Title: Remember, He Is Risen!

Text: 1 Corinthians 15:3-6

I. Remember God’s Love For You is Unchanging!

II. Remember The Gospel is Real! (1 Cor. 15:1-2)

III. Remember Because He Lives We Live! (1 Cor 15:57)

Title: New Wells in A Strange Place

Text: Genesis 26

1. A Strange Place (v.1)

2. GOOD NEWS - The Lord Appeared (v.2-3)

3. KEEP DIGGING! -GOD HAS SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR YOU (v.18-20, 22)

4. Build an Altar of Praise and Thanksgiving! (v.25)

Title: New Wells in A Strange Place

Text: Genesis 26

1. A Strange Place (v.1)

2. GOOD NEWS - The Lord Appeared (v.2-3)

3. KEEP DIGGING! -GOD HAS SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR YOU (v.18-20, 22)

4. Build an Altar of Praise and Thanksgiving! (v.25)

Title: Babylon-Exiled and Excluded, or Bless and Exalt?

Text: Jeremiah 29: 4-7, 11-14

Main Idea - God has a plan for us in exile, a plan to thrive by blessing in Babylon

I. What’s It Like Living in Babylon? (Jeremiah 29:4)

- Are we there yet?

- Doesn’t feel like home and we no longer are in control

- Excluded-Different Values and living on the margins

II. What Will We Do? (v. 5-7)

- Conform, Consume or Condemn?

- God has a better way…Bless, Create and Carry-on!

- Seek the welfare of the city! (Prov. 11:10-11)

III. Live in the Certainty of God’s Promises (v. 11-14)

- A Plan

- A Present

- A Future

Title: Lifetime Blessings- LOL!

Text: Deuteronomy 6:4-7, 10 and 12

Main Idea: God wants to bless your life and your children’s lives; His blessings come when we Listen to Him, Obey Him and, and Love Him.

I. Listen, Obey, Love God (Deut. 7:9,12-14)

II. Five Spheres For God to Bless (Deut. 10:12-13)

- The Gospel -His work for us-Be Transformed!

- The Church – Guaranteed ROI

- Your Family - (11:18-21)

- Your Life - (32:1-3) Generosity and Devotion to a purpose greater than ourselves

- Invest in Someone! (34:9)

III. Let it Rain! (Deut. 11:11-12-14)

Title: The Blessing of Relationships

Text: John 15:13-17

Big Idea: Friendship is the life blood of relationships

I. Solitude was the first problem in the garden not sin

“It is not good that man should be alone…” (Gen 2:18)

II. God speaks through people in our lives

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel (Proverbs 27:9)

The Definition of Friendship

III. A friend is someone you would be willing to go to the cross for

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

(John 15:13)

Title: Discovering Life’s Blessings

Text: Luke 17:11-19

Main Idea: See life’s blessings as a result of God’s grace

Life brings...

I. Challenges (17:11-12a)

II. Choices (17:12b-19)

Title: A Blessed Hope

Text: 1 Peter 3:8-12

Main Idea: In the face of suffering, believers are blessed by hope.

In the face of suffering, God gives us:

I. A Family (v.8)

II. A Call (v. 9)

III. A Hope (v. 10-12)