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Unity In The Church

I hope you don’t spend much time on the internet, but if you search on Yahoo for, “Why is the church so”, you get: And if you try, “Why are Christians so”, you get: Our culture perceives the church as useless and divided. Is that true? If it is, how does revival happen? If it isn’t, can we grow in our…

Introduction Every Part Matters. We know this is true for any thing that is made. A car will not go without a driveshaft even if everything else is in place. Nor will a car go without wheels and tires. Try roping a cow without a saddle, it gets sketchy. But a saddle without a tree is not a saddle but…

What Part are You? Introduction: Tonight we are going to talk about the Body of Christ. My daughter August has an affection for asking weird questions. She will ask questions like who did the first hair cut? Where did tea leaves come from and who thought to make tea out of them. One day she said have…

Intro Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you…

Have you ever been discouraged, disparaged by the church? The imperfect church is still something we should believe in. This morning we are going to be looking at the church, described, defined and applicable. Previously we have in this series looked at: Why believe in God Creator of the world ( Gen1:1-27…

Be of good courage, if you are in Christ, you will never be alone.

Celebrating the Wider Body of Christ Yesterday, I had the great privilege, with my wife Bobbi, of attending the dedication of the new worship facility at Community First Church of God in Homeland, CA. Pastor Mike Gratzke with his wife Kim have served the church there for more than 10 years. I have worshipped…

Now these are the chiefs of David’s mighty men, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel. Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son…

Final Words My mother passed away about a year ago… I still have saved her final voice mail message. It would be the last words I would hear her speak. My grandfather passed away when I was just 7 years old yet I can still recall the last time I spent with him and the words of wisdom he spoke into my…

Main Idea We are created to serve. A few years back, Kelly and I got into the show Madam Secretary, which is about the ongoing crazy world that the female Secretary of State lives in. In the show, there are many scenes of her meeting with the President of the United States and with the Chief of Staff,…

Verses 11-16 is one long sentence in the Greek. Maturity is necessary but not guaranteed. Remember your calling ! We are all called. This is the truth we spoke about two weeks ago. The book of Ephesians makes this point over and over. We are not needed but we are wanted. Yet, this does not mean we just…

Big Idea of the Message: Individualism is hurting the home, church, and community, and Christians need to understand that their lives do not belong to themselves. Application Point: God desires to use each Christian in a very specific role within the body of Christ. Intro Puppy hasn’t been all that coordinated…

Introduction Christ It all starts with Christ He is the head of the church (see verse 15) “from whom” (from) preposition Not only is Christ the head of the church. Christ is our source . “the whole body” whole body, every joint, each part Tells us this message is about inclusion . healthy - weak new…

What are your gifts and how should you use them?

Turn with me to Romans 12:1-2 I challenged you to take time and start reading Romans 12-15 over the next several weeks and let God start working on your thinking. I sure hope you have taken up that challenge! If you haven’t yet, it’s not too late. This week, dive in and take time to ask the Holy Spirit…

Do I really need to be a member of the Church? It seems in life everyone wants you to become a member of their group or club or company. whether it be for Costco, the library a political party, or a gym, it seems like everyone wants your membership so what to we normally do? for most of us we weigh the…

As I begin, it is fitting that I say this week has been less than inspiring. I, like many of you, find myself tired, irritated, angry and afraid. I’m tired of the Monday morning quarterbacking going on about how leaders should have addressed a pandemic that early estimates said could have killed as many…

As we continue our kickoff series, we shift to being a better equipped believer. If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, how do can we ensure we stay strong

We are in John 9 this morning. I encourage you to open your bibles and look at this passage with me. We read through this whole passage last week, and started by looking at verses 1-3. Today we are going to focus on verses 3-5. “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened…

Introduction Anyone blessed by that one note? Anyone benefitted? Encouraged? Strengthened? Let me try again. Let me play Amazing Grace. How was that? It wasn’t Amazing Grace, was it? The purpose of playing an instrument is for a recognizable and pleasing tune or melody to be produced. When that doesn’t…

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member…

Introduction—choice People have been making some strange choices over the last couple of weeks, haven’t they? At least, their choices have had strange results, like this. [Toilet paper free shelves] Now people do recognise that sometimes they need to make radical choices, and yet when push comes to shove,…

Introduction VIDEO - 1:30 What kind of reputation would we have if we put that into practice? All around us there are needs. Do we see them? Do we care? Are we so focused on ourselves and what we want that we are missing the needs of those around us? “If Jesus is the hope of the world, then we are His…

Did You Say Sacrifice? Sacrifice is a word that is pretty far from most of our minds. That doesn’t mean we haven’t had to sacrifice from time to time. Maybe especially in this time, where we have sacrificed a part of our beloved freedom, if we are responsible to others. To protect those around us we…