June 23, 2024 

First impressions are made by the first things we encounter – the way a person looks, the things they say, what they tell us about themselves. From these first impressions, we make judgements about a person – who they are, what they’re like, what they believe. This is how we humanly make judgments about people. In Scripture, we see that God uses a very different set of datapoints to draw conclusions about people.

Scriptures we dive into today: 
Acts 13:19-23, 1 Samuel 16:6-7, 1 Samuel 16:10-13, 1 Samuel 17:24-27, 1 Samuel 17:32-37, 1 Samuel 17:45-50

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June 16, 2024 

Compromising our character negatively impacts our relationship with God. As we will see in the life of King Saul, he trades his character on the open market and it greatly impacts his relationship with God. A failed king shows us the importance of valuing our character!

Scriptures we dive into today: 1 Samuel 13:14-18, 1 Samuel 14:24-30, 1 Samuel 15:22-28

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June 9, 2024 

As the Israelites faced another transition in leadership they came up with a practical and rational solution. However a heart check revealed they were turning away from God in their search for a king. Transitions in our life are often upsetting times. Changes in government, students going off to college or moving out, job changes or retirement can leave us facing problems in need of solutions. Without God our solutions can be worse than our problems.

Scriptures we dive into today: 

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June 2, 2024 

We’re starting a brand-new series called In Search of the King. We will be digging into the books of 1st and 2nd Samuel to explore Israel’s desire for an earthly king while also trying to better understand what we can learn about our own faith.

Scriptures we dive into today: John 18:36-37, Judges 21:25, 1 Samuel 1:11, 1 Samuel 2:35, 1 Samuel 3:9, Psalms 51:16-17, 1 Samuel 4:1-11, 1 Samuel 4:19-22

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May 26, 2024 

“Work out your salvation…for it is God who works in you…” This is the great paradox of God producing the fruit of the Spirit in our lives: It’s done miraculously by his grace and yet we also have a part in the labor. As we tap into the resources He’s given us, we see growth, however small. As we participate in His work in the world, we see amazing results. We can’t do it on our own, and yet God continually invites us to be a part of it.

Scriptures we dive into today: Philippians 2:12-13, John 10:10, Acts 2:42, Acts 2:47, John 6:5-10

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May 19, 2024 

We’ve all experienced great fruit, the kind of fruit that tastes better than candy – and it’s good for you. We all had that piece of fruit that has your mouth begging for another bite. The perfect watermelon at the peak of summer. Berries right off the bush that are so perfectly ripe, the juice runs down your arm. The banana that is the perfect yellow, not too green and no brown spots. The apple that is the perfect blend of sweet and tart! Fruit is the perfect way to describe what the Spirit produces in our faith.

Scriptures we dive into today: 1 Timothy 6:17-1, Galatians 5:22-26, Matthew 10:42, John 10:10

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May 12, 2024 

Just like a flower produces a sweet fragrance, our acts of sacrifice produce a sweet aroma; that smells a lot like Jesus. The fruit of the Spirit produces the sweet aroma of Christ through our sacrificial service for the good of others. What gets in the way is our flesh. When our flesh gets involved. because we act selfishly, because we want to get something in return, because we’re serving for the wrong reasons; then our sacrifice starts to take on a foul smell.

Scriptures we dive into today: 2 Corinthians 2:14-16
Galatians 5:16-21; John 15:1-3

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May 5, 2024

May 5, 2024 Hobby gardens have grown over the last several years. It’s amazing what kind of yield people are able to get from these little suburban farms. Nobody plants a garden without expecting some kind of return, to yield something from their work. Scripture draws on a lot of images from agriculture, like producing spiritual fruit in our life. If we expect to yield fruit from a garden, then shouldn’t we look for spiritual fruit from our faith?

Scriptures we dive into today: Matthew 7:20; Luke 8:11-15

John 12:20-26

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April 28, 2024 

If we want to surrender our will, our control, and our life, then we will need to surrender our pride. Our pride works against us, causing us to believe we’re not really in need. That we’re really doing much better than we are. A huge barrier to surrendering to God is our pride – because we think we know better. We have trouble yielding as we believe the lie, “did God really say?” We fall for the deception that we are the exception to God’s law.

Scriptures we dive into today: Philippians 1:6, 2 Chronicles 26:5, 2 Chronicles 26:16, Luke 18:9-14

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April 21, 2024 

Following Jesus requires Christians to give up our right to own our life.“Denying yourself” is a key part to being a disciple of Jesus, to Follow Jesus. It requires us to obey Jesus as our King, not simply saying Jesus is the Christ, Jesus is Lord. But actually living it. Denying yourself requires submitting ourselves, our goals, our desires, and our plans to Christ.

Scriptures we dive into today: Philippians 3:7-8, Matthew 16:24-28

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