Beacon Church Podcast

Jonathan's faith was rooted in a deep trust that God was going to show up in an impossible. situation.

Jesus is saying that when the world sees us in the center of that burning fellowship between the father and the son, it will come to believe that he is who he says he is. That's the invitation.

Solomon got to live in a palace and Jeremiah lived in a hole. God has his ways of working those things out. But what I do know is it has nothing to do with how valuable you are to him. Because the issue of our value was settled on a cross.

1. The Great Commandment - Love 2. The Great Compassion - Do 3. The Great Commission - Go 4. The Great Collaboration - Together

If you want to enjoy life and see many happy days, keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies.

We need to keep our eyes focused on God, build our faith and it will diminish or lower our fears.

Humility is the soil in which the Christian life grows. It's in humility that you will learn to love. You can't love without humility. It's in humility, you will learn to serve, to be merciful. God wants to make you more of who you're meant to be.

Breakthrough is seen in those who break out of their Boundaries and Barriers.

It's a place where you and I surrender our lives, and we begin to experience the freedom that we actually want, that we actually yearn for. Where you and I can finally say, Lord I'm not in control. You are. Teach me how to hide my life in you.

Three different categories of God's Guidance: 1. God's Natural Guidance 2. God's Negative Guidance 3. God's Noticeable Guidance

There are these spiritual powers that when God's kingdom is being built, they get furious because they have so much to lose as the kingdom of God advances here on earth as it is in heaven. And they are furious, and they are opposed to this work that God is doing. And we quickly see in the story with Nehemiah some of the tactics of the enemy as he's trying to stop the work and what we see i...

This story of the gospel, the story of grace, the story of God adding gold to our brokenness is the truth that frames the story of Rahab life. Her past was a reminder, not a definer of who she was. And out of her brokenness, God did something strange but beautiful.

We live in a fast paced, instant culture. We don't like to wait. Sometimes God has us waiting and we hold on to the promises. We hold on to hope. We trust in His Word. We continue to ask and seek and knock, but we just wait for him to respond.

We have to be people who are accustomed to walking by faith and not by sight. And so Jesus said that our eyes are the windows of our heart. And in Matthew six, Jesus said, your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. And when your eye is unhealthy, your whole body is filled with darkness.

Jesus is over top of all of it for his church. Jesus has all authority, all power, all of it over everything. And he's exerting that power for the sake of his church.

Grieving, I believe, is the pivotal, the most pivotal part of most pivotal step in the deepening of our relationship with God.

The Promises Of God's Power And Presence Gives Us The Strength And Courage To Bring His Kingdom Deuteronomy 31 : 5-8 Matthew 28 : 18-20

What's important is that God makes the seed grow. The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. 1 Corinthians 3 : 5 - 9 Love God, Love People, Grow In Christ & Serve The World 1. Experience Spiritual Growth 2. Deepen Christian Friendships 3. Sharpen Ministry Skills

Exodus : And thus, Moses did according to all that God commanded him, thus he did.

The Problem : Spiritual Emptiness The Temptation : To Leave Early The Solution : The Bread of Life Mark 6 : 30 - 43 Deuteronomy 8 : 2 - 3

Tremble Introspectively Make the Right Sacrifices Look to His Gaze

The cause of the crisis Making light of your weighty life

John 15 : 9 - 14

Luke 7:36 Luke 7: 47 Luke 7: 44-46

Good Hearing Seeks To Understand Good Hearing Holds on & Doesn't Let Go