LifePoint Church Messages

Pastor Anthony continues our series, Summer in the Psalms. Psalm 19 teaches us that God is revealed through the magnificent beauty of creation and through the infinite wisdom of the Scriptures. Revelation leads us to reflection. Do our hearts and our words align with creation and Scripture as they point to and glorify God?

Pastor Anthony teaches on Psalm 6, a psalm of lament. Lament psalms invite us to take our grief, our frustrations, our doubts, our sin--all of who we are--to God in prayer. We can approach God with confidence on the basis of our relationship with God and the goodness of His character.

Anthony introduces the series looking at Book I of Psalms. Psalms 1 teaches us that wisdom pursues righteousness, our choices shape us, and the soil we are rooted in matters. Following God's righteous wisdom will allow us to thrive and bear fruit like a tree planted by life-giving streams of water.

Guest Speaker, Pastor Mike Cottrell, teaches on the parable of the lost coin, lost sheep, and prodigal sons. The Pharisees complained that Jesus associated with the tax collectors and "sinners." Their labels excluded them. Jesus had something to say about their excluding others based on their labels.

Pastor Anthony concludes the Acts series by looking at the brief story of Tabitha in Acts 9:36-43. God builds His Church through ordinary disciples living out the way of Jesus in their ordinary lives bearing witness to the extraordinary hope of Resurrection.

God builds his church by breaking down the dividing walls of hostility that exists between groups and people. Pastor Anthony looks at how God took Peter on a journey to overcome his bias and prejudice towards Gentiles. In Acts 10, Peter discovers that God's Good News about Messiah Jesus is for the Gentiles too.

Pastor Anthony continues the series looking at key themes in Acts. He teaches on the theme of signs and wonders. God builds his church through the Spirit empowering and moving in and through Jesus communities to do the unexplainable, but undeniable.

Pastor Anthony teaches on Acts 1:14, 2:1-4. The Holy Spirit is poured out on believers who are united in prayer, surrendered to Jesus, and aware of God's active presence all around them. How can we participate in the work the Spirit is doing in our day? What would it look like for us to keep Jesus as our unifying focus, pray more and more as a way of life, and live more surrendered and more aware of the Spirit?

Pastor Anthony kicks off our new series, Acts: How God Builds His Church. We look at Acts 1:1-9 and discover that Jesus calls his disciples to wait for the promise of the Spirit. We are not to do in our own power what God has promised to do by his Spirit's power. The Holy Spirit empowers believers to bear witness to Resurrection Hope!

Pastor Anthony reflects on the heaviness of local and national events by looking to the words of the prophet Habakkuk. From Habakkuk, we learn that God is not indifferent to injustice but will in fact make all things right. The righteous live faithfully in the meantime, cultivating the sort of environments that foster hope and healing.