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  • David Flowers avatar

    Mechurch Series

    Contributed by David Flowers on Apr 4, 2006
     | 2,980 views

    Who we really are is revealed by how we think about four major areas of life: God, time, money, and relationships. This message looks at the first two.

    MeChurch Following Jesus, part 6 Wildwind Community Church November 13, 2005 David Flowers Right now we’re talking about following Jesus, and I have realized this week that there’s one thing that keeps me from following Jesus as faithfully as I would like, and I know that it’s the exact same ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

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    Church Discipline

    Contributed by Brian Menear on Mar 29, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,731 views

    Sometimes a Church must discipline it’s members. The Bible gives us clear direction on handling this process.

    Church Discipline At one time or another, a church may need to exercise discipline against a member who has sinned. Church discipline must always be handled carefully and lovingly, just as God discipline us. The Bible is clear on how this is to be handled. Situation Unintentional or private sin ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Local Church

    Contributed by Kevin Higgins on Apr 5, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,027 views

    What Jesus taught about the church.

    Matthew 16:13-18 Baptist Distinctives: The Local Church Solomon said that there’s nothing new under the sun. With that in mind, I’ll give credit to Neal Cole for this sermon. I borrowed it from his book, Organic Church. Introduction A. Review aim of sermon series – today I want to deal with ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jason Jones avatar

    What's A Church? Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Jan 31, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,573 views

    Exposition of 1 Peter 2:9-10

    Text: 1 Peter 2:9-10 Title: What’s a Church and What’s It Supposed to do? Date/Place: LSCC, 8/28/05, AM I. INTRODUCTION A. Opening illustration: Tell about the other night at Gary’s house where we were looking at the different antiques on the wall, and him giving us a guess or two on each ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Leslie Sun avatar

    Church Growth

    Contributed by Leslie Sun on Feb 12, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 14,483 views

    This is a teaching about how to grow a church. It is not based purely on personal experience and not based on others’ successful stories but based on a friend’s personal experience in growing a church with biblical principles and causes it to be still gro

    Church Growth Church Growth is a very popular topic that even non-Christians heard of this term before. In the past, people looked to the west for examples of growing a church. Recently however, people shifted to the east as well for examples of church growth. In church growth, we should not copy ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Church Order

    Contributed by Mike Gillett on Feb 28, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 6,789 views

    Corinth has been long noted as a church with problems… and one of those problems was disruptions, disruptions during worship.

    I read Warren Wiersbe exposition of this passage and some of the comments are from him and Richard Pratt, "Holman New Testament Commentary." I Cor. 11:1-16 "Church Order" He came shuffling in… the service had already begun… almost no one noticed him yet everyone noticed him. He smelled of B.O., ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Churches That Survive

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Feb 28, 2007
    based on 18 ratings
     | 6,628 views

    jesus gives the keys for the churches survival in a hostile world

    Intro: the other night a report was given that about 3000 churches close annually in the United States. When you hear a report like this the first thought is I wonder what attributed to the decline and closure of a church. Did it lose vision? Did it get older and not make adjustments to minister to ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Evangelism And The Church.

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Mar 1, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,903 views

    An outreach plan for the church

    Adherents.com (National & World Religion Statistics - Church Statistics - World Religions) Christianity, if taken as a whole, is the largest world religion 2.1 billion Christians in the world, or 33% of the total population. NOTE - Which they include Catholic, Protestant, eastern Orthodox, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Alcolol And The Church Series

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 24, 2004
    based on 89 ratings
     | 6,405 views

    The church’s silence on the topic of alcohol.

    Alcohol and the Church #2 Hot Potato the church won’t Touch Ephesians 5:18 We live in strange times. Our nation has declared war on drugs, and our president even appointed a drug Czar. However, the most widely used, and equally destructive drug alcohol is still legal. The Country has also ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Homosexuality And The Church Series

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 24, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 5,937 views

    The Church must redemptively address the homosexual community.

    Homosexuality and the Church Hot Potatoes the Church Wonft Touch #1 After I made the statement about the church not touching the issue, I realized some had. The Episcopalians voted a practicing homosexual as bishop, and others have dealt with it on a denominational level. However, I was thinking ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Equipping The Church Series

    Contributed by Dan Cale on Aug 30, 2004
    based on 31 ratings
     | 6,911 views

    This is the fourth in a study series on Ephesians and deals with Paul’s prayer for the equipping of the early church for the job of kingdom building.

    Paul’s Prayer – Churches Equipping Ephesians 3:14-21 How many of you know that the church has a job to do? What job has Christ left for us? “As the Father has sent me, so send I you.” How many of you know that if you are going to do a job you need the right equipment? If you want to move snow ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Suicide And The Church Series

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 30, 2004
    based on 94 ratings
     | 21,608 views

    What does the Bible say about suicide?

    Suicide and the Church Hot Potato the Church Wonft Touch #3 I donft think there is anything in this life more heartbreaking than suicide. It affects much more than the one life lost. The family, friends, acquaintances, community and generations to come are affected by the choice to die of ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Unity In The Church

    Contributed by Robert Baldwin on Sep 8, 2004
    based on 38 ratings
     | 11,043 views

    Paul has finished with the doctrinal part of his letter to the Ephesians. He begins I therefore, in light of what I have just said, there is unity

    Unity In The Church Eph 4:1-6 Intro. Chapter three of Ephesians is filled with verses of love. Then Paul speaks of God’s abundancy toward us. I. Therefore: The word therefore refers back to earlier verses. Ephesians like all of Paul’s writings is broken into two parts, doctrine, and practice. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jerry Shirley avatar

    The Church With A Heart Series

    Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Sep 9, 2004
    based on 110 ratings
     | 15,184 views

    We want to be a church with a heart - which has a heart for HUMANS, a heart for HELPING, and a heart for HEAVEN. Link inc. to formatted text, audio/video, PowerPoint.

    The Church With A Heart Acts 9:32-43 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/ChurchWithAHeart.html Aren’t you glad you’re in church today? Church doesn’t have to be a drudgery, around here it is fun and worthwhile and something we look forward to and miss when we’re not there...because this is a church ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Douglas Bryan avatar

    The Church On Purpose Series

    Contributed by Douglas Bryan on Jan 5, 2004
    based on 47 ratings
     | 8,143 views

    This is the first in a four part series called "On Purpose." God said by using these 4 principles the people of Babylon would succeed in doing whatever they planned.

    THE CHURCH ON PURPOSE Genesis 11:1-9 INTRODUCTION: A. For the past several years we have had a yearly theme for the overall ministry of the church 1. 2002 - Aim Higher a. 2001 - Harvest b. 2000 - Whoever is thirsty, let him come. c. Others: What Would Jesus Do? Higher and ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ