This week Pastor Garry D. Zeigler of Spirit Food Christian Center in Winnetka, California starts teaching a new message titled “Ministry Gifts”. The foundational scripture for this message is Ephesians 4. In this chapter of scripture, we learn that we have been sent some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, and some teachers. We have been sent these people for the purpose of perfecting or maturing of the saints. Each has a distinct role…
Pastor Garry D. Zeigler from Spirit Food Christian Center in Winnetka, California begins teaching a new message titled “What Is Faith”. In this week’s message, Pastor Zeigler explains how Jesus remained in expectation of God’s word coming to pass all the time. Whether it was a fig tree or people praying in the synagogues, Jesus had an expectation and if it did not meet God’s standards, He did something about it. We as Christians are…
This week Pastor Garry D. Zeigler of Spirit Food Christian Center in Winnetka, California delivers a combined communion service and a message titled “So Fresh, So Clean”. The foundational scripture for this message is 1 John 1:9. In this unique message Pastor Zeigler encourages us to examine our lifestyle. Are we living according to God’s word? It is written, that if we confess our sins, that he is faithful and just to forgive us our…
“Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.” Isaiah 6:5 In this scripture, the prophet recounts when he saw the throne room of God. His response was one of fear, saying “I am undone” or ruined, basically because he was a sinner…
This week Pastor Garry D. Zeigler of Spirit Food Christian Center in Winnetka, California continues teaching his message titled “God is Color Blind”. The foundational scriptures for this message are Acts 10:28 and Acts 10:34. In this second part of the message, Pastor Zeigler talks about the impact that the world’s perception of color and ethnic background can influence the aspirations and expectations of young people today. If we’re not grounded in the Lord, and…
Pastor Garry D. Zeigler from Spirit Food Christian Center in Winnetka, California continues teaching the message titled “The Rise Of Righteousness”(part 5) In this week’s message, Pastor Zeigler explains how the righteous should view their words. He begins his sermon with Mark 11 referencing when Jesus spoke to the fig tree. Jesus saw a circumstance that was inappropriate and spoke to it. As believers, we are given God’s authority to be his vessels in the…
This week Pastor Garry D. Zeigler of Spirit Food Christian Center in Winnetka, California starts teaching a new message titled “God is Color Blind”. The foundational scriptures for this message are Acts 10:28 and Acts 10:34. In this message, Pastor Zeigler talks about how God is no respecter of persons. Essentially, through this scripture, we learn that God does not show partiality towards one person over another. It doesn’t matter what the person looks like,…
Pastor Garry D. Zeigler from Spirit Food Christian Center in Winnetka, California continues teaching on the message titled “The Rise Of Righteousness”(Part IV) In this week’s message, Pastor Zeigler explains that as Jesus was and is, so are we. Jesus is righteous, and as believers, we are righteous. The angels respond to Jesus’ words, and we also have that same authority when we speak His word. Jesus’ position at the right hand of the Father,…
This week Minister Grace Mebane of Spirit Food Christian Center in Winnetka, California starts teaching a new message titled “Armed and Extremely Dangerous”. The foundational scripture for this message is 2 Corinthians 10:4-5. In this message, Minister Mebane discuss how the key battles and challenges that we have in life are spiritual in nature. Circumstances and situations may appear contrary to Christ’s word. What we meditate on is what we will have faith for. Therefore,…
While researching my Youth Ministry project, Animals in the Bible, I found this poem by G.K. Chesterton. Apparently, it’s well known, but I’d never heard it: the voice of the most famous donkey in history. THE DONKEY When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The…