The Fold

We are back! Thank you all for supporting us by listening wherever you find your podcasts in 2024! We are so excited to kick off our new message series: A Letter to Leaders, where Ryan is going to take us through Paul's letter to Titus. His three points this week are:

1. God has called you to lead
2. Good leaders serve first
3. Good leaders are gospel centered

In this holiday season, you will get opportunities to share your faith. Sometimes, you will have a great, comfortable conversations and other times you won't. You could tell that they weren't comfortable or maybe that they just weren't going to listen to what you have to share. That is going to happen. Ryan is going to take us through three points that highlight how we should respond in those situations.

1. Praise God in Persecution.
2. Patiently await God's perfect timing.
3. Pursue people persistently.

We are headed into the holiday season! This week, Ryan Hughes, Senior Pastor at FBC Macks Creek in Southern Missouri is covering with us what preparation and strategy looks like when we share the Gospel with our friends and family this holiday season. His points are:

1. Know yourself.
2. Know your people.
3. Know the bridge.
4. Know the Gospel.

We are headed into the holiday season! We have people we are looking forward to catching up with... and maybe others that we aren't. We get that. But, we have a topic that you can share with both of those people: The Gospel of Jesus Christ! Ryan covers these three topics this week:

1. Witnessing requires preparation.
2. Witnessing has different presentations.
3. Witnessing relies on God's intervention.

We have an exciting episode for you! We took the opportunity to answer questions from the members of the Fold, inviting some great leaders to share biblical insights and wisdom with the young adults here in Saint Joseph.

A special thanks to Zach Williamson for joining us in worship, and to Mason Smith, the Young Adult Pastor & Creative Director at Renovation Church, for spending the evening with us and offering valuable contributions throughout the night!

We have seen over Exodus, the Israelites continue to show our sinful tendencies. We have an interesting perspective on how they have acted through our Exodus series. "How did they fall for that?" is a constant stance we take when we see large groups of people blatantly disobeying God. But we are wrapping up how we can turn that perspective back at ourselves and our sinful nature.

Ryan takes us through these three points:

1. Everyone worships something.
2. Exclusive worship is essential.
3. Jesus intercedes for you.

God says that he will provide in our every need. But it doesn't always feel that way. You may not get that car one day, or that house, or that relationship. So we ask "You say you provide, but I don't have ___". Ryan takes us through that sort of thinking and how we can recognize in all of the ways God has provided for us.

1. Delight in God's delivery.
2. Depend on God daily.
3. Do what God directs.

There are so many devices in this world that aim to grab all of our attention and plan to keep it. Enslaving young people into pornography, perception management, relationships, materialism, anger, pride, and we are sure you can think of more. Ryan outlines these four topics tonight:

1. God's command come with a purpose
2. Sin always comes with a price.
3. Jesus is our protector.
4. Proclaim what the Lord has done.

Pastor Ken Livingston is speaking tonight at the Fold! We are covering the 10 plagues and how Pharaoh responds. Ken touches on how God shows his almighty power compared to the 'gods' they were worshipping.

Have you ever been in a situation where you have absolutely no idea how it is going to work out? It doesn't feel like you have all of the details or skills or time to get through this situation. We talked about this feeling tonight in Exodus. Ryan outlines these three points:

1. Expect God to work
2. Experiences don't define our faith
3. Exalt Jesus, the fully known God.