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embrace that teaching, on what authority do you get to say that the normative experiences of the New Testament are no longer valid?; Speaking in tongues is a normative experience in the book of Acts, and seems to be linked with the reception of the Holy Spirit; If you say that speaking in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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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: 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: 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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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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“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.“

- Acts 4:12 (ESV)

[Part 3 of a 3-Part series]

Show: Preemption Broadcast
Full Podcast: THE GENETICS OF THE INCARNATION….changes everything
Date: 12/20/09
Host: Russ Dizdar
Topics: Don’t be pushed into being silent about Christ, the incarnation, the angels that declared good news of great joy, and God’s favor to mankind; Don’t be silent about the most incredible, supernatural event in human history; We need to be proclaiming the prophecies about Christ’s coming… they blow Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and all the rest out of the water because they were always accurate and there’s more of them (almost 300 prior to the appearance of “Logos” Christ in human flesh); Don’t be silent, celebrate Christ, talk about Jesus; We tell children not just the story, but the historic reality of God’s visitation in this world; We get to tell them of the birth of God in human flesh, of how it occurred, and take them to the Scriptures and show them; Don’t let the world get in the way of celebrating, announcing, and being a witness for Jesus Christ; There is eternal, saving power in the name of Jesus

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Russ Dizdar

[Part 2 of a 3-Part series]

Show: P.I.D. Radio
Full Podcast: P.I.D. Radio 11/29/09: The Manhattan Declaration
Date: 11/29/09
Hosts: Derek Gilbert, Sharon Gilbert
Topics: It would be impossible to sterilize our lives of all things related to paganism–how far do you take that?; The wedding rings on our fingers, the days of the week, the names of the month, and most of what we say and do, are all somehow rooted in pagan practices; We are soaking in it–we are living in a fallen world governed by the god of this world (that’s what Jesus called the enemy); As Paul did on Mars Hill, start where they are… use the pagan symbols as an opportunity to spread the love of Christ and the gospel; Let’s not confuse our cultural Christianity with biblical Christianity; We need to pick our battles–the enemy loves it when we get all wrapped up in it because it is a great distraction; It’s no different than it was 2,000 years ago–the Truth has been twisted from the very foundation of the world

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Merry Christmas everyone… may it be well with your soul.

[Part 1 of a 3-Part series]

Show: P.I.D. Radio
Full Podcast: P.I.D. Radio 11/29/09: The Manhattan Declaration
Date: 11/29/09
Hosts: Derek Gilbert, Sharon Gilbert
Topics: The celebration of Christmas–the birth of Jesus Christ; He probably was not born at this time of year; It’s a repackaging of Saturnalia, which is very pagan; Many of the trappings that go along with the “Christian” celebration are pagan practices; Christmas has already been secularized–as it is celebrated, it is pagan in many ways; We should let it become secularized and make our own holiday–The Birth of Christ; Let them have what’s called “Christmas”; There’s a big difference between a “Christian nation” and a “nation with many Christians”; The first Christians that landed here did not celebrate Christmas because they considered it a Roman holiday; If we’re a “Christian” nation, we need to look back at the founders of the nation and ask why we’re celebrating it now and getting all fussy over it; The crass commercialism and consumption that takes place every year at this time has nothing to do with Christ

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Derek & Sharon Gilbert