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Arrows Of Truth # 1- What Is A Dropout Believer? Series

Contributed by Louis Posthauer on Mar 18, 2022

Arrows of Truth: Hunters Tips This week marks the beginning of the 26 week series "Arrows of Truth: Hunters Tips" to help equip you to engage/restore dropout believers in your own sphere of influence to restore them to the church - the Body of Christ.. Stay tuned every week!

Arrows of Truth # 1- What is a dropout believer? Very simply, the dropout believer is the disconnected believer – once actively practicing his Christian faith in a community of believers, but no longer. They have disconnected themselves from any meaningful relationship with the church – the Body ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 10:25

Arrows Of Truth # 4- What Is The Hunters Strategy? Series

Contributed by Louis Posthauer on Mar 19, 2022

A weekly series to help believers engage with loved ones, friends and neighbors who are dropout believers to restore them to the church - the Body of Christ.

Arrows of Truth # 4- What is the Hunters Strategy? The Hunters strategy is based on an incident in 1 Samuel 30 in which David and his men recovered his family and possessions from the foreign raiders who had kidnapped them. This was a divine strategy that enabled him to recover all his family ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 10:25

Parenting Adult Children

Contributed by Joe Bedy on Nov 14, 2001

How is the Christian to relate to his adult children and when does emancipation occur?

November 14 2001 Central Christian Church St Petersburg, Fl At what point does the parenting relationship change? Is it when your child turns 18? Is it when they move out of your home? Is it when they marry? Is it after you have finished paying for college and they start their career? Some ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

God's Plan For Children

Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 20, 2001

1. Children need to learn a positive view of life. 2. Children need to learn obedience. 3. Children need to learn values.

This past March there was a congressional hearing on human-reproductive cloning in Washington, D.C. Brigitte Boisselier, a chemist who works with couples wanting to use cloning to have children, read a letter from a father who had lost his 11-month-old son after heart surgery. In the letter he ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:7-11

Denomination: Methodist

Coming To Jesus As Children

Contributed by Doug Warren on Mar 20, 2001

ADULTS SHOULD REVIEW JESUS’ REQUIREMENTS FOR COMING TO HIM AS INDICATED IN THESE VERSES

INTRO: WE CAN ALL LEARN FROM PRECIOUS CHILDREN. THEY ARE GOD’S GIFT OF ENCOURAGEMENT, GOD’S ASSURANCE OF HIS INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE, AND GOD’S INSTRUMENTS OF EXAMPLE TO ADULTS. JESUS WAS TEACHING SOME STUBBORN "RELIGIONISTS" ABOUT SALVATION AND HE SEEMED TO BE UNSUCCESSFUL IN COMMUNICATING TO ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:1-4

Denomination: Baptist

Many Children To Glory

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Mar 29, 2001

Funeral message for Chastine Bailey, whose life had been devoted to children as a mother, grandmother, teacher, Sunday School teacher, and neighborhood "mom".

If you are in any way involved with children, I have bad news for you. I have somber tidings. If you are involved with children, your work is not complete. It has not been completed, it is not completed, it never will be completed. Anyone who works with children knows that they will never quite ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 2:5-10

Denomination: Baptist

God's Directives To Children Series

Contributed by Robert Robb on Apr 8, 2001

What God’s Word has to say to children in respect of their duty to parents

Studies In The Christian Family The Duty of Children Introduction We come this evening to the third of our special series of studies that we have entitled God’s Blueprint for a Happy Family Life. We have been focusing our thoughts mainly on what Paul has to say about this subject in Ephesians ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:1-3

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Asian Fathers And Their Children

Contributed by Eddie Sun on Aug 16, 2001

A message for Asian fathers and their children to ’turn their hearts toward one another’ and develop an emotional bond between them.

Evangelical Formosan Church of Alhambra Malachi 4:6 Opening Today I would like to speak on the topic of fathers and their children. I haven’t been a father for very long, so I don’t pretend to be an expert on the subject. But I have learned from many godly men who have been fathers for many, ...read more

Scripture: Malachi 4:1-6

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Live As God's Children

Contributed by Jason Zahn on Sep 6, 2001

God has set us free from the control of sin so that we might freely live as his children.

When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation he freed the slaves. They could live as free people. Their whole lives had changed. They were no longer subject to the oppression of their masters. They would no longer be punished by the authorities if they chose to leave their ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:11-19

Denomination: Lutheran

Walk As Children Of Light

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Sep 12, 2001

Walk as Children of light

INTRODUCTION In the previous verse we are told that we are to be imitators of God. How can we do that? WE must walk as He wants us to walk. We live in a society much like Paul’s, full of immorality and sin. We have all have come from the kingdom of darkness to the light. Most of us had ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:3-13

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Become As Little Children

Contributed by Gerry Pratt on May 29, 2002

A study of little children and how they can relate to our very salvation.

Matt. 18:3 - 3and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. As I read this passage, this time, I was struck by its import. A. In the original Greek, the word that we read as, “converted” ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:3

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

A Commitment To Our Children

Contributed by William Rushing on Jun 19, 2002

This is a short outline for a sermon that encourages parents to commit their children to the Lord. This sermon provides three ways based on the text for parents to do make that commitment.

I. Introduction a. Historical Setting i. This was a unique time in Israel’ History 1. They were moving from a tribal confederation to a centralized dynastic state. ii. Hannah – Means Grace iii. Peninnah – Means Pearl b. Hannah had a commitment to her son. i. We need to be committed to our ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

The Search For Significance For Children Series

Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Apr 26, 2002

I talk about a child’s responsibility to obey and honor his/her parents no matter what kind of homelife situation.

Search for Significance for Children OPENING ILLUSTRATION: Several years ago while still in college I decided to get my truck refinanced. My grandparents (who cosigned the truck) and I were getting some information to the bank. After corresponding with a bank representative I had to fax some ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:1-3

Denomination: Baptist

Suffer The Little Children

Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 23, 2004

A sermon on child abuse

Introduction: 1. Tara Cook spent the first part of her life being shifted from one house to another. When she was ten Tara went to live with her dad & his girl friend Rose. All went well for a short time and then Rose began to abuse her. After she had lived there for about 15 months Rose informed ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

Teach Your Children

Contributed by Clyde Grimes on Dec 28, 2002

Deals with God’s call for parents to faithfully instruct their children in the ways of the Lord through their words and deeds.

Teach Your Children (Deuteronomy 6:1-9) I. We Teach Our Children About God Through Our Words A. The historical situation B. Our present situation II. We Teach Our Children About God Through Our Lives A. Actions do speak louder than words B. Our orthodoxy should impact our orthopraxy C. Our ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance