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Happy Mother’s Day! Enjoy the deep wells of wisdom and encouragement shared by our panel of moms, who together have spent more than 142 years parenting their children in the Lord. Thank you, Laura Seibert, Dorothy Abshire, Melissa Wible, Tonja Carpenter and Laura Summersett. Happy Mother’s Day!

This month, we're focusing on sharing the love of Jesus and the story of His salvation with those around us who don't know Him. Two ways practically to do this are through sharing your own personal testimony and through the Bridge Diagram, which Jimmy demonstrated for us today. Lord, make us a people who show others Your love like they've never experienced!

In Acts 2, we see Jesus' followers at Pentecost obeying His last instruction to them: gather together and wait for the Holy Spirit to come to them. When He came, His power and presence was revealed through the disciples speaking in tongues so that every people group who heard them could understand their speech. This is in direct juxtaposition to the story of the Tower of Babel—when men gathered to...

In John 5, we see the story of a man who'd been lame for 38 years. He spent his days at the Pool of Bethesda (which means "House of Mercy" or "House of Grace"), waiting for the waters to be supernaturally stirred so that he could be helped into the pool for healing. But when Jesus visited the lame man, He asked if he wanted to be healed. When Jesus told him to pick up his mat and walk, the lame ma...

In John 5, we see the story of a man who'd been lame for 38 years. He spent his days at the Pool of Bethesda (which means "House of Mercy" or "House of Grace"), waiting for the waters to be supernaturally stirred so that he could be helped into the pool for healing. But when Jesus visited the lame man, He asked if he wanted to be healed. When Jesus told him to pick up his mat and walk, the lame ma...

Repentance is the door that unlocks you from the bondage of sin, and the first act of repentance is salvation — the first real turning from sin to salvation through Jesus. Repentance then leads to baptism, a first act of obedience, that shows you are dead to self and alive in Christ. Acts of obedience release power in our lives through the Holy Spirit that activate a new place of freedom from bond...

Because of the trials of this life, we may often feel like Jesus' disciples that He encountered on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24. Confused, grieving and blinded to the truth of Jesus' resurrection, they didn't even recognize Him when they saw Him. But as they spent time with Him and spoke with Him, and as they invited Him to stay with them, their eyes were opened, and they saw the miracle of His r...

This week, Jimmy Seibert walked us through Palm Sunday in Matthew 20 and 21. Like the blind men in Matthew 20, let us call out to Jesus for His salvation and healing. Like the disciples in Matthew 21, let us obey Jesus fully and immediately. Like Jesus, let us walk in profound humility. And like the crowds in Jerusalem, let us rightly worship Jesus and cry out to God on behalf of ourselves and oth...

In the 26 verses of John 17, Jesus speaks about "giving" 17 times. The importance of relinquishing what we hold is clear. But because of the goodness of God, in His Kingdom, surrender means giving up something lesser to gain something greater. Everybody has a place of authority or control. God is calling us to release these areas of authority so that He can give us something greater in return. Aft...

This week, Mick Murray taught again on John 17, where we see Jesus' prayer that we, His disciples, would walk in unity. Mick took us through the Scriptural evidence for what biblical unity is and what it is not. In the end, biblical unity is the greatest revelation of God in the earth today, that others might know Him, and conversely, our disunity is the greatest way to obscure the glory of God in...

This week, we looked again at Jesus' prayer for His followers in John 17. When we look at the world as God intended versus the world impacted by our sin, we see a huge disparity between God's perfect creation and our marred reality. It is through Jesus that we are sanctified to become more like God's original design, and it is through the Church that the world sees God's glory and goodness. Lord,...

Tending our lives in the areas we influence requires selflessness, intentionality and sacrifice but it brings about fruitfulness and beauty to ultimately glorify the Father. The original mandate from God to Adam and Eve is also a mandate to us. In the garden of our lives, we are called to tend to each space intentionally so that the Glory of God may be reflected unto the world through these spaces...

God is moving powerfully across our nation, sparking revival at various colleges and universities and making national headlines. But He's at work here among us, too! God is sweeping through our local students at Baylor, calling people to unity, repentance and evangelism. Let's join in! Let's surrender ourselves to God and intercede for this movement to continue, in our country and around the world...

This week, we welcome our friend and brother Francis Chan to remind us of the necessity for UNITY in today's divorce culture. We are raised as children in homes and in a society where splitting up is more customary than unity, and we see this dramatically at work in the Church. In John 17, we see Jesus pray, "I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may...

This week, we continued to look at Jesus' prayer in John 17, highlighting the glory of God. We see the significance of God's glory all throughout Scripture, from Genesis 1 when humanity was separated from God's glory through our sin, then throughout the Bible in the story of God's plan to reconcile us to His glory through the sacrifice of Jesus. God's glory has to be central in our life; when we a...

In John 17, we read a prayer from Jesus to the Father asking for unity among God's followers. When God is fully glorified in every person's life, our lives operate wholly as God intended, and God's people are unified. We want to be a people who walk in union with God, communion with the saints and partnership with His mission!

Years ago, Trip Nine began to be called by God to utilize his expertise in web development and cybersecurity to share the gospel and build the Kingdom of God. Since then, he's begun building systems that can share the good news of Jesus with people in the farthest parts of the earth through digital media, and he's sharing these systems with us so that we can share Jesus' love with our city, nation...

Mark 6:45-56 tells the story of Jesus' disciples straining at the oars of their boat in a storm. Scripture says that He saw them from land and decided to go out to them (walking on water). The scariest sentence in the story is this: "He intended to pass by them." But when they raised their heads from their own futile efforts, saw Him and cried out to Him, "immediately He spoke with them and said t...

For 2023, we're sensing that God is calling us to renewed Unity of the Spirit. To be unified with the Spirit of God, and then with each other, it's imperative that we "drop our oars"—relinquishing our efforts and accomplishments that are made through our own strength and good works. Instead, we must rely on the power of the Holy Spirit. Isaiah 33:21 says, "But there [in the city of the Lord,] the...

This week, Mick Murray took us through the ministry of Elijah in 1 Kings 17–19 in a study about listening to God, and then we took some time to do just that—asking God what we need to let go from 2022 and what He has prepared for us in 2023.

There's no better way to start a new year than by worshiping God and re-surrendering to Him. Join us as we praise Him and consecrate the year 2023 to Him!

This Christmas, we pray that you experience the Good News, Great Joy and Peace on Earth that only Jesus can give. We love you! Merry Christmas!

Throughout this series, we've discussed the fact that we're unbelievably loved by God, and we've faced the reality that it can be hard to experience this truth in certain seasons. Luke 1 shows us that Mary may have experienced this very same thing. In a culture that valued young women very little, Mary had to be told multiple times by an angel of God, and again by her cousin, that she was blessed...

Walter Brueggeman, an Old Testament scholar, describes 3 stages common to all humans that we see in the Psalms—Orientation, when all is going well; Disorientation, when things seem to be falling apart; and Reorientation, when God is bringing new life out of what has died. In seasons of Disorientation, it can be hard to experience the presence and love of God. How can we move out of this stage to s...

As we read the story of the birth of Jesus in the book of Matthew, we see the author referring to Jesus as "the Child" many times. What we may not understand as 21st century readers is the social status of children in the 1st century—children and slaves were at the bottom of the social ladder. Yet when Herod heard from the wisemen about the child they were going to visit, he was frightened. And la...