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Keeping Watch Over Our Souls
Can you name one of our nation’s presidents who was born in a log cabin in the 1800’s? The most common response is, “Abe Lincoln”. While that is correct, it would also be correct to answer, “James A.…
Only One Turned Back
While the event recorded in Lk.17:11-19 (the healing of the ten lepers) appears to be a parenthetical to a much larger narrative (Jesus on His to way to Jerusalem/vs.11), it is neither incidental nor accidental. Peter testified to…
Only One Turned Back
Sermon Outline By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / November 22, 2015 Our annual ThankSinging is this evening (6:00-7:30) and we hope that lots of you will be in attendance. Forty-five minutes of grateful singing followed by…
A Lowering Call
The humility witnessed in the birth and (willful) crucifixion of Jesus was not the exception but the rule of His life. Jesus’ entire ministry was that of a “suffering servant” (Isa.53:3). What is striking is not just that…
A Lowering Call
Sermon Outline By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / November 15, 2015 ThankSinging is next Sunday evening and we hope that lots of you will be in attendance. Other than our once-a-month L.I.F.E. Groups it will be…
A Higher Call
In his book, A Higher Call, Adam Markos tells the story of two WWll pilots: Charlie Brown (U.S.) and Franz Stigler (Germany). After a bombing run over Germany, Charlie Brown, the pilot of Ye Ole Pub, was trying…
A Higher Call
Sermon Outline By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / November 08, 2015 ¹ Show Veterans salute video (from Worship House Media). ¯ Sing Song #1022 / Eternal Father, Strong To Save (Soldiers please stand during your verse…
Yet to Be Determined
All living beings have lives that are “yet to be determined”. If our lives are deeply rooted in the life of Christ, then we have no-thing to fear as to the hereafter. In fact, according to our Lord…
Yet to Be Determined
Sermon Outline By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / November 01, 2015 Typically, I try to do my FamilyMatters rough draft on Tuesdays of each week. This includes the Newsletter, the flipside Supplement and more often than…
Sermon Quotes on the Power of Prayer
Having been dumped, I was “in the dumps”. And then I met Jeannie. Some might call it happenstance, but I consider it providence. God is not to be viewed as a celestial bellhop, who jumps at our every…