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Manchester Church of Christ
Living for Christ in Middle Tennessee
Preacher
Andy Hall
Ben Bunting
Bob Bunting
Dale Burks
Dan Starr
Daniel Miller
Ed Smith
Ed Smith - mission trip
Heath Robertson
Jack Wise
James Vaughn
Jesse Burks
John Gentry
Mitch Davis
Perry Byars
Terrell Bunting
Zachery Ford
Series
A Gospel For All
A Zealous Church
Good Things Take Time
Gospel of Mark
Jonah
Living God's Way
Mark
Revival
The Seven Churches of Asia
Why Is the Manchester Church of Christ the Way It Is?
Zeal
Topic
a broken spirit
a broken spirit. We are united in the water. Buried with Christ and raised with Christ. Four very different people that all were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. God is calling you to the water!
a great need for patience in the Church
a lack of patience leads to division and destroys unity.
a man who walked with God. How do I know I am walking with God? A changed walk. Walking carefully and wisely. Walking in a worthy manner. Good works. Love and Light.
a true follower of Christ.
abuse
Acceptable worship
Accountability
acknowledge sin
addictions
Addictive behavior. Overcoming struggles
an active faith
An asset
an example to all.
and glorification.
and merciful.
Anxiety
anxious for Jesus to appear.
Apostles
appeal to God
Are you discouraged? Tired of organized religion? Loosing your excitement and zeal for God?
Are you living in fear? Honestly
Are you ready for the judgment? What will happen when Christ returns? Book of Life
Are you starving spiritually? Is your faith dying? Are you about to turn away from God? What can we do to help ourselves?
Armor of God
Assembly Together
Attitude
Attributes of God
Attributes of Jesus
Authority
Authority as a bridge between God and man. King of King
Authority of God
Authority of Jesus
Awareness of God
bad behavior. Solid foundation. Rock and Fortress. The Power of God
Bad Influence
Balance
Baptism
Be a balanced believer
Be humble
be smart
be steady and sanctify. The end goal for all is heaven!
be wise
being a light for others.
Being able to forgive and move on.
being truly converted to Christ. Our loyalty is to Christ not organized religion. Can I be misled?
Belief
Bible
Bitterness
Blame
Blessings
Blessings of a spiritual family
Brethren
careful
caring
challenges. How can I pull through them?
change
Character
Characteristics
Choices in life
Christ
Christ and the help of the Spirit. Enjoy the blessing of victory. God does not build things that crumble!
Christians
Church Family
Church growth
Cloud of Witnesses
Comfort
Commitment
commitment to self & others
Communion
Compassion
compassionate
complete change
Compromise
Condemnation
Confidence
Consolation
Conversion
conversion. Spiritual metamorphosis. God's part and my part in the process. You can be beautiful
Courage
Death
Death of Jesus
Deception
Defiance
deliverance
Determination
Discipleship
Dishonesty
Dispute
Disrespect
distractions
Division
Do not give up. You can do it. God has promised help. With God's help there is victory. You can overcome. Lean on Jesus
Do you feel forsaken? Find reassurance in truly knowing God. Find grace
Do you find obedience to be difficult? Why do God expect our obedience? Is obedience in opposition to being saved by grace?
Do you struggle sometimes in your journey of faith? How does the Lord increase our faith? Be empowered!
Do you truly understand what Christ went through for you? Thankfulness
Doctrine
Doctrine of Christ
Does the Manchester Church follow Jesus teaching? Who are the disciples in the Manchester Church? What is the mission of the Manchester Church? Does the Manchester Church have shepherds
Edification
Effort & Results. Energy
Elders
elders or bishops? What was the New Testament Church like?
Elijah
Encouragement
Encouragers
encouraging
Endurance
Endurance Productivity
Envy
eternal created beings for God's purpose
Eternal Life
excitement
Exhortation
Faith
Faith as a mustard seed. The amazing power of your faith. The possibilities for you with true faith.
Faithfulness
Faithfulness in being Christlike
False Christianity
False Teaching
Family of God. Citizenship in the Kingdom. The Church prophesied in the Old Testament. Nature
fatherless
Fear
Fear of the Lord
Fellowship
Find hope in a hopeless situation. God promises not to forsake you. Learn to trust in God.
Focus & Drive. Your heart is like soil. Discouragement
Focusing on others needs
Follow
Foot washing
Forbearance
Forgiveness
forgiveness as well as truth in teaching. God intended us to have an amazing spiritual family.
fruit of the Spirit
Generosity
gentle spirit. Compassion
gentle. A new heart. God creates in us a new and pure heart.
Genuine faith
genuine love
Gift of forgiveness
Give me a sign
Giving others
God
God declares me as blameless and righteous.
God hears
God is powerful. You need God on your side! What God can do for you and with you! The empowerment we have from God.
God predestined a special people. Enoch
God sees
God sustains and restore. your power to influence
God's amazing grace
God's Church
God's Grace
God's Heart
God's Mercy and Grace
God's people
God's people and mankind. Following Christ demands self-denial.
God's Power
God's Will
God's Wisdom
God's Word
Godliness
Good and bad
good spiritual memories
Good Works
Gospel
Gossip
Government of The Church
Grace
grace and hope is found in Jesus Christ
Gratefulness
gratitude
Grow towards maturity. Peter's changed life. Compare transformation and the development of faith. Renewal
Growth
Hardship
Harmony
Having a heart that seeks the Lord and His way. Our willingness to come to Christ.
Head of the Church
Healing
Hearing the Gospel
Heart
Heaven
Heaven a place God wants you to go! What you can do to make sure you make it!
Holy Spirit
Honoring Parents
hospitable
how can I become more patient
How can I know God is with me? Is God really with His people today?
How important is belief? Is obedient not important? Types of faith. Jesus the only begotten Son of God. Born again by the spirit nd water in Jesus name. Choose light over darkness.
How Jesus sees others
Humility
Humility Sacrifice Genuine love
Hypocrisy
ideas and rules. Jesus the teacher
Ignorance
Imagine a church filled with love
Immorality
Importance of Knowing God
Improvement
inconsistency
Inner Peace
inner peace and joy is the result of understanding what He did for you.
inner struggle and grief.
inspiration
Interaction with Jesus. Seeing Jesus for who He was. Human nature verses the nature of Jesus. Rejecting pharisaical religion. An honest recognition of our own religious traditions
invisible and eternal fellowship. The blessing and confidence in fellowship.
Is God involved in your personal life? What is meant with the term "the hand of God?" What does God do you us today?
Isaiah
Israel
It is all about the heart. The heart of Jesus. Humble heart
Jesus
Jesus knows your name. Jesus blesses those who hear Him and know His voice. Jesus leads us to green pastures. Jesus lays down His life for the sheep. Jesus is the door. Jesus leads us home.
Joy
joy and better future
Joyful praise. Truth and spirit should permeate our spiritual worship. Can we change our posture in worship? Tradition verses Bible examples!
judg
Judgement
Judging others
Judgment
Justice
Keep praying
Knowing Jesus
knowledgeable
Leadership of the Church
lean on God for direction.
Learn about a work the Manchester Church supports in the country of Tanzania. Spreading the Gospel.
liability
Life
Life of Christ
Listening
Loneliness
Longsuffering
Lord
Lord of Lords. Submission.
Love
Love of God
Love of Jesus
Loving God
Lukewarmness
Make good use of your time
Mark
Marriage
merciful
Mercy
Mind
Mind of Christ
Ministering spirits
modification
Moral decline
Moral decline. Worship the way God wants it. Worship has purpose. God is the focus not us! Worship is not substitute for moral purity & holiness.
Nature
negativity
Neighbor
never be ashamed of Jesus
new goals for 2022
New Testament Church
Noah
NT
Obedience
Obedience is a demonstration of our relationship with God. Abound in the work of the Lord.
Old Testament
One of the greatest blessing from God. The Church Christ built and the amazing relationship found within this spiritual family.
One of the most difficult things that Jesus expects of us! What does it really mean to "forbear with one another"? Is it a sin to not be forbearing of others?
Openminded
Optimism
orphans. God's clear expectation for His people. Caring for the helpless
OT
other books opened in the judgment. World and the elements will be destroyed. Is your name written in the Book of Life? Be prepared!
our faith and obedience. How important is it to follow all the "rules?"
Our love and devotion for God
Painful sin
parable of the sower
parables
Patience
patience and hope. Seeing maturity in the life of Abraham.
Patience of God
Paul
Peace
Peace of God
peace. God is anxious and willing to forgive
permission
Perseverance
Perspective
Plan of God
Poor choices
Power
power to influence the world.
powerful
Praise
Prayer
Preaching
Preparation
Pride
Promises
Promises of God
Prophecy
Protect your mind and heart from worry. Invest in the mission of Christ.
protectors of God's people
Prudence
Pure & undefiled religion. We try to excuse or substitute God's way. Reflecting the work and heart of Jesus.
Purpose of the Church
Purpose. Peacemakers
Reborn and re-purposed body and soul. Led by the Holy Spirit. Living after the law of the Spirit. Use you gifts and talents. Called to be devoted to God
Redeeming the Time
Redemption
Rejoice
Rejoice and Welcoming. Follow His ways and His Paths.
Relationship with God
Religion
Renewal
renovation of our hearts
Repentance
Responsibility
restoration
Restoring the Lost
Restraint
reverence towards God
Revival
Reward. Does everyone get the same reward? Judgment. Grace and mercy. Fairness in the judgment.
Reward. Does everyone get the same reward? Judgment. Grace and mercy. Fairness in the judgment. What will your reward be in eternity?
Righteousness
Sacrificial Love
Sal
Salvation
Sanctification
Satan
Scruples
self - examination
self control
self control in all things
self denial
Service
Serving God
Sharing with God. Sharing together with others that belong to Christ. Spiritual
sharing with others
Shema
Sickness
Sin
Singing
Sorrow
spiritual beings
spiritual blindness
spiritual clarity
spiritual healing
spiritual immaturity
spiritual maturity
Spiritual maturity. Elementary things of the word. Maturity in diligence
spokespersons for God
Spreading the Gospel
Strife
struggles
Studying Scripture
Submission
Submission Patience
Suffering
support
supportive
Talent
Teaching
Temptation
Temptation Trials
Thankfulness
the 2nd Adam. The first Adam brought sin into a sinless world. The book of Revelation describes the garden restored. It took just ONE sin. We are so much like the first Adam.
The amazing power of baptism. God's plan to unify all people of the world. Born again
The Bible
The Bride of Christ
The Church
The connection between transformation and spiritual growth. The full stature of Christ in you! Learning to become beautiful
The excitement of growing our faith! The joy of understanding God's purpose for us. Transformation
The Gospel
the healer and the protector. Do we truly mirror Jesus?
The Heart
the helper
the Holy Spirit and the Father. Strength comes from them! Overcome. Success.
the inner man
The Inverted Kingdom of Christ
The Kingdom of God
The Lord
The Lord's Supper
The Lost
the needy. Individual responsibility
The New Law
the seeker
the sovereignty of an almighty God.
The Tongue
The Tree of life
The Tree of life. Banished from the Garden of Eden. Can we have access to the garden? Redemption
The Way
The Weak
The Will of God
there is always hope
Things of God
Time
Togetherness
Tolerance
Total submission
Tradition
transfiguration. Metamorphosis Growing up into the beauty of Christ. Increase my faith
transformation
Trials
true disciples
Trust
Truth
uncertainty and struggles being a Christian in a non-Christian home. The wonderful promise of Jesus. Our need to shine
Understand better your relationship with God. Learning to value God for who He is and what He asks of you.
understand godly patience
Understanding
understanding. Barnabas a living example for us all. Restoring true Biblical Church "culture."
Unity
Unmerited favor
Unprofitable conversation. Defamation. Speak less. Focus on being helpful and supportive. Good people speak only to build up and edify.
useful
useful and merciful? Was Peter's love for Christ complete or lacking? Peter become a changed man and so can you!
useful. Be like little child. Loving on the level that Jesus loves. The most important goal for us is what God wants the most.
Victory
Warning
water
we all are living in some form of fear. The Bible speaks of Godly fear and fleshly fear. What kind of fear is good for us?
We never earn salvation
What causes anxiety and worry? Focus
What does God say about "gossip?" Is it a sin? Whisperers. Slanderous. Silly speak
What does it mean to love God? Is my love for God complete? Do I have to love others if I love God? Are we humble
What is evil? How can I know what is right and what is wrong?
What is the difference in mercy and in grace? Do we have to have the same kind of mercy and grace in our lives as God does?
Who sanctifies? Can anyone be a saint? What does it mean to be sanctified?
Why is it so hard to trust in God? Is God really all that interested in my life? How can I view God as my father? Why should I trust God?
Widows
Wife
Wisdom
with great power
wonderful and amazing in this life.
wonderful and amazing reflecting the beauty of Christ.
Word of God
Work
Work Jesus called us to do
Work of the Church
worked for God
Worldly Thinking
Worry
Worship
Worthiness
You are of value to God. Understand the beautiful person you can become. Avoiding discouragement and depression. True hope helps!
Zeal
Book
Philippians
Acts
Mark
Deuteronomy
Matthew
Luke
2 Peter
Exodus
Ephesians
John
Isaiah
Galatians
James
1 Peter
1 Corinthians
Colossians
Thessalonians
Romans
1 John
Hebrews
1 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Corinthians
3 John
Ezra
Psalms
Proverbs
Luke John Acts
2 Timothy
Jeremiah
Revelation
Titus
Leviticus
Phillipians
Amos
2 Thessalonians
Joshua
Psalm
Act
Phillippians
1 Kings
Malachi
Numbers
Jude
Genesis
Judgement
2 Samuel
Hosea
2 John
Michah
Daniel
Jonah
Matthew chapter 18
John 3:9-36
John 1:1-16
Revelation 20:10-15
Revelation 21:22-27
2 Peter 3:10-18
1 John 1:1-8
Acts 2:42-46
Acts 4:23-34
1 Peter 1:13-16
2:9-13
4:1-11
5:1-5
Romans chapter 6
8
12
13
14
15.
1 & 2 Timothy
Titus and Proverbs
Romans 5:1-2
15-18
Romans 5:1-2 & 15-18
1 Corinthians 15:2--22 & 45
Service Type
Short Talk
Special Series
Sunday - 1st Service
Sunday - 2nd Service
It’s Time to Grow Up!
December 15, 2019
Our standard is Christ.
Feasting With God
October 21, 2019