OVERFLOW with Adrian Ayers

Date: 10 February 2025  Location: Sandy Lane Church of Christ  Text: Mark 9:14-24  Synopsis: Life’s challenges test our faith. A man with a demon-possessed openly shared how his ongoing family trauma pressed against his desire to trust God. While he doubted, the Scribes debated, and the crowd deliberated, Jesus pointed out the means to a deeper faith that is able to transform our lives. 

Date: 9 February, 2025  Location: Sandy Lane Church of Christ  Text: Hosea 10:11-12  Synopsis: God’s blessings were given to Israel so that they could be a light to the nations. Yet they enjoyed the blessings without a desire to be committed to God. Hosea’s prophecy points out how blessed they were and how God desired their restoration. The text teaches that when God chastens is, God does so in lo...

Date: 2 February 2025  Location: Dale City Church of Christ  Text: Genesis 32:22-32 Synopsis: Jacob’s names was changed to Israel because he wrestled with God. Though throughout his life he showed traits that led him to trick others, God’s encounter with him caused him to seek God’s favor. 

Date: 26 January 2025 Location: Dale City Church of Christ Text: Genesis 12:1-9 Synopsis: God called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldeans and sent him to Canaan. His geographical journey is symbolic of our spiritual journey. When God calls us to obedience, we may be called out the familiar, to represent God in our character and to be committed to God in allowing our faith to be manifested in actions...

Date: 19 January 2025  Location: Dale City Church of Christ Text: Genesis 6:1-9 Synopsis: Noah represented God among a corrupt generation. Though he saw examples of ungodliness around him, he teaches us that God's grace empowers us to break generational patterns and become instruments of salvation.     

Date: 12 January 2025 Text: Genesis 1:26-31 Location: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: To be created in God’s image means to be blessed by God to have an influence in this world. The story of Genesis highlights how many people were blessed to fulfill God’s and chronicles how they responded to God’s blessing. Those who were faithful give us a model for walking in alignment with God’s blessing...

Date: 5 January 2024  Location: Dale City Church of Christ Text: Psalm 100:1-5 Synopsis: The Psalmist took time to reflect on God’s goodness as the foundation of their praise and purpose. As they considered God’s goodness, they found purpose in the fact that God was their creator, who provided for them and protected them throughout all seasons. 

Date: 29 December 2024 Place: Dale City Church of Christ Text: Luke 4:1-13 Synopsis: God’s word was vital for Jesus to overcome temptation as well as for Jesus’ ministry. His wilderness experience teaches us that as we prepare for the māoris to which God has called us, we need the Word as well. 

Date: 22 December 2024 Text: Luke 2:41-52 Location: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: Jesus’ journey to proved to Jerusalem at age 12 proved to be a time of revelation of His parents to grow in their understanding of God’s will. As Jesus revealed the need to be in the Father’s house, he as reveled the his parents proximity to Him did not negate their need to know Him more. Likewise God gradual...

Date: 15 December 2024  Location: Dale City Church of Christ  Text: Luke 1:5-17  Synopsis: Zechariah and Elizabeth wanted a son but God wanted a prophet. Their story reminds us that the hope we have in God is sometimes fulfilled in blessings which God intends for his glory. As God blesses us God also guides to be faithful and purposeful as we receive his blessings. 

Date: 8 December 2024  Place: Dale City Church of Christ  Text: Luke 2:22-32  Synopsis: God gave Simeon the promise that he would not seed death until he met the Christ. Simeon was a faithful man, who was led by the Spirit and teaches us what it means to be steadfast in waiting on God’s promise. He also teaches us how our celebration of God’s fulfilled promise provides opportunities to bless other...

Date: 10 November 2024  Location: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: God's people often lived in circumstances far removed from spaces of power and influence.  When Peter wrote to the persecuted Christian diaspora he drew on the motif of exile to help them appreciate how God was present despite their misfortune. We can have hope when we consider that the God of our exile is the God of the...

Date: Dale City Church of Christ  Place: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: God's people often lived in circumstances far removed from spaces of power and influence.  When Peter wrote to the persecuted Christian diaspora he drew on the motif of exile to help them appreciate how God was present despite their misfortune. We can have hope when we consider that the God of our exile is the God...

Date: 8 September 2024 Place: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: Salvation is a response to what God. Yet, many are not fully aware of the victory God provides over sin. Those who are saved have the opportunity to live and share the good news to those seeking to know God. 

Date: 2 November 2024 Place: Westchester Church of Christ Retreat Synopsis: 1 Peter 2:18-21 instructs servants to be subject to their masters. They were to live in the pattern of Christ by accepting suffering. But their suffering was not passive acceptance. It was an active demonstration of God's grace by offering the world the greatness gift of salvation though they were considered the lowes...

Date: 1 September 2024  Location: Dale City Church of Christ Synopsis: The narrative of conversion of the Ethiopian Eunuch is an archetypal conversion.  It illustrates what one must do to saved, how God works to save the lost, and how Christians respond to God’s command to reach the lost. In this narrative every person’s need for God and how we respond to this need through the gospel. 

Date: 25 August 2024 Location: Dale City Church of Christ Synopsis: God's grace teaches us to look to Christ the Savior. In looking to Christ, we see the Savior who was pierced and suffered yet remained faithful to God's will. His example, a pattern foretold in the Old Testament, gives us a guide to trust God's faithfulness and submit to God in obedience.  

Date: 18 August 2024  Location: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: In Luke 7:11-17, the bible records a scene that shows how Jesus deals with the tragedy of death. The scene represents what it means for God to live among us as the Son of Man. Jesus sees our true condition, feels compassion, and offers hope so we can live confidently.     

Date: 11 August 2024  Place: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: Sin in an unrighteous action that creates an unrighteous condition. Yet Justification is God’s righteous action that transforms our unrighteous condition. God has saved to demonstrate His righteousness. The saved show that God is righteous by living according to his will and share if the message of salvation. 

Date: 4 August 2024  Place: Dale City Christ of Christ  The gospel reveals God’s righteousness through Christ. As the exact image of God, Christ displays God’s nature and reveals how God wants us to live. While sin brings out the worst in us, the gospel brings out the best in us — God’s image restored. 

Date: 28 July 2024  Location: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: Scripture Teaches that a little leaven leaven’s the whole lump. Habits and practices are developed in the context of the communities with which we associate. Therefore, our abilities to discern God’s will is shaped by the groups with which we identify. 

Date: 21 July 2024  Location: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: True transformation involves a change of actions. In Romans 12:1-2, Paul appeals to the church to live in a manner such that their entire lives are subject to God’s will. He shows that when our actions are subject to God’s will, we position ourselves to choose what is right in a given situation. 

Date: 14 July 2024  Location: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: God’s revelation does not guarantee that we have accurate interpretation. God allowed Joseph to have the gift of interpreting dreams so that God’s people could be preserved and have hope in God’s promise while they endured Egyptian. Similarly, God has revealed His word today. However, we must always consider what is guiding our un...

Date: 7 July 2024 Location: Annual Caribbean Lectureship - Aruba  Synopsis: The Holy Spirit was promised to God's people as God's divine means of restoration. The day of Pentecost represents the beginning of this fulfillment in which the Spirit was given as the means of salvation, sanctification, and guidance in Christian living. As such we must be attentive to the activity of the Holy S...

Date: 30 June 2024 Location: Dale City Church of Christ  Synopsis: God has called his people to live in unity. True unity begins with our shared identity because we have been redeemed and sanctified in Christ.