Contributed by Rodney Bowen on Feb 7, 2013
                
                
                
                    THE CHURCH'S ROLE IN PARENTING
Recently reviewing the new book by Dr. Tim Kimmel title, CONNECTING CHURCH & HOME, I found my mind and heart really pierced with the current state of our in-church parenting.
Churches and families need each other.  And no, I am not referring to our family’s use of
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    COLVER'S MINISTRY
Nathaniel Colver was born on May 10, 1874 and lived in Champlain, New York; his family was one of thirteen families to reside there at the time. He was born into a Christian home and spent the vast majority of his youth learning to read from three books: The Bible, a Psalm book,
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Smith on Apr 4, 2007
                
                
                
                    ILL:  THE TRIANGLE OF MINISTRY
If you picture a triangle – at the top is Jesus because we know “He is the way, the truth and the life.”   At the bottom of the triangle are the different members of the body that God has uniquely placed here.  
In the middle is the Holy Spirit.  (READ JOHN 14.26)
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 15, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    QUALIFICATIONS FOR MINISTRY
What qualifies someone for a task? There is a story of the testing of a candidate for missions work:
One snowy morning at 5:00 A.M., a missionary candidate rang the bell at a missionary examiner’s home. Ushered into the office, he sat three hours past his appointment
                    
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                    And when we, 
when people discover the power of the resurrection of Jesus,
this affects how we approach life, how we live.
Many of us have heard of Darren Beadman.
His is one of the celebrity jockeys, in one year the horses he rode earnt $9.6 million dollars.
In 1990 and 1996 he rode Melbourne Cup
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Dec 18, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Family
Clovis Chappell, a minister from a century back, used to tell the story of two paddleboats. They left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side, sailors from one vessel made a few remarks about the snail’s pace of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Jun Tadena on Aug 25, 2006
                
                
                
                    Results of Tract Ministry
A man was giving out gospel tracts on a steamer. One gentleman whom he approached accepted a tract graciously but said, "I haven’t much faith in that kind of work." The Christian worker replied, "It was through a gospel tract given to me twenty years ago that I was
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
                
                
                
                    MINISTRY: A CHARACTER PROFESSION
Ministry is a character profession. To put it bluntly, you can sleep around and still be a good brain surgeon. You can cheat on your mate and have little trouble continuing to practice law. Apparently, it is no problem to stay in politics and plagiarize. You can be
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 26, 2012
                
                
                
                    OPEN TABLE MINISTRY
Open Table started with a chance encounter with a homeless man named Ernie who simply asked a youth group serving him a meal if he could come worship at their church. The adult youth workers were moved to agree to come the very next day to bring Ernie to their church service.
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 21, 2012
                
                
                
                    During his first year of seminary, Alan Hirsch led a small group of newly converted Christians that included “gays, lesbians, Goths, drug addicts, prostitutes, and some relatively ordinary people.” After graduating, he and his wife were called to go to South Melbourne Church of Christ in 1989 where
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jun 6, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Families are wonderful. Families are challenging. I am reminded of this every time I see my favorite Cosby Show episode in which Cliff, the father played by Bill Cosby, and Theo, the son played by Malcolm Jamal-Warner, have a chat about Theo’s desire to live like a “regular” person rather than
                    
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                    MINISTRY DURING BLACK PLAGUE
Many years ago, in Europe, there was a great plague that killed one third of the population. It was called the black plague. Tens of thousands were killed each and every month and the population was terrified by the thought of facing death in their families and homes,
                    
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