Holy Spirit Renewal Conference 2024

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Enjoy this teaching video from Conference 2024; Pastor John Piippo opening night.

Renewal School of Ministry: September Seminars

SAVE THESE DATES in September for upcoming livestreaming seminar and classes. Registration opening soon!

Intercessory Prayer and Prayer Walking    

with Dr. Clay & Cherie Ford

9/14/24 Saturday Seminar: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time   

Our world seems to be spinning out of control in so many ways. When it comes to changing things for the better can you think of anything more important that you can be doing than intercessory prayer? In this seminar Clay and Cheri will teach you from the Bible, and also from their own prayer experiences, how to pray prayers that have power! You will learn how to pray with purpose, passion, power, and perseverance as you seek God’s powerful intervention in our world (“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven!!”). You will also learn how to do prayer-walking and hear how effective it can be. Inspiring stories will abound!

Heaven, the Soul, and the Afterlife

Dr. John Piippo

9/16/24 Monday nights @ 8-9:30 PM EST 

Four-week evening class: Sept. 16, 23, 30, Oct. 7

Classes will be both live at Redeemer Church in Monroe, Michigan, and live-zoomed.

You may have heard it said that some people are so heavenly minded that they are no  earthly good. But turn this on its head and we see that some people are so earthly minded that they are no heavenly good. In this class we will focus on a Christian understanding of, and hope in, life after death.

We will respond to questions like these.

What happens to us when we die?

What will the afterlife be like?

How does the Bible describe the afterlife?

Why is it important to understand that you have a soul?

How can we know that persons have souls?

Will we be with our loved ones in eternity?

What will we do for all eternity?

How does belief in everlasting life inform how we now live on earth?

Character Matters

John Piippo

Blog: johnpiippo.com 7/26/24

I am a case study in character formation. Because I have needed it so badly.

N.T. Wright, in After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters, identifies four cardinal virtues that characterize actual followers of Jesus. They are: humility, charity, patience, and chastity. This "composite of virtues" is what True Humanity looks like. Jesus exemplifies such humanity. 

Jesus-followers are to look like Jesus, just as a disciple is to look like his mentor, as a student looks like his teacher.

Wright writes:

"It is thus more or less impossible to speak of God with any conviction or effect if those who profess to follow Jesus are not exemplifying humility, charity, patience, and chastity. These are not optional extras for the especially keen, but the very clothes which the royal priesthood must “put on” day by day. If the vocation of the royal priesthood is to reflect God to the world and the world back to God (the world, that is, as it was made to be and as, by God’s grace, it will be one day), that vocation must be sustained, and can only be sustained, by serious attention to “putting on” these virtues, not for the sake of a self-centered holiness or pride in one’s own moral achievement, but for the sake of revealing to the world who its true God really is." (p. 247)

Forget speaking of God to others if your heart is proud, miserly, irritable, and perverted. Obviously, Jesus hasn't made an impact on such a person's life, so why would anyone listen to them, about anything? 

Christian character matters, not as a means to gaining God's acceptance, but as marks of real, transforming Christianity.

The Jesus-follower who follows Jesus into his ever-presence will inexorably be morphed into a humble person who is free from the need for self-congratulation and self-adulation, into a loving person whose heart's modus operandi is dialed into the needs of others, into a person who can wait because their heart has great enduring staying power, and into a pure thing whose sexual desires have been freed from the objectification of others.

All of this is, contrary to our kingdom of darkness culture, counter-intuitive. Yet it is the road to freedom, and people truly free in Jesus possess these interior qualities.

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