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  • How To Overcome Intentional And Unintentional Hypocrisy

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 16 ratings
     | 5,203 views

    1. Recognize any personal or organizational Pharisaical tendency to view people through the law rather than through grace.

    1. Recognize any personal or organizational Pharisaical tendency to view people through the law rather than through grace. The Pharisees' values were rooted in their traditions, laws, and culture. They found a great sense of their identity in their clique. They resented anyone who failed to live up ...read more

  • Who Needs God Anyway?

    Contributed by Dr. C. David White on Aug 25, 2002
    based on 58 ratings
     | 6,076 views

    Here are three practical reasons that everybody needs the Lord.

    Who Needs God Anyway? 16 ¶ Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. 17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which ...read more

  • Your Family-Investing For Growth Series

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Feb 10, 2005
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,720 views

    Families are gifts from God and our primary fields of ministry.

    MAKING SOUND INVESTMENTS FOR THE NEW YEAR JANUARY 23, 2005 Ephesians 5:21-6:4 “Your Family—Investing In Growth” INTRODUCTION Some of the most important investments we make are in our families and other relationships. The potential of effects of our family investments truly make them ...read more

  • Imitating Christ Series

    Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,943 views

    Seeing selfish ambition, vain conceit, discord, from persecution, Paul called on the church to “conduct themselves in a manner worthy” of their calling and not "of" the world. Just as Christ sacrificed Himself for the sake of others, we also are to offer

    INTRODUCTION A. LIFE TODAY IS NOT WHAT CHRIST INTENDED 1. We live in a “dog eat dog” world. 2. “SELF” rules We may view ourselves as did the Pharisee depicted by Jesus who prayed, “God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-gatherer. I ...read more

  • Our Response To God's Grace Series

    Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Jan 13, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
     | 8,759 views

    Ephesians Series #8. What is our response in light of God’s Grace? Is our response proporitional to the grift we have recieved. What should our response be?

    “A Walk That is Worthy” Part 8 Our Response to God’s Grace Text: Eph 3:7-13 Intro: This morning I am going to continue on with our Series in Ephesians entitled “A walk that is worthy” The message the Lord gave me for this morning is entitled “Our Response to God’s Grace” I have spent an ...read more

  • Serving Like Jesus

    Contributed by Earie Madius on Oct 12, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,001 views

    What the Bible says about humility

    My wife is a lover of McDonald’s curly fries. One day, we were at the drive-thru when I saw a big McDonald billboard with the tagline “I’m lovin’ it.” Sometime later, I googled and found out that years before McDonald Restaurants used the tagline “You ...read more

  • Amos--- God,s Able Prophet

    Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Aug 4, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,917 views

    Able body men to take a stand.

    AMOS--- GOD,S ABLE PROPHET No doubt Amos lived in a day similar to ours Lawlessness, worldliness, wickedness and ungodliness. A day of rape, riots, robbery and rottenness shooting and unrighteousness. How ever God’s prophet Amos was ready . Amos 7: 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel ...read more

  • Creativity--The Opposite Of Liturgy Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 21, 2011
     | 3,065 views

    Our profession of faith in Christ is guided not only by Scripture, but by the Fathers of the Church, the historic creeds, and our liturgical tradition.

    Monday of the 5th Week of Easter Spirit of the Liturgy Mistaken identity. It’s an embarrassment, and occasionally a lethal inconvenience. Consider poor Jude here. No wonder he appears to have preferred the name “Thaddeus,” and became patron saint of hopeless causes. Even the ...read more

  • Celebrate Series

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Nov 3, 2015
     | 6,199 views

    David becomes king over all Israel. He brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem with song making Jerusalem a place of worship.

    “Celebrate” 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6:1-5 INTRODUCTION Today is a day of Celebration. Our scripture reading for today celebrates David’s anointing as king of Israel and his bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. Historically this is Reformation Sunday—a day when we ...read more

  • Useless Or Useful? Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 8, 2014
     | 5,785 views

    Mercy is the greatest of the virtues in the external manifestation.

    Thursday of the 32nd Week in Course Joy of the Gospel St. Paul had a dilemma. One of his converts in Asia, Philemon, lived in Colossae. Philemon’s slave, Onesimus, had escaped and probably stolen property in the process. Escaped slaves were dealt with according to their owner’s whim ...read more

  • Inclusion Is What We Need, Not Power Hungry People

    Contributed by Michael Koplitz on Aug 11, 2021
     | 1,697 views

    Jesus rebuked His disciples because they wanted to keep the power of healing for themselves. This is happening in church today even though Jesus said it is wrong!

    I think that it is sad that when I read this narrative, it made me think about the control the church has held over people for almost 2000 years. The church used only one verse, thus out of context, to control people. Catholics could not own a Bible until 1964 CE. The idea that a person has to ...read more

  • "Speaking Truth To Power" Series

    Contributed by Denis O'callaghan Ph.d. ,th.d., D.d., D. Phil. on Sep 21, 2012
     | 6,974 views

    “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely..."

    “Speaking truth to power” Saint of God, We are taking our time reexamining the historical Jesus in the light of His life and sayings. What did He really mean? And what should we make of the fact that millions around the world have died for this man who called Himself “the ...read more

  • Holy People Of God Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 27, 2012
     | 3,153 views

    The call to be the New Israel is a call to holiness and mission.

    Monday of 30th Week in Course Lumen Gentium The Fathers of the Council looked at the Church from every direction, and gave us teaching on all the names of the Church. It seems to me that their favorite name for the Church is “People of God.” It, more than any other, shows the ...read more

  • The Dialogue Of Ecumenism Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 12, 2016
     | 3,689 views

    Our prayer is that all Christians be One.

    Thursday of Fifth Week in Lent 2016 Joy of the Gospel The providential juxtaposition of St. Patrick’s Day with the readings of this Lenten feria should lead us to make a comparison between the call of St. Patrick and the call of the Hebrew patriarchs. Patrick was called by God to return ...read more

  • Christmas In Isaiah

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Oct 7, 2017
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,785 views

    The virgin shall conceive ... and call his name - With Us the God.

    CHRISTMAS IN ISAIAH. 1. Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23. “Behold the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, ‘with us the God’.” There are those in the church today - in its hierarchy, and teaching in its seminaries - who want us to think that ...read more