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train

Said 127 times, in 60 of 378 sermons, across 23 Sundays. Spoken as 5 forms: training 56, train 45, trained 22, trains 3, trainings 1.

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Romans 76 40
Let Us 18 6

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self is beneficial to us. It tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endures the blessing when it comes. This morn
Caleb Combs7 Jun 202630:52
where, Lord willing, I'll begin receiving further theological training through a seminary in the hopes of one day becoming a pastor.
21 Jun 20260:51
r 40 years and then spent 40 years in uh the wilderness being trained up and taught by god and then spent 40 more years wandering t
Caleb Combs21 Jun 202610:13
ring we um we took our staff up to new life camp and did some training and different things but our overall uh idea and concept for
Caleb Combs21 Jun 202612:04
ce for myself. And it's a sandcastle. God, it's the building, training , investing in disciples. Thank you for the reminder of that t
Josh Combs21 Jun 202639:31
lly myths. Rather, and here's what I want you to see. Rather, train , discipline. This really does have a thought of get to the gy
Jayson Combs26 Jun 20261:51
, right? This is the thought here. Like, work out, work hard, train yourself for godliness. For while bodily training is of some
Jayson Combs26 Jun 20261:59
ut, work hard, train yourself for godliness. For while bodily training is of some value. Getting to the gym. Okay, there's a little
Jayson Combs26 Jun 20262:06
at's good. The Lord wants us to see what is of great value to train yourself in. Train yourself in godliness. For while bodily tr
Jayson Combs26 Jun 20262:12
wants us to see what is of great value to train yourself in. Train yourself in godliness. For while bodily training is of some v
Jayson Combs26 Jun 20262:17
in yourself in. Train yourself in godliness. For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way as it ho
Jayson Combs26 Jun 20262:22
s saying. You can trust it. The Bible tells us that we are to train ourselves to get to the gym, to exercise in godliness. There
Jayson Combs26 Jun 20262:45
int of the passage is, Paul is saying, you need to hear this. Train yourself up in godliness. Why? Godliness has great value. And
Jayson Combs26 Jun 20265:39
uthor telling us? What is the Bible telling us that we should train in godliness? So what is that? I was reading and one of the c
Jayson Combs26 Jun 20266:22
God looks like. One asks the question, how would you go about training a young man or woman in the practice of godliness? You would
Jayson Combs26 Jun 202610:40
ey, do this. Don't do this. Don't do this. That's not how you train up a child, right? You train up a child by giving him the tru
Jayson Combs26 Jun 202625:21
on't do this. That's not how you train up a child, right? You train up a child by giving him the truth of the word. But you have
Jayson Combs26 Jun 202625:24
s they enjoy. And we parents should see our responsibility to train them up in the gospel that they may find life and blessing. S
Josh Yates28 Jun 202616:24
Good evening, everybody. You know, I had to train myself. I was upstairs. I'm like, it is night. It is not morn
Patrick Bicknell30 Jun 20260:37
this. They didn't have cars back then. They didn't travel by train or airplane or anything like that. Oftentimes it involved tra
John Carter5 Jul 20263:59
would travel many for miles and miles and miles. No cars, no trains , no planes. Things like that. So you're talking they're eithe
Josh Combs5 Jul 20264:28
And she's leaving the auditorium right now. She's also potty training , which is awesome. So we are dealing with our youngest. She i
Phil Piasecki5 Jul 202610:21
e after technique, wielding sword, sword, sword, and actually training against others who are wielding swords and looking to come af
Justin Dean14 Jul 202621:56
derstand what God's word has to say about X? Because we don't train with God's word. When the enemy comes after us and looks to t
Justin Dean14 Jul 202623:11
ow how to ward him off with God's word. It's because we never train with God's word. In order to utilize God's word to its greate
Justin Dean14 Jul 202623:25
ial, what do we have to do? We have to pick up God's word and train ourselves with it regularly. You hear me say this all the tim
Justin Dean14 Jul 202623:36
. I look and I say, hey, you need to be equipped. You need to train with God's word. And I want to make sure that you have that c
Justin Dean14 Jul 202623:57
. And I want to make sure that you have that crucial piece of training . Why? So that when the enemy comes after you, you are not onl
Justin Dean14 Jul 202624:01
n't know how to use it, but it's far deadlier when someone is trained on how to wield it. Second, a crucial piece of a sword is you
Justin Dean14 Jul 202624:28
y, to emphasize them in our life, to pick up our sword and to train with it regularly, to put on this helmet of salvation and to
Justin Dean14 Jul 202635:44
ew people, no doubt terrifying to them. They were not exactly trained combat veterans, right? Like soldiers, the Lord moved on thei
Chuck Lindsey19 Jul 202647:11
not say, Look how skilled I am with my slingshot. Look at the training that I have done. No, David said, Look what my God will do. D
26 Jul 202619:51
w to do that. It's our guidebook, our instruction manual, our training . And so Paul looks and he says, there are these two realities
Justin Dean4 Aug 202612:54

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ists. For what? For the building up of the body of Christ. To train you to do the work of the ministry. That means there's a leve
Josh Yates23 Aug 202618:15
hey might have different warm-up procedures and stretches and training programs and whatever but there is one thing that every runne
Chuck Lindsey30 Aug 202617:19
od tells us to run together. And in this passage, he gives us training . He gives us instructions on what that run really looks like.
Jayson Combs30 Aug 202611:54
ks before this picture was taken. And he says, hey, I've been training to run this race. Would you like to go run a race with me? An
John Carter30 Aug 20261:57
ided to run this without any kind of preparation, any kind of training , any. And that's just the running part. That does not include
John Carter30 Aug 20263:24
this, but I'm a diabetic. And so I thought, because I had no training and proper understanding, that I would carry all the things t
John Carter30 Aug 20267:44
ctually becomes difficult. Man, we live in a culture that has trained us in a lot of ways to just look for an alternative as soon a
John Carter30 Aug 202610:12
get some head shakes. The whole idea is this, man. We've been trained that, man, if it doesn't come easy, it doesn't come right now
John Carter30 Aug 202610:40
am dying. Like, my legs are cramping up, not prepared, wasn't trained . And a guy could see very clearly, man, this guy's struggling
John Carter30 Aug 202614:10
was tired. I was unprepared. My body was angry at me for not training and not preparing like I probably should have. But that pictu
John Carter30 Aug 202626:07
ished the race in like three hours and something. That's what training will do to you, I guess. Close to six hours later after I fin
John Carter30 Aug 202639:51
iant, the champion of the Philistines. And he has no military training . All he has is a sling and five. And the miraculous does not
Josh Combs30 Aug 20264:19
hted vest while I do it. You would say, well, that's cool for training , but if you want to go fast, if you're racing the clock or yo
Josh Combs30 Aug 20266:59
you're not going to take around the track for four laps, your training weights. That would be silly to do in the same way. The Bible
Josh Combs30 Aug 20267:16
would have this thought in their heads. These athletes would train hard. They would seek glory and fame for themselves by winnin
Josh Yates30 Aug 20263:50
ing their clothing when they were about to The Greek word, or training for athletics, gymnasium, our word for gymnasium, literally t
Josh Yates30 Aug 202614:55
s, gymnasium, our word for gymnasium, literally translates to train naked. Kind of gives a little different, anyway. Beginning ar
Josh Yates30 Aug 202615:00
tinely stripped naked before entering the stadium or arena to train and race because their tunic robes and heavy garments would c
Josh Yates30 Aug 202615:16

romans

1:18-32 The NEED
days. And I'm so thankful for them. Those that really want to train children in the admonition of Jesus Christ. Because it's a di
Matt Montgomery4 May 202534:35
sin has progressed. I remember two years ago, I had to go to training , a government training at a government facility. And it's act
Matt Montgomery4 May 202537:05
remember two years ago, I had to go to training, a government training at a government facility. And it's actually for one of the pr
Matt Montgomery4 May 202537:14
he three letter agencies. And I sat in a hour and a half long training on the 67 different types of people. When I was born, there w
Matt Montgomery4 May 202537:19
talk about the next verse. We need to teach them. We need to train them. We need to be involved in their lives. We go to a lot o
Matt Montgomery4 May 202543:28
s fly in New York, spend a couple of days there. We'll take a train to Boston. It'd be a great time. And for those of you, if you
Patrick Bicknell4 May 202515:51
isn't really that difficult. Ray Comfort is an evangelist. He trains people how to share Jesus with other people and he interviews
Josh Yates11 May 20257:11
about the Proverbs 22.6, of the principle, not a promise, but train up a child in the way he's going. When he's old, he'll not de
Randy Johnson18 May 202519:25
lps make it so clear. He says, imagine you're walking by some train tracks, and you see a man is chained in the middle of those t
Patrick Bicknell25 May 202540:18
tracks. And off in the distance, you see this massive freight train is just barreling towards the man. It is just hauling towards
Patrick Bicknell25 May 202540:28
the key. Would you start cleaning up some of the trash by the train tracks and go, man, I really hope, he asks me why I'm cleanin
Patrick Bicknell25 May 202541:04
Tuesday nights. I am part of the Pastors Academy where we are training men to go out and preach and teach the Word of God. And it is
Roy Townsend25 May 20252:38
t the word teaching means, and reproof for correction and for training in righteousness. So the answer to this is yes, yes, and yes,
Roy Townsend25 May 202515:34
is good for teaching. It's good for correction. It's good for training . It's good for rebuke. It's good for reproof. It's supposed t
Roy Townsend25 May 202516:15
for people for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipp
Ryan Story25 May 202516:50
word of God is going to teach us, reproof us, correct us, and train us? Or when we turn around and we use the Bible and we read s
Ryan Story25 May 202517:40
City, spent a few days. Just as a staff doing some different trainings and having a little fun and different things. Ryan and I foun
Caleb Combs1 Jun 20251:08
irement for you to enter heaven, what would you do? Would you train all your lifetime? Don't skip leg day because you got to make
Chuck Lindsey1 Jun 20256:42
Don't skip leg day because you got to make a jump. Would you train all your lifetime to make that jump and think, you know what?
Chuck Lindsey1 Jun 20256:50
w nobody's ever done it, but I'm going to do it. I'm going to train my whole life to make that jump. Or would you see it as entir
Chuck Lindsey1 Jun 20257:00
trying to be good that we are saved. That'd be like trying to train to make that jump. It's never going to happen. We'll never be
Chuck Lindsey1 Jun 202523:29
se the church has been focused on sharing the gospel, and for training up people in the Lord, training up disciples, and to send the
Jayson Combs1 Jun 20252:33
n sharing the gospel, and for training up people in the Lord, training up disciples, and to send them out. And so today is a happy-s
Jayson Combs1 Jun 20252:36
pearl this week. We were at staff retreat, going through some training , and I got to bunk with Pastor Chuck Lindsay from our Grand B
John Carter1 Jun 202522:35
not count his sin here paul is using some of his pharisaical training you're thinking what is that paul was trained just as these r
Caleb Combs8 Jun 202526:43
is pharisaical training you're thinking what is that paul was trained just as these religious leaders and teachers he was a jew of
Caleb Combs8 Jun 202526:43
cross referencing but paul is using this he's using the very training that he does and he's appealing now to the old testament psal
Caleb Combs8 Jun 202527:33
ant you to experience that. But I'm up here because I lost my train of thought. I want you to know the truth. That's why I'm up h
Gary Wright8 Jun 202513:43
lness. It's his kindness. And this doesn't make me go off the train and start doing stupid, crazy things. This makes me say, Lord
Chuck Lindsey15 Jun 202530:59
some young kids and thought we could manipulate them into our training , into our teaching so that we could use them for our forces.
Jayson Combs15 Jun 202531:00
knowing his word and glorifying him so that what? We can keep training up faithful men and women that will keep pouring into other f
Jayson Combs15 Jun 202538:54
and said, It is a ghost. And they cried out in fear. They're trained sailors, fishermen. They are straining to get across the Sea
Josh Combs15 Jun 202520:06
he water. I'm still probably on the what the heck is going on train . Like, this is terrifying. This is a wild event. There's no,
Josh Combs15 Jun 202521:05
about it to this day. I never experienced, it was a choo-choo train outside our bedroom. I'm telling you why. But I actually told
Caleb Combs6 Jul 202516:51
t it is still profitable for correction, for reproof, and for training in righteousness. It is not the law that is sinful. It is us
Patrick Bicknell20 Jul 202530:20
he best pedigree. He went to the best school. He had the best training . He is a Jewish stud. He is, from the world's perspective of
Roy Townsend20 Jul 202512:33
That I was reading said this. He says, Imagine a boxer. He's trained for months. He's got these visions of becoming the champion,
Gary Wright27 Jul 202521:37
15. And he just got done taking the first segment of driver's training , right? You go and you take some classroom stuff and you take
Eric Hayes17 Aug 20256:19
We're like, whoa, whoa, why? This isn't how this isn't how I trained you to. Love each other. Same issue occurs within this relati
John Carter17 Aug 202534:59
h was much more my speed and I enjoyed that. I also loved the train which was a little fast for me but I still enjoyed the train
Josh Combs17 Aug 202525:55
train which was a little fast for me but I still enjoyed the train nonetheless. So, I take my kids to Cedar Point and I wanted t
Josh Combs17 Aug 202525:58
ws up and is 18 and goes to college and moves on, that we are training him up in the way, he's of the Lord. So when he's old, he won
Jayson Combs31 Aug 202523:41
hen he's old, he won't depart from those things. And so we're training and hopefully training him to know what's good, right? So at
Jayson Combs31 Aug 202523:46
depart from those things. And so we're training and hopefully training him to know what's good, right? So at 15, like we're, we're t
Jayson Combs31 Aug 202523:46
he Holy Spirit, that Paul is a Jew. He was a Pharisee. He was trained up in the Jewish ways. He knows the law, but then was taken e
Jayson Combs7 Sep 20257:46
here I'm like, listen, everybody, we're going to give you the training . Let's see how you do percentage-wise a sales. Let's see what
Josh Combs7 Sep 202528:02
ountability is. Accountability is not gossip. It's not a free train to go, hey, we can tell everybody what you're going through.
Caleb Combs14 Sep 202528:07
c assassination. Seeing visuals of a young woman stabbed on a train in Charlotte. Hearing another school shooting. Personally hav
Caleb Combs14 Sep 202534:04
od, profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipp
Jayson Combs14 Sep 202527:12

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