Mar 31
2017
A Connecting Church
The church is more than a Sunday morning gathering for music, sermonizing, and donuts. It’s bigger than us.
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COOL YA JETS
“So why are you now trying to out-god God, loading these new believers down with rules that crushed our ancestors and crushed us, too? … So what are we arguing about?” Acts 15:10-11 MSG
Keep ReadingThe Apostles and the “Uttermosts”
“God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith” (Acts 15:8, 9).
Keep ReadingBoundary Lines and Border Crossings
… we should not trouble those gentiles who are turning to God … (Acts 15:19).
Keep ReadingOn Purpose, For a Purpose
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10).
Keep ReadingMar 30
2017
Going to look for Saul
Who are the great partners that God has brought into your life
Mar 29
2017
Parachuting in
Barnabas’ posture had a tremendous impact on his experience and on the way others experienced him. We’re at our most healthy when we cultivate a similar posture.
Mar 28
2017
Outsiders reaching outsiders
It took outsiders to reach outsiders.
Mar 27
2017
Disrupting Default Segregation
Ethnic segregation, socioeconomic segregation, political segregation … left to our own devices we’ll surround ourselves exclusively with people who look, spend, and think just like us.
Mar 24
2017
Small Faithfulness
What might God do with your faithfulness?
Mar 23
2017
Talk to God about it
The Lord of all the cosmos has chosen to treat you as a friend
Mar 22
2017
Underestimating Jesus
This gap between who Jesus really is and who people perceive him to be shows up for all of us.
Mar 21
2017
ME
Jesus isn’t just alive on the other side of the cross and the empty tomb, he’s present in the lives of his people.
Mar 20
2017
Prayer for the persecuted church
Opponents to God’s work in the world today can appear in various forms. Some come equipped with little more than snide comments and teasing. Others carry knives, bombs, and the hammer of unjust laws.