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  • Battle of The Kingdom

    Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

    So let me remind you that the things of the Kingdom, the battle of the Kingdom of God is not won naturally.

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  • Circumstances for Our Benefit

    Thursday, March 13th, 2008

    If God simply changes our circumstances, it disallows Him from using our circumstances to change us.

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  • Count on Me

    Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

    by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
    From our earliest years on the planet, we learned how to size things up—comparing the length of our 4-year-old stretch, to the distance between us and the cookie on the counter; counting leftover allowance coins to see if they could get us a candy bar and a soda; and, stacking up [...]

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  • Cure for Anxiety

    Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

    Matthew 6:19-34
    Jesus delivers the Sermon on the Mount to a group of people who want to live their lives according to the power they witnessed when Jesus healed and performed miracles. They want to function like Jesus does. The power He has to transform life on earth is obvious. They now want that power in [...]

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  • Escape Spiritual Lies, Traps and Traumas

    Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

    This 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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  • 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
    “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 [...]

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  • Fruitful Repentance

    Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

    by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
    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 [...]

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  • God’s Word Frees Our Hearts

    Monday, May 5th, 2008

    God’s Word frees us from misconceptions and lies that rattle around in our minds, and without His word in our hearts we have no defense against these lies until they become too huge to deal with easily.

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  • God’s Word Reveals Our Inheritance

    Saturday, March 8th, 2008

    God’s Word is meant for bringing judgment; not to condemn, but to evaluate or sort out. It uncovers issues in our lives that are not right as well as the revealing to us the riches of God’s inheritance.

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  • Greater Scope of Warring Spiritually

    Sunday, July 13th, 2008

    Warring spiritually has more to do with a posture we take to resist what the enemy is doing and to embrace what God is doing. It is far more encompassing and broader in its scope than simply doing a list of a few things.

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  • He is Still With Us

    Sunday, December 24th, 2006

    The most congenial “Merry Christmas” from the lips of a well-wisher can feel pretty hollow if you’re wrestling with the darkness. Even the name given to Jesus before His birth–Emmanuel, or “God With Us”–can strike a hollow chord. If He’s “with us”, then why do I feel alone and oppressed?
    In this Christmas Eve service [...]

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  • Hearing God, Part 1

    Thursday, January 15th, 2009

    One of the most fascinating (and sometimes frustrating) aspects of our relationship with the Lord is our God-given ability to hear Him speak to us by His Spirit. The Bible acknowledges that discerning God’s voice and distinguishing it from all the “noise” in our minds is not always the easiest thing to do, and it [...]

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  • Huge Victories and Battles

    Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

    “You don’t get huge victories without huge battles.”

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  • Humble Servant

    Thursday, January 17th, 2008

    The interest of a server and helper is not in whatever particular assignment they are given, it is simply interest in an ultimate victory or accomplishment of a much greater good. This is one reason why the server / helper tends to be a little on the invisible side. When they are helping [...]

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  • Jesus’ Lesser Known Words, Part 2

    Saturday, April 30th, 2005

    Jesus not only claimed to speak directly to God–He actually claimed that He offered humanity a food and drink that would never leave them empty. The only problem about that was well, this special food happened to be His own flesh and blood. A pretty nasty thought, right? You’ll be fascinated to hear how Daniel [...]

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  • Long-Term Resistance

    Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

    And she said, “According to your words, so be it.” So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the window. And they departed and came to the hill country, and remained there for three days until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers had sought them all along the [...]

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  • Lord Jesus, Come (Again)! Part 2

    Saturday, January 29th, 2005

    Even though we’ve been assured that the human spirit (not to mention the earth itself) is evolving toward unity and freedom from suffering, our personal experience and our observations about world events would persuade us otherwise. Who wouldn’t be nervous in the light of war, terrorism, and tsunamis? Interestingly enough, our suspicion that we live on a sinking planet [...]

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  • Lord, Be Merciful to Me

    Thursday, January 17th, 2008

    Remember the man in the Bible who was tormented by a legion of demons and still fell at Jesus’ feet? No matter how bound, tormented, confused or ruined someone is, they can always fall on their knees before Jesus and cry, “Lord, be merciful toward me.” It is the refusal to fall at Jesus’ feet [...]

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  • Message to the Exiled, Part 1

    Saturday, July 16th, 2005

    Ever heard the expression, “Well, you’ve made your bed–now lie in it”? In this message from the book of Jeremiah, Daniel demonstrates how we can extract applications for our lives from the Old Testament!particularly when we’ve gotten ourselves into a jam. Sandwiched somewhere between the theme of human failure and the overarching reality of God’s [...]

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  • Message to the Exiled, Part 4

    Saturday, September 17th, 2005

    Great and Mighty Things
    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 [...]

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  • Our Greatest Weapon

    Friday, February 1st, 2008

    “The greatest weapon we carry around with us all the time is simply our choice to say, “No! I don’t have to do what you’re saying. I want to do what God wants.”

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  • Power of Testimony

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    Introduction:  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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  • Redefining “Good” for Christians

    Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

    by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
    by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
    CHAPTER ONE
    INTRODUCTION
    The Book of Acts might be known as the activities of the early church, for it is the record, the narrative written by the physician, Luke, who wrote not only about what Jesus did while He was on the earth but what His church continued to [...]

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  • Resisting the Enemy

    Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

    We resist the enemy by turning ourselves over to the Lord. The enemy can’t have influence in the areas you insist in giving to Him.

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  • The Problem with Kings, Queens and Presidents

    Thursday, October 8th, 2009

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    When I take time to preface my remarks with the recognition that we might be getting into something controversial or with “different vantage points,” by that I don’t really mean that I am going to select an issue about which there [...]

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  • The Problem with Kings, Queens and Presidents

    Saturday, November 1st, 2008

    The kingdom of God is not of this world. The issues of men’s kingdom and God’s overlap only slightly, and that is why church and politics mix so imperfectly. At this season of political focus in our nation, we should re-examine government from a biblical view, rather than looking at the Bible from a political [...]

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  • Truth about Legalism

    Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

    Legalism tells us we don’t need God’s ways in our heart. It says that we can have a list of do’s and don’ts, and if we do all that, we’ll be in the ways of God. The Spirit of God tells us that when God’s ways are imprinted on our heart, we will walk in [...]

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  • We Have a Strong City

    Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

    The following are my personal reflections on Isaiah 26:1-10:Verse 1: In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.
    The protective walls are Yeshuwa (Jesus): salvation, deliverance, victory, rescue, health, help, and welfareVerse 2: Open the gates, that the [...]

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  • When Sin is Your Master

    Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

    What makes sin a master over us is the power we give it when we say yes to it.

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