Few subjects make congregations brace like money, yet Jesus spoke about it more than nearly anything else. This message reframes the topic as a heart issue: if God has a person's relationship with possessions, he has a strong claim on the whole heart. Building from Genesis 1:27 , Proverbs 11 , 1 Timothy 6 , and Malachi 3 , the teaching argues that generosity is part of human design because people bear the image of a generous God, the giving God of John 3:16. Sin redirects that design toward selfishness. Five scriptural principles follow: put trust in God rather than uncertain wealth, draw financial wisdom from God's word, follow God's plan over our own, use worldly resources to advance the kingdom, and obey, trusting that God provides beyond need. The aim is treasure stored where it lasts.

Join us for our service as we worship together! If you're joining us, we'd love to hear from you! Connect with us, start a conversation about faith or baptism, share prayer requests and needs, ask us questions, or simply let us know you were here! Simply fill out an online Connect Card at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/people/forms/121584 Don't forget to prepare your family with prayer and getting together whatever you will be using to participate in communion. You can give online at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/giving, by texting any $ amount to 84321, or by mailing a check to 7037 E 117th, Ave, Crown Point, IN 46307. If you would like to support our local healthcare workers on the frontlines during this time, you can sign up for a slot to deliver them a meal at https://mealtrain.com/z1e21o or simply contribute what funds you can to do so at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/giving/to/outreach - Service Details–– Series: APEX (The Sermon on the Mount) Sermon Topic: PRAYER Sermon by Pastor Danny Cox. Communion meditation by Pastor of Worship Arts, Savannah Moore. Songs: "1000 Tongues" by Vertical Worship "You Cannot Be Stopped" by Phil Wickham & Chris Quilala "I Surrender" by All Sons & Daughters "King of Kings" by Hillsong Worship "Make Us One" by Jesus Culture - Click here to sign up for our weekly emails: https://mailchi.mp/9e62534aae6e/lifewell

Join us for our 9:30AM service as we worship together! If you're joining us, we'd love to hear from you! Connect with us, start a conversation about faith or baptism, share prayer requests and needs, ask us questions, or simply let us know you were here! Simply fill out an online Connect Card at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/people/forms/121584 Don't forget to prepare your family with prayer and getting together whatever you will be using to participate in communion. You can give online at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/giving, by texting any $ amount to 84321, or by mailing a check to 7037 E 117th, Ave, Crown Point, IN 46307. If you would like to support our local healthcare workers on the frontlines during this time, you can sign up for a slot to deliver them a meal at https://mealtrain.com/z1e21o or simply contribute what funds you can to do so at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/giving/to/outreach. Dads, we need your help with a special Mother's Day project! Please reach out to us on Facebook Messenger or send us an email at [email protected] as soon as possible. - Service Details–– Series: APEX (The Sermon on the Mount) Sermon Topic: BLESSEDNESS Sermon by Lance Hurley. Communion meditation by Pastor Danny Cox. Songs: "Let Our Faith Become A Mountain" by Jesus Culture "Nothing Else" by Cody Carnes "Forever Reign" by Hillsong Worship "Jesus Is Better" by Austin Stone Worship "It Is Well With My Soul" - Click here to sign up for our weekly emails: https://mailchi.mp/9e62534aae6e/lifewell

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes a startling claim: unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom. This study, anchored in Matthew 5:20 and following, explores why that landed like a thunderclap on its first hearers. Through Jesus' repeated pattern, "you have heard it said... but I tell you," the message works through murder, adultery, divorce, oaths, retaliation, and love of enemies. The recurring point is that the law was always a heart issue, and that the religious leaders had built loopholes around its true intent rather than fulfilling it. The application is that focusing on the command alone breeds justification, while focusing on the Commander reveals God's heart, calling believers to a kingdom-minded life that responds differently from the world.

Living blessed, this message argues, requires a radical mind shift. Where the Old Testament era often assumed hardship signaled God's absence, Jesus opened his greatest sermon by overturning that assumption. The text is the Beatitudes of Matthew 5 , read alongside Psalm 1 and Ephesians 4 . Poverty of spirit, mourning, and meekness are not obstacles to blessing but the very qualities Jesus calls blessed, running directly counter to a world that prizes self-promotion and accumulation. Two practical moves shape the application: battle the gravity of "normal" by putting off the old self when it creeps back, and embrace a new perspective by chasing the Father rather than things. Blessing, in this reading, follows the daily choices to think and focus as Jesus taught.

Join us for our service as we worship together! If you're joining us, we'd love to hear from you! Connect with us, start a conversation about faith or baptism, share prayer requests and needs, ask us questions, or simply let us know you were here! Simply fill out an online Connect Card at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/people/forms/121584 Don't forget to prepare your family with prayer and getting together whatever you will be using to participate in communion. You can give online at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/giving, by texting any $ amount to 84321, or by mailing a check to 7037 E 117th, Ave, Crown Point, IN 46307. If you would like to support our local healthcare workers on the frontlines during this time, you can sign up for a slot to deliver them a meal at https://mealtrain.com/z1e21o or simply contribute what funds you can to do so at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/giving/to/outreach. Dads, we need your help with a special Mother's Day project! Please reach out to us on Facebook Messenger or send us an email at [email protected] as soon as possible. - Service Details–– Series: APEX (The Sermon on the Mount) Sermon Topic: BLESSEDNESS Sermon by Lance Hurley. Communion meditation by Pastor Danny Cox. Songs: "Let Our Faith Become A Mountain" by Jesus Culture "Nothing Else" by Cody Carnes "Forever Reign" by Hillsong Worship "Jesus Is Better" by Austin Stone Worship "It Is Well With My Soul" - Click here to sign up for our weekly emails: https://mailchi.mp/9e62534aae6e/lifewell

"Son of Man" is the title that captures Jesus' humility, and his humility sets a precedent his followers are meant to walk in. Built around Luke 9:23 and Philippians 3, this message asks how anyone follows Jesus in genuine self-denial when the human pull is toward recognition and being right. The honest core is what we worship. Everyone worships something, and whatever is not God will eventually consume us, so the work is keeping the truth in front of us daily and training in godliness rather than drifting on autopilot. From there the message names four ways to apprentice under Jesus — as Savior, as teacher, as Lord, and as friend — and closes with the call to a "new automatic," a community shaped under pressure to bless rather than retaliate.

Join us as we worship together! If you're joining us, we'd love to hear from you! Connect with us, start a conversation about faith or baptism, share prayer requests and needs, ask us questions, or simply let us know you were here! Simply fill out an online Connect Card at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/people/forms/121584 Don't forget to prepare your family with prayer and getting together whatever you will be using to participate in communion. You can give online at https://lifewell.churchcenter.com/giving, by texting any $ amount to 84321, or by mailing a check to 7037 E 117th, Ave, Crown Point, IN 46307. - Service Details–– Sermon Topic: SON OF MAN Songs: "My Hallelujah" by Pat Barrett "Jesus We Love You" by Shane & Shane "What A Beautiful Name" by Hillsong Worship "More Like Jesus" by Passion "Move" by Jesus Culture Sermon by Discipleship Pastor, Andrew Wooldridge. Communion meditation by Pastor Danny Cox. - Click here to sign up for our weekly emails: https://mailchi.mp/9e62534aae6e/lifewell

The Bible is split into two testaments because a testament is a covenant — an agreement that defines how God and people relate. The old covenant came through Moses with the law, a high priest, and sacrifices repeated year after year, a system whose very repetition testified that it could not finally take away sin. This message argues that Jesus did not erase the law but fulfilled it, becoming the perfect atoning sacrifice and opening a new covenant in his blood. Responding to that covenant unfolds in a clear order: hearing the gospel, believing it by faith, repenting as a genuine 180 from self-rule, then public confession and baptism. Drawing on Acts 2:38, Romans 6, and Colossians 2, baptism is framed as believer's immersion — a deliberate, conscience-clear act that aligns a life with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.

One week past Easter, the question shifts from what happened to how do I respond . This full service pairs worship and a Communion meditation on Isaiah 53 with a teaching on entering the new covenant God offers through Christ. The message traces the move from the old covenant — the law, the high priest, the repeated sacrifices that exposed their own insufficiency — to the once-for-all atonement of Jesus. Faith comes first and is foundational; genuine repentance follows as a true turning of direction; then public confession and baptism, examined closely from Acts 2:38, Romans 6, and Colossians 2. Baptism is presented as immersion that pictures dying and rising with Christ, a believer's response made with a clear conscience, not a decision anyone can make on your behalf. The closing challenge is plain: take head knowledge into the heart, then act on it.