May 5, 2024
“Sharing Your Own Life”
By: Clint McBroom
Series: (All)
1 Thessalonians 2:8
The Christian life is not primarily about knowing the right things. It is about living in Christ. In fact, many Christians know far more than they practice. So growing in discipleship is more like an apprenticeship to Jesus than it is about mastering a body of knowledge. The gift of small groups that focus on transformation is that they give us an environment where we can grow in trust and focus on supporting each other in our efforts to become increasingly faithful Christians who are growing in love of God and neighbor.
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- May 5, 2024“Sharing Your Own Life”
May 5, 2024“Sharing Your Own Life”By: Clint McBroomSeries: (All)1 Thessalonians 2:8The Christian life is not primarily about knowing the right things. It is about living in Christ. In fact, many Christians know far more than they practice. So growing in discipleship is more like an apprenticeship to Jesus than it is about mastering a body of knowledge. The gift of small groups that focus on transformation is that they give us an environment where we can grow in trust and focus on supporting each other in our efforts to become increasingly faithful Christians who are growing in love of God and neighbor.
- Apr 28, 2024“Life Together”
Apr 28, 2024“Life Together”By: Clint McBroomSeries: (All)Hebrews 10:24-25, 1 Samuel 23:16God uses our relationships with brothers and sisters in Christ to grow our faith in Him. Through those relationships, we encourage one another and see God at work in each other's lives. This is why small group communities are so important in our faith.
- Apr 21, 2024“In Spirit and Truth”
Apr 21, 2024“In Spirit and Truth”By: Clint McBroomSeries: (All)John 4:23, Genesis 4:1-16; Hebrews 11:4, 6Worshipping God is something that is an expression of our faith in Him, and when our worship is healthy and rightly focused, it not only springs from our faith in Jesus, it strengthens our faith in Him.
- Apr 11, 2024“What Amazed Jesus”
Apr 11, 2024“What Amazed Jesus”By: Clint McBroomSeries: (All)Romans 1:17, Mark 4:35-41 Mark 6:1-6, Matthew 8:5-10In the bible, spiritual maturity is the same as strong or mature faith. In fact, the only times that Jesus is recorded as being amazed, it was because of someone's faith, or because of someone's lack of it. So when we talk about growing people in discipleship, we're talking about growing their faith in Jesus.
- Apr 7, 2024“One Thing”
Apr 7, 2024“One Thing”By: Clint McBroomSeries: (All)Nehemiah 6:1-4Basically I'm telling the story of Nehemiah, and sharing the notable line when his adversaries try to get him to leave and meet with them, "I am doing a great work and cannot come down." God has something for each of us that is too important to be distracted by.
- Mar 31, 2024“Easter Matters”
Mar 31, 2024“Easter Matters”By: Clint McBroomSeries: (All)Mark 16:1-8 and Acts 17:22–31At one time or another, we’ve all wondered about God, whether God is really close to us or cares about us. When Paul addresses people in Athens about the God they didn't know anything about, he tells them about how the resurrection of Jesus reveals God's love and plan for us, and how it all centers on a man, Jesus Christ.
- Mar 24, 2024Altar’d: “At What Cost?”
Mar 24, 2024Altar’d: “At What Cost?”By: Clint McBroomSeries: Altar'd1 Chronicles 21:18-26When David buys a threshing floor in order to worship the Lord, he refuses to receive it for free, because he recognizes that he needs to sacrifice a portion of his personal wealth to honor God. Otherwise, his worship will be cheap and his service meaningless.God's grace is free, but it is also costly, because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs us our lives, and because it condemns our sin, and above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son.
- Mar 17, 2024Altar’d: “A Time of Renewal”
Mar 17, 2024Altar’d: “A Time of Renewal”By: Clint McBroomSeries: Altar'dJoshua 8:30–35We need times of renewal for our commitments. After their delivery from slavery in Egypt, God made a covenant with the people of Israel at Mt. Sinai. As the people were entering the promised land, Moses led them in a time o f remembrance and renewal of that covenant, and instructed them to do it again once they had entered the land, which Joshua led them to do in Joshua 8. What does this mean for us? The commitment we make in one season of life isn’t sufficient for another season of life. Every season and every stage in life forces us to ask the question again, “Is Jesus still Lord here and now?” And if we don’t intentionally renew our embrace of the Lordship of Jesus in the context of our changed circumstances, it is so easy to drift into an abandonment of the promises that we made to Jesus and to the commitment that we offered up to Him.
- Feb 25, 2024Altar’d: “Surrender It All”
Feb 25, 2024Altar’d: “Surrender It All”By: Clint McBroomSeries: Altar'dGenesis 22:1-9Are we willing to commit to the Lord only when it's conditional, when it's convenient, or when it's on our own terms? In the account of Abraham being called to offer Isaac, Abraham was called to commit every part of his life, wherever it may lead. But Abraham trusted the Lord, and experienced the power and blessing of God.Trust in God enables us to both surrender fully to God and also to experience the presence and grace of God in a powerful way.
- Feb 18, 2024Altar’d: “Making Space to Surrender”
Feb 18, 2024Altar’d: “Making Space to Surrender”By: Clint McBroomSeries: Altar'dGenesis 8:15-20After being closed up in the ark for a year, when Noah was able to leave, the first thing that he did was to build an altar. To face a new life required making space and surrendering to the Lord. Lent is a season to find out what is most important to us, and to seek Jesus alone; therefore it's a season to surrender ourselves to Christ and to do that, we have to make space in our lives to pursue him.