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Morning Prayer

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              Lord, give me the gift of discernment To know your will this day; And give me the gift of courage To do whatever you say. Then let the power of the Spirit Work through my human hands To build your heavenly kingdom Wherever your love demands.   Mary […]

The Focus of Your Life

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Stephen Arterburn and Jack Felton in their book  More Jesus, Less Religion remind us that when Jesus walked this earth he worked to get the focus off of “good” people doing what appeared to be “good things” and to get their focus back on God. Many people in the first-century Israel were pointing to the rules; […]

Revised Common Lectionary

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Acts 17:22-31; Psalm 66:8-20; 1 Peter 3:13-22; John 14:15-21 Theme Ideas Love and suffering seem to be the two great paths to God. Suffering gets our attention, and love shows us the nature of God. The psalmist speaks of being tested and tried as silver is tried — God put other nations over Israel to […]

Christ has no body on earth but yours

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“Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion is to look out to the earth, yours are the feet by which He is to go about doing good and yours are the hands by which He is to […]

Small Rural Church Turns Itself Into A Beacon

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Yellow Pine Christian Church may be one of the Disciple churches you’ve not heard a lot about. Their first building project was in 1902, as part of a logging community near Sibley, La. This one room church served a logging community of 2000+ and in true Disciple tradition opened its doors to all denominations and […]

When The Bottom Drops Out

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When The Bottom Drops Out Finding Grace in the Depths of Disappointment This is the name of a book written by Senior Pastor Robert Bugh from Wheaton Bible Church in West Chicago. It was written by him after years of helping others through the heartache and losses of life when suddenly his own life turned […]

Advent and Christmas

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Greetings: Do you remember a time, maybe when you were a child, when you were so excited that you could hardly wait for something to happen? It was hard to sleep at night because you were so excited? Did you ever wait for someone special to come to see you, and you stood or sat […]

Future Sermon Topics

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November 3           All Saints Sunday                       Luke 6:20-31   Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18 November 10        Veterans’ Day Sunday                 Luke 20:27-28   Job 19:23-27a November 17        “Not One” […]