If you want to know if you’re really living your best life ask yourself if you could stand repeating the life you live now over and over and over without changing a thing. Saving nothing for the next life means learning to live a life that’s worth reproducing. In week one of this series we will be introduced to the idea that living a last arrow life means learning to be a disciple of Jesus.

When the body of a local carpenter goes missing the entire community is in an uproar. As the government scrambles to find answers, and friends of the deceased flood the community with conspiracy theories, everyone is looking to get to the bottom of this dilemma. In the final week of this series we will explore the strangest of all Christian beliefs, that a dead man returned to life and changed the history of how the world sees God.

The disciple Judas, will forever be known as the disciple that betrayed Jesus. His story is both scandalous and strange, considering that Jesus KNEW that Judas would have him killed. But what if that one moment in history was looked at as less of a betrayal by Judas, and more of a display of the unlimited power that Jesus has to love those who are too limited to love him. In this message we will examine the truth about how much Jesus loves humanity and how it was his affection and a strange and scandalous thing called grace that led to him being killed on a cross.

Why do bad things happen to good people? The answer is easy. Bad things don’t happen to good people because “good” people don’t exist. In week one of this series we will explore the strange Christian idea that no one is actually good. In fact, because of sin not only are there no “good” people, there are also no alive people. We are all dead, but the good news is the story isn’t done.

Christianity in the 1st Century faced insurmountable obstacles that by all intents and purposes should have destroyed the people and the mission of Jesus’s earliest followers. Yet somehow thousands of years later and thousands of miles away from where these events originally took place, we know about the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus. How did Christianity survive? How did the church grow from being a local gathering to a global faith? In this fourth and final week of this series we will examine one simple statement made thousands of years ago that explains it all and at the same time encourages us to continue the mission today.

Pastor Lamar gives us the 4 habits of healthy worship for Christians.

“Extraordinary achievement is less about talent that it is about opportunity.”-Malcolm Gladwell

Jesus once told a story about three servants that all had a part to play in helping their master grow his business. In the end the one who didn’t participate paid a hefty price. In week two of this series we will examine what our personal role is in playing a part of God’s big picture plans to advance his kingdom and why every church needs every member to do everything they can to win everyone we can.

What makes a church successful? Is it planning? Is it processes and procedures? The reality is that no plan or procedure can be successful without passion. In week three of this series we will examine Paul’s message to his protégé Timothy about the necessity for passion when preaching the gospel and building a successful ministry. Reaching people for Jesus takes more than faith it also takes a red hot passion to teach others about Jesus.

The book of Acts records the most memorable moments and movements of the early ministry of the local church. While the 1st century church did not have all of the tools and technology that the 21st century church has at its disposal, the early church did have one slight advantage. They were determined to fill the city with the gospel. In week one of this series we will discover what made the early church so determined and how we can recapture that passion.