UGA Wesley

This week, we had the honor of welcoming Hope Heals author, speaker, and stroke survivor, Kathryn Wolf to speak to us. Listen and be encouraged as Kathryn shares what she's learned about how we have much greater capacity to do hard things than we think.

In tonight’s message, Bob talks about what God thinks about material success and how we can pursue that in a way that actually blesses us and others.

Everyone experiences some level or hurt from being part of the Church. Knowing the root cause of that hurt can help us experience what the Holy Spirit has for us in the midst of it. Jesus, if you love the church, so will I.

In tonight’s message Bob talks about the nature of the marriage covenant - that God sees it as something far more sacred than we often do.

In eternity, there will be nothing left to pray for, but Jesus teaches us to pray now, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.” Our lives are meant to be formed by prayer, asking God to come and interrupt our reality with His.

Paul writes in 2 Timothy of ‘finishing the race.’ Because he has finished the race, there’s a heavenly crown that awaits him. He would tell us that it does no good to start the race, unless we finish it. In this message, Bob talks about keys to always staying willing to take our next step in Christ, no matter how hard the season we’re in.

To live in the light of eternity is to live now for what will matter then.

We can pray with faith and believe God for the impossible because the power of the Holy Spirit lives within us.

Jesus said in John 10:27, “My sheep hear my voice…” In this week’s message, we look at many of the ways God speaks to us and His invitation to all of us to ask the Lord to give us new gifts and graces to hear His voice with increased clarity.

Jesus is the Vine and we are the branches. The Holy Spirit will produce His fruit, i.e., the character of Christ, in everyone who abides in Him.

As amazing as it would be to have Jesus physically live among a few of us, He tells us that it’s far better that He live within every believer. Jesus wants to awaken us to the reality of His Spirit within us, and with that, to awaken the Spirit to move in our lives with new power.

In reading Psalm 139, we see how important it is to see God rightly. Psalm 139 displays that God is a good and loving Father who is just, but often our own lenses through which we see the world distorts this truth. This week, we talk about beginning to see God rightly and how to understand scripture that can seem scary or intense. 

In the last week of our ‘Jesus is the Answer’ series, we talked about how to take our thoughts captive and day-by-day live in freedom from the anxious, sinful, and hopeless thoughts that so many of us struggle with.

In week 3 of our ‘Jesus is the Answer’ series, we talked about how Jesus is the answer to the hopes and fears we have about our future. God’s promise is that as we walk with Jesus, He will build our lives into all that He has purposed for us.

In week 2 of our ‘Jesus is the Answer’ series, we talked about how Jesus is the answer to our struggles with sexual sin and pornography. At the cross, Jesus died to both forgive us of our inner sin and outward sins and deliver us from their power.

We started our ‘Jesus is the Answer’ series by talking about how Jesus is the answer to our struggles with anxiety and fear. In all of the ways we’re not in control, God is, and He’s always working to lead us into His good and perfect plans for our lives.

What do we do if we feel like God is giving us faith for something, so that we can actually experience his power and presence in our lives? By looking at the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000, we see that there are several ingredients we can cultivate in our lives for experiencing the miraculous. 

Trying to follow Jesus and become like Him by giving Him a couple hours on Mondays is like trying to have a healthy and deeply connected relationship with someone by only spending a couple hours a week with them. The math just doesn’t add up. But, there are things we can do daily in our normal routines to experience His Presence on a consistent basis in our lives.  

When we can receive with gratitude what God entrusts to us, our hearts are positioned to give extravagantly, which is one of our most powerful expressions of worship.

We can feel a lot of pressure to make our lives everything we hope for, and we can think we need to be someone else to make that happen. By looking at the story of God calling Moses to lead the Israelites in Exodus, we see that when we feel pressure, the Lord says we are enough.

On Wednesday night, we talked about obedience being more than a list of do’s and don’ts, but instead, an embrace of God’s purpose and intent for our lives. That obedience, especially when it’s costly and calls us to carry our cross, is one of the ways we worship God that He values most.