Beyond the Message

This week on Beyond the Message, Jake and Sam discuss the truth we saw in Scripture that God is owed worship from you, and you will find fulfillment in giving it to Him. We unpack the sermon's main points and go beyond yesterday with additional insight into yesterday’s message.

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Big Idea: God is owed worship from you, and you will find fulfillment in giving it to Him. Growing as worshipers is all about growing our view of God. God is about God! God deserves our worship, and he is Jealous for it. Our worship belongs to God, yet we want to give it sinfully to lesser things.S in is essentially a worship problem. The most unique display of the worship God is owed is the cross of Christ.

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Worship

Family Worship

Knowing God

God the Prize

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

Habits of Grace

This week on Beyond the Message, Sam and Michael dive into John 4:19-24, where we see that worship is delighting in and displaying the worth of God above all things. We unpack the sermon's main points and go beyond yesterday with additional insight into the text.

Highlights from the message:

Big Idea: Worship is delighting in and displaying the worth of God above all things.God doesn’t need our worship.We were created to worship.Everybody worships (either God or substitute for God).True worship is done in spirit and in truth.Worship starts with internally delighting in God above all else then overflows in an outward display with your life.The only way to truly worship is with a heart that has been transformed by the Spirit of God through the person and work of Christ Jesus.

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Worship

Family Worship

Knowing God

God the Prize

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

Habits of Grace

This week on Beyond the Message, Sam and Jake dive into 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, where we see that we must submit to God’s truth, together with God’s people, to experience God’s presence. We unpack the sermon's main points and go beyond yesterday with additional insight into the text.

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Submit to God’s truth together with God’s people to experience God’s presence

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The Discipline of Grace

Bright Hope for Tomorrow

This week on Beyond the Message, Sam and Jake dive into 2 Corinthians 13:1-4, where we see that Jesus-professing people should examine themselves for Jesus-following actions within a Jesus-following community. We unpack the sermon's main points and go beyond yesterday with additional insight into the text.

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Jesus-professing people should examine themselves for Jesus-following actions within a Jesus-following community.

Real faith makes a difference

Five indicators of Christ in you

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The Discipline of Grace

Bright Hope for Tomorrow

This week on Beyond the Message, Sam and Danny dive into 2 Corinthians 13:1-4, exploring how protection from sin flows from taking sin seriously—and taking sin seriously flows from taking Jesus seriously. We unpack the sermon's main points and go beyond yesterday with additional insight into the text.

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The Discipline of Grace

Bright Hope for Tomorrow

This week on Beyond the Message, Sam and Michael dive into 2 Corinthians 12:11-21, exploring how real Christian ministry isgladly-exhausting, fatherly pursuit of another person’s soul. We unpack the sermon's main points and go beyond yesterday with additional insight into the text.

Highlights from the message:Real Christian ministry is a gladly-exhausting, fatherly pursuit of another person’s soul.

This involves, trustworthy intentions (vv. 15b-19a), an overflowing relationship with Christ (v. 19b), loving edification (v. 19b), and deep concern for spiritual health (vv. 20-21)

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The Discipline of Grace

Bright Hope for Tomorrow

This week on Beyond the Message, Sam and Ian dive into 2 Corinthians 12:1-10, exploring how embracing suffering can lead to experiencing God's power. We unpack the sermon's main points and go beyond yesterday with some additional listener questions.

Highlights from the message:Embrace suffering to experience God’s powerYou can embrace suffering because it's from God and used by God.

Satan Always Asks Permission

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Suffering

Dark Cloud Deep Mercy

Chosen By God

The Discipline of Grace

Bright Hope for Tomorrow

In this special episode of Beyond the Message - Before the Message. Jake and Sam talk about Good Friday and Easter 2025.

How would you defend the authenticity of your faith? Paul goes about this in a unique way—perhaps counterintuitively. Paul boasts in his suffering for Christ in a way that highlights the worthwhile sacrifice. The main point of this message is that genuine conversion is displayed in counter-cultural living. In this episode, we unpack that more at a practical level.

Highlights from the message:The way we live points to what we really believe

Boasting in weakness is about highlighting our freedom in Christ

Big Idea: Genuine conversion is displayed in counter-cultural living

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The Discipline of Grace

Bright Hope for Tomorrow

In this episode of Beyond the Message, Sam Anderson and Jordan Howell discuss further application from the message on 2 Corinthians 11:1-15. Following up from Jordan's sermon, we explore how we guard against false teaching by practicing covenant devotion to Christ and careful discernment in a world full of deception.

Highlights from the message:Practice covenant devotion to Christ.

Practice careful discernment when it comes to the message and the messenger.

Big Idea: Guard against deception by practicing covenant devotion to Christ and careful discernment.

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The Discipline of Grace

Bright Hope for Tomorrow