Genesis 1:1Genesis 1:27Genesis 3:15Genesis 3:24

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

Big Idea: All our Longings Point to Jesus!

Romans 8:18

A person has to be thoroughly disgusted with the way things are to find the motivation to set out on the Christian way. As long as we think the next election might eliminate crime and establish justice or another scientific breakthrough might save the environment or another pay raise might push us over the edge of anxiety into a life of tranquility, we are not likely to risk the arduous uncertainties of the life of faith. A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she, acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

Romans 8:19

The whole creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight of the sons of God coming into their own.

Romans 8:20-21

Living without hope is no longer living. Hell is hopelessness and it is not for nothing that at the entrance of Dante’s hell there stands the words: ‘Abandon hope, all you who enter.’

Colossians 1:5aRomans 8:22

To get a picture of Heaven — which will one day be centered on the New Earth — you don’t need to look up at the clouds; you simply need to look around you and imagine what all this would be like without sin and death and suffering and corruption.

Romans 8:23Ephesians 1:13-14

Look Through the Longing For Christ.

Romans 8:23

Don’t Lose Hope for Home.

Romans 8:24-25

The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with better morals but to create a community of prophets and professional lovers, men and women who would surrender to the mystery of the fire of the Spirit that burns within, who would live in ever greater fidelity to the omnipresent Word of God, who would enter into the center of it all, the very heart and mystery of Christ, into the center of the flame that consumes, purifies, and sets everything aglow with peace, joy, boldness, and extravagant, furious love. This, my friend, is what it really means to be a Christian.

Big Idea: All our Longings Point to Jesus!

Jesus, I recognize that I am a sinner in need of Your forgiveness. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins. I want to turn away from my sins and place my trust in You as my Lord and Savior. Please receive me now. I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Big Idea: Jesus can change the temperature.

Revelation 3:142 Corinthians 1:18-20Revelation 3:15Revelation 3:16Revelation 3:17

Misunderstand Wealth: I am rich

Matthew 19:24

Wrong Standards: I have prospered

Matthew 16:24-26

Lost Dependence: I need nothing

Revelation 3:17

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of God to make me love my enemies or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation. I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.

Big Idea: Jesus can change the temperature.

Revelation 3:182 Corinthians 5:7Revelation 3:19Revelation 3:20

You and I are not integrated, unified, whole persons. Our hearts are multi-divided. There is a board room in every heart. Big table. Leather chairs. Coffee. Bottled water. Whiteboard. A committee sits around the table. There is the social self, the private self, the work self, the sexual self, the recreational self, the religious self, and others. The committee is arguing and debating and voting. Constantly agitated and upset. Rarely can they come to a unanimous, wholehearted decision. We tell ourselves we’re this way because we’re so busy with so many responsibilities. The truth is, we’re just divided, unfocused, hesitant, unfree. That kind of person can “accept Jesus” in either of two ways. One way is to invite him onto the committee. Give him a vote too. But then he becomes just one more complication. The other way to “accept Jesus” is to say to him, “My life isn’t working. Please come in and fire my committee, every last one of them. I hand myself over to you. I am your responsibility now. Please run my whole life for me.” “Accepting Jesus” is not just adding Jesus. It is also subtracting the idols.

Revelation 3:21-22

Big Idea: Jesus can change the temperature.

Only one life,’Twill soon be past;Only what’s doneFor Christ will last.

Jesus, I recognize that I am a sinner in need of Your forgiveness. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins. I want to turn away from my sins and place my trust in You as my Lord and Savior. Please receive me now. I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Let go and let God.Bless your heart.On fire for God.Jesus is my copilot.God will never give you more than you can handle.God helps those who help themselves.Quiet time.Hedge of protection.

God opens a door.

LFG: “Let’s Faith’n Go!!!” – Camille Gabel

Revelation 3:7

Revelation 1:18

Jesus, save the lost and guide the saved.

Revelation 3:8

I have but one passion: it is Christ. It is Christ alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

Invite people to Jesus.Invite people to Church.

The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.

Revelation 3:8

Acts 18:9-10

Revelation 3:9

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

Philippians 2:9-11

Revelation 3:10

1 Peter 1:4-5

Revelation 3:11

Revelation 3:12

Revelation 3:13

Invite people to Jesus.Invite people to Church.

Screen Jesus, I recognize that I am a sinner in need of Your forgiveness. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins. I want to turn away from my sins and place my trust in You as my Lord.

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Proverbs 22:1

Revelation 3:1

Revelation 3:2

Decline in Church attendance Spiritual Consumerism

Mark 10:45

Cynicism towards the ChurchDisconnected from relationshipsLack of concern for the lost

Revelation 3:3

Screen Wake up!StrengthenRememberKeepRepent

Revelation 3:4

Revelation 3:5

Revelation 3:6

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Revelation 2:18

James 2:17-18

Ephesians 2:8-9

Ephesians 2:10

Revelation 2:19

The church of Thyatira understood that the Christian life is a life of growth, of progress, of development.

Spiritually DeadSpiritual InfantSpiritual ChildSpiritual Young AdultSpiritual Parent

Revelation 2:20

Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

Revelation 2:20

If the devil cannot destroy the church by persecution or heresy, he will try to corrupt it with evil.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8

Revelation 2:21

Revelation 2:22-23

Revelation 2:24

Romans 6:1-2

Revelation 2:25

Revelation 2:26a

Ephesians 2:10

Revelation 2:26-27

Matthew 28:18-20

Revelation 2:28

Jesus, I recognize that I am a sinner in need of Your forgiveness. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins. I want to turn away from my sins and place my trust in You as my Lord and Savior. Please receive me now. I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Revelation 2:12

Revelation 2:13

Convictions

Revelation 2:13

A conviction is a determinative belief: something you believe so strongly that it affects the way you live.

Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip. We would not know who we are but for these bedrock beliefs, and without them we would not know how to lead.

Revelation 2:13

One will never know if what motivates us is moral conviction or moral convenience until we are forced to suffer loss for standing our ground or keeping our word.

Matthew 10:28

80% of all acts of religious discrimination in the world today are directed against Christians.

90% of all people killed on the basis of religious beliefs in the world today are Christians.

100,000 to 150,000 new Christian martyrs every year.

Revelation 14:13

Compromise

Revelation 2:14-15

Numbers 24:9b

2 Timothy 4:3-4

Isaiah 5:20

Romans 12:2

Committed

Revelation 2:16

Revelation 2:17a

1 John 5:4-5

Revelation 2:17

Jesus, I recognize that I am a sinner in need of Your forgiveness. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins. I want to turn away from my sins and place my trust in You as my Lord and Savior. Please receive me now. I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Revelation 2:8-11

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Revelation 2:1

Revelation 1:20

Revelation 2:2-3Serve

Mark 10:45

Matthew 25:23SufferScripture

Revelation 2:6

Revelation 2:4

Matthew 22:37-40

Revelation 2:4

1 Corinthians13:1-7

James 2:18-19

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

When we are living at our best, with all our energies focused, all our abilities alert and involved, doing what we were created to do, we love. Yet there is another aspect to this consensus. That no matter what else we do—no matter if we come home with the Olympic gold or make a million dollars or pioneer the exploration of space or move the world with some artistic performance or discover the cure to cancer—if we do not love, it is not satisfactory.

Revelation 2:5RememberRepentReturn

Revelation 2:7

Revelation 5:5

Revelation 12:11

For love is not what we do after we get the other things done, if we have any energy left over. Love is what we do, period. It is not how we work; it is our work. Other things can support it, they can grow out of it, and they can lead up to it. But if we don’t love, we aren’t doing what we were created and saved to do.

John 16:33

Jesus, I recognize that I am a sinner in need of Your forgiveness. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins. I want to turn away from my sins and place my trust in You as my Lord and Savior. Please receive me now. I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Revelation 1:12

Revelation 1:11

Revelation 1:20

Revelation 1:13

1 Corinthians 3:16

1 Peter 2:5

Daniel 7:13

Revelation 1:13

Hebrews 7:25

Revelation 1:14

Revelation 1:15

Revelation 1:16

Hebrews 4:12

Hebrews 12:11

Revelation 1:17-20

Lord of All (Revelation 1:17)

Lord of Life and Death (Revelation 1:18)Lord of the Church (Revelation 1:20)

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a mad man or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.

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Revelation 1:9

Social disconnection correlates to an increased risk of premature death comparable to smoking up to fifteen cigarettes every day.

Revelation 1:9

1 Timothy 3:12-13

1 Peter 4:12-16

Contrary to some modern ‘prosperity’ teaching, membership of Christ’s kingdom does not shield us from suffering—rather, for John and his readers, membership of the kingdom was the cause of their suffering.

Acts 14:21-22

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Revelation 1:9

Romans 5:3-5

Revelation 1:10

Revelation 1:11

What does Jesus want to strengthen in my life?

What does Jesus want me to surrender?

1 Corinthians 11:27

1 Corinthians 11:28

1 Corinthians 11:29

1 Corinthians 11:30

1 Corinthians 11:31-32

Jesus, I recognize that I am a sinner in need of Your forgiveness. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins. I want to turn away from my sins and place my trust in You as my Lord and Savior. Please receive me now. I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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