Thursday Bible Class May 10th - 2010 Romans Series

How Sins Get Transmitted
Romans 5:12

Romans 5 is a transition from the foundation of justification to the working out of our salvation which Paul is using more in terms of spiritual growth. The barriers between God and man are legal (a penalty required), spiritual death as the consequence of that legal condemnation and man’s works of unrighteousness. How has this legal problem been solved? Is personal sin an issue in our salvation? What is the issue in our salvation? How did sin and death spread to the entire world? What is personal sin? If it doesn’t figure into salvation, how is it dealt with it in our lifetime? If we mistreat someone, why is confession directed to our legal authority and not all about that person we mistreated?
 
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Tuesday Bible Class May 1st - 2010 Acts Series

Samaria, Signs, Spirits, Simony and Salvation
Acts 8:9–11

Philip has undertaken the revolutionary act of preaching the gospel in Samaria and has received a positive response. From here, why is the focus of the expansion of the church into the West? Learn how this is directly related to Noah’s sons in Genesis 9. Another issue is: why is Philip able to perform miracles when he is not an apostle? As we encounter Simon the sorcerer, questions also arise concerning demons, demon possession, demon influence and how salvation creates a boundary that cannot be crossed regarding demons and the believer. The doctrine of demon possession clears up any confusion, especially the erroneous, experience oriented teaching that so often influences false teaching within the church today.

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Sunday's Bible Class April 29th - 2011 Colossians Series

Renewing the New Man
Colossians 3:5–11

At salvation God gave us all we need to live this life in His abundance with the assurance that we will be with Him eternally. Does God also impute spiritual growth without the exercise of our own volition? At salvation everything about us is new. But in time we sin again. We have assurance nothing will ever be lost positionally because of that sin, but we are not swept up in a tide of spiritual ecstasy and on to glory without the intervening choices required in order to walk through a fallen world. Learn what it means put off the old man and to put on the new man, and to be volitionally engaged in this newness of life so that we may experience the abundance in life we already possess through the Holy Spirit.

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Annual Chafer Pastors' Conference Resources Now Available Online

The annual Chafer Pastors' Conference hosted yearly at West Houston Bible Church concluded on Wednesday evening, March 14. This year's conference theme, "The Responsibility of Christians in Government", featured a line up of speakers who all gave excellent presentations.  This conference was one of special importance and interest due to this critical election year in the U.S.

The conference had an early kick off with a special guest speaker at Sunday's worship service - U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert.

Free conference papers, presentations, audio and video files can be found under the Conference Speakers tab at www.houstonbibleconferences.org.

Please let others know about these free resources now available for quick/immediate access.

2012 Jude Series

While Dr. Dean was teaching out of the country, we began his new series in the book of Jude on January 5. We have currently viewed six of these lessons. Lesson seven and subsequent lessons from this excellent series will be aired during his next absence. Check back here to receive updates and announcements on those dates in the spring.

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Publication by Dr. Dean on Logos

What the Bible Teaches about Spiritual Warfare, by Dr. Robert Dean, Jr. and Dr. Thomas Ice is NOW AVAILABLE on Logos.com.

If you have Logos, you can now have Spiritual Warfare as part of your Logos Library.

Three Foundational Rapture Passages

Three scripture passages demonstrate the pre–tribulation Rapture. Together these verses answer the who,
the what, the when, the where, and the how questions concerning the Rapture of the Church. This paper explains the significance of 1 Thess 4:13-18, John 14:1-3, and 1 Cor 15:50-58 for understanding why the Church Age believer expectantly anticipates the coming of Jesus Christ not the Antichrist.

Three Foundational Rapture Passages

Now Available – Video Podcasts of All Current Bible Classes Plus Website Tutorials

The DBM video ministry recently expanded to include video podcasts of all Bible classes. Other video offerings of DBM include live streaming of Bible classes, online video files, AVI DVDs of current Bible studies (each DVD includes 20 high-quality Bible class videos), as well as "regular" single-class DVDs of each Bible study.

For information on how to access the online video and audio offerings of Dean Bible Ministries, click below for step-by-step "How to" guides on:

Video/Audio

• How to sign up for DBM video podcasts on iTunes
• How to live stream a Bible class
• How to view DBM videos online

Audio only

• How to sign up for DBM audio podcasts through iTunes
• How to download Bible class audio files to your computer
• How to listen to Bible class audio files from the DBM website

All of the above listed "How to" guides are available by clicking here.

If you need additional information about the video/audio offerings of Dean Bible Ministries, please e-mail us at media@deanbible.org.

Attention Logos 3 Users

For those of you with Logos 3.0 (the notes transfer feature for Logos 4.0 is not yet available)

Here is a wonderful present for all of you Bible students. A tremendous friend of DBM has used the transcripts from my Bible classes to create a massive note file for you Logos 3.0 PC users (the notes feature does not work in the Logos for Mac). If you download and insert this file into your My Documents/Libronix DLS/Annotations folder, then the next time you open Logos 3.0 to a Bible verse in a series I have taught then you will see some green, post-it, icons appear on any versified text (Bible, commentary, etc). When you put your cursor over those note files you can read what I taught on those verses. If you click on one, then the entire note file for all the verses will open, and you can navigate around those.

He also set up a different file that contains all of the doctrines I have taught (over 300) which you can load into your My Favorites folder in Logos 3.0. If you are like me, you may already have a large number of Favorites bookmarked so this may be a problem. Logos does not allow you to add favorites to your favorites folder in this manner. So if you put this into your My Documents/Libronix DLS/Favorites folder then it will replace what you have already marked. If you already have a lot of favorites marked, then you can place the Dr. Robert Dean Doctrines annotation file in the Annotations folder (My Documents/Libronix DLS/Annotations) and you can simply open it as a note file with all of the doctrines in alphabetical order.

For those with only Logos 4.0 you will unfortunately have to wait. The note transfer protocol will be released sometime soon as part of the upgrade to Logos 4.0b. Until then you will just need to be patient. If you have Logos 3.0 on your PC and have added the Notes and Doctrines files to Logos 3.0, you can import them into Logos 4.0. On the Logos 4.0 page, type "import" into the command line at the top of the page.

If you are not familiar with Logos I suggest the Christian Leader's Library which I think is the most basic collection they offer. You can download a free version of Logos 4.0 from the Logos.com website (link available under the FAQ page).

If you have questions about this please e-mail staff@deanbible.org as the ladies in the office know nothing about its operation and I will need to answer those questions.

To download each file, right-click on the links below and select "Save Link as" or "Save target as" (depending on what browser you use). This will bring up a dialog where you can select where to save these files to on you drive.

Notes File
Doctrines File