- Oct 27, 2019Stay Strong: Week 2 (Part II: Success)Stay Strong: Week 2 (Part II: Success)Part II: SuccessBut since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us. For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? For you are our glory and joy (1 Thessalonians 2:17-20 ESV).
- Oct 20, 2019Stay Strong: Week 1 (Part I: Inspire)Stay Strong: Week 1 (Part I: Inspire)Part I: InspireWe give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake (1 Thessalonians 1:2-5 ESV).
- Oct 13, 2019Baggage: Week 4Baggage: Week 4Dealing With Depression
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound (Isaiah 61:1).
- Oct 6, 2019Baggage: Week 3Baggage: Week 3Emotional Baggage
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17).
- Sep 29, 2019Baggage: Week 2Baggage: Week 2Overcoming Addictions
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace (Romans 6:12-14).
- Sep 22, 2019Baggage: Week 1Baggage: Week 1Baggage CheckRomans 12:2; Psalm 71:20; Colossians 3:13
- Sep 15, 2019Back to Church Sunday: Together We Find PeaceBack to Church Sunday: Together We Find PeaceAnd he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit (Ephesians 2:17-22 ESV)
