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Using Your Shape

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Improving Your Serve

Today, we?re going to see that in order to effectively serve we must make sure that we?ve surrendered to Christ and that we have a proper estimation of self. In other words, we must first go deep before we can go long. Continue reading

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Becoming a Servant

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Improving Your Serve

We?re going to walk though this passage in order to learn four ways to become better servants. Let?s set the context. In the first part of chapter 20, Jesus told a parable about some laborers who were hired to work in a vineyard. The landowner decided to pay everyone the same wage, regardless of how long they worked in the fields. Those who were hired first started to complain because they didn?t think it was fair. Jesus concluded his teaching by saying in verse 16: “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”Verse 19 tells us that as Jesus was headed to Jerusalem to face suffering and death, He took the disciples aside and told them that He would be “mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day He will be raised to life.”
As we come to our text today, we?ll see that we?re really a lot like those first followers. Continue reading

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Serving God is a Noble Task

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Eternal Truths You Can Depend On

This fourth eternal truth Paul shared with Timothy deals with the value, the worth – the nobility of serving God. Serving God is a worthwhile task to be desired and revered over all others. Continue reading

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Seven Ways to Serve One Another

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Life in Community

It’s not always easy being in relationships with others. Yet, in Christian community, we are called to do more than get along. When God calls us to Himself he calls us to one another. He calls us to a deep, unbreakable, committed, covenant relationship to Him, and as those who are adopted as His children, we are also called to one another… Continue reading

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Who Moved?

I believe that Hosea?s message is not only pertinent to the nation of Israel but also to the church of Christ. For the same imagery is used later on in the New Testament to describe the Church of Christ as the Bride of Christ and I think there are some parallels that can be made with Hosea?s message to the Israelites and what Christ would say to His church. Continue reading

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