the New Testament as your model and follow it obediently; To what degree can you change the model and still have authentic Christianity?; Scholars admit that the New Testament pattern/model of baptism is submersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ–to what extent can you change the model and it still be authentic Christian experience?

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Restorationists would say that the model for the normal Christian experience is the New Testament; You don’t stop at the Pentecostal movement in 1901 or 1906, John Wesley, the Calvinist Awakenings, Calvin, Luther, or creeds and councils–you go to where the original Christian experience is documented (the New Testament); What is the model for normative Christian doctrine and experience, and who gets to decide? – Only the Scripture has the authority to answer that question; If there were no model, it would be up to every individual, church, and tradition to come up with what they feel is the normal Christian experience/doctrine; Unfortunately that is exactly what has happened over time

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Restoring the Apostles’ doctrine; Restorationism (Primitivism) – appealing to what is primitive/ancient/old/original; Model/example for normative Christianity; All of Christian belief and practice–in one way or another–is built upon the New Testament; Logically speaking, the normative Christian experience is in the New Testament; Individual, unique experiences with God cannot be lifted up as the “norm”

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Challenge to take the Bible prayerfully and ask, “God, what do you want for my life?”; This is not a conversation about you and church history, it’s a conversation about you, the Bible, and God; You don’t seek to be faithful to a tradition, you seek to be faithful to this Revelation; Ask the question, “Is it in this Book, and does God want me to have it?”; If you pray that way, God will lead you exactly to what you need–God will reveal Himself to you; Restorationism – Restoring the Apostles’ doctrine; The Protestant Reformation said “sola scriptura” (Scripture alone) as well, but that’s not what they did; Principles about coming to Scripture and not tainting it by human reasoning or ideas

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: This story shows us how a group of people went on a journey, trying to get back to what the Scripture says; They found out that when they obeyed Scripture, it lead them to an understanding that Spirit baptism is evidenced with tongues, it’s part of the “new birth”, and the only way people were baptized was invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; Parham, Seymour, Azusa Street, Ewart, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Augustine–we glean from their insights, but our ultimate and sole authority is Scripture; Scripture is our starting point and our ending point; History of the United Pentecostal Church; Authentic practices, experiences, and beliefs revealed in the Bible; The ultimate conversation is not about the Reformation, or Azusa Street, or any other street… it’s about what has God revealed to us in His Word, and how we can be faithful to it

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Quote from Edith Blumhofer, Assemblies of God Pentecostal scholar (Assemblies of God are trinitarian and do not believe that Spirit baptism is essential); If you follow the restorationist hermeneutic (understanding of Scripture) that Pentecostalism started with, oneness Pentecostals follow it more rigidly than the rest; Pentecostalism is trying to restore the apostles’ doctrine, but trinitarian Pentecostals borrowed a whole bunch of things from mainline Christianity; Oneness Pentecostals backed up and evaluated all of it through the lens of Scripture; History is not our authority for doctrine–all history does is show us the extent to which people have been faithful to Scripture; The authority rests on Scripture

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Frank Ewart said the apostles’ practice (of baptizing in Jesus’ name) was linked to their understanding that Jesus Christ was God manifested in flesh, not just one person of God manifested in flesh; Ewart claimed that the name of Jesus Christ was invoked in baptism by the apostles in full obedience to Matthew 28:19–they knew exactly what they were doing; We only have record of people being baptized in the New Testament in the name of Jesus; On April 15th, 1914, Ewart preached his first message on Acts 2:38, declaring that repentance, baptism in Jesus’ name, and the infilling of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues is New Testament salvation; He also associated the name of Jesus in baptism with the “oneness” of God; Divergence in Pentecostal history between trinitarian Pentecostals and oneness Pentecostals; Ewart and his fellow minister, Glen Cook, re-baptized each other in Jesus’ name; Standing against an established tradition–the Anabaptists got killed for doing this stuff; 300 years earlier in Europe, Frank Ewart and Glen Cook would have been killed

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: World-Wide Camp Meeting in Arroyo Seco, California in 1913; Robert McAlister preaches the baptism sermon–points out that in the New Testament they didn’t baptize by triple immersion in the trinitarian formula; A guy named John Schaeppe was in the audience–he began praying and studying, and in the middle of the night he ran through the camp screaming “I see it! I see it! I see it!”; He had an understanding of Jesus’ name baptism in the New Testament; McAlister later preaches his first sermon on the exclusive use of the name of Jesus in baptism in Winnepeg in 1913–30 people were baptized in Jesus’ name; McAlister began working with Frank Ewart, who concluded that the apostles baptized in the name of Jesus because Jesus was the full revelation of the Godhead bodily

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: William Durham got the conversation going for people trying to get back to what Scripture says–back to what New Testament salvation is; The next big issue in the Pentecostal movement–”the new issue”; The entire Pentecostal movement is founded on restorationist principles; Charles Parham asked the question, “What does the Bible say about Spirit baptism?”; Processing everything through Scripture instead of history and creeds; The “new issue” leads to Jesus’ name baptism and an acknowledgment of the “oneness” of God; Christocentric worship, theology, and vocabulary; Exaltation/elevation of the name of Jesus; Before the “new issue”, there were already some who baptized invoking the name of Jesus Christ–Charles Parham, Andrew Urshan, etc.

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: William Durham began preaching what he called the “finished work of Calvary”; Said that sanctification (holiness) is actually part of the “new birth” experience–there is no second experience of sanctification; Challenged the entire Holiness movement establishment and theology by saying there is no “saved and sanctified”; Believed that you get saved, and the power of God’s grace in that saving act is power to sanctify you; Durham said that what Jesus purchased for us in salvation is enough, there’s nothing else we can get except the salvation that Jesus brings; Durham collapses sanctification back into the “new birth”, but he still keeps Spirit baptism as a second experience; Went from three works of grace down to two; Still affirmed Acts 2:38 as the fullest sense of salvation–said that a person who was really living for God wouldn’t just be saved, but would go on to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost; Theological division in the Pentecostal movement–denominations that went with Durham’s theology think of the Holy Ghost as an “added blessing” (not essential for salvation); Practical outcomes of theology about the baptism of the Spirit; The average United Pentecostal Church has around 90% of teens and adults filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: William Durham was a Baptist minister–came from the Baptist tradition; He receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit at Azusa Street; Durham comes to three conclusions after receiving the baptism of the Spirit with the evidence of tongues: 1) The baptism of the Holy Spirit was a different kind of experience–unlike anything he had experienced before, 2) He couldn’t claim the baptism of the Spirit, he had to wait until He came, 3) Speaking in tongues was the sign of this experience

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Azusa Street; William Seymour; Started in 1906 and lasted until 1909; Services every single day; Mixed congregation; Holiness churches; People from all around the world heard about the Azusa Street Revival; Missionaries came, received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and took the message back to their countries; The Pentecostal message spread around the world from Azusa Street; Charles Parham was arguably the “father” of the Pentecostal movement, but the work at Azusa Street under William Seymour propelled it into a global, world-wide movement; The baptism of the Spirit became the normal, accepted experience of those who came seeking it–it became normalized; “Saved/Sanctified/Filled with the Spirit” message about to change; First controversy in the Pentecostal movement; Trying to get back to what the Bible says; Jesus’ name baptism

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Parham began traveling and preaching a “saved-sanctified-filled with the Spirit” message; No objective criteria for getting sanctified; William Seymour–holiness preacher, grandson of slaves; Parham agreed to allow Seymour to sit out in the hallway of his Bible college in Houston; Seymour heard and embraced the doctrine of being able to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost with tongues, but he had not received it; He made a trip to Los Angeles and began preaching this message; They had prayer meetings in various houses and then moved to the Azusa Street Mission; One of the owners of the houses received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and it sparked the great Azusa Street revival

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Holiness movement started using “Pentecostal” as an adjective (Pentecostal experience, etc.); Rallying cry of “Back to Pentecost”; Speaking with other tongues; Experiences with God; Baptism of the Holy Spirit language; Sanctification; Charles Parham – holiness preacher; Parham looked at scripture and felt like there was a distinct experience of being baptized in the Holy Spirit; He asked his bible college students to determine what is the New Testament evidence that a person is filled/baptized with the Holy Spirit; After study and prayer, they came to the conclusion that it was speaking with other tongues; They began to pray and receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues; Parham began to travel and teach this–there were notable revivals in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Houston, etc.

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: The historic church made sharp turns away from New Testament teachings; Protestant Reformation; Martin Luther; Attempts to restore the Christian faith; Martin Luther didn’t attempt to restore Christian doctrine all the way back to pre-council/pre-creed days… he made assumptions about the first 700-800 years of the church; After Luther, additional reformers tried to get even farther back, closer to the New Testament; Reformed theology; Anabaptists; Efforts to continue to restore Christianity; Holiness Movement; John Wesley; Justification; Sanctification; Experiences with God that empower you to overcome sin on a daily basis; Baptism in the Spirit

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Appealing to history to explain where we’ve come from; Pentecostal church history; Azusa Street is not our prototype; Our task is not to try to emulate Azusa Street, but the New Testament; History doesn’t determine what we believe… it only documents the extent to which people have been faithful to God’s revelation; We don’t rely on history to proclaim gospel truth that’s in the Bible; The Word of God stands on its own and isn’t subject to history; Let God be true and every man a liar

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: What does Scripture say?; Does my belief system and experience with God match what is in Scripture?; Go to God prayerfully and ask for yourself; Early American Christianity; Formation of a political and social climate that allowed people to pursue after God/truth in ways that were impossible in Europe; Church history/doctrine; Lutheran churches rely heavily on Martin Luther; Reformed churches rely heavily on John Calvin; Pentecostals try to rely solely on the New Testament; Our objective is to restore, proclaim, and affirm what the apostles believed, taught, and experienced

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Early Pentecostal movement emerged from the Holiness movement; Charles Finney; Baptism in the Spirit; Holiness preachers; Charles Parham; Attempt to get back to Scripture and away from tradition; What is the New Testament evidence that someone has been filled/baptized with the Holy Spirit?… speaking with other tongues; They began seeking after (and receiving) the baptism of the Spirit; Baptism in the name of Jesus Christ; Strong cry that began at the Reformation of getting back to Scripture, back to the Word of God; Claims of orthodoxy: Who is right?; Authentic, genuine Christianity has to start and end with the New Testament; Pushing back against tradition and history, and getting back to what the Apostles preached; Severe and harsh reaction by the established churches against people who are simply trying to ask, “What does the Bible teach?”

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Wesley starts the Methodist movement and it becomes the biggest denomination in the United States; Wesley dies and the Methodist church moves away from his teachings; Revivalist group springs up called the Holiness Movement; Holiness Movement emerges right after the civil war; Sudden sense that we need to live holy lives; Revival of sanctification; The Methodist church puts the group out and it becomes the Holiness Movement; They begin to use terms like “baptism of the Spirit” and “filled with the Spirit”; Reports of people speaking with other tongues; Started using language that moved them back closer to the book of Acts; New Testament baptism of the Spirit evidenced by speaking in tongues; People began to think about the baptism of the Holy Ghost; The cry of “Back to Pentecost! Back to Pentecost!”; They knew they needed the power of the Spirit in their lives

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: John Wesley; Conversion experience; Wesley not Calvinistic, but Arminian; People are not predestined to be damned or saved, but you have a choice to respond to the grace of God; Huge divergence from a majority of the Protestant Reformation; Doctrine of sanctification–holiness; Luther believed we are justified sinners; Wesley believed we can overcome sin and live a holy life; Wesley gets people thinking in a different framework about the power of the Holy Spirit working in us

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Frontier revivalism; Camp meetings; Frontier preachers; Christianity becomes a religion of the people, not a religion of a hierarchy; John Wesley; Methodism; Great Awakenings; Personal spirituality and relationship with God; Wesley, an Anglican priest, comes to the conclusion that he is not saved; While listening to the introduction to the commentary on Romans written by Martin Luther, Wesley has what he ascribes his “conversion experience”, saying “My heart was strangely warmed…”

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Jonathan Edwards; George Whitefield; What’s going on in North America is fundamentally different; Whitefield takes church out of buildings and puts it in parks, meadows, and lawns; The Great Awakening; Reactions against traditions that lead people away from a real encounter and experience with God; Reformers; Second Great Awakening; Charles Finney; Mourner’s bench/anxious bench… people would come and pray and seek after God; Overtones of what happens in Pentecostal churches–people seeking after something that is demonstrable, life-changing, powerful, and effective in their lives

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: The Great Awakenings; Calvinistic Puritan churches; Jonathan Edwards; Evidence of salvation; Preached strong, convicting services; People began to react in church; Accounts of people speaking with tongues; George Whitefield–emotional preacher, passionate in his delivery

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Puritan settlers; Calvinism

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Social and political climate in the United States where people can actually live out the claims of the Reformation; Calvin and the reformers–double standard; American Christianity fundamentally different than anything that came before it; Founding Fathers; Declaration of Independence; American Constitution; Many of the founding fathers were deists–not conservative evangelical Christians–but they founded a republic where people could live out their faith

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Christianity in America was/is fundamentally different than the forms that preceded it in Europe–it is characteristically democratic; Reversal of what happened in 325 at the Council of Nicaea (merger between the Roman Empire/Constantine and the Church); The state and the church don’t get untangled until you get to the United States of America; This will ultimately get us to the Pentecostal movement; What happened later in the Pentecostal movement was specifically suited for the political and social climate in America

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Puritans; Corruption in the Church of England (Anglican Church); Puritans were primarily Calvinistic; Country divided down the middle; Civil war in England because of religion (Puritans vs. Church of England); First migration of Puritans was to Holland, then to Plymouth Rock; Many of the early Puritans thought North America would be the Kingdom of God

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Protestant Reformation; Luther; Zwingli; Calvin; 4 threads of Protestantism: Lutheranism, Reformed churches, Anabaptists, Anglicans (Church of England); The English Reformation; King Henry VIII; Puritans; Catholic Church; Division in the church; Mary Tudor; Protestant scholars and pastors

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Attempts to get back to Scripture; Protestant Reformation; Splintering of Christendom; Protestant churches “protested” (pulled away from) the Catholic Church; Claims of Orthodoxy: Who is Right?; What does it mean to be a faithful believer in the message of Scripture (to be fully Christian in a New Testament sense)?; Why is there a Pentecostal movement (historically and doctrinally)?; Early American Christianity; Holiness Movement; Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: How did the reformers think of each other?… Martin Luther wouldn’t even recognize Ulrich Zwingli as a Christian–called him “the devil’s martyr”; Zwingli approved of the martyr of many of the Anabaptists; John Calvin assented to the death of Michael Servetus; Reforms never really went back to the New Testament, even though they had echoes of the New Testament; Pentecostal movement in the 20th Century; Pentecostals have a “restorationist” theology that goes back to the Reformation cry of “Scripture alone”; Settlement of Christians in North America; John Wesley; Something fundamentally different about American Christianity

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Protestantism; Anglicans – Church of England; King Henry VIII; Church formed for political reasons, not theological ones; Begins to formulate its own direction and theology–winds up in the same place as other protestant groups with two sacraments: baptism and Eucharist; Embraces justification by faith; Anglican Church is a break-off from the Catholic Church; Anglican priest named John Wesley starts the Methodist movement; Wesley comes up with the doctrine of sanctification; Holiness movement comes out of Wesley’s doctrine of sanctification; Pentecostal movement comes out of the Holiness movement (as a further development of the doctrine of sanctification)

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Anabaptists believed in the separation of church and state; Even in the Reformation, churches were still state churches; Zwingli was the head of a state, led an army, and helped strategize to attack and kill people; Churches and the state were intricately intertwined with one another; The Anabaptists broke off of Zwingli’s group and were persecuted severely by other reformers; Anabaptists were concerned not with tradition, but with what Scripture says; John Calvin systematizes what Zwingli has set in motion–develops it into a full-bodied system of theology; Calvin was raised a Catholic, converted later in life; Views on the Eucharist (Lord’s Supper) – the presence of Christ through the power of His Spirit

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Anabaptists – people that “baptize again”; More restorationist than either Luther or Zwingli; Trying to restore the church without regard to history or traditions; Believer’s baptism; Even Luther retained the belief of infant baptism; Anabaptists found in Scripture that people must believe, repent, and have faith–they began to re-baptize adults; Free will vs. Predestination; Hyper view of justification by faith; Calvin’s views on faith and works of grace; Anabaptists say you have a choice–you can either accept or reject the gospel; Distinct conversion experience; Views on baptism

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Luther; Zwingli; Reform; Appeal to Scripture; Zwingli pushes the envelope even farther–is committed to only appealing to Scripture even more than Luther was; Luther does an excellent job of getting us started–and has a lot of courage–but doesn’t go all the way back to the New Testament; He doesn’t jump past the creeds, councils, and doctrines that had already evolved; Luther assumed that all the creeds and councils were right–he didn’t do a full restoration in the New Testament; Zwingli was more concerned with Scripture than with tradition; John Calvin takes Zwingli’s ideas and pushes them forward

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Seven sacraments developed over time: baptism, confirmation, penance, Eucharist, marriage, ordination, extreme unction; Martin Luther threw them all away except for two: baptism and Eucharist (Lord’s Supper); Transubstantiation vs. Consubstantiation; Luther said that everyone should partake of the juice and of the bread, not just priests; Luther kicks off the Protestant Reformation; Ulrich Zwingli – Reformation leader in Switzerland; 4 main branches in Protestant Movement: Lutheranism (Luther), Reformed theology (Calvin/Zwingli), Anabaptists, and Anglicanism (Church of England)

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Justification by faith; “Scripture alone”; Luther rejects the authority of the Pope; The priesthood of all believers; The Eucharist–Lord’s Supper; Transubstantiation; Earthly priests; Luther says we can all ask forgiveness from God and we don’t need someone else to stand in between us

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: October 31, 1517 – Martin Luther’s “Ninety-Five Theses“; Start of Protestant Reformation; Luther went against the theological understandings and the cash cow of the Church; Romans; Justification by faith; Luther’s intention was to reform the Catholic Church; Elevation of Scripture as our sole authority (”sola scriptura” – “Scripture alone”); Reformers didn’t go to the full extent of embracing “Scripture alone”; The average person didn’t own a Bible and couldn’t read

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Martin Luther; The Bible; The average person never saw a Bible; Printing press; Protestant Reformation; Trip to Rome; Corruption in the Church; Romans 1:17 – “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”; We are saved by faith, not by works; Cornerstone of Luther’s theology

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Precursors to the Reformation; The Inquisition; Waldensians; Albigensians; An attempt to stamp out “heresy” (wrong belief); Church and state were intermingled; Church had the authority to marshal armies; Pope Innocent III ordered the execution of 20,000 men, women, and children; Spanish Inquisition burned 2,000 people at the stake; Corruption in the clergy; Economic abuses; Taxes; Absenteeism; Simony; Indulgences

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Church history; Councils and creeds; Evolution of doctrine; Protestant Reformation; Progression in Christianity; Belief system evolving over time; Vocabulary and beliefs in the 4th Century different than that of the New Testament; Evolution of doctrine continues for several centuries until the time of the Reformation; Reforms were an attempt to revert back to earlier teachings and to get rid of intervening, unbiblical doctrines; Luther; Waldensians; Albigensians; Push-back against the Catholic Church; Persecution

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: If my belief and experience is not consistent with what the apostles taught, believed, and experienced… on what authority can I change the normative experience that’s declared in the Bible?; Orthodoxy; No higher authority than the Word of God; Cultural influence/style vs. fundamental beliefs/experience; Conversion; Worship; Expression; Traditions; Doctrine; Primary affirmations of the Bible: What does it say about God, humanity, conversion, the Christian life, eternity?; Whatever we believe has to be directly affirmed from the New Testament

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Our experience with God is rooted on a particular set of beliefs; It is a biblical belief system that leads us to a biblical experience, that causes us to live our life in a way that’s reflected in the Bible; Our appeal to apostolic succession is that the Bible is the ultimate authority, not Nicaea, Chalcedon, or tradition; Our connection to the apostles is based on their writings alone; We have to ask ourselves, “Is what I’m experiencing consistent with what was experienced in the Scriptures?”

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Doctrinal apostolic succession – emulating the teachings of the apostles; New Testament; Orthodoxy–right belief; Medieval era; John Calvin; Servetus; Orthopraxy–right actions; Orthopathy–right experience; For Pentecostals, it’s all of these–the right belief will lead you to the right experience, and the right experience will lead you to doing the right things

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Claims of apostolic succession; Orthodoxy; The apostles left behind: writings, churches, and ministers; Three possible kinds of apostolic succession: ecclesiastical (churches), episcopal (bishops), and doctrinal (teachings)

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Doctrine of papal supremacy; Constantine; Political power struggles; The Vatican is its own state; Clerical celibacy; Veneration of Mary; Merit; Simony; Indulgences; Christianity in the West; Over time these things begin to happen in the Church

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Baptism changes–baptizing babies who can’t repent or make confessions of faith; Sacraments; Confirmation; Baptism of water and Spirit; Tradition; Penance; The Eucharist–Lord’s Supper; Marriage and ordination; Extreme Unction–last rites

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Significant split in Christianity in 1054 (Orthodox and Catholic Churches); When struggles occur, the views that prevail out of those struggles are not always consistent with the New Testament; Doctrine begins to change; Catholic Church (Western Church); Baptism; The earliest forms of baptism were invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and full submersion in water; Baptizing invoking the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is the consequence of the theological councils; Sprinkling and pouring also became the preferred method of baptism; Gradual migration away from submersion

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Struggle over the identity of Jesus Christ–the apostles had it figured out; Secular philosophy and other religious ideas creep into the church; Church becomes divided among itself, calls major councils to define who Jesus Christ is; First Council of Nicaea; Council of Chalcedon; Classic trinitarian dogma; Language that was used to speak of the Godhead, Jesus Christ, and the Incarnation was not language of revelation (biblical language)… it came from Greek philosophy of the day; Christianity with a layer of Greek philosophy; Vocabularies superimposed on Christianity–fundamentally altered the understanding of things like the Godhead and who Jesus Christ is; Major church split in 1054; The East becomes the Orthodox Church (Greek speaking), the West becomes the Roman Catholic Church (Latin speaking)

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Gnosticism; 4th Century; Council of Nicaea; The identity/deity of Jesus Christ; The Roman emperor Constantine is the one who called the Council of Nicaea together; Constantine embraced Christianity for political purposes only; Council of Constantinople; Council of Ephesus; Second Council of Ephesus; Council of Chalcedon; Christ is two natures (human and divine) but in one person

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Rodney Shaw

At some point I will give my testimony about this in great detail, but for now I hope you’ll join me in this ongoing series by Pastor Rodney Shaw, as he answers the question “Why I am a Pentecostal“…

[Part 1 of an ongoing series]

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: There have always been struggles about Christian doctrine; Jude 1:3 – “contend for the faith that was once delivered…“; Themes in the epistles: eschatology, soteriology, christology, pastoral issues; Even in the New Testament there is a struggle over what is “true” Christianity–it is an age-old struggle

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: Holy Ghost Radio
Full Podcast: Podcast #38: There is a voice
Date: 3/24/10
Speaker: Curtis Young
Topics: Lord, teach us to pray; The art of really praying is to not “get through” until you get through; Break the barriers; Prayer is the answer

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Curtis Young

Ministry: Holy Ghost Radio
Full Podcast: Podcast #38: There is a voice
Date: 3/24/10
Speaker: Curtis Young
Topics: Having an agenda of prayer; We should pray more than we do anything else; Prayer is not easy, it’s contrary to our human nature; We have to take dominion over our own heart and mind; Don’t cease to pray; The devil does not want us to pray; Our carnal nature does not want us to pray; God’s agenda for us is that we pray

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Curtis Young

Ministry: Holy Ghost Radio
Full Podcast: Podcast #38: There is a voice
Date: 3/24/10
Speaker: Curtis Young
Topics: Psalm 65:2; James 4:2; Pray until heaven comes down; A real, old-fashioned prayer meeting will stop the devil in his tracks and give revival to God’s people; There’s no future without prayer; A prayerless church is an empty church; Do we know how to travail in prayer?

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Curtis Young

Ministry: Holy Ghost Radio
Full Podcast: Podcast #38: There is a voice
Date: 3/24/10
Speaker: Curtis Young
Topics: 2 Chronicles 7:14; “If my people… then I will…”; The greatest sin of this day is the sin of prayerlessness; Prayer is not a one-sided ordeal, where we do all of the talking; You have not really prayed if in the process of that prayer, God has not talked to you; We must pause and wait to be overwhelmed and consumed by the presence of God; Real prayer is when your inner being reaches out and touches God, and God touches you–we’re in need of that kind of praying

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Curtis Young

[Part 1 of a 5-Part series]

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Practice of Prayer
Date: 1/13/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: We should take the commandment to pray seriously; God invites us to intimate and deep communion with Him; Prayer moves us out of our own agenda and will and into God’s; It provides the spiritual power we need to live victoriously

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Rodney Shaw

No matter where you’re at in your pursuit of Jesus, please get these DVDs… they will absolutely blow you away. (and they’re only $4 each!)

[Part 7 of a 7-Part series]

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; Religion; Tradition vs. Truth; Don’t Lie to Me!; Jesus commanded us to be born of the water and of the Spirit; What does it really mean to be “born again”?; Is there any deception in what we’ve been taught about it?

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Jesse Woodrow

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: The Revival of EUROPE in the BIBLE?
Date: 3/1/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: “Exposing the Intersection of Tradition vs. Truth“; “Don’t Lie to Me“; Europe; Catholic church; Antichrist; False prophet; Doctrine; Traditions; The hijacking of Christianity; Holy Roman Empire; Revival; 800 A.D.; Global economic monitoring; IMF; One-world currency; Power shift to Europe; Pope Leo III; Charlemagne; Jesus Christ

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Jesse Woodrow

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: Ash Wednesday is SO PAGAN YO
Date: 2/17/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Pagan origins of Catholic church; Ash Wednesday; Rosary beads; Roman Catholic system; Christianity; Emperor Constantine; Pagan rituals/symbols; Deception; “Exposing the Intersection of Tradition vs. Truth“; Herman Van Rompuy; Tony Blair; 1 Timothy 3:16-4:6; Lent; Tradition; Compromise; Truth

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Jesse Woodrow

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: Ash Wednesday is SO PAGAN YO
Date: 2/17/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Norse practice; Ash Wednesday; Vedic Indian religion; Agni – Indian fire god; Ashes; Tradition; Christianity; Satan’s plan; Vedic god Shiva; Pagan origins

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Jesse Woodrow

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: Ash Wednesday is SO PAGAN YO
Date: 2/17/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Tradition will spoil you; Colossians 2:8; Ash Wednesday; Catholic church; Daughter churches; Pagan tradition; Lent; The Book of Acts is the 1st church; 325 A.D. – Council of Nicaea; Universal Church; Priests not being able to marry; Paul was talking about the Catholic church before there was a Catholic church; The practice of putting ashes on one’s forehead

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Jesse Woodrow

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: Ash Wednesday is SO PAGAN YO
Date: 2/17/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Catholic Church; Pope Benedict; Tradition; Nothing to do with Jesus; Revelation 18; “Come out of her, my people“; Harlot church–Roman Catholic Church; Daughters of the harlot system; “Exposing the Intersection of Tradition vs. Truth“; Catholic Church invented harlot system in 325 A.D.; Steeped in tradition

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Jesse Woodrow

[Part 1 of a 7-Part series]

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: Ash Wednesday is SO PAGAN YO
Date: 2/17/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Roman Catholic Church; Ash Wednesday; “Daughters” of the Catholic Church; “Exposing the Intersection of Tradition vs. Truth“; Major doctrine introduced in 325 A.D.–the Devil hijacked Christianity; Lent; You may be a part of a daughter church and not even know it; The tradition of Lent has extensive pagan roots; Seek truth, not tradition; Tradition is a fire, it is alive and well; Worship God in spirit and in truth; Ash Wednesday was not taught by the disciples; Nowhere in the Bible does it say to put ashes on your face

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Jesse Woodrow

[Part 2 of a 2-Part series]

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast: The Shameful, Veiled Legacy Of Our Immunization and Public Health Policies
Date: 2/22/10
Host: Dr. Future
Topics: Henry Kissinger; Right-wing, conservative background; Bush; Iraq war; Anti-biblical worldview; Faith; Deception; Laziness; Taking people at face value; The world is a world of deception; Heeding the warnings of the Bible; Smedley Butler–War is a Racket; Global government; War doesn’t just happen, it’s planned far in advance; We need to wake up; Dr. Stan Monteith

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Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: CHRISTIANS vs MARTIAL LAW and THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Date: 2/25/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Guns; No scripture in the book of Acts says that violence and killing is ok; Paul went to prison; 11 of the 12 disciples were killed; If you are born again, when you die, you will be with the Lord; 1st Amendment rights; Freedom of speech; Freedom of religion; Persecution and tribulation is coming in the future; Carrying out violence against your enemies is wrong; Vengeance is with the Lord; Our calling is to preach the gospel, not carry out vengeance on people

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[Part 7 of an 8-Part series]

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: CHRISTIANS vs MARTIAL LAW and THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Date: 2/25/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Jesus put the ear of the servant Malchus back on; He told Simon Peter to put his sword away; Even in the face of death, Jesus didn’t authorize or accept violence; Not one verse in the entire New Testament says you should commit violence against anyone; We know there will be a great tribulation… would God have you pick up your arms and shoot and kill the person at your door?; How did the first church respond to the greatest persecution in the history of mankind?–They did not respond violently

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Jesse Woodrow

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: CHRISTIANS vs MARTIAL LAW and THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Date: 2/25/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: New Testament; 1st Church; Persecution; Book of Acts; Paul; Prison; Epistles; Boldness; Peter; John; Acts 4; Acts 16; Earthquake; Baptism

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Jesse Woodrow

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: CHRISTIANS vs MARTIAL LAW and THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Date: 2/25/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: The apostles were put in prison, but God allowed an earthquake to happen and they were set free; Not one verse in the New Testament calls on the Church to take up arms against anyone; Some of Paul’s greatest work was done in prison; Trust in God, not guns!

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Jesse Woodrow

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: CHRISTIANS vs MARTIAL LAW and THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Date: 2/25/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: The Book of Acts; Most persecuted church in history; Did they commit violent acts against the people that were persecuting them?; Acts 4:13; The apostles did nothing violent against the people in charge; They prayed and sang praises to God; Acts 16:25-26

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Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: CHRISTIANS vs MARTIAL LAW and THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Date: 2/25/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Violence; Taking vengeance (revenge); Inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered; Nahum 1:2-3; Jude 1:15-16; Revenge is for the Lord

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Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: CHRISTIANS vs MARTIAL LAW and THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Date: 2/25/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Luke 21:20-28; The “great tribulation” is Satan’s wrath, not God’s; Revelation 12:12 ; How would Jesus have us respond to this type of persecution and killing?

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Jesse Woodrow

What will you do when the time comes?

[Part 1 of an 8-Part series]

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: CHRISTIANS vs MARTIAL LAW and THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Date: 2/25/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Christians will be persecuted in the future; What should our response be?; Is violence ok?; What about martial law?; What about the Great Tribulation?

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I hope Waking Jonah can in some small way serve to echo the truth that is spoken by these brothers and sisters in Christ. I believe that getting the truth out in every way possible–while there’s still time–is something that God will powerfully use as the days get darker and more deceitful.

Pray for discernment from on high and a conviction to speak the truth at any cost!

Also, please join us in reading through the entire Word of God in a year at YouVersion.com (The Blended Plan). Diving deeper into God’s Holy Word has the power to transform us into the men and women He has called us to be, and will help us shine the light of Truth for all to see.

Here’s to a blessed 2010… May God richly bless you and your families as you seek His holy face.

Show: Waking Jonah
Date: 1/2/10
Host: Jacob
Topics: Prayer for podcasters: Dr. Future, Tom Bionic, Derek & Sharon Gilbert, Russ Dizdar, Chris White, Frank Lordi, Jesse Woodrow; Program notes: Posting 2 audio clips per day instead of 1; Taking some time off from posting; YouVersion.com Bible reading plan

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May you be filled with the incomparable power of the Spirit of God in 2010…

Show: Preemption Broadcast
Full Podcast: Daniel Chapter 4
Host: Russ Dizdar
Topics: 1 John 4 – greater is the one who lives is in you than the one who lives in the world; Ephesians 5 – be filled with the Spirit of God; Acts 1 – you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; Luke 24 – you shall be clothed with power from on high; That should be the evidence of all believers; Just be surrendered to Jesus–ask Him to clothe you, fill you, saturate you with the power of the Spirit of God; Every single person that was “Spirit filled” in the Book of Acts was an effective soul-winner; The presence, power, radiance, love, and the fire of God was on them; Ephesians 1; Know the incomparably great power for us who believe–the same kind of power that raised Jesus from the dead; What you receive by faith can be manifested when you’re living out in obedience

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Russ Dizdar

Show: Preemption Broadcast
Full Podcast: HOW TO USE YOUR SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY
Date: 12/19/09
Host: Russ Dizdar
Topics: Accept the spiritual authority of Christ to overcome all the power of the enemy; Renounce fear; The authority Jesus gives is part of mission; Luke 10:19 – “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.“; Deliverance is a compassionate thing; Mark 5:1-20; Authority is needed because Satan is the god of this age that we live in–he has authority over every unsaved person; Wherever anybody gives him room, he gets rights (and the demonic gets rights); There is more demonic manifestation now than ever in all of history; Even if all hell comes out on the field, believers have been given authority to trample demonic presence wherever it’s found, and to overcome

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Show: The Frank & Chris Show
Full Podcast: The Frank and Chris Show- Episode 85
Date: 12/23/09
Host: Frank Lordi
Topics: God has led a lot of us to a peaceful place; Look back in the past and see what other people have gone through for Him; People who overcame by giving their lives for Jesus Christ; He’s not going to strand us in our moment of need–He’s not going to leave us; The Holy Spirit is THE Comforter; Blessed to have come to grips with whatever it is that’s coming; He’s there for us–we’re never alone in anything we have to face; It’s an awesome feeling once that sinks in; If this stuff keeps you up at night, just be praying that He’ll be there and will comfort you; He will make Himself known to you; Through God we find a comfort unlike anything we have known before

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[Part 7 of a 7-Part series]

Show: Nowhere to Run
Full Podcast: The 2012 Deception – What it is and Why it’s Important
Date: 11/24/09
Host: Chris White
Topics: The Antichrist will have to convince the world that Christians must be systematically eliminated in the new utopia; Luke 10:19-20; The Bible talks about this final world system killing Christians by the millions for not worshiping this false christ; How could a world that pretends to be so moral acquiesce to such a brutal genocide?–It won’t be the same world; It’s only Christianity that has been specifically warned about this scenario, and it will serve as yet another reason they will be made the public’s number one enemy; The world will be told that this resistance to the new utopia is because Christians are the “old system” and that they are holding everyone back from the evolution that the world deserves; Matthew 24:23-24

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Is there a lesson here that modern American evangelicals seem to have missed in the pages of Scripture?

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Show: The Corbett Report
Full Podcast: Episode #107 – Lessons in Resistance: Non-compliance
Date: 11/8/09
Host: James Corbett
Topics: Mahatma Gandhi and peaceful non-compliance (nonviolent resistance); The 1982 Richard Attenborough movie “Gandhi”

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The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?
The Great Tribulation: Is Fleeing An Option?

In this clip, Charles Cooper concludes the discussion about faith–not fight or flight–being the only option during the Great Persecution of Antichrist.

To study these topics in greater depth, Cooper’s book “Fight, Flight or Faith: How to Survive the Great Tribulation” is an excellent resource.

[Part 4 of a 4-Part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Faith is the Only Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/20/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: To endure we must be people of great faith; You’re going to have to trust the sovereign plan of God; What He is allowing to happen is His will, and what He allows to happen to you is His will for your life; How you respond will indicate whether or not you fully appreciate that; Our minds cannot fathom the idea that God could allow us to undergo great persecution; We must endure… faith is the key

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The Great Tribulation: Is Fighting An Option?
The Great Tribulation: Is Fleeing An Option?

In this new series, Charles Cooper from the Prewrath Resource Institute emphasizes the need for faith in enduring the persecution of Antichrist during the Great Tribulation.

In the first audio clip, Cooper discusses the sovereignty of God in connection with this period of time…

[Part 1 of a 4-Part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Faith is the Only Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/20/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Cooper’s book “Fight, Flight, or Faith: How to Survive the Great Tribulation“; God has called us to a life of faith; Revelation 13:5-10 – “If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.“; The strongest statement of the sovereign control of God in connection with this period that occurs in the Revelation; The final week of Daniel is first a sovereignly decreed period

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Charles Cooper

Show: Preemption Broadcast
Full Podcast: SHOOTERS AND THE BLACK AWAKENING
Date: 11/8/09
Host: Russ Dizdar
Topics: The safest and most powerful place to live is in obedience to the great commission, in the power of the Spirit of God, as a growing, powerful believer; Believers in the early church seemed unstoppable; Just because darkness is rearing its head, that doesn’t mean that God’s power and promises have faded even for a moment; The real, supernatural presence of God; Are you saved?–Do you have the living Christ dwelling in your heart?; Philippians 1:6 – “He who began a good work in you, will carry it on to completion to the day of Christ“; Spiritual warfare is ramping up, but it never goes beyond the armor of God; Rid yourself of all fear–trust Christ!

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Russ Dizdar

[Part 5 of a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Flight is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 9/6/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Hiding will not be an option because so many people will be looking for you; The right option is an option of faith; You’re going to have to trust and obey; Fighting is not an option, neither is flight–there will be no place to go if your goal is to hide physically; There is a place to go if your goal is to spiritually hide–you have to run to the cross; It will be in plain view for everybody to see, but it will give you safety

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Charles Cooper

Show: P.I.D. Radio
Full Podcast: P.I.D. Radio 10/4/09: The Octopus
Date: 10/04/09
Hosts: Derek Gilbert, Sharon Gilbert
Topics: Demonstrating the love of Christ to those in need; You can’t threaten a true Christian with death–death is our reward; Rejoice in God’s Word coming true and in Christ’s sacrifice; Even the strongest of the Old Testament prophets were subject to fear and depression at times–depend on the Lord for strength and He will carry you through

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“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)

“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

[Part 6 in a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: The spirit of injustice will be almost unbearable; The level of abuse and persecution will be unparalleled and there will be no remedy; That’s when we have to depend on our God; Some generation of believers will have to face this, and the church is doing absolutely nothing to get people ready–we must be ready; Fighting simply is not an option; We have not been given a spirit of fear; The will of God be done

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Charles Cooper

The picture should start getting a little more clear…

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Killing not an option because of who you would have to kill; Mark 13:12-13 – You’d be fighting against your own family; The very person you may have to put the gun to is your own child–that is not what God is calling us to; “And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved” (physically delivered); Endurance is having the spiritual fortitude to not yield to the desire to revert to “eye for eye and tooth for tooth”; God will not set aside His Word during this time–we must have the courage to stand on it; Learn how to walk by faith in the face of great opposition

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Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Dying is not the worst thing that can happen to you; We want to fight because we’re Americans, not because we’re Christians; There will come a time when injustice is the order of the day; Paul and other New Testament writers understood that to die for Christ is a privilege; Millions of Christians simply will not be able to fight during this time; There is a better option–we must be people of faith; Death for Christ is an honor, and it always will be; Acts 21:13-14 – Paul understood that dying is not the worst thing that can happen to a believer, being found unfaithful is; Faithfulness at any cost

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[Part 3 in a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: There will be a certain number of people martyred for the cause, and there’s nothing you can do; Fighting not an option because you’d find yourself in opposition to what God is allowing; Revelation 14:12 – You will have to endure, you will have to fight… but your fighting is not to live, but to be faithful; Revelation 20:4 – The consequence for giving witness/testimony to Christ goes up (to capital punishment)

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[Part 2 in a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: Revelation 6:9-11; God says He won’t take vengeance until the entire “number” of martyrs have been killed; It is the will of God that the saints are allowed to die–God is allowing it, not preventing it; That throws a monkey wrench in the plan to fight back; You can’t fight against what God is allowing to happen; What Antichrist and his minions are being allowed to do is under the sovereign hand of God; What is the correct response?… just sit back and wait for them to decide to kill you?; The people God is allowing to be killed are faithful followers, not unfaithful Christians

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The reality is that a generation of Christians will face the most unprecedented persecution that the world has ever known. This is a very sobering reality. But it is one that we can’t ignore. What should the believer’s response be to this kind of persecution, and how can we prepare ahead of time so as not to wander from the Lord and lean upon our own understanding?

This will be a difficult teaching, especially for those that adhere to the pre-trib rapture position (which is what I believed in up until about 6 months ago). I pray that you will stick with this series until the end–I believe it has biblically sound, Spirit-led teaching about FAITH that you may not find anywhere else…

[Part 1 in a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: The degree of lawlessness during the Great Tribulation; Killing will be the order of the day–injustice will prevail; No biblical basis for killing someone to save your life; Lots of verses tell you “if you live by the sword, you will die by the sword”, “if you’re trying to save your life, you will lose your life”; The reality of a generation of believers facing this kind of intense persecution–the call to be sober; What are we going to do if physically fighting is not an option? 

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Charles Cooper

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast: Biblical Evidence Of The Church’s Exposure To The AntiChrist’s Persecution, And The Proper Response OF Faith
Date: 2/9/09
Host: Dr. Future
Guest: Pastor Charles Cooper
Topics: Persecution not a deterrent to the advancement of the Kingdom of God; The Holy Spirit will guide believers’ response to Antichrist; Overcoming the fear of physical suffering and pain; Willingness to die for Christ; Suffering for Christ is a badge of honor–the ultimate demonstration of our faith in Him

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The Prewrath perspective cites biblical evidence that a final generation of believers will face the wrath of Satan at the hands of Antichrist, but that Antichrist’s “great persecution” will be “cut short” when Christ returns to rapture the saints (sometime after the midpoint of Daniel’s 70th week). The primary assertion is that the Rapture will occur after the wrath of Antichrist, but before the wrath of God.

Speaking as someone who loosely held to a Pre-Trib position up until about a year ago, the Prewrath understanding has really jolted me out of a state of indifference to Bible prophecy. Studying what Scripture says will happen in the last days has caused my love for Christ to grow in ways I never knew possible. As I eagerly anticipate His return, I can’t help but marvel at God’s sovereign plan for the end of the age and His glorious Kingdom to come.

But the question arises… what if God calls us to be among the final generation that faces Antichrist? Will we be ready to stand firm in that day? 

One of the things that Pastor Cooper is passionate about is preparing current and future generations of believers for what will be the most intense persecution the world has ever known. Listen to his words of wisdom in this interview on the Future Quake Show, where he discusses what it means to respond with faith in a time of unparalleled suffering for the sake of the gospel.

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast: Biblical Evidence Of The Church’s Exposure To The AntiChrist’s Persecution, And The Proper Response OF Faith
Date: 2/9/09
Hosts: Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Pastor Charles Cooper
Topics: Prewrath Rapture position; A final generation of believers will face the persecution of Antichrist; Defending yourself to the point of violence is outside of what the New Testament teaches; Cooper’s book Fight, Flight, or Faith: How to Survive the Great Tribulation; Realistic understanding of what the persecution will be like; If you want to save your life, you have to be willing to give your life

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