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Audio files from sermons, classes, or other speaking engagements
This summer I started putting together messages to capture the lessons God has been teaching me over the past year. Click below to download a note taking outline for the three messages. The audio from the chapel talks at Columbia International University www.ciu.edu are also provided here. Please give me your feedback as I continue to refine and add other messages to this series.
Click Here for Note Taking Outline for the Three Messages
Message 1 – A lifestyle of Turning To
This was my first time preaching in a church since my medical experience of November. It was delivered at Sandhills Community Church www.sandhillschurch.org where Pandora and I worship with Christ followers. Sandhills is a modern style, ethnically diverse congregation in North East Columbia, SC.
Have you ever submitted your plan to God and then have him hand it back with red ink all over and a request to drop your plan and go with his?
Have you ever known something to be so true (2+2=4 kind of true) only to have God say, “Not this time! I am doing something that doesn’t add up?”
Let us see what we can learn about our expectations and our assumptions from the Christmas story in Luke 2.
A Columbia International University Chapel message by Roy King addressing our response to unexpected delays and interruptions that seem to hinder God’s work.
When the Network Goes Down (MP3 – 22 minutes)
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Please note: there is a delay of a few seconds at the beginning of this audio file before the sound starts.
God provides gifts that help us grow up in our Christian life. Below you will find a link to the audio of a message given at Raleigh Street Christian Centre in Cambridge, NZ.
This message overviews four gifts God has provided to clarify and then assist us in our spiritual journey. There is a handout that can be downloaded that provides a small group leader with questions to use for four lessons based on the message.
The Gifts Are:
1. The Gift of Questions
2. The Gift of Others to Make the Journey With Us
3. The Gift of Illuminating Truth in our Hearts
4. The Gift of Giving What He Has Given To Us
God’s Gifts for Growth – Sunday Sermon at Raleigh Street Christian Centre, Cambridge – New Zealand
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I welcome your comments and questions!
A Columbia International University chapel message by Roy King about the seasons our lives when the normal sense of God’s presence is absent. How are we to react to seasons of a perceived loss of God’s presence.
This is a 14 minute message given during a summer school chapel at CIU.
Strange Minister – Darkness (MP3 – 14 minutes)
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Do we understand what is happening in our hearts when we cross over into sexual impurity?
A Columbia International University chapel message by Roy King for those who struggle with the temptation to view pornography from one who regrets the exposure earlier in life.
Lessons from a Sensual Heart (MP3 – 57 minutes)
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Leonard Sweet and others have the perspective that today’s leaders must approach their leadership as a journey without a map. Why is there no map? Because no one has been there yet. It is “new world exploration”. To be leaders who know how to use a compass of unchanging, reliable principles to navigate by instead of following a predefined path is a very different approach to making directional decisions.
Explorers have a unshakable commitment to completing the mission… Go for it or die!
Explorers have a vague sense of what the destination will be like... “Your kingdom come!”
Explorers know they must be willing to take risks and tap into all of the creative capacity that they or others on the team possess…”We may have to back up when we hit dead end canyon walls, but we will keep moving forward!”
One my courses in the seminary seeks to train pastors and missionaries to live as EXPLORERS. I often begin the day of the one week intensives with a devotion that frames our theme for the day.
You can download them as MP3 files or listen to them here:
Audio 1:
First Day of Class: An overview of some of the critical disciplines being an EXPLORER requires.
Listen to the audio here:
Become an Explorer
Audio 2:
In Romans 15 Paul gives us a glimpse of how he viewed his life — He was linked to the redemptive flow of God’s activity that started in Abraham and flowed through the Old Testament to the stream that was carrying him forward as a Christ follower. He also knew how to give gifts to God that he knew God would enjoy unwrapping.
Listen to the audio here:
Romans 15 – Paul’s Perspective and Gifts
Audio 3:
Explorers do not back down from sacrificial giving and they do not let even the ones with the least resources off the hook. There is no room on the trail for passive consumers. Hear the story of two widows
Listen to the audio here:
Two Widows and Giving
Audio 4:
Change produces conflict because it surfaces differences in beliefs, values and assumptions. Galatians addresses 3 groups in the church that face a choice. They must choose GRACE GOSPEL or ANOTHER GOSPEL. They must choose FREEDOM AS SONS or SLAVERY OF TRADITIONALISTS. They must choose investing their FREEDOM TO LOVE or the BONDAGE OF LICENSE. Churches processing changes will also face these teachable moments. Hear the full overview of Galatians applied to CHANGE PROCESSING.
Listen to the audio here:
Galatians Grid for Change
Over the past several years I have received many requests for consulting when a church is going through a senior pastor transition. In this presentation I present a 4 stage journey –
Current Pastor LEAVING,
Church Grieving,
Church Searching,
Church Welcoming!
You can view the Powerpoint presentation and listen as I walk through the model giving a biblical and practical framework for this season of change. Listen to me present this to a search committee. This is 1 hour and 20 minutes of free consulting!
View by Clicking Here
You may also want to download your own copy of the Powerpoint and customize it for your search committee or leadership. I suggest your view or print note pages for my lecture notes.
Download the PowerPoint by Clicking Here
I would enjoy hearing your response to this material.
While visiting Raleigh Street Christian Centre in Cambridge, New Zealand I had the opportunity to provide leadership training on a Monday evening.
As I coach leaders I find many of them struggling to clarify, diagnose and respond to confusing emotions.
In this workshop we:
1. Begin with looking at how Jesus views people and wades into the struggle for their hearts. The goal of being emotionally healthy is not to just feel better it is to be in a good place for God to use us to touch others with his grace and truth.
2. Define a season that God often includes in our growth — The Dark Night of the Soul.
3. Look at three common types of depression – biological, stress induced and grieving.
You can download the Power Point by clicking here.
You can listen to the workshop by clicking here.
Here is a lesson that outlines the spiritual discipline of grieving. This is a handout used in my class at Columbia Intl University and in workshops with cross-cultural workers. Download here.
