Week 2 of Advent focuses on peace. And while we find ourselves in a time and place where peace is hard to find, people like John the Baptist can help prepare the way for the kind of peace that Jesus offers, and that we need desperately.

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God is creator, father, and the owner of everything. He loves to give good gifts to his children so we can fulfill our purpose as trusted caretakers or stewards. As we look at 3 postures when it comes to resources, consider what gifts you've received in your life and how God is guiding your stewardship role of them?

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​What if the thing you love so much is the thing holding you back from receiving what you truly want deep down inside? Our hearts can't serve two masters, as much as we want to, so all throughout the Bible we see God giving his people specific practices to help train our hearts to trust him fully. What's he inviting you to right now?

Listen to the song we played after the message here: Everything's In Your Hands by Mission House

https://youtu.be/5ZwekJKA2Ek?si=Cc8UZnY_lmr8iWaE

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Throughout the story of Exodus, God has slowly been revealing his character to Moses and the people of Israel. As we close our Exodus series, we walk through a dramatic failure followed by a deeper revelation of who God is and what He does.

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What do we do with our freedom? God invites Israel to a mountaintop experience that reveals their true identity and special purpose sealed with a covenant. Are we ready to receive that blessing and fully commit to representing God in the world?

Freedom Practice - Commit Are you ready to go all in with God? The unexpected secret to a life of real freedom is surrendering everything to the only one who is truly trustworthy. We're invited to an exclusive covenant relationship with the creator of the universe. How can you live out of that commitment this week?

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Wilderness times are a training for God’s way of life, and God always provides. In the wilderness, the Israelites heard the voice of God, learned to follow him, and became a new people. The slavery was getting out of them! If you’re in the wilderness, are you willing to lose your old identity? To hear the voice of God, follow him, and become who you are meant to be?

Freedom Practice - RECEIVE Daily Bread

If we are to be people who live free like the Israelites are learning to, we want to keep near to God, listen to his words and follow him. To talk with him and hear what he's saying every day. This week let's pray the Lord’s Prayer with a posture of listening, trusting, and receiving his daily bread.

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

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As the story continues we see a confrontation between 2 kings and 2 kinds of kingdoms. Who is this God of Israel? The God of justice and mercy. The one who creates order out of chaos. The one who hears the cries of his people and moves with the power to save and set captives free. Do you know that God?

Freedom Practice - REMEMBER - The passover meal was given to be a celebration remembering how God acted to set his people free. Take some time to reflect on the ways God has rescued you in the past and led you out of a stuck situation. What does that reveal about God's character and what he wants to do again in your life?

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We begin a series on the book of Exodus and focus on a powerful encounter between God and Moses. God’s plan is in motion, and he’s asking Moses to play a significant role, but is the shame from Moses past the storyteller? Or will he let God re-write his story?

Freedom Practice - Take time to be quiet with God this week and ask him how he has re-written your story. Also ask him where shame continues to be the storyteller and how he wants to change that.

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The Bible is an integrated story that leads to Jesus, revealing God as the savior of the world who comes to rescue and free his people he loves so much.

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With a generous, extravagant love, Jesus sows the seeds of the Kingdom with words and actions so it will take root in our hearts. Out of that harvest in us he sends us out to join him on his mission of sowing and reaping, looking for people ready to receive the good news and see our city transformed!

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