Trials, Refined Faith, and Inexpressible Joy (1 Peter 1:6-9)
Key Idea: Trials are God doing what is necessary to pursue what is precious. God will do what is necessary to pursue what is precious. The precious that God wants for us is refined faith. Refined faith leads to inexpressible joy. Joy in knowing and experience the object of your love (v. 8) Joy in […]
Lost and Found (Luke 15:1-7) // Baptism Sunday
When We’ve Arrived (Revelation 22:1-5)
When We’ve Arrived (Revelation 22:1-5)
Key Idea: As believers we can have confident hope that the best is yet to come.
Outreach Month 2022
The Supremacy of the Son (Colossians 1:15-20)
The Supremacy of the Son
Colossians 1:15-20
Key idea: Jesus Christ is supreme over everything.
1. Jesus is supreme over the old creation (15-16)
a. Jesus is supreme because he is the image of God (15a)
b. Jesus is supreme because he is the firstborn over all creation (15b)
Jesus has the rights of the firstborn because:
1. All things were created by (in) him
2. All things were created through him
3. All things were created for him
Application: true life as a created being is only found in Jesus.
2. Jesus is supreme because he holds all things together (17-18)
3. Jesus is supreme over the new creation (the Church) (18b-20)
a) Jesus is supreme because he is the founder and the resurrector of the Church (18b)
Two ways that Jesus is supreme over the new creation:
1. The fullness of God was pleased to dwell in him
2. God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things through Jesus
To Summarize:
1. Jesus is ____, and He _________ all things.
2. Jesus _________ all things together.
3. Jesus, __________________, is ______________ all things to himself.
Application: Is this the Jesus you believe in?
Marriage and Dating (Ephesians 5:31-32)
The What: The Union of Marriage (v.31) The Why: The Uniqueness of Marriage (v.32) The How: Dating as the Understudy of Marriage
Gospel-Centered Identity in Motherhood
Living in the Light of the Son (Colossians 1:3-14)
Living Hope (1 Peter 1:3-5)
Key Idea: Three realities of God’s care to fuel our living hope: His great mercy establishes our hope (v. 3) His future grace directs our hope (v. 4) The ministry of hope for the Christian: not optimism- minimizing the bad to focusing on the good or potential good not stoicism- enduring suffering without displaying pain […]
