Shartel Church

We wrap up our series on Hebrews with a great challenge to stay focused on Jesus. If we focus on ourselves, we’ll get discouraged. If we focus on others, we’ll become jealous or disillusioned. Jesus is our goal, our model, and our coach. Let’s make sure we’re keeping our eyes on Jesus!

None of us got here by ourselves. There were people who went before us to pave the way. There were people who led us Christ, helped us grow in Christ, and were there for us along the way. Now, it’s our turn. We have the baton. This message will focus on what it means to run the race faithfully for those who are coming after us.

Faith is not just “a key” to our walk with God, it is The Key! It takes faith to open the door to God. It takes faith to stay connected to God. It takes faith to be obedient to God. In every part of our journey, faith is a necessary piece. This message will look at why faith is so important and why our faith is a “reasonable” faith!

There is great power in community. God designed us in such a way that we grow better, stay safer, avoid discouragement, and stay truer to our commitments when we do life TOGETHER! This message will examine the power of community and what it takes to make it work.

One of the challenges on our journey of faith is not allowing ourselves to become hard-headed or hard-hearted. This message will focus on listening to the voice of God and becoming immediately responsive to what God is saying. God will protect us and shape us if we keep our lives MOLDABLE!

Peter Pan was the storybook figure who determined that he would never grow up. Unfortunately, many Christians take that same approach to their walk with God. Though we will always be “children” to God, He doesn’t want us to remain immature. This message will focus on what it means to “grow up” in the faith.

The Hebrews writer challenges us to not hold back when we come before God. We can come confessing bold sins. We can come with bold praise. We can come before Him with bold requests. There God will meet us at our point of need.

We’re often overly hard on ourselves as we struggle because we think God expects MORE. We often forget that God became as human as we are and struggled with same of the same things we do. Though He was sinless, Jesus understands our struggles, fears, and temptations. We can go to Him because He “gets us.”

Let this blow your mind: There are no secrets. In a world of endless cameras and cell phones, most things you THINK aren’t seen usually are. But even if NO ONE sees and NO ONE knows, God knows. God sees our unspoken fears and our hidden sins. This message will look at how God calls us out of our “hiddenness” and into His Grace and Mercy. Whatever we’re facing, whatever we’re going through, God knows.

God’s Word is the most direct way that the Lord speaks to us. It is also the tool that God uses to help us see ourselves and change our attitudes and behaviors. Like a scalpel in the hands of a master surgeon, God uses His Word to remove the disease of sin and bring healing and wholeness to our lives.