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Creating a Life of Gospel Magnetism
1 Timothy 2:1-7 | Have you ever been at a restaurant when the server walks by with a fresh tray of fajitas? The steam rising off of the platter. The scent of deliciously marinated meats and peppers wafting past. The crackling sizzle of the hot plate. I swear they walk through the whole place just so everyone else wants fajitas too. Seeing that food when you’re this hungry, makes you want to choose it.
This is the call for every Christ-follower. We are called to pray and live in such a way that others are drawn to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Believers are charged to live with gospel magnetism. Open up to 1 Timothy 2 as we see 3 factors that will help equip us and motivate us to live a life of gospel magnetism.
1 Timothy 2:1-7 | Have you ever been at a restaurant when the server walks by with a fresh tray of fajitas? The steam rising off of the platter. The scent of deliciously marinated meats and peppers wafting past. The crackling sizzle of the hot plate. I swear they walk through the whole place just so everyone else wants fajitas too. Seeing that food when you’re this hungry, makes you want to choose it.
This is the call for every Christ-follower. We are called to pray and live in such a way that others are drawn to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Believers are charged to live with gospel magnetism. Open up to 1 Timothy 2 as we see 3 factors that will help equip us and motivate us to live a life of gospel magnetism.
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The Law, the Gospel, and Good News for Sinners
1 Timothy 1:8-20 | With a succinct and simple power, John Newton, the writer of the famous hymn Amazing Grace said, “Although my memory’s fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”
This week we will see, in the course of three back-to-back, beautiful paragraphs in the book of 1 Timothy that this is in fact true: We are great sinners. Christ is a great Savior.
This simple gospel truth can never depart from the center of the household of God, and so once again we set it as the centerpiece and let it lead us to worship our God.
1 Timothy 1:8-20 | With a succinct and simple power, John Newton, the writer of the famous hymn Amazing Grace said, “Although my memory’s fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”
This week we will see, in the course of three back-to-back, beautiful paragraphs in the book of 1 Timothy that this is in fact true: We are great sinners. Christ is a great Savior.
This simple gospel truth can never depart from the center of the household of God, and so once again we set it as the centerpiece and let it lead us to worship our God.
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Good Doctrine + Gospel Devotion
1 Timothy 1:1-7 | Every household has some expectations that the head of the household lays out. These expectations are to guide and promote what that household will look like when it is operating at its best. As the head of the household of faith, God lays out for us he desires his household of faith to function. In 1 Timothy we take a deep dive together in seeking to understand what it looks like to "behave in the household of faith." Nothing is more important than your life with Jesus, and one of the most important realities to your life with Jesus is you being part of a healthy household of faith. We begin the journey together to seek to hear God's heart for what this looks like in deeply practical ways.
1 Timothy 1:1-7 | Every household has some expectations that the head of the household lays out. These expectations are to guide and promote what that household will look like when it is operating at its best. As the head of the household of faith, God lays out for us he desires his household of faith to function. In 1 Timothy we take a deep dive together in seeking to understand what it looks like to "behave in the household of faith." Nothing is more important than your life with Jesus, and one of the most important realities to your life with Jesus is you being part of a healthy household of faith. We begin the journey together to seek to hear God's heart for what this looks like in deeply practical ways.
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Comfortably Lukewarm
Revelation 3:14-22 | Imagine if all you ever had was lukewarm water. Never a cold cup of water to drink. Never a hot shower to be refreshed. Just lukewarm all the time. In this last letter, Jesus addresses a church lukewarm in state. What exactly does it mean for this church to be lukewarm? How did they get there? What does Jesus say about it? And how in his grace does he seek to call them out of it? What a letter for us to hear and heed at the close of this series together.
Download the final week of The 7 Churches resource here.
Revelation 3:14-22 | Imagine if all you ever had was lukewarm water. Never a cold cup of water to drink. Never a hot shower to be refreshed. Just lukewarm all the time. In this last letter, Jesus addresses a church lukewarm in state. What exactly does it mean for this church to be lukewarm? How did they get there? What does Jesus say about it? And how in his grace does he seek to call them out of it? What a letter for us to hear and heed at the close of this series together.
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The Jesus-Pleasing, Persevering Church
Revelation 3:7-13 | This is the most important question we can ask: "Jesus, what pleases you?"
The answer to that is everything. There is nothing more important for us personally and for us as a church than to continually ask that question.
As Jesus records a letter to the church at Philadelphia, he declares how pleased he is with this church. There is nothing in the letter in which he calls them out, just pure commendation from the Lord. So the question is, "What pleased Jesus in Philadelphia?" And then just as important, "How do we follow their lead to be a church pleasing in the sight of Jesus as well?"
Download Week 07 of The 7 Churches Weekly Resource here.
Revelation 3:7-13 | This is the most important question we can ask: "Jesus, what pleases you?"
The answer to that is everything. There is nothing more important for us personally and for us as a church than to continually ask that question.
As Jesus records a letter to the church at Philadelphia, he declares how pleased he is with this church. There is nothing in the letter in which he calls them out, just pure commendation from the Lord. So the question is, "What pleased Jesus in Philadelphia?" And then just as important, "How do we follow their lead to be a church pleasing in the sight of Jesus as well?"
Download Week 07 of The 7 Churches Weekly Resource here.
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The Church on Life Support
Revelation 3:1-6 | Some churches look alive. They...look...alive.
And yet Jesus would look down with an autopsy and say, "You are dead."
In the letter to Sardis, it is a sobering reality to hear that a church can have the reputation of being alive and yet be dead. Now, here is the hope: in this letter, Jesus gives a spiritual CPR plan for a church on life-support and ends the letter with this beautiful picture and promise of life for his conquerors. Only Jesus can start a letter to a dead congregation and end it in such triumphal language of life.
Download Week 06 of the 7 Churches Weekly resource here.
Revelation 3:1-6 | Some churches look alive. They...look...alive.
And yet Jesus would look down with an autopsy and say, "You are dead."
In the letter to Sardis, it is a sobering reality to hear that a church can have the reputation of being alive and yet be dead. Now, here is the hope: in this letter, Jesus gives a spiritual CPR plan for a church on life-support and ends the letter with this beautiful picture and promise of life for his conquerors. Only Jesus can start a letter to a dead congregation and end it in such triumphal language of life.
Download Week 06 of the 7 Churches Weekly resource here.
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Good Works and a Bad Wolf
Where there is a great work of God happening among the people of God we must watch out for wolves seeking to attack that work. The church at Thyatira was thriving in good works to God's glory, but there was one problem, and it was a big problem. There was a wolf in their midst teaching and seducing the church into things that grieved the Lord. How did Jesus call them to handle this? How did Jesus himself say he would handle it? Let's look together at this letter and seek to grow in keeping good works while not tolerating bad wolves.
Download the 7 Churches Week 05 Study Resource here.
Revelation 2:18-29 | Where there is a great work of God happening among the people of God we must watch out for wolves seeking to attack that work. The church at Thyatira was thriving in good works to God's glory, but there was one problem, and it was a big problem. There was a wolf in their midst teaching and seducing the church into things that grieved the Lord. How did Jesus call them to handle this? How did Jesus himself say he would handle it? Let's look together at this letter and seek to grow in keeping good works while not tolerating bad wolves.
Download the 7 Churches Week 05 Study Resource here.
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Courage Without Compromise
Revelation 2:12-17 | It takes Spirit-given courage to hold fast to Christ in a cultural current that is often flowing strongly against the will and ways of Christ. And yet, even in the midst of that courage, it is easy for us to compromise. How do we hold courageously to Christ without compromising what we believe or how we behave? Jesus has some heavy and hope-filled words for the church at Pergamum we need to hear as well.
Download the 7 Churches Week 04 Study Resource here.
Revelation 2:12-17 | It takes Spirit-given courage to hold fast to Christ in a cultural current that is often flowing strongly against the will and ways of Christ. And yet, even in the midst of that courage, it is easy for us to compromise. How do we hold courageously to Christ without compromising what we believe or how we behave? Jesus has some heavy and hope-filled words for the church at Pergamum we need to hear as well.
Download the 7 Churches Week 04 Study Resource here.
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No Matter the Cost
Revelation 2:8-11 | Has following Christ proved to be costly in your life? Or to ask it another way: Are you prepared for following Christ to one day prove to be costly? In the Letter to the Church at Smyrna, the Lord encourages them in their costly faithfulness. Their allegiance to Christ has cost them much, and Christ warns will cost them even more in the days ahead. In this letter, we are called and equipped for the costly faithfulness following Christ demands, and we are reminded why that costly faithfulness is eternally worth it.
Download the 7 Churches Week 03 Study Resource here.
Revelation 2:8-11 | Has following Christ proved to be costly in your life? Or to ask it another way: Are you prepared for following Christ to one day prove to be costly? In the Letter to the Church at Smyrna, the Lord encourages them in their costly faithfulness. Their allegiance to Christ has cost them much, and Christ warns will cost them even more in the days ahead. In this letter, we are called and equipped for the costly faithfulness following Christ demands, and we are reminded why that costly faithfulness is eternally worth it.
Download the 7 Churches Week 03 Study Resource here.
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The Love We Had At First
Revelation 2:1-7 | It is a scary reality that we can be zealous for defending what is good, pure, and right and yet have left the love we had at first. The church at Ephesus is commended for their protection of purity and patient endurance, yet they are called out by Christ for their abandonment of love. This is such a big deal Jesus threatens to remove their lampstand. What does this mean? What must we learn? How do we heed what Jesus has to say to his churches through this letter? And where might we need to remember the love we had at first, repent where we have left it, and return to the things we were doing before?
Download the 7 Churches Week 02 Study Resource here.
Revelation 2:1-7 | It is a scary reality that we can be zealous for defending what is good, pure, and right and yet have left the love we had at first. The church at Ephesus is commended for their protection of purity and patient endurance, yet they are called out by Christ for their abandonment of love. This is such a big deal Jesus threatens to remove their lampstand. What does this mean? What must we learn? How do we heed what Jesus has to say to his churches through this letter? And where might we need to remember the love we had at first, repent where we have left it, and return to the things we were doing before?
Download the 7 Churches Week 02 Study Resource here.
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Jesus Is Speaking, May We Hear
Revelation 1:1-20 | If Jesus walked into our service on Sunday, climbed the stairs, and took the microphone how would we listen to what he has to say? I pray that after picking our faces off the floor in worship, we would lean forward and cling to every word he had to say. The fact is, Jesus is in our midst as Lord and he is speaking to his churches. This week we will see him for the Lord he truly is and prepare our hearts for what he has to say to his churches in the seven letters that begin the book of Revelation.
P.S. Each week of this series we will put out a study resource written by a different voice in our church. This weekly resource will include 5 days worth of study material in the passage of Revelation from the week before. Download this week's resource here!
Revelation 1:1-20 | If Jesus walked into our service on Sunday, climbed the stairs, and took the microphone how would we listen to what he has to say? I pray that after picking our faces off the floor in worship, we would lean forward and cling to every word he had to say. The fact is, Jesus is in our midst as Lord and he is speaking to his churches. This week we will see him for the Lord he truly is and prepare our hearts for what he has to say to his churches in the seven letters that begin the book of Revelation.
P.S. Each week of this series we will put out a study resource written by a different voice in our church. This weekly resource will include 5 days worth of study material in the passage of Revelation from the week before. Download this week's resource here!
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Servants of God
Luke 17:7-10 | Our current cultural context can partially be summarized by the phrase “the exaltation of self”. And this week, we see Jesus speak a parable that runs counter to this current cultural moment as well as our fleshly instincts. Specifically, Jesus teaches us that the position of disciple requires the posture of a servant. And as a servant of God, we are to do whatever is commanded; we are to focus on our duties and not on ourselves; we are to serve because this is our duty, and we are to find our worth, not in our accomplishments, but instead in our relationship to our Master who is God. What a privilege that God, our Heavenly Father, invites us to be His servants. There is no greater honor than to serve Him.
Luke 17:7-10 | Our current cultural context can partially be summarized by the phrase “the exaltation of self”. And this week, we see Jesus speak a parable that runs counter to this current cultural moment as well as our fleshly instincts. Specifically, Jesus teaches us that the position of disciple requires the posture of a servant. And as a servant of God, we are to do whatever is commanded; we are to focus on our duties and not on ourselves; we are to serve because this is our duty, and we are to find our worth, not in our accomplishments, but instead in our relationship to our Master who is God. What a privilege that God, our Heavenly Father, invites us to be His servants. There is no greater honor than to serve Him.
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Relentless Faith
Mark 2:1-12 | For the past month or more, you’ve been inundated with Christmas movies, Christmas music, Christmas parties, gifts, and the celebration of the Advent of Jesus Christ. And what a tremendous celebration it is! But once the calendar flips from December 25thto December 26th, routine sets back in. The gifts are all open. The wrapping paper has been stuffed into trash bags. Things get back to “normal” and you start thinking about Monday or next week.
We’ve rightly spent most of December focused on the birth of Jesus Christ, but what comes next? In this sermon, we’ll go from the first weeks of Jesus' birth to the first weeks of Jesus’ ministry. What happens when Jesus makes an impact, not just on Christmas morning, but every morning? We’ll look at the faith of 5 unnamed men who met Jesus and walked away changed forever.
Mark 2:1-12 | For the past month or more, you’ve been inundated with Christmas movies, Christmas music, Christmas parties, gifts, and the celebration of the Advent of Jesus Christ. And what a tremendous celebration it is! But once the calendar flips from December 25thto December 26th, routine sets back in. The gifts are all open. The wrapping paper has been stuffed into trash bags. Things get back to “normal” and you start thinking about Monday or next week.
We’ve rightly spent most of December focused on the birth of Jesus Christ, but what comes next? In this sermon, we’ll go from the first weeks of Jesus' birth to the first weeks of Jesus’ ministry. What happens when Jesus makes an impact, not just on Christmas morning, but every morning? We’ll look at the faith of 5 unnamed men who met Jesus and walked away changed forever.
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The Advent of Joy
Luke 2:8-11 | At Christmas time we sing about joy, we decorate with the word joy, but do we stop and really meditate on why the birth of Christ is so paramount to joy in the human heart. When the angel burst on the scene announcing the birth of Christ, he announced good news of great...? Joy! So let's look at this announcement together and understand fully how the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem allows joy to abound in the human heart.
Luke 2:8-11 | At Christmas time we sing about joy, we decorate with the word joy, but do we stop and really meditate on why the birth of Christ is so paramount to joy in the human heart. When the angel burst on the scene announcing the birth of Christ, he announced good news of great...? Joy! So let's look at this announcement together and understand fully how the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem allows joy to abound in the human heart.
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The Advent of Love
1 John 4:7-12 | The love of God can be one of those things that we overlook or get too close to and not see the power and beauty behind it. Like visiting the Grand Canyon over and over again, after a while, it can lose its draw. We grow calloused with God's love. But let us not let a knowledge familiarity keep us from experiencing the depth and height and width and length of the amazing, awe-inspiring, life-transforming love of God.
1 John 4:7-12 | The love of God can be one of those things that we overlook or get too close to and not see the power and beauty behind it. Like visiting the Grand Canyon over and over again, after a while, it can lose its draw. We grow calloused with God's love. But let us not let a knowledge familiarity keep us from experiencing the depth and height and width and length of the amazing, awe-inspiring, life-transforming love of God.
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He Is Our Peace
Micah 5:1-5 | Peace. A longing of every human heart, and yet found to be so elusive by so many. Anxiety is skyrocketing, the headlines are the antithesis of peace, accomplishments pursued yet peace not found. Where do we look for peace? In a place? A position? A posture? Or in a person? The Advent season reminds us to truly take to heart the fact that Jesus is our peace but practically what does this mean?
Micah 5:1-5 | Peace. A longing of every human heart, and yet found to be so elusive by so many. Anxiety is skyrocketing, the headlines are the antithesis of peace, accomplishments pursued yet peace not found. Where do we look for peace? In a place? A position? A posture? Or in a person? The Advent season reminds us to truly take to heart the fact that Jesus is our peace but practically what does this mean?
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The Advent of Hope
Luke 2:22-38 | This time of year gets busy. All of the normal rhythms to our year can get thrown around as the calendar flips to December. There are extended school breaks on the horizon, Christmas parties to attend, annual traditions to look forward to. This is great fun and yet can mean life gets pretty busy. In the midst of that busyness, we long to keep Jesus at the center of our worship this Christmas. Together we will seek to do that very thing this Advent season. As we begin the advent series, we look to the hope that came to us in Christ coming to earth. How does the coming of Christ inform how we hope and who we hope in?
Luke 2:22-38 | This time of year gets busy. All of the normal rhythms to our year can get thrown around as the calendar flips to December. There are extended school breaks on the horizon, Christmas parties to attend, annual traditions to look forward to. This is great fun and yet can mean life gets pretty busy. In the midst of that busyness, we long to keep Jesus at the center of our worship this Christmas. Together we will seek to do that very thing this Advent season. As we begin the advent series, we look to the hope that came to us in Christ coming to earth. How does the coming of Christ inform how we hope and who we hope in?
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This Is War
Ephesians 6:10–24 | We are in a war. When God's people seek to live the way Ephesians calls us to live, we will be confronted and affronted by the schemes of the enemy. There is a spiritual realm and there is a spiritual war. God has given us His armor for this war and has equipped us to know what battlefield to drag these spiritual wars onto.
Ephesians 6:10–24 | We are in a war. When God's people seek to live the way Ephesians calls us to live, we will be confronted and affronted by the schemes of the enemy. There is a spiritual realm and there is a spiritual war. God has given us His armor for this war and has equipped us to know what battlefield to drag these spiritual wars onto.
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The Gospel at Work
Ephesians 6:5–9 | How does the gospel come to bear on your work? I don't just mean that you are looking to share the gospel at work, I mean how does an understanding of the finished work of Christ inform the way you work? The gospel shapes how you come under the authority of others in the workplace. The gospel shapes how you lead with authority over others in the workplace. This week's passage shapes what it looks like to bring the gospel to work.
Ephesians 6:5–9 | How does the gospel come to bear on your work? I don't just mean that you are looking to share the gospel at work, I mean how does an understanding of the finished work of Christ inform the way you work? The gospel shapes how you come under the authority of others in the workplace. The gospel shapes how you lead with authority over others in the workplace. This week's passage shapes what it looks like to bring the gospel to work.
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The Healthy Home
Ephesians 6:1–4 | As we continue in our verse-by-verse series through Ephesians, we’ve entered a section dealing with relationships dynamics in the home. And this week, the parent/child relationship is up!
Let’s be honest – parenting is hard! Sleepless nights caring for the physical needs of infant babies turn into sleepless nights waiting up for teenagers to come home by curfew. So much of parenting is difficult, but it is so, so good. Every second you invest and every effort you make is worthy of the time and energy.
In talking with parents, most feel like they’re doing a bad job. It’s like baking a cake that you have to wait 25 years to see if you put in the right ingredients and the cake keeps deciding stuff for itself. If you open the oven and look today, of course, it’s still gooey in the middle! It’s not fully baked yet.
So let’s start with this question: how do you honestly evaluate your parenting? What is it that makes you feel like you’re doing a good job? Or a bad job? More importantly, what do you really want for your children? And what environment is going to cultivate it?
What makes the home spiritually healthy?
Ephesians 6:1–4 | As we continue in our verse-by-verse series through Ephesians, we’ve entered a section dealing with relationships dynamics in the home. And this week, the parent/child relationship is up!
Let’s be honest – parenting is hard! Sleepless nights caring for the physical needs of infant babies turn into sleepless nights waiting up for teenagers to come home by curfew. So much of parenting is difficult, but it is so, so good. Every second you invest and every effort you make is worthy of the time and energy.
In talking with parents, most feel like they’re doing a bad job. It’s like baking a cake that you have to wait 25 years to see if you put in the right ingredients and the cake keeps deciding stuff for itself. If you open the oven and look today, of course, it’s still gooey in the middle! It’s not fully baked yet.
So let’s start with this question: how do you honestly evaluate your parenting? What is it that makes you feel like you’re doing a good job? Or a bad job? More importantly, what do you really want for your children? And what environment is going to cultivate it?
What makes the home spiritually healthy?
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