We follow Jesus and invite others to come along.
1. Transformed thinking + Intentional actions = #FORSTARKVILLE 2. You’ll never see people as Jesus sees people unless Jesus is in you. 3. Sometimes God calls us to serve with what He’s already provided, but sometimes He chooses to provide as we serve. 4. The more you act intentionally, the more your thinking will be transformed.
1. The mission of Jesus is to rescue men. 2. The search and rescue team of Jesus is the church. 3. Jesus transformed their thinking and gave them opportunities to see His power. 4. #FORSTARKVILLE 5. Transformed thinking + Intentional actions = #FORSTARKVILLE 6. God is for you. God is for the church. God is for Starkville.
1. YOU 2. More Than Just You 3. Bigger Than You 4. God is FOR you. God is FOR the church. God is FOR Starkville.
1. Jesus’ parents weren’t perfect. 2. Honoring His parents was one of Jesus’ first acts of obedience. 3. Jesus’ parents protected and provided for, Him. When Jesus, therefore, saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” - John 19:26-27a 4. Jesus took care of His mom before His departure. 5. Honoring our parents, in our youth or as adults, points to the gospel....
1. Misrepresenting God in our worship leads to idolatry. 2. Misrepresenting God with our words and our actions is taking His name in vain. 3. Misrepresenting God negatively affects present and future generations. 4. The only way not to misrepresent God is to know Him and obey Him.
“Most people, if they really learn how to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never keep their promise…There is always something that we grasped at, in that first moment of longing, that just fades away.” - C. S. Lewis Keller, Making Sense of God, pp. 82-83 1. We were created by Him. 2. We were delivered by Him. 3. We can be truly ...
1. You grow by following Jesus daily. 2. You will learn through storms. 3. You will learn from your failures. 4. You will learn from other people. 5. You will understand more as you go. 6. God will be glorified as others see His work of restoration in your life.
1. Restoration doesn’t make us perfect. 2. We are all influencer’s—either for good or evil. 3. We all need someone who’s willing to tell us the truth. 4. The gospel is always the way to restoration.
1. Jesus showed them that He knew what they didn’t. 2. Jesus showed them that He didn’t need their fish. 3. Jesus showed them that He would provide their needs. 4. Jesus showed them that serving others comes from our love for Him. 5. Jesus showed them what restoration looks like. 6. Jesus showed them the cost of following Him.
1. Jesus understands Peter’s pain. “A bruised reed He will not break, and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish.” - Isaiah 42:3 2. Jesus demonstrates His love for Peter. 3. Jesus invites Peter to be restored. 4. Jesus never stopped seeing Peter for who he would become. 5. Jesus made His choice about Peter. What would Peter choose to do with Jesus? 6. God made His choice about you. What will you choose to do with Him?
“And the Lord turned and looked at Peter.” - Luke 22:61a 1. Without prayer, the enemy slips in on you. 2. Without prayer, you’ll end up making a mess. 3. Without prayer, you’ll miss what God is doing. 4. Without prayer, you’ll end up out of control.
1. Prayer is an act of denying self. 2. Prayer should be proactive, not just reactive. 3. Prayer should always be about aligning ourselves with God’s purposes. 4. Prayer is where true strength is found. - “Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him.” - Luke 22:43 5. Jesus prays for you. - “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.But I have prayed for you that your faith should not fail.” - Luke 22:31-32a - “It is Christ who died, and further...
1. Christian serving is an act of denying self. 2. Christian serving requires knowing who you are and to Whom you belong. 3. Christian serving expects nothing in return. 4. Christian serving promotes unity in the church. 5. Christian serving glorifies Christ.
1. Stop acting like chaff, and start being firmly planted trees. 2. Stop using Sodom and Gomorrah, and start using the parable of the Good Samaritan. 3. Stop telling part of the story of Jesus, and start telling the whole story of Jesus. 4. Stop expecting the government to be the church, and start being the church. 5. Stop getting caught up in today’s headlines, and start asking questions and listening. 6. Stop acting like chaff, and start being firmly planted trees....
1. Giving up your rights promotes unity. 2. Giving up your rights provides you a hearing before the world. “Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God, just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.” - 1 Corinthians 10:32-33 3. Giving up your rights promotes the growth of weaker believers. 4. Giving up your rights glorifies Christ. 5. Giving up your rights protects your heart from the enemy...
And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of His decease which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. - Luke 9:30-31 The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear. - Deuteronomy 18:15 1. Jesus is God in human flesh. 2. Jesus is the fulfillment of the law and the prophets. 3. Jesus came to die and be resurrected to free us from our slavery to sin. 4. Jesus is the only way to...
1. The church is an assembly of those who see. 2. The church’s mission is to help others see.
1. Take a break from social media. - 1 Corinthians 10:14 2. Take care of the (your) temple. - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 3. If there is unconfessed sin in your life, confess it. - “When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. For day and night, Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,’ and You forgave the in...
