Worship is one of the primary ways that the Kingdom of God advances in the world. We will examine Acts 16:16-40 as a case study in how the Kingdom of God advances through the power of worship. Worship advances the Kingdom of God by declaring that Jesus is beautiful, breaking the chains on our hearts that prevent us from loving other people, and by dethroning the territorial spirits and beasts of our world.
Worship is humble. But what is humility? What does it look like to humble ourselves before the Lord, and how does that welcome his presence? Come find out with us!
Marvin Gaye asked us the question, "What's going on?" It's a question that has held strength throughout different ages and stages because we are often aware there is more that is going on, then meets the eye. As Christians, how are we uniquely called and empowered to affect what's going on because of our relationship to King Jesus?
Worship carries prophetic power. It opens us to hear what God is saying and declare God’s word over our circumstances. And God’s word brings order out of chaos. So join us as we learn to step more clearly into God’s prophetic power through worship!
Although Abraham had a personal relationship with God, it was also a missional relationship with God. He and God partnered to begin the overturning of a curse which held humanity captive. And this partnership was lived out through worship.
Worship is? What does it mean to worship God? What is the reality of worship underneath the raising of hands and singing songs? Come join us as we start a new series called Worship Is!
Do you remember stories of churches where they were living in the missions of God, but now they are breaking into battles over very minor issues? The secret to good community is the mission of Jesus Leads. Join us as we read together Paul’s final letter to the Corinthians.
So a few weeks ago, we talked about how the Resurrection is not some spiritual existence in the afterlife. It is God raising up physical bodies for the life to come. But what will those bodies be like? How are they like the bodies we currently have? How will they be different?
So what is the gift of prophecy, and how does it function in normal church life? Building on top of that, why is it such a powerful gift that Paul would say, when the outsider hears it, he would be so convicted in his heart that he would fall down and say surely God is among you?
And now these three remain faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love. Throughout church history, the church has held faith, hope, and love as the theological virtues, why because they are the virtues that prepare us to live both now and for eternity. The Gospel, however, reveals that we need to know the one who is love in order to walk in love. Come as we continue to explore what it looks like to embrace the Gospel in community.
Have you ever noticed that some people seem to hear God all the time and some people are very reticent to think that God is speaking to them. How do you know if God is speaking to you? How do you know if it's not just your own mind talking to you?
Christopher and Laura Curry discuss an upcoming ministry called FIRM. FIRM stands for Families in Recovery Ministry.
Perhaps the most critical difference between Christianity and all other world religions is Christianity roots itself in one fundamental, historical act. The Resurrection is not a myth. It is historically researchable event where Jesus himself physically defeated death. Come find out this weekend how that changes our day to day lives and can the trajectory of our futures.
What do you do when you're reading scripture and there's just very limited light? Like, you just don't really understand what's going on. Then you read all the scholars, and they tell you they don't understand either. Well, that's this Sunday! Join us as we have a conversation together as a community about difficult texts of scripture and discover how to live faithfully to God in the midst of it.
Sometimes faith can almost feel like magic where we confuse what is real, active faith in Christ and magical solutions to problems. In 1 Corinthians 10, Paul begins to ask similar questions of the church community in Corinth. But then he warns them of the need to stay faithful. It's not good enough to just know Jesus as a past entity. God wants to be known, experienced, and relied upon in our daily lives.
So Paul says run the race as if to win the prize. What does that look like in our normal CSRA suburban lives? How do we orient our lives in such a way that they will bear fruit that will bring glory to God both now and forever.
We've all heard you must obey your conscience, but what is a conscience? And how does that connect to wisdom from above? In Chapter 8, Paul will teach us how to think about our sense of conscience as something that is developing towards a conscious awareness of God and learning to practice his presence in the day-to-day life and inside of community.
We learn in recovery that often times we are tempted to seek a geographical solution for a spiritual problem. So we think that our circumstances are the problem instead of learning how to be God's man or woman inside the circumstance itself. This Sunday, Paul will teach us to think about our our own context and how the gospel can be embodied and brought to bear in our day-to-day lives in the unique circumstances that each of us find ourselves.
I would like to tell you guys a story of perhaps the most awkward and challenging experiences I have personally observed in church. What it taught me is that love is difficult. Sometimes we want to make love out to be a feeling when it requires thought and process. But if we walk that out, we get to see God's kingdom advance.
Don't fear the fire! Last week, we talked about powerlessly reigning and power. This week, we're gonna talk about what it means to not fear the fire. We all go through situations that test our faith. In any given moment, the people we love are going through the same. How do we learn to look through the fire and to see the God who is with us?
Paul says, "My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me." What does it mean to have a clear conscience? What does it mean to reign with Christ? How do these two things interconnect?
