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  • Pride And Prejudice Series

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Jul 17, 2017
     | 6,057 views

    Jesus teaches humility and tells of future hardships but yet the disciples argue who's the greatest!

    Let us continue to worship our God by continuing to learn from the Gospel of Mark; please open your Bibles to Mark 10…. We noted last week nothing is impossible with God but one must humble themselves before God. Look at v1 of Mark 10, a crowd of people came to Jesus, so Jesus taught them. In v5, ...read more

  • Milk Or Meat Series

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 4, 2014
     | 10,474 views

    1) The Cause (1 Corinthians 3:1–3a), 2) The Symptoms (1 Corinthians 3:3b–4), and 3) The Cure (1 Corinthians 3:5-9) for division.

    When Companies struggle with human or mechanical processes, they hire experts which come into and identify faulty processes. Often those who engage in a task every day, become blind to the problems. They often fail to see the pitfalls before them. The Corinthian believers had an especially hard ...read more

  • Whose Side Are You On?

    Contributed by Rick Boyne on Nov 6, 2014
     | 5,237 views

    No matter the controversy, we must always remember that believers are on the same team.

    Whose Side Are You On? November 2, 2014 Morning Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: No matter the controversy, we must always remember that believers are on the same team. Focus Passage: 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Supplemental Passage: Now it came about when Joshua ...read more

  • How To Deal With Difficult People

    Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Aug 7, 2012
    based on 79 ratings
     | 30,368 views

    Practical, but practically unknown Biblical helps for this that most people won’t be willing to practice even once they are aware...but truly mature Christians will!

    How to Deal with Difficult People Romans 12:14-21 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/120807pm.mp3 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons.html Spurgeon ministered in London in the 1800s, and as a young preacher he learned that you cannot argue w/ a person who will not argue back. One time he learned that a ...read more

  • The Cure For The Common Church Series

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Aug 8, 2012
     | 5,233 views

    Don't try to hide the fact you have quarrels and fights. Deal with the fact that there is divisions and disagreement. Divisions distract us. Learn the principles that can be the cure for the common church.

    Intro: What is it that causes fights and quarrels or division? We see division in families, marriages, teams, governments, and of course churches? Why? Listen to what James the brother of Jesus has to say. James 4.1-3 “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Aren’t they caused ...read more

  • Spiritual Infants And Spiritual Adults Series

    Contributed by Leighton (Lee) Vary on Feb 20, 2017
     | 11,221 views

    There are spiritual infants and spiritual adults. Infants are characterized by envy, strife, and division. Adults, in Christ, are characterized by love, forgiveness, and peace. Which are we?

    I. Introduction A. Mr. Lee was terribly overweight, so his doctor put him on a diet. "I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for 2 weeks. The next time I see you, you'll have lost at least 5 pounds." When Mr. Lee returned, he shocked the doctor by losing ...read more

  • The Divided Church Series

    Contributed by D Marion Clark on Aug 27, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,134 views

    The effect of divisions in the church and how they arise.

    Introduction Clicks, they are the bane of high schools! It seems to be the fate of teenagers to get caught up in them, either eager to get into some or eager to avoid others. But clicks are not unique to teenagers and high schools. As we are about to learn, adults are also prone to them even in ...read more

  • We've All Been Caught In The Same Net

    Contributed by Mary Erickson on Jan 27, 2020
     | 3,821 views

    Human tendency is to look for all the ways we are different. But the church finds its unity only in Christ.

    January 26, 2020 Hope Lutheran Church Rev. Mary Erickson 1 Cor. 1:10-18; Matt. 4:12-23 We’ve All Been Caught in the Same Net Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. If one thing marks our current culture, I think many people would ...read more

  • Heretics

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jun 1, 2019
     | 2,887 views

    Not all heretics are in pulpits or colleges. Many are in the pew as well. Don't be one.

    Rom_16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. He is speaking of heretics who cause division through false doctrine. We must learn to discern and avoid false doctrine and those who teach it. We ...read more

  • Divided And Dying

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jun 9, 2021
     | 2,641 views

    The enemy has used divide and conquer to split the Church/Body and he is doing it well.

    "Division is devastating to effectiveness." Tim Dilena. Division in the Body has possibly done more damage to Western Christianity than heresy. That said, we cannot unite around anything but truth. Ten churches of like faith in a town or even ten miles away are a bar to ...read more

  • When Dry Bones Can Live Again

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Mar 1, 2021
     | 14,816 views

    Symbolically, this vision is about the resurrection of Israel as a nation. The dry and disconnected bones represent how God’s people had been defeated, divided and scattered in exile. Only God can reconnect their bones, unite them and bring them back together as a country!

    WHEN DRY BONES CAN LIVE AGAIN Text: Ezekiel 37:1 - 14 Ezekiel 37:1-14  The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.  (2)  And he led me around among them, and behold, there were ...read more

  • Recess Is Over

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jan 11, 2021
     | 4,510 views

    We have played church for too long. It is time to work as one.

    Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have ...read more

  • Divided We Are Falling/Failing

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Jan 20, 2021
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,928 views

    The division (fueled by things like - COVID, masks and a presidential election...etc) between people who were redeemed and set free by the blood of Jesus and who claim to be following after Him... must stop!

    Divided We ARE Falling/Failing Good morning MGCC. TODAY – is January 17 of the year 2021… YEAH – I know a lot of us were looking forward to the new year, wanting to put the year 2020 behind us. HOWEVER – 17 days in 2021 is not looking so good. I MEAN – the turmoil, the unrest, the anger, the ...read more

  • Absaloms In The Gate

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on May 30, 2020
     | 3,023 views

    If indeed, God has given you new insight then use it for the sake of the Body and Christ not for your own devices or else you are an Absalom and in trouble with the Father and the Son. If you twist or deny Scripture you are in even deeper.

    2 Samuel 15:4  Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice! Absalom was a son of the King who thought he knew better than the King and swayed many to his side in a rebellion to remove ...read more

  • The Promise Series

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 4, 2020
     | 2,707 views

    In Ephesians 2:11–12 Paul shows the need for the work of Christ, the Promise of the Gospel of reconciliation, for Jew and Greek by First, Describing the former Social (Ephesians 2:11) then Spiritual alienation of Jews and Gentiles (Ephesians 2:11).

    Ephesians 2:11-12 [11] Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands--[12] remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of ...read more