The Safe House Podcast

Safe House Podcast Ep: 58 - Liberation vs. Freedom Galatians 5:1

Live Service for March 13th, 2025

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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson 
Mitchell Harvey

ESV
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

MSG
“Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.”
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AMP
“It was for this freedom that Christ set us free [completely liberating us]; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery [which you once removed].”
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Conversation
1. Difference between Freedom and Liberation 
2. Why do we continue to promote Spiritual Freedom and not Total Liberation?
3. Do we know what bondage really is?
4. Have we taken the yoke of bondage as a gift or a curse?
5. Why must we champion true liberation without fear?

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Safe House Podcast Ep: 57 - Ash Wednesday

Live Service for March 5th, 2025

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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson 
Mitchell Harper

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Safe House Podcast Ep: 56 - Shepherding Then, Now, & Future

Live Service for Feb 26, 2025
Guest - Jamar Turner

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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson 
Mitchell Harper

Luke 15:1-7
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Proposition 
Many people are looking for shepherding in their journey. Yet, many times we are not prepared for what that might mean today.

Relevant Question
What the basic elements of being shepherded today and beyond?

Engagement
1. Introduction 
2. Hopefully some form of sharing your artistic talent 
3. Deal with the text
4. Discuss our perspectives 
5. Introduce the relevance of art, history and blackness in connection to our faith. 

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Safe House Podcast Ep: 55 - What Do the Stones Have to Say?—Past Insight for Future Glory

Live Service for Feb 16, 2025
Guest: Valerie Boyer

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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson 

Luke 22:39-43
39 And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. 40 And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” 41 And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed, 42 saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” 43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. 

Proposition
We have been told that we cannot question God. It was a statement to keep us from genuine and authentic relationship with God. If your god can’t handle your questions, it’s not the true God. 

Relevant Question
What can we learn from an inquisitive Christ?

Synthesis
1. Questions Are Not a Sign of Doubt
2. Trust Is Not the Absence of Clarity 
3. God Provides Help When We Struggle Forward

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Safe House Podcast Ep: 54 - Where Are You in the Story?—Wrestling with the Colonialism and Christ

Live Service for Feb 12, 2025
Guest: Pastor Anthony Hendrix a.k.a Priest

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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson 
Mitchell Harper

Luke 23:26-27
And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.
Proposition 
The Gospel that is preached can be based on the perspective of how they are found in the story.
Relevant Question
How do we get the story straight?

Engagement
1. Introduction 
2. Hopefully some form of sharing your artistic talent 
3. Deal with the text
4. Discuss our perspectives 
5. Introduce the relevance of art, history and blackness in connection to our faith. 
6. Q&A

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Safe House Podcast Ep: 53 - Reclaiming Freedom and Community—Moving Toward the Kingdom God Intended

Live Service for Feb 4, 2025
Guest: Stevi Knighton a.k.a DearMsStevi

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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson 
Mitchell Harper

Reclaiming Freedom and Community—Moving Toward the Kingdom God Intended
Psalm 133
Behold, how good and pleasant it is
when brothers dwell in unity!
It is like the precious oil on the head,
running down on the beard,
on the beard of Aaron,
running down on the collar of his robes!
It is like the dew of Hermon,
which falls on the mountains of Zion!
For there the LORD has commanded the blessing,
life forevermore.

Proposition 
Our faith and liberation comes together when we engage in healthy stages of community.

Relevant Question
What does God ordained, liberating community look like?

Engagement
1. Introduction 
2. Hopefully some form of sharing your artistic talent 
3. Deal with the text
4. Discuss our perspectives 
5. Introduce the relevance of art, history and blackness in connection to our faith. 
6. Q&A

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Safe House Podcast Ep: 52 - The Toxic Infection of Grasshopper Numbers 14:1-38

Live Service for Jan 29th, 2024

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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson 
Mitchell Harper

Proposition 
When we get a wrong perspective of the future/opportunity, we find ways to sabotage our God given opportunity to live in the blessing provided. 

Relevant Question 
What are the toxic results of grasshopper thinking?

Synthesis 
1. Corrupt a Generation 
2. Delay a Generation
3. Cause Division Between the Generations 
4. God Squashes the Rebellion
5. God Elevates the Faithful

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Safe House Podcast Ep: 51 - When Grasshoppers Attack - Numbers 13:25-33

Live Service for Jan 22th, 2024

 

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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson

Mitchel D. Harper

 

Numbers 13:25-33

 

25 At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. 26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”

30 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31 Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” 32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. 33 And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

 

Proposition

Grasshopper thinking interferes with the opportunity to acquire the promise of God. The fear of success and completion interferes with the shift into a new season.

 

Relevant Question

Why do we entertain this type of sabotage?

 

Synthesis

1. We Don’t Want the Commitment to Advancement of Our Community

2. We Are Content with Psuedo-Martyrdom

3. We Are Afraid of the Responsibility to Complete the Task

 

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