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Professional counselor Tom Miller shares about four things we tend to need in order to believe if someone if right. Tom correlates these topics to show us how we can be fully confident in God and know that He is right.

Cody Bryan shares about how God is personal with us through the Holy Spirit, highlighting key characteristics of the Spirit, and explains how we can take steps to walk with the Spirit. Cody used two videos in this message that are linked below. "Holy Spirit" from The Bible Project "How To Experience The Holy Spirit" from Francis Chan

Pastor Tim Reilly shares from Ephesians 2 about God's grace, contrasting what we deserve with what we get.

Being a disciple of Christ requires consistently learning more about how to follow him and grow spiritually. This message covers some different ways we can improve our own growth and help others. 

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."- C.S. Lewis  Gateway Seminary Professor, Dr. Adam Groza, shares truths about why God is real and how we can logically come to this conclusion.

Learning during your 20's is one of the most important ways to build towards success in the future. Harold talks about the importance of training and the mindset we can have to help us do this well in this message. This message was originally found on discipleshiplibrary.com

"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." - A.W. Tozer Paul Worcester shares from Isaiah 6 on the nature of God's holiness and how it should affect our view of God. This video is shown during this message.

In this message, Gary shares some facts about God that can change the way we think about life, and how they work to help us through difficult circumstances. 

When circumstances seem overwhelming or out of control, it can be tempting to change our direction to fix everything ourselves. In this message, Tim encourages us to stay focused on God and His promises even when we can't see how the situation will work out.

In this talk, Paul lays out three things that we can do every day to be sure we are making the most of opportunities to share our faith with others. Developing these habits will result in increasing awareness of the opportunities God brings us to share our faith. 

Being in a relationship and being single can both be difficult to navigate. In this message, Paul talks about using your time, whether single or dating, to live for God and his purpose for your life. 

In a message that walks through the parable of the sower found in Luke 8, Gary helps us identify how we can relate to each type of soil. He encourages us to work towards being people who hear and apply God's Word in our lives and yield a harvest.

We all look for our identity somewhere - what is it that you find your identity in? Matt challenges us to define who we are by something eternal rather than temporary, looking to God and our relationship to him instead of anything in this world. 

What does it really mean to live your best life? In this message, Paul explores what the Bible says about the purpose of life and how to live the best life possible. 

It is tempting to focus on things or other people to make us successful. Dawson Trotman encourages us to focus completely on God and trust that he can and will provide everything we need.  This message was originally found on discipleshiplibrary.com

God calls all Christians to be disciples of Christ who make disciples. Mike talks about the ways that disciplemaking can affect our direction and purpose in life, regardless of vocation or location.  This message was originally found on discipleshiplibrary.com

Philippians 4:10-13 is the passage that Paul focuses on in this message. The apostle Paul had learned how to be content regardless of what his situation or possessions - this is something that we can do if we realize that Christ is the source of true contentment. 

"Vision is the encompassing directive that puts everything else into proper perspective." In this message, Mike Story talks about how having an overarching purpose clarifies how you live and what you do.  This message was originally found on discipleshiplibrary.com

In the last of the series on Foolish Strategies, Randy talks about the Glory Way and Predatory fools, and wraps up with how we can put off foolish strategies and begin to put on Jesus Christ. Each foolish strategy is trying to get the best life without factoring in God - we have to acknowledge and respect God enough to do what he says as we move away from foolishness.

In the fourth message of the Foolish Strategies series, Randy talks about the Fun Way fool, who is out for their own enjoyment. Staying within God's boundaries is necessary for a fruitful life, but the Fun Way fool ignores the boundaries in their focus on what they want.

In the third message of the Foolish Strategies series, Randy talks about how reacting angrily or being upset is a strategy that all of us can default to if we are not careful. Avoiding this strategy leads to better relationships as we treat people without being reactive or manipulative.

In the second message of his series on foolish strategies, Randy Lanthripe covers the patterns of the Easy Way fool and gives ways to recognize and correct these patterns for ourselves.

In this overview of foolish strategies, Randy covers five Hebrew words for "fool" and how we can use what the Bible says about them to recognize and change these patterns in our own lives. This is the first of a five message series on foolish strategies.

The last message of Neil’s series on discipleship focuses on what it will take to persevere in multiplying our faith, using 2 Timothy 2:2-5 as an outline for what we should strive for. We should be aware of distractions so that we can identify and combat them when they come up.

In the third message of his series on discipleship, Neil talks about the most important things to pass on to people through discipleship, and how we can do this effectively. This can be summed up through three steps - see the goal, set the pace, share your life.