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  • Emotionally Healthy Relationships // Understanding Forgiveness | Pastor Jordan Smucker | 01.23.22

    Sometimes, the past does not stay in the past. We end up carrying painful moments with us, allowing them to weigh us down. When we hold on to those painful moments and difficult mistakes, it not only weighs us down, but it drastically changes how we live out our day to day lives. It steals away from our potential to be our best selves. But you don’t have to keep holding on to the pain from your past. Forgiveness is powerful. It allows us to experience the freedom that God intended for us to live in. It is the moments when we confess our sins and give our pains over to God, that we truly learn how to finally let go.

    “But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.”

    -1 John 1:9 (NLT)

    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org

    41 min
  • Emotionally Healthy Relationships // Words Have Greater Power | Pastor Jordan Smucker | 01.16.22

    We tend to minimize how negative words affect us and others, but words have more power than we know. As we walk out our faith journey, it’s critical for us to recognize four practical truths about our words and how they influence our relationships.  We also need to allow God to change our hearts. When we surrender our hearts and lives to God, He will empower us to change our words. But the only way to change our hearts is to put a filter on what we allow in our hearts. Jesus said our words come out of the overflow of our hearts. When we make healthy choices regarding what we watch, listen to, and participate in, we will have healthy hearts and be able to speak in a way that pleases God. Ultimately, healthy relationships understand how to use healthy words because healthy words are a part of God's plan for healthy relationships.

    “Kind words are like honey, sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.”

    -Proverbs 16:24 (NLT)-

    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org

    44 min
  • Emotionally Healthy Relationships // Healthy Relationships Begin With Me | Pastor Jordan Smucker | 01.09.22

    Jesus’ vision for the church is a people united under Him. It cannot be overstated the mission of Jesus to unite the people of God in healthy relationship. But that’s no easy task and it requires something of you. In fact, Healthy relationships begin with you. Don’t confuse healthy with convenient. Don’t confuse healthy with easy. Healthy relationships require a healthy amount of work. But the good news is that Jesus, if you’ll allow Him, wants to lead you in this work. For many of us, Jesus has influenced an occasional time slot on Sunday mornings but has little influence on the character of our lives. So, maybe it’s time we stop expecting something from Gods people that we’re not maturing in ourselves.

    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org

    47 min
  • Setting Godly Goals | Jamie Schisler | 01.02.22

    Before we write out our goals, we should begin in the heart. The temptation for Christians is to make our plans and add a dollop of Jesus on top, rather than allowing him to form in us the desires and motivations to do his work. So, whether or not we’re making concrete goals or more abstract ones, whether we’re writing down resolutions or foregoing them altogether, here are a few questions to consider as we peer into 2022, to draw closer to Christ.

    “You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.”

    -Psalm 139:15-16”-

    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org

    50 min
  • Advent // The Expectation Of Eternity | Pastor Jordan Smucker | 12.19.21

    Advent is as much about looking back as it is looking ahead—back to Christ’s incarnation, ahead to His return. Hebrews 9:28 tells us, “So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.” The Christmas message when stripped of its cultural overtones and traditions is relatively simple: God came to earth in the form of a man, and He will return again. Jesus’ return points us to Heaven. You may ask; “What is Heaven like?” Well, whatever you can imagine—Heaven is better.

    “Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.”

    -1 John 3:2-

    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org

    39 min
  • Advent // The Truest Father | Jordan Smucker | 12.12.21

    Names are important and they can reveal a lot about us. Even more so, the names given to Jesus reveal the embodiment of who He is. In Isaiah 9:6-7, when Isaiah says that Jesus is our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace, we begin to get a greater glimpse of how Jesus is the perfection of everything we have ever wanted.

    Calling Jesus “the Everlasting Father” may seem odd, since the Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is “called God’s Son.” Here the Son is called “the Father.” This doesn’t mean he has switched places with God the Father, rather that Jesus, in his relationship to us, would be like the father we are most in need of. Some of you have great dads or you had great dads, and your memories of him are fond and cherished. But many of you may not have had a great relationship with your dad, and some of the greatest pain in your life comes from the lack of relationship with him.
    There are Four Common Areas of Father-Woundedness: The Never-Satisfied Dad, The Time-Bomb Dad, The Emotionally Distant Dad, and the Absent Dad. But Jesus is the Everlasting Father whom you have always craved. Even if you had a good dad, at some point he disappoints you and fails you. That is why I love that word Isaiah adds, “Everlasting.” Jesus is the Everlasting Father. He never disappoints; never forsakes; never leaves; never dies. He is the Father your heart has always craved.

    “The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love”

    -Psalm 103:8-

    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org

    36 min
  • Advent // The Unexpected Experience? | Pastor Jordan Smucker | 12.05.21

    As we enter the Christmas season, it’s possible to miss some of the greatest things in your life because your heart is not tuned to look for them. God’s gift to us at the first Christmas was unexpected, but if you knew what you were looking for, and you recognized majesty when you saw it, it wasn’t disappointing. Pastor Jordan tells the story of Anna and Simeon, two of the first people to meet Jesus. Unlike so many others who missed Jesus, Anna and Simeon were able to recognize the unexpected majesty of the newborn King. Their story raises the question for us: Will we see Jesus this Christmas?

    “The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him,”

    -Lamentations 3:25-

    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org

    38 min

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