Missio Church - Bismarck

REMINDER: The Missio Church Podcast will be taking a pause for about a month. Please reach out to our office if you have any questions. Office # (701) 319-5986 | office@missio.life Verses Used: Ephesians 4:29 John 13:35 Proverbs 4:23 Luke 6:45 Proverbs 17:22 John 15:4 Takeaways: Encouragement over criticism. We build each other up with words of hope and truth; choosing to see the good and call it...

Verses Used: Psalm 23 Matthew 11:28-30 John 15 Takeaways: Rhythms over hustle. We embrace a Spirit-led pace of life, rooted in rest, presence, and intentionality; not burnout or busyness. Hustle culture looks like being hurried, emotionally unavailable, constantly exhausted, or always producing and striving. The Shepherd Leads Us God’s people are often described as sheep, possibly because they are...

Verses Used: James 1:22-25 Matthew 23:23 2 Corinthians 3:18 1 John 4:16 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 John 13:35 Takeaways: Information-based Christianity consumes content, debates theology, appears knowledgeable, and can still lack love. Transformational Christianity learns and applies the gospel, grows in patience and humility, shaped by grace and truth, and matures in love. Information Despite all the c...

Verses Used: Galatians 1:6-9; 3:1-9 Ephesians 2:8-9 Psalm 51:3-4 Takeaways: Grace is the Gospel The good news of Jesus (the gospel) is a message of grace, not of works. There are laws God gave through Moses. It included moral laws (do not murder, steal, and commit adultery), civil laws (laws about debt and restitutions, property boundaries, agricultural laws for caring for the poor), and ceremonia...

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Verses Used: John 4:19-30 Hebrews 3:12-13 Romans 1:16 Takeaways: Spiritual Conversation Jews believed the right place was Jerusalem because God authorized the temple there through David and Solomon, sacrifices were established there, and it remained central even after being rebuilt. Samaritans only believed the Pentateuch, so they rejected everything about Jerusalem. Samaritans believed the right...

Verses Used: John 4:1-18 Colossians 4:5-6 Ephesians 4:29 Jeremiah 2:13 Takeaways: Start the Conversation Mission often starts with ordinary conversation Discover the Deeper Desire Jesus listened closely to the woman at the well. Jesus knows she’s thirsty for something more than water. People are always expressing their deeper longings. Reveal the Wrong Well Jesus knows that the woman at the well h...

Verses Used: Luke 5:27-32 Isaiah 25:6-8 Takeaways: The Table has Always Been Significant Adam and Eve took their hunger to a place they were told not to. People have been taking their hunger to the wrong places ever since, but God redeems this. What happens at this “table”? A feast for all peoples, death is swallowed up, tears are wiped away, salvation is fully realized. Jesus takes an ordinary me...

Verses Used: 1 Corinthians 15:3-9 Romans 3:23 Romans 6:23 John 20:25-28 Ephesians 2:1-2 Takeaways: What Jesus Accomplished There is no forgiveness of sins without the death and resurrection of Jesus. This payment for our sins is a gift from God; it’s not something we earn, but something we receive. Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through C...

Verses Used: Matthew 21:1-11 Matthew 20:17-19 Zechariah 9:9 Matthew 5:38-39 Mathew 27:27-31 Romans 12:19 Takeaways: The King Come On His Terms (Control) Jesus doesn’t fit into our story - He invites us into His. Some of us aren’t rejecting Jesus - we’re just quietly frustrated that He’s not running our life the way we wish he would. The King is Humble (Humility) Jesus not only models humility - He...

Verses Used: Ephesians 2:1-10 Ephesians 1:4-5 Ephesians 1:5 Mark 10:45 Luke 9:23 John 16:8 Takeaways: Last week’s highlight is that: All people matter to God. Therefore, all people matter to us. You are not here by accident. No human life is an accident. If life is random, then purpose is something you have to create for yourself; but if God made and planned you, then your life is not an accident....

Verses Used: Genesis 1:26-28 Galatians 3:28 Isaiah 66:13 Matthew 23:37 2 Corinthians 3:18 Colossians 1:15 Takeaways: Made In God’s Image God exists in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit God is one God, existing in three distinct persons. Masculinity reflects attributes of God. Femininity reflects attributes of God. Together, humanity reflects the image of our Creator. Sin Dist...

Verses Used: Genesis 12:1-8 Galatians 3:13-14 Ephesians 1:3 John 14:26 Isaiah 49:6 Galatians 3:28 2 Timothy 1:9 1 Timothy 2:5 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 2 Peter 3:9-10 Isaiah 49:6 Revelation 7:9 Matthew 28:19 Acts 1:8 Takeaways: What is the Mission of the Triune God? To Bless and Restore Humanity God the Father is the source of blessing The Son (Jesus) is the ultimate fulfillment of God’s blessing The...

Verses Used: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Romans 1:16 John 20:21 Takeaways: Sometimes we reduce the gospel, the good news, to a moment instead of a movement, a decision instead of power, a transaction instead of a transformation, or personal forgiveness instead of expanding God’s Kingdom. Power of the Gospel God’s words have power, and his gospel has power. The gospel is power for salvation. It is freedo...

Verses Used: Matthew 11:28 Hebrews 12:11 Genesis 2:1-3 Isaiah 40:28 Exodus 20:8-11 Deuteronomy 5:15 Exodus 31:13 Colossians 2:16-17 Mark 1:35 Luke 5:16 Matthew 11 Takeaways: God Rested - Creation Adam and Eve’s first full day of life was not a work day - it was a rest day. Humanity was created to live from enjoyment, not from exhaustion. Sabbath is Given - Israel’s Rest By the people of Israel kee...

Verses Used: Matthew 11:28 Hebrews 12:11 Psalm 63:1-8 Mathew 6:5-13 Romans 8:15-16 Matthew 6:16-18 Takeaways: Prayer turns our hearts back toward God while fasting loosens our grip on what competes with Him. Both are ways of making space for Jesus. Prayer names our desire; fasting resets it. Prayer - Expressing Desire to God Adoration - Praising God for who He is Confession - Bringing our sin into...

Verses Used: Hebrews 12:11 Matthew 11:28 Luke 10:38-42 Matthew 7:21-23 Revelation 3:20 1 Timothy 3:16-17 Hebrews 4:12 Takeaways: Jesus invites us to a different way of life. A life of abiding. Jesus’ Availability Jesus and his disciples are on their way to Jerusalem. Jesus doesn’t say “I don’t have time”, “I’ll catch you on the way back”, or “my schedule is kind of full.” Jesus is available. He is...

Verses Used: Genesis 1:31 Genesis 3:23 Romans 3:23 Genesis 12:2-3 1 Peter 3:18 Acts 1:8 1 Corinthians 3:16 Revelation 21:3-5 Takeaways: We don’t just live life through facts and information - we live life through narrative, or storyformed. To be storyformed means that we are shaped by the stories we believe and live in. The story you believe about life becomes the lens through which you interpret...

Verses Used: Matthew 24:4-8, 30-31 Acts 1:11 Matthew 24:36 Revelation 20:11-15 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 2 Corinthians 5:10 Romans 8:1-2 Revelation 21:1-5 Romans 8:20-22 1 Corinthians 2:9 Isaiah 65:17 Takeaways: Scene 1: Second Coming Jesus came once in humility - He will come again in glory. Christians may differ on how Jesus may return. The main views include: Premillennial View - Jesus returns firs...

Verses Used: Acts 2:1-21 1 Corinthians 3:16 Acts 10:9-20,30-35 Acts 17:6 Takeaways: Scene 1: Pentecost God has been telling one story all along. These feast weren’t random holidays- they were signposts pointing to Jesus. At Sinai, the Law was written on stone - 3,000 people died because of sin. At Pentecost, the Spirit writes the Law on hearts - 3,000 people are made alive. We are now God’s temple...

Verses Used: Mark 15:16-39 John 1:29 1 Corinthians 5:7 Matthew 28:18-20 Takeaways: The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just a religious event - it’s the turning point of human history. The Cross The irony of this scene is that the truly guilty people were those accusing Jesus - and the only truly innocent person was the one who died. Jesus didn’t just die as an example - He died as a...

Verses Used: Matthew 3:1-2 Matthew 3:11-16 Matthew 5:3-12 Luke 4:18 Luke 19:10 Takeaways: Scene 1: John the Baptist The word repentance is translated from the Greek word, metanoia, which involves a changing of attitude, mindset, and direction. Why does Jesus want to be baptized: To fulfill all righteousness. Jesus was saying “This is part of the Father’s plan, and I’m going to obey it completely.”...

Verses Used: John 1:1-14 Luke 2:10-11 Luke 2:8-14 Romans 10:9-10 Takeaways: The Gift of a Savior Why was it necessary for Jesus to go through all the trouble on the cross? Because our biggest problem isn’t outside of us - it’s inside of us. Brokenness of our own hearts. Our sinfulness. Christmas is God saying “I know what you really need… even if you don’t.” Jesus - the gift we would never have as...

Verses Used: Luke 1:11-19 Isaiah 40:3 Luke 1:26-38 Matthew 1:19-20 Luke 2:6-20 Takeaways: Scene 1: Elizabeth God often begins His greatest work in the places we feel forgotten, disappointed, or barren. Have faith, pray, and lean into the God of the impossible. Scene 2: Mary We have seen over and over from the story that God uses people that we would not expect. Abraham, a nobody from a pagan land;...

Verses Used: 1 Samuel 8:6-20 1 Samuel 9:1-2 1 Samuel 16:1-3 1 Samuel 16:7 Acts 13:22 2 Kings 17:13-14 2 Chronicles 26:19-21 Jeremiah 29:10-14 Takeaways : This series of The Great Big Story is to cover themes from this story arc like: God has a plan to redeem and restore what is broken and seems hopeless God’s story is bigger, and better, than the one we try to write for ourselves Even when the wor...