Watch Randy Murphy share highlights of how God's Spirit has moved through CTO Ministries in 2020!
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How do you deal with the difficult people and difficult circumstances in your life? Often, our attempt to control our world takes us in a sinful direction.
This video illustrates how we can turn to God and His resources in the middle of problems and pain.
VIEW PDF CHART: https://ctoministries.org/wp-content/uploads/4-gs-2020.pdf Does the fruit of your life display your belief in the 4 G's of God? How does our belief that God is Glorious, Great, Gracious, Good directly impact our thinking, decisions and actions?
This video explains the connection between fear, fruit and the 4 G's of God.
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Why are lies so easy to believe? We're in a battle and Satan knows that believing lies will erode our ability to trust Jesus.
This video illustration exposes the battlefield of our mind and reveals the hope that God's truth and His wisdom can replace Satan's lies.
Randy Murphy from CTO Ministries discusses what present day idols look like and how common they can be in our lives.
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What if difficulties are God's special invitation to a fulfilled life?
This video illustrates how life's challenges—often viewed as roadblocks to our goals—are designed by God as stepping stones to reach His goals: to glorify Him, grow in godliness, know him intimately and serve an eternal purpose.
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Is there hope for our relationship? Can the brick wall between us ever come down?
Watch Randy Murphy demonstrate how true forgiveness can take down a wall that was built brick by brick—bringing restoration, freedom, life and hope to a broken relationship.
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Is it really possible to thank God in ALL circumstances—even the most difficult?
Learn how giving thanks acts like a bridge transporting us from inner turmoil to peace ...from wrestling with God to resting in God.
Brokenness is the gateway to a fuller life in the Spirit. It is a humbling and often painful experience, but the breaking is needed so that the Holy Spirit can begin to work within us to strengthen and empower us to go forward in faith. Join Randy Murphy of CTO Ministries, as he defines what brokenness looks like and describe how to grow in this needed yet usually avoided area of our character?
Brokenness is the gateway to a fuller life in the Spirit. It is a humbling and often painful experience, but the breaking is needed so that the Holy Spirit can begin to work within us to strengthen and empower us to go forward in faith. Join Randy Murphy of CTO Ministries, as he defines what brokenness looks like and describe how to grow in this needed yet usually avoided area of our character?
Hurtful things that happen in a relationship are like bricks being placed on a wall. Over time, a double-sided wall is built that can destroy the relationship if not dealt with biblically. Randy Murphy, of Called to Obedience Ministries, shares how that wall gets built.
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Why does it feel like there's a brick wall between us? Sin acts like a brick. When I sin I add a brick. When they sin they add a brick.
Over time, a double-sided brick wall is built that deeply hinders relationship. In this video Randy Murphy demonstrates how that wall gets built.
Christina shares her experience with Called to Obedience and the changes that came as a result. She also shares how God is using those changes to impact her family and others through discipleship and Life Coaching.
VIEW PDF CHECKLIST: https://ctoministries.org/wp-content/uploads/confession-checklist-2020.pdf Confession is one of the most humbling journeys to engage—a path everyone could use some encouragement to walk down.
Watch this video to learn practical "how-to's" for confessing sin as part of the relational reconciliation process.
This three-part series addresses the question of "How Christian is Christian Counseling?". In this part Randy Murphy from CTO Ministries evaluates the basis of a number of counseling approaches.
This three-part series addresses the question of "How Christian is Christian Counseling?". In this part Dennie Patton, from CTO Ministries evaluates the history and basis of a number of counseling approaches.
This webinar will present the foundations necessary for counseling to be truly biblical. Randy Murphy and Dennie Patton, from Called to Obedience Ministries, will compare and contrast a biblical approach with a secular approach at a number of levels.
VIEW PDF DIAGRAM: https://ctoministries.org/wp-content/uploads/crossroads-of-decision-2020.pdf Life's decisions present us with the question: "Which path should I take?" Our flesh always pulls us to build our own kingdom while the Spirit of God encourages and equips us to build God's kingdom.
Watch this illustration to discover the differences between these two pathways and the contrasting outcomes.
Pat and Jolene Braddy share the introductory session of the Called To Mission Training Program that is designed to further equip you in the context of a small group of fellow believers to more passionately and intentionally share the gospel with others.
This Sample Session will give you direction on how to lead a small group session of Called To Mission, prepared by Pat and Jolene Braddy.
Hear how the Called to Mission Training with Pat and Jolene Braddy has equipped individuals to more passionately and intentionally share the gospel with others.
In this 40 minute presentation, Dennie Dowell Patton, of Called to Obedience Ministries (CTO) shares a biblical perspective on the role of the wife with special attention given to 1 Peter 3.
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So, how does it all fit together?
Watch this video explanation to learn the "scope & sequence" of how CTO Ministries' disciple-making curriculum flows together.
Observing people over many years of ministry has revealed similar pattern of dealing with difficult circumstances and difficult people. Your attempt to control one's world may dominate motivations, attitudes and behaviors. If the demand to control is present, it will greatly hinder your obedience to Christ. This discussion is an attempt to make you amore aware of these patterns and strategies and the need to surrender control of your life to God.
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Have you ever encountered a cycle of disappointment, discouragement or depression? What about despair? As complex as those seasons of life seem, the road that leads there is relatively simple.
This video illustrates how a one-word addition to this equation shifts the outcome from hope to despair.
Every human being deals with anger. In a world of disappointments, imperfections, miseries, and sins, anger is a given. You get angry, I get angry. Those you counsel get angry. God intends us to understand anger and to know how anger problems can be resolved.
Join Dennie and her guests as they continue their discussion on facing debilating diseases, the dying process and the death of loved ones.
Many of your behaviors, attitudes and actions, whether obvious or not, are motivated by fear of losing control of your world at some level. What is the difference between biblical fear and sinful fear? How do I help others identify and overcome sinful fear in their lives? This webinar will give very practical steps in facing common fears.
Dennie,the founder of Called to Obedience Ministries, shares her journey through the death of her son, Peter and three years later the death of her husband, Howie.
Randy and Janet Murphy share their journey of identifying the control strategies that were destroying their marriage and the steps they had to take to begin dismantling them. There are attempts to control in every marriage - there is also a way to deal with them.
Watch a detailed overview explaining the 2021 update to the 3-Part Discipleship Series Curriculum: God's Call to Obedience
www.ctoministries.org/bookstore/the-discipleship-series-gods-call-to-obedience/
Watch Randy Murphy share a bullet point overview highlighting the 2021 updates to the 3-Part Discipleship Series Curriculum: God's Call to Obedience
www.ctoministries.org/bookstore/the-discipleship-series-gods-call-to-obedience/
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Asking good questions can help someone find the right words to describe the sin they need to confess.
This video resource will help you learn how to ask good questions!
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Finding the right words to identify your sin against someone brings deeper freedom to your heart.
This video resource will help you more clearly identify how you have offended others and equip you to seek more specific forgiveness!
VIEW PDF CHECKLIST: https://ctoministries.org/wp-content/uploads/expressing-biblical-love-2020.pdf Do you know how well your life is reflecting Biblical love? This video illustration will help you learn how to invite God to evaluate your heart based on 1 Corinthians 13.
Learning how to express biblical love is a gift that will invite grace and peace into every relationship in your life.
VIEW PDF DIAGRAM: https://ctoministries.org/wp-content/uploads/facing-emotional-pain-2020.pdf Have you ever touched a flame? Experiencing emotional pain can feel like sticking your hand in a fire! Our gut instinct is to self-protect.
However, utilizing God's resources to walk straight through the fire of emotional pain refines, purifies, heals and helps us become better image-bearers of Christ.
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Watch Dennie Patton & Nate Hoot talk about the most natural human response when life moves beyond our illusion of control—fear. We feel helpless, vulnerable, exposed.
What is the true source of fear and how can we stay rooted, centered and encouraged in the midst of chaos?
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So what really is grace? Forgiveness—which frees us from the condemnation and guilt of our sin—is often a hard concept to understand.
If Satan can keep us focused on our sin we essentially live in bondage while the door to our "jail cell" remains open. Randy Murphy illustrates how this freeing truth works!
VIEW PDF CHECKLIST: https://ctoministries.org/wp-content/uploads/forgiveness-checklist-2020.pdf Harboring anger and bitterness will eat you from the inside out!
However, freedom through forgiveness is possible! Watch this video tutorial on how to use the Forgiveness Checklist to identify the specific offenses of others that with God's help you can forgive.
FORGIVENESS PROCESS CHART: https://ctoministries.org/wp-content/uploads/forgiveness-process-individual-2020.pdf
FORGIVENESS STEPS CHART: https://ctoministries.org/wp-content/uploads/forgiveness-steps-individual-2020.pdf
Following the forgiveness process & steps outlined in this video will bring deeper levels of God's freedom and peace to the relationships in your life!
FORGIVENESS PROCESS CHART: https://ctoministries.org/wp-content/uploads/forgiveness-process-two-people-2020.pdf
FORGIVENESS STEPS CHART: https://ctoministries.org/wp-content/uploads/forgiveness-steps-two-people-2020.pdf
Is your relationship with your spouse strained? Has trust been broken? Watch this video to learn how to forgive, reconcile and rebuild a pathway of trust.
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What do you do when you get hurt—when someone does or says something that stings? It's easy to respond or react.
Watch this illustration about how to apply God's truth to hurtful moments. The "1-2-3-4-5 Memory Outline" will help you "get a grip".
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What do you do when you get hurt—when someone does or says something that stings? It's easy to respond or react.
Watch this illustration about how to apply God's truth to hurtful moments. The "1-2-3-4-5 Memory Outline" will help you "get a grip".
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What do you do when you get hurt—when someone does or says something that stings? It's easy to respond or react.
Watch this illustration about how to apply God's truth to hurtful moments. The "1-2-3-4-5 Memory Outline" will help you "get a grip".
It is so easy to see what needs to change in someone else. It is just as easy to step in and attempt to play the Holy Spirit in that person's life to "help speed up" that process. In this 45 minute video, Dennie Dowell Patton, from Called to Obedience Ministries, shares her complete teaching on what happens when we "put our mug in the middle" and the need to get out of the way to let God do what only God can do.