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07/20/2025                 Summer Road Trip Playlist Psalm 42 Hope In Spiritual Drought Big Idea: When your soul feels dry, hope in God brings refreshment. Spiritual thirst isn’t a failure, it’s a signal. Does your soul “pant” for God, or something else? When you face a spiritual and emotional wilderness, remember: 1. God invites honesty in spiritual drought. v3-5a What have you been afraid to adm...

07/13/2025                 Summer Road Trip Playlist Psalm 27                   Courage For The Road Ahead Big Idea: When fear chases you down, confidence in God gives you strength. What FEAR is chasing after you right now or recently? Who is the Lord to you in your life? Do you live it? For David, the Lord is: 1. My light (truth and purity) (“God is with you.”) Psalm 119:105; John 8:12. Where in...

07/06/2025                 Summer Road Trip Playlist Psalm 23                    God Leads The Way Big Idea: God’s presence provides peace for our journey. We are redeemed for God’s glory. Peace comes from staying close to the Shepherd. The Lord is our Shepherd and King who is our : 1. Provider (23:1-3) also see John 10:11, 27-28 v1 - God ALWAYS gives us EXACTLY what we need, EXACTLY when we we ne...

06/29/2025                 Summer Road Trip Playlist Psalm 1: Start Here Your direction determines your destination - build your life on God’s Word. Choose the road that pleases God (v1). You tend to become most like the people you hangout with. 1. Say yes to God’s Word. 2. Say yes to God’s wisdom (v2). Meditation = to think over something by talking to oneself. See Joshua 1:8 3. Say yes to God’s...

06/22/2025 | Gossip Gossip defined: Gossip is sharing information about someone else that is not yours to share, especially when it’s harmful or unnecessary, and especially when the person is not present. Proverbs 8:18 “A gossip’s words are like choice food that goes down to one’s innermost parts.” See also Rom 1:29, Matt 12:36 and Proverbs 16:28 What Gossip Is Not : 1. Seeking counsel to resolve...

06/15/2025 Words of Worship | SHABACH “To shout, to commend, to triumphantly declare. It’s praise that is loud, confident, and contagious.” David’s SHABACH - Psalm 145 Psalm 145:3 The Lord is great and greatly (HALAL) to be praised, His greatness is searchable. Psalm 145:4 One generation will declare Your works (SHABACH) to the next, and shall declare Your mighty acts. “What we do in life echoes i...

06/08/2025 Words of Worship | BARAK BARAK - The posture of praise; “to kneel, to bless, to bow in reverence” Worship isn’t just for the good days… The Example of Job - Job Chapters 1-2 Job 1:21 “The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. Blessed be the Name of the LORD” Psalm 34:12; Habakkuk 3:18; Job 2:10 How do we respond to God in the face of adversity? On the worst day of your life, will you pra...

06/01/2025 Words of Worship | TOWDAH “An extension of the hand in thanksgiving; a sacrifice of praise offered in faith - often before the outcome is seen.” Do you praise and thank God from the darkness? Are you grateful for the darkness? See Psalm 56: 10-12 JONAH & TOWDAH - Jonah 2 Even in the midst of Jonah’s disobedience, God leveraged the circumstances for His glory. As a result, Jonah repe...

05/25/2025 Words of Worship | HALAL HALAL: “An exuberant expression of celebration, a word that connotes boasting, raving, or celebrating.” HALAL is the primary Hebrew word for praise, from which we get the word: “Halleu” = praise and “yah” = YAHWEH. Literally, it means “Praise God”. Read 2 Samuel 6 Is there a desperation in our hearts for the LORD? 1. We’re more framed by culture than we are by C...

05/18/2025 | Vision Sunday Elders - Lead Ministry Deacons/Directors - Facilitate Ministry Partners - Do Ministry SYSTEMS - PROCESSES - STRUCTURE Deepening Discipleship Scorecard for Spiritual Health (Church-wide) What’s Next? ( Looking Ahead) Ephesians 3:20-21

05/11/2025 | Words of Worship | YADAH Worship is not about the position of your body, it’s about the posture of your heart. YADAH: “ To revere or worship with extended hands. To hold out the hands. To throw a stone around arrow.” YADAH is about a posture of trust. When is the last time you praised God for the thing He hasn’t given you yet? What battle are you facing right now? What situation feels...

05/04/2025 | Words of Worship | Music & Songs What is Worship? ZAMAR is used 45 times in 41 verses in the Old Testament, 37 of which are in the Book of Psalms. It means to sing, sing praise, make music in order to glorify God. Zamar prepares our hearts to hear from God. TEHILLAH is a Hebrew word that encourages us to sing praise to God. It means praise, song or hymn of praise. It is used 57 ti...

04-27-2025 Genesis 12:1-20   Famine in the Calling Calling: Self-calling vs God-Calling God calls us where we are, to use us as we are…For His purpose.  We are to be God’s ambassadors, to always be ready, in and out of season, to preach His Gospel. (John 15: 18-20) Self-calling: self focused; self powered; self glory God calling: God focused; God powered; God’s glory Famine - our response (Genesis...

04/20/2025 Matthew 28: 1-9     The Empty Tomb The Resurrection isn’t just a story to believe in, it’s a Savior to respond to. The defining moment of an empty tomb: The empty tomb changed everything. The Resurrection was not a surprise, Jesus foretold it many times during His ministry. When we come face-to-face with the empty tomb, we come face-to-face with the risen Savior. Roman 3:23; 6:23 (Reali...

04/13/2025 Luke 22: 39-46       Choosing Surrender The defining moment of surrender comes in choosing God’s will over our will. Two Gardens and the Battle of Surrender The First Garden: Eden (Genesis 2-3) Surrender point: Not Your will, but mine be done. The Second Garden: Gethsemane (Luke 22:39-46) Surrender point: Not my will, but Your will be done. Everyday Garden Moments What are you willing t...

04/06/2025 2 Samuel 11, 12  Facing Failure The defining moment in your failure is found in responding in repentance and surrender. Remember, failure is an event, not a destination. Failure is not fatal. Steps to getting stuck in the trap of sin: Think it -> want it -> do it -> pay for it. (Psalm 32; 2 Cor 10:5) David’s Defining Moment (read 2 Samuel 11, 12) 1 Cor 10:12 “if you think you a...

03/30/2025 Genesis 39        Joseph’s Defining Moment Titus 3:3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions & pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. Winning the War Against Temptation: 1 Cor 10:13 Temptation is not a sin. You can choose your sin, but you cannot choose the consequences. 1. Surrender you...

03/23/2025 Genesis 45;50 Choosing to forgive Forgiveness is a defining moment that frees us from bitterness and aligns our hearts with God’s grace. Unforgiveness traps us in the past, while forgiveness frees us for the future. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was yourself. Living with unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Jo...

03/16/2025 Genesis 12 Abram’s Defining Moment When faced with the defining moment of the unknown, trust God’s promises and walk in obedience. God called Abram to step into the unknown. (Gen 12:1) Abram was chosen by God, not because of who Abram was, but because of who God is. God gave Abram a command, “Go”, and a promise. Abram’s response was to surrender to God’s call. (Heb 11:8) 1. Trust requir...

03/09/2025 | Revelation 21:3 “Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: ‘Look, God’s dwelling is with humanity, and He will live with them. They will be His peoples, and God Himself will be with them and will be their God’. “ Responding  to the Gospel involves: Genuine confession (Rom 3:23, 6:23).                             Genuine repentance                                                      ...

03/02/2025 John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live…”. God’s perfect timing fulfills His purpose for His glory and reveals His love for us. What we expect God to do is not always what God actually does. Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life —> John 11 Every difficulty is an opportunity The difficulties may not b...

02/23/2025 Hebrews 4:15   For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Jesus is the Great High Priest who has made the way for us to be with the Father. The role of the High Priest in the Old Testament: Three primary responsibilities: 1. Mediation - Our representative to God 2. Sacrifice...

02/16/2025 Matthew 9: 12-13 “Now when He heard this, He said ‘It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Jesus specializes in choosing people the world overlooks. Who are the outcast in your life? How have you responded to them? Jesus and outcasts: 1. Je...

02/09/2025 2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” What if we spend our whole lives running hard, only to realize we were in the wrong race? What race are you running in life? Mk 8:36; 1 Tim 1:15 To run the right race… 1. Start by trusting Jesus as Savior. Rom 3:23; 6;23; 10:9; 1 Jn 1:8,10 The Gospel: a. Keeps us humble b. Reminds us that we a...

02-02-2025 1 Corinthians 1:10 “I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.” Euphony: a pleasing or sweet sound; harmony Cacophony: an incongruous or chaotic mixture or sound Romans 16 - Paul took time to develop and...