So Fresh and So Clean for 2016

Posted by Jonathan Bingham on January 17, 2016 under Audio, Bible study, Multiweek | Be the First to Comment

LOL!  As you can see below, my title for the lesson was boring.  This title came from my dear wife who always has a knack for spicing things up!  Anyway, this lesson (intended to be just one Sunday, but ended up being three…) is what I believe is God’s challenge for our class members for the new year.

Ministry Focus for 2016

Here are the recordings of my teaching this lesson (AAC format playable in most browsers, iTunes, and iDevices):

(My new lapel microphone does a much better job getting my audio, but a much poorer job picking up audio from the group, so I remove those silent gaps.  That results in some odd transitions, but it’s better than wasting your time.  I have purchased another microphone so I can record both.)

Week 1 – Ministry (12/20/15), 31 min., 15MB

 

Week 2 – Leadership (1/10/16), 42 min., 21MB

 

Week 3 – Personal Holiness (1/17/16), 44 min., 22MB

(I apologize for the sound quality of this lesson.  It’s all the fault of my sound engineer.  (Me.)  As mentioned above, I purchased an additional microphone to capture ambient sound (discussion from the group) and used it this week.  As it turned out, I didn’t make it through all the clicks needed to start my lapel microphone so I only have audio from the new ambient microphone (which is actually pretty impressive).  But there is lots of noise from the lectern that the microphone was sitting on, along with my iPad and my hands.  Lesson:  get something for the microphone to sit on that will isolate it from the lectern noise.  And get a better app that requires far fewer clicks to get it working.)

Where Are You Going?

Posted by Jonathan Bingham on December 6, 2015 under Audio, Bible study, Multiweek | Be the First to Comment

This study came from four different sources that are closely related in their practical truths. I was reading something and came across this quote:

“Bad habits are easy to make, but hard to live with. Good habits are hard to make, but easy to live with.”

And somehow God took that thought and reminded me of one of my favorite Andy Stanley sermon series, Destinations: The Principle of the Path. And when I started thinking about that, I remembered a recent sermon by one of our teaching pastors where he talked about the process of how our thoughts become attitudes and actions, and how those actions become habits, and how those habits will determine our lives. And then I remembered some great wisdom from Andy Andrews that really helps make it all practical.

I began thinking about all four principles and realized there is an important reminder / warning for us at any age and place in life that we be careful with our minds, intentionally choose what is influencing our decisions, and make sure the destinations that are set by our current paths are where we want to end up.

Where Are You Going?

And in the process of doing that lesson, I updated an old lesson on controlling your thoughts.

Control Your Mind – Update

And in the Scripture meditation point I realized it would be helpful for me to put together a starter list of passages for people to meditate on.

Meditation

Here are the recordings of my teaching this series (AAC format playable in most browsers, iTunes, and iDevices):

(My new lapel microphone does a much better job getting my audio, but a much poorer job picking up audio from the group, and this lesson had a huge amount of wonderful discussion that ended up being large chunks of silence on the recording, so I had to remove it.  That results in some odd transitions, but it’s better than wasting the listeners’ time.  I may have to start running two separate recordings to capture both well.)

Week 1 – Introduction (8/2/15), 47 min., 24MB

 

Week 2 – Destination     (8/23/15), 41 min., 20MB

 

Week 3 – Direction     (8/30/15), 28 min., 14MB

 

Week 4 – Direction     (9/6/15), 42 min., 21MB

 

Week 5 – Direction     (9/13/15), 32 min., 16MB

 

Week 6 – Decisions / Thoughts    (9/20/15), 44 min., 22MB

 

Week 7 – Friends     (9/27/15), 40 min., 20MB

 

Week 8 – Friends (do-over)     (10/4/15), 20 min., 10MB

 

Week 9 – Friends / Music     (10/18/15), 33 min., 16MB

 

Week 10 – Music / Books     (10/25/15), 52 min., 26MB

 

Week 11 – Bible / Scripture Memory / Scripture Meditation     (11/29/15), 44 min., 22MB

 

Week 12 – Prayer / Worship     (12/6/15), 16 min., 8MB

Back to the Basics – Worship

Posted by Jonathan Bingham on June 28, 2015 under Audio, Bible study, Multiweek, Series | Be the First to Comment

In John 4, Jesus gave us the two most important instructions on how to properly worship God, and corrected some frequent worship failures.  This study considers Jesus’ words carefully and then offers practical ideas for how we can worship God more consistently and effectively.

BTB – Worship

AAC format playable in most browsers, iTunes, and iDevices.

Week 1 – Introduction (6/7/15), 46 min., 23MB

 

Week 2 – Spirit (6/14/15), 33 min., 16MB

 

Week 3 – Truth (6/21/15), 30 min., 15MB

 

Week 4 – Truth (6/28/15), 40 min., 20MB

 

Week 5 – Practical Application Pt. 1 (7/19/15), 47 min., 24MB

 

Week 6 – Practical Application Pt. 2 (7/26/15), 46 min., 23MB

Be Ready!

Posted by Jonathan Bingham on May 31, 2015 under Audio, Bible study, Multiweek, Series | Be the First to Comment

This (rather lengthy) series grew out of the previous study on the Shemitah and Blood Moon Tetrad.  During one of our discussion times in class, one of the members asked, “If this stuff is possibly true, what should we do about it?  How should we prepare?”  And that question of how we could be ready for the possible return of Christ drove us to the Scripture to answer that question.  There are five overarching questions that came out of trying to discover how to be ready.

  • What are the signs of the end?
  • How to be ready?
  • What do you do when told to deny Christ?
  • Should we be preppers?
  • What should we do if our government tells us we can’t obey God?

Here are the (again, rather lengthy – 25 pages!) notes from the study, but be warned that even as lengthy as they are, there are many important things that do not come out clearly in the notes, but are clear in the audio recordings.  So, please listen to them if you can.  Especially if you’re trying to deal seriously with any of these very timely questions.

Also, as quickly becomes clear in the audio recordings, you will understand many of the references much better if you join us and read the book, Killing Christians, by Tom Doyle.  This lesson series is in no way a book study, but that book certainly illuminates many of the topics we discuss and provides relevant background examples, and is otherwise a fantastic book every Christ-follower should read.

Further, the book, Do Love, by Andrew Rankin provides great background for the practical application of how we should be living in the light of the Scriptures we study here.

Be Ready

As mentioned above, please listen to these to get the full gist of this study!  AAC format playable in most browsers, iTunes, and iDevices.

Week 1 (2/8/15), 51 min., 25MB

 

Week 2 (2/15/15), 46 min., 23MB

 

Week 3 (2/22/15), 41 min., 20MB

 

Week 4 (3/15/15), 33 min., 16MB

 

Week 5 (3/22/15), 48 min., 24MB

 

Week 6 (3/29/15), 48 min., 24MB

 

Week 7 (4/12/15), 51 min., 25MB

 

Week 8 (4/19/15), 41 min., 20MB

 

Week 9 (4/26/15), 39 min., 19MB

 

Week 10 (5/3/15), 20 min., 10MB

 

Week 11 (5/17/15) (Question 5), 34 min., 17MB

 

Week 12 (5/24/15), 62 min., 31MB

 

Week 13 (5/31/15), 40 min., 20MB

Biblical Finances

Posted by Jonathan Bingham on April 11, 2007 under Bible study, Series | Be the First to Comment

A series of home finance lessons based on Dave Ramsey’s wonderful seminar material.  Also includes an older lesson I did that contains a couple of useful points.  (Zip file)

Finances

Spiritual Gifts

Posted by Jonathan Bingham on April 11, 2004 under Bible study, Series | Be the First to Comment

Zip file containing a lesson on basic spiritual gifts (teacher and student versions) along with supporting texts and a spiritual gifts inventory.  Study is based on a total of 20 gifts.

Spiritual Gifts