I wonder what my spirit would have been like as a fourteen year old boy if I had been abducted by invading conquerors and taken seven hundred miles from home to serve in a foreign country.
Memory is a fantastic function of the incredible brain that God created in man. All of the technology on earth has not produced anything close to its efficiency and capability.
One of the things that I like about our calendar system is that every 24 hours we get a brand new day that affords us the opportunity of a fresh start. Here we are in 2011.
Everybody has a worldview! From the pigmy tribes in the Congo to the cufflink staffer in the White House, everybody has a philosophy of how they view the world.
Sermon outline: This is an abbreviated outline with the complete sermon downloadable at the bottom of the post. Every now and then you come across something in the Scriptures that you’ve seen many times but have never really caught. I love those things.
I recently shared these 15 nuggets of wisdom from D.L. Moody with our church staff. They were obviously mined from a consistent walk with the Lord and great experience in ministry.
We have been washing clothes for centuries. The methods have changed but the desired result has not. Don’t you just love the feeling of having finished your last load?
In our periodic new member’s class, we teach our church’s purpose—loving God, growing together, and serving others. These are not just talking points, but destinations along the journey of the Christian life.
If you want to be an obedient Christian, you have one of two choices: be the pastor of a Bible-preaching, Bible-practicing church or help someone who is the pastor of a Bible-preaching, Bible-practicing church.
What You Must Do Before You Can Expect God to Work
In Acts 13:1–5 it’s interesting to note the spiritual activity and priorities the early church at Antioch possessed before starting the first of three recorded “church planting journeys.” We see the following spiritual activity preceding the activity of the Holy Spirit:
Lesson Outline: This is an abbreviated lesson outline with the entire lesson downloadable at the bottom of the post.The ministry of the church is multi-faceted, and at times somewhat complex. If we were to ask each other what the most important ministries of the church are, most, if not all of us, would hands down say the preaching and the soulwinning ministry of the church would rank at the top.