On the First Sunday of Advent we join the historical Church in focusing on the second coming of Jesus Christ. Will it happen? What difference does it make to the way we live now?
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What does it mean to be "a voice" for the Lord--especially one crying in the cultural wilderness of a post-Christian culture? Fred Wantaate preaches on John 1: 19-23
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We come together every week, sing together, get challenged by great messages, and spend time talking to one another, but is this what it means to be the church? This week, Rick Hutton will guide us in thinking about the image of the Body of Christ and how being the Body is the expression of what God desires us to be.
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People give out of many different motivations: guilt, duty, obligation, fear, pride, etc. But for the Christian, the overwhelming motivation for all of our giving is gratitude. This week Corey Widmer walks us through the Apostle Paul's belief that the surest proof of a heart that has been changed by the good news of Jesus is a life of radical generosity.
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The mark of a Christian is being radically generous, and generosity should be the measure of our giving. But what is generosity? How do we measure it? Steve Hartman addresses these questions as we study of 1 Chronicles 29 in light of the wealth we have in Christ.
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Is poverty or prosperity a greater danger to our relationship with God? Can we be generous when we are concerned that we'll not have enough for ourselves? Join us this Sunday as Steve Hartman turns to 1 Timothy 6 for guidance on these questions.
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"But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand."
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"Who are my enemies, and how does God want me to respond to them?" These are the questions we'll explore as we look at how Paul ends his section on the power of the gospel to transform our relationships and challenges us to follow the counter-cultural way of Jesus: overcoming evil with good.
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Our scripture gives a recipe for the distinctive love that God enables within the family of God, in which no ingredient can be left out.
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What does transformation look like within the Family of God? We can easily miss the importance of the "obvious" answer: growing in love for one another.
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The contemporary Christian church has rightly put much emphasis on the importance of knowing God, but this has often been at the expense of knowing oneself. This week we'll explore what Paul means when he exhorts us to "think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you" (Rom 12:3).
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The scriptures clearly speak about the Christian life as a changed life—of Christians as people who are in a process of transformation. Yet many of us look within and ask, “Can I really change?" Steve Hartman asks us to think about the people we are becoming and how to know the transformation God intends to bring in each of us.
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The Power of Remembering Who You Are: Steve Hartman on Luke 17:1-10
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