Nov 3, 2024
Free To Be Holy – “What Are We Made For?”
Genesis 1-3
 
God made us in His image, which means that God made us to represent him - to embody his character and live in ways that reflect who God is. When God calls us to holiness, it means embodying God's image and doing it well.
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  • Nov 3, 2024Free To Be Holy – “What Are We Made For?”
    Nov 3, 2024
    Free To Be Holy – “What Are We Made For?”
    Genesis 1-3
     
    God made us in His image, which means that God made us to represent him - to embody his character and live in ways that reflect who God is. When God calls us to holiness, it means embodying God's image and doing it well.
  • Oct 20, 2024Entrusted – “Friends and Memories”
    Oct 20, 2024
    Entrusted – “Friends and Memories”
    Series: Entrusted
    Luke 16:1-13
     
    Jesus gives a powerful (and potentially confusing) image of how he wishes for us to view our lives: Use our resources to win friends for the Kingdom of God, in other words, to share the good news of Jesus, so that our earthly time and resources make an eternal impact.
  • Oct 13, 2024Entrusted – “Investing in Heaven”
    Oct 13, 2024
    Entrusted – “Investing in Heaven”
    Series: Entrusted
    Luke 12:13-21
     
    One of the biggest forces behind whether or not we will be faithful stewards of our lives is whether or not we see our lives in the light of eternity. When we see our lives as managing what belongs to God alone, it frees us from the false idea that life is about consumption and gathering possessions.
  • Oct 6, 2024Managers – “A New Perspective”
    Oct 6, 2024
    Managers – “A New Perspective”
    Series: Entrusted
    Matthew 25:14-30
     
    How we manage what God has given to us determines something about our eternity, and God judges us not based on how much He gave us to manage, but on what we did with what God gave us.
  • Sep 29, 2024Wisdom For Living – “A City With Walls”
    Sep 29, 2024
    Wisdom For Living – “A City With Walls”
    Proverbs 18:10; 23:19-21; 25:28; Titus 2:11-14
     
    Of all the things the book of Proverbs says something about, speech is at the top of the list. It has so much to teach us about how to use our tongues and about language. In short, how you speak will make or break your life. Learning to speak wisely is all-important.
  • Sep 22, 2024Wisdom For Living – “A City With Walls”
    Sep 22, 2024
    Wisdom For Living – “A City With Walls”
    Proverbs 18:10; 23:19-21; 25:28; Titus 2:11-14
     
     
    A man or a woman without self-control is not going to live a wise life and will inevitably mess up their lives, along with the lives of people around them. Proverbs tells us how to practice self-control.
  • Sep 15, 2024Wisdom For Living – “The Green-Eyed Monster”
    Sep 15, 2024
    Wisdom For Living – “The Green-Eyed Monster”
    Proverbs 4:23, 23:17-18, Psalm 73
     
    Proverbs tells us to guard our hearts, and to particularly guard against envy. It is important to see that envy is a problem, and to see (1) how to understand it, and (2) how we have to deal with it.
  • Sep 8, 2024Wisdom For Living – “Life As A Path”
    Sep 8, 2024
    Wisdom For Living – “Life As A Path”
    Proverbs 3:1-6, 4:11, 26
     
    One of the consistent themes of Proverbs is that life is filled with paths, and when you choose a path, it always leads to the same destination, regardless of how smart you are or how wealthy your family is. This also tells us that getting to where God wants us to be (and where we really want to be) is a product of daily, mundane steps over months and years. 
     
  • Sep 1, 2024Wisdom For Living – “The Fear of the Lord”
    Sep 1, 2024
    Wisdom For Living – “The Fear of the Lord”
    Proverbs 8:10-16; 22-31
     
    An introduction to a 5-Sunday series on Proverbs. Proverbs says that the beginning of wisdom and knowledge is the fear of the Lord. What does that mean? And why is wisdom so important for our lives, and how does it connect with our relationship with God?
  • Aug 25, 2024Summer in the Psalms “How To Get Rid of Guilt…Really”
    Aug 25, 2024
    Summer in the Psalms “How To Get Rid of Guilt…Really”
    Psalm 130
     
    One of the beautiful things about the psalms is how they teach us how to express our feelings to God. Psalm 130 is about the experience of the pit of guilt and shame, and tells us how to truly be freed from both. In contemporary culture, we flee guilt by telling ourselves we've done nothing wrong, but we can't get rid of the shame, the feeling there is something not right about us. Psalm 130 tells us how to be free from both.