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  • Get Off The Bench

    Contributed by Nate Barbour on Sep 5, 2003
    based on 39 ratings
     | 13,028 views

    Learn how to find and fulfill your place on the "team" with this inspiring message about the church as the body of Christ.

    Get Off The Bench Filling Your Place on the Team 6/4/03 I. Introduction Behold, a team went forth to play a game of baseball. Just as the umpire was saying, “Batter up,” the catcher for the home team arrived and took his place behind the plate. The center fielder didn’t show up at all but sent his ...read more

  • "Getting Connected For Health" Series

    Contributed by Ron Newton on Oct 17, 2003
    based on 13 ratings
     | 5,309 views

    Christian unity is necessary for spiritual health.

    Spiritual Gifts Series # 3 Introduction 1. Illus... Asperger’s Syndrome from Homiletics Online / Source: Osborne, Lawrence. “The little professor syndrome.” New York Times Magazine. June 18, 2000, 55ff. The syndrome was first discovered in 1944 by Hans Asperger who noticed that certain autistic ...read more

  • The Curse Of Meroz

    Contributed by Engleburg Toney on Dec 22, 2003
    based on 49 ratings
     | 29,907 views

    What caused Deborah to remember a curse placed upon the inhabitants of Meroz in the middle of a victorious ballad? Are we in danger of falling under the same curse today in modern Christianity?

    The Curse of Meroz There are three types of people in the world—those that wonder what happen, those that watch things happen, and those that make things happen. Thus it is with the Church of God today. There is a rich mixture of the three classes here mentioned. There is nothing ...read more

  • Stewardship Of One Another

    Contributed by Christopher Hill on Jan 1, 2004
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,217 views

    There are many different ministries and quite a few people are involved in more than one. Two of the major reasons we have a problem with properly conducting ministry can be attributed to contemporary Western culture and a misunderstanding of the nature o

    This month we have been studying stewardship. We have seen that all that we have including life itself is really a gift from God. It is proper to give back to God some of what he has entrusted to us. We examined stewardship of our time and saw that it is also a gift and our time should be wholly ...read more

  • The Body Of Christ Series

    Contributed by Mitchell Skelton on Jan 13, 2004
    based on 51 ratings
     | 7,200 views

    The church is much like a ball team. In order to achieve victory, all the players must be practiced and ready come game time. In 1 Corinthians, Paul describes the church as the body of Christ. To be victorious we all must play our part. To be victorio

    1 Corinthians 12:12-31 INTRODUCTION One beautiful, sunny afternoon two baseball teams met to play a game. Although it was expected to be a good game, one team was assured of victory. The teams dressed in their respective uniforms, the White Sox in white and the Black Sox in black. Game time ...read more

  • Members Of Christ's Body Series

    Contributed by Garth Wehrfritz- Hanson on Jan 16, 2004
    based on 77 ratings
     | 7,132 views

    A sermon on the necessity of Christian unity, employing Paul’s "body of Christ" as the primary paradigm.

    Sermon for 3 Epiphany Year C, 25/01/2004 Based on 1 Cor 12:12-31a By Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson, Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, & Chaplain of the Good Samaritan Society’s South Ridge Village, Medicine Hat, Alberta “Members Of Christ’s Body” As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his ...read more

  • Dealing W/Scandals

    Contributed by W.bryan Jackson on Jan 24, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,401 views

    Today we are going to look at how we as the body of Christ are affected no matter what denomination you are from and how we need to deal with it when the scandals keep attacking the church.

    Title: Dealing with the scandals Introduction: Today we are going to look at how we as the body of Christ are affected no matter what denomination you are from and how we need to deal with it when the scandals keep attacking the church.. Reading the newspapers and watching the TV News at ...read more

  • The Body Of Christ: God And Us

    Contributed by Evelyn Weston on Feb 5, 2004
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,057 views

    Epiphany 3C: We fill many roles in the Body of Christ, but God fills the most important parts of brain, heart, and lungs.

    Grace to you and peace, from God our Father, and our Lord and Savior, Jesus, the Christ. The carpenter’s tools had a meeting. Brother Hammer was the chair. The members informed him that he must leave, because he was too noisy. But Brother Hammer said, "If I am to leave this carpenter’s shop, ...read more

  • How The Holy Spirit Harmonizes People

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 18 ratings
     | 3,720 views

    1. The Holy Spirit harmonizes people by blending complementary spiritual gifts together to form a synergistic result.

    1. The Holy Spirit harmonizes people by blending complementary spiritual gifts together to form a synergistic result. Paul wrote, "There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good." (I ...read more

  • How To Know If Something Is Really Worth Doing

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,428 views

    Criteria for wise decision-making

    We all have to make many decisions every day. The most difficult decisions fall in basically three categories: is it a good decision; is there a better way of doing something; is it the best decision that I can make right now. It is amazing how many people choose good things that actually become ...read more

  • What Part Are You

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 23, 2000
    based on 455 ratings
     | 48,115 views

    Looks at Paul's comparison between the Church and the body of Christ.

    How do you feel about your body? Strange question isn’t it? Most of us would rather not think about our bodies and if we do we probably don’t think very complementary things. It’s too fat or too skinny, too short or too tall. Bumpy, lumpy or just plain ugly kind of like the guy who was so ugly ...read more

  • The Communion Of The Saints Series

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Mar 1, 2004
    based on 40 ratings
     | 6,780 views

    The catholic/universal church is the fellowship of all believers gathered, set apart, united in faith, who belong to Christ.

    “I Believe” Sermon Series on the Apostles Creed “The Communion of the Saints” I Corinthians 12:12-27 Pastor Bob Leroe, Cliftondale Congregational Church, Saugus, Massachusetts “I believe in the holy catholic church, the communion of saints.” Right upfront, let’s define “the church”: It is the ...read more

  • Church And Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Mar 16, 2004
    based on 91 ratings
     | 13,479 views

    This sermon started when I was in Preaching Class, and it evolved into this. I preached this sermon my first Sunday at my church.

    I’m a “dunker.” Not with a basketball, as I am only 5’9”, but rather with chocolate chip cookies. There is nothing quite like the chocolate chip cookie. They come in all shapes and sizes, but they are very similar in how they are made. There is the flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and, of ...read more

  • Care For One Another Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Mar 18, 2003
    based on 65 ratings
     | 24,806 views

    In order for the church to function as it was designed, each of us must be committed to care for one another. We’re in this together so we might as well learn to like each other

    Care for One Another Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions this year? If so, how many have you broken? One of the best ways to keep a resolution is to set some low standards. People magazine reported last year about the goals of some members of the Hollywood crowd. Singer Michelle Branch ...read more

  • Defrosting Your Spiritual Assets Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Mar 26, 2003
    based on 478 ratings
     | 129,398 views

    In order to serve according to our giftedness, we must make sure that we not only understand spiritual gifts, we must discover, develop and deploy our gift mix. Since ignorance about this topic may be a chief cause of retarded spiritual growth, it’s impe

    Defrosting Your Spiritual Assets A man from Illinois decided to travel to Wisconsin to go duck hunting. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer’s field on the other side of the fence. As the flatlander climbed over the fence, a dairy farmer drove up on his tractor and asked what was ...read more