Title: We're Gonna Make It Series: Homefield - Peter's Letter to Exiles Passage: 1 Peter 1:1-12 Have you ever been to a game where your team was the home team? It’s electric! As you sing, cheer, and clap with thousands of people wearing the same color as you, you can feel – “I belong here! These are my people.” Now, if you’ve ever been to an away game, you know…it’s a bit of a different story. You stand out. You’re often alone in your cheering, drawing the hostile glares of those around you. Sometimes it can even be outright dangerous. It makes a big difference to have the Home Field. What do you do when you are living for Jesus and you don’t have the Home Field advantage? How do you handle being surrounded by those with values and convictions opposite to yours? How do we handle it when our convictions and values find us not in the popular majority but in the unpopular minority? To answer this question, we turn to Peter’s first letter to followers of Jesus living out an unpopular fight amid the Roman Empire. Don’t miss it as we start this new series: Home Field.
Title: Gotcha Series: 3D - The Attributes of God Passage: James 1:12-18 Life can be hard at times. And walking with Jesus is no stroll in the park either. We experience trials, our endurance is tested and many times we want to quit. As we go through these things we can start to wonder: where is God? Is he sitting back, waiting for us to stumble? Is He looking forward to seeing us fail so he can jump out with a Gotcha! This week, as we look at the prism of his glory, we see that God is not a “gotcha” God. It’s quite the opposite...
Title: Knowing God Series: 3D - The Attributes of God Passage: Acts 17:24-31 What is God like? How would you answer that? There are so many words and phrases floating out there. Culture is filled with people offering commentary and creating caricatures about the nature of God. But what do you believe? As we read the Bible, we realize many views and assumptions about God are one-dimensional. They are flat and overly simplistic compared to the stunning, breathtaking, awe-inspiring, life-changing portrait painted on those pages. Join us Sunday as we continue to pursue a 3D view of God and take a deep dive into another of His attributes: His knowability.
Title: A Beautiful Eulogy Series: 3D - The Attributes of God Passage: Genesis 50:1-26 Why do bad things happen to good people? Where is God in the midst of suffering? What’s his response to evil? This week find some essential answers in a truly unexpected place: a funeral. We journey back through time and attend the funerals of some of the most important figures in biblical history, two of the patriarchs. As we listen to their Beautiful Eulogy, we’ll see a side of God that gives us comfort, confidence, and perspective, in both life and death.
Title: God is Always Near Series: 3D - The Attributes of God Passage: Psalm 139:7-12 Do you have plenty of people in your life but still feel so alone? There are many reasons for life to feel lonely, but God promises to always be with us. How can we sense God's presence during these lonely times?