Waking Jonah

Pastor Rodney Shaw from New Life Church in Austin, TX preaches on finding opportunities to get people in the presence of God, where God can change their lives…

[Part 7 of a 7-Part series]

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: A Real Message for a Real World
Date: 1/23/11
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Notes: All the things that we can offer socially are just a triage service… we’re just putting tourniquets on wounds and stopping the bleeding, we’re not really doing anything permanently unless we can get them in the presence of God, where God can change their lives; We need to see a miraculous move of God’s Spirit; In his last known letter before his death, Paul says as emphatically as possible to Timothy… “preach the Word“–”Timothy, preach the gospel, because it’s the only hope that this world has… and it’s what the church has been called to do.”; Our focus has to be single, and that is we are a light in a dark place, we are a city set on a hill, and the unique thing we bring to the table is the gospel of Jesus Christ… it’s the power of God… it pulls people out of darkness; We’re looking for opportunities where we can share the gospel of Jesus Christ

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Rodney Shaw

Pastor Rodney Shaw from New Life Church in Austin, TX discusses the real problem with America… spiritual bankruptcy, as well as the real solution for America… the gospel of Jesus Christ.

[Part 4 of a 7-Part series]

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: A Real Message for a Real World
Date: 1/23/11
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Notes: The problem with America is our morality; The issue of life is a great example: those who oppose abortion sometimes are the loudest advocates for war… and those who are the loudest advocates against war are advocates for abortion, so it’s just pick whose life you want to take… “let’s go take adult lives, or let’s take kid lives”; Life is precious in whatever form you find it, and a Christian should avoid all possibilities that they would be put in the circumstance to have to take another life; The real problem with America is not that we took prayer out of schools–If we had godly judges, we wouldn’t have taken prayer out of schools… if we had praying teachers and administrators, we wouldn’t have taken prayer out of schools… if we had praying parents, we wouldn’t have taken prayer out of schools… if we had a praying electorate, we would not keep voting in people who don’t pray; Our legislators call in chaplains to open their sessions with prayer, and then they don’t let them pray in the name of Jesus; The real problem with America is spiritual bankruptcy; America’s problem is not a political problem; The early church turned their world upside down and they had no political power; The early church had a transforming influence on the world so that in a matter of a few centuries the whole known world was Christianized, but they couldn’t vote against the morality of Rome; They preached the gospel, and they preached miracles and signs following; They didn’t have a social gospel or a club gospel, or something that was politically correct or socially palpable… they preached a message of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ crucified; They preached a message that when people heard it and they believed it their lives were transformed, and things happened in people’s hearts–not because of legislation–but because of the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ

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Ryan Habbena is the director of Signet Ring Ministries, pastor of Conquering King Fellowship, and a teacher of the Pre-Wrath Rapture position. In the audio clip below, Habbena discusses what it means to put on the full armor of God and become battle ready for the end of the ages.

For information about Ryan’s new book “The Parable of the Fig Tree“, click here.

Also, today was Signet Ring Ministries’ 2009 Fall Conference entitled “Watch: Becoming Battle Ready for the Last Days“. Click here to see an outline of the material that was covered by Habbena, along with Charles Cooper and Alan Kurschner.

Ministry: Signet Ring Ministries
Full Podcast: Discerning Signs of the End Times – Part 2
Date: 10/27/09
Speaker: Ryan Habbena
Topics: Ephesians 6; The full armor of God is figurative for abiding in Christ–standing in His strength, not our own; “Escaping persecution” means to navigate faithfully through times of trial; Corrie ten Boom – hiding the Word of God in your heart and rejoicing in tribulation and persecution; Using the sword of the spirit (the Word of God) to deflect deception and become battle ready; Don’t fear what man can do to you; We’re not supposed to run off into the hills and hide in a bunker–we are called to love our brothers and sisters and stand for the gospel

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