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Jeremy Utley - Beware a Self-Appointed Promised Land

Jeremy Utley · May 13

25m

Wenhai Pan - Growing in Love for Jesus

Wenhai Pan · May 6

Sunil Poonen - Abiding in Christ

Sunil Poonen · May 6

Senthil Thangaraj - Simple and Pure Devotion to Christ in a Distracting World

Senthil Thangaraj · Apr 29

Andrei Pavlov - Run the Race Looking Unto Jesus

Andrei Pavlov · Apr 28

Jeremy Utley - Growing Up as a Watchman

Jeremy Utley · Apr 14

Zac Poonen - The Meaning of the Breaking of Bread

Zac Poonen · Apr 7

1h 27m

Brother Zac Poonen's 80th Birthday Celebration at NCCF

Zac Poonen · Mar 24

12m

Zac Poonen - God Rewards Small Acts of Service

Zac Poonen · Mar 17

31m

Sunil Poonen - The Least Important Person

Sunil Poonen · Mar 17

13m

Zac Poonen - Why Jesus Did Not Take the Anesthetic at the Cross

Zac Poonen · Mar 10

Jeremy Utley - Make a Road for the Lord

Jeremy Utley · Mar 10

Zac Poonen - The Importance of “Breaking of Bread” as a Church

Zac Poonen · Mar 4

Wenhai Pan - God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life

Wenhai Pan · Mar 4

Zac Poonen - Completing God’s Plan for Our Lives

Zac Poonen · Mar 4

22m

Zac Poonen - Important First Steps for Our Children

Zac Poonen · Feb 10

1h 0m

Zac Poonen - Submitting to God-Appointed Authorities

Zac Poonen · Jan 27

Zac Poonen - Does Jesus Entrust Himself to You?

Zac Poonen · Jan 14

11m

Jeremy Utley - How Jesus Invites Believers to the Lord's Supper

Jeremy Utley · Jan 8

Sanjay Poonen - Be Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak. Two Ears, One Mouth

Sanjay Poonen · Dec 23

Andrei Pavlov - Hold Firmly to That Which Is Good

Andrei Pavlov · Dec 17

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Wenhai Pan - Being a Doer of God's Word

Wenhai Pan · Dec 16

August 4 | Daily Devotion | The Mark Of New Covenant Blessing Is Not Wealth And Health | Zac Poonen

Zac Poonen · 11m · CFC Daily Devotions

True blessing under the New Covenant is not measured by material wealth and health, but by spiritual transformation and union with Christ. The mark of God's blessing is internal holiness and a clear vision of Christ, not external prosperity.

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Santosh Poonen - Carrying a Burden for the House of the Lord

Santosh Poonen · May 26, 2025 · 32m

Santosh Poonen exhorts Christians to carry a burden for the corporate health of their local church, not merely their individual spiritual lives. Drawing from Psalm 66 and Haggai, he emphasizes that God refines believers through trials, and that church membership carries mutual responsibility for one another's spiritual well-being—just as the body of Christ cares for all its members. The abundance and resurrection life promised by God comes through taking up one's cross, both personally and corporately, and prioritizing the building up of God's house through faithful church involvement.

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Sanjay Poonen - God and the Church as a Picture of a Godly Mother

Sanjay Poonen · May 13, 2025 · 7m

Sanjay Poonen uses the picture of a godly mother to illustrate how the church should function as God's strong tower, sanctuary, and place of care. Drawing from Scripture, he highlights three key characteristics: providing a safe refuge for the righteous, embracing redemptive suffering that produces joy and fruit, and serving as encouragers and helpers to those in need. The goal is for the church community to reflect God's motherly care and raise up a unified family centered on Christ.

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Jeremy Utley - Beware a Self-Appointed Promised Land

Jeremy Utley · May 13, 2025 · 29m

Jeremy Utley warns against constructing self-appointed spiritual substitutes when separated from God's true center of worship and community. Drawing from Joshua 22, where tribes built an altar east of the Jordan in an attempt to maintain connection to God, he teaches that Christians must keep Jesus as the center of joy and inheritance, resist the temptation to create alternative spiritual practices, and remain fully integrated into the local church rather than seeking independent paths to God.

25m

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Wenhai Pan - Growing in Love for Jesus

Wenhai Pan · May 6, 2025 · 25m

Growing in love for Jesus should be the central goal of every Christian's life, exemplified by Moses who spent intimate time with God and prioritized his relationship with the Lord above all his ministry accomplishments. The speaker challenges believers to examine their own lives and consider how they can deepen their love for Jesus in the next year, using Moses as an example of someone whose close friendship with God sustained and motivated all his leadership and service.

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Sunil Poonen - Abiding in Christ

Sunil Poonen · May 6, 2025 · 10m

Abiding in Christ means becoming completely dependent on Jesus for everything, bearing the fruit of the Spirit as evidence of that dependence, and surrendering our names and identity so that Christ is revealed through us. Sunil Poonen teaches that when we partake of communion, we testify to eternal life, our satisfaction in Christ alone, and our union with Him as branches connected to the vine, with the goal of reflecting Jesus more fully both individually and corporately as a church.

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Senthil Thangaraj - Simple and Pure Devotion to Christ in a Distracting World

Senthil Thangaraj · Apr 29, 2025 · 6m

Senthil Thangaraj challenges Christians to maintain simple and pure devotion to Christ amid worldly distractions. Using illustrations of a man distracted by a mosquito bite while ignoring serious heart disease, and a lotus leaf unaffected by water, he argues that believers must live in the world but not be taken captive by its worries, lusts, and temporal concerns. The goal is individual purity and corporate functioning as a local church body, following Christ with singular focus while the world passes away.

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Andrei Pavlov - Run the Race Looking Unto Jesus

Andrei Pavlov · Apr 28, 2025 · 5m

Christians are called to run the spiritual race with endurance, fixing their eyes on Jesus rather than being distracted or weighed down by sin and worldly encumbrances. Through the power of the Holy Spirit given under the new covenant, believers must lay aside every hindrance, pursue holiness, and remain faithful to reach the finish line where Jesus Himself will welcome them.

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Jeremy Utley - Growing Up as a Watchman

Jeremy Utley · Apr 14, 2025 · 20m

Jeremy Utley challenges believers to mature beyond personal spiritual victory into the role of watchmen who cry out for the church's purity, unity, and establishment as a spotless bride of Christ. Drawing from Isaiah 62 and Luke 18, he contrasts the cry of orphans seeking personal overcoming with the cry of mature warriors whose burden is interceding for God's kingdom purposes and the fulfillment of His promises for His church.

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Zac Poonen - The Meaning of the Breaking of Bread

Zac Poonen · Apr 7, 2025 · 8m

Zac Poonen teaches that breaking bread is a proclamation of the Lord's death through how we live—dying to worldly attractions and sin, and rising with Christ to seek heavenly things. He emphasizes that true communion involves self-examination to assess whether we are actually living as those who have died and been resurrected with Christ, which is the deeper, transformative meaning of this practice that most believers fail to grasp.

1h 27m

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Brother Zac Poonen's 80th Birthday Celebration at NCCF

Zac Poonen · Mar 24, 2025 · 1h 27m

This video captures a church celebration honoring brother Zac Poonen on his 80th birthday at NCCF. Church members share testimonies of how his faithful teaching ministry has transformed their spiritual lives, emphasizing his dedication to helping believers grow in Christ-likeness and his role in establishing genuine Christian community. The celebration reflects gratitude for decades of ministry devoted to teaching the new covenant, victory over sin, and the central ambition of pleasing God alone.

12m

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Zac Poonen - God Rewards Small Acts of Service

Zac Poonen · Mar 17, 2025 · 12m

God rewards small acts of service and faithfulness, whether visible or hidden. Zac Poonen illustrates through biblical examples like Bezalel (who worked with his hands filled with the Holy Spirit) and Hur (who held up Moses' hands in prayer) that seemingly insignificant acts—holding up someone in prayer, giving a cup of cold water to a child, or receiving a prophet—carry eternal weight and receive God's reward. Christians should persist in doing good without seeking recognition or growing weary, trusting that God sees and values every faithful act.

31m

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Sunil Poonen - The Least Important Person

Sunil Poonen · Mar 17, 2025 · 31m

Sunil Poonen teaches that Christians are called to be LIPs—the Least Important Persons—by treating others as more important than themselves, following Jesus's example of humility and service. Drawing from Philippians 2, he illustrates practical ways to cultivate this attitude in homes and churches: willingness to apologize first, losing arguments gracefully, avoiding grumbling, and performing humble tasks that build others up without seeking recognition.

13m

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Zac Poonen - Why Jesus Did Not Take the Anesthetic at the Cross

Zac Poonen · Mar 10, 2025 · 13m

Jesus refused the anesthetic offered at the cross because He chose to remain fully alert and conscious to forgive those crucifying Him and to care for His mother, demonstrating the depth of His sacrificial love. Zac Poonen teaches that understanding and meditating on Jesus's love at the cross is the foundation for all Christian obedience, arguing that genuine love for God flows from recognizing how deeply He first loved us, which then enables us to love others unconditionally.

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Jeremy Utley - Make a Road for the Lord

Jeremy Utley · Mar 10, 2025 · 29m

Jeremy Utley teaches that Christians must surrender everything to God in order to experience His love and make a way for Him through the wildernesses of their lives. Beginning with the assurance that Jesus has fully paid the penalty for all our sins (Isaiah 40:1-2), believers are commanded to prepare a straight path for the Lord by clearing away the obstacles of the flesh and self-centeredness so that His glory can be displayed through our transformed lives (Isaiah 40:3-5).

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Zac Poonen - The Importance of “Breaking of Bread” as a Church

Zac Poonen · Mar 4, 2025 · 10m

Zac Poonen emphasizes that the breaking of bread (communion) was central to the early church and should remain a vital practice today, not merely a ritual. He teaches that it signifies our unity as one body in Christ and calls believers to examine themselves—not others—regarding their commitment to Jesus and the church community. The practice carries serious spiritual weight: partaking worthily strengthens our identification with Christ's death and resurrection, while self-judgment during the breaking of bread protects us from final judgment.

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Wenhai Pan - God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life

Wenhai Pan · Mar 4, 2025 · 23m

God has a wonderful plan for each Christian's life, prepared beforehand for us to walk in. Speaker Wenhai Pan encourages believers—especially youth—to recognize themselves as God's masterpiece and to cooperate with His prepared works through gratitude, faith, and obedience, rather than resisting His will like Jonah did. The Christian life involves first reaching the starting line through repentance and faith, then running the race of good works that God has ordained for us.

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Zac Poonen - Completing God’s Plan for Our Lives

Zac Poonen · Mar 4, 2025 · 20m

Zac Poonen teaches that God has a detailed plan for each person's life, written before they were even formed in the womb, and that fulfilling this plan requires wholehearted cooperation with God through repentance and commitment. He emphasizes that wasted years through rebellion or casual Christianity should bring genuine sorrow that propels believers to run full speed for God's purposes, using Paul's transformation as an example of how deep repentance can fuel zealous service despite past failures.

22m

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Zac Poonen - Important First Steps for Our Children

Zac Poonen · Feb 10, 2025 · 22m

Zac Poonen teaches that the foundational steps in raising children are teaching them obedience to parents, truthfulness, asking forgiveness, and thankfulness—beginning with these basics before addressing other spiritual matters. He emphasizes that children are born with a sinful nature and deceptive tendencies from infancy, requiring parents to consistently reinforce these core virtues through repetition, modeling, and early exposure to God's truth so they develop a clear conscience and can hear God's voice.

1h 0m

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Zac Poonen - Submitting to God-Appointed Authorities

Zac Poonen · Jan 27, 2025 · 1h 0m

Zac Poonen teaches that true godliness means complete subjection to God's will and appointed authorities, using Jesus as the ultimate example—Jesus limited His ministry to Israel, spent 30 years in obscurity under parental authority, and made decisions based on His Father's direction rather than human logic or apparent efficiency. Christians must order their lives according to God's perfect plan rather than human reasoning, trusting that subjection to God's authority, like the order in the physical universe, produces the best and most meaningful outcomes.

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Zac Poonen - Does Jesus Entrust Himself to You?

Zac Poonen · Jan 14, 2025 · 10m

Jesus distinguishes between people who merely believe in Him and those to whom He fully entrusts Himself. Using John 2:24 and Luke 2:25-35, Zac Poonen emphasizes that genuine Christianity requires both personal commitment and Christ's reciprocal trust in us, demonstrated through lives of purity and submission. When Christ's presence is genuinely manifested in a church through anointed leadership, it exposes hidden motives and produces spiritual growth in those truly committed to Him.

11m

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Jeremy Utley - How Jesus Invites Believers to the Lord's Supper

Jeremy Utley · Jan 8, 2025 · 11m

Jeremy Utley teaches on the spiritual preparation required for partaking in the Lord's Supper, using Jesus's foot-washing of the disciples as a central metaphor. He emphasizes that ongoing cleansing and thorough repentance from sin—particularly ongoing struggles like pride—are necessary for believers to have a true part in communion, arguing against superficial or partial confession. The message calls disciples to radical honesty and complete self-examination before approaching the Lord's table, rather than quick or surface-level attempts at cleansing.

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Sanjay Poonen - Be Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak. Two Ears, One Mouth

Sanjay Poonen · Dec 23, 2024 · 7m

Sanjay Poonen teaches on James 1:19—being quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger—emphasizing that believers often speak more than they listen, particularly when stirred by anger. He challenges the congregation to examine this weakness in their personal relationships and to enter 2025 with humility, honesty, and hunger to apply God's Word, recognizing that life is fragile and uncertain.

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Andrei Pavlov - Hold Firmly to That Which Is Good

Andrei Pavlov · Dec 17, 2024 · 5m

Andrei Pavlov uses the metaphor of food spoiling in a refrigerator to teach three principles for avoiding spiritual disaster: maintaining proper spiritual temperature through conscience, God's Word, and wise counsel; rejecting old covenant practices and unbiblical teachings in favor of sound doctrine; and actively sharing spiritual nourishment with others so that both we and those around us are refreshed. The goal is to reflect Jesus and bring joy to the Lord while becoming a delight to others.