Even though we know that God’s promises never fail, sometimes life can make it feel like they have. In Romans 9:1-13 we find Paul full of sorrow and grieving over his family, friends, and people being far from God and without faith in Christ. God had given every advantage to them people, including promise upon promise, yet they still rejected Jesus. But it wasn’t God’s word or promises that had failed. God’s word stands firm. Paul goes on to note that God choose us not based on anything good about us, but entirely due to his goodness. God choosing is the doctrine of election. It’s a truth that gives us great comfort and security in God’s kindness toward us, and moves us to grieve, love, and pray for those who are far from God that they might come to faith in Jesus.

God calls every believer to serve him and carry the good news to others, even when we feel inadequate. Moses offered excuse after excuse—Who am I? What will I say? What if they do not believe me? I am not a good speaker. Please send someone else!—yet God answered every objection and still used him powerfully. The same is true for us: God does not call us because we are naturally sufficient, but he does promise to enable those he sends. Rather than passing the responsibility to pastors or waiting until we feel capable, we are called to go where God has placed us, speak about Jesus, and trust him to work through our weakness.

At Wawasee Bible, Your Pathway is to (1) be ENCOURAGED in your faith, (2) get EQUIPPED for your calling, (3) ENGAGE at Wawasee, and (4) EXTEND the Gospel wherever you live, work, learn, and play. This week Bob Blahnik from Evangelism Shift joins us as we look at Jesus's model of extending the Gospel in John 4:1-42. We're sent to love people and invite them to follow Jesus with us. That involves intentionally going to people, cultivating relationships, listening well, finding common ground, sowing gospel truth, and pointing people to Jesus. Jesus calls us to move from “come and see” to “go and seek” as we extend the Gospel.

At Wawasee Bible, Your Pathway is to (1) be ENCOURAGED in your faith, (2) get EQUIPPED for your calling, (3) ENGAGE at Wawasee, and (4) EXTEND the Gospel wherever you live, work, learn, and play. This week we look at what it means to get equipped for your calling through opportunities like Handcrafted Calling, Aim, Life2Life, and more. Next, we see how to engage at Wawasee in a group or on a ministry team. God saved you and shaped you for good works, so get equipped and engage at Wawasee!

At Wawasee Bible, Your Pathway is to (1) be ENCOURAGED in your faith, (2) get EQUIPPED for your calling, (3) ENGAGE at Wawasee, and (4) EXTEND the Gospel wherever you live, work, learn, and play. This week Pastor Josh briefly explains each part of that pathway before unpacking why gathering regularly is so important. Hebrews 10:24-25 says it’s so that we would stir one another up to love and good works and to encourage one another. There’s a path for you at Wawasee that begins with showing up to be encouraged and to encourage others.

We wrap up our Grateful series by looking at three evidences of a grateful life from Colossians 3 and Habakkuk 3. Gratitude isn't just a feeling tied to good circumstances — it's a heart posture that returns thanks to God no matter what. That posture shows up in three ways: it lets Christ's peace rule our hearts, lets his word shape our walk, and lets his strength sustain us — even when everything else fails.

There are two things we can be grateful for as Americans. First, that God (in his sovereignty) placed us here. And second, that here is not home. We've been sent here by God to seek the good and welfare of this place so that others might know God's goodness in Jesus Christ personally. But while we've been sent here, here is not home. As followers of Jesus our citizenship is in Heaven, and from there we await our Savior who will come and fully transform us.

Gratitude fades when God’s people forget the Lord, not because they lose information, but because they stop keeping his goodness at the center of their lives. Deuteronomy 8 calls God’s people to remember how he humbled them, provided for them, disciplined them, blessed them, and warned them against pride. Remembering the Lord forms grateful people who can trust him in the wilderness, bless him in gratefulness, and source every accomplishment in his grace.

We start a new short series exploring what it means and how to be grateful. God commands us to be thankful, and the gratitude Scripture commands is not a feeling, but a posture. It's a choice we make. But choosing it is often hard. Gratitude is hard because it requires obedience before it's felt, we miss God's nearness, and we focus on our circumstances.

As we wrap our series through the Nicene Creed called "What Christians Believe," we look at what baptism is. Baptism isn't something we trust in for salvation, it's a picture of what we trust in. It's a picture of the gospel and God's cleansing work in our lives that is all by his grace and mercy. God's grace and mercy—not our merit—washes and renews us through his Spirit and gives us eternal life.