Wildwood College Life

This week we continued our series on The Rise and Fall of David! Kevin taught us through 2 Samuel 9 where we saw... David's Desire to Honor the Covenant David's Meeting of the Unworthy David's Table as a Gift of Grace Through this, we learned that because of God's grace and mercy to us, we respond gracefully and mercifully to others!

This week we continued our series on the Rise and Fall of David! Kevin walked us through 2 Samuel 7 where we learned that... God's promises are fulfilled and will be fulfilled in Christ! The Lord makes his temple in people, not buildings! We see that God makes a covenant with David that is built on the covenant he had previously made with Abraham and Moses. This covenant is different though, becau...

This week we continue our series on the Rise and Fall of David! Mike Beckham walked us through 1 Samuel 26:1-25 where we learned... David's life points us towards Jesus and the promises he secured for us. Like David, we are called to walk by faith in trusting these promises and not worldly logic. Follow along as we continue our series on the Rise and Fall of David!!!

This week we continued our series on The Rise and Fall of David! We looked at 1 Samuel 16:1-13 and saw... God's point of view of us and our situations. (vv.1-5) God's point of view sees the heart. (vv.6-13) Samuel anoints David, a king according to God's heart because God sees who David really is. David's example points to Christ as the anointed one!

This week we continued our series on The Rise and Fall of David! We learned in 1 Samuel 15 that God's grace has freed us from sin, but not from obedience. We saw that... Saul's command from the Lord Saul's disobedience to the Lord's authoritative command Saul's disqualifies himself as king In Saul, Israel got the king that they wanted but in David, they will get the king that they need!

This week Kevin Bradford, Wildwood's Missions Pastor, taught us about Israel's want for a king. Israel insisted on their own way but God knew better and orchestrated Saul as their king. Through 1 Samuel 8-10, we saw God's sovereignty and that ultimately Jesus is our perfect king!!!

As the school year begins, Kevin teaches on the importance of committing to a body of believers! In Romans 12, we are encouraged and commanded to use our God-given gifts to build up the Church and believe that God desires for you to use these gifts not to be served, but to serve!

At our Fall Kickoff, Kevin dives into the cost of discipleship! In Luke 14, we see that because the price of our salvation was so costly, we should count the cost as we follow Jesus! There is a cost, but it is worth it!!!

This week we concluded our series on the main characters of Genesis! We learned about the life of Joseph by looking at Genesis 37:1-45:28! Cole Snowdon, Wildwood's College Ministry Intern, walked us through Joseph's life as we saw the truth of Genesis 50:20 " As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good..."!

This week we continued our series on the main characters of Genesis! Cole Berryhill taught us about the life of Jacob through Genesis 25:19- 35:43! We saw that... -God's sovereignty overcomes our undeservedness! -God's sovereignty frees us from our nature! -God's sovereignty secures our Salvation! This message is timely for the unbeliever and believer alike! We learned that the unbeliever can resp...

This week we continue our series on the main characters of Genesis! Cole Snowdon, Wildwood's College Ministry Intern, teaches us about the life of Isaac. Through this, we see that Jesus is the True and Better Isaac in how... God Provided a Promised Son God Provided a Necessary Sacrifice God Provided Ransom God is our provider and we should trust Him in all things. Follow along as we continue our s...

This week we continue our series on the main characters in Genesis! Kevin Bradford, Wildwood's Global Outreach Director, walked us through the life of Abraham and the Abrahamic Covenant in Genesis 11:27-25:11!

This week we continued our series on the main characters in Genesis and looked at Noah's life in Genesis 6-9! We saw that the life and events of Noah display a type of God's rescue from sin and judgment in Jesus Christ. We learned that we should trust in Christ alone as our Rescuer from sin and judgment.

Jon Dunton, Wildwood's Associate Pastor of Adult Ministry, continues our series on Genesis by walking us through Creation, the lives of Adam and Eve, the Fall, and the Good News of the Gospel. The story of Adam and Eve may be familiar to us, but as descendants, we can learn so much about ourselves by looking at the lives of Adam and Eve before sin entered the world and after. Living in a fallen wo...

We are kicking off the Summer with this series that looks at the characters of Genesis 1! This week Mike Strauss teaches us about the character of God that is revealed in Genesis 1. Follow along as we learn more about the characters of Genesis!!!

This week we continue our series on the deep truths of salvation! Kevin teaches us that as adopted children of God we receive these 3 things from our new family in Christ: Privileges (Galatians 4:6) Fellowship (Romans 8:29) Inheritance (Romans 8:15-17) When we are forgiven by Christ, we are adopted into the family of God and God blesses us with privileges, fellowship, and an inheritance!!!

This week Mike Beckham spoke at College Life and continued our series on Saving Grace! Mike teaches us this week about The Great Exchange: We Give God -Our mistakes and sin -Our self-made identity -Our inability to be Godly & God Gives Us -Forgiveness and Absolution -His identity -His perfect performance We learn how we can often resist this trade and try to object to this trade, but the truth...

This week we continue our series on Saving Grace! Myles Chandler, the Student Ministry Assistant at Wildwood, talks to us about how we can confidently have eternal security. One verse we look at is 1 John 5:13 which tells us that we may know we have eternal life if we believe in the name of the Son of God.

This week we continue our series on the deep truths of salvation! Kevin teaches on the 3 Phases of Salvation: justification, sanctification, and glorification. God has saved us (Justification) God is saving us (Sanctification) God will save us (Glorification) We look at several New Testament passages to see more clearly the 3 phases of salvation!

This week as we continued our series on REALationships we saw that true friendship is being fully known and fully loved! Kevin taught through 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, & John 15 where we saw: Jonathan's friendship toward David David's friendship toward Jonathan Christ's friendship toward us

This week we continue our series on REALationships! Mike Beckham teaches through the creation story in Genesis 1, showing the importance of our relationship with work. We saw that our relationship with work affects our view of God and how we connect with Him in these 5 principles: We were created to work Work is hard Believers have many different jobs but one mission Run your race He will progress...

This week we started a new series on REALationships where we will be looking at our relationships with friends, our relationships to work, and our relationships to romance! This week Kevin taught through 1 Corinthians 7 and Revelation 19! We learned that... singleness is a gift, singleness is strategic, & singleness is temporary! Follow along with us as we continue our series on REALationships...

This week Chris and Chanae taught on Habakkuk 3 where we saw that the God who exists is better than the "god" we can imagine and why we can have faith in this God!

We had our College Life Kickoff this week and started a new series studying Habakkuk! Kevin walked us through Habakkuk 1:1-11 and spoke on how we can have hope in God's character and His promises because God cannot break His Word! Follow along with us as we make our way through Habakkuk.

This week, Abe Mahner, Wildwood's Student Pastor teaches us about the false god of control. Abe teaches us how to shatter this idol of control and trust that God being in control is better. Join us as we finish up our series on False Gods Today and talk through Exodus 32:1-8!