Episode 43: What is the Church? A Worshiping Community
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“There is a healthy discontentment that we should feel about the way things are. We should long to be together. We should long to be with our church family. A family that has to spend a long time apart from one another should never feel like that’s normal or healthy. But more than we should […]
Why We Love the Church (Selected Scriptures)
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The Church (Part1): A Disciple Making Community (Hebrews 10:19-25)
Lighthouse exists to make Gospel-Centered disciples who exalt and proclaim Christ. Key Idea: Pursue community in light of the gospel and in light of eternity. I. Pursue community in the light of the GOSPEL II. Pursue community in light of ETERNITY
Messiah, the Cornerstone (1 Corinthians 3:5-17)
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Key idea: A people centered on Messiah remember what the church must not be charmed by and what the church must be founded on. 1. The church must not be charmed by status (vv. 5-9a) 2. The church must be founded on the Messiah (vv. 9b-17) 3 dangers that will destroy the church a. Bad […]
The Birth of the Church (Acts 2)
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Key Idea: The church is designed to be all about Jesus.
Wired for Ministry: Pursuit & Progress, Part II (Ephesians 4:7-16)
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For the Love of the Church (Ephesians 2:19-22)
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The Gospel Community (Hebrews 10:24-25)
Together for the Gospel: Getting to the Heart of Sunday Morning Worship Services (Hebrews 10:19-25)
Pastor David Lee teaches the youth group how to participate in Sunday morning worship services. Christians meet to worship God by rehearsing and celebrating the Gospel together.
Is This Really Church? (Ephesians 4:4-16)
In the fourth and final part of our series on The Church, we look at three characteristics of the real church that will help us to live as the body of Christ as it is exposed in Scripture.