What does it look like to ‘live on mission’ for Jesus? The Apostle Paul encourages Christians to make the people around us our focus - learning their stories, joining them in their activities, and becoming a part of their world. As we put our own preferences and pursuits aside and adapt to the people God puts in our path, we’ll find ourselves with incredible opportunities to share the hope of the Gospel.
Would you surrender a right you’re entitled to if it meant someone else would be able to experience the Gospel? The Apostle Paul sets a high bar for how Christians should think about the things we choose to do or not do, always encouraging us to think about the good of others and the good of the Gospel before we consider what benefit we might receive. It’s a call to selfless service.
What does it look like to put others’ needs before our own preferences? Christianity affords a wide variety of freedom, but that freedom comes with a responsibility to think of the people around us first. If something we choose to do will cause someone else to struggle, we’re called to give up that freedom for their good. Following the model of Jesus, we can love and serve others by limiting our own freedom for the cause of the gospel.
Is it better to be married or single? While marriage can often be held up in the church as a goal for everyone to attain, the Apostle Paul reminds the church that remaining single has great advantages in the Christian life. Singleness can be seen as a gift from God, allowing time and attention to be focused on building His Kingdom and growing deeper in a relationship with Christ. And married or single, Paul encourages us all to keep our focus off of the distractions of the world, and instead focus on the eternity to come.
God designed marriage to be a lifelong commitment, and yet the reality of our broken world means marriages all-too-often are broken apart. What does the Bible say about marriages that end? Does God allow for divorce in certain circumstances? What about remarriage? In the midst of brokenness, we can learn many things about God’s purpose in marriage and understand how seriously He views the commitments we make to one another.
God designed our sexuality to be expressed within a lifelong, committed marriage relationship between a man and a woman for the purposes of procreation, partnership, pleasure, purity and remembering the union of Christ and the church. As our world drifts further away from God’s design for sex, we’re called to be different - to follow God’s design and direction for our bodies and relationships.
All sin is destructive, but sexual sin is particularly damaging. It’s for this reason that God puts very specific guardrails around sexuality. As followers of Jesus, honoring God includes resisting the temptation toward sexual sin, running to Jesus, and leaning on his strength to find freedom. The first step is bringing sin into the light and experiencing the forgiveness and transformation only a faith in Jesus can bring.
Conflict is an inevitable part of life in this broken world. When conflict arises between followers of Jesus, the way we resolve that conflict says a lot about whether or not we follow the example of love to which Jesus calls us. The world tempts us to always want to ‘win’ when conflict appears, but the Apostle Paul reminds us that our first priority is to love one another well, always eager to maintain unity within the church family as we serve as witnesses to a lost world.
God takes the integrity of His church seriously. When we encounter someone in sin within the church family, our responsibility is to call it out in love, praying always for repentance and restoration. But our first look should always be inward, asking the Holy Spirit to reveal those areas in which we struggle. With encouragement from our brothers and sisters in Christ, we walk with humility to worship and honor Jesus Christ through whom we receive the gift of grace and freedom from sin.
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1 Corinthians is a letter written by the Apostle Paul to a church in the country of Greece called Corinth. It's full of both encouragement and loving correction as Paul reminds the church of who they are in Christ, the importance of love and unity, and a warning not to stray into the immoral practices of the culture around them. His encouragement and direction proves completely true and relevant to the American church in 2025 as we also strive to follow Jesus well in the midst of a culture that's drifting further from God's truth.
The arrival of Jesus means the gift of a Savior - the one who would restore our relationship with God the Father. With that gift also comes the arrival of a hope, love, joy and peace that goes far beyond anything this world can offer.
With beautiful and vivid language, Psalm 23 reminds us of the character of God, His care and provision for His children, and the peace and rest we find in Him. We'll also see how every quality of God revealed in the Psalm points directly to what would be fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Through the birth of Jesus, we received the gift of a Savior who lived life as a man, experiencing everything we experience on this earth and offering himself as the perfect sacrifice to save us from our sin. Because of that gift, we can draw near to God with confidence, holding fast to that promise of salvation.
Reaching a big goal takes hard work and training. If the goal of the Christian life is to be like Christ, how do we train for that? What daily habits, rhythms and exercises should a Christian do to help train for the goal of godliness? This series will examine God's Word to learn simple, everyday practices we can have in our lives as we strive to be more like Christ.
The Gospel of Luke is the most detailed and comprehensive telling of the life and ministry of Jesus. It presents Jesus - the hero of the gospel - in every aspect: teacher, servant, healer, miracle worker, savior and King.
The miraculous account of Jonah reminds us of God's limitless ability to get our attention. When we look at the brokenness of our world and start to think there's no hope, God's interactions with Jonah reveal His desire to move our hearts toward compassion for others as we realize we're all in need of His grace and mercy.
The season of Advent is all about anticipation. In a world that can feel lost and even hopeless, Jesus is a beacon of hope; God Himself coming to us as a man in an act of perfect love and sacrifice. The hope of the world is here!
The gospel is good news for everyone, and provides hope when our world feels hopeless - so why can it be so hard to tell others about it? In this series we'll learn how to see the opportunities God gives us every day to share.
The family was designed by God to be the primary way in which we point each other toward Jesus. But in our broken world, our families can also be the source of some of our greatest struggles. Whether you're a son, daughter, parent or grandparent, this series will bring hope to families as we open God's Word, learn his design for families, and learn how we can all become better disciples of Jesus Christ.
The book of Romans is life-changing, filled from start to finish with the good news of the gospel: that Jesus Christ came to pay the price for our sin so we can have a new life in him. Explore the concepts of sin and salvation, judgement and mercy, law and gospel, and other core concepts for the Christian life.
