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This is the first in a series of volumes that include edited transcripts of individual sermons by Jamie Buckingham, delivered between the dates 1970-1992. A master storyteller, Jamie Buckingham delighted millions around the world both in person and in print. He was recognized as one of the key Christian authors and apostolic leaders from the early 1970s until his death in 1992. As a distinguished Bible teacher with graduate degrees in English Literature and Theology, Jamie was respected among liturgical, evangelical, and Pentecostal Christians. He was considered a close friend and confidant...

In this important book based on a classroom teaching series, Jamie Buckingham draws from his rich theological background, years of personal study and experience, and decades as the pastor of a large congregation to answer six foundational questions that we often take for granted: • Who is God? • Who is Jesus? • Who is the Holy Spirit? • What is the baptism in the Holy Spirit? • What is communion? • What is the church? With great wisdom, humor, and insight, Jamie provides clear and in-depth answers as he explores what the Bible has to say about each of these core subjects. For ...

In the last sermon he ever preached, Jamie Buckingham said, "“If I fold my tent now and quit, then the pain I've already experienced and the suffering I've already walked through are for nothing. All the things I've learned throughout this entire ordeal (his battle with cancer) will have been wasted, and the future blessings God has promised for my children and my grandchildren and many others around me will be gone" He went on to say, "We can't afford to stop. We simply can't afford to quit. We must finish the work the Lord has given us, so we can be complete...All you have to do is ...

The Spirit-controlled life is not a wild, reckless, fanatical approach to life’s problems. Rather it is the recognition that no man can ascend the hill of God under his own steam. The Kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom, not a political kingdom. Good ideas are not enough. We must have the mind of God, the sensitivity of God, the vision of God, the gift of God, in order to achieve our goals and fulfill our dreams. That does not come through training, it comes by faith, obedience to His commands, and abiding in His presence.Everything that comes into the life of a Christian is designed to...

This is the seventh in a series of volumes that include edited transcripts of individual sermons by Jamie Buckingham, delivered between the dates 1970-1992. A master storyteller, Jamie Buckingham delighted millions around the world both in person and in print. He was recognized as one of the key Christian authors and apostolic leaders from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. As a distinguished Bible teacher with graduate degrees in English Literature and Theology, Jamie was respected among liturgical, evangelical, and Pentecostal Christians. He was considered a close friend and ...

Do you have a desire in your heart—a deep longing that you hope for day after day, year after year? Do you have some sort of unrequited yearning that is burning deep within you, something that you want very badly to happen, but it hasn’t come about yet? I believe there is within most of us a desire or a dream or a vision that we hope will one day come to pass. We may have never expressed this desire or dream to anybody. It may be so private and so personal that we have never been able to even speak it out loud. It just resides within us, at the very heart of us. I firmly believe that ...

Healing is at the very heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Lord manifested Himself—He made Himself known—through healing. Why healing? Because that is where God’s heart is. God’s heart is toward suffering people. Jesus didn’t countermand medicine. He just went beyond it. This book, taken from a teaching by Jamie Buckingham, explains why the healing power of Jesus is still relevant for our lives today. As Jamie states, those who truly desire to move with God will eventually come to understand that God cares for us and wants to heal us. Jamie also discusses what the Scriptures ...

King Ahaz and King Hezekiah were father and son in the times of ancient Israel. They came after King David and King Solomon, yet, Ahaz, was an evil king and he provoked God to wrath. On the other hand, his son, Hezekiah, did not follow in his father’s footsteps, but instead sought the Lord with all his heart. His first actions as king were to rebuild the temple his father had desecrated and destroy all the idols his father brought into the land. Hezekiah again brought praise and worship of God to the land. And joy replaced the fear and the gloom of the former reign. Using these historic ...

This is the sixth in a series of volumes that include edited transcripts of individual sermons by Jamie Buckingham, delivered between the dates 1970-1992. A master storyteller, Jamie Buckingham delighted millions around the world both in person and in print. He was recognized as one of the key Christian authors and apostolic leaders. As a distinguished Bible teacher with graduate degrees in English Literature and Theology, Jamie was respected among liturgical, evangelical, and Pentecostal Christians. He was considered a close friend and confidant of many key Christians of the late 20th ...

Soon after the resurrection, Jesus spoke to his disciple Peter and gave him some insight into the way he would die. Peter, concerned, questioned Jesus and asked, “What about John?” Jesus simply said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.” Jamie states that this comment by Jesus is the way spirit-filled Christians must approach uncertainty, including death. He then lists six points that are critical to our capacity to follow Jesus and how we are to approach life, and death, to the glory of God. A master storyteller and Bible teacher, ...

There is a lot of shaking going on in the body of Christ. It is a deep shaking that may feel like our roots are being pulling out. The shaking of God comes in the form of crisis, or hurt, or some other form of physical or emotional pain. If that is happening to you, ask yourself this question: Who is doing the shaking? Is it God or is it Satan attacking? Remember, as a Christian, even if it is the Devil, God controls the work of Satan as it affects the lives of His followers. If you are a child of God and have committed yourself to the Lord then you are under His control and His protection....

We live in a culture that has set a very high standard for beauty. But what if you are not beautiful? What if you are short, wear thick glasses, or don’t fit into designer jeans? What if everyone around you turns the other way when you walk by? What if you are plain — or just plain ugly? Meet Leah, a woman in the Bible who had to deal with more than being unattractive — she also had to contend with her beautiful sister. And to make matters worse, both sisters were married to the same man! How does God see us? Is He concerned with our outward appearance? Or does He only look at who we ...

If we want God to answer our prayers in a specific way, we need to ask Him specifically for what we desire. God blesses specific prayers! In this teaching, Jamie Buckingham shares the Old Testament story of Hannah, a barren woman who prayed fervently for a child--and not just a child, but specifically, a son. God blessed her specific prayer with the birth of Samuel, who she dedicated back to the service of the Lord. From Hannah's example and examples in his own life, Jamie draws several conclusions about specific prayer, including: God knows when the prayer you say with your lips actually ...

Jamie speaks openly about a serious issue he had with one of his pastors and how it affected the entire church, especially the fellowship of the church. Then he goes on to discuss three key terms often mentioned in the Bible but which have inadequate translations in today’s English. As a result, we fail to fully comprehend what the words, grace, love and fellowship truly mean. He explains in detail these three words and begins to place context around them in a New Testament light. He states that these words above all others, need to be reintroduced to the church with their real meanings, ...

Moses was in the middle of the desert tending his sheep and goats. Then he saw a strange site: A bush that burned but was not consumed. Moses turned aside from his daily chores and went to see what was happening. And it was then God spoke to him. Had he been too busy or had he not cared, he would have missed this unexpected encounter with the God of the universe in a very unlikely place. Today, God is still speaking to each of us in similarly unlikely places. The point is, He wants to communicate with us, and He will use whatever means available to do so. Be ever watching and ever listening...

Jamie Buckingham shares how the weights in this life, like the weights on a grandfather clock, keep us moving in the right direction. Without them, we may stop seeking God’s guidance, or just stop altogether. Jamie states that when God molds and shapes a person, He will often place weights on them — burdens in their life that they must bear, crosses for them to carry, hardships to endure. It’s amazing how fruitful our most serious disappointments can be if we will simply let God lead us in the process.

Learning to travel light is an important lesson for those of us who’ve been toting a heavy load —material, emotional, and spiritual—through life. As Jamie Buckingham writes, “The older we get, the more we come to that beautiful reality that we don’t need nearly as much as we think we do, and it’s far better to lessen our burdens. In fact, I believe we are foolish if we continue to carry all that garbage that don’t need around with us. It’s an interesting principle: the deeper we get into the kingdom, the simpler our lives ought to become.” The experienced traveler knows to...

"God has placed inside each one of us a spiritual dream. It's what God has breathed into us - a little bit of himself. And it's that part that is calling us unto him." So states Jamie Buckingham in this remarkable recounting of his own personal journey with the Holy Spirit, never before in print. From his strict moral upbringing, through his salvation experience, through his "dark pit" days as a disgraced Southern Baptist pastor, through his highly successful writing career, Jamie shares how God broke down his resistance to the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

Our only task as Christians is to hear God and to obey Him. Sometimes all that means is to simply be available to “keep the door open” for His Holy Spirit to do His work. At other times it may mean being willing to do something absurd. God will not ask us to do something for no reason. But we must be willing to obey, even when we don’t know all the reasons. In this book, Jamie Buckingham begins with a story of a man who was completely opposed to God. But through a simple act of obedience, doing something that seemed absurd at the time, the man’s heart was changed. Keeping the door ...

Each chapter in this book lends itself to the spiritual growth of the believer. We are to be aware of the very likely possibility that we will encounter false teachers and how to discern and deal with them. We are to be diligent and avoid deceptive teachings and avoid the wiles of Satan as he continually attempts to tempt us, to draw us away from our loving heavenly father. As you listen to this book, my prayer is you will hear from the heart of God as he continues to reach out and speak to his beloved church, his people, his called-out ones, as we rapidly approach the return of the king.