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Mark 16:1-16:8 View this week’s worship guide Jesus saves us from futility, gives our lives meaning and significance, because everything that is done in his name here matters. The resurrection changes everything. • This was what changed the world. • This changed the disciples. John said, “We saw him, we touched him” Do you believe?

Exodus 17:8-18:27 View this week’s worship guide We need power. We need to speak the good news. We need shared ministry. May God help become a healthy community of faith. We like Jethro and Moses and the elders, gather around one table. We also we rally around the cross, or banner, and we enjoy fellowship

Exodus 15:22-17:7 View this week’s worship guide Like Israel, we too are sojourners, who have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, who have crossed over to the other side by grace, and are now on the way to Promised Land. In this faith journey, in our wilderness, God is sanctifying us, and teaching

Exodus 13:17-15:21 Exodus is a book that magnifies the greatness of God. We see that there is none like him! He is God (Big “G!”), and there are no other gods. In this section of Scripture, the greatness of God is on display in majestic and merciful ways.

Exodus 12:1-13:16 View this week’s worship guide There are all kinds of stories that define us, give us meaning, give us purpose… but ultimately we unless it is this greater Passover/EXODUS…. The Gospel, we will spend our lives always trying to find something to fill what only that can fill and we will be left

Exodus 7:5-11:10 View this week’s worship guide One Dominant Question: Who Is Your God? In this section of Scripture, we meet the real God! This God is: Almighty – He rules over creation alone. Sovereign – His justice and his mercy are his choice. Jealous – He will not share his glory with another. Just

Exodus 5:1-7:7 View this week’s worship guide Notice there are two ways to “know the Lord” 1.Experience the Lord’s Mercy in Salvation (6:6-8) 2.Experience the Lord’s Wrath in Judgment (7:4-5) Everyone will eventually acknowledge that that He is Lord (cf., Phil. 2:10-11). God will deal with his enemies either by “drowning them” or redeeming them

Exodus 3:1-4:31 View this week’s worship guide 1. Know this God. This God has come to us in Jesus, the one who said “I am the door. I am the vine. I am the way, the truth, the life. I am the light of the world. I am the resurrection and the life.” Do you

Exodus 1:1-2:25 View this week’s worship guide Today we begin our 15-week series in the book of Exodus. “Exodus” means “Getting Out” or “Going Out” or “Delivered.” This is an epic tale of God’s deliverance of his people from Egypt’s cruel slavery. Every scene leaves you on the edge of your seat, from baby in

Mark 5:1-20 View this week’s worship guide When you become a Christian, you become a missionary because to be a Christian is to be a little Christ – and Christ was a missionary.

Mark 2:1-17 View this week’s worship guide While we will do some events to reach people, the regular strategy is very simple: befriending people and pointing them to Jesus. This is how everyone gets involved in the mission.

1 John 3:11-18 View this week’s worship guide Part of John’s purpose for writing is to provide assurance to his readers that they are children of God. He’s answering the questions, • “How do you know if you’re in the family of God?” • “How does one know if he or she is truly a

2 Peter 1:16-21 View this week’s worship guide Do we want to bring Glory to this Great King? Do we want to love the Scriptures? Then look to Christ and be found in Him, want to know Him and God as Jesus did… believer and unbeliever.

Philippians 2:5-11 View this week’s worship guide One New Year’s Resolution: Be Transformed by the Gospel…Know and Follow Jesus. As followers of the Lord Jesus, we should demonstrate his attitude of humble service and sacrifice. Be willing to sacrifice your rights and privileges in service to others, especially your brothers and sisters in Christ. Be

Galatians 6:11-18 View this week’s worship guide The cross has done for us what the flesh could not do; what keeping the law could not do: make us new people. The new creation has dawned with the coming of Christ; we live between the times of his comings. We will enjoy the blessing of the

Galatians 6:1-10 View this week’s worship guide Let’s be a people marked by: Gentle Restoration Humble Burden-Bearing Generous Sharing Personal Holiness Practical Goodness This is life in the Spirit.

Galatians 5:16-26 View this week’s worship guide Don’t hear this as a call to try harder to be a good person, this is a call to believe the gospel and commune with the Spirit… And you will have victory if you have the Spirit However, This is Only Possible in Christ, who is the Epitome

Galatians 5:1-15 View this week’s worship guide The Galatians started out terrific, but tanked… • The author of Hebrews says that weight and sin can hinder us. • But something else can as well: false teaching. Such is the case of the Galatians. They failed to understand how you live the Christian life, once you

Galatians 4:8-31 View this week’s worship guide When we try to turn from God and his gospel, it is like returning to a fifthly orphanage, the pit. This passage is all about learning to live as God’s children, in the freedom of grace and in the love of the Father. In these verses, Paul opens

Galatians 4:1-7 View this week’s worship guide Take the this message of adoption to the millions who need the Gospel more than anything. Some object: what about evangelism? What about it? If orphans were a country they would be the 5th-8th largest country. There are more orphans than people in Russia. If you decide to

Galatians 3:15-29 View this week’s worship guide How can the covenant promises to Abraham and Moses be true? In Jesus at the Cross – where Law and Promise meet, where the Law is fulfilled and the Gospel proclaimed. In the one who is both the seed of Abraham and the Fulfillment of Moses’ Law. And

Galatians 3:1-14 View this week’s worship guide Love the gospel. “God justifies the ungodly by faith.” Let justification be your good news when you are doubtful of God’s love or discouraged by the pressures of life. Share this gospel. It is for the nations. Live by the Spirit and faith. It’s how we entered, and

Galatians 2:15-21 View this week’s worship guide Everyone’s life is centered on something. What’s your life centered on? Money – if it is, then you’re on an emotional roller coaster Career – if it goes down the tubes, you’re gone Hobby – Talent – House I want to remind you of this basic truth that

Galatians 2:11-14 View this week’s worship guide The only message that can change me and make me the kind of person who accepts a hit to the cheek and turns the other one is the gospel. Remember, we follow the one that when he was reviled he did not revile in return. The answer for

Galatians 2:1-10 View this week’s worship guide In chapter 1, Paul described how his message came from Jesus not from any man. He explained how he received his message independently from the other apostles through revelation from Jesus. Because of this, he was no second-class apostle. In chapter 2, Paul describes how even though he