Acts 2:41-47 If you love your church, you know what it feels like to walk through these doors and breathe a little easier. You know the feeling of hearing the Bible opened and thinking, “This is what I needed.” You know what it is to sing a hymn and feel your heart steady again. You know what it is to…

Psalm 1:1-3 James 1:12 Blessed: Radiating the joy of the Lord in life as a result of daily delighting in and meditating on God’s Word and living in harmony with its precepts. Everybody wants the blessed life. But most people define blessed as easy. They mean no stress. They mean no conflict. They mean…

Matthew 5:17-19 We are in a series called Strength for the Journey because God never meant for His people to run this Christian life on fumes. We get worn down. We face decisions, disappointments, temptations, distractions, and seasons that feel heavier than we expected. And the Lord’s promise is that…

Isaiah 6:1-8 Matthew 9:9 Available: Scheduling my priorities to fit the desires of God and others Most of us aren’t trying to disobey God. We’re just busy. And being busy has a way of becoming the boss. We don’t wake up and say, “I want to drift from God today.” But we do wake up and say, “Man, I have…

Luke 12:49-59 A young man once told me about cleaning out his father’s garage after the funeral In the back corner was an old toolbox he had seen a thousand times as a kid Inside the lid was a small envelope with his name on it He sat down on the concrete floor and opened it It was not money or documents…

Hosea 3:1–5 We have been going through the seven major sections of the Bible. We started with the Pentateuch Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. We went to the History Books:Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.…

Luke 12:35–48 Most people don’t mind the idea that Jesus is coming again. We say we believe it. We sing about it. We even say “Amen” when we hear it preached. But the real question is not whether we agree with the doctrine. The real question is whether that doctrine is shaping our Monday morning. We…

Here in Luke 12 , Jesus continues His teaching on stewardship by moving from stewardship with possessions to stewardship with perspective, from worry to worship, and from earthly treasure to eternal investment. A man in a church just like this one years ago said to his pastor, “Pastor, I don’t mind work,…

2 Chronicles 7:14-22 Our series is called Strength for the Journey because God does not strengthen us by giving us more hype, but by giving us more of Himself. Isaiah 40:31 says, 31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; They shall run,…

1 Chronicles 16:1–3 , 7 , 34 , 35–36 Definition: Appreciative — Expressing thanks to God and others for the ways they have blessed and served me. 1 Chronicles 16:1–3 (KJV) 1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices…