Lincoln Berean Church

Our good Father is calling us to a life of dependance on him in every aspect of life—especially those areas where we're at the end of our ability to control our little kingdoms.

There is an aspect to God's will that is hidden and will always be done, and an aspect that is revealed and is only done if we choose to submit to it.

Has God's kingdom always existed? Does he force anyone to acknowledge his rule and reign? How do you enter his kingdom if you don't think you're part of it?

Praying for God's name to be hallowed would completely change our own hearts, not to mention the whole world.

The first few words of the Lord's Prayer are more than an intro throwaway line made to prep you for the meat of the prayer.

Romans 1-8 showed us how deeply beautiful the gospel is for followers of Jesus, and that we should never settle for a lesser version of the good news.

The good news of the gospel means that despite what we experience in this world, nothing can separate us from the love of God in Jesus!

Because of what is true of us in Jesus, we no longer stand condemned, are adopted into the family of God, and can live according to the Spirit.

Where should we find our hope and strength in the midst of continued struggles with sin as imperfect human beings?

Death changes things. So why does our death to sin and the law not look or feel like freedom in Christ?

We are all slaves to something or someone, but Paul says only Jesus is the loving master we were created to serve.

The gospel isn't just good news for our future, it offers us the opportunity to walk in newness of life now.

Intellectually, we know that Jesus has defeated sin and death. But do our lives show that we still believe sin and death reign as the true king?

Being justified by grace through faith is more than simply a fact—it should result in living our lives differently.

If Abraham and David both have no standing before God because of their rock star religious status, maybe justification by faith really is good news.

Because justification comes by grace through faith and not works, we can give up our attempt to earn favor and compare ourselves to others.

The fact that our sin accentuates God's holiness is not an excuse to sin even more—our desperate need is met by Jesus alone.

God doesn't play favorites, so we all stand before him in desperate need of the salvation he offers—regardless of how good we think we are on our own.

The problem with the world isn't what is "out there"—it's the desperate need created by the problem of sin inside each of our own hearts.

Left to ourselves, we're lost. But Paul tells us that the gospel is God's response to what is wrong with the world.

Bryan shares his final message as a member of our staff and encourages us to remember that the same God who got us here will be faithful to lead us forward.

Bryan takes a little time to share five major themes we need to keep in mind as followers of Jesus in order to come to the end of our life and know we have finished well.

As humans, we don't love change, but our lives are full of it. How do we walk through change well as followers of Jesus?

Is giving something we're just called to begrudgingly do, or is it a means of God's grace to us that gives us a foretaste of heaven?