Unfair as it is, Jesus Christ’s embrace of the penalty we deserved has granted us His inheritance, His place in the household, and His status as a freeman. (mp3s available for both the 9am and 11am services.)

To be a Christ-follower is to embrace two wildly different ideas: suffering and miracles. There’s a danger in embracing one to the exclusion of the other. If we expect suffering without God’s supernatural intervention, then we lose the Great Hope of the Gospel. If we embrace miracles without any expectation of suffering in this life, then we marginalize God by turning Him into a magic act.

(mp3s available for both the 9am and 11am services.)

(mp3s available for both the 9am and 11am services.)

Please don't give up. It's a muscle we just have to develop.

Please don't give up. It's a muscle we just have to develop.

Please don't give up. It's a muscle we just have to develop.

The Holy Spirit communicates the love of the Father to establish our identity as his children, and to work in us so that we will prove to be the kind of person who pleases God. (mp3s available for both the 9am and 11am services.)

The Holy Spirit communicates the love of the Father to establish our identity as his children, and to work in us so that we will prove to be the kind of person who pleases God. (mp3s available for both the 9am and 11am services.)

The gift of prophecy is for all of us, although it can operate in various ways. God is always speaking – and always listening. His goal through prophecy is that we all have deeper communion with Him and with each other. (mp3s available for both the 9am and 11am services.)

The gift of prophecy is for all of us, although it can operate in various ways. God is always speaking – and always listening. His goal through prophecy is that we all have deeper communion with Him and with each other. (mp3s available for both the 9am and 11am services.)

One of the Holy Spirit’s chief works is to grant disciples a sense of assurance which aligns our identity with our changed status as the Father’s heirs in four areas: victim to victor, fear to freedom, chained slave to adopted child, outsider to inheritor. (mp3s available for both the 9am and 11am services.)