Salt + Light Fort Worth

May 1 discussion on  Exodus 15:22-17:7, focusing in on trust.    https://www.saltandlightfw.com/home

Audio from our Baptism celebration on April 24.   https://www.saltandlightfw.com/home

April 17 discussion on Exodus 15:1-21 and "Easter: Jesus as the true & better Exodus."   https://www.saltandlightfw.com/home

March 27 discussion on Exodus 12-13 led by Ben Connelly.    https://www.saltandlightfw.com/home

March 20 discussion on the plagues of Egypt (Ex 7-11) led by Kurtis Freeman.    https://www.saltandlightfw.com/home

March 13 discussion on the plagues of Egypt (Exodus 7-11) led by Ben Fort.    https://www.saltandlightfw.com/home

March 6, 2022 discussion on Exodus 6 led by Ben Connelly.    https://www.saltandlightfw.com/home

February 27, 2022 discussion on Exodus chapter 5. Part of our spring/summer series through Exodus.    https://www.saltandlightfw.com/home

February 20, 2022 discussion on Exodus chapter 4. Part of our spring/summer series through Exodus. 

January 16, 2022 discussion on1 Peter 2 and Colossions 4 and how the gospel is good news for all our stories.  

Audio from our celebration and QA session at our One Year Family Meeting. Recognizing how the Father has moved since we started as a church family in 2021.

This week we are unpacking 1 Peter 3 about how the Gospel is good news for our suffering.  Salt + Light Community is a SOMA church meeting in the heart of FOrt Worth, TX.  Here you'll find discussions and teachings from our gatherings on Sunday afternoons.  https://www.saltandlightfw.com/

This week builds on, and culminates, the previous weeks’ themes: Jesus is God, yes. Jesus is with us, yes. And Jesus is God with us: he is the promised Messiah, the one true Immanuel. In him is grace and truth, in Jesus we see the every face of God. This week can zoom out to include other passages that help prove Jesus to be the promised Immanuel, and should help us see why it matters that God cam...

The light (Jesus) that John introduced in his opening words, came into our world — Jesus dwelled as a fully human man, with similar thoughts, feelings, and temptations as other humans face. He and engaged the very real brokenness that surround us, and wasn’t even received by the people he made, in the world he made. This week can zoom out to include other passages that help prove Jesus to be fully...

John’s gospel starts by showing readers that Jesus, clearly, is indeed God. As such, he is our creator, sustainer, and king — he is life and light, and the darkness will not overcome his light. This week can zoom out to include other passages that help prove Jesus to be fully God, and should help us see why it matters that Jesus is the one true, transcendent, eternal, perfect, good, righteous, hol...

On Thanksgiving, we end this series seeing that if God is the source of all good things, & is the power behind all answers/direction/fruit/salvation/provision/etc, our rite response in prayer is thanks/praise. While thankfulness and praise might be a common form of prayer taught today, for many it can become rote or routine; we can merely say words without giving God true (& his due) thank...

In part of Jesus’ High Priestly prayer (which we saw Oct 24) Jesus prayed for his followers. From this passage and others in the Gospels, we can learn from Jesus what and how to pray for our fellow Christians. The big themes in Jesus’ prayers for others are unity, togetherness, holiness, love, and (above all) God’s glory. As Jesus’ followers pray for others, we’re reminded of God’s ability over ou...

On the night of Jesus’ arrest, we get a glimpse of an all-to-real aspect of prayer for us, but one we don’t think of Jesus praying: He wrestled with God, struggled with God’s will, & ultimately was not granted his request. What do we do when God doesn’t answer? Where is God if evil and even death seem to win? This week we consider how to pray in the midst of suffering and anguish, and against...

Jesus spent a night in prayer before choosing his disciples, aligning his will with God the Father’s. There isn’t a decision in our lives that God doesn’t care for and reign over. So this week we consider Jesus’ example of listening to God — and actually trusting that God will answer!  This may be the hardest form of prayer in our hurried, self-reliant world. But biblical prayer is not a one-sided...

In part of Jesus’ High Priestly prayer (which we saw Oct 24) Jesus prayed for his followers. From this passage and others in the Gospels, we can learn from Jesus what and how to pray for our fellow Christians. The big themes in Jesus’ prayers for others are unity, togetherness, holiness, love, and (above all) God’s glory. As Jesus’ followers pray for others, we’re reminded of God’s ability over ou...

On the night Jesus was arrested, He prayed the longest-recorded prayer we have from Him. This week (Plant FW’s Church Planting Sunday & the week before we don’t gather but send folks to bless neighbors for Halloween), we focus on Jesus’ prayers for the world. Jesus declares his own role in displaying & declaring the gospel to unbelievers. Then He prays for His disciples as they follow His...

At Jesus’ baptism, we see his anointing, commissioning, and empowerment for ministry - but while often missed, that all happens as Jesus prays. Jesus invites God’s power, to fulfill God’s mission. The Holy Spirit descends, fills Him and empower Him for ministry. Later, after the apostles pray in Acts 1, the Spirit similarly descends in Acts 2, fills them, and empowers them for ministry. Different...

We kick off our Fall discussions by looking at Jesus’ most famous prayer. In “The Lord’s Prayer,” we see Jesus teach his followers to rely on God: Jesus declares that God alone (in his holiness, purpose, and provision) will meet both tangible and spiritual, needs.  “Asking God for things” is, perhaps, the most familiar form of prayer today — but as we discuss prayer for personal needs, we also sta...

In this final week of discussing Acts 2:42-47, we see that as history's first church grows into Spirit-led kingdom life, "the Lord added to their number daily those who are being saved". "The life and power of the Spirit for Christ in the believing community radiates the light of the kingdom, and thus draws people out from darkness" (Goheen and Bartholomew). We close by discussing three commitment...

As we enter into the first Fall together as a church family, we're zooming in on "who we are and what we do." This first week draw us back to the starting point of our church, & our collective life in Christ: “Being with Jesus.” We see in Acts 2:42, things that the early church devoted themselves to, in order to experience life in the Kingdom, by the Spirit. That “devotion” is the key to these...