A Better Covenant http://www.abettercovenant.org/blog The Web presence of Unity of Faith Christian Fellowship in Albany, NY Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:12:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en Messages since late August http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ABetterCovenant/~3/433029245/ http://www.abettercovenant.org/blog/2008/10/26/messages-since-late-august/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:54:30 +0000 Larry http://www.abettercovenant.org/blog/?p=70 OK, finally I have found the time to convert all the messages since late August and get them uploaded.  Here they are:

Attributes of God
Introduction to Fruit Production
Thoughts on II Peter 2
Manifesting the Inner Power
Prayer
Life Outta Death
Prayer 2
Christianity is Nonsense!
Unlawful Righteousness
Be a Doer of the Word
Fear of the Lord
The Knowledge of God
Fear of the Lord 2
Knowledge of God 2
Fear of the Lord 3
Soundness of Mind
Fear of the Lord 4
Knowledge of God 3
Prayer Primer

This list is in the order in which the messages were delivered.  For an alphabetical listing go to the Podcast page.

]]> http://www.abettercovenant.org/blog/2008/10/26/messages-since-late-august/feed/ http://www.abettercovenant.org/blog/2008/10/26/messages-since-late-august/ Where are all the latest messages? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ABetterCovenant/~3/410440021/ http://www.abettercovenant.org/blog/2008/10/03/where-are-all-the-latest-messages/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:34:26 +0000 Larry http://www.abettercovenant.org/blog/?p=68 Once again I find that I have a backlog of unposted messages.  This time, however, it’s because of a technical issue.  The software that I had been using to convert the raw WAV files to MP3 has changed, and no longer provides that feature.

It has taken me some time to fond something else to use.  The delay was not caused by a lack of options, but because each one I have tried creates MP3 files that are significantly larger than those created by the old software.  I have not wanted to post these large MP3 files because they take a lot longer to download.

Unfortunately, I find that I have no choice.  I will begin posting the new messages shortly, but be advised that they will be larger than prior messages, so they’ll take longer to load.

Grace to you all.

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The Sin Problem - June 29th 2008
Human Government - July 3rd
Forever In Christ - July 6th
Kosmos - July 10th
Walking in the Spirit: First in the series - July 13th
Hebrews 4 - July 17th
Walking in the Spirit: Prayer - July 20th
Security: We’re In! - July 24th
Walking in the Spirit: Scripture - July 27th
It’s All Lies! - July 31st
Walking in the Spirit: Fellowship - August 3rd
The Doctrine of Depravity - August 7th
Walking in the Spirit: Love - August 10th
Amazing Grace - August 14th
Walking in the Spirit: Edified by His Love - August 18th

That’s fifteen messages!  I know it’s a lot, but you have plenty of time :)

Be edified!

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Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

My sister, my spouse! This jumped off the page to me and the Spirit began bringing other Scriptures to my mind and showing me a tiny bit about the intimacy of the relationship He wants to have with us.  It’s amazing!  Listen to how He sees us in Intimacy With Christ

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Listen to Expectations XI: Spiritual Fruit and Expectations XII: Righteousness In Jesus and grow.

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We’ve uploaded four new messages today:

Stop Trying, by Larry Eiss

Expectations VIII: The Grace Factor
Expectations IX: Lead by the Spirit
Expectations X: Fruits of the Spirit

Each of these builds on the foundations laid in earlier messages, but stands on its own. Listen and be blessed. Learn to walk in freedom under His easy yoke and light burden.

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We are six messages in arrears here on the Web site.  Thisis mostly due to travel and personal scheduling issues on the part of the guy who posts here.  He apologizes ;-)

Nevertheless, here are the six messages.  We know you will find them as rewarding and challenging as we are.

Expectations III: Faith Without Works
Expectations IV: Living For Him
Expectations V : Strong Consolation
Expectations VI: Glorious New Creations
Expectations VII: That Which Accompanies Salvation

And a Thursday night message entitled Maturity, which was outside the series.

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Pastor Frone has begun to tackle this important area this week in his Introduction to Doing God’s Will.

The time for learning has come.  Be sure to listen!

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Listen and be freed.

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Listen and be encouraged!

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