Folks, I want to begin today with the DARE TO BE GREAT CHALLENGE that we started with last week. Are you ready? A GREAT COMMITMENT TO THE GREAT COMMANDMENT AND THE GREAT COMMISSION DONE WITH GREAT COMPASSION WILL GROW A GREAT CHURCH! Did you get that? Do you remember this from last week? A great commitment to the great commandments and the great commission done with great compassion will grow a great church! And you know what else? It’ll grow a great Christian, too! How many of you want to...
We learned in a short video at the end of last week’s message that … ‘Spiritual Vision is our ability to see what God wants us to do’ … and, I might add, to be who God is calling us to be! And this week, we’re going to look deeper into God’s vision for us at Grace UMC/Dodgeville UMC… Michelangelo, the great painter and sculptor, was once asked how he was able to create such masterpieces. His answer went something like this: “I am not sure how it works exactly,...
When the original Advent Conspiracy churches got together to change Christmas in a very tangible way—to really live out their faith through the story of Christmas, they journeyed to Africa with a team from Living Water International—the non-profit organization who digs freshwater wells in places around the world that most of us don’t even know exist. The villages they work with are so far off the beaten path, some of that original team of Advent Conspiracy folks didn’t even know if they could reach these folks to see what was...
