ARCC Sermons

This is a Psalm about repentance and that it is beautifully wrapped up in a robust understanding of who God is and what He has done in saving us and bringing us to Himself in the first place! Repentance must be a part of the life of the believer!   DNA Questions: Discover How does Jacob help us better understand all of this? How does God ultimately put away His anger? What does it mean that God's...

One of the greatest things God could do for us is to give us a heart that matches the Psalmist in desire for the Lord. Psalm 84 helps us know what it means to be in the courts of the Lord. Blessed are those who trust in the Lord above all!   DNA Questions: Discover Why does the Psalmist include the stanza about sparrows finding a home? What does it mean to go from strength to strength? How are we...

There is a truth given to us by Jesus that we need to believe. It’s actually to our advantage that Christ would go to the Father SO that the Spirit could be sent to us. The hope in this series would be that we would come to believe this as ardently as Jesus, Himself AND that we would long to know and enjoy all that we have in the Person and work of the Holy Spirit of God.   DNA Questions: Discover...

There is a truth given to us by Jesus that we need to believe. It’s actually to our advantage that Christ would go to the Father SO that the Spirit could be sent to us. The hope in this series would be that we would come to believe this as ardently as Jesus, Himself AND that we would long to know and enjoy all that we have in the Person and work of the Holy Spirit of God.   DNA Questions - 1 Corin...

There is a truth given to us by Jesus that we need to believe. It’s actually to our advantage that Christ would go to the Father SO that the Spirit could be sent to us. The hope in this series would be that we would come to believe this as ardently as Jesus, Himself AND that we would long to know and enjoy all that we have in the Person and work of the Holy Spirit of God.   DNA Questions - 1 Corin...

There is a truth given to us by Jesus that we need to believe.  It’s actually to our advantage that Christ would go to the Father SO that the Spirit could be sent to us.  The hope in this series would be that we would come to believe this as ardently as Jesus, Himself AND that we would long to know and enjoy all that we have in the Person and work of the Holy Spirit of God. DNA Questions: Discover...

Sermon Outline - 1 Corinthians 7:25-40 Description: There is a truth given to us by Jesus that we need to believe. It’s actually to our advantage that Christ would go to the Father SO that the Spirit could be sent to us. The hope in this series would be that we would come to believe this as ardently as Jesus, Himself AND that we would long to know and enjoy all that we have in the Person and work...

Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church is a response to real questions by real people whom Paul knows and loves. 1 Corinthians is certainly a practical and theological answer to questions, but at its core, it is an example of shepherding a flock of sinners saved by grace. Answers are given, thoughts are expounded, and falsehoods are confronted with a heart that these people would experience grace...

Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church is a response to real questions by real people whom Paul knows and loves. 1 Corinthians is certainly a practical and theological answer to questions, but at its core, it is an example of shepherding a flock of sinners saved by grace. Answers are given, thoughts are expounded, and falsehoods are confronted with a heart that these people would experience grace...

Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church is a response to real questions by real people whom Paul knows and loves. 1 Corinthians is certainly a practical and theological answer to questions, but at its core, it is an example of shepherding a flock of sinners saved by grace. Answers are given, thoughts are expounded, and falsehoods are confronted with a heart that these people would experience grace...

Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church is a response to real questions by real people whom Paul knows and loves. 1 Corinthians is certainly a practical and theological answer to questions, but at its core, it is an example of shepherding a flock of sinners saved by grace. Answers are given, thoughts are expounded, and falsehoods are confronted with a heart that these people would experience grace...

Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church is a response to real questions by real people whom Paul knows and loves. 1 Corinthians is certainly a practical and theological answer to questions, but at its core, it is an example of shepherding a flock of sinners saved by grace. Answers are given, thoughts are expounded, and falsehoods are confronted with a heart that these people would experience grace...

Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church is a response to real questions by real people whom Paul knows and loves. 1 Corinthians is certainly a practical and theological answer to questions, but at its core, it is an example of shepherding a flock of sinners saved by grace. Answers are given, thoughts are expounded, and falsehoods are confronted with a heart that these people would experience grace...

Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church is a response to real questions by real people whom Paul knows and loves. 1 Corinthians is certainly a practical and theological answer to questions, but at its core, it is an example of shepherding a flock of sinners saved by grace. Answers are given, thoughts are expounded, and falsehoods are confronted with a heart that these people would experience grace...

Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church is a response to real questions by real people whom Paul knows and loves. 1 Corinthians is certainly a practical and theological answer to questions, but at its core, it is an example of shepherding a flock of sinners saved by grace. Answers are given, thoughts are expounded, and falsehoods are confronted with a heart that these people would experience grace...

Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church is a response to real questions by real people whom Paul knows and loves. 1 Corinthians is certainly a practical and theological answer to questions, but at its core, it is an example of shepherding a flock of sinners saved by grace. Answers are given, thoughts are expounded, and falsehoods are confronted with a heart that these people would experience grace...

Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church is a response to real questions by real people whom Paul knows and loves. 1 Corinthians is certainly practical and theological answers to questions, but at its core it is an example of shepherding a flock of sinners saved by grace. Answers are given, thoughts are expounded, falsehoods are confronted with a heart that these people would experienced grace and p...

DNA Questions: Ecclesiastes 7:1-14 Discover: What statement most contradicts your worldview from this passage? Why? Nurture: "Who can make straight what he has made crooked?" How does this question impact your view of life? Act: How does a text like this change how you approach the new year?

DNA Questions: Galatians 4:1-7 Discover: What is the connection between heirs and slaves that Paul is trying to make? What are "elementary principles" of the world? Why is the idea of "the fulness of time" so important to this text? Nurture: What elementary principles do you tend to fall back into? Why? How is our adoption as sons and daughters the answer to our enslavement to elementary principle...

DNA Questions: Romans 7:21 - Romans 8:8 Discover: What does Paul mean in verse 21 that evil lies close at hand? What is the "body of death" that Paul speaks of in verse 24? What or who is the Spirit of life? Nurture: In what ways do you relate to Paul in verses 21-25. What law of sin seems to hold you captive? How does the Spirit of life set one free from the law of sin and death? How does one set...

DNA Questions - Philippians 1:1-11 Discover: Meditate on verse one. How has this played out in your life? What does it mean to be in full accord and of one mind? What does Paul mean when he says that Christ Jesus did not count equality with God something to be grasped? Nurture: How would you know if you were doing things out of selfish ambition or conceit? Do you think you have ever done anything...

n our digital age, especially for our communication and information, we have never had a greater need to lean into the implications of the incarnation of Jesus…that is Jesus, as God, coming to be present in the flesh. The greatest purpose and meaning for this life begins and ends with our relationship to God and just under that would be our relationship to others. The key to both of those realitie...

DNA Questions - Mark 10:17-31 Discover: What are the assumptions that this young guys is making by asking Jesus such a question? What do we learn about "eternal life" from this story? What do we learn about Jesus from this story? Nurture: What things in your life do you use to protect the "one thing" that Jesus would point at in your life? What discouragement and sorrow and grief do you need to ho...