Beacon Church Podcast

Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. 

Merry Christmas!

We are meant to know who we are by being known.

Psalms 50 : 3 - 4, 7

Beacon 20th Anniversary

Anxiety shows up at the intersection of importance and impotence. when things are important, we value them. We see them as being important, and yet we see ourselves as being impotent to protect those things from threats. That's where anxiety lives.

Being thankful because his loss became our life. And that's the Thanksgiving story that always going to be worth telling.

1. Be Angry 2. And do not sin 3. Ponder in your own head's and be silent

1. Expression 2. Examination 3. Re-Imagination Psalm 77:3

The philistines left the land of Israel because of the fuze that Jonathan and his armor bearer set.

I must become lesser. He must become greater. That's the essence of surrender.

Be a model in such a way. Live with kind of integrity and the kind of truth telling, with the kind of compassion and understanding be a grace filled voice in their life to bring them back into the presence of Jesus, and then give them a kick to get them out to do everything that Jesus has for them to do.

A cord of three strands is not easily broken, and we can accomplish so much more together as a church than we ever could alone. So the journey is not just about a building it's about what we're building , which is each other.

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.