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Return to God - August 30, 2020 Luke 20:19-26 The thing God desires most from us is worship. It’s as simple as that. We’ve complicated it. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Don’t Be Trippin’ - August 23, 2020 Luke 29: 9-18 It’s easy to think we can use the blessings God has given us, the vision and direction he has for our life, as a means to an end for benefiting ourselves - don’t get tripped up. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Autonomy or Authority - August 16, 2020 It’s a big decision. Are we going to choose autonomy, do what we want, and hope it all works out? Or are we going to choose authority, and allow Jesus to guide us in wisdom and discernment? Pastor Nelson Klaiber walks through Luke chapter 20 to help understand the importance of this decision. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Be Found Following - August 9, 2020 Luke 19:41-48 It’s time for us to be who we’re supposed to be. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Into the Valley - August 2, 2020 Luke 19:28-40 Can you follow Jesus into the valley? Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Listen to the Mission - July 26, 2020 Luke 19:11-27 Our mission is to seek and lead to salvation those who are lost. We’re called to be the light of the world, but that won’t work if we take the knowledge of who God is, and do nothing with it. We are where Heaven meets Earth. Listen to the mission and reach the world. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Take? Or give? - July 19, 2020 Luke 19: 1-10 What is the motivation for your relationships? Once you have a relationship with Jesus - once you realize he wants to know you, and have a relationship with you, it will stop you in your tracks. It will change everything about you, and make you a new person. It will move you from one who takes, to one who gives. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
July 12 2020 Luke 18:35-43 There’s something right in front of us that will lead all the way to eternity, but we need to be able to see it. Step into what is true. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
No Excuse Whatsoever - June 28, 2020 Luke 18: 17-30 There is none good but God. What does that mean for us? How much greater can we be with God, the only true and perfect good, working through us? There’s no excuse whatsoever to not give yourself completely to the Kingdom of God. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
How Do You Stand Before God? - June 21, 2020 Luke 18: 1-14 The way we make a difference, the way we display hope and love and a better way, is to remember how God views us - to remember his love and grace and mercy for us - and to understand that standing humble before God is the key - standing before God with an attitude of thankfulness and gratitude for what he’s done for us. How do you stand before God? As one waiting on something you feel you deserve? Or as one begging and pleading for mercy because of how you’ve messed up? It starts when we realize what we’re about. Stand humble. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Don’t Look Back - June 14, 2020 Luke 17: 20-37 Imagine if we quit living for ourselves and started living for those around us. Imagine if we started working for something real and true and eternal, rather than the temporary things of this world. Imagine if we locked our eyes on the Kingdom of God and didn’t look back. We would change the world. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
The Gospel of Social Distancing - June 7, 2020 Luke 17: 11-19 Are we allowing our sense of righteousness, and the religious things we do, to distance us from the very mission Jesus left us with? Are we losing our humility in our quest to please God, missing the big picture of reaching those he’s called us to reach, and instead expecting God to bless us because of the religious things we’ve done? There is nothing we can do to add value to ourselves in the eyes of God. We need to take the resurrection message, the new life God has given us, and give it to others. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Who Are You Faithful To? - May 17 2020 Luke 16: 10-18 Humility is cornerstone to us. It’s the key to our faithfulness to God. It’s the ultimate expression of our trust in Him. We gladly give him all of us, knowing he is faithful and true and loves us beyond measure. Until we start talking about our money. Jesus said you can’t serve wealth and God - you can’t be faithful to two masters. Our wealth is a tool to serve. A door to fulfilling the great commission and taking the message of Jesus to our community. A way to build relationships and impact eternity. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Finding Focus in Anxiety Philippians 4: 4-13 In this moment, with so much going on around us, it’s easy to be anxious, to be worried, to let things get away from us, to let our minds take us away from who and what we are. To lose sight of the things that are true and perfect and real. But we are the church. We are His people. And we have a mandate - to not only take care of each other and those around us, but to take care of ourselves - our mental well-being. Paul gives us a key to keeping our focus where it should be in his letter to the Christians at Philippi - something to keep our minds clear and our hearts steady in times when our circumstances declare otherwise. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Invest in Eternity - May 10, 2020 Luke 16:1-9 Are you investing in your eternity? What about the eternity of those around you? What does this even mean? How focused are we on investing in this world, growing our wealth and securing our future, while at the same time missing that eternity is right around the corner? Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
What Do You Deserve? Luke 15:25-32 Are you the prodigal son? Or the son that stayed and did everything his father asked? The answer may surprise you - and change you. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
The Prodigal Son - April 26, 2020 Luke 15: 11-24 Why is humility the foundation of Salvation? What makes it so important to our faith? Humility is the image of Jesus. Jesus humbled himself out of love us. He left his reputation at the foot of a Roman cross and was murdered for our eternity. His love for us exceeded his reputation. When rock bottom meets our reality, when we realize our worthiness will never be enough, we begin to see Jesus for who he was, what he gave up, and what draws him to us. Come to your senses. Come to the Father. Come to the table.
Why Humility? - April 19, 2020 Luke 15: 1-10 Humility is the foundation of Salvation. None of this matters without that foundation. It’s all temporary and broken and lost until we humble ourselves and realize we’re nothing and nowhere without Jesus. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Easter Sunday - April 12, 2020 He came to save the world.We murdered him.We murdered the Son of God.How did this happen? Why did this happen? Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Extreme Obedience - April 5, 2020 Luke 14: 25-35 Extreme Obedience: Is it really extreme, or is it simply not serving God to serve yourself? Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
Coping Skills for Tough Days and Hard Times - with Clinical Counselor Angee Tuggle With everything going on in the world today, it’s easy to slip into a dark place with our mental health. Pastor Nelson Klaiber and Clinical Counselor Angee Tuggle discuss ways to keep your mental health where it needs to be during uncertain and unsettling times. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church YouTube - bit.ly/cbcports www.portsmouthcbc.org
The Key To Happiness - March 29th, 2020 Luke 14: 12-24 The key to happiness isn’t found in stuff. It’s not found in chasing things. It’s found in discovering a life focused on serving others, chasing the good for others, being humble, and putting the needs of others first. The key to happiness is found in the example Jesus left for us. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church www.portsmouthcbc.org
Take A Back Seat - March 22nd, 2020 Luke 14: 1-11 Why are we obedient to God? To simply obey the rules? Do we expect God to show us more favor because we followed the rules? At what point does our obedience become an act with a focus on us instead of Him? At what point are we just obedient to the rules to get something from God? Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church www.portsmouthcbc.org
Let It Go - March 15th, 2020 Luke 13: 31-35 Life is uncertain, and there’s no way to escape the suffering. The fear is always there. Jesus is a certainty. He’s always present, and he’s always true. How do we let go of our uncertainty and fear and anxiety, and let him be our guide? Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church www.portsmouthcbc.org
Do You Feel Lucky? - March 8th, 2020 Luke 13: 22-30 Who is going to Heaven? With all the different beliefs in the world, who’s right? Do you feel lucky? Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church www.portsmouthcbc.org
Stand Up Straight - March 1st, 2020 Luke 13: 10-17 Are we achieving our purpose of taking suffering away from the world by pointing them to Jesus and showing them where rest is found? Or are we doing what we do simply to benefit ourselves? Stand up straight. Set your aim on the Kingdom of God. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church www.portsmouthcbc.org
Be The Weirdo Who Impacts The World - February 23rd, 2020 Luke 13: 1-9 If your church closed its doors today and ceased to exist, would your community know you were gone? We are meant to impact the world around us - our community, our family, our friends. It’s what we were created to do. There’s only one way to do that. To impose the world, we need to operate differently than the world. We need to do things differently. There’s a better way. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/beyond-church www.portsmouthcbc.org
Be The Weirdo - February 16th, 2020 Luke 12: 49-59 When you live as the image of Jesus to the world. When you live that’s fulfilled. When you live a life that’s for one another - when you’re not living like the rest of the world just trying to “get yours”…you’re a weirdo. Be the weirdo. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc www.portsmouthcbc.org
Are You Ready - February 9th, 2020 Luke 12: 35-48 There’s something about being in the Kingdom of God, about living in that way - giving ourselves over entirely to God - that makes us whole. Gives us joy, gives our lives purpose, and fulfills us completely. But what does that look like? What does it actually mean to live in the Kingdom of God? And are we ready? Are we ready to do what that requires? Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc www.portsmouthcbc.org
Rich Fool - February 2nd, 2020 Luke 12: 13-34 How can we take all the things in this world that cause us worry, that cause us anxiety and stress, the things that cause us to compromise our integrity and character - and turn our back on them? Pastor Nels takes us down the path Jesus showed us to releasing these things in our life. Follow us online!Instagram - @cbcportsmouthohFacebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbcwww.portsmouthcbc.org
Infectious Hypocrisy - January 26th, 2020 Luke 12: 1-12 What is it that causes mankind to become evil? What happens when you know what is absolute right and absolute wrong, yet you twist it to fit your purpose? Pastor Nels takes us through the answer Jesus gave us in Luke 12. Follow us online! Instagram - @cbcportsmouthoh Facebook - Facebook.com/portsmouthcbc www.portsmouthcbc.org
Good Grief - January 19th, 2020Luke 11:42-53 What is true? Your agenda? The agenda of the church? The Kingdom of God doesn’t exist to support an agenda. The Kingdom of God is its own thing. The Kingdom of God is true. It is just. And it is perfect. It’s not about what you believe to be true, it’s about what actually is true.
Looks Good - January 12th, 2020Luke 11:29-40 Are you stuck in the status-quo? Are you doing things simply because that’s the way it’s always been done? While there can be value in routines and tradition, there can also be issues surrounding doing things simply because you’ve always done it. Just because it “looks good”, does God like you more than someone who does it differently? Is your hope in Jesus, or in the way you “do things”?
Gather Around - January 5th, 2020Luke 11:14-16 What is our role in the kingdom of God? The battle is for people, not against them. How does this look for the Church? Do we understand what the Kingdom of God even is? Pastor Nels discusses what it means to be part of the Kingdom, part of the Church, and the importance of Gathering Around.