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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 19 views • unknown
Reasons to Assemble Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:25 Recommended Reading Acts2:42-47 It is said that one Sunday, King Louis XIV of France arrived at his chapel for…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
Look out America! There’s a new church movement rising across the country, and guess what they all have in common? They all don’t believe in God! Yes, the growth of atheist churches and even atheist mega-churches are becoming more and more popular as people want the warm feelings of a church experience…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
A new listing of churches within a denomination has found an interesting trend among young Christians. The survey conducted for Churches or Christ that most denominations are seeing a decline in overall membership. Carl Royster who conducted the survey says he found an increasing number of Americans…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In Flickering Pixels, Shane Hipps writes, “Digital social networking inoculates people against the desire to be physically present with others in real social networks—networks like a church or a meal at someone’s home. Being together becomes nice but nonessential.” --Flickering Pixels, 115 Acts 2:46…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 37 views
Back in 2000, the FCA leaders of Pearl River Central High School in Carriere, Ms, were discussing plans for the remainder of the school year. "Everyone was writing down goals and plans when suddenly a teacher suggested we reach our school for Christ," said Cary-Anne Dell, a member of the FCA's leadership…
Illustration • • 30 views
"One hundred religious persons knit into unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisiste is life, always." A. W. Tozer, The Dwelling Place of God
Simeon • Illustration • • 7 views
The way the early Church understood slavery was different to our conceptions of African cotton fields or butlers of the aristocracy. Slaves were literally everywhere in the Greco-Roman context - 1 in 3 people in the empire were slaves. Status as a free or freedman was pretty special then. And yet, in…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 18 views
The new preacher loaded his car with his large family and visited an old deacon on the farm. After the introductions there was an awkward pause as the unexpected guests looked for chairs upon which to sit. The parlor had only two chairs. "Brother, I don't believe you have enough chairs," suggested the…
Nathan Kuperus • Illustration • • 21 views
How can you tell the Holy Spirit is present? It is just like batteries in a flashlight. You can't tell the flashlight has batteries in it until you try to turn it on. When it is turned on you know if there are batteries or not. With the Christian life, if the Holy Spirit is present the Christian shines…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 2,002 views
Thanksgiving Quiz – The Answers! Here are the answers to last week’s Thanksgiving Quiz: 1. When did a whole nation pause to give thanks to God? The Israelites, after the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 15). 2. When did four thousand people praise God with instruments? Under the appointment of King David…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 12 views
The Holy Torment of Preaching 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 But how are they to call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to…
Chad Oltman • Illustration • • 95 views
Lechem - Bread by Josa Bivin1 "For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." John 6:33 When Richard and Lucinda (our volunteer workers) first came to Israel, they noticed plastic sacks containing pieces of bread hanging from the sides of the trash containers…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 5 views
Evangelist Vance Havner wrote, “My father was faithful to the house of God. When he felt like it and when he didn’t, when the preaching was good and when it wasn’t, my father was there.” Today’s crowd isn’t quite so faithful, nor is our society very helpful. A group of churches in New Jersey recently…
Rev. Gregory S. Byrd • Illustration • • 71 views
The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship The Intensification of Worship as an Inward Experience of the Heart The essential, vital, indispensable, defining heart of worship is the experience of being satisfied with God because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. The chief end…
Steve Bramham • Illustration • • 950 views
A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 16 views
a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers Volume 1, Number 2 Summer / 1987 CXJT (H A BROKEN LIMB Actress Shirley MacLaine has written a book on her experiences with the occult world, entitled Out On A Limb. F. LaGard Smith, Professor of Law at Pepperdine University has written a Christian answer…