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Truth And Love
Josh Andrews • Mt. Zion Baptist Church • Illustration • • 13 views • 41:45
Pastor Chad A. Miller • Grace Covenant Church • Illustration • • 132 views
Communion Order taken largely from a Communion Liturgy published by R. Kent Hughes. (Hughes, R. Kent. The Pastor's Book (pp. 447-449). Crossway.)
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 29 views
Faith, as soon as it opens its mouth, begins to make a personal appropriation of the blessings of the grace of God. What do you do when you come to the communion table? Do you come there to see other people eat bread and drink wine? No. In communion, each of you eats, and each of you drinks, and that…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 61 views
When our Lord met the disciples at Emmaus and talked with them, they did not know Him while He talked with them. But when do you think they knew that they knew Him? It was not until they performed an act of obedience by offering hospitality to a stranger. Then He was known to them in the breaking of…
Dr. Mark A. Barber • Illustration • • 13 views
This is a Confession to go with the Christmas Eve Communion Service
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “The famous statement of Jesus to the church in Laodicea—“ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me” (Rev 3: 20)—is often…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Two women who were looking for new ministry opportunities pioneered a unique church community that meets outdoors in the Peak District, a national park in northwest England. The pastors said a weekly hiking service began to draw four families, and now they have developed a liturgy and share communion…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
In Iran Christians are coming under extreme persecution for observing the Lord’s Supper. One received 80 lashes and others sentenced to less lashes. Their crime was drinking communion wine. It may not seem like it at the time, but when believers are persecuted for the Lord’s sake, they are really blessed.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Musician speaker, and author Shaun Groves says he has the opportunity to lead worship at many different churches. After the services, he takes time to sit down with the musicians of that church for some one-on-one time. Groves says the musicians will often ask him about the music program at his home…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 15 views
Pat Novak was a hospital chaplain intern who discovered the great power of God’s forgiving grace. He was making his rounds one summer morning when he was called to visit a patient admitted with an undiagnosed ailment. John was a man in his sixties who was not responding to treatment at all. His tests…
The Rev. Canon Philip R. Taylor • Illustration • • 70 views
JESUS SAID…IN THE GOSPEL OF MARK A Christian Education Program for Men Lasting 6 Weeks Written and Presented by The Rev. Philip R. Taylor Meets each week for 1 ½ hours (Day & Time TBD) Objectives: 1. Listen to the voice of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark 2. Respond to the words of Jesus 3. Discover what…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 85 views
Prevailing Prayer by D. L. Moody PREFATORY NOTE The two first and essential means of grace are the Word of God and Prayer. By these come conversion; for we are born again by the Word of God, which lives and abides forever; and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. By these also…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
A recent break-in and incidence of arson at a Seattle area church has the pastor and church building to get food. The suspect ate some of the communion bread, and then set several fires in the building to cover his tracks. The local paper reported the arsonist set fire to artificial flowers, a tablecloth,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 37 views
You see, when you start judging your own goodness, you really get into trouble. You may fall victim to the “Lake Woebegone Effect.” Garrison Keillor, the inventor of the show, The Prairie Home Companion, told stories of a fictional town in Minnesota named “Lake Woebegone.” In this town, “all the men…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 50 views
Miroslav Volf, a Christian theologian from Croatia, used to reject the concept of God's wrath. He thought that the idea of an angry God was barbaric, completely unworthy of a God of love. But then his country experienced a brutal war. People committed terrible atrocities against their neighbors and countrymen.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 21 views
Right after I arrived in Wilson, I met Bro. Preston Gregory. I still remember him speaking at some event and telling about a ritual of his own. He blows his horn. His car horn that is. He blows it at his wife three times. Now, I have to tell you, blowing my horn at my wife just one time can earn me a…
Adam Carrigan • Illustration • • 361 views
AS THE DEER by Joe King As the deer pants for the water, I the Lord long after you You my child are my heart’s desire and I long to be with you. How we talked when our love was new But these past years our words grew few. I’m your father and you’re my child, come sit with me a while. You’ve been busy,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
My dad demonstrated such love to me. I still remember the time he caught me doing something that greatly disappointed him. He was so disappointed that I don’t think he knew what to do. That afternoon, he picked me up from school took me to his office and cried (that was one of the only times I ever saw…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 18 views
“I live in a vacuum that is as lonely as a radio tube when the batteries are dead, and there is no current to plug into.” that’s what Ernest Hemingway said of his life. How could that be? He was known for his tough-guy image and globe-trotting pilgrimages to exotic places. He was a big-game hunter, a…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 23 views
EVENTS WITH A PURPOSE Church Picnic Old-Fashioned Sunday Mother's Day Father's Day Homecoming Independence Sunday Thanksgiving Christmas Easter Ice Cream Social Sweetheart Banquet Talent – Un-talent Show Church Anniversary Dessert-A-Rama Find A Parade Renewing Your Vows CHURCH PICNIC Go to a local park,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
When I was a child, my father was an all-consuming presence in my life. For one thing, I knew he loved me completely. I never had any doubt of that. In fact, I understood that he loved me too much to let me get away with anything. In fact, my dad didn’t even have to speak to me to correct me. Anybody…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 10 views
That’s what Mary Poplin did: She was professor of Education and Dean of the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University. She attended a Methodist church as a child, but began searching other spiritual traditions, including Buddhism, Transcendental Meditation, even telepathic attempts…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 4 views
Associated Press A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Forty-five…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 31 views
That was the case with Sarah. You see, Sarah was rich – very, very rich. Not only was her income a thousand dollars a day, but she had inherited twenty million. That's not bad?especially in the late 1800s. By today's standards, she could have been a billionaire. She was well known in high society. Just…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 303 views
Communion For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. [27] Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. [28] But let a man examine himself, and so let…