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And now in our text for this week, Paul begins to describe for us how caterpillars can fly, so to speak. He is asking us take this freedom mindset and see the new opportunities it presents to us and begin to live them out. That's why I'm calling this message freedom's new opportunity. Today Paul begins to get real specific about how those who now have this Christ-centered freedom he's been talking...

Today our Colossians text Paul is speaking to our mindset...our outlook....our perspective!!! Paul is fundamentally arguing for a change of mindset for these new believers. He's basically saying, " Christian...you have to start thinking about yourselves differently." He's trying to open their minds to their new reality "of being complete in Christ." Their old ways of thinking about how to find fav...

Today, we are continuing on in a series that we started on Easter titled "Christ Centered Freedom." In this series we are breaking down Paul's letter to the new Christian Church in the City of Colossae. As we discussed last week the city of Colossae was a lot like that of the United States. It consisted of a melting pot of worldviews and religions. The church was surrounded by a bunch of Greek cul...

Athletes often use the need for redemption from some past failures, mistakes or poor performances to motivate themselves to train and prepare. For example, teams who blow large leads and lose to a team they are favored over try to come back the next week and redeem themselves. They try to perform better to make up for their failures earlier. In instances like these, it seems that athletes, teams,...

Today I want to wrap up our "From Garden to Glory" series by talking about the Big Idea of the entire Bible! Though we have seen that the Bible is written over the course of two centuries, by thirty-seven authors, in sixty-six books, and though it doesn't always read chronologically and isn't always easily understood, there is an overall unifying theme that reveals it's ultimate author's purpose a...

Welcome to Session #9 of our 10-part series I'm calling From Garden to Glory: Getting and Overview and Grasping the Big Idea of the Bible. We've been stepping through the Nine main eras of the Older Testament and these last few weeks we have stepped through the first two eras of the New Testament called the Gospel era and Church era. Today we're spending some time in the final era-the missions era...

Last week in our Bible overview we stepped into the New Testament and began to look at the Gospel era. In the chart on your note section today, we covered that first column called the Gospel era. Today, we take another step into the history of the NT in order to get an understanding of the beginnings of the church in the next column called the "Church era."

From the time of Malachi more than 400 years pass before the storyline of God is picked up again in the times of the New Testament. These 400 years have come to be referred to as the Silent Years or the time between the Testaments. It seems best to understand "silent" to mean that while God still moved among his faithful, inspiring and leading them, he didn't inspire anyone to write additional wri...

Welcome back to week 6 of our series: From Garden to Glory where we are trying to get a broad overview and high level perspective of the Bible. Though we are not unpacking specific verses we have been able to identify major themes and broad sweeping life lessons from this high level pass over the Bible. On your sermon note page today I placed the chart that I presented to you week one. Take a look...

Today we will be traveling the final leg of our journey over the peaks of Israel's history recorded in the Older Testament. From our flight plan chart I handed out a few weeks ago, here is the specific plan for this leg of the journey. Just like last week I don't want us to get distracted by the events...rather I want us to reflect on how the themes of this sweeping history apply to our lives.

From the very moment Adam and Eve rebelled against God's boundaries in the Garden of Eden, God's primary focus is on a plan of redemption. God desires a people through whom he can work to produce a reflection of himself, and through whom he can spread the message of his redemptive plan through the world. The redemptive strategy all starts on the River Euphrates, in a town called Ur. One day a man...

This week I want us to press the pause button on the map and zoom in a bit closer to take a look at Genesis 1-11. As we saw last week in our chart of the Nine Eras of Israel's History there are four major movements in these opening eleven chapters of Genesis: Creation, Fall, Flood, Tower of Babel (Nations). Open to Genesis one. And let's get a glimpse of the general sequence.

Introduction: Intro: When I lived in Colorado during graduate school I learned that there are 53 "Fourteeners" in all in Colorado-peaks 14k high or higher. When you live in the Denver area there are many spots where you can see the large panorama of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. But, it's difficult to pic out which peaks are "Fourteeners" and which one's are not. It's difficult until the...

Today we begin a new series. I'm really excited about it because I've never done anything quite like it. As you know, usually I teach out of the Bible...but in this series I'm going to be teaching about the Bible. I'm calling this series: From Garden to Glory-An Overview of the Bible. This is going to be a macro-look at our entire Bible...Big picture, structure, major segments and major themes, ge...

Today I want to conclude my series on the Lordship Resolution by asking the question: What are the signs of a sensible steward? How will you and I know if we're being sensible stewards as God calls us to be?

We are entering week three of this New Year. The New Year is a time when we tend to give more thought to our ways, thought to how we're doing life and for many, giving thought to how we are journeying with Jesus. As a result, we've been talking about an important resolution for Christians, the Lordship Resolution! We've been learning that Jesus didn't just come to die and rise again to be Lord of...

Now, today I want to ask the question, "Why is Lordship Necessary?" "What are the benefits of choosing to make Jesus Lord of your Life?" What difference is it going to make for you? How is it going to impact your daily experience of life? I want to talk about two benefits this week and two other benefits next week. The first benefit is that...

As we turn the corner on a New Year it's the perfect time to give thought to our ways-give thought to our lives, our habits, to our understanding and our ways of doing things. If Christmas is the season of giving...The New Year is the season of reflection and resolutions. This morning I am beginning a four part series I'm calling the Lordship Resolution. I'm not sure what types of resolutions you...

Today, I want to talk with you about Christ as our Healer. Let me share a couple of true stories with you. The first story is about a woman named Sue that I was friends with at my church in Chico. Sue discovered a lump in her breast. Second story is our friend Steve Luster, a good friend at re:new and our head greeter.

I don’t have a problem with being busy. You look at an average day of Jesus’ life; it was probably busier than most of ours. However, it also contained margin, balance, and silence. The problem I have is that we make our business and our productivity into our identity. The problem I have is that we allow our business, title, and job become the thing that gives us value. We are willing to sacrifice...

did you also know that when you grow in your intimacy with God, you also make yourself vulnerable as well? Wait, what? You might be thinking, “I thought the closer we got to God the more protected we were. I thought if I walked close with God, he would protect me from bad things and hard things. I thought if a person followed Jesus closely bad things won’t happen to good people.” Not so! In fact,...