fight for it | may 1 | philippians 2:19-30

Series – #fightforit

Summary: In this letter, Paul puts his struggle on display and shows how his struggle glorifies Christ. Thankful for the prayerful and financial support of the church in Philippi Paul writes this letter to provide encouragement to the church. Paul explains how to find joy no matter what is happening to you. He reveals how we can fight for it through a total dependency up Christ in all things. May Christ be the end and the means of our fight.   

Resources: Community Group Guide | Fight For It: Week 5

fight for it | april 24 | philippians 2:5-18

Series – #fightforit

Summary: In this letter, Paul puts his struggle on display and shows how his struggle glorifies Christ. Thankful for the prayerful and financial support of the church in Philippi Paul writes this letter to provide encouragement to the church. Paul explains how to find joy no matter what is happening to you. He reveals how we can fight for it through a total dependency up Christ in all things. May Christ be the end and the means of our fight.   

Resources: Community Group Guide | Fight For It: Week 4

fight for it | april 17 | philippians 1:27-2:4

Series – #fightforit

Summary: In this letter, Paul puts his struggle on display and shows how his struggle glorifies Christ. Thankful for the prayerful and financial support of the church in Philippi Paul writes this letter to provide encouragement to the church. Paul explains how to find joy no matter what is happening to you. He reveals how we can fight for it through a total dependency up Christ in all things. May Christ be the end and the means of our fight.   

Resources: Community Group Guide | Fight For It: Week 3

fight for it | april 10 | philippians 1:12-26

Series – #fightforit

Summary: In this letter, Paul puts his struggle on display and shows how his struggle glorifies Christ. Thankful for the prayerful and financial support of the church in Philippi Paul writes this letter to provide encouragement to the church. Paul explains how to find joy no matter what is happening to you. He reveals how we can fight for it through a total dependency up Christ in all things. May Christ be the end and the means of our fight.   

Resources: Community Group Guide | Fight For It: Week 2

fight for it | april 3 | philippians 1:1-11

Series – #fightforit

Summary: In this letter, Paul puts his struggle on display and shows how his struggle glorifies Christ. Thankful for the prayerful and financial support of the church in Philippi Paul writes this letter to provide encouragement to the church. Paul explains how to find joy no matter what is happening to you. He reveals how we can fight for it through a total dependency up Christ in all things. May Christ be the end and the means of our fight. 

Resources: Community Group Guide | Fight For It: Week 1

the table | week 6 | luke 24:36-49

Series – the Table

Summary: Perhaps the most miraculous thing that Jesus has done is the most ordinary. Jesus “has come eating and drinking.” (Luke 7:34–35) Of Luke’s gospel it has been said that Jesus is either going to a meal, eating a meal, or leaving a meal. In Jesus’ life, the best demonstration of the restoration he brings is eating and drinking. God is restoring a world that is lost and broken by sin. He is making all things new. What portrait does God paint of the renewal that he brings? It’s a wedding feast. God restores the world by gathering the broken around his table in order to be restored to a perfect family meal in the life to come.  

Resources: Community Group Guide | the Table: Week 6

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the table | week 5 | luke 22:7-23

Series – the Table

Summary: Perhaps the most miraculous thing that Jesus has done is the most ordinary. Jesus “has come eating and drinking.” (Luke 7:34–35) Of Luke’s gospel it has been said that Jesus is either going to a meal, eating a meal, or leaving a meal. In Jesus’ life, the best demonstration of the restoration he brings is eating and drinking. God is restoring a world that is lost and broken by sin. He is making all things new. What portrait does God paint of the renewal that he brings? It’s a wedding feast. God restores the world by gathering the broken around his table in order to be restored to a perfect family meal in the life to come. 

Resources: Community Group Guide | the Table: Week 5

the table | week 4 | luke 14:1-24

Series – the Table

Summary: Perhaps the most miraculous thing that Jesus has done is the most ordinary. Jesus “has come eating and drinking.” (Luke 7:34–35) Of Luke’s gospel it has been said that Jesus is either going to a meal, eating a meal, or leaving a meal. In Jesus’ life, the best demonstration of the restoration he brings is eating and drinking. God is restoring a world that is lost and broken by sin. He is making all things new. What portrait does God paint of the renewal that he brings? It’s a wedding feast. God restores the world by gathering the broken around his table in order to be restored to a perfect family meal in the life to come. 

Resources: Community Group Guide | the Table: Week 4

flourish | ruth | march 9

ruth | by vanessa bush | march 9, 2016

Series – Women's Ministry

Summary: Even though the Old Testament book of Ruth was written thousands of years ago, the truths about who God is and what he has done that are recorded in this book could not be more relevant to us today.

the table | week 3 | luke 9:7-20

Series – the Table

Summary: Perhaps the most miraculous thing that Jesus has done is the most ordinary. Jesus “has come eating and drinking.” (Luke 7:34–35) Of Luke’s gospel it has been said that Jesus is either going to a meal, eating a meal, or leaving a meal. In Jesus’ life, the best demonstration of the restoration he brings is eating and drinking. God is restoring a world that is lost and broken by sin. He is making all things new. What portrait does God paint of the renewal that he brings? It’s a wedding feast. God restores the world by gathering the broken around his table in order to be restored to a perfect family meal in the life to come.

Resources: Community Group Guide | the Table: Week 3

the table | week 2 | luke 7:36-39

Series – the Table

Summary: Perhaps the most miraculous thing that Jesus has done is the most ordinary. Jesus “has come eating and drinking.” (Luke 7:34–35) Of Luke’s gospel it has been said that Jesus is either going to a meal, eating a meal, or leaving a meal. In Jesus’ life, the best demonstration of the restoration he brings is eating and drinking. God is restoring a world that is lost and broken by sin. He is making all things new. What portrait does God paint of the renewal that he brings? It’s a wedding feast. God restores the world by gathering the broken around his table in order to be restored to a perfect family meal in the life to come.

Resources: Community Group Guide | the Table: Week 2

the table | week 1 | luke 5:27-32

Series – the Table

Summary: Perhaps the most miraculous thing that Jesus has done is the most ordinary. Jesus “has come eating and drinking.” (Luke 7:34–35) Of Luke’s gospel it has been said that Jesus is either going to a meal, eating a meal, or leaving a meal. In Jesus’ life, the best demonstration of the restoration he brings is eating and drinking. God is restoring a world that is lost and broken by sin. He is making all things new. What portrait does God paint of the renewal that he brings? It’s a wedding feast. God restores the world by gathering the broken around his table in order to be restored to a perfect family meal in the life to come. 

Resources: Community Group Guide | the Table: Week 1

mist | week 6 | ecclesiastes 12:1-14

Series – Mist

Summary: There is nothing wrong with ordinary life except that it is always falling apart and slipping away. The preacher in Ecclesiastes says that life is a vanity. By vanity, the preacher means that all life under the sun is a mist. Life happened before us and life is not depending on us to continue. Our life under the sun is like a mist. It is here but it will soon be gone. The preacher, in his wisdom, does not want us to chase after the wind, he does not want us to long for more of the broken world that is falling apart. This world is a mist, yet God has bound eternity to our hearts. In our study we will discover how to receive God’s gift of joy in our ordinary lives under the sun. We will see how joy points us to a restored life beyond the sun, and how through Jesus vanity will, itself, one day become a mist.

Resources: Community Group Guide | Mist: Week 6

mist | week 5 | ecclesiastes 11:1-10

Series – Mist

Summary: There is nothing wrong with ordinary life except that it is always falling apart and slipping away. The preacher in Ecclesiastes says that life is a vanity. By vanity, the preacher means that all life under the sun is a mist. Life happened before us and life is not depending on us to continue. Our life under the sun is like a mist. It is here but it will soon be gone. The preacher, in his wisdom, does not want us to chase after the wind, he does not want us to long for more of the broken world that is falling apart. This world is a mist, yet God has bound eternity to our hearts. In our study we will discover how to receive God’s gift of joy in our ordinary lives under the sun. We will see how joy points us to a restored life beyond the sun, and how through Jesus vanity will, itself, one day become a mist.

Resources: Community Group Guide | Mist: Week 5, video for CGs

mist | week 4 | ecclesiastes 7:1-13

Series – Mist

Summary: There is nothing wrong with ordinary life except that it is always falling apart and slipping away. The preacher in Ecclesiastes says that life is a vanity. By vanity, the preacher means that all life under the sun is a mist. Life happened before us and life is not depending on us to continue. Our life under the sun is like a mist. It is here but it will soon be gone. The preacher, in his wisdom, does not want us to chase after the wind, he does not want us to long for more of the broken world that is falling apart. This world is a mist, yet God has bound eternity to our hearts. In our study we will discover how to receive God’s gift of joy in our ordinary lives under the sun. We will see how joy points us to a restored life beyond the sun, and how through Jesus vanity will, itself, one day become a mist.

Resources: Community Group Guide | Mist: Week 4, video for CGs

mist | week 3 | ecclesiastes 5:8-20

Series – Mist

Summary: There is nothing wrong with ordinary life except that it is always falling apart and slipping away. The preacher in Ecclesiastes says that life is a vanity. By vanity, the preacher means that all life under the sun is a mist. Life happened before us and life is not depending on us to continue. Our life under the sun is like a mist. It is here but it will soon be gone. The preacher, in his wisdom, does not want us to chase after the wind, he does not want us to long for more of the broken world that is falling apart. This world is a mist, yet God has bound eternity to our hearts. In our study we will discover how to receive God’s gift of joy in our ordinary lives under the sun. We will see how joy points us to a restored life beyond the sun, and how through Jesus vanity will, itself, one day become a mist.

Resources: Community Group Guide | Mist: Week 3. video for CGs

mist | week 2 | ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Series – Mist

Summary: There is nothing wrong with ordinary life except that it is always falling apart and slipping away. The preacher in Ecclesiastes says that life is a vanity. By vanity, the preacher means that all life under the sun is a mist. Life happened before us and life is not depending on us to continue. Our life under the sun is like a mist. It is here but it will soon be gone. The preacher, in his wisdom, does not want us to chase after the wind, he does not want us to long for more of the broken world that is falling apart. This world is a mist, yet God has bound eternity to our hearts. In our study we will discover how to receive God’s gift of joy in our ordinary lives under the sun. We will see how joy points us to a restored life beyond the sun, and how through Jesus vanity will, itself, one day become a mist.

Resources: Community Group Guide | Mist: Week 2, video for CGs

flourish | ruth | January 13

ruth | by vanessa bush | january 13, 2016

Series – Women's Ministry

Summary: Even though the Old Testament book of Ruth was written thousands of years ago, the truths about who God is and what he has done that are recorded in this book could not be more relevant to us today.

mist | week 1 | ecclesiastes 1:1-11

Series – Mist

Summary: There is nothing wrong with ordinary life except that it is always falling apart and slipping away. The preacher in Ecclesiastes says that life is a vanity. By vanity, the preacher means that all life under the sun is a mist. Life happened before us and life is not depending on us to continue. Our life under the sun is like a mist. It is here but it will soon be gone. The preacher, in his wisdom, does not want us to chase after the wind, he does not want us to long for more of the broken world that is falling apart. This world is a mist, yet God has bound eternity to our hearts. In our study we will discover how to receive God’s gift of joy in our ordinary lives under the sun. We will see how joy points us to a restored life beyond the sun, and how through Jesus vanity will, itself, one day become a mist.

Resources: Community Group Guide | Mist: Week 1