Evergreen Christian Community

The Big Idea: If you’re a Christian, you are in the ministry. Colossians 1:24-2:3 Five Impactful Topics For Your Lifetime: 1. The Right Perspective (attitude) • Colossians 1:24-25 2. The Right Message • Colossians 1:25 • “The Word of God in all its fullness.” 3. The Right Methods • Colossians 1:28-29 4. The Right Goal • Colossians 1:28-2:3 5. The Right Power Source • Colossians 1:29 • “To this end...

Proverbs 4:1-9, 20-27

Colossians 1:24-29 THE BIG IDEA: Nothing shows your world Jesus more effectively than how you handle suffering. Two Important Teachings For Today: 1. Why suffering will always be part of following Jesus. • Philippians 1:29 • A Christianity without suffering puts the Christian, not Christ, as the focal point of its faith. 2. How we can experience joy in suffering. • “I rejoice” - “chairo” - a state...

Judges 6:11-14

Colossians 1:13-23 The Big Idea: Everything comes from, exists for, and finds completeness in Jesus. Colossians 1:13-14 The Gospel Truth About You: • You are not enslaved * • You have access to limitless resources * Colossians 1:15-18 Three Reasons Jesus is All You Need: 1. Jesus is God. 2. Jesus is the point. 3. Jesus redeems everything. Colossians 1:18-22 Even God has a Conditional Clause. Here...

The Big Idea: Alone I cannot win but in Christ I cannot lose. Colossians 1:9-14 Two Powerful Prayer Requests: 1. That God make you smart. 2. That God make you strong. How is this possible? • You have been delivered from being dominated. • You have been carried into God’s Kingdom.

The Big Idea: Good parenting doesn’t major on correction or control, but on construction. Proverbs 22:6 Parents need revelation from God for two reasons: 1. Without revelation, we will lose our resolve. 2. Without revelation, we will lose our way. Ephesians 6:4 Top five things your kids really want to know: 1. Do you LOVE me? 2. Can we TRUST each other? - 5 Trust Robbers: • Judging by appearance •...

Big Idea: The best thing I can do for my marriage is experience the peace of God. John 4:9-14 We look for relationships, status, and careers to bring us contentment. Water throughout Scripture: • Garden of Eden • Jacob’s Well • Woman at the well • Revelation John 4:16-17 The temptation we all face is to try and control the people around us. Genesis 2:10 Brokenness entered the world. Revelation 22:...

Series Big Idea: The greatest single thing you can do to glorify God and change the world is to experience and offer shalom in your home. Shalom in the home is the birthplace of world transformation. The Big Idea: To enjoy shalom in my home, I must first enjoy shalom in me. Two main reasons I lack shalom: 1. The problem of expectations. 2. Shalom is an inside job. Romans 8:1 Romans 8:5-8 The New T...

Woke, 3- Words Create Worlds Jim Ladd, June 21, 2020 The Big Idea: Words create worlds. James 3:2-12 James 1:26-27 Our communication tends to be: • Inflammatory • Contentious • Demonizing The Power of Words: Proverbs 18:21 “Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit - you choose.” Proverbs 12:18 Proverbs 15:1 Proverbs 15:4 Ask yourself: What is the end game that you want to be abo...

Big Idea: If we think we don’t have any stereotypes, we probably have a lot. John 4:19-24 Silence speaks. Implicit bias is the attitudes and stereotypes we don’t realize we have. John 4:6-9 Racism is based on a feeling of superiority. Jesus started a conversation. John 4:17-18 John 4:22-23 Jesus came to bring unity to all people.

Ezekiel 3:14-15 Matthew 11:29 Listen to those in pain and listen to God. Three goals: Theology of race Biblical understanding of racism Biblical call to civility in chaos Galatians 3:28 Galatians 3:27 In the beginning: Genesis 1:26-27 1. We were made. (created) 2. We were made in the image of God. Searching for purpose apart from a relationship with God is like searching for answers where there ar...

It's time we had a much overdue, necessary, and uncomfortable conversation. It's time we make bridges instead of burning them. It's time we shake hands instead of beat our fists. It's time. It's time we lament. It's time we seek reconciliation and restoration. It's time we pray for healing. It's time we pray. Join Archbishop Lorenzo Peterson, Pastor Jon Cobler, and Pastor Jim Ladd for a conversati...

Acts 1:8 Every Christian is a pentecostal. Romans 8:9 The Big Idea: Trusting in self-effort kills the transforming power of God’s grace in your life. Galatians 3:1-13 We are asked three very powerful questions: 1. Did you experience new birth in Jesus by self-effort or by the Holy Spirit? 2. After being born this way, are you trying to live this new life by self-effort? 3. Does God do miracles and...

The Big Idea: Only the source of all blessing can show us the path to true happiness. Matthew 5:3-12 True happiness is found in the circumstances God provides through this pathway - through Christ, himself. Blessings given to every Christian walking the pathway: • They possess the Kingdom of Heaven • They inherit the earth • They are comforted and satisfied • They receive mercy • They see God and...

The Big Idea: A relationship with Jesus is built on one, uncompromising decision: obedience above everything. Matthew 7:21-27 Two unacceptable alternatives: 1. Merely verbal confession 2. Merely intellectual knowledge A verbal confession without obedience still sounds impressive. Jesus’ confession is terrifying. Knowledge with obedience separates the wise from the foolish. The wise and the fool: •...