When Paul communicates to the church in Ephesus he implores them to recognize the evil days in which they're living, and to therefore "redeem the time."

The command to believers to answer, witness, and evangelize is predicated on the reality of our identity in Christ. Because we've been changed from darkness to light, we can live our lives a beacons of God's love.

Jesus commanded his disciples to the task of disciple making. Today we will hear from missionary Aaron Turner as he gives us a reminder of the need for intentionality in our obedience to Jesus' call.

Today as we continue in our series on missions called: Go to Everyone, we will see how our ability to serve on the mission field for Jesus is predicated on our maturity to live like Jesus towards one another. Before we can be peace bringers to the world we must learn to be peace makers in our churches.

The church is God's instrument for the advancement of His Kingdom and rule on the earth. However there are many places throughout the world where the children of God are not welcomed. In fact persecution, hatred, scorn, and arrests are commonplace for many of our brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Have you ever found it difficult to serve our Lord in this world? Take heart, because you are in good company with our Lord. The Word teaches that "friendship with the world is hatred towards God" (James 4:4), and that our true "citizenship is in heaven" (Philippians 2:20).

The central hope for the Christian is our future resurrection and the culmination of our salvation whereby our spirits are reunited with bodies crafted from incorruptibility in the resurrection of the dead. But all of this is firstly dependent upon one historical fact: the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

There are modern contributors to the church's ignorance of the most basic of truths of our faith, namely the hope of resurrection.  Today we will examine 3 major mistakes in our theology stemming from the contemporary influence of our culture that have hindered the church's hope.

1. Wherever He is that’s where I want to be

2. God will make a way

3. Our answer will come from Heaven

4. God can do the impossible

5. God keeps His promises

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death... For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.

How do we respond when we feel things are out of our control?  Why is it so difficult for us to remember that God is still in charge, despite our circumstances?