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April 17, 2012
Topics:
Why the modern church has a problem recruiting, maintaining, equipping and mobilizing men – the feminization of the church.
Why having religious knowledge, rather than mere opinion, is key to understanding the Gospel.
Listener questions included topics of how prayer works, learning to identify the "voice" of God, and the part that reason plays in the process of salvation.
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January 6, 2012
Topics:
Why there needed to be an Incarnation.
Understanding the will, both the impulsive and the reflective, and the role the will plays in discipline.
If you learn the key how to keep New Year's Resolutions, that same key will free you up to live the "easier" Christian life, with far less effort. The key is getting the vision of what you want to be and how you want to live.
"Don't wait to go to heaven when you're dead, go to heaven now."
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May 18, 2011
Topics:
God's availability in "messy situations."
Forgiveness, love (loving our enemies, how do you fire someone in Christian love, love verses sentimentalism), parenting.
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April 6, 2010
Topics:
Today we address the questions, "Why be good rather than happy?" and "Who is a truly good person?"
The nature of love.
What Jesus meant about surpassing the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees.
Do you think Jesus was smart?
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March 9, 2010
Topics:
Today we talk about "spiritual formation," and Dallas cites some of the classics: Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, C. T. Studd, Elisabeth Elliot's Through the Gates of Splendor, Dawson Trottman, and F. B. Myers Secret of Guidance.
Frank asks about Dallas' associations with various parachurch groups.
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February 11, 2010
Topics:
Today, we start by asking Dallas, "When does temptation become lust?"
Learning to respond to the sin and temptation around us with a heart of love.
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January 15, 2010
Topics:
Responding to the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Why is there suffering in the world?
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November 16, 2009
Topics:
Explaining terms like "flesh," "world" and "heart" as used in the Bible, as in Paul's description of mortification of the flesh. How we can deal with "the lust of the flesh."
Jesus' teaching on how to become the person we want to be.
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October 9, 2009
Topics:
Questions about a current case of parents who didn't get medical help for their child because they trusted God to heal, but the child died and now they're being brought up on manslaughter charges.
Why is there a hell?
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September 11, 2009
Topics:
On this anniversary of 911, why did God allow it to happen? Why does God permit evil?
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Shepherd's House and La Canada Presbyterian Church are hosting a Heart and Soul Conference featuring Dr. Willard and prominent leaders in both the Life Model and Spiritual Formation on June 27-29, 2012.
On the evening of June 28th, Frank Pastore will be the host of a banquet celebrating Dallas and Jane's life and ministry. Friends and colleagues will come together to honor the contributions Dallas has made to spiritual maturity and Jane has made to emotional healing and maturity.
To learn more about the work of Shepherd's House, the Life Model, and how the Willards have been involved with this ministry, listen to Frank's interview with Jim Wilder from March 6, 2012. Jim Wilder is a Clinical Psychologist by training (Ph.D. Fuller), but a Neurotheologian by choice. Neurotheology is the intersection of brain science and the Bible. He's been a Christian counselor since 1977, and today is the Executive Director of the Shepherd's House, specializing in trauma and addiction recovery. His greatest interest is teaching the LIFE Model (lifemodel.org), a profoundly Christian guide to community based counseling and maturity with the goal to create "self propagating recovery as the normal function of the church." The model is based on the book The Life Model: Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You.
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