Ember Church Sunday Sermon

We are more divided than ever – even inside our churches! How do we heal that to become the One that Jesus prayed for. And is it possible that the way to do that turns out to be a phenomenal insight into how to actually disciple people much more effectively than we have been?

How would you like to discover a way to always be completely outside yourself when you are interacting with someone? To see who God made them to be, and so to have the same love for them that God does…always? Experience this time with God on Sunday, and enter into an entirely new dimension.

God just continues to do the most amazing things. Step by step, He is showing us how to actually get to where He has for us. The perfect follow up to Josh’s excellent word from Him last week, this one takes us from desire to a first, small, albeit critical step. This is one you have to experience live, as we will be helping one another. Can’t wait to see you, and experience what He’s doing!

This Sunday, Josh Morris is sharing from the Luke 16 Parable of the Rich Man and the beggar Lazarus, and encouraging insights about how to serve God when life is jam packed and you can't do anything more.

We rightly say that only God can make us who He wants us to be. In fact, we understand that our efforts often times get in the way of what He’s trying to do in us. As Paul has to say: O you foolish Galatians would you try finish in the flesh what was begun in the Spirit? But how do we let the Spirit do what He wants? Is there nothing we can do? Are we just supposed to twiddle our thumbs and wait? Experience this moment and learn how we can participate in whatever He’s doing!

Just like in the game Pokemon Go, we christians also live in a reality augmented by the Holy Spirit, so GO and follow where He leads.

The Lord has been doing some very deep, important work with us. Today He shows us how easy it really is to make the most dramatic changes of your life.

How can I be Mary in a Martha world? How can I take time to sit at God’s feet, to rest in Him, to trust Him when I have so much to do? I don’t have time to trust Him!

Last week we discovered how Jesus’ parables were building to a place where we understood that as much as we may think we “get it” we don’t. This week we’re to discover how to get what Jesus is trying to bring us into when in fact we actually can’t do anything ourselves to get it. Deeply foundational stuff here.

As we are headed into this new year God is once again bringing us an absolutely critical, foundational principle on which he will be building in us throughout this year. It is something so obvious and so foundational, that frankly none of us really see rightly anymore. But He's going to get it right in us so that we can truly become more like Him!