Covenant Life Christian Church Podcasts: Eric Hensley

Biblical Love - Part 1

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:40:00 -0800

What does true love look like? What is real love? What is the right kind of love you should be looking for? These are all powerful questions that each one of us, male and female, young and old alike have asked in our life at one time or another. We all are looking for real and true love but what is that? It was once said that “God has given us people to love and things to use, not people to use and things to love.” Jonathan Edwards said, “There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!” Loving others in a biblical manner involves your thoughts, words, and actions and is a sign of being a disciple of Christ. Loving others biblically is dependent on your commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and is not dependent on people, circumstances, or your feelings.

The Heart of Anger - Part 1

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:35:00 -0800

Deuteronomy - Part 4: The Song of Moses

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:23:00 -0800

This message is about the song of testimony which God gave Moses to teach the children of Israel.

Indifference is an Enemy to Change - Gabe Saldivar

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:18:00 -0800

This is a message about an enemy that is destructive to our walk in Christ: indifference.

Deuteronomy - Part 3: The Heart and the Law

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:13:00 -0800

And what I want to take you through today is a contrast between the Law and the Gospel…Samuel Bolton said, “The Law sends us to the gospel for our justification; the Gospel sends us to the Law to frame our way of life… Christ has freed us from the manner of our obedience, but not from the matter of our obedience…” C.H. Spurgeon said, “The Law stirs the mud at the bottom of the pool and proves how foul the waters are…” Deut speaks to the condition of our hearts… it always has. But what happened was man ritualized the Law of God, and began to perform its ceremonies without faith… Man has always had the tendency and capacity to take the wonderful things of God and trivialize them or ritualize them and make the shallow and empty… We take His Word and we take away from it or we add to it… we stop saying things that God explicitly said and we say things that God didn’t say… God has always desired for the heart of man to be impacted by His Law… Kind of like us today as we grow further away from our salvation experience… When the burdens of sin were lifted from our hearts and Christ became real to our hearts… We prayed and felt the cool refreshing presence of the Lord; and illumination happened every time we would open up His Word… We delighted in His presence and He delighted for us to be in His presence… But then somehow something begins to shift, life goes on, responsibilities are assumed and going to church, praying and reading become just a routine of our life… but our hearts are truly not in it.

Taylor Hartman

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:05:00 -0800

Message by Taylor Hartman - Wednesday Night, January 20, 2010.

A God Centered Life

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:14:00 -0800

In this message you will see how both the Old Testament and the New Testament show us that we are to live a life with God being the center of it. As Christians we are not to be self-centered or others-centerd, all of our blessings and provision and security comes from us being God centered in everything we do.

Regeneration Required

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:10:00 -0800

This message is a study in Hebrews 6: 1-2.

A Call to Children

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:50:00 -0800

Children are supposed to be a blessing. Children are supposed to be a joy. Children are supposed to be a blessing from the Lord to grace our lives with fulfillment and meaning and happiness and satisfaction. They are given for our joy and yet sometimes they turn out to be heartbreak upon heartbreak upon heartbreak. But in today’s thinking children are a burden, and those who praise the thought of having children must be ridiculed, berated, and even silenced. You must ask yourself what is behind this behavior. After all, there are two things in this life that is 100% verifiable and true. We all started out as babies; And we all our going to die. death mortality is 100%. Now we have new arguments in our culture that says that having babies hurts the economy because it limits women from expressing their independence and liberation from the home by serving in the workforce. In this message learn about the importance placed upon children in the Word of God.

The Reform of the Soul

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:45:00 -0800

Have you ever found it difficult to change yourself? Have you ever been so thoroughly exasperated by the soul searching and by the fleeting answers to making something inherently wrong inside of you more Christ like? In Psalms 51 as we address the question of how we reform our soul… The Word of God gives us a mandate to “work out” our own salvation. It is each of our responsibility before Christ to let the Word reach into the very depths of our soul. Philippians 2:12 NKJ Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Vision Message 2010 - Part 2

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:26:00 -0800

Covenant Life Christian Church Vision message for 2010: “A year of Reforms.”

Remembering God in 2009

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:19:00 -0800

What was 2009 like for you? Did it turn out the way you thought it would? Did you accomplish everything you set your mind to do at the end of 2008? Did you make some mistakes you wish you wouldn’t have made? Did you live this past year to the fullest, or did you coast this year as any other year? All these are good contemplations of the heart to consider as we enter into another year… Your life is lived by design not default. If you don’t plan your life you will live your life at the easiest level. This coming year, live your life in God’s plan which He has prepared beforehand that we should walk in it. Ephesians 2:10 NKJ “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them…” The bible teaches us that we should live circumspectly, with awareness, vigilantly and watchfully. In this teaching at the closing of 2009 you will get a fresh heart for the year 2010.

Vision Message 2010

Thur, 31 Dec 2009 17:09:00 -0800

Covenant Life Christian Church Vision message for 2010: “A year of Reforms.”

The Magnificant (Mary's Song)

Thur, 31 Dec 2009 17:09:00 -0800

In this message you will discover through Mary’s Song, what is the Christmas Spirit.

Taylor Hartman

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:18:00 -0800

Message by Taylor Hartman - Wednesday Night, December 16, 2009.

The Savior Born of a Virgin

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:34:00 -0800

Waiting... - Gabe Saldivar

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:31:00 -0800

A study on Abraham and his waiting upon the Lord.

The Warnings of God

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:27:00 -0800

Have you ever felt the hand of God upon you as a heavy warning? Have you ever had unexpected circumstances rise up in your life that you felt were a warning from God? Have you ever had your friends speak to you as though God was speaking through them concerning things going on in your life, and you know your friends didn't have natural knowledge about those things?

Building a Foundation in Your Home for a Great Family

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:21:00 -0800

Why Did God Allow This?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:44:00 -0800

Have you ever asked God why? Have you ever gone through such difficult situations and circumstances that severely tested your faith in a loving Father in Heaven? This is one of the greatest questions we ask God in times of difficulty - Why God?! We rarely ask God “why” when good things come into our lives, we get blessed some way and we say thanks, but rarely ask why? Richard Baxter said, “… weakness and pain helped me to study how to die, that set me on a course of studying how to live…”

Thanksgiving 2009

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:41:00 -0800

Biblical gratitude isn't something that should pass from our minds with the passing of a season. It's an attitude, a God-focused response to circumstances that should pervade each moment of each day of each year. M.R. Vincent said, “The Christian is suspended between blessings received and blessings hoped for, so he should always give thanks…” It was said that, “Thanking God for whatever He gives us is one sure way of resisting the devil…” Isn’t that the truth? Temptation comes and is yielded to when we have stopped giving that to God for what we already have received. So in this message you will discover ways I think you can make this Thanksgiving different; different for you and those around you.

Spiritual Authority - Taylor Hartman

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:37:00 -0800

In scripture, God reveals himself in many ways such as creation, powerful miracles and and His unending mercy upon His people, but when we think about God revealing Himself, how often do we realize that God reveals Himself in our day to day lives. Every authority that God has place around us is appointed by God and speaks with Gods voice into our Lives. From the kindest and most honorable to even the harsh authorities. God is speaking! Listen along as we learn how Gods blessing rests upon those who understand this principle of Spiritual Authority.

The Emotions, Reasons and Will - Part 2

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:22:00 -0800

Do you often find yourself torn between feelings and emotions and the known will of God for your life? Have you allowed your emotions and feelings to lead and not the will of God and the Word of God in your life? Have you found out that every time you do so, the end result is not the desired result which you had hoped for? At times has it even ended in the severing of relationships which you had valued and esteemed? Why does this happen? What is going on in the inside of us when we let our feelings and emotions lead the way? C.S Lewis said… “Don’t bother much about your feelings… when they are humble, loving and brave give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish and cowardly, ask to have them altered…” Our biggest problems in life are in our frustrated desires we have within us. In this message discover how to live in God’s will and not emotions and feelings.

Do You Have an Ear to Hear? - Gabe Saldivar

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:18:00 -0800

A lesson from the parable of the sower and having a heart prepared to hear what God says to us in His word.

The Emotions, Reasons and Will

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:50:00 -0800

In the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord - Gabe Saldivar

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:44:00 -0800

A lesson on Adonijah, one of King David's son's and how it relates to the relationship between Father's and their children.

Full of Grace and Truth

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:26:00 -0800

C.H. Spurgeon said, “The Glory of Jesus and of the Father are so wrapped up together that the grace which magnifies the one magnifies the other…” In this message we will see that Jesus Christ is the incarnate Word of God full of Grace and Truth. The Word became flesh, and he did so without ceasing to be God. He manifests God’s glory. “The Word of God became flesh; The Son of God became Man; The Lord of all became a Servant; The Righteous One was made sin; The Eternal One tasted death; The Risen One now lives in men; The Seated One is coming again.”