Small groups are not the answer but small groups can serve the purpose of the local church. Listen and discover what the purpose of the church is and how we must adopt something more than a “worship service” mentality.

Michael Durham outlines five problems that have converged to derail the church from its mission to make disciples and the four requirements of true discipleship.

The Apostle Paul uses the metaphor body for the church strategically. From the metaphor we can gain much insight on how the church of Jesus is to function. This message continues the series on what a community-centered church is.

We must abandon the traditional “event and location” definition of church and return to the New Testament paradigm of community. In this message we see why the necessity for this.

God gives us His blessings so that we may be caused to worship Him but He has another intention in His blessings—to make us holy as He is.

Most Christians do not see worship as a top priority. For the most part, worship is a Sunday morning event. But in this message, Michael Durham shares the huge importance of worship. It is the ultimate purpose for which we were created and redeemed.

Sadly, too many Christians only think about the Resurrection of our Lord on Easter, but the event is more significant than a holiday we celebrate once a year. The covenant of grace that God initiated on the cross of Christ is completed in by the resurrection of Jesus.

The natural and spiritual realms are two spheres of living for the Christian. In the story of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac we see how the two realms work in conjunction if the Christian will by faith bring the spiritual to bear upon the material. If you have to learn how to turn loose of your Ishmael.

The kingly humility of the Lamb is front and center in the heavenly scene of Revelation 5. God’s redemptive and judicatory plan is only worthy for Jesus to unfold and only after He had given His life as a sacrificial lamb.

There is a definite law of opposing principles. This law works in this manner, when you increase one principle the opposite principle decreases in the same degree. How this effects spiritual growth is the subject of this sermon.