The Compass Church

This story of Jonah is known by chapter two. In this chapter, Jonah is swallowed by the fish and spends three days pondering God and God’s pursuit of him in this midst of Jonah's “fish belly crisis.” Jonah chapter two is a prayer that Jonah prays before the fish vomits him up on the beach to go where God initially called Jonah to go: Nineveh. What does Jonah's prayer teach us? Let's find out...

Jonah was a prophet whom God used to teach us through his life. Many of us have heard about Jonah and the whale, but there is so much more to this book beyond the whale that speaks directly to the fact that we are all “like Jonah.” Jonah was sent to the Assyrian capital, the city of Nineveh, a cruel people who brutalized Israel, and yet God called Jonah into Nineveh. Jonah's response: run the othe...

In today's message, we talk about what discipleship is, as well as spend some time examining our own lives to determine where we are presently at in our own spiritual journey. If you don’t know where you are, you can't figure out where you need to be. Biblically, discipleship is not a program but a process of becoming Christ-like and seeing others become disciples. We are going to examine where we...

Raising our kids to love and serve God.

How do we baptize, who do we baptize, and when should a person be baptized?

The Gospel is a call to be missionaries.

We need to be alert to the fact that we need to resist our enemy who prowls around, seeking to devour us.

A biblical perspective of men and women.

What Peter calls elders to be is something we should all aspire to.

As we face suffering, we need to put our hope in Jesus — rejoicing and continuing to do good.

We don’t win the world to Jesus by looking like the world; we win the world by presenting a compelling alternative.

We can’t divorce the content of apologetics from the character of the apologist.

How to relate to each other in our lives together as Christians, as sojourners, and exiles that reflect Jesus in the world.

This is a special message from J.D. Greear at The Summit Church in North Carolina. For more information about The Summit Church, visit: www.summitrdu.com

In today's message, we hear about living as citizens and servants, submitting to authority, honouring our employers, and following Jesus' example.

Spiritual growth is measured not by how much we know, but rather by how we live.

The greatest display of God’s holiness was not in His separating Himself from us, but in His entering into our sin and corruption and taking it upon Himself and putting it away forever. When Peter says to be holy as I am holy, he is calling for a response from us. The life you live should be reflective of the God you love.

A faith that leaves us unprepared for suffering is a false faith that deserves to be lost. In today's message, we look at three ways a genuine and previous faith will be evident.

As we begin this series through 1 Peter, we explore Peter’s short letter to the “exiles of the Dispersion,” which was a letter that turned the world upside down for his readers. Stormy seasons of persecution were beginning for the churches in the known world at that time – and yet today those storms rage in our modern day. As we walk through this book over the course of this teaching series, many...

As familiar as we are with the songs of Christmas, there are four songs recorded in the Bible sung by people surrounding the birth of Jesus that aren’t sung much at all now. The angels sang a song to the shepherds (we know part of their song: “And on earth peace and goodwill toward men”), Mary sang a song to God after she had time to get over the shocking news that she was going to be the mother o...

As familiar as we are with the songs of Christmas, there are four songs recorded in the Bible sung by people surrounding the birth of Jesus that aren’t sung much at all now. The angels sang a song to the shepherds (we know part of their song: “And on earth peace and goodwill toward men”), Mary sang a song to God after she had time to get over the shocking news that she was going to be the mother o...

As familiar as we are with the songs of Christmas, there are four songs recorded in the Bible sung by people surrounding the birth of Jesus that aren’t sung much at all now. The angels sang a song to the shepherds (we know part of their song: “And on earth peace and goodwill toward men”), Mary sang a song to God after she had time to get over the shocking news that she was going to be the mother o...

As we conclude our series about the Holy Spirit, we look at the Holy Spirit and revival from Acts 2.

When it comes to our faith, there are points you can never pass spiritually until you are confident that Jesus will support the full weight of your soul – that you would have the assurance that He would be there. There are sacrifices you’ll never make and commands you’ll never obey unless you are convinced of their eternal value. In this message, we look at how the Holy Spirit promises.

In Part 2 of "The Holy Spirit Equips," we look specifically at a few of the most misunderstood and most abused spiritual gifts.