He was raised in a United Methodist Church but started his ministry as a Pentecostal pastor. God has ordered his steps and brought him back to the United Methodist Church and he says..."John Wesley was surely a Pentecostal." Presently he is Pastor of Brookville United Methodist Church, Brookville, Indiana.
Recent Postings
Series on First Epistle John chapter 4...Love!
Living in Real Love...Love Is Action (8/1/2010)
Love Made Perfect...Love Pushes Out Fear (8/8/2010)
Invisible Love...Love Made Visible (8/15/2010)
Love Proven...How to Know One is a Disciple of Christ (8/22/2010)
Strength of God's Love...Love without End! (8/29/2010)
Limitless Giving 01-17-2010
Start The Year Off Right 01-10-2010
Can You Out Give God? 01-03-2010
The Second Or Coming Epiphany 12-27-2009
I Forgot My Notes: In The Rush Of Christmas Where Is Christ? 12-13-2009
In The Rush Of Christmas Where Is Christ? 12-03-2009
A Savior Is Promised 11-29-2009
How Strong Is Frank 11-22-2009
Laboring With Christ 11-15-2009
Purchasing The Kingdom 11-08-2009
Matthew's Parable of the Kingdom 10-25-2009
Your Place In The Church 10-11-2009
Creeds What Do They Mean? 10-04-2009
Become A Child And Reign With Christ 09-06-2009
A Hard Saying: The Day Of The Lord 08-30-2009
The Cost Of Discipleship 08-16-2009
Making Sense Out Of The Mysteries Of God
The Resurrection of Christ and the church is just one mystery of eleven in the New Testament. Is the resurrection a fraud or a fact? (Bible Translastion used are The Message & The Good News
(September 27th, 2009)
Having the Mind of Christ
If you've ever wondered what your priviledge as a Christian is this message might answer that nagging question. (Bible Translastion used is The NRSV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament).
(September 20th, 2009)
Worthy or Unworthy?
Partaking of the Lord's Supper (communion) is unsettling to many Christians. Often the word "unworthy" is the word they stumble over. A look at the scripture tells us there is NO reason to be alarmed (Bible Translastion used is The Message).
(September 13th, 2009)
Become a Child and Reign with Christ
Jesus said unless one is converted and become as a child, he or she will not enter the kingdom. How is this possible?
(September 6th, 2009)
The Day of the Lord
The Apostle Peter said: But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. What Does the Day of the Lord Mean?
(Aug 30, 2009)
The Cost of Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood against the Nazis and wrote one of the most prolifc books on what it means to really be a disciple of Christ.
(Aug 16, 2009)
Three Simple Rules To Live By
A short treatise on John Wesley's Three Rules to Live By!
(June 14, 2009)
This Is That Which Was Spoken--Pentecost
What does the Day of Pentecost Mean?
(May 31, 2009)
The Church in "Acts"tion
(October 5th, 2008)
Paul would go on to tell the Corinthians which is almost another 10 years down the road, 
that he would that the church, meaning the believers, that we would all believe the same thing, and we would all speak the same thing. How many of you know we are still working on that? We’re still working on trying to dot every “I” and cross every “T.” So he’s telling us that is the ideal of God; that we would all preach and believe the same thing. And the proof that we’re still working that way is just simply…We are United Methodists. I’m sure there is a Baptist church in town isn’t there? They’re a little different than us right? We don’t hold that against though them do we? There’s a Catholic church in town I believe. There is probably a Church of Christ in town. And I don’t all the ones that are in town, and each one has a little, some have a lot, but each one has a little variance in what they believe is the duty and walk of the Christian. But it is what the apostle’s tell us, actually what Luke tells us in the latter verses of that second chapter is that they had all things in common, and they distributed to those by their need, what you actually needed, and they continued with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house and did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart.
Jesus the Center of God's Vison
(September 21th, 2008)
I want to add something to that. Last week I spoke about God's vision. This week we have to put Christ in it. What we find out is Christ becomes the center of God's vision. And I have a verse here actually it’s a couple of verses that I could probably preach two hours on easy. No takers there...OK...then you're going to get the abridged version. Listen to this passage of scripture. It will sound familiar right from the start.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God. Obviously I am in John one, one. The same was in the beginning with God. Now listen to verse three. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. So we begin to realize by John's New Testament writing that Christ meaning Jesus, was in the beginning with God, and we often times think of it in the triune-ness or the trinity of God. Not trying to be too heavily theological this morning. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We find that Christ was in the beginning long before Adam and Eve was: Jesus as the Word of God. What we find out in verse fourteen; And the Word, meaning Christ, the Logos, was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, remember you read Psalm two today? That's what you read! We beheld his glory. The glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
God has a Vison
(September 14th, 2008)
I would like to start today with a quote to kind of build the message this morning.. This is a quote from 1870. This person says..."The millenium is at hand. Man has invented everything that can be invented. He has done all he can do.”
These words were spoken by a bishop at a church gathering in 1870. They were challenged by the presiding officer, who suggested that a great invention would be made within the next fifty years.
The bishop asked him to name such an invention.
The reply: “I think man will learn to fly.”
The bishop replied that this was blasphemy. “Don’t you know that flight is reserved for angels?”
The bishop was Milton Wright, father of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
The Hardest Prayer You Will Ever Pray
(August 17, 2008)
"Why does God take so long to answer prayer...or is it just me that asks that? The simple answer is...actually the copout answer is he's God...he can do what he wants he's soverign. But I think the actual answer is back in the prayer of praying not my will but...thine be done. That as we pray sometimes our prayer isn't focused in the direction according to what? Remmember first epistle John chapter five I told you last week... we have this confidence. I have confidence that when I pray God listens. I also have the confidence that sometimes he is going to say what...NO! BUT...he is going to say no...and he also going to say but...look over here! Because you are selling yourself short. God wants to give you his...best...not his second third or fourth best. Therefore when we pray we want his... best. What I am asking for may be his second third of fourth best. But God wants to give me his best!"
Behold Your King
(Palm Sunday 2007)
"If you're living in fear trust more in God. I know that sounds easy. The Proverb writer says forus tolean not to our own understanding...but instead to lean on God. Tell him you're afraid,…tell him what your problemsare. Tell him how anxious you are and let him deal with it with his peace...’cause he'll bring you peace because its a promise. Because he's not given us that Spirit of fear that he told Timothy in his second Epistle. He's given us a Spirit of power, of peace, and I like the last one...a sound mind. Cause I've already been called crazy...have you? Can anybody believe I'm nuts…don't answer that. So he rode into the city on a burrow...symbolizing I've come in what? Peace! I mean I'm the king but I'm riding on a what? Think of the imagery used here...this is beautiful."
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The Grave is Empty - Come and See
(Easter Sunday 2007)
The Passion of the Christ Part One
(02-04-2007)
If you and I had to suffer for our missing the mark...how bad would we have to suffer? How many want to think that thought? So it goes back to the passion. It's the Passion of the Christ. It was how he was revealed. And how he came to his own and his own received him not. And how he suffered. That's the whole concept of the Passion of the Christ. That's why the critics didn't like the movie. Because they said there was too much suffering too much gore. That's what the scripture is trying to tell us. This was not a pleasant thing. This was a thing which should have been ours. But God gave it to somebody else. And that person took it wilfully to the cross!
Stand for Something or Fall for Anything!
We have to stand for something as a church. We have to... because we're it. We are the light of the world, the salt of the earth, a city sat on a hill that cannot be hid. And so we need some embodiment we some embolden Jesus said if you can believe...all things are possible! God help me to be faithful as I know you are faithful.
Don't Let the Rocks Cry Out
(Palm Sunday Sermon 2004)
Yea he got proclaimed King all right didn't he? Sure he did... absolutely exactly like it was prophesied. But he wasn't proclaimed King by his people...he was proclaimed King by Pilate. And Pilate put the subscription on the cross. They went back to Pilate and said no no no no no write on it he said he was. Pilate said uh ho, I've written what I have written and he drove them out. Don't let the rocks cry out in your place.
Take Away The Stone
Now you and I both know... Jesus could have called him forth out of that rock. He could have said Lazarus come forth and he'd a just vaporized right out of that rock. He didn't have to have that rock rolled away. He could have said Lazarus come forth and there could have been a great earthquake and the rock rolled itself away. He wanted us to understand that we have to do our part...and our part is to allow God an opportunity to move into our heart... to move in. Because Lazarus was in a tomb he was dead and he needed to come out. Roll that stone away and let me bring him to life. And that's what you and I have to do every day of our life...is make sure that rock stays rolled out of the way. That he can come in and bring our heart to life.
Suicide: A Different Christian Perspective
In 2003 in a church I was pastoring a wonderful lay speaker, father, and business owner suddenly and abruptly killed himself with no advance warning. This is the message that I preached to the church family the Sunday following the tragedy. This message on suicide takes a different look at this tragedy that strikes down over 200,000 people in the U.S. yearly. Read this companion article on suicide.
"Is there anything I can take from this...how can I be in tune with people...you willfind people who are ill in their mind are very good at hiding their illness."
Frankly Forgiven Pt 2
"Jesus always meets us in our life…where we live. So Jesus says to Simon I’ve got a question to ask you. Simon says OK go ahead. He said there was a certain creditor…I wish I had Roger here…that had two debtors. One of them owed five hundred pence and the other fifty. And when neither could pay he “frankly forgave” them both. I’ve always marveled at that word “frankly forgiven.” Anybody want to be frankly forgiven? Neither could pay it didn’t make any difference…I’ve seen times in mylife where it wouldn’t have mattered if I needed five dollars or five thousand dollars I didn’t have either one…how about you? It doesn’t make any difference. Neither of them could pay...whether you’re a rich man or a poor man both could identify with this. Because it’s the ability to pay back…neither could pay. And so the creditor frankly forgave them both. I’m going to the bank tomorrow and ask them to forgive my mortgage. Why are you all laughing? Tell me therefore which of them will love him the most. Well that’s a no brainer’ isn’t it? Simon said I suppose that he to whom he forgave most. He said unto the man you’ve rightly judged."
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Rev. Ford Bond is Pastor of Plainville United Methodist Church, Plainville Indiana. 
The Offense of the Cross
"Sin is around us...so the bottom line is the cross offends. When we think about how the cross offends we have to go back to Deuteronomy 21 (vs 22-23). And its a familiar portion of scripture during the time of lent often its read that..if a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he be put to death and you hang him on a tree: His body shall not remain until the evening time, but you shall bury him day; for he that is hanged on a tree is accursed of God;) that the land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God gives you for an inheritance."
Strangers No More
That's why I'm here. To minister God's word...as you read this morning from Leviticus if a sojourner comes into your land treat him as you've been treated. Now think about it. How important is our fellowship to each other? I feel comfortable here not because I know you are United Methodist and I am United Methodist but I know that you're trying to live for God and Christ. And that makes us brothers and sisters in Christ regardless of what name is on the front of the church. We're brothers and sisters in Christ!
Rev. Corlis Dees II is pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church, Shelbyville, Indiana. His father is the internationally known Rev. C.L. Dees and his mother is Marvelle.
God's Dream
"So God as had a dream: and one of his dreams was to sit in human form on a throne in Jerusalem and rule the universe. Now that is not a big deal. But in order for him to do that he had to first come up with a design, a human being, that was designed in such a manner that we could express his image. And so he designed us in the very beginning in the Image of God. And then we didn't do so well. So he had to make some adjustments; not to image but to the heart. And so on we go four-thousand years into the program and David's son comes out of the womb of Mary in a miraculous way."
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Bro. C.L. Dees has went to be with the Lord. Visit the Legacy of Love
web site at www.cldees.com for more information on Rev. C. L. Dees.
Rev. Paul Isch is the Pastor of Dublin Gospel Mission in Dublin Indiana
The Waiting Room or the Living Room
"I'm going to ask you a question. Is your church a waiting room or a living room? Well let me just describe a waiting room. A church that's a waiting room is usually something like this. It's a church...that depends on their pastor...for about everything. They're setting around waitingon Jesus to return first of all. Waiting for the rapture.Well we need to be expecting that. Nothing wrong with that. But my Bible tells me we're to be busy while we're waiting. Brian said it well...I almost said Amen Brian go ahead and preach. We're to be busy about the master's business. When was the last time you talked to someoneabout their soul. You invited them to church. You say there is no body to invite. Next Sunday morning don't go to church...drive around see how many people are still at home. No don't do that. Leave church five minutes early and do it. My point is simply this. That's what we're doing we're waiting on Jesus to come...the church that's a waiting room. We're waiting on the pastor to come up with a plan to reach the whole community without using you. Now if I was a pastor and could do that I would do it...but I can't."
Bishop Morris Ellis Golder--when he died, July 22, 2000, left behind a powerful Apostolic legacy and a thriving congregation, Grace Apostolic Church, in Indianapolis, Indiana, which he founded in 1953. Born January 23, 1913 to Earl and Margaret Golder, Morris was only a small boy when his parents were converted at Eleventh and Senate, later Christ Temple Apostolic Faith Church. The Golder family was blessed to sit under the visionary leadership of Bishop Garfield Thomas Haywood, who distinguished himself in the early Pentecostal movement as a theologian, hymnist, dynamic preacher, and stalwart apologist.
The Interval In-Between
Come Boldly To Jesus
God, Creation, and Man
Rev. Ida Easley is presently the District Superintendent of the Rushville District , Indiana Conference, United Methodist Church. A gifted speaker and singer you will be inspired by her message and blessed by her singing.
Staying Connected to Christ.
Bishop Dr. Raymond Knapp founder of Pioneers For Jesus a missionary organization to spread the gospel in the far east. Raymond (and his wife Carol) have spent most of their adult life in the Far East as missionaries. In 1964 they went to the Philippines; In 1982 Raymond took a step of faith to reach Taiwan, China with the Gospel. In 1989 Raymond and Carol traveled to Hong Kong. Raymond was asked to pastor with pastor Amos Tsang. Since then they have worked together and opened a new church Christian Glorify Grace Church, in Shueng Shui.
The Missionary Life--You Can Be One!
Mervyn Miller is a life-long Pentecostal Missionary--although he confesses he didn't start out a Pentecostal. His message speaks from his personal experiences starting from a young boy miraculously healed of polio thus dumbfounding his doctors. His life is a walking testimony to the the fact the God still miraculously heals, performs miracles, and pours out his Spirit.
This Message will be Preached
"The news was brought to my parents that I'd never really be able to walk. They put me in braces and that was the pronouncement of the doctor: he would be a cripple the rest of his life...but...last night in a Pentecostal Church over in East Belfast Mervyn was anointed with oil in the name of the Lord. And through that name and the power of God he's completely whole."
Trophies of Hell
T.G. McNeely's message is electrifying and sober. He speaks from personal experience about the danger of letting a root of bitterness get into your heart.
"To illustrate an attitude that's become so prevalent in the heart and life of a preacher, that if we're not careful we will loose out with God after we have preached unto others. Hundreds can be saved under our ministry, and yet we can die lost."
David Wilkerson authored the book "The Cross and the Switchblade, founded "Teen Challenge" and established and Pastors "Times Square Church". You can visit his website by clicking here. He is a prophetic voice and prolific speaker to the Church.
The Coming Persecution
This message was preached at a convention in 1975 and describes a vision God gave him in 1973 concerning the coming persecution of Spirit-filled believers. It covers five calamities coming to America and the world. It's like reading today's newspaper. Wilkerson states that parts of this vision will come to pass in the very near future. Some of the events are more distant. But he believes all the events mentioned will happen in this generation! Hear the amazing predictions and prophecies:
Hate Christ clubs - Persecution of Charismatic Catholics - Nude dancing and séances in churches - X-rated movies on TV - Homosexual churches - A super world church - Satan ministers - A spiritual awakening in Russia and China - A major earthquake in the United States - A coming recession - Homosexual mass murders
A frightening, almost unbelievable vision that ends in hope for all true Christians.
"Now if you believe Acts 2:4, about a special "dunamis power from on high...then you've got to also believe Acts 2:17, your sons and your daughters shall prophecy and your young men shall see visions."
Lance Lambert is a noted Middle-Eastern authority on Israel and the Palestinian issue. After spending many years in Israel, Lance Lambert has lectured extensively on Middle East issues especially Islam and its threat to world peace.
Islamic Fundamentalism and Its Threat to World Peace
Lambert takes the listener methodically through the basic tenants of Islam and Judaism and explains why Moslems and Jews are in armed conflict. 
Lance Lambert is an excellent orator and Bible teacher. Whether you're an advanced Bible student or a novice, Lambert's teaching will enlighten you. After listening to his message, you will understand ever so clearly why this conflict will never end without divine intervention
"You will never Spiritually understand in a way that will involve you in prayer warfare in this whole matter unless you understand the Spiritual ure of this conflict. This is nothing to do with some ancient religion, which is just become somewhat popular in the twentieth-century."
Jeff Arnold is a dynamic preacher and preaches a soul stirring message.
Refuge From Despair
If you're bombarded by guilt and failure, this message is a real pickup. Food for the soul!
"For Twenty-years I read that scripture and I thought it said man if my heart condemn me I'm in bad shape...but God showed me...Grace is coming."
This dynamic message was preached by Rev. Wayne Huntley. If you've ever wished you could remember or forget something, this timeless message is for you.
"Some things would do us real good to go through the file cabinets and go, out ...out ... out."
Shake it off and Make the Devil take it Back
Bishop Charles O. Mills is a dynamic speaker and orator, This exciting message will leave you thrilled and armed for warfare against Satan.
"The viper came out of the wood and latched on to his hand, but Paul shook it off...and made the devil take it back."
last updated Sunday, August 29, 2010 19:43