January 1/2, 2000 - How Jesus Treated the Demon-Possessed (CD #F01)

In Jesus' day, those who were ill were often regarded as sinners who should be avoided. But how did He respond to them, and what can we learn from His example?

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January 3-7, 2000 - The Art of Christian Confession (CD #F02)

The Bible seems to make it one of the biggest "If-Then" rules in the Christian faith: IF you confess your sins, THEN you'll receive forgiveness. Confession first, forgiveness second. But sometimes confession is such an overwhelming challenge, so seemingly impossible, that we back away. Are we temporarily lost? Some surprisingly biblical principles emerge from the 4077th M*A*S*H.

January 03, 2000 - First Say You're Sorry
January 04, 2000 - Getting Rid of Smallpox
January 05, 2000 - Afraid of Confessing to NEWSWEEK
January 06, 2000 - A Less Worried Kind of Confessing
January 07, 2000 - Buying Forgiveness From the Godfather

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January 8/9, 2000 - How Jesus Treated the Brokenhearted (CD #F01)

During His years on earth, Jesus often encountered death and illness and their effects on people. How did the Savior respond to the needs of the grieving?

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January 10-14, 2000 - Leaving the Altar and Making the Call (CD #F04)

Okay, so you've confessed your sins to God. For most of us that seems to be the easy part -- because He's distant and invisible. But now you've also got to confess to your neighbor. Or your wife. Or your enemy. That's a hundred times harder! Do we really have to do it? And aren't there times when confessing to a person will actually hurt them? Is there a loophole here?

January 10, 2000 - Lookin' for a Loophole
January 11, 2000 - Undelivered Mail
January 12, 2000 - "This Is a Crazy Country"
January 13, 2000 - Making Things Right With Georgette
January 14, 2000 - The God Who Needs a Hearing Aid

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January 15/16, 2000 - How Jesus Treated Sinners (CD #F05)

How should we respond to people we know to be sinners? Morris Venden reveals the example of how Jesus dealt tenderly even with those whose evil motives He could see.

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January 17-21, 2000 - Jackie and Pee Wee (CD #F06)

It was a defining moment, one that might have literally changed a nation, even a world. A simple hug, a manly arm-around-the-shoulder. And it happened, of all places, on a baseball diamond. A hero named Jackie Robinson was there that day. The other legendary participant: a human giant named "Pee Wee" Reese.

January 17, 2000 - A Wednesday That Changed History
January 18, 2000 - Good Anger in Cincinnati
January 19, 2000 - Everyone Makes Eight Cents an Hour
January 20, 2000 - What's It Like Being Him?
January 21, 2000 - Trading in Hearts That Hate

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January 22/23, 2000 - How to Walk on Fire (CD #F05)

Lonnie Melashenko looks at one of the most colorful pictures in the Bible, to discover its message about how Jesus helps us through even the most trying times in our lives.

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January 24-28, 2000 - Heaven's Rainbow (CD #F08)

The world talks a lot about racial reconciliation -- and so does the church. Yet, progress seems pretty slow. Is that all right? Are the detours in the road, the setbacks that turn back the clock, acceptable as we journey toward a kingdom where color barriers and ALL forms of division will be gone forever?

January 24, 2000 - Taking Away the Vote
January 25, 2000 - Giving Jesus a Lift
January 26, 2000 - Targeted for Love
January 27, 2000 - The Forever Blame Game
January 28, 2000 - In the Closing Credits for Amistad

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January 29/30, 2000 - Surrender? I Give Up What? - 1 (CD #F09)

"I got discouraged," speaker Morris Venden admits, "when, after battling just one or two sins, I received a pamphlet: One Hundred Sins That Laodicea Must Repent Of." People find it hard to give up things, and even harder to give up on trying, on SELF.

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Jan. 31-Feb. 4, 2000 - There's More to Love Than We Think (1 Cor. 13) (CD #F10)

You may know this chapter by heart, but have you taken it to heart? There's more to love than the gooey lyrics of romantic ballads. First Corinthians chapter 13 shatters the comfort zone of the complacent Chritian and the complacent church.

January 31, 2000 - Loving the Bad Guy on "Law and Oder"

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