Category Kurtis Luckinbill

2023 April 30th Streaming

I will continue our tag-team teaching through the letter to the Colossians chapter 4. I want to spend this time together to look at the three churches of the Lycus Valley in what is today’s modern Turkey. Understanding the history, culture, and biblical context of these three cities will give you not only a better understanding of Paul’s letter to the Church of Colossae but also of the churches in Hierapolis and Laodicea as mentioned by Paul in Colossians 4:13. I will conclude with Christ’s rebuke to the church in Laodicea as seen in Revelation chapter 3.

2023 April 2nd Streaming

This Sunday morning, I will continue the tag-team teaching of Colossians chapter three. I want to propose a question that most of you have never given much thought to. Does God give second chances? We live in a world of second chances: or as Merriam-Webster defines it – the opportunity to try something again after failing the first time. Articles and books are written about them. Churches and ministries are named after them, but does God really give second chances? Join me this Sunday morning as we answer that question and explore the depths of Colossians chapter three.

2023 March 23rd Streaming – Thursday
Day 1

Thursday – Speaker 1

Thursday – Speaker 2

Thursday – Speaker 3

Thursday – Speaker 4

2023 March 24th Streaming – Friday
Day 2

Friday – Speaker 1

Friday – Speaker 2

Friday – Speaker 3

Friday – Speaker 4

2023 March 25th Streaming – Saturday
Day 3

Saturday – Speaker 1

Saturday – Speaker 2

Saturday – Speaker 3

Saturday – Speaker 4

Saturday – Speaker 5

Saturday – Speaker 6

Saturday – Speaker 7

Saturday – Speaker 8

2023 March 26th Streaming – Sunday
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Sunday – Speaker 1

Sunday – Speaker 2

Sunday – Speaker 3

2023 March 5th Streaming

The churches in Colossae and the Lycus Valley apparently were established around 55 AD. However, by 60 AD, the church was in trouble and heresies combining Paul’s gospel with other world religions had established a foothold. The purity of the gospel was being subtly undermined by the religious philosophies of the day. The foundation of their true spiritual identity was being eroded by their compromise and acceptance of tradition, philosophies, and basic principles of the world. How does this work in the church today? We will discuss this in Sunday morning fellowship.

2023 February 5th Streaming

Spiritual identity is more relevant today than ever before in history. I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see today, and did not see it; and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. But given the truth, many do not want to surrender who they are in their flesh. They do not want to relinquish their self-actualization or self-identities. John writes that whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. What is darkness, who is this darkness?

2022 December 11th Streaming

Today we will look at Romans 12:1-2. They are some of the most powerful verses in the Bible, yet born-again believers find them challenging and their understanding illusive. But when they are read and spiritually understood through the lens of our spiritual sonship, union, and oneness, they explode with our spiritual identity.
These verses always struck fear in my heart as a young believer. What exactly was God asking and expecting of me? Whatever it was, whatever that scripture was talking about, it sounded costly and painful, and I knew I wasn’t walking away unscathed.
I spent 40 years avoiding them. But now, reading them through the lens of spiritual union, oneness, and identity, those verses take on an entirely different understanding.

2022 October 24th Streaming

The proverb “all roads lead to Rome” was first used by the French poet, Alain de Lille in the year 1175 and is more correctly translated as “a thousand roads lead men forever to Rome.” It is in this within this historical context that I see Romans chapter 8. Your 1000 questions will lead you forever to Romans chapter 8. It is from the spiritual truths in Romans 8 that spiritual sonship emerges, and all questions resolve. Its length stretches from the purpose of God before the beginning of time – to the revealing and glorifying of the Sons of God. Its width knows no bounds in proclaiming God’s eternal love. In it, the purpose of God would be sown before the foundations of time. Chapter 8 is about our new beginning and the single spiritual identity and glory that beginning gives us. Romans chapter 8 is truly the heart of spiritual sonship.

2022 October 2nd Streaming

I will conclude Romans chapter 7 today as we tag-team teach through Romans chapters 5-8. Following two consecutive weeks of concentrated teaching on Romans chapter 7 is no easy task, as both David and Dwight have thoroughly covered both the textual and spiritual dimensions of its meaning. In fact, David’s teaching last week on Romans chapter 7 is an essential listen. Today I would like to make it personal – to make it real, and I will conclude with a focus on the silent struggle within the church today.

2022 September 4th Streaming

Let me start by telling you who I am. To this world, I am a nobody. I’m neither important nor am I memorable. I am as inconspicuous as a wood fence in the suburbs, but to my Heavenly Father, I am His spiritual son. I know who I am, and I am known by my Father. I have God, my Father’s essence and identity. He knows me and He calls me by my name. Let me ask you, do you truly know who you are to the Father? Do you walk in your true spiritual identity? Those of you who live in your flesh identities will walk in your flesh, and you who live in your spiritual identity will walk in the spirit. This all may sound strange to you, but this is what today’s teaching is all about.

2022 August 7th Streaming

As we tag-team teach through Romans chapters 5 – 8, I will address chapter 5 verses 1-11 today.

Paul’s letter to the Church in Rome has been summarized in many ways. It has been summarized that Paul’s dominant concern in Romans is salvation—God’s reconcili­ation of the world through the cross of Jesus Christ. Other scholars write that Romans is the most succinct, clear, and systematic presentation of Christian doctrine in all of scripture.

I have a unique take on Romans, but one thing I know for certain is that Paul is defining his gospel in his letter to the church in Rome. Paul’s gospel is the gospel of reconciliation. It defines his ministry. The problem in the church today is that they do not understand reconciliation. Paul writes that God has reconciled us unto Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. So, what is it to be reconciled (or reconciliation)?