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How to Know the Bible

Q&A: Does God Care About Me? I realized last week I did a very poor job of talking efficiently through our Q&A. You guys left a ton of questions that are still left unanswered, so I’m going to try to do something new to help me be efficient and get through the...

What is the Bible?

Opening: Jesus, We Adore You What a grace it is for us to be able to say, “Jesus, we adore you.” If that is true, that is not natural. If that is true in you—if you actually love the Lord, if you adore Christ, if you love Christ and you want God more than anything...

Aiming at Maturity in Christ

Opening – The Heart of the Gospel Just think about it. We were just praising God, declaring him. And that same God took on flesh so that we could be reconciled to him. Guys, I know that you have heard that message, many of you your whole life, and it sounds like...

Summer Camp Session 2: Becoming a Fool The Path to Wisdom

Introduction: The Path to Wisdom Praise God. All right, go ahead and open up your notebook and turn to session two. The title of this session is “Becoming a Fool: The Path to Wisdom.” We’ve been talking about how we walk, making the most of the time. What I want to do...

Summer Camp Session 1: Walking in Wisdom

Singing with Confidence—and the Difference Faith Makes We sang some really cool songs, some glorious songs, and we sang them with confidence that some of you might not have, right? A confidence that we’ve been saved—a confidence in what God has done for you. And a...

Walking in the Light or Living a Lie?

Introduced by Smedly Yates Well, Jacob Hantla is preaching this morning and he needs no introduction. He is our student ministries pastor among many of the pastoral responsibilities that he carries. But I want, this morning, in introducing something of a graduation...

Train Yourself for Godliness

Introduction: The Importance of This Message Open your Bibles to First Timothy chapter 4. First Timothy chapter 4. For the end of the year, I think this is a really important message that you need. If you are a Christian, or if you want to be a Christian, if...

Free to Evangelize Part 2

Opening Prayer Pray with me. Lord, we have this time set apart that we could serve you through listening to your word preached, through singing songs to you, through interacting with each other. Lord, we acknowledge it’s a lofty goal that creatures would do...

Love Like the Father (not like the world)

Introduction: The Love Displayed on the Cross They had just driven the spikes through his hands and feet. Blood ran down his face from a crown of thorns they shoved onto his head and splashed into the puddles in the mud below him. Soldiers mocked and spit at him,...

Freed to Forgive from the Heart

Introduction: Why We Need to Understand Forgiveness Let’s get started. We are going to be not in Matthew chapter 5 today, but actually in Matthew 18. We’re going to take a little break to help us understand what we have to know to make sense of...

Trading Your Rights for Love

The Natural Desire for Retaliation I want you to think for a minute about the pleasure that people take in retaliation. Study after study—I was doing some reading in journals this week—show that humans are hardwired to like revenge. Neuroimaging experiments found that...

A Welcome Home

Introduction Thank you guys for participating in our “let’s see” Scrolls. Let’s see if anybody knew my subtle hint or my subtle plans that I didn’t tell you about with the “let’s see” Scrolls. Does anybody over here have an idea of what my agenda was? Because I know I...

Free to Evangelize

Introduction and Scripture Reading Well, let’s open our Bibles to 1 Corinthians 9. We’re going to be starting in verse 19 today. The intent was originally to get all the way through verse 27, but I don’t think I’ll be able to do that. We’ll...