Ashley Ridge Church

Matthew 16:21-28 Jesus set a clear trajectory for himself and for everyone who would come after him - it's just not exactly what we may have planned for ourselves. How are we charting our course? Do we know where we're heading? Are we asking the right set of questions?

Matthew 4:1-11 Most of life isn't lived on the mountain top. The truth is that we will be tested. Do we know how to respond?

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 It’s no small thing to say “Yes” to God.... but what happens when you do?

Joshua 24:15-24 We like options, but too many options, and lingering options can be overwhelming. So what do you do when you don't know what to do?

Matthew 7:3-5 Grace is the unsettling solution to just about everything. This Christmas, we could be part of the unsettling solution and, it could be amazing.

Matthew 20:1-16 Grace is better than fair.

John 1:14 & Luke 23:32-43 There is an unsettling solution for just about everything, and we can sum it up in one word. Grace. It’s the undeserved, unearned, unearnable favor that Jesus came to offer us. So why wouldn’t we want Christianity to be true? And where should you start if it’s a word that was never part of the equation for you?

1 Timothy 6:17-19 Superpowers stay untapped because of the illusion of comfort. The opposite of comfort isn't discomfort - it's GENEROSITY. We can pursue comfort or we can pursue generosity, but only one of those things is real.

2 Corinthians 1:3-5 We have superpowers. We should use them. God, the Father of compassion, comforts us so that we can comfort others.

John 1:1-5 and Ephesians 4:29 We have superpowers. We should use them.

Ephesians 3:14-21 and 4:30-32 We have superpowers. We should use them.

How do we fight our battles? God gives us the tools we need, but we have to use them.

James 1:1-4 Life will knock you down. We fight to get back up because we know what we're fighting for.

1 Timothy 4:7-12 - Fighting the good fight requires a different set of muscles, but those muscles need training and work like the rest if their going to function at peak performance.

1 Timothy 1:18-19 and 6:11-12 The world doesn't need fewer fights, it needs better fighters. Fighting the good fight starts with knowing what we're fighting for.

Luke 12:32-34 - We can have more stuff or we can have more stories. Jesus says one is better than the other and it's our tranquility that is at stake.

Luke 12:27-31 Stress is bad. Too many times our default setting is to manage stress instead of eliminate it. But what if the opposite of management is margin? What if margin is the land where relationships thrive and stress dies?

Ecclesiastes 4:6 and Luke 12:13-26 If our money could talk, it would tell us a lot about our anxiety and stress levels. What if the things Jesus had to say about money could help us trade our worry for wisdom and find freedom in the margins?

Sometimes we celebrate each other’s struggles…because it makes us feel better about our own. But deep down we're all the same, only different. It’s going to take all of us TOGETHER to get the job done. So what's God's plan? 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 (NLT)

Ecclesiastes 2 and 1 Corinthians 15 It's Labor Day weekend and we want to talk about your labor. Does work feel meaningless? Has cynicism crept into your life along with a weariness of it all? It doesn't have to be that way. God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet, not hard hearts and soft feet - and Jesus makes all the difference between the two.

The Church is remarkable. And against all odds, it changed the world. There is still a great deal that needs changing. By God’s grace and with your help, perhaps we can be a small part of bringing about that change.

Matthew 25:14-30 What will we do with what God has given us?

In a culture of slactivists and martyrs, Jesus is looking for the doers. Will we be found among the overwhelmed and debilitated, the busy and unaffected, or the present and purposeful? Matthew 25:14-46 (NLT)

Psalm 133 We all want to live our best life and we want to focus on the good stuff. Do we know what the good stuff is? More importantly, are we willing to fight for it?