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Sources of Security: Community
by Tony Nester
Jesus gave us more than himself, he gave us each other. He commanded us not only to love God, but to love one another. Holy Communion, which we share in this morning, is more than our communion with God; it is our communion with each other, for we together are the Body of Christ, each a different member of that Body. So today I want to talk with you about the third source of security in this three part series on sources of security in an insecure world. Two weeks ago I spoke about character. Last week I asked you to think about commitment. Today I want us to look at the third "C": community. When...
Community, Commitment, Connection and Tradition
by Bob Wickizer
We need to spend some time today reflecting on the first Native American clergy person in Indian Territory along with the challenges of Christian mission. It's a tall order. The Reverend David Pendleton Oakerhater had many names, titles and careers during his long life. We recognize him today for what he did with the latter half of his life. But if we were to pick a modern term to describe his early days, that term would be ''terrorist.'' While there is some truth to the saying that one man's terrorist is another person's folk hero; Oakerhater, also known as Making Medicine, waged war for many years on the white man and the U.S....
The Value of Community (2 of 6)
by Michael Romero
In January we began a teaching series of Riversides core values. I want to thank you all for hanging in there with me as we discover together those things that our church considers important non-negotiable values that define our Christian walk. As a corporate body of believers we need to be able to define and live the values that we believe. This has been my motivation for teaching this series. I want to briefly go over the core values that we have unfolded and discovered together so far. The value of Biblical Authority "Biblical Authority means that the Bible is the final and ultimate authority for our lives and for our ministry...
Community Jeopardy (23 of 36)
by Keith Krell
Ten year ago, Danny Villegas robbed a bank and was sentenced to 70 months in a federal penitentiary. Surprisingly, Villegas decided he liked prison life so much that he committed another crime, just so he could return! Villegas walked inside a Federal Credit Union in Florida and told the teller he was robbing her, adding, "You might as well call the police right now." He then sat down on a couch in the lobby and waited for police to arrive. Villegas had worked as a roofer in Texas for five years, but had grown tired of the work. As an unemployed roofer, he decided he preferred prison over trying to find another job. Perhaps...
Community (6 of 6)
by Benny Perez
Today I am continuing our Series Our House. We will be talking about a few of the core values of Our Church House. Every House has a Culture, what is acceptable and not acceptable in the house. Today I want to continue talking about Our House - Community What do you think of when I say Community? Some think of a place where they live. Some think of a group of people. Others think of people with a common interest. Definition of Community 1) A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government. 2) A group of people having common interests 3) A group of people forming a distinct segment...
Why Our Community Needs Us
by Joe Alain
[This sermon was a challenge to the church to seize the opportunities to minister in a growing community and hurting world by expanding current facilities and spiritually building up God's kingdom. Various Scriptures are used throughout the message.] "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge" (Prov. 1:7a). Envision with me a community bustling with activity. Young families moving in, children laughing and playing in newly developed neighborhoods, new state of the art schools being built, literally thousands of young children experiencing life, soaking up their environment like sponges, learning at incredible...
Building a Life of Community (5 of 5)
by Kerry Shook
Oh, hey, how are you doing today? I'm just doing a little bit of sanding. We all know that sanding can be very useful when it comes to woodworking or finishing furniture. But, if you take sandpaper and you rub it against your skin, it doesn't feel too good. It's irritating. It's painful. We all have people in our lives that are sort of like sandpaper. They irritate us. They rub us the wrong way. They get under our skin. I call them sandpaper people. We all have sandpaper people in our lives and some of them, fortunately, we rarely have to see. Others, on the other hand, you have to see them every single day at your workplace. Some of them you...
Community: Christ and the Church (33 of 40)
by Jesus Culture Resources
For the last few sessions, we have looked at marriage and relationships. Marriage is a great reflection of the love of God because it illustrates what He wants with His people: togetherness. He desires to be so close to us that two lives - His and ours - become one life. God wants to be one with His people (Eph. 5:30, 1 Cor. 6:17). God wants to share Himself with us and us to share ourselves with Him to the extent that nothing we do is apart from Him. Everything we do and everything we think should be done and thought from a place of intimacy with Him, which is the incubator of abundant life. True community is founded on the...
What Is a New Covenant Community? (5 of 26)
by Rick White
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts. And such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit...
Reaching Our Community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ
by David Cook
One of the goals of our church is to reach out into this community God has placed us in and to minister to their needs. Every Christian is primarily called by the Lord to serve. A missionary was sent into the deepest parts of a jungle and fell into the hands of a band of cannibals. Realizing they were going to eat him the missionary told them, "you are not going to like me," and calmly took out his pocketknife, sliced a piece from the calf of his leg and handed it to the chief. "Try it and see for yourself." The chief took one bit, chewed a minute, grunted, and spit it out. The missionary lived on the island another 25 years, and the natives never knew...
You Were Made for This! - Topical Sermon on Small Groups
by Brian Fletcher
Just as Tom Hanks in the movie Cast Away, is isolated on a deserted island, he has no one to relate to, he finally creates someone out of a volleyball. His friend is Wilson. He could not stand to be alone. But that's because he was not created to be alone, he was created for relationships. Tom Hanks that is, not the volleyball. 1. Made in the image of God means we were created for relationships - Genesis 1:26-27 God is Triune: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Three persons in one God. They are in perfect unity and they relate to one another perfectly. One does not exist without the other. So, part of the image of...
Growth Group Manual
by Rick Ferguson
Fellowship:Growth groups allow believers to meet with fellow believers of similar age and life experiences on a regular basis. Growth group meetings are intentionally relaxed, with limited structure in order to allow for maximum spontaneity and sensitivity to the ever changing needs of the group. Growth group meetings involve food, laughter and fellowship. One of the primary goals of growth groups is to help believers meet other believers and develop enduring friendships and intimate relationships. Discipleship:Growth group ministry also is designed to nurture personal spiritual growth. Time and attention is given in growth...
Small Groups
by Zach Terry
Tonight we are beginning a series where we look at the nuts and bolts of a local new testament church. Tonight we are starting with - small groups. From the beginning God said, ''It is not good for man to be alone'' God created you unfinished so that you would only be complete when you are engaged in a larger group. In a day when communication is at it all time high…so is isolationism and loneliness CNN.COM The trend toward isolation surfaced in the last U.S. census figures, which show that one-fourth of the nation's households -- 27.2 million of them -- consisted of just one person, compared with 10 percent in...
