Series:Empowered and Compelled
Speaker: Jeff Benson

Title: Empowered for Community
Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
Other passages: Mark 1:22, John 14:12, 1 Corinthians 14:1-5, Mark 6:36, 1 Thessalonians 5:19-20

Descriptions: Just as Jesus was dependent upon the Holy Spirit to speak God's Word and fulfill God's purposes, so he intended his church to be also.  In fact Jesus' suggestion that we would do even greater things than he did begs for us to ask the question Paul poses in his first letter to the church at Corinth: do we "eagerly desire spiritual gifts?" Are we moved by love for people around us that we would be eager for God to empower us to serve and minister to others?

Series: N/A
Speaker: Kimberly Smith

Title: What is your Mission call?

Key Passage: Matthew 28:18-20

Other passages: Acts 1:8

Description: When you think of overseas mission, what comes to mind? God invites us all to be part of His activity on the earth - as those who would GO, those who would GIVE and those who would SUPPORT. What part is God asking you to play?

https://www.facebook.com/WerribeeBaptistChurch/videos/1505848742843373/

Series: N/A
Speaker: Kimberly Smith

Title: God's Redeeming Love - Thai Team 2017
Key Passage: Isaiah 43:1
Other passages: Isaiah 42:22

Descriptions: Kimberly returns from leading THAI TEAM 2017 on their two week missions trip and shares her experiences of encountering God's redeeming love and grace at work in the most depraved and dark of places.

https://www.facebook.com/WerribeeBaptistChurch/videos/1505848742843373/

Series: N/A
Speaker: Ali Roberts, Riley White & Abbie Pilat

Title: Reflections from Hillsong

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Description: Hear how God was at work in the lives of the young people who attended Hillsong Conference this year.  Be encouraged and inspired by the openness of these emerging leaders to God's call and leading in their lives as well as the evidence of a God who connects with His children in surprising and intimate ways.

Series:Empowered and Compelled
Speaker: Jeff Benson

Title: The Fruit of the Spirit
Key Passage: Galatians 5:22-23
Other passages: Acts 1:8, 1 John 3:9, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:16-17, Galatians 6:7-8, John 15:5-6, Revelation 3:16-18

Descriptions: Coming to faith we discover the most incredible privilege: being unified with God in spirit and as a result given new life (His life, His seed, His DNA). This message explores where "spiritual fruit" comes from, what it is, and some compelling reasons why we should cooperate with the Holy Spirit as He seeks to grow that fruit in us. 

Series: N/A
Speaker: Les Smith

Title: How free was Adam

Key Passage: Galatians 5:1

Other passages: Genesis 1:26-27;29, 2:17, 3:8, Galatians 5:13, 5;1

Description: Our freedom has no conditions, free to not sin free to sin, the same freedom Adam had to keep his relationship with God, we decide with our own volition to choose God, not the flesh.

Series:Empowered and Compelled
Speaker: Philip Wilson

Title: Empowered for Community
Key Passage: Acts 4:32-5:11
Other passages: Joshua 7, John 17:22-23, Acts 6:1-7, Ephesians 4:1-6

Descriptions: The focus of the message is on the Holy Spirit empowering believers to build a community that cares and shares. 

Series: N/A
Speaker: Stan Richey

Title: Making your focus making disciples

Key Passage: Matthew 28:16-20

Other passages: N/A

Description: 'What is it that the church should be doing?' That question elicits many responses. Some of the of the common ones would be: Community/Fellowship, Spiritual growth/Teaching, Worship/Praising God. All of these have a strong Biblical basis and should characterize every local church. What we need to understand is that the mission that flows from our community (fellowship) of growing, maturing, worshiping believers is our involvement in God's overarching divine plan to redeem a lost world.

Series:Empowered and Compelled
Speaker: Jeff Benson

Title: Led by the Spirit
Key Passage: Acts 16:1-10
Other passages: Acts 8:1-4, Romans 8:14, Romans 12:2

Descriptions: One of the defining characteristics of being a child of God is that we are led by the Holy Spirit.  This message unpacks Paul's experience of the Spirit's leading on his second missionary journey from Lystra to Troas, and encourages us to seek (and find confidence in) God's guidance in our lives.

Series: Empowered and Compelled
Speaker: Kimberly Smith

Title: Paul's Conversion

Key Passage: Acts 25:23-26:31
Other passages: Acts 7:54-58, Acts 8:1-3, Acts 9:1-2, Galatians 1:15-16, Isaiah 59:1, 2 Corinthians 5:14

Description: We all have friends and family who we find it impossible to believe would ever come to a point of personal response and relationship with God.  The testimony of Paul's conversion - a radical transformation - reminds us that there is no one outside the reach of God's love and the power of the Gospel to soften hearts and change a life.