Our Core Values at Agape are:

• Agape (unconditional love)
• Relationship
• Empowerment

Core Values Audio Files (WMA)

Intro
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5

The following sermon series is a study of the post-exilic prophets. This will be published as The God of Second Chances, in 2011.

The God of Second Chances: Series on the Prophets (2010)

Freeing the Oppressed Domestic Violence Series
   1.  Freeing the Oppressed: Isaiah 61
   2. Amos 2: by Marc Andresen
   3. Justice for Tamar: 2 Samuel 13

Sermon Series: I am Loved by God. This series was recorded by the International Churches of Christ and is available for free. On this link click “Ron Clark” as speaker and sermons will appear.

This sermon was videotaped at the Highland Street Church of Christ in Memphis, TN. Ron Clark was asked to speak and presented an overview of Agape’s story October 2009.

The Agape Story

These sermons were given at various conferences or guest speakings by Ron Clark from the Agape Church of Christ.

• Sermon at Park Plaza Church of Christ in Tulsa, OK: The Better Waythe-better-way
• Jesus Comes Home: Come Home Jesus
• Thinking Like Jesus
• Is There Room at the Table?

Eating With Jesus: Sermon Series on Hospitality and Evangelism

June 20: God the Father of Hospitality (MP3)
June 27: Eating With Sinners: Are You What You Eat? (MP3)
July 11: Eating on Sabbath  (Matthew 12) (MP3)
July 18: Mercy and Mission (Matthew 15) (MP3)
July 25: The Uninvited Guest? (Luke 7). This sermon was a dialogue with Agape and the sound did not pick up.
August 1: There is Room At the Table (Luke 14)
August 8: Entertaining the Stranger (Luke 24: Mark Andresen)
August 15: Dragged by the Spirit (Acts 10-11)
August 22: If You Judge Me Faithful, Come to My House for Dinner (Acts 16)

I listen to people today talk about “waiting for God’s leading…” “waiting for direction from the Spirit…” or “looking for the guiding of the Spirit…” Seems like people talk alot about waiting, but the Spirit is already here, already working, and, in a sense, waiting for us to catch up.

This point was driven home to me today. I would say that God thumped, prodded, and worked on me in a typical way.

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Available from Wipf and Stock Publishing

When a boy cries, his father trains him in the way of the ancients. He is taught to “man up” and rejects anything feminine in his life. Thus he begins the process of becoming a man in the image of his culture. This transformation comes at the expense of his own calling to be in God’s image. However, men and women were both created in this divine image and were meant to live in harmony rather than enmity. Recently, influential Christian writers and leaders have suggested that men have become too “feminized” and need to return to their calling to be “real men.” Clark believes that this “new masculinity” is indeed a return to the way of the ancients. Drawing from his experiences as a minister, sexual and domestic violence advocate, and community leader, Clark suggests that Jesus came to redefine masculinity and resist the cultural view of manhood, power, and oppression.

“Are men to be strong, tough, and raging? Or compassionate, empathetic, and caring. Ron Clark takes you through Biblical and cultural history providing a thought provoking case for what real manhood is. This book will definately challenge you to think through whatever paradigms you may have instead of simply accepting the status quo.”
Eric and Jennifer Garcia, Founders Association of Marriage and Family Ministries

“Ron Clark is one of the leading voices among male clergy in the struggle to end men’s violence against women and children.  This book contains all of the qualities of courageous honesty, wisdom and humility that make him such an effective educator and leader.  Women and men  – inside and outside of Christian communities — will find great insight and compassionate teaching in these pages.”
 Jackson Katz, Ph.D., creator of the video Tough Guise, and author of The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help.

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