Have you hit rock bottom in your life? What were the circumstances and the realities that led you to a place where you said, “Well, this is as bad as it gets”? Have you made such a mess of things that you are completely undone? Does God see you in such a place? Does He […]
Sermon Outline – March 10, 2019 Text: Jonah 1:17 Title: Finding Christ in the Book of Jonah How on earth do we make sense of the Bible? Just a random sampling of its various books shows that they are written by so many different people, talking about so many different things. Is there a way […]
Sermon Outline – March 3, 2019 Text: Jonah 1:1-16 Title: Waking Up to God’s (Contagious) Heart What if we could think of evangelism, not as an obligation or a “got to do,” but as something we GET to be a part of. What if we could be part of what God is already doing all […]
What do people look like who know and love Jesus? What do people look like who don’t? What is real conversion, and how should it show up in the lives of Jesus-followers? In this passage, we see a surprising contrast — the people who have more of a “clue” are the pagans, while the prophet […]
When we think of storms and struggles in life, we usually think of bad things — things to endure and get through so that we find a sunnier time on the other side. And certainly, some of the storms of life come simply from the fact that we all live together in a fallen, broken […]
Rich Mullins wrote to God, “I’d rather fight you for what I don’t really want, than take what you give that I need.” Where and why is that true in your life? What is God calling you to and inviting you to? And why, so often, do we all run the opposite way from what […]
This morning, we begin our new series on the Book of Jonah. But why are we going here? And why now in the life of our church? Is there more to this story than just a big “fish tale”? And what is there here that God would speak to our hearts individually and as a […]
It is the issue of our time. It tears us apart socially and politically — and it is a dark shadow over us spiritually. What is the way to light? How are we as a church and as believers to speak to an area of such hurt and such struggle, socially and personally? How can […]
We have overflowing grace…. But it is never to hoard and bottle up for ourselves. Our God has run to us! What would it look like, what would it change if we ever learn to run to others who are broken and to love them as radically as Jesus has loved us?