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Basic Spiritual Lessons
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009LESSON 1 – WE ARE CREATED BEINGS
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I. We were fashioned in love and longing by God.
A. We are not accidents, nor are we self-made people (Psalm100:3)B. He made us unique and individual (Psalm 139:13-16)C. He has marvelous plans for our life (Jeremiah 29:11)
II. We were made with purpose and destiny
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Being Recovered from Evil
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
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The following are excerpts from Daniel’s book “Enjoying Your Journey with God.”
THE NATURE OF EVIL
Our culture has an incomplete and inadequate definition of evil. We tend think of it primarily in extreme terms—like serial murderers, grotesque satanic rituals, swindlers who prey on the elderly, etc. But evil exhibits itself in [...]- Available Formats:
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Caleb’s Gift Ideas for the Person Who Has Everything
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
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Part One: Forgiveness
Without forgiveness there can be no:
· Future
· Deliverance (salvation)
· Personal vindication
· Relationship
Pattern for Seeking and Granting Forgiveness—
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Colombia (Bogota), 2010: Days 10-11
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010SUNDAY
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Sunday turned out to be a long and glorious day. I’m not sure how many people noticed, but that is the usual scenario for Kingdom activity—the small seeds rarely create a stir. In the morning, I spoke at both services of Pastor Ricardo and Mery’s church, known by the name of the city-district in which [...] -
Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:7
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Verse 7: “I shall give thanks to Thee with uprightness of heart, when I learn Thy righteous judgments.”
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The Psalmist here speaks of a heart which is made upright or set in order as a result of having learned God’s judgments. Because those judgments or rulings (which correspond to particular circumstances or events) are absolutely [...] -
Escape Spiritual Lies, Traps and Traumas
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009This is an edited transcription of a series of teachings prepared by Daniel while he was Senior Pastor of The Coastlands in Aptos, California. It addresses some of the questions that many of us might have asked like, “Why does the God of the Old Testament seem so vengeful? What are some of the lies [...]
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Escape Spiritual Lies, Traps and Traumas (Part 1)
Saturday, May 28th, 2005“Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” That could sound normal, expected and even exemplary–if there were no other recourse except our own devices. Unfortunately, when everyone “does his own thing”, pride, addiction, distress and rebellion surface, wreaking havoc with everyone’s life and causing people to perish. Join Daniel this week as he [...]
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Ever-Ready Battery People
Friday, March 28th, 2008“But the Lord is with me like a dread champion; therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.”
When you have someone in your life who is a leader/champion, they make you feel safe. They make you feel like, “Okay, it hasn’t been so good up to this point in time, but we are going to [...]
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Excising Evil
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Psalm 106:24-48
They despised the pleasant land…and did not believe…but grumbled” (vs. 24-25).
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They joined themselves to Baal-Peor (v. 28-31).
It went hard with Moses because they were rebellious (vs. 32-33).
They served idols which became a snare to them (vs.34-36).
Their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their power”(v. 42).
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Exodus 6:6-9
Thursday, March 12th, 2009by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
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“Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. Then I will take you for [...]- Available Formats:
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Faith versus Speculation
Tuesday, August 5th, 20081st Timothy 1 tells us that the furtherance of God’s Kingdom is always by faith, and faith is simply believing what God has told you. Speculation is wondering about things that God hasn’t said anything about, and it’s very dangerous to do. Within the realm of the demonic, there are many things we simply don’t [...]
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Final Frames, Part 6: Message of Mercy, Ministry of Deliverance
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006This teaching is part of the “Final Frames” series, a compilation of Bible studies Daniel taught in his final weeks as the Coastlands’ Senior Pastor in late-2006. The Scriptures shared in this series were pivotal in Daniel’s life and helped form his ministry.
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Final Frames, Part 7: Kingdom of Darkness, Kingdom of Light
Saturday, December 9th, 2006This teaching is part of the “Final Frames” series, a compilation of Bible studies Daniel taught in his final weeks as the Coastlands’ Senior Pastor in late-2006. The Scriptures shared in this series were pivotal in Daniel’s life and helped form his ministry.
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While on this earth, Jesus’ assignment was very simple: He went about doing [...]- Available Formats:
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Final Frames, Part 8: Weighty Wisdom from Above
Sunday, December 17th, 2006This teaching is part of the “Final Frames” series, a compilation of Bible studies Daniel taught in his final weeks as the Coastlands’ Senior Pastor in late-2006. The Scriptures shared in this series were pivotal in Daniel’s life and helped form his ministry.
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Following God, Part 5
Thursday, January 29th, 2009What does it really mean to be “called” by God? As if He were primarily interested in our
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ultimate vocation/destination (besides heaven), we misinterpret His calling as something
grandiose and easy to miss out on—or as something only a few ever receive (pastors,
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Following The One Who Leads Us
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009“For Thou art my rock and my fortress; For Thy name’s sake Thou wilt lead me and guide me”. PSALM 31:3
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“And I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, in paths they do not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before them and rugged places into [...]- Available Formats:
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Fruitful Repentance
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
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I am always a bit hesitant to talk on repentance, not because it isn’t a great subject, but because most people have already thought in their minds what repentance is. And, what they thought in their mind is something they want to avoid at all costs—images of people who are yelling [...]- Available Formats:
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Getting Past “Praying the Right Thing”
Friday, March 26th, 2010Sometimes believers are so intimidated about “praying the right thing” that they simply pray for obvious things like protection, provision, etc. Those certainly aren’t wrong to pray for, and all of us want more of them in our lives. The problem is that those “big” and general prayers rarely find specific answers that bolster people’s [...]
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God is My Portion
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009The Bible and the people in it are no strangers to depression. Neither do they paint an all rosy picture of life with our problems and discouragements. Misery and heartache stem from many different roots; rebellion, victimization, deferred hope, physical or emotional disappointment, etc. But their ultimate source is in the death that invaded our [...]
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Hallmarks of Deliverance
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
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Even though most deliverances in our lives will be processes—worked out over a period of time—rather than instantaneous events, there will be times when God’s miraculous intervention in our mental/emotional/spiritual condition brings complete freedom in moments. Instead of a season of deliverance, we experience a sudden rescue, much like the deliverance [...]- Available Formats:
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He Who is Coming Will Come
Thursday, March 12th, 2009by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
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How Faith and Suffering Work Together
God has been reminding us that He comes to visit our desert places—those places in our minds and hearts that have been blighted by evils done to us or by us. He promises to recover us from our memories, our entrapments, and our confusions. And when [...]- Available Formats:
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Heart of Counseling
Wednesday, September 30th, 20091 Kings 3:6-9, 10:1-10Most people have heard of Solomon’s wisdom even if they do not realize that he wrote Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, two Books in the Bible that are filled with practical advice and counsel for almost any imaginable subject.
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The Queen of Sheba (a country 1,200 miles southeast of Jerusalem, in modern-day Yemen) heard of [...]- Available Formats:
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Highly Effective Discipleship, Part 1B: Remembering God’s Heart
Saturday, January 14th, 2006God’s desire is to do people good all the days of their lives. In this second part of a series on discipleship, Daniel teaches how the heart of God, as He revealed Himself to Moses in the book of Exodus, is first to deliver us out of whatever bondage or affliction we find ourselves in [...]
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Highly Effective Discipleship, Part 6B: Declaring God’s Purposes
Sunday, May 21st, 2006There’s a price to be paid for any great breakthrough in the kingdom, and this often involves making bold and honest declarations that will be profitable to people. The Apostle Paul’s ministry, as he labored to to bring the gospel of grace to new believers, gives us insight into our own lives and into how [...]
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Inner Wars: Fear
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009INTRODUCTION
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Even though the INNER WARS take place beneath the observable surface of our lives – in our emotions, thoughts and impressions – they will usually manifest themselves in the way we live life. Few INNER FOES manifest themselves more noticeably than fear. It grips our minds and compels us to do things that are otherwise [...]- Available Formats:
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Introduction to Exodus: It Isn’t Up to You
Thursday, March 19th, 2009by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
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Roughly 280 years have passed since Joseph’s death around 1805 B.C., at the end of GENESIS. The 70 descendants of Jacob (Israel), who went down into Egypt to escape the hardship of famine in their own land, have flourished and multiplied into an expatriate community nearly 2 million strong. Fearing what [...]- Available Formats:
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Jesus’ Lesser Known Words
Thursday, March 12th, 2009by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
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Matthew 10
In our sound-bite world of flashing images and instant access, it can be difficult to see the whole picture—to find unifying themes and understandings about life and our faith. Our attention keeps getting dragged away to prominent events (like the death of the Pope), poster-child questions (Should the feeding tube [...]- Available Formats:
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Jesus’ Lesser Known Words, Part 1
Saturday, April 16th, 2005Some of the things Jesus said don’t receive quite as much press as others–and some of His comments are downright jarring because they break in on our rose-colored view of life. Once we get past our reluctance to hear them, however, we’ll discover how much sense and order they bring to our real-life experiences. How [...]
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Leslie Keegel Healing Seminar
Thursday, June 10th, 2010Daniel Brown and Leslie Keegel, the national leader of Foursquare Sri Lanka, have a long-standing friendship. In May 2010, The Coastlands had the opportunity to host a healing seminar taught by Pastor Leslie, whose ministry has been empowered by the Holy Spirit so that many thousands have been healed both physically and spiritually. During this [...]
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Life in the “FAST” Lane
Friday, June 27th, 2008But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face so that you may not be seen fasting by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you. Matthew 6:17,18
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Longing for Deliverance
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Deliverance is salvation. Deliverance is
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Message to the Exiled, Part 4
Saturday, September 17th, 2005Great and Mighty Things
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In a crescendo of almost unbelievable promise and delight, Daniel brings his “Exiles” series to its conclusion. If you’ve ever felt cut off, judged or ignored by God, or just find yourself in hopeless circumstances, the tender words spoken to the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah are also for you. Can you imagine [...]- Available Formats:
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Minneapolis (Eden Prairie): 2010, Day 5
Monday, January 18th, 2010George and I took one more swipe at the Pancake House, and I discovered its name is “The Original Pancake House,” not to be confused with other Pancake Houses. What’s in a name? I’m not sure, just as I’m not sure what is in those 49’er pancakes, but a second stack of them in as [...]
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More Than a Rational God
Thursday, August 21st, 2008We are an empirical culture, and we are a rational culture. If it doesn’t make sense rationally, of course, we throw it out. We come out with great theological statements about God being a rational God. I’m sure He’s pleased to hear that. We disallow anything that we cannot explain. Unfortunately, most Western cultures require [...]
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On the Edge of Promise: Some Next Steps (Part 1)
Monday, September 1st, 2008The LORD your God, He will thrust them out from before you and drive them from before you; and you will possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. For the LORD has driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you [...]
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Out from Under the Law
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009How Do Believers Relate to the Law?
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It surprises many people to discover that God issued only one commandment from the time He created Adam and Eve until the days when Moses led His people out of Egypt. That was a span of over 2500 years! He simply said, “From the tree of the knowledge of [...]- Available Formats:
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Out from Under the Law
Friday, October 23rd, 2009How Do Believers Relate to the Law?
We as believers sometimes get confused about commandments and promises. After all, God gives both to His people. However, commandments and promises are very different types of statements:God’s commandments govern our behavior. God’s promises pledge His behavior.
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Commandments are about “right and wrong.” Promises are about favor and blessing.
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Peru (Lima), 2010: Day 12
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Since Fabio has been running back and forth from Peru to Columbia more than once in the last two weeks, for meetings, he wasn’t able to tack down the schedule for our days in Lima. Consequently, when we went to bed the night before, we didn’t know exactly what the plan might be for the [...]
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Poland and Hungary: 2010, Day 24
Friday, March 26th, 2010We spent most of the day in airports or on airplanes—three of each. Our itinerary took us from Wroclaw to Warsaw to Zurich to Budapest; we left for the airport in Wroclaw at 10:45am and arrived in Budapest at 10:05pm. Our planes were all large turboprops, so we felt all the air currents as we [...]
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Power of Testimony
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Introduction: The point of church is to celebrate the Lord and to learn more about Him—who He is and what He does in our lives. While the best way to learn about Him is in His word, we can also discover many things about His character and power by listening to how He has worked [...]
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Purpose of Demons
Thursday, September 25th, 2008The purpose or the activities of demons as you can find in Scripture are as follows. They want to hinder the purposes of God any way they can, to thwart God’s Kingdom and His will and His way. They want to bring harm to people in general and believers in particular. They hate people and [...]
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Scriptures on Slander and Gossip
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009PSALM 15:1-3 “O Lord, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy hill? He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart, “ “He does not slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend… He who [...]
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Spiritual Violence
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Remember that the Kingdom of heaven allows for violence, and the violent take it by force (Matt. 11:12). It’s a spiritual violence.
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Strange Fire, Sudden Death
Thursday, March 12th, 2009An Introduction to the Book of Leviticus
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by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
Following their deliverance from slavery in Egypt, the people of God traveled south on the eastern edge of the Gulf of Suez until they came to Mt. Sinai (Mt. Horeb). For two years they stayed encamped beneath its shadow, where 40 years earlier Moses had [...]- Available Formats:
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Study of Acts, Part 15: Gates That Open…Or Not
Thursday, January 15th, 2009The Study of Acts is a series taught by Daniel while he was Senior Pastor of The Coastlands in Aptos, California. It’s packed full of scriptural truths and practical nuggets of how ordinary people like you and I can embrace life in God and make an impact in the world we live in today.
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Testimony of Deliverance
Sunday, April 20th, 2008When you have seen people freed from demonic torment and seen their lives absolutely radically transformed, it builds your faith like very few other things that I know. “By my little finger, I cast out demons,” Jesus said, “The Kingdom is here.”
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Wisdom from Above: My Final Sermon as Senior Pastor of The Coastlands
Monday, March 9th, 2009by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
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This article is taken from note prior to Daniel’s final sermon as Senior Pastor of The Coastlands. You can click here to listen to his final sermon.
I’m Out of Time, Not Words
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