You Are From God

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall If you want to know what God is like, you must learn the meaning of both mercy and grace. These two qualities bring God's love to practical bearings on both human history and our individual lives. As those who bear His image, we must learn to practice and grow in these characteristics as well.&...

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall Moses asks God to see His glory. The Lord tells Moses that He'll make His goodness pass before him. Both the glory and the goodness of Yahweh are revealed as He proclaims His name, the LORD, to his servant on Mount Sinai. What do we learn about our Creator from this encounter?

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall Jesus calls us to put others before ourselves. This is a never-ending effort, and we must constantly self-reflect to keep our egos and prejudices in check. Today we dig into a passage of Scripture that prompts three questions to help us slow down and rein in selfish motives and attitudes.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall Labels have a way of sticking. Whether it's by choices we've made or circumstances we've encountered, people use shortcuts to categorize and identify each other. Rather than being defined by these labels, the transformation found in Jesus Christ offers a reinterpretation of these labels, whi...

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall Each person needs their own relationship with his or her Maker. In the course of life, there are times when we may need to take a step back from what we have learned to assume about God and build our faith from the ground up.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall We value authenticity when we see it. But it's all too easy to live parts of our lives in performative or hypocritical ways that undermine genuine experiences. Is this true of your faith? Almighty God sees past the outward behaviors into the heart and motives of each person, and He&#3...

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor The Bible paints a grave image of humanity without God: left to our own choices, will, and efforts, we reject God and become hopelessly lost. And yet two words make all the difference and completely transform our spiritual reality when we accept them as truth and obey the call that comes with them.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall The gospel of Jesus brings together people from every walk of life. And while the family of God is united in truth and love, God's children are not all the same. How should Christians handle differing opinions between one another?

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall Our internal sense of right and wrong can keep us out of trouble--or, if it has been twisted to contrast God's revealed truth, it can lead us straight into it. Knowing our own conscience and training it by the word of God will enable us to serve God faithfully in every aspect of life.&#160...

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall We've talked on this program before that joy is abiding happiness that isn't dependent on circumstances. But the world and the Bible have very different recipes for achieving joy. Through His word, God reveals that complete joy comes from genuine connection with Him and others made in His image.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall Life demands choices of us. For disciples of Christ, we want to make the choices that keep us set apart to the Lord in lives of holiness. This means turning from the world and setting our sights on Jesus and his kingdom. Both of these efforts point us in the same direction; but if we neglect one, the ot...

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall God says life is like a mist: we appear for a little while, and then we vanish. Life is temporary; but is that a bad thing? It is in life's brevity where we come to terms with what really matters.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall We carry so much through life: expectations, burdens, hopes, dreams, responsibilities, and more. But we make the mistake by thinking God needs us to carry Him. Rather, it is the Lord Himself who promises throughout His word to carry us--if we let Him.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall You've reined in your thoughts. You've given those thoughts to formulating a plan for success. Now it's time to put those ideas into action. Whether we are fleeing what is evil or pursuing what is good, self-control displays itself as fruit of the Spirit in a person's life through the ac...

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall Continuing our three-part series on self-control, we consider the forethought and intentional planning that characterizes a person of self-control. Committing to a course of action before the need to make a decision can turn the tides of spiritual battles.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall It’s a fruit of the Spirit, a Christian grace, and a constant struggle for many people. How can we grow in disciplining ourselves? In this series on self-control, we begin with reigning in our thoughts.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall Your mind is the most valuable space that you can lease. What thoughts, ideas, desires, and feelings do you let live in your head? While the world around us offers an onslaught of distractions and concerns, our hearts yearn for truth, peace, and meaning that doesn't fade.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall We learn to serve. It is only natural to look out for our own self interest, but to also look out for the interests of others? To put their needs and concerns before our own? Well, that is something Divine. 

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall Like an extension cord, your life requires a source and an outlet. People choose where to draw their energy and life every day, and we also choose what to pour our lives into. But if those choices are based purely on self-service and temporary pleasures, we are no better than an extension cord plugged i...

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Tyler Hall and Ryan Joy Life weighs us down, even as we live for the Lord. How do we address and overcome this weariness? Special guest Ryan Joy shares insights from the inspired Scriptures that encourage Christians to not grow weary while doing good.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall The Bible describes the community of Jesus-followers with several different images. Our final entry in this series brings home the importance of seeing God as our Father: the closeness, the compassion, the care, and the connection we can have with our Maker and Redeemer... even after we've run away...

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall The Bible describes the community of Jesus-followers with several different images. Just as Jesus was a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious to His Father, Christians are brought together as living stones to be built up into a holy dwelling place for God's Spirit. 

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall The Bible describes the community of Jesus-followers with several different images. God often refers to His people as the sheep of His pasture. Living as His sheep demands we see our Maker and Provider with eyes of unyielding trust. We all have wandered, as sheep tend to do; but submitting to the voice...

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall The Bible describes the community of Jesus followers with several different images. As King, Jesus calls his followers to live as citizens of the kingdom of God. This world is not our home, and that shapes an eternal outlook on life and those we share it with.

Series: N/A Service: You Are From God Type: You Are From God Speaker: Scott Taylor & Tyler Hall The Bible describes the community of Jesus followers with several different images. By seeing ourselves and those in the Lord's church as members of the same body, we learn how much God cares for each one of us and the individual value we bring to the collective whole.