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Title: Messier Mangers Series: Multiply Passage: Acts 6:1-7 Most people love the idea of growth, especially in a church! Who doesn’t want more people hearing the gospel, more families, more baptisms, and more people following Jesus? After all, Jesus commissioned us to make more disciples! However, what we don’t realize, sometimes, is just what that growth will cost us… This week, we continue our Multiply series and see how the cost of multiplication and Messier Mangers is not only worth it, but how God uses it to grow His church in unexpected ways.
Title: The Why in Multiply Series: Multiply Passage: Matthew 28:16-20 Imagine being a part of something that goes beyond your own personal journey and story. Imagine getting swept up into a movement, a collective rescue mission made up of rag-tag people whose unified purpose is creating a lasting impact that ripples through entire communities, breaking through barriers of gender, age, and race. Imagine becoming a part of something that existed before you and will exist long after your life ends. God is inviting you to be a part of His disciple-making, church-multiplying rescue mission across the globe, and His plan to reach the world isn’t simply adding to the cause but MULTIPLYING through exponential influence.
Title: Worship the King Speaker: Ronnie Cannon Passage: Matthew 2:1-12 Excitement, joy, gratefulness, indifference, disappointment. We witnessed many responses on Christmas Day as children everywhere opened their gifts. The truth is that every gift elicits some type of response. The question we ask this week is what is our response to the greatest Gift ever given?
Title: What Child Is This Series: Restored & Redeemed Passage: Luke 2:22-38
Title: Same Stuff Speaker: Greg St Cyr Passage: Hebrews 2:9-10, 14-17 The Christmas season is upon us and in the words of legendary Andy Williams: "It's the most wonderful time of the year With the kids jingle belling And everyone telling you be of good cheer It's the most wonderful time of the year!" Christmas is wonderful because Jesus came down to earth. Jesus became like us in our humanity. And like us, He had the same family dynamics, the same problems, the same stuff, even the same start (born from His mother’s womb) we have. That’s why Jesus can relate to us, and we can draw near to Him. When you come, you’ll see that the church is adorned with decorations, hand-made ornaments, and family photos on trees so that you and those you invite will experience the wonder of Christ’s birth. But have you ever stopped to contemplate “Why? Why did Jesus become like us?” Join us this Sunday in week 4 of our Advent series, Restored & Redeemed.
Title: A Tale of Two Hopes Series: Restored & Redeemed Passage: Isaiah 25:1-9 This week, we celebrate the Advent theme of Hope! But... is hope real? Like for real, for real? Does it actually make a difference? Or is it just a nice sentiment we offer around the holidays to numb the pain and ease our loss? How can we know for sure that there is a better future that is worth longing for? What if this is as good as it gets? In all honesty... it depends. Join us this week for A Tale of Two Hopes as we see whether or not hope is alive.
Title: Home, Sweet Home Series: Restored & Redeemed Passage: Isaiah 40:1-11 Home, Sweet Home! Sound familiar? As Christmas quickly approaches, many of us plan to return to our native homes to be with family. If you're from a good home, the idea of returning can be immensely comforting. That's not the case for everyone. In Isaiah 40, we see a group of people who are also returning home after being exiled for 70 years. Many of them headed for a home they've only heard of but have never seen. As exiles, their current "home" is not so sweet, but God delivers the most comforting message for them and humanity.
Title: Great Implications Series: Restored & Redeemed Passage: Ephesians 4:1-6 No matter how hard we try as human beings, we cannot fix our own brokenness or clean up the messes in our lives. Even the best of us have failings, and let’s be honest… deep down inside we know we’re not the “best.” And yet, in the midst of our greatest failures, as we come face to face with the worst of ourselves, the utterly good news of the Gospel is this: Jesus is perfect. He died for you and for me. His death has repaid every debt that we never could. He loves us. Through Jesus the Christ, we are Restored and Redeemed.
We know that God is a God of vision. All throughout the Bible, we see that He plans and He creates. Before the foundation of the world, He architected our salvation. Over six days, He spoke things into existence, painting His glory across the canvas of the universe. He is moving all of history according to His perfect will, toward His vision of the future. And He is inviting us to be a part of it.
Title: A Little Longer Series: Homefield - Peter's Letter to Exiles Passage: 1 Peter 5:6-14 Peter closes his letter to the exiled Christians the same way he opened it. He encourages them to hope in the goodness of God and to not lose sight of God’s promise. Soon, he’ll bring us all home and our faith will be sight.