Jesus is brought to you by the sovereign will of God. Without the sovereignty of God, there is no baby in a manger. Christmas means that God has used His sovereign power to enter into human suffering to remove it.

Holiness is an attribute of God, but it also characterizes all of His other attributes. The aim of this 3 week advent series is not to put God in tidy categories for you. Actually, the goal is the opposite. It is to lead us into being in awe of God.

Our society’s primary motive right now is fear. But Acts tells us a different story about how we should handle fear, specifically the fear of persecution. Jesus tells us—and the early church shows us—that when we face persecution, our hardest day can simultaneously be our greatest day.

Stephen had a revelation that had become the theological foundation of the New Testament Church. But it was this same revelation that got Stephen killed. Stephen bore witness to Jesus before the mob, and Jesus stood to bear witness to him before heaven.

If you look at your life, how you spend your time, talent, and treasure – is it characterized by serving? The advancement of the Kingdom of God requires no money and no talent. It only requires the Holy Spirit and willing servants.

Jesus is redefining what it means to be a disciple. The higher your authority, the fewer rights you possess. The peak position of the Christian is servant.

In order to join God in His mission, we don’t just need His heart. We need His power. Clark Beck shares about what it looks like to be filled with the Spirit—and to be filled over and over again—so that we can take the gospel to the nations.

Christianity is a message, with content that is expressed in words. We are right to be concerned about our lives matching our message. But it is not enough to live it, if we are not willing to say it.

Message from Ben Cotten on October 27, 2024

The apostles were more concerned with being faithful to Jesus than they were with establishing a more comfortable life in Jerusalem. This drove them to pray, and it set the agenda of their prayers.

When we know who we are in Christ, it empowers us to put off our old selves and become the new creations that God has redeemed us to be. But what does it look like to walk this out practically, day by day?