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Sermon Starters »

[29 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 241 views]

All about relationships
Marriage (Marriage relationship is an example of Christ’s love for his church)
Family
Friendships

Sermon Starters »

[29 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 275 views]

What is the church really about? Find out the truth as we expose what it means to be a member and what God expects from us as the church.
Connecting
Growing
Serving

Headline, Ministry Development »

[24 Nov 2008 | 7 Comments | 1,106 views]
Processing the Call to the Ministry

This video explores the call of God on an individual’s life and gives some sound advice on how to process this incredible experience. Please take a moment to comment after you’ve watched and leave your own thoughts or experiences about confronting the call of God in your life.

Illustrations and Research, Inspiration »

[22 Nov 2008 | 3 Comments | 861 views]
Backpack Beverage Outreach – Black Friday and Beyond!

The day after Thanksgiving is “Black Friday”, the day when companies around the U.S. come out of the “red” and into the “black”. They do this by offering exceptional sales and make up profit in volume. The kicker is this… it’s COLD and people start arriving to wait in line at, like 4am for the doors to open!!
So what does this mean to us? OPPORTUNITY!!!
Our students and college/career groups will be descending on the major chains around our city with hot beverage packs, offering FREE coffee and hot cocoa as …

Quotes »

[22 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 163 views]

Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of God on earth.

Illustrations and Research »

[22 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 341 views]

The following quotations are excerpted from a book published in 1834 and written by
Joshua Leonard, a Presbyterian minister who was a member of the Presbytery in Cortland, New
York. While the book was in production, charges of heresy were filed against him because of it,
whereupon he resigned and resumed his previous status as an independent congregational
pastor. The full title of the book on its title page is Solemn Reasons for Believing That God Is
One: and for Withholding Assent to the Proposition That God Is Three, and the short title on its
spine …

Illustrations and Research »

[22 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 238 views]

Elysa Cunningham
Opening
Worship in our time has been captured by the tourist mind set.  Worship is understood as a visit to an attractive site to be made when we have adequate leisure.  Form some it’s a weekly trip to church.  For others, an occasional visit to special services.  Some, with a tendency for Christian entertainment and sacred diversion, plan their lives around special events like retreats, rallies and conferences.  We go to see a new personality, to hear a new truth, to get a new experience, and to somehow expand our …

Illustrations and Research »

[22 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 174 views]

An average person’s anxiety is focused on:
40 percent – things that will never happen
30 percent – things about the past that can’t be changed
12 percent – things about criticism by others, mostly untrie
10 percent – about health, which gets worse with stress
8 percent – about real problems that will be faced
– Survey by Sermon Illustrated

Illustrations and Research »

[22 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 147 views]

(CBS/AP) Pilots of the Comair commuter jet that crashed with 50 people aboard near Lexington, Ky., used the wrong runway, CBS News has learned.
Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard were killed. The one survivor, a crewmember, was reported in critical condition. 

U.S. officials who requested anonymity told CBS News Correspondent Bob Orr that the pilots apparently used a runway that was too short to accommodate the takeoff of the jet. 

The officials said the pilots had made “a critical and fatal mistake.” 

The plane, Comair Flight 5191, a CRJ-200 regional jet …

Illustrations and Research »

[22 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 254 views]

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust doeth corrupt, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust doeth not corrupt.”
So many investments of time and finance in things of no eternal value.
When the trumpet sounds, Jesus is returning to take souls out of the earth.