2007-05-23-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening May 23rd, 2007.

Scripture Ref:

Topic: Evangelism

Notes:
- Review of Exodus, Baal, Babylon
- Times of miraculous intervention point to Jesus
- Redeems, reclaims, resurrects, reveals; God moves on His own behalf
- Our nation turning pagan; time for a move of God
- People naturalizing scripture, Christ as attempt to make pagan
- Churches celebrate Mother Earth (Gaia), matriarchal, rejecting father
- The world will align against Israel
- Parallel  between what God is doing in Jew and Gentile
- We are to fulfill our obligation to Him
- Parallel between Exodus and Revelation
- Stones mark places of divine intervention
- Embedded in your story is His story
- Story of Doug and Barbara with woman in Applebee's

2007-05-16-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening May 16th, 2007.

Scripture Ref: Psalm 19; Psalm 32;  Psalm 51

Topic: Prayer

Notes:

2007-05-09-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening May 9th, 2007.

Scripture Ref: Proverbs 11:12; 13:10; 16:5, 18; Jeremiah 13:15; Psalm 10:12, 17; 18:27; 25:9; 147:6; 86; 109

Topic: Prayer

Notes:
- Story of crippled boy choosing puppy
- We put more confidence in someone else's prayer other than our own
- We need to pray because we are weak
- Group of young people of purity, lacking carnality; not typical today
- We should be profoundly different than the world
- What is weakness to this world is virtue in the Kingdom of God
- Your best prayers come when you're knocked off your feet, when you realize your weakness and need for God
- Watch and pray that you do not enter into temptation
- The hope is not in my character, but in His
- Sincere: no wax to cover up flaws
- Ask, Seek, Knock
- Story of woman locking keys in car, praying, man helping

2007-04-25-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening April 25th, 2007.

Scripture Ref: Joshua 4:6

Topic: Evangelism

Notes:
- Foundation stones, cornerstone, piles of stones as memorial
- Serving God brings blessing which passes to children; we must tell our children the story or they won't understand the blessing
- Un-scribed stones: 12 stones representing sons of Jacob
- Inscribed stones: 10 commandments, message from God
- I must tell of all that God does for me
- Geode-ugly on the outside but extraordinarily beautiful on the inside
- High priestly garment-stones
- Doug & Barbara tell stories of early days in ministry and God's faithfulness
- Roots, we must tell our children who they are

2007-04-18-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening April 18th, 2007.

Scripture Ref: Zech 4:6; Isa 40:31; Deu 8; Luke 10:20; Gal 5:1; John 9:25

Topic: Evangelism

Notes:
- When we tell the story, past and present are brought together
- Historical references to the exodus; their story is our story
- Prosperity causes amnesia; the first generation radically changed, the second grateful, third and fourth blessed, fifth goes back
- God's reminder to Israel where they came from
- It’s not enough to remember God's blessings; we need to remember the bondage (slave memory)
- Never stop being grateful for your salvation; the slave story is the most effective evangelism, the show of personal gratitude
- Without your slave memory, you will go back
- We want to fit into this world but be set apart for the Kingdom
- "Our Town," lack of personal attention, relationships
- We know who we are by remembering where we come from
- It’s not what you’ve done, but what sin you had potential to do
- Business man’s conversion, girl’s healing, letter from Max Lucado

2007-04-11-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening April 11th, 2007.

Scripture Ref: Psalm 30; Psalm 40

Topic: Evangelism

Notes:
- Our culture is disputing the fact that there is a God
- Man doesn�t realize how far he's fallen; God is restraining judgement
- Tower of Babel: establishment of cult, separation into dialects
- God moves and intervenes and uses His people to tell His story
- We are aligned with God�s chosen people (Israel) to tell His story
- Man in prison remembering hymns, overcoming enemy
- Pagan tribe requested missionary family to live among them; remembered previous family they�d poisoned
- Someone is watching for your reaction to tragedy, a testimony to them
- Narrow personal salvation (existentialist view), what�s in it for me, disconnected from larger message
- We are a branch connected to the vine, revolutionaries in the story
- Jesus proved power over nature, healing, insight, over resources; message of miracles: Jesus is Lord over all
- People want His riches without His rule; blessing without boundaries
- Napoleon defeated and exiled: "Jesus founded His empire on Love."

2007-04-04-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening April 4th, 2007.

Scripture Ref: I Kings; Daniel 2:4-7:28

Topic: Baal in America

Notes:
- Second season of miraculous intervention: Baalism as state religion
- Pagan beliefs begin to assimilate into dominate culture; dominate faith evolves into hybrid faith and beliefs are substituted
- Begins with cultural accommodation and ethnic sensitivity
- Theistic evolution, evolution recast into scientific notion
- We see miracles as unnatural, assuming nature is in charge; miracles are when God acts differently than the His usual life sustaining ways
- Baalism is ancient naturalism-mother nature as god
- Examples of Baal literature; violence/sexuality, male hatred
- Introduction of Baalism without blatant idol worship
- In paganism you fashion your own god, tolerance, diversity
- Daniel: vision of Nebuchadnezzar: the dominant empires of history
- Nebuchadnezzar's conversion; Balthazar’s destruction

2007-03-28-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening March 28th, 2007.

Scripture Ref:

Topic: Plagues, The Exodus

Notes:
- 3 Seasons of concentrated miracles: season of exodus, period of divided kingdom, period of exile; brought redemption, renewal…
- God revealed Himself to the nations, exposing paganism
- We now qualify for a similar move of God
- Some explain plagues scientifically; each plague associated with an  Egyptian deity
- America's values are the same as Egypt in that day
- Magicians replicated plagues; today clairvoyants, soothsayers seen no differently than holy men; God moves in such a way that distinguishes
- 3 sets of plagues: 1-3 set Holy Men apart; 4-6 His people protected; 7-9 contrast the Lord and everyone else
- When people begin crying out to God, as Israel did, He begins working
- America founded in faith; attitudes have shifted, Pilgrims as aggressors
- We must tell His story

2007-03-21-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening March 21st, 2007.

Scripture Ref: Exodus; Number; I Corinthians 10

Topic: Paganism

Notes:
- The Lord's purpose in 12 plagues was to reveal Himself
- 3 clusters of miracles concerning Israel
- Paganism-value system involving moral/spiritual ideals that threaten biblical community; idols merely a symbol
- Paganism reinvents itself in every culture as to not be recognized; sacrifice of children, devaluation of family, sensual/spiritual merging
- Neo paganism-revival & reconstruction of ancient nature religion; humanity harmonizes with nature; believe Christians demonized Pan
- Prevailing belief: all faith rooted in animism, ancient nature faith practices and tribal religion; absolute religion (Christianity) is a perversion by cultural and social adaptation

2007-03-14-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening March 14th, 2007.

Scripture Ref: II Samuel 18:14-27

Topic: Evangelism

Notes:
- Biblical History is God revealing Himself; honor Him, He’ll honor you
- Evangelism is as simple as telling your story
- Salvation an ongoing process; give God credit for His mercy, blessings
- Brooklyn Tab story of Danny Valesco; Muslim waiters in Indonesia
- We are saints who sin; our nature is changed to struggle against sin
- American Christianity is private but we're in a war zone
- Give God glory when breakthrough occurs; your life’s a storyboard
- An idol is a visible symbol of how a culture functions
- Israel called out of Egypt (idolatrous) into Wilderness to detox society
- Paul in Ephesus challenged worldview; society's economic system violates simple principles of Jesus, Church buys in, loses credibility
- Jesus didn’t just teach morality, but called for a revolutionary lifestyle
- My story is every story of God's grace/redemption throughout history
- Israel chosen by God, placed strategically, always called to this land
- Gospel connects reality at place of happening with place of hearing
- 1812 flagman relays message “Wellington Defeated the French�
- Story of God saving Christian man from falling to prostitute

2007-02-21-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening February 21st, 2007.

Scripture Ref: James 4:1-3; John 16:33; Hebrews 11:6

Topic: Peace

Notes:
- Interpersonal conflict results from intrapersonal conflict
- People who aren’t at peace with themselves war with others
- Repentance, restitution, peace of God
- "I have conquered the world" in the middle of tribulation
- People war to get what they want
- Without faith it is impossible to please God; seek Him
- The enemy will attack your faith in the character of God
- 3 positions of prayer: "You love me…" must be the 1st position
- 3 control points: Prayer, Giving, Fasting
- The reward is bigger than the answer
- We are placed in situations to show the world the peace of God

2007-02-14-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening February 14th, 2007.

Scripture Ref: Jeremiah 2

Topic: Holiness

Notes:
- Australia, New Zealand, Presidential Prayer Breakfast
- Legalism is the view that what Christ did isn�t enough, the need to work for salvation
- We ask "What is permitted?"  "What is prohibited?"
- We should be asking "How close can I get to Him?"
- What would you give up for love?
- Clean -up of crime in NYC
- People who break little laws will break big laws

2007-01-31-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening January 31st, 2007.

Scripture Ref:

Topic: Grace

Notes:
- the cross is about the shocking grace of God
- in the garden when they ate the fruit they did not immediately die, God deflected immediate judgement
- Crucifixion is about the wrath of God, His judgement on man
- The problem with sin is that it means rejecting God
- We want to tame God, to make His punishment less severe

2007-01-10-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening January 10th, 2007.

Scripture Ref: Luke 7

Topic: Holliness

Notes:
- Holiness is the standard and the substance of the Christian life
- It is impossible for God to sin, be tempted, or tempt
- We are too much like the world; grace doesn’t merely release us from the guilt of sin, but from the grip of sin
- Jesus at home of Simon, woman to wash His feet; parable of two men, one owed ten times the other; neither debt could be paid, as no sin
- Double delusion in Church-we rationalize some sins while others are detestable; some think they are less sinful because they don’t act out every sin
- I'm where I am by the grace of God, no pride or arrogance
- Man on rodeo circuit-God kept him by grace
- Some raised in church don’t realize how far God reached to save them
- We substitute legalism for holiness/tolerance for love
- Christ's righteousness saves, repentance does not obtain righteousness
- Stories: JFK assassination on radio in London theater; Roman Empire transformed by Christian integrity; Nelson Mandela (reconciliation)

2007-01-03-1900 Doug Small is the speaker for Central on Wednesday evening January 3rd, 2007.

Scripture Ref: Exodus 3:5; Romans 1:4; II Corinthians 7:1

Topic: Holliness

Notes:
- Christ was sinless, holy; His purpose for us is holiness
- Ted Haggard scandal
- Americans don't know what holiness is; morality is not an obligation
- People have embraced a faith that saves but does not change
- Deep into situational ethics, no moral absolutes
- True holiness works together with love, not mean-spirited demand
- The world sees the hypocrisy clearer than we do
- Repentance affirms the ideal (I know I’ve sinned and know what I need to be and am sorry)
- I don’t just want to get to heaven, but to hide away in Jesus
- Prayer to be less transaction (what I can get) and more transformation
- Story of two brothers (success/failure)
- Story of encounter with daughter; apology
- God is after honesty, not perfection

2006-06-11-1030 Sunday morning June 11th, 2006 10:30 service. Doug Small is the speaker for this morning.

Scripture Ref: John

Topic: Holy Spirit

Notes:
- When Jesus left, He sent the Holy Spirit which gave us relationship with the Father like never before
- Story of Jesus’ death, burial, resurrection (metaphorical)
- Building of tabernacle so God could dwell with the people
- Instructor at West Coast, played Ukulele in  bars, encounters with God
- God didn’t want a temple, but living, breathing tabernacles to carry His presence (Holy Ghost).
- God’s focus is not on holy places, but on holy people connected to Jesus, we become portals to another world
- Angels are here to help purposes of God on earth, through us
- Serpent attacked Eve instead of Adam, attacks us as Bride of Christ
- Feast of Tabernacle-reenacting of God’s fire over tabernacle in wilderness. Pray for rain on crops and rain of Holy Spirit
- Evan Roberts’ formula for revival:
- Clean up of NY City, people who do small crimes will do big crimes
- David and John Livingston

2006-06-11-0830 Sunday morning June 11th, 2006 8:30 service. Doug Small is the speaker for this morning.

Scripture Ref: John

Topic: Holy Spirit

Notes:
- When Jesus left, He sent the Holy Spirit which gave us relationship with the Father like never before
- Story of Jesus’ death, burial, resurrection (metaphorical)
- Building of tabernacle so God could dwell with the people
- Instructor at West Coast, played Ukulele in  bars, encounters with God
- God didn’t want a temple, but living, breathing tabernacles to carry His presence (Holy Ghost).
- God’s focus is not on holy places, but on holy people connected to Jesus, we become portals to another world
- Angels are here to help purposes of God on earth, through us
- Serpent attacked Eve instead of Adam, attacks us as Bride of Christ
- Feast of Tabernacle-reenacting of God’s fire over tabernacle in wilderness. Pray for rain on crops and rain of Holy Spirit
- Evan Roberts’ formula for revival:
- Clean up of NY City, people who do small crimes will do big crimes
- David and John Livingston

2006-03-26-1030 Sunday morning March 26th, 2006 10:30 service. Doug Small is the speaker for this morning.

Scripture Ref: Hebrews 11:6; Genesis 18

Topic: Prayer

Notes:
- Abraham in doorway of tent, sees three men (angels), brings them in to feed and care for them (also 8-24-05)
- Peter stepped out of boat in midst of storm to be with Jesus
- We must be looking for Jesus, seeking Him in prayer
- When we seek Him in prayer, we are entertaining God
- Rewards of prayer are not the same as answer to prayer
- Prayer: David Wilkerson, Teen Challenge; The Navigators; George McClusky, great grandfather of James Dobson (also 6-15-05)
- Story of Professor who dropped flask to prove no God, student's prayer

2005-11-20-1030 Sunday morning November 20th, 2005 10:30 service. Doug Small is the speaker for this morning.

Scripture Ref: Acts 4:7-12

Topic: Condition of America

Notes:
- Story of George Washington in battle
- Standards of our nation�s founding fathers, Constitution
- True explanation of Seperation of Church and State
- Closer to the last days: we must not deny Christ

2005-11-20-0830 Sunday morning November 20th, 2005 8:30 service. Doug Small is the speaker for this morning.

Scripture Ref: Acts 4:7-12

Topic: Condition of America

Notes:
- Story of George Washington in battle
- Standards of our nation’s founding fathers, Constitution
- True explanation of Seperation of Church and State
- Closer to the last days: we must not deny Christ

2005-11-09-1900 Wednesday evening November 9th, 2005 7:00 service. Doug Small is the speaker for this evening.

Scripture Ref:

Topic: Deity of Jesus

Notes:
- Evansville, GA (tornado, Katrina, Rita, etc.)
- People continue to rail on Jesus
- Gnosticism
- Nothing without God, we are saved by God
- Jesus is not mere man, but God
- James killed for standing up for Jesus' deity
- Judas could not deny Jesus' deity