Gospel Meeting with Tony Mauck March 7-12, 2010

You are cordially invited to Spring Warrior’s gospel meeting with visiting preacher Tony Mauck. Brother Mauck plans to open God’s word with us and preach the following topics from the Bible:

Sunday (at our normal worship times):

• False Trust (audio)
• Great Invitation (Hebrews 11:6) (audio)
• How to Kill a Lion on a Snowy Day

Weeknights (Monday through Friday @ 7:30 p.m.):

• Chosen of God (audio)
• Trading Places (based upon 1 Timothy 6:3-19) (audio)
• Neat But Negative. A sermon based upon Proverbs 14:4 about how spiritual growth isn’t always neat and easy, and how neat and easy isn’t always productive. (audio)
• Detours on the Road to Glory
• The Conquering King

About Tony Mauck
Tony grew up on the banks of the Ohio River in southern Indiana in a little town called Floyds Knobs.

After receiving his AA degree at Florida College in the spring 1983 and an extra semester of biblical studies, Tony began preaching full-time for the Biltmore Gardens congregation in Indianapolis, IN in the spring of 1984.

Most of Tony’s preaching has been done in the state of Texas. In 1987 and 1988, he worked in the young preacher program of the Southside church of Christ in Pasadena, TX. He met his wife of 22 years, Sheri, while in Pasadena.

Shortly after their marriage, Tony and Sheri moved to Beaumont and worked 4 years with the Dowlen Road congregation. After a short two-year stint in Louisville, KY with the Gardiner Lane church, Tony and family began a 12-year work with the Eastside congregation in Baytown. Tony and Sheri have two children: Sheli (19) and Brett (16).

After three years in Auburn, AL with the University church of Christ, Tony moved back to Texas in May of 2009 to begin work with the Decker Prairie congregation on the northwest side of Houston. He also writes occasionally for Biblical Insights, a magazine edited by Wilson Adams.

How to Treat Refugees in our Midst (podcast sermon)

A sermon about how to treat those who often feel feel left out or unnoticed in assemblies, such as the chronically ill, the elderly, or minorities. (audio)

How to subscribe to podcast sermons via iTunes

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Recorded sermons & Bible classes at Spring Warrior Church of Christ

"Possess Your Land," is a challenging sermon about the need for Christians to continue to obey God's word after conversion, and to remove the sins, temptations and obstacles from their lives so that they may grow spiritually. Two of the proof-texts are Deuteronomy 4:1-4 and Joshua 17:14-18.
Fasting & Prayer, a recorded sermon

Recorded Bible class study: Hebrews 11:1-7

New recorded audio of sermons from Spring Warrior

Nine new sermons have been uploaded to Spring Warrior Church of Christ's website, www.springwarriorcoc.com:

1. Proverbs: More Wisdom on Marriage by Jeff Himel
2. Barabbas and Me by Jeff Himmel
3. The Love of God by Jeff Himmel
4. Rocks in the Head: Emphasizing the Wrong Things by Jeff Himmel
5. Things That Can Destroy a Church by Jeff Himmel
6. The Kingdom of Jesus Christ by Steve Dewhirst
7. Conscience and Truth by Steve Dewhirst
8. Faith and Works by Steve Dewhirst
9. We Have a New President by Jeff Himmel

Prayer: PowerPoint Sermons, Audio Sermons & Newspaper Articles

Now that Dan Chaney has finished his sermon series on prayer, I decided to publish one omnibus post on prayer consisting of content preached at, or published by, Spring Warrior. Dan Chaney’s Sermon Series:

1. Prayer Workshop: Introduction (PowerPoint)
2. Prayer Workshop: Conditions (Powerpoint)
3. Prayer Workshop: Types of Prayer, Part 1 – Worship & Confession (Powerpoint Audio)
4. Prayer Workshop: Types of Prayer, Part 2 – Petitions & Intercessions (Powerpoint Audio)
5. Prayer Workshop: Types of Prayer, Part 3 – Laser (focused) & Importunate (Powerpoint Audio)
6. Prayer Workshop: Types of Prayer, Part 4 – Healings & Salvation for Lost (Powerpoint Audio)

“An Evening of Prayer & Praise,” Spring Warrior’s song and scripture night PowerPoint agenda “Jesus Would Pray,” a newspaper article published by the church as part of the “What Would Jesus Do?” series.

More recorded sermons from Berry Kercheville’s 2005 Gospel Meeting

A kind sister had three CDs of Berry Kercheville’s 2005 meeting at Spring Warrior that she has shared with us:

1. The Challenge of Reaching the Goal
2. The Challenge of Maintaining Our Priorities
3. The Challenge of Purity in a Polluted World

Dan Chaney: Types of Prayer, Part 4

Fourth in a series on Types of Prayer and how to pray by Dan Chaney.

Jeff Himmel, “Building God’s House”

Jeff Himmel’s October 26, 2008, sermon to Spring Warrior, “Building God’s House.”

Steve Dewhirst's September 2008 Gospel Meeting at Spring Warrior

Below are the titles and links to the audio recordings of Steve Dewhirst’s September 2008 Gospel Meeting at Spring Warrior.

• Isaiah 40
• Isaiah 53
• Not Saved By Works

Recording Bible Classes to allow outsiders to listen anonymously

In January 2009, Jeff Himmel and I recorded three Bible classes at Spring Warrior. The subject studied was 1 Thessalonians. For our purposes, the subject recorded was irrelevant. We simply wanted to share with people outside the church the ability to hear how we conduct our classes and study God’s word. We felt that this would give the listeners the ability to hear what we are about without the pressures associated with attending “cold.”

The classes used a workbooks authored by Robert Harkrider.

You can listen and share the recordings by clicking the links below:

• 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
• 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12
• 1 Thessalonians 2:13-19

Powerpoint Agenda for 5th Sunday Sing Night - Prayer (theme)

Spring Warrior hosts a sing night on each 5th Sunday of a month. On January 31, 2010, the sign night had a theme - prayer.

Dan Chaney organized a list of songs to sing, Scriptures to read, and occasions for prayer during the service, and then arranged for different men to lead different songs, Scripture readings, and prayers.Prayer (SpringWarrior)

Dan also prepared a Powerpoint agenda so the men would know when it was their turn to participate, and also allow the congregation to know which song to sing, verse to read, or when a prayer would be lead. The Powerpoint slides are attached.

You can also download the slides from Google Docs.

Doy Moyer's sermons from Spring Warrior's March 2008 Gospel Meeting

Below are the titles and links to the audio recordings of Doy Moyer's March 2008 Gospel Meeting at Spring Warrior.

1. Job
2. The Spike of the Cross
3. Not a Bone Shall be Broken
4. The Glory of God
5. The Battle for the Mind
6. Christ Emptied Himself (Philippians 2:5-8)
7. The Resurrection of Christ
8. What Shall I do with Jesus?

You can now subscribe to Spring Warrior's sermons via iTunes

For those of you who have iTunes on your computer, the following link will allow you to automatically subscribe to all Spring Warrior's audio content whenever new content is available (approximately once per week):

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=352210564

iTunes, iPod, iPhone

Types of Prayer

Dan Chaney preached two lessons today on types of prayer. He preached the morning lesson on prayers of worship and confession (audio Powerpoint), and preached this evening's lesson on prayers of petition and intercession (audio Powerpoint).


Worship - consists of Thanksgiving, Praise and Adoration

1. 1 Thess. 5:17 in everything we can be thankful
2. Psalm 33:1, Psalm 34:1-3, 2 Samuel 22:2-4, Psalm 100:1-4, Psalm 103, 104
3. 1 Timothy 1:17, Revelation 4:8-11, 5:11-14

Confession - literally means "to speak the same thing"

1. Psalm 32:3-5
2. Luke 18:13
3. Ezra 9, Nehemiah 9:32-36, Daniel 9

Petition - asking or making requests in prayer

1. Mark 11:34, John 15:7, Matthew 7:9-11
2. 1 Peter 5:7

Intercession - Praying on behalf of others

1. Exodus 32:10-14
2. Job 42:8ff
3. 1 Samuel 12:23

Spring Warrior is making its audio content available online

Beginning today, Spring Warrior is making its audio content (recorded sermons) available online at its website and through Podpoint.  You can listen to the sermons by clicking the appropriate link from your computer, or by subscribing to the church's podcast.  To see the first content uploaded, go to the Gospel Meetings page.

Spring Warrior: more content at springwarriorcoc.com

Although I began the website in May, I never got around to adding more content to the church's website at http://www.springwarriorcoc.com until today.  Please check it out.

Spring Warrior Church of Christ website

The Spring Warrior Church of Christ has a new website (still in draft) located at the following urls:

• http://www.springwarriorcoc.com
• http://springwarrior.wordpress.com
  

Spring Warrior's Spring Gospel Meeting with Rickie Jenkins

The Spring Warrior church of Christ in Perry, Florida is hosting its gospel meeting this week (March 8-13, 2009) with brother Rickie Jenkins. Here are some of his lessons (the links are to audio files saved in WMA - Windows Media format):

• Sunday, 9:30 a.m., Surviving in a Time of Crisis, http://cid-e8d319b247e4de06.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/01%20Surviving%20in%20a%20Time%20of%20Crisis.wma
  
• Sunday 10:30 a.m., Delay, http://cid-e8d319b247e4de06.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/02%20Delay.wma
  
• Sunday 6:00 p.m., Lessons from the paralytic, http://cid-e8d319b247e4de06.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/03%20Lessons%20from%20the%20Paralytic.wma
  
• Monday 7:30 p.m., The Power of the Resurrection, http://drop.io/9march09#
• Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Judging Others (Matthew 7:1), http://drop.io/7enq724#
• Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Temptation and how to overcome it, http://drop.io/m3p18d3#
• Thursday 7:30 p.m., "Homeland Security" (comparing how Satan attacks us to how the Gospel calls us), http://drop.io/9trf9qh#
  
• Friday 7:30 p.m., Transformed into His Image, http://cid-e8d319b247e4de06.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/08%20Transformed%20Into%20His%20Image.wma
  

The rest of the audio is uploaded to Jeff Himmel's Live.com Skydrive account: http://cid-e8d319b247e4de06.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public

Jesus Would Evangelize

Jesus Would Evangelize

by Bill Blue

People oftentimes place importance on a person’s final words. What can lessons can we learn from Jesus’ final instructions to the apostles before He ascended into heaven?

JESUS EXPECTS US TO EVANGELIZE. The books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Acts all record that Jesus’ final instructions to the apostles included the commands to preach the gospel (Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 24:44-52, John 21:15-17; Acts 1:8).

Matthew and Mark quote Jesus as requiring the Gospel to be preached in “all nations” (Matt. 28:20; Luke 24:47), and to “the whole human race” (Mark 16:15 - AMPLIFIED BIBLE).

JESUS EXPECTS US TO PREACH THE NECESSITY OF BAPTISM. According to Jesus, baptism is necessary for salvation (Mark 16:16), and to become one of His disciples (Matt. 28:19). Luke records that Jesus commanded, “repentance and remission of sins should be preached” (Luke 24:47). Peter, Luke, and Paul all say that baptism is for the remission or “washing away,” of sins (Acts 2:38. 22:16).

JESUS EXPECTS US TO OBEY HIS COMMANDS AS THEY ARE GIVEN. The apostles and early disciples followed Jesus’ instructions exactly. Luke wrote that Jesus commanded the apostles to remain in Jerusalem after His ascension and wait for the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4-5). Then, preach the gospel first in Jerusalem, then the rest of Judea, Samaria and finally the rest of the world.

46 “Then He said to them, ‘Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the
Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance
and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning
at Jerusalem. 48 And you are witnesses of these things. 49 Behold, I send the
Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are
endued with power from on high.’” (Luke 24:46-49) “But you shall receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8,
NKJV).

Following this instruction, the apostles returned to Jerusalem (Luke 24:52; Acts 1:12). They were in Jerusalem when they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:12–2:4). Immediately after receiving the Holy Spirit, Peter preached the first gospel sermon in Jerusalem and 3,000 people were baptized (Acts 2:14, 41). Afterwards, Peter and others continued preaching and working miracles until the doctrine of Christ had “filled Jerusalem” (Acts 5:28).

Later, Philip went to Samaria. Many there “heeded” his teachings, and were baptized through his preaching of Jesus and the kingdom of God (Acts 8:5-6, 8:12-14).

Other Christians, fleeing Jewish persecution, spread the Gospel “as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch” (Acts 11:19-20). Eventually, the apostles and others succeeded in “turn[ing] the world upside down” (Acts 17:6) for the Gospel had not only been successful in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, but also “throughout almost all of Asia” (Acts 19:26).

Thus, as Jesus commanded, the apostles preached the gospel first in Jerusalem and Judea, then Samaria and the rest of the world.

JESUS EXPECTS US TO FOLLOW THE APOSTLES’ EXAMPLES AND TEACHINGS. Jesus instructed the apostles to teach the new disciples they baptized to obey everything He commanded the apostles (Matt. 28:20). Thus, we too, are responsible for “preaching” or “proclaiming” God’s word (2 Tim. 4:2; 1 Pet. 2:9; 1 Pet. 3:15).

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Cleanse The Temple of Modernism

Cleanse The Temple of Modernism by Bill Blue

Is Christ pleased with all the works and forms of worship performed in His name today?

One Lino Lakes, Minnesota congregation has movie-theater style seats with cup holders (the cup holders are designed to hold the designer coffee that will be sold at the building).

Another congregation in nearby Eden Prairie, Minnesota has swelled to such large numbers that it has two buildings miles apart. The smaller building features videotaped sermons and a ten-piece band.

In Essex County, New Jersey, a congregation held a football service. Women played cheerleaders and the choir and preacher dressed in jerseys. In Peoria, Illinois, a congregation decorates its building with golf balls and footballs, and the men huddle up at the beginning and the end of each service.

A St. Paul congregation used to be the attendance champion because it operated a non-alcoholic nightclub, and boasted that its slogan was “Definitely not church as usual.”

Many Christians would oppose nightclubs and videotaped sermons, but what about daycare centers, ten-piece bands, softball teams, Wednesday night dinners, or three-dollar coffees?

What would Jesus say about efforts to modernize or liberalize worship?

Jesus is not pleased by every form of worship performed in His name (Matt. 7:21-23).

With respect to common meals, Jesus demonstrated in His own ministry that He was more concerned with fulfilling spiritual needs than one’s appetite. On the day after Jesus fed the 5,000, many of the Jews who had been fed the day before traveled across the Sea of Galilee to be fed again (John 6:24, 26). Jesus did not feed them again, but said, “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you” (John 6:27). Over and over again Jesus stressed that it was more important to believe that He was the Christ, than to be preoccupied with their own bellies (John 6:29, 32-33, 35-40). Paul similarly says to churches who assemble to eat common meals, “What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? … But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment” (1 Cor. 11:22, 34). Common meals can cause divisions within the church, and cause brethren to forget why they are assembling in the first place (1 Cor. 11:17-34). Jesus would prefer us to come together to be nourished with words of faith and good doctrine (1 Tim. 4:6) instead of $3 coffees or spaghetti dinners.

With respect to nightclubs, gyms, daycare centers and the like, either all are authorized or none are authorized. What would Jesus say about these social outreach institutions? On two occasions, Jesus cleansed the temple of the moneychangers. On the second occasion Jesus said that the offenders had made the Lord’s house “a den of thieves” (Matt. 21:13). On the first occasion, however, Jesus did not accuse anyone of stealing, but said, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!” (John 2:16). The moneychangers were guilty of doing something God did not authorize. Likewise, where is the authority for a church to spend the Lord’s treasury on daycare centers, gymnasiums, schools, or nightclubs? Where does the Bible say that these activities are the work of the assembly? Biblical silence is not permission (Heb. 7:14).

Which would Jesus find more offensive - selling animals necessary for sacrifice, or selling $3 coffees at worship? The moneychangers could at least argue that they were selling items necessary for worship. After all, everyone under the Law of Moses had to offer an animal for sacrifice as part of his or her worship to God, but God requires no one today to have daycare or coffee in order to worship Him.

The problem with modern worship is that the breadth of permitted activities grows over time because they are not confined by God’s word which never changes (Mal. 3:6). The organ or piano introduced into some denominations in the 19th century has given way to ten-piece bands and choirs that sing while the congregation sits quiet (but see Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16). In the 20th Century, women and homosexuals began filling pulpits once reserved to righteous men (1 Cor. 14:34-35; 1 Tim. 2:11-12; 1 Cor. 6:9-10). How far has modernism gone? In one of the congregations referenced above, worship includes comedy sketches and rock music, but no Bibles and no hymnals. How well can one be filled with “words of faith and good doctrine” without Bibles (1 Tim. 4:6)? It is time to cleanse our houses of worship of the moneychangers of daycare and gyms before our Bibles disappear and we starve from a lack of God’s word.

Next week we will print our final article in this series.

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