Formed in Creation & Nature

November 16, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Psalm 19:1–6

This Sunday, Devon Accardi continued our fall series, More Like Him, focusing on how God uses creation to spiritually form us—dazzling us with His glory, drawing us into wonder, and reminding us of His power and presence. Nature reveals God’s care and invites us to trust Him just as the birds and plants do. Creation also teaches dependence, helping us see our “little faith” as something God patiently grows, just as He orchestrates every detail of the natural world. And while creation declares God’s glory, we are the ones who bear His image and the ones He loves and longs to transform into His likeness, not the mountains or the stars.

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Formed in Cultural Engagement

November 9, 2025 • Brad Raby • Romans 12:1–2, Daniel 1

This Sunday, Brad Raby, Lead Pastor at Fellowship West, continued our fall series, More Like Him. Teaching on being formed in cultural engagement, Brad looks at Daniel’s story to illustrate how God forms His people both in and for their cultural moment. Like Daniel and his friends in Babylon, believers today face a culture that subtly seeks to reshape identity, values, and loyalties—but spiritual formation in Christ enables resistance without fear or contempt. True resistance is rooted not in outrage but in devotion to God—living faithfully, practicing spiritual rhythms, and saying yes to God’s presence again and again. Daniel’s integrity, wisdom, and humility show that faithfulness and favor can coexist, influencing even hostile systems. Ultimately, Daniel points to Jesus—the greater exile—who entered our “Babylon,” embodying truth and grace, and now sends us into the world as people shaped by His Spirit for the good of our neighbors.

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Formed in Friendship

November 2, 2025 • Devon Accardi • Proverbs 27:9, Mark 2

This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. Spiritual formation isn’t about religious behavior but about transformation into Christ’s likeness in every part of life. Humans were created out of relationship by a relational God and therefore for relationship with one another. Sin, however, has fractured this design, leaving both beauty and brokenness in our friendships—deep joy and deep hurt. Using the story of the paralytic and his friends in Mark 2, Devon outlined three marks of formative friendship: intentionality, persistence, and faithfulness—friends who purposefully bring one another closer to Jesus. While good friendships are a gift, only Christ can fully satisfy the relational longing of our souls—the King who calls us “friend.”

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Formed in Marriage & Family

October 26, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Ephesians 5:20–21

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. He looks at Ephesians 5 and Paul's focus on marriage. While not everyone is married, everyone is shaped by the marriages around them. Marriage is a living picture of the gospel, meant to reflect Christ’s love for the church through Spirit-filled living, mutual submission, and sacrificial love. Husbands are called to love their wives as Christ loved the church—selflessly, for their sanctification and growth in holiness. Healthy marriages are sustained through presence, encouragement, repentance, and forgiveness rather than control or coexistence.

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Formed in Grief & Sorrow

October 19, 2025 • RD McClenagan • John 11:33–36

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Grief is the natural response to losing something or someone we love, and it shapes us in profound ways, often revealing the depth of our love. Jesus Himself was “a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief,” modeling honesty before God, compassion for others, and faithfulness in suffering. He wept with those who mourned, showing that our tears matter to Him and that grief can draw us nearer to His heart. Through loss, whether of dreams, relationships, health, or loved ones, we are invited to bring our sorrow to Christ, who transforms it into deeper faith, empathy, and hope. Because of Jesus—the one who bore our griefs and carried our sorrows—everything sad will one day come untrue, and even what was broken will be made more beautiful in His resurrection.

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Formed in Suffering

October 12, 2025 • RD McClenagan • Romans 5:1–5

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Suffering is one of the most formative realities of the Christian life—something God uses to reveal where our trust truly lies and to shape us into Christlikeness. Throughout the Bible, those whom God used most deeply were also those who suffered most profoundly. While we cannot always know why suffering comes, we can anchor ourselves in what is true: that God is sovereign, good, and present with us even in the valley. Suffering, then, becomes the place where God builds endurance, forms Christlike character, and reminds us of our dependence on Him. God wastes nothing—through pain and loss, He brings about endurance, compassion, and a hope that does not put us to shame because His love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

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The Practices: Prayer

October 5, 2025 • Zach Hume • Romans 8:26–27, Luke 11

This Sunday, Zach Hume continued our fall series, More Like Him. This week’s focus was on the spiritual practice of prayer. The way that we think about prayer—whether as requests, warfare, intimacy, or disappointment—shapes how we engage God. In Luke 11, the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray because they saw Him approach God with unique intimacy. Jesus revealed that prayer is not performance or ritual but relationship—the language of children speaking with their Father. When we see prayer as relational, it becomes something to enjoy, not master; to join in, not initiate; a gift, not a burden; a necessity for life with God; and a primary way we are formed to look more like Jesus.

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The Practices: Generosity

September 28, 2025 • Devon Accardi • 2 Corinthians 9:10–15

This Sunday, Devon continued our fall series, More Like Him. This week’s focus was on generosity, which is not a means to earn God’s favor, but a reflection of God’s own generous heart toward us. Generosity extends beyond money—it includes our words, dignity toward others, grace, and how we steward our resources. Ultimately, a life of generosity is a life lived for the sake of others, imitating the generous love of God shown in Christ.

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The Practices: Scripture

September 21, 2025 • RD McClenagan • 2 Timothy 3:16

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. Jesus reminds His disciples that the Holy Spirit will come to teach, guide, and bring peace that the world cannot give. In a world marked by fear, chaos, and distraction, God’s Word stands as the unshakable foundation for His people. Scripture is the living voice of God, breathed out by the Spirit, meant to comfort, correct, and transform us. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reveals one story pointing to Jesus Christ, calling us to pay attention to what shapes our hearts and lives. God’s Word never returns empty but accomplishes His purposes, rooting us in truth, forming us into Christ’s likeness, and enabling us to overcome evil with good.

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Power to Abide

September 14, 2025 • RD McClenagan • John 17

This Sunday, RD continued our fall series, More Like Him. From the beginning in Genesis, the Spirit hovered over the void, shaping and filling creation step by step—just as He still works in our lives today to bring light, order, and life. Through Christ, the Spirit convicts us of sin, gives us new hearts, and empowers us to live with purpose as witnesses of Jesus. Though we still battle the desires of the flesh, the Spirit strengthens us to walk in His ways, producing fruit like love, joy, peace, and self-control. Ultimately, the Spirit comforts, helps, and reminds us of Jesus’ promises, filling us with peace and hope that God is making all things new.

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