Walnut Street Church of Christ Dickson, TN

In this installment, Walnut Street's Connections Minister delivers a lesson focused on how GOd communicates with His people and the distinction between A word and THE word.

Chris begins a new series on giving with the forst lesson focusing on the value we assign to Jesus. How much is Jesus worth to you?

Chris Hedge delivers a powerful lesson on the need for unity and togetherness in the church & how the Lord's body is at her best when everyone is on the same page working toward the same goal.

WHY DOES WORSHIP MATTER? Because it affects how we relate to God, His creation, to ourselves, and to others. Worship keeps life in proper order. Failure to worship disrupts God’s rhythm. We need to view all of life through the lens of worship. Worship should affect you, not just on Sunday but every day that ends in “y.” This is your tuning fork, you’re pitch pipe, your metronome. We come together every first day of the week to get our lives in order. This is where we get our rhythm for the week.

Fasting is a biblical topic, and anytime we study a biblical topic we need to do our best to discern and apply what scripture has to say on the subject. So, when it comes to fasting, the question we’re tempted to ask is, “Why did people in the Bible fast?” But maybe the better question is, “Why don’t people today fast?”

Mark Gooch, a deacon at Walnut Street, delivers a great lesson centered around the question, What Now? Once you become a child of God, once you have been washed clean from your sins, what's the next step?

In Luke Chapter 11, the disciples witness Jesus praying and one of them says, “Lord, teach us to pray (v. 1).” Had they never prayed before? That’s highly unlikely. Prayer was an integral part of the Jewish lifestyle. But what Jesus was doing was different. They weren’t witnessing a habit or a ritual. They saw a relationship, and they wanted what Jesus had. I want that as well. I hope you do too. But your prayer life is only as strong as the relationship.

Walnut Street's Connections Minister, Chad Garrett, gives a lesson from 2 Corinthians 3:3 and encourages us to make personal application.

TO BE BIBLE-BASED IS TO BE PEOPLE OF THE PERSON, NOT PEOPLE OF THE PRINT. As Christ-followers, we are not merely people of the book. We are, ultimately, people of the Person. The book points us to the Person.

God has been honest with us in telling us that there will be trouble in this life. This life is hard. But God has also made us a promise. There is hope on the horizon. There is a glorious future awaiting us. It’s like we’re exiles on this planet, but some day we will get to go home. If Jeremiah teaches us anything, he teaches us how to live as exiles in a foreign land.