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Date Speaker Primary Text Sermon Information
Mar 30, 2025
Gary Bassham
Mark 14
Disciples In Crisis

  1. The Context of Their Failures
    1. Where Did They Fail, Mark 14:12-42
    2. Summary of Failure
  2. The Causes of Their Failure
    1. We Need to Know (Why?)
    2. Lessons to Be Learned from Failures
  3. Consequence of Their Failures
    1. The Lord Rebukes Them, Mark 14:41-42
    2. They Forsook the Lord in a Crisis
    3. They Learned the Lesson the Hard Way.
  4. The Contrast of Their Failures
    1. The Life of Christ, Mark 14:43-52
    2. Three Qualities of Christ in Crisis
Mar 23, 2025
Gary Bassham
Mark 13
The Olivet Discourse

  1. The Prophetic Truth, vv. 1-27
    1. The Course of this Age, vv. 5-13
    2. The Great Tribulation, vv. 14-23
    3. The 2nd Coming of Christ, vv. 24-27
  2. The Parabolic Truth, vv. 28-37
    1. The Parable of the Fig Tree
    2. Parable of the Servant
  3. Practical Applications of These Truths
  4. Conclusion, Luke 21:20
    Live your life as if Jesus is coming tonight, but plan your ministry as if you have a 20-year contract.
Mar 16, 2025
Gary Bassham
John 12:1
The Final Week of Jesus Ministry

  • Dinner at Simon the Leper’s House
  • The Triumphal Entry
  • Cleansing the Temple
  • The Parables
Mar 9, 2025
Gary Bassham
The Marks of an Effective Church
Download Audio (19.3 MB MP3)

  1. BIBLE TEACHING MINISTRY
    1. Definition: Preacher - one who teaches the Word of God with exhortation
      1. Good preaching drives you further into the Word of God
      2. Good preaching inspires you to live a Christian life
      3. Good preaching changes lives
    2. The People Who Preached - Who Were They?
      1. The prophets were appointed to preach
      2. John the Baptist preached in the wilderness
      3. Jesus came preaching
      4. The apostles preached
      5. We too must preach - even though it may seem foolish
    3. What is Preaching?
      1. Most churches do not understand good preaching - it is not necessarily good entertainment
      2. What is Good Preaching?
        1. Is it supposed to make you feel good? NO
        2. Is it supposed to make you feel happy? NO
        3. Is it to try to solve all your problems? NO
      Good Preaching Is Presenting The Word In Truth So That People Can Conform To It.
    4. Our Common Denominator is the Pulpit (preaching)
      1. We all meet here
      2. We are all together
      3. In Sunday School we are split - in Bible Studies we are split
        Here, We Come Together In Unity Of Celebration As One Body.
  2. TO CHANGE AND INNOVATE
    1. We all come from various backgrounds
      1. Some wealthy; some poor
      2. Some educated; some not
      3. Some from different states
    2. We must distinguish between
      1. Changeable and unchangeable
      2. Traditions, methods and truth
      3. Some people don’t like change
        1. Churches have split because of methods - NOT because of message
        2. 7 last words - We’ve never done it this way before
        3. Faith demands risk - challenged to change
    3. We must Continually Define Our Biblical Objectives and Purposes
      1. We must be guided by God’s Spirit
        1. A building is not sacred
        2. Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
      2. We must determine our need
        1. We must “scratch the itch”
  3. A CHURCH THAT HAS SUPPORT GROUPS - Home Bible Studies, Men’s andWomen’s Discipleship Groups
    1. The very dynamic which cause growth is killed by growth
      1. In the beginning everyone know everyone and each family
      2. Everyone feels they can contribute
        1. But numerical growth tends to de-personalize relationships and dilute fellowship
    2. As we grow we must decentralize
      1. We must provide vital fellowship experience in a small group setting
        1. Many churches have home studies - 1 church grew to 3,000 and had over 80 home Bible studies.
          As A Church grows - it Must Learn To Be Large - But Yet Small
        2. These home Bible studies give the individual Christian “ACCOUNT ABILITY”

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