Speaker: Pastor Funmi Ojetayo 

1. Revelation Given (vv. 1–2)

2. Revelation Resisted (vv. 3–8)

3. Revelation Received (vv. 9–12)

Text: Psalm 63 

BIG IDEA: You can bring the wilderness of your heart to your Lord, remembering and rejoicing that His steadfast love is better than life. 

I. The Way of Remembrance

“The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty” (Ex. 34:6-7)  

Ps. 42:11 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes 

Speaker: Joshua Hughes

Big Idea: Because Jesus fully and truly entered our frailty and bore our sin, we are invited to fully and truly draw near and rest in him with our frailty and our sin.

1. What this Means:

- Jesus is fully and truly God

- Jesus is fully and truly human

2. Why this Matters: 

- For our comfort

- for our salvation 

Speaker: Joshua Hughes

Big Idea: Advent isn’t God resourcing you to be ok in your own strength, it’s God giving you the gift of being his child. 

# 1. What the gift is?

# 2. Why the gift matters?

# 3. How the gift helps?

# 4. How do we get the gift? 

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes

Big Idea: Though we’re living in a land of death and darkness, we’re looking to Jesus the Logos who brings light and life.

1. Where we are living

2. Where we are looking

- To Jesus, the Preexistent Word

"The reason the darkness may be faced and lived in is that even in the darkness, there is one to address. The one to address is in the darkness, but not simply a part of the darkness. Because this one has promised to be in the darkness with us, we find the darkness strangely transformed, not by the power of easy light, but by the power of relentless solidarity." 

Speaker: Pastor Kyle Kraeft

Text: Colossians 4:7-18

Big Idea: Christ is all and in all so keep faith with all the faithful and continue co-working for the kingdom. 

1. Live in the Economy of Encouragement

True gospel encouragement points us to Jesus,  inspiring and igniting faith.

“Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth” (Col. 1:3-6). 

We need to have our VISION and VALUES radically shaped by the kingdom so that we joyfully give ourselves away in faithful service  

Mark 10:42-44. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

“We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. . . . If we seek strength, it lies in his dominion; if purity, in his conception; if gentleness, it appears in his birth. . . . If we seek redemption, it lies in his passion; if acquittal, in his condemnation; if remission of the curse, in his cross; if satisfaction, in his sacrifice; if purification, in his blood; if reconciliation, in his descent into hell; if mortification of the flesh, in his tomb; if newness of life, in his resurrection; if immortality, in the same; if inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom, in his entrance into heaven; if protection, if security, if abundant supply of all blessings, in his Kingdom; if untroubled expectation of judgment, in the power given to him to judge. In short, since rich store of every kind of good abounds in him, let us drink our fill from this fountain, and from no other.” - John Calvin

Speaker: Pastor Funmi Ojetayo 

I. Speaking to God About People (vv. 2–4)

II. Speaking to People About God (vv. 5–6)

Text: Colossians 3:22-4:1

Big idea: Christians do Christian work for Christ, heeding his rule and hoping in his resurrection.

Luke 4:18-21

Philemon 15-16

1. Have an obedient posture in Christ

2. Aim to please in Christ

3. Be great at your job in Christ

4. Work for rewards in Christ

1 Cor. 15:19

Philippians 2:5-11

Text: Colossians 3:18-21

Big idea - The resurrection life in Christ recasts our vision of how we live and love in our family relationships.

1 - Resurrection Marriage Relationships

2 - Resurrection Parenting Relationships