Posted by Jonathan Bingham on January 17, 2016 under Audio, Bible study, Multiweek | 
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
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Week 2 – Leadership (1/10/16), 42 min., 21MB
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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.)
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Tags: 1 Cor., 1 Cor. 10, Bible Study, Ephesians, Ephesians 4, Leadership, Lifestyle, Matthew, Matthew 20, Meditation, Ministry, Prayer, Psalm, Psalm 51, Romans, Romans 12, Spiritual Gifts, Temptation
Posted by Jonathan Bingham on December 6, 2015 under Audio, Bible study, Multiweek |
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
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Week 2 – Destination (8/23/15), 41 min., 20MB
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Week 3 – Direction (8/30/15), 28 min., 14MB
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Week 4 – Direction (9/6/15), 42 min., 21MB
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Week 5 – Direction (9/13/15), 32 min., 16MB
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Week 6 – Decisions / Thoughts (9/20/15), 44 min., 22MB
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Week 7 – Friends (9/27/15), 40 min., 20MB
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Week 8 – Friends (do-over) (10/4/15), 20 min., 10MB
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Week 9 – Friends / Music (10/18/15), 33 min., 16MB
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Week 10 – Music / Books (10/25/15), 52 min., 26MB
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Week 11 – Bible / Scripture Memory / Scripture Meditation (11/29/15), 44 min., 22MB
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Week 12 – Prayer / Worship (12/6/15), 16 min., 8MB
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Tags: 1 Thess., 1 Thess. 2, 2 Cor., 2 Cor. 10, 2 Cor. 6, Bible Study, Books, Colossians, Colossians 3, Decisions, Deut., Deut. 7, Direction, Ephesians, Ephesians 5, Friends, Galatians, Galatians 6, Hebrews, Hebrews 4, Hosea, Hosea 8, Isaiah, Isaiah 55, James, James 1, Job, Job 31, Lifestyle, Matthew, Matthew 7, Meditation, Music, Philippians, Philippians 4, Prayer, Proverbs, Proverbs 13, Proverbs 14, Proverbs 16, Proverbs 21, Proverbs 22, Proverbs 3, Proverbs 4, Psalm, Psalm 119, Psalm 26, Psalm 51, Romans, Romans 12, Thoughts, Wisdom, Worship
Posted by Jonathan Bingham on June 28, 2015 under Audio, Bible study, Multiweek, Series |
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
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Week 2 – Spirit (6/14/15), 33 min., 16MB
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Week 3 – Truth (6/21/15), 30 min., 15MB
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Week 4 – Truth (6/28/15), 40 min., 20MB
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Week 5 – Practical Application Pt. 1 (7/19/15), 47 min., 24MB
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Week 6 – Practical Application Pt. 2 (7/26/15), 46 min., 23MB
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Tags: 2 Cor., 2 Cor. 3, 2 Samuel, 2 Samuel 6, Back to Basics, Bible Study, Isaiah, Isaiah 6, John, John 4, Psalm, Psalm 95, Psalm 96, Romans, Romans 12, Worship
Posted by Jonathan Bingham on May 31, 2015 under Audio, Bible study, Multiweek, Series |
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
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Week 2 (2/15/15), 46 min., 23MB
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Week 3 (2/22/15), 41 min., 20MB
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Week 4 (3/15/15), 33 min., 16MB
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Week 5 (3/22/15), 48 min., 24MB
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Week 6 (3/29/15), 48 min., 24MB
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Week 7 (4/12/15), 51 min., 25MB
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Week 8 (4/19/15), 41 min., 20MB
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Week 9 (4/26/15), 39 min., 19MB
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Week 10 (5/3/15), 20 min., 10MB
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Week 11 (5/17/15) (Question 5), 34 min., 17MB
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Week 12 (5/24/15), 62 min., 31MB
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Week 13 (5/31/15), 40 min., 20MB
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Tags: 1 Cor., 1 Cor. 6, 1 Peter, 1 Peter 2, 1 Thess., 1 Thess. 5, 2 Peter, 2 Peter 3, 2 Thess., 2 Thess. 1, 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy 2, Acts, Acts 4, Acts 5, Creation, Daniel, Daniel 3, Daniel 6, End Times, Grace, Hebrews, Hebrews 10, Hebrews 11, Holy Spirit, Lev., Lev. 25, Lifestyle, Love, Luke, Luke 12, Luke 18, Luke 21, Luke 22, Luke 9, Mark, Mark 13, Matthew, Matthew 10, Matthew 22, Matthew 24, Matthew 25, Matthew 28, Matthew 5, Matthew 6, Persecution, Priorities, Proverbs, Proverbs 6, Psalm, Psalm 37, Revelation, Revelation 2, Revelation 6, Romans, Romans 12, Various
Posted by Jonathan Bingham on April 11, 2007 under Bible study, Series |
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
Posted by Jonathan Bingham on April 11, 2004 under Bible study, Series |
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
