We're continuing in our series on Destiny — examining how God calls us to build rock-solid faithfulness into our lives that will support the fruit He longs to bring. In first Timothy 3, Paul provides important instructions about the kinds of faithfulness we're to see in people's lives who are ready to live out their prophetic assignment.

In a letter the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, Paul gave him five things to work on to build a fruitful destiny. These five things — speech, life, love, faith and purity— are primary building materials we also need when constructing a rock-solid faithfulness on the foundation of Jesus. Today we examine our speech.

God has an amazing destiny for each of us — a unique design to maximize our fruitfulness. But God's design for our lives won't build itself. We're called to build it! And the construction has to start from the ground up.

In this concluding message from the Gospel of John, we see how Jesus worked to restore Peter — not just to renewed relationship, but with a renewed destiny as well. No matter what you've been through — your failures or brokenness — this is God's heart for you as well! Just as Peter was able to hit RESET on his life and ministry, so can you!

The very same power that allowed Jesus to RISE from the dead is available to us today. It empowers us to RISE: out of defeat, into new life, and to a new destiny! Join us as we look at how Peter, one of Jesus' closest followers, came to see this at work in his own life.

Leading up to Jesus' crucifixion, he has an encounter with the Roman governor, Pilate. What is at the heart of their conversation is the lordship of Jesus — could He really be THE King? While his heart was answering YES, his actions communicated something very different. Pilate wrestled with the same thing we do today: is Jesus truly our Lord?

In John Chapter 18 Jesus is struck — once physically by an official, but several other times in ways that were much more painful and personal by those who were rejecting His ways. In this pre-Easter season, we reflect on where we have also rejected Jesus and His ways. In the words of the theologian, John Stott, "Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us."

Praying in the Spirit is to pray in agreement with God’s word and will. And while praying in the Spirit includes the use of a spiritual language — the gift of tongues — there's much more to learn about this powerful way we can contend in prayer!

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Every time we pray, we're declaring that Jesus is here, He is good, and He is Lord. In this message, we discover that out of those biblical realities flow many different kinds of prayer. It's likely there's a certain kind of prayer that fits with your unique personality  — so run with that. But we can also become prayer-adventurers, who bravely explore new ways to pray!

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If contending in prayer was easy, we'd all be doing it! But let's face it — there are obstacles to developing a life of prayer. Three of the biggest obstacles are our brains, brokenness, and busyness! Learn how we can move past these barriers on our way to becoming prayer revolutionaries.