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A bible Study style podcast to talk about the word and to spread gods word.
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Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Live Service for April 9nd, 2025
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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson
Mitchell D. Harper
Matthew 16:21
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
Mark 8:31-33
And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
1 Corinthians 1:26-29
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
Discussion
Can’t Talk About What You Will Not Acknowledge
Change At Deliberate Speed
Hard Conversations or Uneasy Agreement
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Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Live Service for April 2nd, 2025
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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson
Mitchell Harper
Episode 61
Chapter 1
Acts 10:34-42
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, 35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. 36 As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all), 37 you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed: 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. 39 And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, 40 but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, 41 not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
Conversation
1. Why did the meaning of lynching change in society?
2. Expression as a form of protest
3. Instrument of Destruction to Image of Hope and Victory
4. Wrestling with Who God Is?
5. Coming to Grips with an Adjusted Faith Journey
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Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Live Service for March 26th, 2025
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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson
Mitchell Harper
Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Romans 3:24-25
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Conversation
1. How did we get here?
2. Blackness and Christianity
3. Separation within the Community
4. The Dichotomy of the Cross
5. Viewing Faith through a Lens of Reality
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Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
Live Service for March 19th, 2025
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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson
Mitchel Harper
Genesis 45:4-20
So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt. Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry. You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’ And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.” Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck. And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.
When the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, “Joseph's brothers have come,” it pleased Pharaoh and his servants. And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan, and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.’ And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. Have no concern for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
Exodus 1:8-10
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”
Conversation
1. Comfort in a Foreign Land
2. Maintaining Uniqueness vs. Assimilation
3. When the Threat Level Rises
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Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
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.”
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].”
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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Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Live Service for March 5th, 2025
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Pastor Dr. Charles W. Ferguson
Mitchell Harper
Clair United Methodist Church - https://www.clairumc.com/
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Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Live Service for Feb 26, 2025
Guest - Jamar Turner
podcast notes
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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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Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
Live Service for Feb 16, 2025
Guest: Valerie Boyer
podcast notes
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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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