Loving His Appearing
Stephen Venable
Jesus has a Day (Luke 17:24). To have a passion for Jesus means that we value what He values so that what is important to Him becomes of chief importance to us. Beginning with the week leading up to the Cross, this sermon peers through biblical windows into the heart of Jesus to behold how […]
Loving the Incarnation of Jesus
Stephen Venable
It is the knowledge of Jesus that causes us to appreciate His worth and have a passion for His preeminence. When something is exceedingly important, the most normal thing to do is to take it very seriously and give a great deal of attention to it. The beautiful mystery of God taking on flesh and […]
Loving the Humanity of Jesus
Stephen Venable
It is the knowledge of Jesus that causes us to appreciate His worth and have a passion for His preeminence. When something is exceedingly important, the most normal thing to do is to take it very seriously and give a great deal of attention to it. The awesome, majestic identity of Jesus must be at […]
Loving the Divinity of Jesus
Stephen Venable
It is the knowledge of Jesus that causes us to appreciate His worth and have a passion for His preeminence. When something is exceedingly important, the most normal thing to do is to take it very seriously and give a great deal of attention to it. The awesome, majestic identity of Jesus must be at […]
A Vision for Passion for Jesus
Stephen Venable
What does having a passion for Jesus actually mean, and how does one foster this? In this message Stephen addresses these crucial questions and casts a vision for the reality of a consuming passion to magnify Jesus and love Him with abandonment. Spoken on September 14th, 2012 at the International House of Prayer East Bay. […]
Encountering the Glory of God
Stephen Venable
Beginning with the drama of Israel’s experience with God at Mt. Sinai, this message explores how our desire to encounter the glory of God is fulfilled in the majesty of the person of Christ. We are invited to leave the mystery of Jesus untamed and be drawn into breathtaking reality of the Incarnation. Spoken on […]
Christ the Lord
Stephen Venable
In 2 Corinthians 11:2-4, Paul warns believers of giving ear to different versions of Jesus than the revelation that was preached by the apostles. While many things may legitimately be called a crisis in the Church today, none exceeds the confusion related to the person and work of Christ in its severity. As differing portraits […]
The Priesthood of Man & the House of Prayer
Stephen Venable
A house of prayer is not an abstract environment. It consists of participants actively engaging in prayer and worship. In order for weak people to be motivated to stay faithful in their devotion, it not only requires a revelation of the glory of God but also of His design for humanity. If long hours of […]
The Glory of God and the House of Prayer
Stephen Venable
In this message Stephen explores why God’s passion for His own renown to fill the earth must be the basis of our reality and the starting point for the vision of a house of prayer. Without this understanding of the ultimate mission driving God’s activity in the earth we lack the necessary context for rightly […]
The Glory of Jesus and Our Salvation
Stephen Venable
Why were we saved? In order to adequately answer that question we have to first understand what God’s ultimate reason for doing everything truly is, and what we were actually saved from. In a piercing message that cuts to the very core of our lives as Christians, Stephen focuses on what Scripture reveals about the […]
Sovereignty and Prayer
Stephen Venable
The sovereignty of God has been one of the most frequently debated subjects over the last five centuries of the history of the Church. Most of these controversies, however, actually have little to do with how Scripture describes God’s sovereignty. This message begins by addressing the need to remove sovereignty from a philosophical context and […]
Passion for the Life of Jesus
Stephen Venable
Our love and passion for Jesus must be rooted in the truth of who He is as revealed in Scripture by the Holy Spirit. Any ‘passion’ not completely anchored in His identity will be fleeting. In other words, intimacy must be based on the knowledge of who Jesus is, because knowledge is the fuel for […]
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