Your credentials can be perfect, but you can still end up disqualified by your character. This message looks at how God guides us in the battle of faith and deals with our obedience before He leads us to achievement.
Exodus 4:18-31
Moses has been called by God and commissioned to deliver God’s people, but he immediately thinks of all the reasons why he’s not up for the task. The way that God reassures him shows how He might be seeking to work in our own lives when we find ourselves resisting a step God is calling us to make.
Exodus 4:1-17
Moses was a child of promise, saved miraculously, raised in spectacular privilege, but none of that was enough. He spent 40 years living out what felt like Plan B before he met God and was transformed by the encounter. What God reveals about Himself in the burning bush is what we all need to come to terms with.
Exodus 3:1-15
Events in Moses’ early adult life show that he has the makings of a great leader, but that isn’t enough. He’s been raised in privilege, and he has a passion for justice, but pride and self-sufficiency must be rooted out of him before he can be used by God.
Exodus 2:11-25
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God saves us, equips us, and sends us. Are we ready to answer the call? The Hebrew Scriptures are full of God’s promises to send us the Messiah. Today, as we look at the feasts of the Lord in Leviticus 23, could they help us see a foreshadow of the great commission? Could they help us see we are saved for a purpose?
Leviticus 23:1-37 // [outline]
When God feels absent in our trials, we face different kinds of temptations. Anger, doubt, and despair come easily to us. This message looks at how to deal with the silence of God and why we can trust Him when it feels like He’s not there.
Exodus 2:1-10
The rules are being rewritten for what’s celebrated and what’s forbidden, and Christians are tempted to act out in anger. This message looks at another time when the rules were rewritten, and God’s people found themselves caught in the crosshairs. Consider the principles that guided His people as they coped with life in Egypt under the king who did not know Joseph.
Exodus 1:1-22
We live at a time when Christianity is facing increasing criticism and dissenting from our culture’s values brings consequences. Stephen’s martyrdom provides principles that dispel the myths that we have about how to cope when opposition looms.
Acts 6:8-15, 7:57-60 // [outline]
We often think about the challenges that the church faces from the world. But sometimes the challenges are in the mirror. This passage looks at an internal problem the church faced and the priorities that guided its resolution then and should direct our churches today.
Acts 6:1-7 // [outline]
Peter is famous for being the disciple who denied Jesus three times. Later, however, he demonstrated incredible courage in the face of persecution and eventual death. This message looks at what changed him and how we can develop convictions and courage in our lives today.
Acts 5:27-42 // [outline]
Fears can keep us from following Jesus and serving Him. We fear what people might say. We fear what we might lose. We fear what we don’t know. This message looks at how Jesus meets us in our fears and how He builds His church in spite of them.
Acts 5:12-26 // outline
Every new year, people make resolutions to improve their lives. But give it a month, a couple of weeks, or even a few days, and most people fail to follow through on their resolutions. Why is that? In today's passage, we will learn from Jesus that the change we all need goes beyond our own actions and abilities. What we truly need is to be born again!
John 3:1-15 // [outline]
Bathsheba was plucked from her home by a king with a wandering eye who planned her husband’s murder. How could God redeem such tragedy?
Mary was looking forward to marriage with a good man that she loved, but an unplanned pregnancy brought her world crashing down. How would she find a path forward?
Matthew 1:5; Ruth 1:1-18 | outline
Ruth lost her husband and was uprooted to a foreign land where she felt the searing eyes of discrimination. What future would there be possible for her?
Matthew 1:5; Joshua 2:1-14 | outline
Rahab turned to prostitution to make ends meet in a city that was so far gone that it’s destruction was assured. What hope could there be for someone like her?
Matthew 1:3, Genesis 38:6-30 | outline
Tamar was a woman who faced the abuse of selfish men who used her instead of protecting her. How could God lift up someone so trodden down?
Regret is a common feeling people confront at the end of their lives. How do we live today so that we don’t experience regret tomorrow? This message looks at how it’s possible to seize life’s opportunities and the joy that God can give.
Ecclesiastes 11:1-12:1 // [outline]
We live in the information age where keeping up with the latest is everything and no one has time for God’s ancient truth. But we lack wisdom as a result and can hijack our happiness and sabotage God’s blessings. This message looks at the power of wisdom and how to pursue it.
Ecclesiastes 10:1-20 // [outline]
God has made us partners of the gospel, and He uses mutual relationships in order to reach His goal to make us like Christ, and build His church. As we look at Philippians 1, we’ll see how God uses other people in our lives to help us grow and bring joy and thankfulness.
Philippians 1:3-8 // [outline]