CORPSES CONVERTED AT EPHESUS (6 OF 15)
Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10
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Corpses Converted at Ephesus (6 of 15)
Series: Ephesians
Donald Cantrell
Ephesians 2:1-10
I - The Poverty of Sin (1 - 3)
II - The Path of Salvation (4 - 5)
III - The Place of Splendor (6 - 7)
IV - The Perversion of Substitutes (8 - 9)
V - The Product of Sovereignty (10)
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Dead but Alive
Healing House is in Kansas City, Ks. It's a home for drug addicts started by a woman named Bobbie Jo. Bobbie Jo had been walking the streets for many years but then someone cared enough to share the Gospel with her and she was born again. At the same time, her mother died and left her an inheritance.
She knew that many of the women who were drug addicts turned to the streets to support their habits. When they were arrested, put in jail and then released, they had no place to go. So they went back to working the streets. So with her inheritance, Bobbie Jo bought an old retirement home that was boarded up and rehabbed it. She invited the ladies to come and live there and as they did, she would share the Gospel with them.
Well, that home got filled up and then a pimp moved next door. She started praying for that house, gathered some more resources and bought that house. It filled up and she bought another and then an apartment complex. One woman whose life was racked with sin but who had been freed from it then passed on the Good news through which they became free.
At Christmas time, they would take an offering from the ladies who would give out of their meager earnings. They would buy presents and then take them to the homeless on the streets that they knew saying, ''This is a Christmas gift for you to remind you that there is still hope and there's a Savior who can save you.''
Last Christmas Eve, they pulled into a gas station to fill up the house van and two police officers were there. He recognized one of the girls in the van and walked over and said to her, ''What are you doing ...
Series: Ephesians
Donald Cantrell
Ephesians 2:1-10
I - The Poverty of Sin (1 - 3)
II - The Path of Salvation (4 - 5)
III - The Place of Splendor (6 - 7)
IV - The Perversion of Substitutes (8 - 9)
V - The Product of Sovereignty (10)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Dead but Alive
Healing House is in Kansas City, Ks. It's a home for drug addicts started by a woman named Bobbie Jo. Bobbie Jo had been walking the streets for many years but then someone cared enough to share the Gospel with her and she was born again. At the same time, her mother died and left her an inheritance.
She knew that many of the women who were drug addicts turned to the streets to support their habits. When they were arrested, put in jail and then released, they had no place to go. So they went back to working the streets. So with her inheritance, Bobbie Jo bought an old retirement home that was boarded up and rehabbed it. She invited the ladies to come and live there and as they did, she would share the Gospel with them.
Well, that home got filled up and then a pimp moved next door. She started praying for that house, gathered some more resources and bought that house. It filled up and she bought another and then an apartment complex. One woman whose life was racked with sin but who had been freed from it then passed on the Good news through which they became free.
At Christmas time, they would take an offering from the ladies who would give out of their meager earnings. They would buy presents and then take them to the homeless on the streets that they knew saying, ''This is a Christmas gift for you to remind you that there is still hope and there's a Savior who can save you.''
Last Christmas Eve, they pulled into a gas station to fill up the house van and two police officers were there. He recognized one of the girls in the van and walked over and said to her, ''What are you doing ...
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