Who is the church, and why does it matter? This four-week study explores the Bible's images of the people of God, bringing clarity to the church's identity and inspiring renewed love for and commitment to our local church.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Let Them Do This With Joy
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Jesus didn’t just tell us to pray—He taught us how. In this series, we’ll learn to pray by walking through the Lord’s Prayer, letting stories from the Gospels shape our posture, priorities, and trust in God. Together, we’ll discover prayer not as a formula to master, but a relationship that forms us as we learn to seek the Father’s heart.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Approaching God as Father
Week 2: Hallowed Be Your Name
Week 3: Your Kingdom Come
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Week 4: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Week 5: Forgive Us Our Debts As We Also Have Forgiven Our Debtors
Week 6: Lead Us Not into Temptation But Deliver Us From Evil
Week 7: Persistence in Prayer
The book of Jonah has captivated and perplexed audiences for generations. It’s often understood as “that story about a guy who got swallowed by a whale.” But truth be told, there’s so much more going on than that. At its core, Jonah is a story about a prophet who calls others to repent but refuses to repent himself. And ultimately, about a God who will go to extreme measures to try and change that about him.
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Week 1: You Can’t Outrun God
Week 2: The Pit and the Promise
Week 3: From Sackcloth To Salvation
Week 4: The Scandal of Grace
In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon pulls no punches. Though he has access to more wealth, prestige, experiences–though he has more accomplishments than most humans ever will–he finds the end result of them all severely lacking. “Vanity,” he says. Meaningless. A striving after the wind.
In chapter 5, he notes there is a difference between having wealth and possessions and “power to enjoy them” (Eccl 5:19). The whole book seeks to answer the question, how do we, as finite humans who all face the certainty of death, get the power to enjoy the imperfect lives we have?
The only answer, which we’ll trace through the major movements of the book, is to live with a perspective that is beyond the sun, rather than under the sun. To have our eyes set on the eternal, not the earthly.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Is This It?
Week 2: That Won't Fix You
Week 3: Toil, Vexation and the Gift of Joy
Week 4: Everything In Its Season
Week 5: Two Are Better Than One
Week 6: The Disease of More
Week 7: Live with the End in Mind
Week 8: The End of the Matter
Because of Jesus' resurrection, everything has changed.
In our previous sermon series, we unpacked the significance of Jesus' atoning death on the Cross. For this series, we're shifting our focus to a short period immediately after Jesus' death and resurrection, and all that entails for us as we grow in following Jesus together.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Easter
Week 2: Breakfast on the Beach
Week 3: The Road to Emmaus
Week 4: The Ascension
Week 5: Pentecost
It has been said that atonement is like a multi-faceted diamond. What Christ accomplished on the cross is massive, and its window into the heart of God is grand. In this series, we study the many things Jesus’ death and resurrection achieved as we prepare our hearts and minds for Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday.
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Week 1: Substitution
Week 2: The Cross as the Cure for Shame
Week 3: Redemption
Week 4: Adoption
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Sermon by Justin Gates on November 24, 2024.
We are often distracted many different things that gain our attention and focus. This week we look at the Apostle Paul's words that show us 3 distinct benefits of focusing our attention on the Lord.
Do you ever feel like there are two competing forces waging war within you as you try to follow Jesus? Do you ever feel a gap between what you want your discipleship to look like and the actual lived reality of your day-to-day life?
Galatians 5 gives weight to this battle within us, telling us about these two competing forces with competing desires - the Spirit and the flesh. And the invitation for all of us as followers of Jesus is to crucify the flesh and cultivate the fruit.
This series will take nine weeks to walk through the Fruit of the Spirit we are called to cultivate, as we examine the life and teachings of Jesus and how the Fruit of the Spirit was evident in His life.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Love in a Time of Self-Interest
Week 2: Peace in a Time of Anxiety
Week 3: Patience in a Time of Irritability
Week 4: Faithfulness in a Time of Compromise
Week 5: Gentleness In a Time of Harshness
Week 6: Goodness in a Time of Brokenness
Week 7: Kindness in a Time of Polarization
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Week 8: Joy in a Time of Cynicism
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Week 9: Self-Control in a time of Self-Fulfillment
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In 62AD, we find the apostle Paul bound in prison and disconnected from his friends and church family. Yet during his imprisonment, he’s able to pen what is considered to be the most joyful book of the Bible - the letter to the Philippians.
In this 12-week series, we'll take a look at how our church family can become people of joy as we slowly transition back into “normal” life, and how our joy can be a witness to our city that Jesus is alive.
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Week 1: Joy Defined
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Week 2: An Unstoppable Kingdom
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Week 3: Joy in Life or Death
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Week 4: Live as Citizens of the Gospel
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Week 5: The Humiliation & Exaltation Of Christ
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Week 6: Joy in our Perseverance
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Week 7: Gospel Friendships and Gospel Goodbyes
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Week 8: Delighting In The Surpassing Worth Of Christ
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Week 9: Pressing on to Maturity
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Week 10: Peace Over Anxiety
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Week 11: Rejoice In The Lord Always
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Week 12: The Power of Contentment
As we launch new teaching series, we want to introduce new tools and practices that help you learn to be with Jesus and look more like Him.
For this series, we want to focus on a particular tool to help us learn to follow Jesus more closely. Given that the book of Philippians is one of the most joy-filled books in the Scriptures, our spiritual practice for this series is gratitude.
For those wanting to dive further into Philippians, we’d recommend the following videos, books, and commentaries:
Philippians: The NIV Application Commentary
Paul’s Letter to the Philippians by Gordon Fee
Paul's Letter to the Philippians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary
The Other Half of Church by Jim Wilder and Michel Hendricks
