“Christs Message to the Church in Smyrna” is a sobering, eye-opening message for the Church today. In this classic teaching, Rick Renner shares encouraging Bible truths against the backdrop of intense suffering by believers in Early Church history — with application for our lives today.

Among the seven churches addressed by Jesus in the book of Revelation, the congregation in Smyrna suffered the worst. Jesus was intentional about letting the Smyrnaean believers know He was standing by them. He wanted them to know that nothing would prevent His eternal plans for His people from coming to pass, nor would anything remove His eternal rewards from their grasp.

As you walk with the Lord, He is speaking these same encouraging words to you. These teachings will bolster your stand for Christ, strengthen your devotion to Him, and eradicate the fear of death from your life!

Topics in this 5-part series include:

•    Smyrna — A Place of Suffering
•    What Are True Riches?
•    Persecution: How To Overcome It
•    The Story of Polycarp
•    A Message to Overcoming Believers

Series includes (1) Study Guide. Additional copies can be purchased for group study.

Companion Study Guide

A 5-lesson study guide (included with program series purchase) corresponds to “Christ’s Message to Smyrna” teaching. Each lesson covers a topic that is addressed during the program series, with questions and references supplied to draw you deeper into your own private study of the Scriptures on this subject.

Each study lesson includes:

• Greek Word Definitions
  
• Lesson Synopsis
• Lesson Emphasis
• Lesson Main Points
• Study Questions and Practical Application
  

This 44-page Study Guide is suitable for personal or group study.

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Hurricanes consist of multiple belts of rain and wind that pound the earth in sequence with pauses between each violent phase. When the eye of the storm arrives, the sky may appear bright and clear, giving the illusion that the storm has passed. But the truth is, the fiercest impact of the storm is still approaching. Those who don’t know how to read the signs and patterns of a storm may mistakenly emerge from their place of safety only to face unprotected the full velocity of the storms brutal fury.

In No Room for Compromise: Christ’s Message to Today’s Church, Rick Renner sets forth his most prophetic book to date. With a sobering charge to Christian leadership to stand up for faith in Christ — regardless of the price required to proclaim it in its purest form — Renner’s message is a clarion call: Winds of opposition against the Church are gathering. As pagan influences continue to increase in these last days, Christianity will once again become completely out of sync with the times with its message that Christ alone is the way to the Father.

The Bible is clear that at the end of the age, the spiritual hurricane of persecution that struck the Early Church will once again slam against society with devastating consequences. God has always had His remnant who would not bow to external pressures. In these final hours of the Church Age, He will have a remnant again. Will you be among them?

More on this book:

• In-depth scriptural teaching that makes the New Testament come alive.
• Nearly 400 images — including over 100 shot on location — classic artwork, artifacts, illustrations, and maps.
• A comprehensive, completely indexed reference book.

No Room For Compromise: Jesus’ Message to Today’s Church is Volume Two of the Light in Darkness series. It presents an engaging exploration of the pagan culture of the First Century Church, with an emphasis on the city of Pergamum. Against this historical backdrop, this book highlights Jesus’ message to the church of Pergamum when He appeared in a vision during the apostle Johns imprisonment on Patmos. With superb photographs, many of which were shot on location in Turkey, Renner guides readers through a fascinating, detailed explanation of Jesus’ message to the Pergamene church as he prophetically declares the critical significance of this message to the Church in these last days before Jesus returns. Renner also gives the reader a larger context within which to frame the pivotal moment when Jesus appeared to John on that isolated island, taking the reader through a revealing overview of the first Three Centuries AD in which the infant Church grew amidst much opposition within a pagan world and demonstrated that darkness can never overcome the light, life, and power that the truth of Jesus Christ offers all those who believe.

In Christ’s Message to Laodicea, Rick unpacks what it means to be spiritually strong, vibrant, and healthy. With on-site filming in the ancient city of Laodicea, Rick leverages historical insights to answer spiritual questions such as, “What does it really mean to be spiritually hot or cold?”

Maybe you are going through a season where you don’t feel particularly “on fire” for God. If so, this series can help get you unstuck spiritually so that you once again burn with the fire of God in your life!

Jesus is knocking at the door of your heart. Why not answer His call and open the door!

This ten-part series includes (1) Study Guide. Additional copies can be purchased for group study.

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Do you dream that God will give you amazing opportunities to do something magnificent and meaningful with your life? If you say, “Yes, thats me,” welcome to the company of the rest of us who also want to see God work powerfully in our lives!

When Jesus spoke to the Church at Philadelphia, He told them, “…Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it…” (Revelation 3:8). In same way, Jesus Christ has placed an open door — some type of amazing opportunity — in front of you that no man can shut. But you are the only one who can choose to walk through it!

Are you walking through the doors that God has placed before you? You can do it with Gods grace and power. He will help you get moving in the right direction!

In this five-part series, Rick will help you discover:

• How to recognize an open door.
  
• How to know if an open door is really from God.
  
• How to resist the devil if he tries to slam a door shut.
  
• How to embrace divine power that will thrust you into the next phase 
of your life!

Learn how to recognize the open door, experience God’s divine protection, and enjoy His promise to those who overcome. It’s time to walk through the open door in your life!

Series includes (1) Study Guide. Additional copies can be purchased for group study.

Companion Study Guide

A 5-lesson study guide (included with program series purchase) corresponds to “Christ’s Message to Philadelphia” teaching. Each lesson covers a topic that is addressed during the program series, with questions and references supplied to draw you deeper into your own private study of the Scriptures on this subject.

This series will focus on the following topics:

• History of Philadelphia
• An Open Door that No Man Can Shut
• How To Recognize an Open Door
• A Promise of Divine Protection
• A Promise to Those Who Overcome

Each study lesson includes:

• Greek Word Definitions
  
• Lesson Synopsis
• Lesson Emphasis
• Lesson Main Points
• Study Questions and Practical Application
  

The 52-page Study Guide is suitable for personal or group study.

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Digital Products (USB, Digital Video, and Digital Audio) include a Digital Study Guide (PDF format).

If Jesus gave you a “report card” on your spiritual status, what kind of grade do you think you’d get? That is exactly what He did with the church of Sardis — and they didn’t get the grade they thought they would receive! In fact, Jesus warned that they were on the verge of failing if they didn’t make fast changes in the way they were living.

What is most important in life is what Jesus thinks of us — not what we think of ourselves or even what others think of us. And although it may sound intimidating to ask the question, we must ask Him what He thinks and then let Him speak honestly to us about the things we need to be doing better. If well obey Him, we can make the very highest mark on His assessment of us, and live lives that are pleasing to Him.

The believers in Sardis had serious cracks that needed to be repaired. In Revelation 3:1-6, Jesus gave them practical steps to bring about needed correction. And as He admonished them, He is urging us to hear what the Spirit is saying through His powerful words.

In this ten-part series, you’ll discover:

•    What role our reputations play in our lives.
•    How Jesus examines our spiritual status.
•    What to do if you discover cracks in your spiritual life.
•    What it means to have garments that are white.
•    Special promises to overcomers.

Series includes (1) Study Guide. Additional copies can be purchased for group study.

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Thyatira was a powerful city with a powerful church that was birthed in the First Century. Although Jesus commended the believers of Thyatira for all the wonderful works they were doing, He did have something against them that deeply disturbed Him. In this ten-part series, with introductions filmed in the citys ancient ruins, Rick exposes the destructive doctrine of compromise at work in the Church, then and now, and reveals the beauty and the blessing of genuine repentance. Youll discover what causes judgment to be pronounced on someone today and what it means to occupy till Jesus comes. We all need ears to hear and understand the significance of this message so its truths can bear fruit in our lives.

The ten lessons in this teaching will focus on the following topics:

• The History of Thyatira
• Intelligence and Judgment
• A Church Committed to Good Works
• What Jesus Thinks About Compromise in the Church
• Ahab and Jezebel
• What Does “Space To Repent” Mean?
• What Is Repentance?
• What Causes God To Judge Someone Today?
• The Depths of Satan Inside the Church
• Hold Fast and Occupy Until Jesus Comes

Series includes (1) Study Guide. Additional copies can be purchased for group study.

Companion Study Guide

A 10-lesson study guide (included with program series purchase) corresponds to the “Christ’s Message to Thyatira” teaching. Each lesson covers a topic that is addressed during the program series, with questions and references supplied to draw you deeper into your own private study of the Scriptures on this subject.

Each study lesson includes:

• Greek Word Definitions
  
• Lesson Synopsis
• Lesson Emphasis
• Lesson Main Points
• Study Questions and Practical Application
  

This 88-page Study Guide is suitable for personal or group study.

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Note: DVD and CD series include a printed Study Guide.
Digital Products (USB, Digital Video, and Digital Audio) include a Digital Study Guide (PDF format).

In Jesus words to the church of Pergamum, He acknowledged the dark, spiritual environment and the intense pressure these believers faced on a daily basis. Making it a point to let them know that He was acutely aware of their situation, Jesus commended their courage to hold fast to their faith. However, despite this congregations outstanding commitment to resist pressures from without, a deadly spiritual infection had begun to spread inside the church. Jesus defined the intolerable doctrines the church had begun to embrace and called for repentance.

Christs message concluded with a promise of specific rewards for those who overcame not only the onslaught of external persecution, but also the internal pressure. Destructive doctrines and practices had begun to proliferate, so Christ addressed this serious problem.

Like the church in ancient Pergamum, it can be easy for the Church today to view itself as progressive, exempt from the more “primitive,” exclusionary views found in the Bible. However, Jesus views ideas of inclusion and compromise at the expense of truth as a menace to the sanctity, power, and effectiveness of His Church!

Topics in this ten-part series include:

• The City of Pergamum
• What Is the Seat of Satan?
• Antipas, Jesus Beloved Martyr
• Who Is Balaam?
• Balaam and His Doctrine, Part 1
• Balaam and His Doctrine, Part 2
• Who Are the Nicolaitans?
• Do Christians Ever Need To Repent?
• Christ’s Sword and Divine Judgement
• A Message to Overcomers

Note: DVD and CD series include a printed Study Guide.
Digital Products (USB, Digital Video, and Digital Audio) include a Digital Study Guide (PDF format).

“Christ’s Message to the Church in Ephesus” is a classic teaching by Rick Renner. In his characteristically thorough and engaging teaching style, Rick delves deep into the revelation that Jesus Christ gave to the Ephesian church. Presenting these truths within the cultural and historical context of New Testament times, Rick examines each of Jesus messages that were directed both to the pastoral leadership and to the congregation itself.

It becomes startlingly clear in this teaching that the Head of the Church was speaking a present-tense message for every member of His Body for every generation. The teaching and illustrations in this profoundly insightful series will have a strong and lasting impact on the quality of your devotion and your obedience to God. It will also positively enhance your understanding of the New Testament and the instruction that Jesus continues to speak to His Church.

Topics in this 10-part series include:

•    Why Golden Candlesticks?
•    What Jesus Knows About You
•    Doctrinal Integrity
•    How To Recognize True and False Apostles
•    How Does Anyone Leave a First Love?
•    What Is True Repentance?
•    Who Were the Nicolaitans?

Particularly for us upon whom the last days have come, these messages hold tremendous relevance and importance.

Series includes (1) Study Guide. Additional copies can be purchased for group study.

Companion Study Guide

A 10-lesson study guide (included with program series purchase) corresponds to “Christ’s Message to Ephesus” teaching. Each lesson covers a topic that is addressed during the program series, with questions and references supplied to draw you deeper into your own private study of the Scriptures on this subject.

Each study lesson includes:

• Greek Word Definitions
  
• Lesson Synopsis
• Lesson Emphasis
• Lesson Main Points
• Study Questions and Practical Application
  

This 88-page Study Guide is suitable for personal or group study.

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Note: DVD and CD series include a printed Study Guide.
Digital Products (USB, Digital Video, and Digital Audio) include a Digital Study Guide (PDF format).

“This is the most important book I’ve ever written. It has completely transformed my life. I believe the truth it shares has the power to transform yours as well.”

— Rick Renner

Step into the world of the First Century Church

Rick Renner creates a panoramic experience of unsurpassed detail to transport you into the ancient lands of the seven churches of Asia Minor. Within the context of this fascinating — and, at times, shocking — historical backdrop, Rick outlines challenges early believers faced in taking the Gospel to a pagan world. After presenting a riveting account of the apostle John’s vision of the exalted Christ, Rick leads you through an in-depth study of Jesus’ messages to the churches of Ephesus and Smyrna — profoundly relevant messages that sill resonate for His Church today.

Rick’s richly detailed historical narrative, enhanced by classic artwork and superb photographs shot on location at archeological sites, will make the lands and the message of the Bible come alive to you as never before. Parallels between Roman society of the First Century and the modern world prove the current relevance of Christ’s warning and instructions.