Pastor Bob’s message on Romans 2:1-16 emphasized that to fully grasp the Good News of the Gospel, we must first understand the bad news: None of us can escape the righteous judgment of God.  Knowing that we are all unworthy makes the Good News of the Gospel even more precious. God sent His Son to offer up his blood on the cross to atone for our sins.  When we accept His gift, Jesus takes our place on judgment day and opens our way to Heaven.

Pastor Bob’s message from Romans 1:18-25 focuses on how in our spiritual life we often overestimate who we are, and we underestimate the data or the facts about our sinful nature.  Bob walks us through Paul’s compelling words to understand the good news of God’s salvation and the bad news about God’s judgment, the reality of humanity’s sinfulness balanced with the faithfulness of God’s grace.

Sunday kicked off our deep dive into the Book of Romans with Pastor Bob focusing on Romans 1 where he talked about Paul's great influence on the church and how the Gospel will never fail, is true and proven, and contains a blessing for us as we evangelize the Good News.

On Sunday, we had the privilege of hearing from Kylen Perry, leader of The Porch, the Young Adults Ministry at Watermark Church in Dallas. Kylen delivered the final message in our Cultivate Series on friendship, guiding us through scripture to explore why friendship is important, how it develops, and what true friendship looks like.

This Sunday Pastor Bob spoke about cultivating our work ethic.  Speaking from Proverbs 24, Colossians 3, and Jeremiah 1 Bob shared that God is a worker and He designed us to be workers, working is a gift from God and we can enjoy the fruits of our work. Pastor Bob showed us through a study of Bees that we are all contributing something that adds value beyond what we can imagine or understand.  When we cultivate our work ethic, we will see God move in our lives and the lives of others. 

Pastor Bob's Sunday message focused on cultivating empathy, based on Galatians 6:2, which calls us to bear one another's burdens and fulfill the law of Christ which is ultimately the law of love. He explained that while we trust God to lift our burdens, He often does so through us. Pastor Bob shared three practical ways to practice empathy and lighten the loads of others.

We continued our Cultivate series this week looking at what the bible teaches concerning generosity and the stewardship of our resources. Pastor Bob taught from John 15, 2 Corinthians 9, and Deuteronomy 26.  God has embedded sowing and reaping into nature and He has also spiritually embedded sowing and reaping into each of us.  God draws us into sowing by showing us a need that we can fulfill and we then reap the joy of effecting change in the world.

Pastor Bob taught the second message from the six-part Cultivate Series from John 15 and Proverbs 1:1-7 in a message entitled Cultivate Wisdom.   Bob shared that the wisdom of God is open to us through the 66 books of the Bible.  To live the life God wants us to live, we need to cultivate the wisdom of the ages by studying God's word so we can live a life that produces the fruit of our faith.

This Sunday we started our Cultivate sermon series. Over 6 weeks, Pastor Bob will walk us through cultivating our wisdom, generosity, empathy, and work ethic.  This week, Pastor Bob taught from John 15:1-11 about cultivating our spiritual disciplines, focusing on how we can fill the gap between the life Jesus promised us and the life we live. 

Pastor Austin Medley taught from Matthew 28:16-20.  Austin spoke about how God sends us out on a mission to appointed places and when He sends us He spiritually empowers us.  As followers of Jesus Christ, we must know that He is with us always.