The Backstory | Week 5 | Gold in the Seams | Pastor Karina Torres | Life Center Tacoma

Creation | Covenant | Chains | Crown | Collapse

God doesn't just REPAIR what's broken, He TRANSFORMS it.

God entered into the brokenness

God formulated a plan of a hope and a future

Jeremiah 29:11 (CSB)

God created a way where we could have a deeper relationship with Him

Jeremiah 29:12-14 (CSB)

God made a way where his spirit would dwell in us

Ezequiel 36:26-28 (CSB)

Acts 2:1-4 (CSB)

Romans 8:11 (CSB)

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (CSB)

There is nothing too broken that God cannot transform

Only with God there is gold in the seams

The Inevitability of the Flood | Pastor Brandon Beals | Life Center Tacoma

Genesis 4:25-26 (NIV)

Genesis 6:5-6 (NIV)

The Flood is Coming!

Genesis 5:3-24 (NIV)

Hebrews 11:5 (NIV)

Jude 1:14-15 (NIV)

Genesis 5:29 (NIV)

Ephesians 1:4 (NIV)

The Backstory | Week 3 | Chains | Pastor Eric Boles | Life Center Tacoma

Delivered…not yet free

Exodus 14:12-13 (CSB)

Connection not just correction

Romans 7:19, 24-25 (CSB)

Romans 8:35-39 (CSB)

The Burden of Freedom

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (CSB)

The Backstory | Week 2 | Lopsided In Our Favor | Pastor Doug Myers | Life Center Tacoma

Genesis 12:1-3 (CSB)

God CALLS

God COVENANTS

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18a (CSB)

God COMPLETES it IN CHRIST

Mark 15:33-34 (CSB)

Isaiah 53:8b (CSB)

The Backstory | Week 1 | Where It All Started | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma

Have you ever noticed how hard it is to have CLARITY when you lack CONTEXT?

The Bible is one UNIFIED STORY that leads us to JESUS.

Genesis 1:1 (CSB)

The story STARTS with GOD, not with ME.

CREATOR

Genesis 1:1 (CSB)

CREATION

Genesis 1:31 (CSB)

COMMISION

Genesis 1:26-28 (CSB)

Genesis 2:15 (CSB)

CRASH

Genesis 3:4-7 (CSB)

The GOOD NEWS starts in Genesis.

God CALLS

Genesis 3:8-9 (CSB)

God COVERS

Genesis 3:21 (CSB)

God COMMITS

Genesis 3:14-15 (CSB)

The God who CREATES will also RE-CREATE.

Ezekiel 36:26 (CSB)

Jesus is the one who can TRANSFORM OUR STORY.

Does It Really Work? | Week 5 | Finding Joy In Obedience | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma

John 14:15 (CSB)

Obedience isn't LEGALISM

Obedience is LOVE

1 Samuel 15:13-22 (CSB)

Step One: LISTEN

Step Two: SURRENDER

Step Three: RESPOND

2 John 1:6 (CSB)

Walking the path of obedience will not always be CONVENIENT or COMFORTABLE - but it always leads to the right DESTINATION.

Does It Really Work? | Week 4 | Does Forgiveness Really Work? | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma

Forgiveness isn't a FEELING

“Forgiveness is granted (often a good while) before it is felt—not felt before it is granted. It is a promise to not exact the price of sin from the person who hurt you."

"If you wait to feel it before you grant it, you’ll never grant it; you’ll be in an anger prison.”

-Tim Keller

Colossians 3:12-13 (CSB)

For a Jesus follower, FORGIVENESS isn't OPTIONAL

Forgiveness is HARD WORK because it is HEART WORK

Matthew 18:21-35 (CSB)

Forgiveness is not the same as RESTORATION

Amos 3:3 (CSB)

The PRICE of forgiveness is FREE and the PRODUCT of forgiveness is FREEDOM

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

-Tim Keller

Does It Really Work? | Week 3 | Does Prayer Really Work? | Pastor Tasha Myers | Life Center Tacoma

Prayer moves mountains and prayer moves me

PRAY: Praise. Repent. Ask. Yield.

Prayer builds relationship

Matthew 7:7-8 (CSB)

Paradigm of prayer: request vs. relationship

Prayer builds faith and prayer builds trust

Mark 11:23-25 (CSB)

Prayer doesn't change God, it changes me

Matthew 6:5-15 (CSB)

Prayer is a heart FOR HIM, not what I can get FROM HIM.

“Prayer is a steady state of awareness of Father, Son and Spirit creating a constant seamless union with heart and mind with the almighty that shifts earthly perspective, plans and purposes as heaven becomes visible on earth.” - Louie Giglio

Does It Really Work? | Week 3 | Does Prayer Really Work? | Pastor Tasha Myers | Life Center Tacoma

Prayer moves mountains and prayer moves me

PRAY: Praise. Repent. Ask. Yield.

Prayer builds relationship

Matthew 7:7-8 (CSB)

Paradigm of prayer: request vs. relationship

Prayer builds faith and prayer builds trust

Mark 11:23-25 (CSB)

Prayer doesn't change God, it changes me

Matthew 6:5-15 (CSB)

Prayer is a heart FOR HIM, not what I can get FROM HIM.

“Prayer is a steady state of awareness of Father, Son and Spirit creating a constant seamless union with heart and mind with the almighty that shifts earthly perspective, plans and purposes as heaven becomes visible on earth.” - Louie Giglio

Does It Really Work? | Week 2 | Does The Church Still Work? | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma

Matthew 16:18 (CSB)

Matthew 28:18-20 (CSB)

Our Mission: Bring life in Jesus to every life in our communities.

The Church is HOPE for a HURTING world

Two ways the Church "Doesn't Work"...

When it becomes CONTENT we CONSUME but not a CALLING we LIVE

James 1:22 (CSB)

Two ways the Church "Doesn't Work"...

When we improperly elevate our INDIVIDUALITY above our calling to CONNECTION and BIBLICAL COMMUNITY

The Church is a collection of IMPERFECT people, RESCUED by a perfect God, CALLED to join His mission as He continues to GROW and TRANSFORM them.

Acts 2:42-47 (CSB)

The Church is a BRIDE we are BECOMING

The Church is a BODY we BELONG to

The Church STILL WORKS because Jesus is STILL AT WORK