An introduction to the Book of Jude.  Jude doesn't seek to make the Gospel palatable, he calls us to understand and accept it as it is.  He speaks to those who are loved, called, and kept by Jesus.

How do we make decisions?  Steps in determining God's will.

The Christian Life is one of trust, but not just trust for salvation into heaven someday, trust for the strength, help, and hope of God in our lives each and every day. Learn to live with God daily.

We can work so hard "for God", but find ourselves empty.  The beginning of preparing for the work is found in learning what it means to be with God in regular relationship. 

More lessons from Jesus' teaching. Today, we consider the ripe harvest fields and the Christian's call to work in those harvest fields.  We consider a very practical model of CPR (original to Sonlife Ministries) - Cultivating, Planting, Reaping in seeking to draw people into Christ's Kingdom.

Drawn from Jesus Matthew 13 parables, today's study considers factors of failure to grow into living faith as well as the importance of bearing fruit.

God often doesn't call the people we would expect -- the rich, the famous, the influential -- like sports figures, Hollywood or Nashville stars, nor powerful politicians.  God displays His power through common, everyday, ordinary, garden-variety folk like you and me.

Jesus instructs us that we are to add flavor and color to the world in which we live by being Salt and Light, and He also instructs us that we are called to a higher standard than what the law called us to.  The law dealt with the externals, but Life in Christ deals with the internals.

Living the Christian life often means living life the opposite of the ways this world says we should live - a look at the Beattitudes in Matthew 5,

When you have the chance to share Christ evangelistically or in a discipling relationship, what do you share?  Looking at 1 John 1:1-5 and Acts 1:1-5 we conclude that we share what we know if we want to live as the disciple-makers God has called us to be.