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Podcasts Now Available 

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Messages are available in several languages including Korean, Spanish, French and English. Messages included are from the three series: "Building The House of Oneness", "Family Foundations", and "Christian Courtship".

New Chinese CDs 

Larry Ballard's three seminars, entitled Building The House of Oneness, Family Foundations and Principles of Christian Coutship are now available in Chinese. These audio CD's are in mp3 format and contain 9-11 hours of teaching on each CD. Handouts of the lecture notes also available in Chinese. For more information on how to order these resources.

Norwegian Resources 

Norwegian lecture notes of Larry Ballard's teachings on several topics from the Family Ministry School are now available for downloading. Click: Norwegian Resources

Norwegian audio mp3 recordings of Larry Ballard's series: Building The House of Oneness and Family Foundations are now availabe.

To order these mp3 audios contact: Larry

Russian Resources Available For Downloading 

Larry Ballard's lecture notes are now available in Russian for downloading. Don Kirkby's updated book, Family Life As God Intended is now available in Russian for downloading. To download click.

Confidence in the future 

 
Ephesians 1:3-11

House arrest! This was surely not what Paul had in mind for his arrival in Rome. But even after being betrayed, slandered and arrested unjustly, his perspective remained positive. Why? Because Paul knew who he was in Jesus Christ. No outward circumstance could alter his security as a son of God. Paul knew that he was loved, wanted and given lasting significance by the Father.
Within each of us is a need for love, acceptance and significance, and these needs are no less important than our need for food and water. God created us this way so that we would seek him. He is the only one who can fill that vacuum in our lives. But many people try to fill that emptiness with worldly things that give them neither present contentment nor hope for the future.

Paul, who was utterly confident about both his present and future, prayed that God would also open the eyes of his Ephesian friends so they too could recognize and enjoy the riches and power freely given to them in Jesus Christ (Eph. 1:18).

Consider what it means to be a son or daughter of God.

Food for life: 1 Cor. 1:4-9,30-31; 2:12; 2 Peter 1:3.

Germany: Key to world revival pt.3 
by Loren Cunningham. Reprinted from MINISTRIES TODAY, May-June 1992.

How could a country which gave us so much good be the soil for a man like Adolph Hitler?

I believe Satan determined to destroy Germany because of the way she had influenced the world for missions. Added to this was a severe lack of unity that crept into the Body of Christ, which removed the barrier that would have kept Satan from working his plans. I have traveled among the nations constantly in the last 31 years, and I have never seen such polarization among believers as in Germany.

In the 19th century, Satan found a willing accomplice in a young German named Marx, who unleashed the philosophy of communism which led to millions of deaths and years of imprisonment for multiplied millions. Out of Germany Satan stirred philosophies which denied God, such as humanism, and theologies which claimed God was dead. The stage was set for two world wars in 25 years, Nazism, and the Holocaust. None of this would have been possible if God's people had not been divided and neutralized.

Finding the Holy Heroes
What now? Will Germany reclaim her destiny to bless the nations? Will she be able to forgive the Rahabs and Rehoboams of her past and be grateful to God for her good roots? Can we as Americans extend that forgiveness to them which the Israelis refused?

You may have seen news reports recently of hundreds of young neo-Nazis marching in East Germany, resurrecting the hateful rhetoric of Hitler. My heart goes out to these young people. They were raised in Marxist schools in a country that existed only as the surrogate of communist Russia. They were told that their past was evil...Germans were Nazis. Now, they are acting out what they were taught.

The only healing for Germany is in forgiving those in her past who have caused them to be branded as an evil nation, and being grateful to God for her holy heroes. I am praying for writers in Germany who will research these heroes and publish their stories. We have heard of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Basilea Schlink, but there must have been many more who stood against the evil.

I am also praying for new unity among the Body of Christ in Germany. As we traveled all over that country, we sensed that it is still deeply divided. Politicians cannot unite a country. But as Christians pray and agree in unity, God can truly unite Germany and bring another revival that will send out missionaries. I am praying for 10,000 Christ-like Germans to be sent out as missionaries. Then people all over the world will think of Germans on the basis of these role models. God's gifts and callings are without repentance. He still has an international destiny for Germany. Europe will not be healed until Germany is healed. Out of that healing will come revival that will spill out all over the world.