January 30, 2011
Resources:
Fear Not Remember Your Redeemer Isaiah 43
Isaiah 42
Dec 26 2010 Sermon
Isaiah 41
Isaiah 6: Introduction to Isaiah Series
January 16, 2011
April Memory Verses
January 16, 2011
Isaiah 53:3-6 “He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But [...]
Sunday Special : A New Missional Tool
January 16, 2011
The mission of God is to make himself known in all the earth through his people. One of the many ways we engage in this mission involves our words, namely, speaking the gospel to unbelievers that they might be saved and to believers that they might be sanctified. How is this going for you? Do [...]
How Can You Eat at a Time Like This?
January 16, 2011
Why do we fast? Perhaps an experience from this week can point to one of the Bible’s answers. On Wednesday afternoon Jakob, Aaron, and I were at a ministry leaders’ lunch when, at the end of the meeting, we were all informed of the Chandler Fashion Center shootings. Someone prayed for the situation then dismissed [...]
Worshiping in 2011 – Jakob Lillvik
January 16, 2011
Worship isn’t Sunday morning. It’s not the songs we sing, the music we play, the prayers we pray, or the sermon we hear. It’s not the event happening on stage, or in the congregation. It’s not your missional community gathering, your Bible study studying, or your small group being small. Don’t get me wrong, worship [...]
The Divine Meal Jesus Brings Us
January 16, 2011
As we celebrate Christ’s birth, I thought I would share a narrative from Augustine’s Confessions, which he wrote in 398 A.D. In this selection from Book VII, Augustine recounts to God his first awareness of God’s existence, mingled with his ongoing pull toward this world’s pleasures and his frustrating inability to fully embrace God. Note the [...]