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To continue my Keep Your Focus series, a series dedicated to resources that can help our spiritual growth, I wanted to make you aware of some great Bible studies. Grace Bible Church of College Station, TX has put some publication quality Bible studies online. You could go through these studies for a couple of years and not have to buy a bible study.

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A couple of years ago, a friend let me know about a unique ministry called Talks for Growing Christians. This site has some very straightforward Bible teachings which can be streamed or downloaded. I also like that they provide lesson notes and questions to consider as you listen along. You could easily turn this into your daily Bible study.

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This week, I am beginning an 8 post series about how we who lead children can keep our spiritual focus. I will highlight various resources that help put a spark in your spirit! This will go for 3 straight weeks, aside from a Wednesday Give Away next week. One thing that is critical for every believer is sitting under the authority of God’s Word. We certainly need to be in personal Bible study every day, but there is something about the preaching of God’s Word that motivates our spirit to be disciples who walk more closely to Jesus. I have not sat through an entire Sunday worship service  in close to a year. I’m sure that many of you are in the same boat. Both of my children’s worship services take place during the two adult worship services and I feel a strong calling as the Pastor to Kids, that I need to be the one preaching to them. I can not contract that out.

I work around this by listening to sermons in the car and while working out. I wanted to compile a list of notable places to listen to or download free, Bible based messages. I hope you may find some of these helpful, they are in no particular order.

1. OnePlace–This website has an enormous array of streaming sermons. Downloads, however, generally cost a few bucks.
2. SEBTS Chapel–My seminary has a host of notable speakers and all messages are freely accessible and downloadable.
3. Sermon Audio–A great place to go if you are interested in getting messages dealing with particular topics or books you are studying. If you want your toes stepped on about wishy washy discipleship, download this message by Paul Washer.
4. Mark Driscoll–The Pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. He is now several weeks in to a Luke study which he plans on taking 3 years to finish. I hope to stick it out with him and so far I have not been disappointed!
5. John MacArthur–Leader of Grace To You Ministries. His site has decades of his Bible teaching.
6. John Piper–Founder of Desiring God Ministries. His site also has years of sermons on various Bible passages, social issues, and doctrinal topics.
7. David Platt–David is a tremendous up and coming pastor of Brook Hills Church. His teaching is up front and challenging.
8. S. Lewis Johnson–This guy is old school, but you can find a great deal of in-depth Bible teachings and messages on theology and doctrine at the Believer’s Chapel site.
9. Clay Waters–This is my pastor and I keep up with his sermons as well! He’s a great preacher.
10. Ravi Zacharias–Ravi is an international apologist. His site is filled with sermons he has preached on apologetics and biblical worldview.
11. Tom Nelson–Tom is the pastor of Denton Bible Church. He is very good at splashing humor throughout his messages.

Please feel free to comment on any other places you have found dynamic bible based teachings!

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If you are like me, you don’t get to spend much time in worship. I run two children’s worships while the adult services are going on. Children’s Pastors have it extremely tough in this area. The way that I stay fresh and sharp, spiritually, is by practicing individual worship and listening to solid Bible Teaching.

You can get just about any sermon somewhere over the internet, but I wanted to share with you the resources located at John MacArthur’s website, Grace To You. Dr. MacArthur is a world renowned Christian leader and has spent the last 40 years of his life studying the Scriptures 35-40 hours per week. Although I am not in complete agreement with Dr. MacArthur, I would be ignorant and foolish to suggest I couldn’t learn anything from him.

His website (in the Resources section) is filled with articles, theological position papers, audio Bible studies, and sermons dating all the way back to 1969. It is good to see others making more and more free items available to the Christian community. It is welcomed and celebrated!

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