Ethos Church

Spiritually Healthy Community   Healthy community was something that Jesus prayed for us, His future Church, to have and to be a part of. Just as He had with His Father and the Spirit. Because of this prayer, healthy community is available to us by way of the Holy Spirit, and we get to operate in it today, if we choose to. Spiritually healthy community takes work and is not easy. It calls us to be...

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

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

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

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

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

VISION SUNDAY 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

Come and See   Easter 2023: Following Christ demands faith but never blind faith. Come & See. "And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we ca...

The Opportunity to do Good   In Galatians 6, Paul calls us to share each other’s burdens and by doing so we obey the law of Christ. Loving people in theory is easy and beautiful but, in reality, is harsh and dreadful. If we want to be a community that lives out Paul’s call in Galatians, we must learn how to handle our own burdens. We also must recognize that our life is often too hurried to notice...

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

How the Gospel Builds a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Family   By the time we get to the fourth chapter of Galatians, we’ve reached the climax of everything that Paul has said so far. In fact, we have reached the climax of the Gospel. Sinclair Ferguson wrote, “The notion that we are the children of God, His own sons and daughters, is the mainspring of Christian living. Our sonship to God is the apex of cre...

Galatians // The Power of the Gospel 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

The Gift of the Father We have a hard time receiving grace because we live in a, “you get what you deserve world.” We think if we are good, God will be good to us. Without realizing it, we begin to believe our performance dictates how God feels about us. However, if we could make ourselves right with God or obey Him enough to deserve His kindness, Jesus would have died for nothing. By taking our e...

Outline of the Gospel It is very common in Christian circles to assume that “the Gospel” is something mainly for non-Christians. We see it as a set of basic “ABC” doctrines that are the way in which someone enters the Kingdom of God. We often assume that once we are converted, we don’t need to hear or study the gospel – we need more “advanced” material. But in this short letter to the churches in...

Training Your Mind Our mind, when left unattended, is being trained by the world whether we realize it or not. Everything we see, hear, and experience is training us to think a certain way; “This is how I should look”, “This is what success looks like”, “This is what will make me happy”. And the more we consume the content we are engaging in, whether healthy or unhealthy, the more we will create d...

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life Do you ever look at what is going on around you and wonder how to escape the negativity? Maybe it’s not your circumstances that need to change—it’s your mindset. Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind. The enemy knows this. The enemy will tell you that change is hopeless, that you are a victim of your circumstance and of your thought patterns. He...

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

I Have a Choice In modern psychology a discipline has developed called cognitive behavior therapy. It teaches that many problems from eating disorders to relational challenges, addictions, and even some forms of depression and anxiety are rooted in faulty and negative patterns of thinking. Treating these problems begins with changing what you think. Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinks in his hea...

The Heart of Our Habits That Matter Most Obedience is central to Jesus’ form of discipleship, as it was to other forms of discipleship within Judaism. But Jesus calls his followers to adhere to the motive behind obedience to God, not simply to carry out external compliance. Motives. Why do we do the good things that we do. "For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his S...

How Change Happens 92% of New Year’s resolutions fail by Valentine’s Day. 97% fail before the end of the year. You know that by now. But the desire to change, reset, make progress, and grow cannot be broken. We all desire to “get better”. There is something in the heart of humanity that wants another shot, to try again. But have you ever wondered, “Why don’t I do what I really want to do?” Well, y...

The Habit of Becoming It is not difficult to get a person interested in the message of the gospel, it is however, difficult to sustain the interest. Millions of people make decisions for Christ, but there is a dreadful attrition rate. In the words of Eugene Peterson, “Many claim to have been born again, but the evidence of mature Christian discipleship is slim.” In the Western Church there is a gr...

 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

Week 4 Advent // Love The work of advent is to believe that God loves the world enough to rescue it from oppression, evil, violence, and death. Many of us have been taught this in concept, and then heard Bible stories used to reinforce that the way God works is always – if there is enough faith or will – dramatic and immediate. We are taught to have faith and wait. But if you really have enough fa...

Week 3 Advent // Joy Read: Luke 1:39-55 When Mary finds out that she is pregnant, she goes to spend her first trimester with her elderly cousin, Elizabeth, who is in her last trimester. It is likely they are both, given their ages, in the midst of the most challenging parts of their respective pregnancies. It is from this place that they enter into community with one another. We might expect Eliza...

Week 2 Advent // Peace Read: Psalm 4 The consumerism, romanticism, and hallmark-ness of our Christmas season can often leave us feeling less than fulfilled. We, in light of the “season”, often force ourselves to live outside of the present realties in favor of performing a merry or joyful Christmas. This does violence to our souls. It prevents us from moving through pain in favor of moving around...