Speaker: Pastor Funmi Ojetayo 

Big Idea:
 God grows His people to maturity through faithful ministry and gospel community, where Christ is proclaimed, love is displayed, and assurance is firmly laid. 

I. The Goal: Maturity in Christ for All God’s People (1:28b)

II. The Method: Proclaiming the Mystery with Suffering and Toil (1:24–27, 29)

III. The Result: Gospel Communities (2:1–5)

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes

Text: Colossians 1:15-23

Big idea: Since the Christ we confess is sovereign over all and his work is sufficient for all, we must hold fast to him through it all.

I. Who Christ Is

A) Christ is Truly God

B) Christ is Supremely Great 

II. What Christ Accomplishes

A) Christ's Work Propitiates

B) Christ's Work Purifies

C) Christ's Work Perseveres

Text: Colossians 1:1-14

1. A Church Worth Emulating

2. A Prayer Worth Lifting

3. A Salvation Worth Savoring

Speaker: Kyle Kraeft

“Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Matt. 24:42-44).

BIG IDEA: Jesus is Returning to bring Glorious Restoration, so be Roused to Readiness and Renewal

I. Be Roused to Readiness for the Day of the Lord 

13.  The Restoration of All Things. We believe in the personal, glorious, and bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ with his holy angels, when he will exercise his role as final Judge, and his kingdom will be consummated. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust—the unjust to judgment and eternal conscious punishment in hell, as our Lord himself taught, and the just to eternal blessedness in the presence of him who sits on the throne and of the Lamb, in the new heaven and the new earth, the home of righteousness. On that day the church will be presented faultless before God by the obedience, suffering and triumph of Christ, all sin purged and its wretched effects forever banished. God will be all in all and his people will be enthralled by the immediacy of his ineffable holiness, and everything will be to the praise of his glorious grace.

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.” (2 Cor. 5:10)

2 Cor. 4:16-18 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

II. Be Readied through Renewal in the Delight of the Lord

(APPLICATION)

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes

Text: Luke 22:14-20

Article 12: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe that baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordained by the Lord Jesus himself. The former is connected with entrance into the new covenant community, the latter with ongoing covenant renewal. Together they are simultaneously God’s pledge to us, divinely ordained means of grace, our public vows of submission to the once crucified and now resurrected Christ, and anticipations of his return and of the consummation of all things. 

Big Idea: The Lord's table is where God's re-storied and reconciled people remember, receive and reharse what God has provided and promised in Christ. 

1. We are Re-storied

2. We are Reconciled

Jeremiah 31:31-34

3. We are Remembering

4. We are Receiving

1 Cor. 10:16

5. We are Rehearsing 

Speaker: Funmi Ojetayo

TITLE: Beholding the Baptism of Jesus

What Jesus' baptism teaches about baptism: 

1. A Command to Obey (v. 15)

2. A Cleansing by Immersion (v. 16)

3. A Confession of Faith (vv. 6, 11a)

4. A Covenant Union with Christ (v. 15)

5. A Celebration of the Trinity (vv. 16-17)

Respond:

Speaker: Joshua Hughes

Article 11: God’s New People. We believe that God’s new covenant people have already come to the heavenly Jerusalem; they are already seated with Christ in the heavenlies. This universal church is manifest in local churches of which Christ is the only Head; thus each “local church” is, in fact, the church, the household of God, the assembly of the living God, and the pillar and foundation of the truth. The church is the body of Christ, the apple of his eye, graven on his hands, and he has pledged himself to her forever. The church is distinguished by her gospel message, her sacred ordinances, her discipline, her great mission, and, above all, by her love for God, and by her members' love for one another and for the world. Crucially, this gospel we cherish has both personal and corporate dimensions, neither of which may properly be overlooked. Christ Jesus is our peace: he has not only brought about peace with God, but also peace between alienated peoples. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both Jew and Gentile to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. The church serves as a sign of God’s future new world when its members live for the service of one another and their neighbors, rather than for self-focus. The church is the corporate dwelling place of God’s Spirit, and the continuing witness to God in the world.

Big Idea: Since we are not our own but we belong to Jesus and to one another, we find our place and purpose with God in the community of his church.

1. What we are

2. What we do

Speaker: Joshua Hughes

Text: 2 Corinthians 9:1-15

Matthew 6:21

Matthew 6:24

Mark 10:23

Hosea 4:6

2 Cor. 8:2-4

We aim in generosity to be: 

Speaker: Greg Hutchins

Passage: Matthew 4:12-25

Big Idea: Receive and run after the rule of God because his kingdom restores shalom in us and through us.

We believe that those who have been saved by the grace of God through union with Christ by faith and through regeneration by the Holy Spirit enter the kingdom of God and delight in the blessings of the new covenant: the forgiveness of sins, the inward transformation that awakens a desire to glorify, trust, and obey God, and the prospect of the glory yet to be revealed. Good works constitute indispensable evidence of saving grace. Living as salt in a world that is decaying and light in a world that is dark, believers should neither withdraw into seclusion from the world, nor become indistinguishable from it: rather, we are to do good to the city, for all the glory and honor of the nations is to be offered up to the living God. Recognizing whose created order this is, and because we are citizens of God’s kingdom, we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, doing good to all, especially to those who belong to the household of God. The kingdom of God, already present but not fully realized, is the exercise of God’s sovereignty in the world toward the eventual redemption of all creation. The kingdom of God is an invasive power that plunders Satan’s dark kingdom and regenerates and renovates through repentance and faith the lives of individuals rescued from that kingdom. It therefore inevitably establishes a new community of human life together under God.

1) Kingdom Declaration

"God's rule through God's people over God's place." -Jeremy Treat

2) Kingdom Demonstration

-3 dimensions of the Kingdom:

3) Kingdom Consummation

Speaker: Joshua Hughes

Text: Romans 8:1-17

Artcile 9: The Power of the Holy Spirit. We believe that this salvation, attested in all Scripture and secured by Jesus Christ, is applied to his people by the Holy Spirit. Sent by the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ, and, as the other Paraclete, is present with and in believers. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and by his powerful and mysterious work regenerates spiritually dead sinners, awakening them to repentance and faith, and in him they are baptized into union with the Lord Jesus, such that they are justified before God by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. By the Spirit’s agency, believers are renewed, sanctified, and adopted into God’s family; they participate in the divine nature and receive his sovereignly distributed gifts. The Holy Spirit is himself the down payment of the promised inheritance, and in this age indwells, guides, instructs, equips, revives, and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

Big idea - The Holy Spirit lives in us to lead us all the way home, so we must learn to listen to and lean on his leading as we walk with him. 

II. The Fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:16-25

III. Our Future With the Spirit