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Faithful to the Finish
Peter's final call to a young and growing church
Grace and Glory
A short series through the highlights of 1 Peter
Entrusted
Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
BAD COMPANY George Washington once wrote, "Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. For it’s better to be alone than in bad company." William Gladstone said, "Choose wisely your companions, for a young man’s companions, more than his food or clothes, his home or ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:33
Tags: Friendship General
NFL OK’S SUPERBOWL PARTIES AT CHURCHES Churches can now host Super Bowl parties without opposition from the National Football League. The League will not object to live showings of the Super Bowl by a religious organization on a routine and customary basis. The League will implement this policy ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:22
Tags: Evangelism How To
34% of unchurched adults strongly agree "the Christian religion is a relevant and viable religion for ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18
Tags: Evangelism The Lost
TOOLS IN THE HANDS OF THE CARPENTER A group of tools once came together for a meeting with Mr. Hammer presiding. Brother Screwdriver said, "Brother Hammer must go, because he is always making noise, always knocking." Hammer said, "Brother Screwdriver has to go, because you have to turn him around ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:1-31
Tags: Gifts General
THE PAST IS JUST THE BEGINNING There is in Washington D.C., a sign over the entrance to the U.S. Patent Office -- where new things are the order of the day. The sign proclaims: "The Past is but Prologue." One day a tourist asked a cab driver what the sign meant. Said the cabbie: "It ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:9
Tags: God Brings Hope
A PENTECOST TESTIMONY Pastor Chuck shared a story of the work of the Holy Spirit. A group was having a Bible study. Since it was Pentecost, the decided to pray and worship for a while after the Bible study. One of the ladies began to worship in another langauge. Someone had brought a friend to the ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:22
Tags: Holy Spirit Baptism
Denomination: Pentecostal
Mad Mike Hughes had a mission, to launch himself into outer space. He believed the earth was flat, and the only way to prove it was to go up into space and take a photo of the flat earth. He did not trust others to document the truth, he would only believe it if he saw it with his own eyes. In ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:11-13
Tags: Sin, Foolish, Self Importance, Self Righteousness, Flat Earth (view more) (view less)
Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed
During the past week, the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and Yours Truly have been spending quite a bit of time together. I cannot recall any time that we have spent this much time together. The exception would be when we first got married. Even then, both of us worked during the day and were ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:31
Tags: Humor, Relationships
Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance
“I firmly determined that my mannerisms and speech in public would always reflect the cheerful certainty of victory – that any pessimism and discouragement I might ever feel would be reserved for my pillow... I adopted a policy of circulating through the whole force to the full limit imposed by ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Tags: Leadership, Character, Discipline
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
pilot vertigo: My Division Officer in the Navy was also a Naval aviator. On his way home from a mission over Afghanistan he got vertigo (a dizzy confused state of mind caused by the inner ear). His senses were confused. The biggest was his sense of flight. Which can be deadly when landing on an ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Tags: Feelings, Facts, What Is Conscience, What Is Holy Spirit
Denomination: Independent/Bible
Mothers are so wonderful and all are different and all are the same. Loving, caring, sacrifice and dedication to Children and family. Mother’s Day was started when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia. Everyone doesn’t have a ...read more
Tags: Mothers Day, Mothers
A little five year old girl took a sheet of brown construction paper and cut out the letter “E” with her safety scissors. She wrapped it and gave it to her dad for Christmas. When dad opened the present, he looked at it with a smile and asked, “what ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:15
Tags: Christmas, Gifts, Misunderstanding, Oops
In the “Freedom in Christ” course, Neil Anderson and Steve Goss, share an illustration that I just love – “You know the fairy tale of the princess who decided to kiss a frog? When she kissed the frog, he changes into a handsome prince. Now imagine they go out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:2
Tags: Princess, Prince, Sinners, Saints, Frog (view more) (view less)
Denomination: Methodist
At the beginning of the week, the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage informed me that she and some of her friends would be going thrift store shopping on Thursday. I nodded my head and smiled, not knowing where she was going with this. “Now,” she said, “you will have to take care of your lunch. ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:13
Tags: Temptations, Yielding, Humor
46664… PRISONER 46664… 1 Corinthians 4:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: There are times it seems our hurt and wounds are our testing zones and we are put on display for others to mock. It is like the spectacle at the end ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 4:12
Tags: Forgive, Wounded
Denomination: Assembly Of God
When It Was Dark I’m not quite sure how to say this. We have always said in the church that our faith was based upon facts. It was a faith built upon evidence that led us to the facts. My friends, something has come to light just this past week that is out now in the professional journals and ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
Tags: Easter, Resurrection
Dr. James L. Snyder I like to have an organized life. I must confess that my idea of organization is not The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage’s idea. We may share many things, but not planning and organization. When she begins a project, it is well planned and organized down to the tiniest ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:40
Tags: Organization, Planning, Crafts
You don’t give the tithe, you return it back to God. It belongs to Him! There is a cartoon that shows four frames! 1. In the first frame a man looks at a new car! The salesman says, "10% down and low, low payments for 48 months." The man asks, "Where do I sign?" 2. In the ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 16:1-2
Tags: Giving, Tithing
This story was written by Donald Grey Barnhouse. Several years ago, two students graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. The highest ranking student in the class was a blind man named Overton and, when he received his honor, he insisted that half the credit should go to his friend, ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:14-15
Tags: Fellowship, Community, Small Group
If we were all honest, we would probably have to admit that we are all guilty of reading a text while we're driving. We see it all the time. People are swerving from their lane into our lane and almost hitting other cars. It can be a serious situation. The way we live can also impact those ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:23-33
Tags: Selfishness, Selflessness
Denomination: Baptist
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