Do you have a job in this church and this community . . . or do you have a ministry? There is a difference!
If you are doing it because no one else will, it's a job. If you're doing it to serve the Lord, it's a ministry.
If you're doing it just well enough to get by, it's a job. If you're doing it to the best of your ability, it's a ministry.
If you'll do it only so long as it doesn't interfere w...
2. Everything Is Broken
Mark 1:29-39
Illustration
Michael D. Powell
We live in a broken world. The contemporary Jewish prophet, Robert Zimmerman, once detailed the list of things that were broken. Everything Is Broken, he said.
Broken bottles, broken plates,
broken switches, broken gates.
Broken dishes, broken parts,
streets are filled with broken hearts.
Broken words, never meant to be spoken,
everything is broken.
Broken bodies, broken bones,
broken voices on ...
3. Rules for Being Human
John 3:1-21
Illustration
Michael D. Powell
10 Rules for Your Human Life
You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
There are no mistakes, only lessons. ...