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 Defrosting Your Spiritual Assetsby Brian Bill 1 Corinthians 12:1-12:11 A man from Illinois decided to travel to Wisconsin to go duck hunting. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer’s field on the other side of the fence. As the flatlander climbed over the fence, a dairy more… 
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit- part 2 by Bob Ashcroft 1 Corinthians 12:1-12:11 The manifestational gifts are segmented into 3 distinct groups. Power Gifts- gift of faith, gifts of healings, working of miracles Revelation gifts- word of wisdom, word of knowledge & the more…
What’s Your Gift? by Russel Brownworth 1 Corinthians 12:1-12:11 In the 60’s, the Age of Aquarius, an age of so-called enlightenment, harmony and understanding, people often asked the question, What’s your sign? That referred to the twelve houses of the Zodiac. The more…
What Does God Want Me To Do by Bill Burnett 1 Corinthians 12:1-12:11 “A Christian who does not have a ministry is a contradiction of terms” - John MacArthur. We’ve talked a lot about the problems that the Corinthian Christians experienced in their church. There were a lot more...
 Gifts of the Holy Spirit by Alan Peary Acts 1:8 Jesus left His followers with the responsibility to witness the Gospel message to the ends of the earth. This was a huge responsibility – AND WE HAVE THAT SAME RESPONSIBILITY TODAY! This responsibility more...
The Fire of Pentecost: A Dangerous Reenactment In his sermon, “A Dangerous Pentecost,” Halford Luccock tells of Lorenzo de’Medici, the great Florentine patron of the arts who was very proud of the spectacles he staged for the citizenry. Among his productions were several amazingly realistic religious pageants performed in church. But one Pentecost, Lorenzo went too far: he used actual fire to depict the descent of the tongues of flames on the apostles. The fragile stage set caught fire and, before horrified onlookers, the entire church burned to the ground (Marching Off the Map, Harper, 1952). The moral is clear: pray for Pentecostal power, but don’t try to manufacture it. SOURCE: Charismatic Chaos, J. MacArthur, Jr., Zondervan, 1992, p. 175 Contributed by: Sermon Central
Standing in His Way"A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else’s way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow." SOURCE: Charles Spurgeon Contributed by: SermonCentral “The Force” Be With ThemYou’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard of Star Wars, but if you are not “into” the Star Wars saga you may not know that the two-foot tall, 800+year old character you just saw is Yoda. Now, it’s true, Yoda can’t speak a straightforward English sentence. “Totally backward his sentences are.” But Yoda is special for he is a Jedi Knight, actually, a Master Jedi. Jedi Knights are the good guys in Star Wars. They possess special gifts: they are especially discerning, they guide, protect, help people and as you just saw, yield a pretty good lightsaber (a sort of laser sword) against the bad guys. They are obedient to and unified by “The Force” which serves, as creator George Lucas says, “As the spiritual foundation for the movie.” Lucas has actually told TIME magazine said that one of his purposes for the Star Wars saga was to awaken and stimulate people’s thinking about God and what God is really like. Contributed by: Timothy Smith Becoming What We Should Be"No local congregation will be what it should be, what Jesus prayed that it would be, what the Holy Spirit gifted it and empowered it to be, until it understands spiritual gifts." John MacArthur Contributed by: Brian La Croix Thinking Properly About Spiritual GiftsRick Warren has said in his book “Purpose Driven Life” that there are 2 main problems when thinking about spiritual gifts. One is called “gift-envy”. This means that we compare our abilities and gifts to others. In doing that, we might feel tempted to feel jealous of others or feel dissatisfied with what God has given us. The second problem is “gift-projection”. This happens when you expect other people to have your gift, do things as you do them and to feel the same way you do about that subject with the same passion. This just isn’t going to happen. SOURCE: The Purpose Driven Life Contributed by: Jeff Simms 
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