Ethos Church

The journey of genuine transformation to emotionally healthy spirituality begins with a commitment to allow yourself to feel. Feelings are an essential part of our humanity and unique personhood as men and women created in God's image. Scripture reveals Jesus as an emotional being who feels as a person. Having been created in His image, we also are created with the gift to feel and experience emot...

Without a theological and practical understanding of limits, we compromise our ability to love God, ourselves, and others over the long haul of our lives. Understanding the limits that are on our lives is a good thing and a deeply spiritual issue as well. It is true that some people need to become more aware of being lazy but for most people, we spend much of our time doing things beyond our limit...

Why are so many of us living lives with deeply entrenched parts of us apparently untouched by the power and mercy of Jesus? For most of us, it is due to a resistance to looking at our own past and unwillingness to wrestle with its implications. As a result, we limit our spiritual maturity and struggle to grow in healthy relationships. Scripture and life teach us that an intricate, complex relation...

The journey of genuine transformation to emotionally healthy spirituality begins with a commitment to allow yourself to feel. Feelings are an essential part of our humanity and unique personhood as men and women created in God's image. Scripture reveals Jesus as an emotional being who feels as a person. Having been created in his image, we also are created with the gift to feel and experience emot...

The journey of genuine transformation to emotionally healthy spirituality begins with a commitment to allow yourself to feel. Feelings are an essential part of our humanity and unique personhood as men and women created in God's image. Scripture reveals Jesus as an emotional being who feels as a person. Having been created in his image, we also are created with the gift to feel and experience emot...

We hear the language “follower of Jesus” all the time, but what does it really mean? Put simply, it means we reorganize our life around three goals; be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did. That’s it. But that is an entire life’s pursuit, it does not happen overnight. It is not about trying, it is about training, and it is not just an event on a Sunday, but a “way” of life in commu...

As we move forward together as followers of Jesus, we need partners for this journey, a community to help us along the way. Jesus invites all who follow him to be a part of a new family. This family of God is not a social club or a group of friends who look, think, and talk similarly. But rather a community of people committed to following Jesus’ way of life. And despite the work it takes, the fig...

Jesus likened his community to a family. At first this sounds nice and even sentimental, but actually this was one of Jesus’ most radical ideas, one that got him killed. It was radical in the first century, and it’s just as radical in the 21st century. In this teaching we will discover and learn why. “Jesus replied, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” Then He looked at those around him and sa...

Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference. EthosOH.com Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community ServeColumbus.org

Much has been said and written about the differences between each generation in our nation. Unfortunately, there is a generational divide that inhibits God’s people from working together on God’s agenda, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this teaching, we are exploring what it would take and what it could look like for a community of Jesus followers to be so committed to passing the baton of...

You may not realize this, but God desires to speak directly to you, and He wants to be in constant and continual conversation with us. We must let the simple understanding that God wants real communication with us, sink in and grab hold of our hearts. Once we do that, understanding and recognizing His voice becomes natural and easy. And we begin to see that communication with God is just as much o...

Archbishop William Temple was famously quoted as saying, “When I pray, coincidences happen, when I stop praying, the coincidences stop happening.” When we reflect on our lives and the times when we have prayed or neglected prayer, many of us would say the same thing. Prayer means many things to many people, but at its simplest and most immediate, it means asking God for help. In fact, God not only...

Have you ever felt like prayer is for everyone, except for you, a normal person? Often when we pray, we expect God’s voice to boom like thunder...but mostly, He whispers. We expect Him to wear tap dancing shoes that we can hear coming down the hall, but He tiptoes and hides from the crowd. We expect Him to be strange, but He comes to us disguised as our life. Prayer is far more normal than we real...

Prayer is a vast subject, of which there are no experts (besides Jesus, of course). As a community, we are spending the next four weeks on prayer while recognizing that we could easily spend forty weeks on this subject. Therefore, we want to narrow this down a bit. This series is aimed at new Christians and ordinary followers of Jesus who may not have studied theology and do not consider themselve...

Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference. EthosOH.com Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community ServeColumbus.org

“but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth” - Acts 1:8 NASB Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, &am...

When thinking on purpose in life, we tend to immediately think on, “my purpose.” When truly, pursuing purpose in life is all in pursuing God’s purpose for our lives, not our own. We tend to want to know the big grandiose picture of what our purpose is supposed to be while we are here on this earth. And all God asks of us is to say yes to His daily instructions and to trust Him, and He will be fait...

As James wraps up his letter, he emphasizes the importance of prayer and faith. Throughout the Book of James series, we have received practical teaching and instruction to help us grow and live purpose-filled lives for God’s glory, but we cannot walk it out in our own strength. We need the power and presence of God, so we must pray! And we need faith in order to break through the natural into the...

In the church at Jerusalem who James was writing to, there was some major fighting, problems, conflict, and drama. Unfortunately, not unlike what churches across the world still experience today. This is why a lot of people never give church a chance. Many people are open to God, they’re just turned off by His church. Not only do we fight with people within the church – we fight with people outsid...

In James 3, James teaches us how powerful our tongues are. Like a rudder that steers a large ship, or a spark that turns into a forest fire, our tongues have the power to impact lives around us. Not only are they powerful, but they are also difficult to control. We’ve seen how destructive words can be, but the power of our tongues can also be used to give life and build people up. However, we know...

James 2 says we must not show favoritism, but, instead, love our neighbor as ourselves. We cater to certain groups of people in hopes of getting something from them - Jesus served all people to give something to them. The enemy wants to divide the Church, and we need to be intentional and diligent to preserve our unity. We have to fight together against division. James examines five basic Christia...

The Book of James was written to a church that was scattered and couldn’t meet all together due to circumstances beyond their control. We’re still experiencing a similar separation as a church today. In difficult times like these, trials and temptations are inevitable, but God will empower us to persevere as we live out our faith and grow spiritually mature. This is what the book of James is all a...

If you grew up in church, you’ve probably heard that, in the “end times”, the earth and everything in it is going to be destroyed. If you believe that the whole world is just going to burn up in the end, all this talk about work and rest really won’t make a ton of sense. However, this view of ultimate world destruction doesn’t seem to be consistent with the rest of scripture, nor does it seem to f...

Workaholism is one of the ten commandments we brag about breaking. We work more than ever before. We have more than ever before. And yet, we are more miserable than ever before. Michael Zigaralle, from Charleston University School of Business, surveyed more than twenty thousand Christians in North America and found that busyness is the number one major distraction to Christian’s lives with God. Th...

Over the past few weeks, we have been unpacking God’s vision for your work. However, we need to address the danger to this vision of work because if you embrace the vision of God for work, odds are, you will make money. And when we make money, when we receive a paycheck, it’s really easy to get sucked into this cycle: Work more, buy more, repeat. But the end result is a stressed out, anxiety laden...