The Point of Medicine
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A Lifestyle of Prayer
Heather Stokes discusses how our prayer lives really show what kind of Christians we are and how we can improve it.
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The Biblical View of Work
Ian Addington discusses how the Lord created us for a purpose and how our obedience to God is included in those works.
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Our Rescuer: The Saving Love of God
Phillip Stout discusses how the Lord showed us real love in his sacrifice for us on the cross, so we are therefore called to share this real love with others..
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Early History of the Bible in Translation
Connor Ham shares about his work with CMDA and his ongoing study of early Biblical translations.
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Sow in Tears
Julie Rosa, MD shares about God hearing our prayers when they are shared through tears because when it’s personal, it is emotional.
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Mother Mary Monologue
Stephanie Davidson shares about the fertility struggles in her life and then offers an interpretation of Mary’s thoughts as she became the mother of the Messiah.
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Glimpses of the Gospel
Katie Muster, DDS shares about the glimpses of God’s love and provision in her life.
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Christian Mentoring for Life
Scott Ledford shares about the importance of mentoring and the impact it has had on his life.
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The Mirage of Truth
Debra Minotti shares about the search for truth in our world and asks Where Do You Go to Find Truth?
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History of the Bible 2: Writing the Old Testament
Gene Rudd, MD shares about how the Old Testament was written and about edits hiding in plain sight.
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Ill Equipped Evangelicals, Broken Windows, & Abortion
JC Bicek shares about the negative societal consequences of abortion on our world.
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Choosing A Life of Joy
David Stevens, MD shares about how Joy is a choice and as Christians, we should live with Joy no matter what!
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Do You Believe in Miracles?
Mike Chupp, MD shares about miracles that he and others have experienced and our awesome God who controls all things!
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Tabitha: Ezer Woman of Charity
Mitzi Roberts shares about the only woman named in scripture as a disciple and how we can imitate her to leave a legacy of charity.
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Fruits of the Spirit-Gentleness
David Stevens, MD discusses the Fruits of the Spirit and specifically Gentleness, which he suggests might be the most important one to have.
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Fruits of the Spirit
David Stevens, MD discusses the Fruits of the Spirit and how we can foster better habits to allow us to demonstrate them in our lives more regularly.
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Following the Lord’s plan
Stephanie Davidson shares her personal journey of following the Lord’s plan for her life and how Jesus’ mother Mary surrendered to the Lord as well.
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History of the Bible pt 1
Gene Rudd, MD shares about the history of the Bible and the difference between the Deuterocanon and the Apocrypha.
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Saline Process Taster
Bill Griffin, DDS shares about the Saline Process Witness Training program that is designed to equip Christian Healthcare Professionals to intergrate Faith and Healthcare with confidence and compassion.
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Happy Anniversary Nicaean Creed!
Bill Reichart shares about the history of the Nicaean Creed and the importance of it in unifying the church.
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Finding Unity Thru Conflict
Eric Fields shares from Joshua 22 about using conflict to become more unified.
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Bonhoeffer 4: Religionless Christianity
Mike Chupp, MD shares his final message about Bonhoeffer and his sometimes misunderstood idea of Religionless Christianity.
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The Pride of Life
Bert Jones shares about how pride is the sin that is obvious in others but is so oblivious to ourselves.
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Get Back In The Ship
Rebecca Reynolds shares about Jesus letting Peter learn a lesson when He invited him to join Him walking on the water.
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Cut Flower Medicine
Grant Hewitt shares about the dangers of removing faith from the practice of medicine.
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Christ’s Ascension
Bill Reichart shares about the importance of Christ’s Ascension, that He wasn’t leaving us but being enthroned to reign and rule over all things.
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The Events of Passion (Holy) Week
Gene Rudd, MD shares about the events and timing of the last week before Jesus’ cruxifixction.
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What To Do When Your World Is Turned Upside Down
David Stevens, MD shares about how God uses difficult times to grow us along with four strategies to see us through coming troubles.
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Humility
Jeff Barrows, DO shares about the 3 characteristics of humility and how we have to battle pride, insecurity and impatience to achieve it.
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The Story of Us: Barabbas
Bert Jones shares how Jesus was placed on the center cross that had been reserved for Barabbas and muses on what our role in that swap would have been if we were there.
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Bonhoeffer 3: Advocacy & the Church-Who Stands Firm?
Mike Chupp, MD shares how Bonhoeffer observed the Church in Germany and commented on their ultimate collapse in the battle between nation and God.
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Living Life By and Thru The Spirit
Andrew Tooley shares how the Spirit gives us freedom to generously love other people.
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Proverbs and Prudence
Steve Sartori, MD shares from Proverbs four Principles of Making Wise Decisions.
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What The World Needs Now
Gene Rudd, MD takes a deep dive into the most famous verse in the Bible, John 3:16 and how it is God’s Valentine to the world.
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Saving Faith
Bill Reichart shares about the Lent season and how it can focus us on the importance of Easter.
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But To Wait
Bert Jones shares from Acts 1:4-5 about benefits and blessings of waiting for God before beginning your mission.
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Keeping God in Control
Dr. Jeff Barrows shares about the television show The Chosen and how it can help us get a better representation of Christ’s interactions with his disciples as they struggled to understand the Kingdom He was bringing.
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Overlooking Offenses
Bert Jones shares from Luke 17 about the attitude we should take when we are offended.
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Elijah’s Fainting Fits
Scott Price shares about how we look at the world with either eyes of faith or eyes of flesh and how one can lead to ministry victories and the other to depression.
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Personal Testimony of Dr. Brick Lantz
Dr. Brick Lantz shares his personal story of how the Lord led him to become the new CMDA Vice President of Bioethics and Public Policy.
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Grace in the Workplace
Scott Ledford shares about how we should interact with our coworkers and how we receive the grace we extend to others.
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The Power of Obedience & Unity
Jeff Radford shares from Acts 2 and his personal history how the power of the Lord is magnified when we obey and work as one.
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The Triumph of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Grace & Discipleship
Mike Chupp, MD continues in his series about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and lessons we can apply to our walk of faith today.
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Don’t Let Fear Overtake Courage
Connie Fox shares about Courage and how we need to prepare ourselves to act with courage when unexpected opportunities to witness come along.
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Trusting God in Difficult Times
David Stevens, MD shares from his life about Trusting God in Difficult Times and the ways He has been faithful.
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What Do You Say Is The Gospel?
Bill Reichart asks What is the Gospel and what are the six stages we go thru in it?
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Refiners Fire
Benjamin Kisoni shares from Romans 8:28-29 about how his personal experiences have shapes his ministry.
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Integrity Matters
Mike Chupp, MD shares about how integrity matters in leadership plus our everyday witness to the world.
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Tale of Two Sacrifices
Bill Griffin, DDS shares about how the act of faith isn’t the important thing, it is the object of our faith that matters most.
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Following Christ
Bert Jones shares about what it really means & costs to follow Jesus plus explains the difference between finding Christ and following Him.
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Stop Signs in Scripture
Bert Jones shares about the warnings in scripture when God tells us to stop doing things that take us away from the path He has prepared for us.
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History of Christian Revivals
Gene Rudd, MD shares about the history of revivals in the Christian church and explores the notion of a formula to get revival to happen.
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Holy Spirit
Jeff Barrows, DO shares about the Holy Spirit being the person most responsible for our spiritual development outside of ourselves.
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Anchored in Hope pt.3
Bill Reichart shares about Hope in the Lord pointing to a better future where all things are set right.
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Spiritual War
Michael Booker shares from Ephesians 6:10-12 about unwavering commitment to prayer and our mission are our best weapons in our sinful fallen world.
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Hebrews: Better, Believe, Beware
John Pierce, MD shares from Hebrews 12:7-17 about the three themes of Better, Believe and Beware.
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Contentment
Bert Jones shares about how contentment is not something earned but learned when you are satisfied with what has been provided to you.
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Anxiety
Bert Jones shares about our society full of anxiety and how we can overcome it.
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How To Be Successful From God’s Perspective
David Stevens, MD shares about the seven attributes you need to be successful from God’s perspective.
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Flying in Enemy Territory
Gene Rudd, MD shares about winning the battle to overcome temptations by being disciplined and having your life filled with things of God.
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Seeing It All Make Sense in Reverse
Alexander Whitaker shares about the power of hindsight and how we must move forward in faith that God has a plan for us.
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Desiring Humility
Mike Chupp, MD shares about one of CMDA’s aspirational values and how only God knows if we are truly humble.
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Marveling at His Mercy
Mike Chupp, MD shares about his recent GHO trip to Guatemala and the powerful ways the Lord showed up on the trip.
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The Power of the Gospel: The Life
In the third part of his series on the Power of the Gospel, Bill Griffin shares about The Life that Christ offers us-both earthly and eternal.
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Eclipse: Divine Design or Divine Sign?
In light of the recent solar eclipse, Pastor Bert Jones shares multiple celestial events recorded in the Bible and offers a fresh way to view them.
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Lessons from Pilgrim’s Progress: Doubting Castle and Giant Despair
Ian Baumgardner shares from Psalms 42 and Pilgrim’s Progress to give us strategies for overcoming Despair.
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Faithfulness
David Stevens, MD shares about the faithfulness of God and the ways we should be faithful to Him.
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Identity
Jeff Barrows, DO shares about how we see ourselves and from Whom we should get our identities.
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The Physical Suffering and Death of Christ
Gene Rudd, MD shares about what Jesus went through both before and while on the Cross that led to His death.
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The Truth-General and Special Revelation
Bill Griffin, DDS, share from John 14:6 about how Jesus connects us to God along with the difference between General and Special Revelations.
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If
Gene Rudd, MD continues his series on God’ Will as he points out that action is required by us to get to where God wants us to be.
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Anchored In Hope
Bill Reichart shares about our Biblical Hope and the three components that must be grasped.
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The Power of the Gospel
Bill Griffin, DDS, shares about the Power of the Gospel in our lives and realizing just how Good the Good News is!
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Dream Brave
Dr. Wai Jia Tam shares from her book Dream Brave and how God’s dreams for us are way better than ours.
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Where’s My Awe?
Trish Burgess, MD shares how we can draw closer to Jesus and how He cast a new vision for those who are awed by self.
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12 Deceptions About Discipleship
Bert Jones shares from Matt. 28:19-20 about how we are to make disciples, not converts as we are in the process of becoming who Jesus would be if He were you.
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Knowing God’s Will
Gene Rudd, MD shares from Psalm 19 about how knowing God and His word are the key to understanding His will for us.
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What Is The Gospel?
Alan Waldecker shares from I Thessalonians 1 about how we must examine our beliefs about the Gospel to determine if we are we following the authentic truth or a counterfeit belief.
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What Are You Willing To Invest In The Kingdom?
Eric Fields shares from Galatians 6 about how we have to invest our time, money and talents now to reap a harvest for the Lord in the future.
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Reflection on Rejection
Bert Jones from John 1 and asks “How did Jesus handle rejection?” and what lessons we can learn for our lives.
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Quenching Flaming Darts
Jeff Barrows, DO shares about some of the most common strategies the Enemy uses against Christians in Spiritual Warfare.
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Certainties of 2024
Allen Davis shares with us from Philippians 3 about the promises of scripture that we can depend on in this new year.
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Christmas Where You Least Expect To Find It
Bert Jones takes us away from the usual Christmas story found in the Gospels to the many other scriptures in both the Old and New Testaments that point to the Redemption Plan of God and Christ’s coming.
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Mindful of Emmanuel
Gene Rudd, MD admonishes us to be aware of Christ in our lives and poses the Christmas question of “What gift does Jesus want from you?” this year.
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Getting the House Ready for Christmas
Stan Hill shares about the Wise Men from the Christmas Story and lessons we can learn from their journey.
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Secret Sin
Bert Jones shares from Proverbs 20:27 about overcoming the theology of “God Can’t See or Know My Hidden Sins”.
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Passages That Shaped My Spiritual Journey
Bill Reichart shares some of the scriptures that have formed his spiritual life and journey.
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Jesus Christ’s Unwavering Call
Peter Saunders, MD shares about the International Christian Medical and Dental Association and how it is answering Jesus’ Unwavering Call.
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Who Is Your Director?
David Stevens, MD shares from Leviticus 20:7 about how we are called to go out and be holy as we are completely devoted to God.
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Kind Words
Bert Jones shares about how our words flow from our hearts that can bring healing or harm.
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Sabbath
Matt Morrell shares about Sabbath and the importance of resting & listening to God.
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Prescriptions for Encouragement
Phillip Claybrook, MD shares about when God asks “What will you do with the suffering I’ve given you?”.
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Appreciating the Awesome Nature of God
Mike Chupp, MD shares about the Awesome Nature of God as he concludes his five part chapel series.
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Marked by Joy
Chase Bartlett shares about how we are called to be joyful and that our partnership in the Gospel should bring us joy.
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Side By Side
Rebecca Layman shares about CMDA’s Side By Side ministry and what the Lord has been teaching her since taking over their leadership.
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