theCHURCH Sermon Podcast

Following Jesus is not a spectator sport you can watch from your easy chair. It requires movement. Christ's sacrifice on the cross makes us world changers but will not change it lying down. Rise up.

As the church begins to experience a season of peace, we see a growing community of believers committed to walking and working with God.

When the Gospel is Active in our Lives, it will form us into active disciples.

Everybody who knows Jesus is here to live a life that shows and tells somebody that Jesus truly is Lord of all.

A disciple is someone who knows Jesus, lives like Jesus, and leads others to do the same.

Jesus is calling each one of us to a meaningful relationship with him. In our text today, we are going to see the most unlikely person to follow Jesus, meet Jesus.

God Himself made it easier for you to know Jesus through the cross and the resurrection of Christ; why then shouldn't we do the same for others? Make it easier for people to know Jesus.

Access to God leads to a relationship with God.

People are literally dying to know and see, and maybe even feel the life Jesus died and rose again to give you. To know that it's real. You're the sign that points to Jesus.

With every advancement of the Kingdom of God there is both great opposition and great opportunity.

Transformation comes when we not only see that this whole story is Jesus’ story but when we truly take our place in His story as well.

God gives everyone a story, His story. He also gives us a choice to own His story or give it to the enemy. Redemption or rebellion. What are you doing about that?

Knowing God's story is good, joining His story is way better, not getting ahead of God's story is essential.

God works in unexpected times/places, through unusual ways/circumstances, through unsuspecting people, to save and redeem the entire world.

Those who have faith in Jesus have access to God’s promise and inheritance

When the men and women of the church are full of the Holy Spirit, God prepares the church for more than it might know.

The Christ follower does not receive the Spirit of the Living God, The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, to just come and attend a service or watch online. You have a part in the church Christ gave His life for. What's your part?

The early church in Acts is facing intense opposition to the message of the gospel. Instead of shrinking back and being quiet, the church stays on point and boldly embraces living like Jesus.

God's great grace is for life, His life for ours.

Jesus is the life we were always intended to live. His story, His glory, Life with Jesus, in Jesus, to Jesus, because of Jesus and for Jesus.

God is calling us to lead the world to Jesus, to show them they are not forgotten but in fact truly loved. This is our witness to the world but it is going to take all of us.

Great Humility makes room for great power that enables the greatest testimony that is followed by a living picture of His great grace…

God is calling us to lead the world to Jesus, to show them they are not forgotten but in fact truly loved. This is our witness to the world but it is going to take all of us.

Every human being that walks this earth knows with certainty that God exists. Our sin is not that we do not know Him; it is that we refuse to acknowledge Him even though we do know Him. (RC Sproul)

Jesus is revealing Himself to be God, establishing His authority, and leading people to faith in His name.