Northwest Church of Christ - San Antonio, TX

Work is something most all people have in common at some point in their lives.  Needless to say, work can be difficult and challenging.  There are many benefits and opportunities  in our jobs, but there are also many ways we can go astray. 

Welcome to our Back to School Blessing Sunday where we pray over all the students and teachers in our church family!  We are so thankful for the impact that teachers have on our kids and for the opportunity for each of us to learn through our younger generations.  We'll be learning about what these truest forms of teaching are this morning together.     

Our society has rules, both written and unwritten, about when and how we can talk about Christianity. Sometimes we go along with these rules and also shape the Christian message in ways that we hope will make it more acceptable to them. Doing these things may decrease the offense somewhat, but may also entail offending God! How do we navigate a good path between what people want and expect and what God has told us to do?

God created the concept of friendship in this world and left us with plenty of guidance throughout scripture on the matter.  Today we will explore how we can become better friends in the way He intended us to be.

It's easy for us to get our priorities out of order.  Even when we make Christianity the most important thing in our lives, we still sometimes focus on smaller aspects of it instead of the things that matter most.  What matters most about Christianity is...  

God is seeking to create one new humanity in Christ.  Jesus prayed that his followers would be one as he and his father are one, so that the world would know the father sent him.  Unity is really important to God and Jesus, but we struggle mightily to get along with others, even our brothers and sisters in Christ.  The solution....

The key to unity is not for us all to agree on everything.  Yes, we do agree on Jesus being our Lord and that he died for our sins and was raised from the dead.  There are some other central truths that we all believe and that help hold us together as well.  But once all that is settled, the next step toward unity is not to systematically discuss and decide the correct view on every possible issue.  Rather......

Forget Brexit!  What about Amerixit?  We Americans exited Great Britain centuries ago.  We had a holiday for that just last week.  And I know you well enough to know how you celebrated it:  You...

Eric Davenport, our missionary from Rwanda, Africa will be bringing us the message from Exodus 34:6-8 entitled Live The Name.

The world is complex and complicated.  Sometimes our attempt to live like Christ seems complicated as well.  In such times, some of the basics of following Jesus usually get overlooked, but reminding ourselves of those basics can be clarifying and helpful.  What is our basic outlook on others?