Never Thirst Newsletter

• Prevailing Iniquities and an Atoning God

Dear friend, Welcome to the Setting Captives Free newsletter for the month of October. We are glad to be communicating with you this month, and we have a wonderful study for you from the Book of Psalms. To access this month's study, please click here. This month we want to study Psalm 65 as it is a powerful help to us who are desiring to be free from sin's pull and sin's power. In this Psalm we see God's power ...

• Introducing New Course

Dear friends, Greetings in the name of the Lord. I'm writing to express my thankfulness for your ongoing support of our ministry, and also to introduce you to our newest course at Setting Captives Free. We have been amazed at God's faithfulness to our ministry, when in the midst of worldwide economic turmoil He continues to provide for our every need. And while all praise goes to Him we would be remiss not to thank you for your partnership with ...

• False Faith vs. Saving Faith

Dear friends, Today I have a wonderful announcement. We have been working on a new course for several years, and today I am happy to announce that it is now available. The course is called The Cross-Centered Mind: Finding Freedom From Anxiety, Depression and Fear and you can find it here: http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com/courses/cross-centered-mind/. Please keep in mind that anytime we release a new course we are short on mentors until people begin graduating from the course and study through the mentorship ...

• Poor Self Esteem

If you have ever thought that you might have poor self esteem, please read this.-by Neill Morris, Director of Purity Courses at Setting Captives Free First let's look at how we got this term, "self esteem." We don't have to hunt for long. Psychologists came up with that about 30 years ago. Before that, the buzz word of the day was "inferiority complex".. so, back then, we all had that. Psychologists nowadays are so concerned about this one thing "happiness" ...

• Radical Appropriation

Dear friend, welcome. I'm so glad to be walking with you in this course. May God bless your studies and application of His Word. It is a privilege to minister to you. As we are now talking about the subject of "Radical Appropriation", or in simple terms, appropriating and enjoying the benefits of the cross, I want to just remind us of why the gospel is so necessary for us, as Christians. Many people in the church today think the ...

• Three Life-Changing Truths

Dear friends, For this month's newsletter I wanted to make a summary of Romans chapter 8, maybe we could look at it from three major headings: 1. No Condemnation 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 Amazing to think that believers can live their lives free from condemnation. This is especially thrilling when we realize the setting of this first verse of Romans chapter 8 is the entirety of Romans chapter ...

• The Message of This New Life

Greetings, and welcome to the new year, 2011! The first week of January Mike Cleveland sent the following to all ministry volunteers who serve at Setting Captives Free. We are now reproducing it here as it contains the heart of our ministry, to reach men and women with the liberating message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. You can read and answer the questions below: The new year is upon us, and as we think about 2011 we realize there ...

• The Anger of Man and the Gospel of Grace

The Reach of Rage, the Healing of the Gospel 6 In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah--because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. 7 Zicri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed Maaseiah the king's son, Azrikam the officer in charge of the palace, and Elkanah, second to the king. 8 The Israelites took captive from their kinsmen two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters. They also took a great ...

• The Life-Changing Power of the Gospel

There is power in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Heart changing, life-changing, sin-breaking, idol-destroying power! When the gospel comes to us in truth it always changes our lives. I've gone from being an overweight impure drunkard who loved to spend time gambling, to a normal weight, healthy man who no longer gets drunk, views pornography, gambles or is involved in any other habitual sin, and who loves God. And this was not through self-help, try-hard, vow-to-change programs, or psychological counseling ...

• The Gospel for a Church in Recovery - IV

Greetings once again, dear friends: this is the fourth teaching in our series called "The Gospel for the Church in Recovery." With so much of the church living "in recovery", rather than in the redemption provided for us in Jesus, I felt compelled to write on the power of the gospel as it applies to struggles such as depression, anxiety, etc. Therefore, these past few months, we have been studying through Psalm chapter 107 and have been noticing all the ...

• The Gospel for a Church in Recovery - III

Welcome to Never Thirst, the latest newsletter from Setting Captives Free. We are continuing in our study called "The Gospel for the Church in Recovery". This is the third study in this subject, and our purpose is to see how God changes hearts and lives, rather than leaving us "in recovery" all our lives. We are using Psalm 107 as our basis for study; and in our previous two newsletters, we saw two word-pictures of God's work in the lives ...

• The Gospel for a Church in Recovery - II

We are in the middle of a series called "The Gospel for the Church in Recovery." We are studying through Psalm 107 and have come to the second word picture. The first was the "Wilderness Wanderers". You can study this first word-picture by looking in the archives of the newsletter here: http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com/newsletter/. Our second word picture is of "Chained Captives." We find this illustration in Psalm 107: 10-16. Please read the following passage and provide your answers at the end: ...

• The Gospel for a Church in Recovery - I

Wilderness Wanderers We people face many problems in life. Sometimes, like Job experienced, hardships and troubles come in numerous ways, seemingly all at the same time. When difficulties come and we face trials of many kinds, it has been the habit of many people throughout history to turn to other people for the solution. It seems far easier to trust in man for solutions rather than to seek the Lord and call upon Him. And yet turning to man and ...

• Rejection, Repentence, Rest

Welcome to the new updated Setting Captives Free newsletter. We had to temporarily suspend the newsletter while we moved the list on to our own servers. This is now complete, and we hope to publish one newsletter every month from now on. These newsletters will be in the same format as our course studies: teaching biblical truth, interspersed with questions. You can login and complete the newsletter lessons and your answers will be saved for later review, or you can ...