• Sessions 1, 2: “Verify Your Salvation” – Dr. Phil Young
• Sessions 3, 4: “New Life in Christ” – Dr. Dan Riley
• Sessions 5, 6: “The Spirit-Filled Life & Victory” – Dr. Phil Jones

• I was indulgent and unrestrained.  Marked by these in some degree or another: anger, temper, gossip, discord, frustration, anxiety, worry, harshness, meanness, doubt, unbelief, rebellion, and disobedience.
• My life existed without spiritual sweetness: no aroma; no magnetism; no authenticity; no glow; no victory; no rest; no fruit; no abiding; no surrender; no death to me.
• For many of us on the outside all looks in order: our Christian dress, attendance, service, offerings, praise, prayers, devotions.
• But all emanating from self-conforming and performing of the Christian culture.
• We have replaced serving the world with serving God believing that in that service comes true spiritual growth, fruit and rewards.  
• In other words, “The show had no glow.”

• One full of agape love, joy, calm delight, peace of mind and spirit, enduring patience toward self and others, softness in manner , acting benevolently toward others without any thought of return, confidence and assurance in God, humility and genuine meekness, the ability to be spirit controlled in conversation and in the necessities and needs of life and in one’s relationship to God.

For pastor Bob and Joan Galasso, ministry was about a fast-paced, non-stop, burn-yourself-out lifestyle. After years of intense schedules and people pleasing, Bob was hospitalized for clinical burn-out and Joan for depression. Yet God prevailed and established a new beginning for this needy couple. Having captured their hearts, God takes them on an ongoing adventure with him.

Read their autobiography with the liberating, spiritual lessons learned. This book has just been re-published as an ebook on Amazon Kindle here.

John VanGelderen of Revival Focus Ministries just published an excellent small volume titled,  Experiencing Jesus. “Would you like to go from being regularly defeated and surprised by occasional victory to being regularly victorious and surprised by a rare defeat? Discover the possibility of experiencing Jesus–the reality of the Christ life, the Spirit-filled life–in a new way. This truly is life again–revival on the personal level. Watch a profound 3 minute video introduction here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrPZSH3BVIw&feature=youtu.be

A pastor writes, about Examining Pastoral Culture. He quotes from the book, Dangerous Calling:

“There are way too many pastors out there who have lost their joy, who are cranking it out.  There are way too many bitter and angry people in ministry who are carrying around a self-protective list of previously experienced wrongs.  There are way too many pastors living in isolation who are in trouble, and they don’t know it.  There are way too many congregations and leadership boards that have a distorted, unrealistic, idealized image of their pastor.  There are way too many ministry families that are unprotected because they are not being properly pastored.  There are way too many pastors in survival mode.  There are way too many pastors’ wives who fantasize about what it would be like to be out of the ministry.  There are way too many children who bear the daily brunt of the ministry father’s bitterness and anger.  There simply is way too much functional anonymity in the pulpits of our churches.”

 -Dangerous Calling, by Paul Trip, Crossway Books, 2012, pgs. 90-91.

Joe Humrichous has an itinerant ministry of encouraging leaders for revitalized prayer and abiding in Christ. He has recorded some short videos on “The Prayer Circle” at Paradigm1.org web site. This talk is on “How Can a Church Know God’s Direction?”

We have appreciated the ministry of Jim Cymbala over the years, having visited the “Tab” and hearing him speak with Daniel Henderson at a renewal day in Knoxville.

In a sermon posted on February 13, 2018 Pastor Cymbala uses four scriptures as a starting point for this challenging message about experiencing real change in the Christian life (John 8:28-29; Romans 6:5; Romans 8:5; Galatians 2:19-20). The audio message can be heard online or downloaded here: https://www.brooklyntabernacle.org

At North Point in Atlanta, Andy Stanley preached a series that addresses some vital themes related to grace for Christian living and the believer’s new identity. It’s entitled “NU ME” and is available from their download store. North Point includes insights from “NU ME” in their Care Network’s “Re:New” one-on-one mentoring ministry.

Their team has produced an 8 lesson video-assisted small group study that incorporates the essential content used in North Point’s Re:New ministry. It’s titled Renovate. This resource has great potential to guide participants in spiritual renewal.

“For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory” (Col. 3:3,4).

Grace Fellowship Int’l [this site’s sponsor] appreciates the ministry endorsement of Dr. Charles Stanley and the opportunity we’ve had to do some networking over the years. In 1980, Dr. Charles Solomon presented the Exchanged Life Conference at First Baptist Church of Atlanta. Charles Stanley promoted the event, and Andy Stanley attended also. A couple of years later, our associates, Dr. Bill and Anabel Gilliam, presented the Victorious Christian Living conference there.

At InTouch.org Dr. Charles Stanley has a section on 30 Principles that have guided his life and ministry. Several of them are part of the spiritual DNA of the Grace Fellowship’s Discipleship Counseling message (See 1,3,12,15,24):

• Intimacy with God
• Reliability of God’s Word
• Peace through oneness with God
• Brokenness
• To live the Christian life is to allow Jesus to live His life in and through us

Our current audio podcast features a dynamic sermon by Charles Stanley entitled “Good News of Great Joy: Christ Your Life”. It was preached at FBA in the early 1980’s. You can listen online or download it here: gfiworld.sermon.net/main/main/21089854
First Baptist Atlanta developed a pastoral and lay counseling ministry using this Exchanged Life model. (Listen to the two-part interview about this with Dr. Al Scardino here.)