Scripture: Luke 5:17-20

Sermon: Holy Vulnerability

Scripture: Luke 8:26-39 (New Living Translation)

Main Point: If vulnerability is the key to abundant and authentic life, holy vulnerability is the key to the Kingdom of God.

4 Postures of Vulnerability:
- Vulnerability is the posture of Jesus
- Vulnerability is the posture of the Saints
- Vulnerability is the posture of the Gospel
- Vulnerability should be the posture of your heart

Bonus Thought:
When we lack vulnerability, we think more highly of pigs than people

Take some time to get to know one of the leading members of our triangle community, Dr. Rose Cornelious. In this conversation, Dr. Rose talks about her life's work, her call to ministry, and her particular passion for elevating the voices and stories of oppressed women and children around the globe. Dr. Rose is actively engaged in work to better our local, regional, and international community. This is a conversation you won't want to miss!

Scripture: Jeremiah 18:1-11 (Message Version)

Thoughts to consider:
1. If you want to move the heart of the nation, you need to move the hearts of the people.

2. We love to provide external solutions for internal problems, but this doesn't create lasting and sustainable change.

Take-Home Points:
1. Listen to the prophets.
2. Learn humility and kindness toward others (especially those with whom you disagree).
3. Look for change inwardly before doing so outwardly.
4. Live as though the world you desire to create already has the capacity to exist within you.

Scripture: Romans 8:18-25 (CEB)

Thoughts to consider:
1. "The worst loss is yours." - David Kessler
2. "Waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother."
- Romans 8:22-23 (MSG)
3. "You can't heal what you don't feel." - David Kessler

Question of the day:
How are you choosing hope today?

Scripture: Romans 7:18-25

Take home thoughts:
1. The grace of Christ redeems you from yourself
2. Our ability to know our destructive tendencies and act to change them is evidence of God's grace at work in our life even when we don't know it, see it, or feel it.
3. "You make your choices, then your choices make you." - Carey Neiuwhof
4. Change happens in the small and minute decisions.

Actions for change:
1. Turn away from self-shame
2. Recognize the prevenient grace of God already at work in your life
3. Choose to do the next right thing.

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:10-17

Take home thought:
1) We spend so much time chasing what we think we have to, that we forget about chasing the One we need to.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7:12-17 (MSG)

Sermon in a phrase: Intimacy = into-me-see

Thoughts to take home:
1) Relationships help make us more holy

2) As we learn to be in relationship with each other, we learn to be in relationship with God.

3) God is infinitely committed to you