Epic Students

Discipleship is what Christians are called to do. I wonder if you have ever thought about how your life can inspire faith in others. Living as an example of Jesus can help open the door to discipleship.

Friends have the potential to build you up or tear you down. The people you want to have beside you are the people that are real and genuine, who will be honest with you.

Have you ever thought about the importance of discipleship? We often underestimate what God can do in our lives and that just one person helping people see Jesus can change a whole room of people.

The friends that you have can either have a major impact or can really tear you down. Loyalty is something that you need to look for when it comes to the people you surround yourself with.

There are things in life that if we just knew them it would help save us a lot of pain and scars. We are created as relational beings but sometimes we put a relationship higher than our relationship God and it leaves us unhappy and making bad decisions.

Jesus makes his seventh I Am statement in John 15. Jesus wants us to see that without a source it is going to be hard to produce anything.

There are things that if we just knew and took to heart would help save us from pain and scars. The world is living in a digital world and the challenge becomes being the same person behind a screen as we are in person.

Jesus makes his fifth I AM statement in John 14. Jesus helps us understand that walking in him and him alone will give us the purpose and life that is truly fulfilling.

There are things we wish we knew so that we didn't have to learn the hard way. Every decision we make has an effect on us and the people around us. It doesn't just affect you.

There are things we wish we knew so that we didn't have to learn the hard way. We all want to be known but the reality is connection beats recognition.

Jesus makes his fourth I AM statement in John 11. Jesus says I Am the Resurrection and the Life and if we find life in him we never die again but rather spend eternity with him.

The enemy has been using the same tactics his whole life. He tries to tempt you with the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. We need to be on guard and ready to fight the enemy.

In order to know our opponent we need to scout out what he is like in order to battle him well. The enemy appears a few times throughout the Bible and we look to the beginning of Job to see what we can learn about him.

In John 10 Jesus shares his third I Am statement. He tells us that if we enter through the gate/door we will be saved.

In this relationship with God there is an enemy that is trying to rip us away from this relationship. We don't often look at Satan but if we look at the instances of him in scripture we can begin to see how he works so we can fight well.

Jesus makes 7 I AM statements through the book of John. When you look at each of these statements you see how big he is and who he is.

Actions speak louder than words if probably a phrase you have heard before. If we are going to make Jesus our everything than our actions need to reflect him.

Out of all the commandments Jesus gives us the two most important are Love God and Love Others. I wonder what it what look like if we had such a heart for people that Loving Others is all we do.

Life throws so many different things at us that we need someone who is going to be enough for us through it all. Jesus needs to be our everything if we are going to truly be satisfied in this life.

As we wrap up our collection Jesus has an encounter with the Pharisees at dinner. People can often appear clean on the outside but are dirty on the inside.

How you see yourself is how you are going to live. There is a Father who has created you and believes you are special. We have to make it a habit to go see the Woodcarver everyday so we can begin to see ourselves that way he sees us.

Have you ever met someone who is so confident in who they are? We can be those people and the simple shift we have to make is learning to listen to who God says we are and not people.

Identity is something we all seem to struggle with. How we live is going to come out of how we see ourselves. In order for us to begin to see ourselves the way God does, we have to be honest in how we see ourselves right now.

Have you ever been given something that changed you? As we look at another instance of Jesus at the table we see that he offers us healing and forgiveness.

Have you ever felt like it is impossible to have your entire life continually reflect Jesus on a daily basis? We often keep Jesus as a guest in our heart but what if we let him be the owner of our life.