You Changed My Mind

How can we know God exists? Can we put Him to a scientific test? We believe plenty of things that can’t be scientifically proven, or that we can't measure. We'll see that God is God, more like a person that a force or mathematical law who we can fit in a test tube or an equation.

Genesis 12:1-5, 13:14-18, 15:1-21, Romans 4:1-11

The the book of Proverbs in a nutshell: If you live by the wisdom in the Bible, your life will generally go better than if you hadn’t. However, what about the times in life where you do everything right, and it doesn’t work out for you? That's what the book of Ecclesiastes is all about. We'll see that Jesus gives us a greater perspective than the angst of life's hevel, or fleeting nature. He gives us hope, resilient optimism, and the gift to savor the good things of life.

Have you ever done something you regretted because you thought you’d get someone approval, attention, laughs? Do you ever feel like you to act a certain way or else people won’t like you? Do you ever worry that if people really knew the real you that they wouldn’t like you anymore? We'll see through the life of David that a person after God's heart is far less concerned with what other people think about them than what God thinks about them.

Hebrew 12:5-12. We believe the lie that discipline is only punishment and confuse challenge with harm. But God's shows us to embrace discipline and challenges as a form of God's love. Similar problems lies we believe is that discipline is incompatible with love, we trade what we want most for what we want now, and we abandon things that delight us when they require discipline. The truth of God in Scripture is that God is not here to punish us, but to help us reach our full potential. His discipline allows us to trade what we want now for what we want most, and embracing discipline develops delight in us.

Acts 26

Lie: We assume someone might never come to Jesus, or consider them too far gone

Truth: God can bring even the hardest, most evil heart back to Him

How: When we have an encounter with God, it turns killers into rescuers.

How do we prioritize the right things in life? And how do we stick to it? Prioritizing your worries won’t provide God

If you want to see if a piece of fruit is good, squeeze it, cut into it, and see what comes out. And when our heart is open before God, the Holy Spirit comes and transforms it. Here we identify 5 things the Holy Spirit does in our hearts: Convicts us of sin, give us strength to resist temptation, comforts us, gives us gifts and abilities, and empowers us.

Proverbs 3:11-12, Matthew 18:15-17

Luke 24:13-35