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  • God's Pattern For The Church Thessalonica

    Contributed by David Parks on Jun 2, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 8,730 views

    We look at our society and see great confusion about the nature of the church. Is it a worshiping society of people who come together once a week for cold formal pomp and circumstance. . . . Or, is it a place we come for a wild tumultuous emotional rele

    God’s Pattern for the Local Church: Thessalonica TEXT: 1 Thessalonians 1:3-8 INTRODUCTION: 1. If you read the paper or watch Television you know that we live in a time of great moral, ethical, political and religious confusion. 2. For example, our nation is now struggling with the question of ...read more

  • Developing And Maintaining Spiritual Disciplines - Part 5 Series

    Contributed by Chuck Brooks on Nov 5, 2020
     | 2,488 views

    Today, I will be speaking on the topic of fellowship...

    The Habit of Fellowship - Participating in God's Family Why Don't We fellowship? Fellowship is one of the five purposes for the church, however, there is an obvious failure on many in the body of Christ to fellowship. Why then do we not fellowship? One reason is that the isolation ...read more

  • Developing And Maintaining Spiritual Disciplines - Part 4 Series

    Contributed by Chuck Brooks on Nov 5, 2020
     | 2,100 views

    Today, I'll be speaking on the topic of giving...

    The offering plate has been given a bad rap. If an offering plate could talk I wonder what it would say: * "Did you find that on the floor next to the bubble gum machine!" * "It's going to take hours to count all this change!" Perhaps the offering plate would say, ...read more

  • 2003 State Of The Church Address

    Contributed by Clyde Grimes on Jan 28, 2003
    based on 74 ratings
     | 9,075 views

    This is a call to hear what God is doing and calling our particular church to be and do. I submit it as a sample of how one might go about communicating God’s vision to the congregation.

    2003 State of the Church Address (Topical) I. God Is Doing a New Thing II. Based on His Eternal Plan III. To Move Us Toward Embracing Our True Identity IV. So, Where Do We Go from Here? A. A commitment to a corporate lifestyle of dependency B. A commitment to becoming healthy C. A commitment to ...read more

  • How To Develop A Spiritual Appetite Lesson 6 Series

    Contributed by Elmer Towns on Aug 14, 2025
     | 135 views

    Ask yourself what brings most satisfaction?

    “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6). A. RECOGNIZE YOUR NEED FOR INTIMACY WITH GOD 1. More than knowledge, or being saved, or serving Him, it is knowing God personality/intimately. 2. Questions from today’s verse: a. What does it ...read more

  • Keep Pursuing Ahead

    Contributed by Eyriche Cortez on Jan 1, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,191 views

    The main things that we are to keep the main thing in church

    A blessed new year to all of you! Someone said, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” With the year 2007 ahead of us, let me remind you of the main thing that we are to pursue. Let us see how the early church did it in Acts 2:41-47... “Those who accepted his message were ...read more

  • Fellowship Series

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on May 20, 2002
    based on 255 ratings
     | 38,488 views

    The purpose of this message is to challenge you to develop deeper relationships within the church and in effect enhance your own personal relationship with God.

    Humor: Years ago, Leslie Flynn penned a book called, Great Church Fights. In it he chronicled the way people in different churches would go after each other – all in the name of Jesus Christ. A young father heard a commotion out in his backyard; he looked outside and saw his daughter and several ...read more

  • The Particulars Of Christian Character Development - Part Three Series

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Feb 16, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,034 views

    What character qualities have to do with my relationship with the people around me?

    Today we will conclude our consideration of the particulars of Christian character development. We have noticed that Peter is very specific concerning what character qualities we should seek to develop as a Christian if we are going to progress toward Christ-likeness (vs. 5-7). He seems to list ...read more

  • Detour Into A Lonely Place

    Contributed by Mary Erickson on Feb 21, 2024
     | 1,131 views

    A sermon for the first Sunday in Lent, Year B

    February 18, 2024 Rev. Mary Erickson Hope Lutheran Church Mark 1:9-15 Detour into a Lonely Place Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. When I was a child, my grandparents always purchased the Reader’s Digest condensed version of ...read more

  • Recognizing Your Dna: Destiny, Nature, Authority

    Contributed by David Demola on May 21, 2009
    based on 14 ratings
     | 24,262 views

    Pastor Demola encourages Christians to live in full knowledge of their God-given destiny, nature and authority.

    Open your Bibles to Luke chapter 11. I want you to do me a favor today, will you? I need everybody to kind of get your right hand out, get your right hand out like this. Everybody get your right hand out. Got it out? This is what I want you to do. I’m putting my thinking cap on. Tell ...read more

  • The Church Series

    Contributed by Dan Farrell on Jul 10, 2001
    based on 16 ratings
     | 8,626 views

    We, as the church (world-wide church), need to become a community.

    INTRODUCTION: We are continuing our series on names or titles for the church. So far we have covered the church being: a LightHouse, a Bride, a Body, an Army, and this morning, a Community. A while back someone told me of a “block party” they participated in. The whole block organized a ...read more

  • The Church

    Contributed by Pastor Dempsey Daniels on Jan 5, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,795 views

    The Church

    THE CHURCH 3/22/98 Mark 3:33-36 Introduction Theme:God’s family- Is a family of true believers who understand who the father is and conducts themselves in accordance to the Fathers will. There is no rebelliousness in God’s family. There is no envy, no puffed up and boastful attitudes, no ...read more

  • The Church

    Contributed by Richard Rutledge on Nov 4, 2001
    based on 54 ratings
     | 13,440 views

    We have home schools, home business, and home shopping but the church cannot be relegated to the home.

    The Church Heb 10:25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-- and all the more as you see the Day approaching. I realize that I will be preaching to the choir today but I believe that it is important for us to be reminded from time ...read more

  • The Church

    Contributed by Kevin Mayberry on Mar 13, 2002
    based on 44 ratings
     | 6,453 views

    The true Church Christ established

    The Church Ex.18:19-23,Is.22:20-22,Mt.16:17-19,Mt.28:18-20 St.Augustine once said,"I would not have believed the Gospels unless moved by the Church."Why would someone depend on a church that much?The churh he was refering to here is one of the oldest churches in the world,it was founded in ...read more

  • The Church

    Contributed by Dennis Lawrence on Nov 16, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,231 views

    Understand how we are uniquely related to each other in the church.

    The Church Cornwall September 25, 2005 In our first week together, as Grace Community Church, I spoke about who we are and what we want to be here as GCC. Then we focused on how God works with you personally, as we considered Zacchaeus and Jesus’ calling him by name. Last week, we looked at how ...read more