Adventure Christian Church: Sermons & Messages

Lost & Found (Week 5): The Lost Boys

Brad McMahan

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SERMON SUMMARY:

We can wander far from God in rebellion or stay close to His house while drifting far from His heart in religion. In Luke 15:11–32, Jesus reveals a Father who moves toward both lost sons with love, grace, and an invitation to come home. The same grace that throws a party for the younger son invites the older brother to join the celebration. As we experience the Father’s welcome, we’re challenged to examine our own hearts: Who are we willing to move toward, what are we willing to surrender, and will we celebrate when the lost are found? Who we search for and celebrate reveals what we value.

Lost & Found (Week 4): Light Up The Darkness

Brad McMahan

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Being lost doesn’t change what we’re worth to God. In this message from our Lost & Found series, Jesus’ story of the lost coin reminds us why every person is worth the search—and challenges us to bring His light close to those who are close to us but far from Him. What’s covering our light? Pride, fear, or comfort? The life we’re made for calls us to uncover that light and join Jesus in seeking the lost. Our responsibility is to seek. His responsibility is to save. Found people, find people.

Lost & Found (Week 3): Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

Brad McMahan

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What does it mean to be spiritually lost, and how do we become found? In this message from Lost & Found, we pause to explore why lostness matters so much to Jesus, how faith in Him brings rescue from sin, and the responsibility we share in seeking others. Through Luke 19:10 and Romans 10:9–15, we’re challenged to work through our discomfort, speak truth with love, and become aligned, aware, and active in Jesus’ mission. We can’t save those close to us but far from Jesus, but we can introduce them to the One who can.

Lost & Found (Week 2): The One that Wandered Away

Casey Cox

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Most of us don’t set out to get lost. We drift through distractions, small decisions, and believing things that lead us away from Jesus. In this message from Lost & Found, we explore Luke 15:1–7 and the Good Shepherd who notices, pursues, carries, and celebrates the one who wandered. Discover Jesus’ heart to bring you home into His loving care—and His invitation to offer that same care to those close to you but far from Him.

Lost + Found (Week 1): The Search Starts With Us

Brad McMahan

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Jesus came to seek and save the lost because He loves people too much to leave them vulnerable and far from Him. In the opening message of Lost and Found, we explore why lostness matters to God—and how easily our hearts can drift from His concern for people who need rescue. Through Luke 19, Ezekiel 34, and Luke 15:1–2, we discover that being lost never lessens someone’s value or Jesus’ love for them. Before we join the search, we invite Jesus to search us: realigning our hearts, opening our eyes, and moving us to actively love people close by but far from Him.

Made For More (Week 4): Exchange Comfort For Compassion

Brad McMahan

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We all want our lives to matter—but we’d prefer it not to cost us our comfort. In the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus challenges us to stop asking who qualifies to receive our compassion and start asking whose neighbor we’re willing to become. Because Jesus first moved toward us with mercy, we can exchange protecting our comfort for carrying His compassion into the messes around us. Comfort creates distance. Compassion closes it.

Made For More (Week 3): Exchange Hiding For Healing

Brad McMahan

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SERMON SUMMARY:

It’s possible to be surrounded by people and still feel completely alone. In Luke 8:43–48, a woman who had suffered for twelve years came to Jesus hidden in a crowd, hoping to be healed without being seen. Jesus healed her body, but He didn’t let her remain hidden—He called her “daughter” and restored her identity, dignity, and belonging. Like her, we often reach for distractions, achievements, social media, or other substitutes to soothe the ache of loneliness without allowing ourselves to be truly known. But we weren’t made to hide or follow Jesus alone. We were made for authentic community where we can be seen, known, cared for, and help others experience that same belonging. We hide to stay safe, but Jesus brings us into the light to restore us.

Made For More (Week 2): Exchange Drift For Direction

Brad McMahan

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It’s possible to be busy, productive, and moving forward while still drifting from the life we were made for. In Luke 5, Jesus steps into Peter’s ordinary life and leads him one faithful step at a time—from the familiar shoreline into deeper trust and a greater purpose. We trade drift for direction when we stop asking Jesus to bless the course we’ve chosen and allow His voice to determine our next step.

Made For More (Week 1): The More We're Made For

Brad McMahan

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Jesus didn’t come to be one more piece that gets added to the life we’ve already built or the life we’re trying to build for ourselves. He is the original designer who comes to lead the assembly of the whole thing so that our lives work the way they’re meant to and they accomplish the mission they’re made for. 

Hey Church! (Week 8): The Dangers of a Lukewarm Life

Brad McMahan

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Pride has a funny way of making us dependent on the very things we think we're gaining independence from. In the end, pride leads us to indifference. It's not that we don't care, but rather that nothing/ no one really matters outside of ourselves. This is what Jesus confronts in His final letter to the church.