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Uncommon Courtesy and Modern Day Manners | Church Sourcing
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Uncommon Courtesy and Modern Day Manners. March 19, 2014. Care and Kindness – Have you noticed them missing in your world? Wherever you go there are so many examples of people acting without thinking of how their actions affect others. Do you want some examples of former things considered Common Courtesy and Manners? Old Courtesy and Manners. 1 Opening the doors for others (Ladies first). 2 Taking your hat off inside of buildings, and when meeting others. 5 Using the words Please and Thank You. 5 Know th...
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The New Wave | Church Sourcing
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January 23, 2014. Ministry Tools and Helps. Are they challenging personal spiritual growth? Are they encouraging neighborhood evangelism? Are they inspiring private Bible Study? Are they motivating a daily prayer time? Are they meeting the needs of the total family? According to Jesus, our assignment is to Make Disciples. (Matthew 28:19). What are the effects of spiritual growth without systematic Bible study? What happens when we replace a Sunday School class with a Veggie Tales Video? If we don’t evalu...
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URGENT | Church Sourcing
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November 7, 2013. Ministry Tools and Helps. The Encarta Dictionary definition of Urgent is: Requiring immediate action. How do you measure Spirituality? The Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20) is a clear command from Jesus we are to MAKE Disciples. How good are your efforts at making disciples? We hold services and share sermons, but what is the result? We have built in plans to help a new believer for 8 or 16 weeks . but then what? Hunger for the Word. Desire to know God. Things we have tried:. We live ...
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How to Keep the Members Content | Church Sourcing
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How to Keep the Members Content. October 7, 2013. Ministry Tools and Helps. The Encarta Dictionary in my computer defines Content as quietly satisfied and happy . As pastors we have a goal to minister to every age group on their level of understanding. We want the Gospel to be heard, accepted and we expect lives to change. Is required Romans 12:1-2). Here is the question that perplexes so many of us, How do I keep my older members content? 2)We have disconnected serving from the discipleship process.
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Sing It Again! | Church Sourcing
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March 5, 2014. Ministry Tools and Helps. The old TV program Hee Haw used to have a song that went like this:. Gloom despair and agony, oh me,. Deep dark depression excessive misery,. If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all,. Gloom despair and agony, oh me. Other songs are described as The Blues because of the singers/writers state of loneliness, depression and darkness. A lot of Blues are being sung today, by people who have missed life’s most important decision. Do you know Him? Fill in your...
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Making Christmas – a REAL Christmas | Church Sourcing
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Making Christmas a REAL Christmas. December 20, 2013. Ministry Tools and Helps. Christmas – Fiction. Do your children know this story? Do they know that it is REAL not fiction? Home Stage = Manger Scene. Why not plan a time when all the family sits down and someone reads the REAL Christmas story? Sing a Carol that Reflects the Story. Here are a few suggestions:. Little Town of Bethlehem. Come Let Us Adore Him. Joy to the World. 3 Pray for God to heal our land. Tell the Story Again and Again! Yet to all w...
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CoExist? | Church Sourcing
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March 6, 2014. Ministry Tools and Helps. Buzzwords are started almost every day. Coexist is one you can find on a bumper sticker. At first glance it seems very innocuous. We should learn to be at peace with one another. Who could disagree with that? Here are a few of the ways that religions are not similar:. 1) Some believe in Heaven. 2) Some believe in Hell. 3) Some believe in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 4) Some believe in many gods. 5) Some believe that you work to get into Heaven.
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Finding Morality Again | Church Sourcing
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October 9, 2013. Ministry Tools and Helps. Morality accepted moral standards, how right or wrong something is, virtuous behavior, moral lesson. Americans and the Book. Life without the Book. Most of us reading this grew up learning to drive on the right side of the road. Can you imagine the chaos if someone just up and decided that we all should drive on the left now? That is the world we are facing. Many don’t believe in the Book and therefore want to change the way behavior is labeled as normal. The Bo...
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Real Salvation without Life Change? | Church Sourcing
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Real Salvation without Life Change? February 19, 2014. Ministry Tools and Helps. It is amazing the number of people who are coming to the Lord at the church we attend. It is a thrilling thing to observe. I know that there are many churches that would be ecstatic with those results. But I wonder if we are presenting the whole picture? What is the Biblical process? 1 Jesus (John 3:16 NIV). For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever. 2 Paul (Romans 10:9 NIV). Just like the ph...
