old-sermon

* after church one Sunday morning, two pastors stood over a table filled with a pile of money – the biggest offering ever taken in the history of that church * the two pastors stand there

* even though I attended church since I was a child, it wasn’t until about nine years ago that I discovered the principle which has brought the greatest amount of freedom and release

* please open your Bibles this morning to Ephesians 4:7-16, the passage we read earlier * if there’s anyone who understands church growth dynamics in North America, it’s Lyle Schaller * he’s

* (Matthew 6:1) “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. * (Matthew

* I used to have this problem * as a child, my beliefs and what I was taught really presented me with few problems * but then I reached an age, around the time I became