Tulip Street Christian Church

For this week's service we started out with a ministry update from April Haskett at Hope Resource Center in Bedford, IN. They are doing great work in the fight for life, helping out mothers, fathers, babies, and so much more. Then Allen Burris (Sherwood Oaks Christian Church) guest-preaches for us about the need to pray for and encourage our church leaders.

Series : I Am a Church Member Lesson 02 Title : “I will be a unifying church member” Main Texts : Ephesians 4:1-7

Series : I Am a Church Member Lesson 01 Title : “I will be a functioning church member” Main Texts : 1 Corinthians 12-14

Series: I Am a Church Member Lesson 00 Title: Time to (RE)Member (Introduction) Main Text: Hebrew 10:19-25

Darrin Chastain invites members of the church to share memories and stories of Christmases growing up and the intangible gifts they received through the years. Then Daniel leads us in communion as we wrap up our Christmas series "Christmas Presence: God Is With Us."

SERIES : Christmas Presence LESSON 04 TITLE : God Is With Us in Our New Family MAIN TEXT : 1 Kings 19:19-21 _______________________ Our service to God was never meant to be a solo mission. Elijah was feeling lonely and depressed, so God guided him to another man named Elisha. He would become Elijah’s protege, his apprentice, his student - but in a sense they were becoming friends and brothers. Whe...

SERIES: Christmas Presence LESSON 03 TITLE: God Is With Us in Our Loneliness MAIN TEXT: 1 Kings 19:1-18 _______________________ Every mountain top experience must end. And so it does for Elijah. He hears about the Queen’s death threat against him, so he runs and hides. All the while God continues to take care of him. In the midst of his seclusion, he begins to doubt himself, his mission, his fello...

SERIES : Christmas Presence LESSON 02 TITLE : God Is With Us on the Mountain Top MAIN TEXT : 1 Kings 18 Elijah, the prophet of God, challenged the prophets of Baal to a showdown on top of Mount Carmel. God showed definitive proof of his power and made fools of Baal’s prophets. God likes mountains. God shows up in big ways on top of mountains - from Mount Moriah in Genesis 22, to Mount Sinai in Exo...

SERIES: Christmas Presence LESSON 01 TITLE: God Is With Us in the Valley MAIN TEXT: 1 Kings 16:29 - 17:24 God sent Elijah to confront Ahab and his wife Jezebel about their wicked ways, especially their idolatry which was leading the people of Israel astray. As a sign of God’s judgment, God withholds the rain for 3.5 years. All the while, God is taking care of Elijah in the valley near a source of...

This was our Thanksgiving Service. We focused on the A.C.T.S. Prayer model - Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. Also featured is Will Crooks from Campus Outreach at Indiana University giving a ministry update.

SERIES: Close Encounters with Christ LESSON 11 TITLE: Dead Man Walking MAIN TEXT: John 11

SERIES: Close Encounters with Christ LESSON 10 TITLE: Wake Up, Sheeple! MAIN TEXT: John 10 BIG IDEA: Jesus is the Good Shepherd and the Gate to the Sheepfold. You can’t understand this chapter and what Jesus is saying here without knowing Ezekiel 34. Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promise to send “David” to shepherd his people. God is Israel’s shepherd, but so is “David.” God calls on his human...

SERIES: Close Encounters with Christ LESSON 09 TITLE: Believing Is Seeing MAIN TEXT: John 9 BIG IDEA: Jesus heals a man born blind. His disciples asked “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Throughout the chapter, the disciples and the Jewish leaders indicate an understanding that disability is the result of sin. There is also a debate about whether Jesus himself is a sinn...

SERIES: Close Encounters with Christ LESSON 08 TITLE: Grace and Truth MAIN TEXT: John 8 BIG IDEA: The chapter begins with the Judeans wanting to stone a woman caught in adultery and ends with them wanting to stone Jesus. The actions and teachings of Jesus reveal radical grace and truth which can still make us uncomfortable today.

SERIES: Close Encounters with Christ LESSON 07 TITLE: That Was ‘In-Tents’ MAIN TEXT: John 7 BIG IDEA: The people in Jerusalem are questioning who Jesus is, where he came from, and what to do with him. They are divided, and the tension is rising. As Jesus often does, he embodies the Festival of Booths within himself. He “tabernacled” among us (John 1:14), and he offers water that will become a ragi...

SERIES: Close Encounters with Christ LESSON 06 TITLE: Hungry for Something New MAIN TEXT: John 6 BIG IDEA: The sign of Jesus’ feeding the 5,000 and the miraculous walking on water point us to a new Passover, a new Exodus, where one greater than Moses is giving his people something greater than Mana. The true Living Bread is Jesus. He is the passover lamb. He is the bread from heaven. He is the way...

SERIES: Close Encounters with Christ LESSON 05 TITLE: The Desperate and the Disabled MAIN TEXT: John 4:43—5:16 BIG IDEA: In these two “signs” Jesus heals the son of a desperate father and causes a detached paralytic to walk again. The father, a nobleman who possibly worked for Herod, showed his faith by trusting Jesus’ word and going back home. The disabled man was anything but grateful.

SERIES: Close Encounters with Christ LESSON 04 TITLE: Do You Know Who You’re Talking To? MAIN TEXT: John 4:1-42 BIG IDEA: Jesus breaks down the social, political, and religious barriers to have a conversation with a woman in need. He sees her for who she truly is, knows her deepest desires, and lets her in on the secret of his true identity. He teaches her about living water, worship, and the futu...

Series : Close Encounters with Christ Lesson 03 Title : "On Losing Control" Text : John 3 The author intentionally holds Nicodemus and John in contrast. There are two approaches to religion - hold onto control at all costs, or let go of control. The Gospel, the Good News, is that there is nothing we can do to earn God’s favor. All we need to do is trust in the One he sent. God’s love is a given. G...

SERIES: Close Encounters with Christ LESSON 02 TITLE: Of Wine and Whips MAIN TEXT: John 2 BIG IDEA: Where is God? God shows up in unexpected places in unexpected ways. Where there is fear and shame, Jesus brings celebration, joy, abundance, and blessing. But where there are those who would take advantage of others and turn religion into profit, Jesus brings judgment and allows everyone to regain a...

SERIES: Close Encounters with Christ LESSON 01 TITLE: “WORTH THE HYPE?” MAIN TEXT: John 1 BIG IDEA: The pre-existent Word of God (Christ) became flesh. These stories are not made up. They have been recorded and preserved for all future generations, so that we might believe. John is inviting us, the readers, on a journey of discovery. Does Jesus really live up to the the hype? Is following him wort...