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Pastor Gene Brack shares part three of Lordship Habits on praying the Word of God.
Message from Pastor Gene Brack on August 30, 2020.
Message by Pastor Gene Brack from August 2, 2020.
No Matter What: Prayer Matters Originally Recorded: Jul 5, 2020 2 Timothy 4:2 proclaim the Word of God and stand upon it no matter what! Rise to the occasion and preach when it is convenient and when it is not. Preach in the full expression of the Holy Spirit—with wisdom and patience as you instruct and teach the people. Why do we pray? The Four Postures of Prayer 1 Peter 5:6-7 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up. Luke 10:41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. THE POSTURE OF HUMILITY Psalms 37:3-4 Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. THE POSTURE OF DELIGHT 1. Humility results in God's grace. 2. Delight results in God's desires. 2 Timothy 4:2 proclaim the Word of God and stand upon it no matter what! Rise to the occasion and preach when it is convenient and when it is not. Preach in the full expression of the Holy Spirit—with wisdom and patience as you instruct and teach the people. Colossians 1:9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,
No Matter What: The Tourist vs. The Traveller: Jun 28, 2020 Originally Recorded: Jun 28, 2020 2 Timothy 4:2 proclaim the Word of God and stand upon it no matter what! Rise to the occasion and preach when it is convenient and when it is not. Preach in the full expression of the Holy Spirit—with wisdom and patience as you instruct and teach the people. Matthew 28:19-20 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. Romans 10:9-11 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”
No Matter What: Fish and Chips: Jun 21, 2020 Originally Recorded: Jun 21, 2020 2 Timothy 4:2 proclaim the Word of God and stand upon it no matter what! Rise to the occasion and preach when it is convenient and when it is not. Preach in the full expression of the Holy Spirit—with wisdom and patience as you instruct and teach the people. James (Jacob) 1:2 My fellow believers, when it seems as though you are facing nothing but difficulties, see it as an invaluable opportunity to experience the greatest joy that you can! James (Jacob) 1:3 For you know that when your faith is tested it stirs up power within you to endure all things. James (Jacob) 1:4 And then as your endurance grows even stronger it will release perfection into every part of your being until there is nothing missing and nothing lacking. Ephesians 5:1 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children
History (Pt 3): May 31, 2020 Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: May 31, 2020 There will always be things that will challenge His Story Daniel 3:4-6 And the herald proclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace.” You have to decide ahead of time that you will value His Story Daniel 3:12 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, pay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” We have to be committed to His story regardless of what the consequences are. Daniel 3:16-23 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated. And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace. Because the king’s order was urgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell bound into the burning fiery furnace. Big Idea: When we are committed to His Story, God is committed to our Story
History Part 2 Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: May 24, 2020 Never let others tell you that you can’t be in His Story 1 Samuel 16:6-10 When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.” But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.” Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.” And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen these.” 1 Samuel 17:28-33 Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.” And David said, “What have I done now? Was it not but a word?” And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before. When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him. And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.” You’ve already been prepared and positioned in His Story 1 Samuel 17:34-39 But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock, I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.” And David said, “The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!” Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail, and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off. God will use what you have in His Story Big Idea: Opportunity doesn’t usually look like what we think it should look like in His story.
History Part 1 Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: May 17, 2020 Where you start doesn’t determine where you can finish in His Story Esther 2:17 the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. God will give you grace and favor at the right time in His Story When you are teachable, God will establish you in grace and favor Esther 4:1-3 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes. Esther 4:15-16 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.” Trusting in the Lord is the key in His Story Big Idea: God uses the most unlikely people to engage in His story. Esther 4:14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Today I (Re) Commit my life to Jesus.
Mother's Day 2020 Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: May 10, 2020
Jesus In The Boat Speaker: Pastor Frank Yazvac Originally Recorded: Mar 22, 2020 Mark 4:35-41 As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.” So they took Jesus in the boat and started out, leaving the crowds behind (although other boats followed). But soon a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water. Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re going to drown?” When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Silence! Be still!” Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?” The disciples were absolutely terrified. “Who is this man?” they asked each other. “Even the wind and waves obey him!” We can rest in the middle of the storm. Psalms 91:1 Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. Matthew 11:28 Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Proverbs 3:24 You can go to bed without fear; you will lie down and sleep soundly. Psalms 4:8 In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, O Lord, will keep me safe. Sometimes we need to speak to the storm. Joshua 1:8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. I John 5:14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. Mark 11:22-25 And Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." Romans 8:11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. If you've been struggling with fear, choose to rest in God by leaning into His presence. If you've been restless, let your faith rise up and speak to the storm. And continue to be the church. We're facing unique challenges, but we also have unique opportunities to share Christ like we never have before.
Firm Foundation Speaker: Pastor Frank Yazvac Originally Recorded: Mar 15, 2020 Psalms 40:1-3 I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord. We wait patiently. Isaiah 40:31 But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint. God hears us when we cry out. 1 John 5:14 And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. Psalms 34:17 The Lord hears his people when they call to him for help. He rescues them from all their troubles. Philippians 4:6-7 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. We are steadied by God. Hebrews 12:12-13 So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong. Many will see what He has done and be amazed. Joshua 1:9 This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Philippians 1:6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. Romans 15:13 I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Mercy Triumphs Judgement Speaker: Gene Brack Originally Recorded: Mar 8, 2020
Are you Pooh or Piglet?: Mar 1, 2020 Speaker: Pastor Judy Kelley Originally Recorded: Mar 1, 2020 Judges 6:12-16 When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” Great Truths in the Story of Gideon: God has a plan for your life. Great Truths in the Story of Gideon: You can do more than you think you can. Great Truths in the Story of Gideon: Start now...you can do it. Great Truths in the Story of Gideon: God loves you....He is patient...and He will empower and help you. The life changing truths apply to: Your relationship with God. Your relationships...marriage, family, friends. Your ministry - personal, corporate. Your jobs, career, future. Big Idea: What we value most defines our purpose and gives birth to our vision. What's your plan? 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Feb 23, 2020 Speaker: Pastor Mike Kelley Originally Recorded: Feb 23, 2020
Hungry Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Feb 16, 2020 What do you want? Psalms 119:20 My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times. Hunger drives us to live differently God honors hunger Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. When we are truly hungry, we worry less about what it costs us… instead focusing on what we get as we walk with God Big Question: What are you hungry for? 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
2020 Vision - Building Community Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Feb 2, 2020 Romans 1:11-12 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. We were made for community... even if you feel like you don’t need it Building community is more about knowing one another rather than knowing about one another People in positive, encouraging community navigate through struggles better and healthier Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Build community and build hope Big Idea: LifeGroups are not about a program, they are a launching point into deeper community and encouragement. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
2020 Vision - Building Others Speaker: Pastor Matt Kirkpatrick Originally Recorded: Jan 26, 2020 Mark 12:30-31 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is, Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.” Mark 16:15 Then he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Hebrews 10:19-25 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus — he has inaugurated for us a new and living way through the curtain (that is, through his flesh ) — and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since he who promised is faithful. And let us watch out for one another to provoke love and good works, not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching. Acts 9:19-27 And after taking some food, he regained his strength. Saul was with the disciples in Damascus for some time. Immediately he began proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues: “He is the Son of God.” All who heard him were astounded and said, “Isn’t this the man in Jerusalem who was causing havoc for those who called on this name and came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests?” But Saul grew stronger and kept confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah. After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him, but Saul learned of their plot. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him, but his disciples took him by night and lowered him in a large basket through an opening in the wall. When he arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, since they did not believe he was a disciple. Barnabas, however, took him and brought him to the apostles and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and that the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus. Key Point: Who are you building up here at Hope Church? What legacy are you leaving behind? 1 Thessalonians 5:14-21 And we exhort you, brothers and sisters: warn those who are idle, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient with everyone. See to it that no one repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all. Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Don’t stifle the Spirit. Don’t despise prophecies, but test all things. Hold on to what is good. 1. Warn those who are idle. 2. Comfort the discouraged. 3. Help the weak. 4. Be patient with everyone. 5. Always pursue good for one another and for all. It's time we start building others and building Hope. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
2020 Vision - Building Yourself Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Jan 19, 2020 Psalms 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. How are you building up yourself spiritually? Who are you surrounding yourself with? What are you allowing to stretch you? What are you leaning into? Are you taking responsibility in this area of your life? Big Idea: Make 2020 a year where you make every effort to grow spiritually. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
2020 Vision: Jan 12, 2020 Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Jan 12, 2020 Haggai 1:2-4 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.’ ” Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” The restoration of God’s house highlighted the Lord’s desire to renew a covenant relationship with His people Psalms 106:21 They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt, Judges 2:10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. Have we forgotten what Jesus has said? Matthew 28:18-20 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Priorities define what we value. Actions show who we trust. This is NOT a time for us to be focused on temporal things God always gives His promise of presence. Haggai 1:5-11 Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.” This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the Lord. “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house. Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.” Big Idea: Whose house are you building? 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Constellations (4) Speaker: Pastor Christine Phillips Originally Recorded: Dec 29, 2019
Constellations (3) Speaker: Pastor Frank Yazvac Originally Recorded: Dec 22, 2019
Constellations (2) Speaker: Pastor Matthew Kirkpatrick Originally Recorded: Dec 15, 2019 Luke 1:5-25 If God has called you to something, He will see it through. He is the God of the impossible. Matthew 1:18-25 If God has called you to do something, He will walk you through. Luke 2:8-20 We can fulfill God's call on our life by faithfully saying "yes" in obedience. Big Question: God is still speaking to us today. How will you respond? Just remember: We all play a part in a story bigger than us. What role will you play? 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Constellations Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Dec 8, 2019 Matthew 2:1-12 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him." When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: "'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'" Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him." After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way. The star brought into focus what was most important. Psalms 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Luke 1:39-44 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. You were created to glorify God. Daniel 12:3 And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. Big Question: Who are you pointing towards the savior? Just remember: You’re simply a star pointing a direction to the savior of the world. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Together: Dec 1, 2019 Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Dec 1, 2019 Micah 7:11-15 A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended. In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain. But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds. Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things. God is the God of Comebacks! Together is God's plan! There is an inheritance, a plan and release of blessing of Hope for the people of Hope, through the people of Hope. “Eighty-two percent of the unchurched are at least somewhat likely to attend church if invited.” –Dr. Thom Rainer, The Unchurched Next Door 1 Corinthians 4:20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. God is going to work IN you in miraculous ways. God is going to work THROUGH you in miraculous ways. 1 Corinthians 12:31 But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. Big Idea: We accomplish the plans of God for Hope Church…together. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Minor Prophet/Major Message: Nov 24, 2019 Speaker: Pastor Frank Yazvac Originally Recorded: Nov 24, 2019 Micah 6:8 Micah 6:6-7 What does the Lord want from me? TO WALK WITH GOD Ephesians 5:1 We were never meant to imitate Him, apart from Him. Genesis 3:8-9 Acts 17:24-28 He has no need of anything from us, but still He pursues us. Walking with God was always His intention. HUMBLE YOURSELF Matthew 23:1-12 Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. Jesus knew exactly who He was and how important He was in the Father's eyes and still lowered himself to elevate the people around him. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Minor Prophet/Major Message: Nov 17, 2019 Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Nov 17, 2019 Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Psalms 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face. Grace is the unmerited gift of God to forgive us our sins. Mercy is the compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender If each man gets what he deserves, who of us shall escape whipping? -Shakespeare Big Idea: We love mercy, because we have received mercy. When we live in mercy and compassion, when we make choices to show mercy and generosity to others, it points to the hope found in God's grace. It is not about us but about Christ. -Francis of Assisi Steps in the right direction: Remember the Mercy that you’ve received from the Father. Pray that your heart and actions line up. Look for opportunities where you can release mercy. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Minor Prophet/Major Message Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Nov 10, 2019 Micah 6:1-8 Listen to what the Lord says: “Stand up, plead my case before the mountains; let the hills hear what you have to say. “Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s accusation; listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth. For the Lord has a case against his people; he is lodging a charge against Israel. “My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me. I brought you up out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. I sent Moses to lead you, also Aaron and Miriam. My people, remember what Balak king of Moab plotted and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.” With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. The whole of scripture is about one thing…we fall short, but Jesus' life, death, resurrection and grace fill in the gap for us. To render to every one their due, superiors, equals, inferiors, to be equal to all, and oppress none, in body, goods or name; in all your dealings with men carry a chancery (a court of equity) in your own beasts, and do according to equity. -John Wesley Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. -Thomas Aquinas Where can we act justly? (That maybe is a struggle) 1. Those who are different from us? 2. Those we don’t necessarily like? 3. Those who have wounded us in the past? Big Idea: God is calling us to act justly in all relationships and circumstances. Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. -Martin Luther King, Jr. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
THIS IS US (part 3) Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Oct 27, 2019 We are fierce family. We are authentic, speak the truth in love and we don’t give up on each other. The whole idea of commitment seems to be a lost quality in today’s culture. Part of the growth process in each of our lives is not just taking the path of least resistance. Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others. Proverbs 19:11 Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense. Proverbs 18:19 A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle. Proverbs 17:9 Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Love does not traffic in shame and disrespect, nor selfishly seek its own honor. Love is not easily irritated or quick to take offense. Sometimes we get offended because our expectations are not met. Once you get offended you process everything with that person through that lens. We transfer our offense so easily…..Never judge someone by the opinion of another When we’re offended it’s so easy to pull away….Jesus leans in. Forgiven people forgive people Big Idea: You may have a reason to be offended, but you don’t have a right to be offended. Let us become like Jesus. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
THIS IS US (part 2) Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Oct 20, 2019 We are fierce family. We are authentic, speak the truth in love and we don’t give up on each other. Ephesians 4:11-16 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. Big Idea: When we live as family we can trust one another to care for our heart. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
THIS IS US (part 1) Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Oct 13, 2019 A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. We are fierce family. We are authentic, speak the truth in love and we don’t give up on each other. Matthew 8:1-4 When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” Authenticity reveals our true state. Authenticity ushers in healing 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Authenticity ushers in relationship We should never be content with our level of holiness Big Idea: God will always move in your life when we are authentic and humble ourselves before Him 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Humanly Speaking Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Pastor Frank Yazvac Originally Recorded: Oct 6, 2019 Mark 10:17-27 We've never had more access to information or opportunity. That can constantly keep the pressure on us to feel more, do more and be more. Step One: Remember you're not the sacrifice. Psalms 51:16-17 For the source of your pleasure is not in my performance or the sacrifices I might offer to you. The fountain of your pleasure is found in the sacrifice of my shattered heart before you. You will not despise my tenderness as I humbly bow down at your feet. Hebrews 10:1-10 The old system of living under the law presented us with only a faint shadow, a crude outline of the reality of the wonderful blessings to come. Even with its steady stream of sacrifices offered year after year, there still was nothing that could make our hearts perfect before God. For if animal sacrifices could once and for all eliminate sin, they would have ceased to be offered and the worshipers would have clean consciences. Instead, once was not enough so by the repetitive sacrifices year after year, the worshipers were continually reminded of their sins, with their hearts still impure. For what power does the blood of bulls and goats have to remove sin’s guilt? So when Jesus the Messiah came into the world he said, “Since your ultimate desire was not another animal sacrifice, you have clothed me with a body that I might offer myself instead! Multiple burnt offerings and sin-offerings cannot satisfy your justice. So I said to you, ‘God— I will be the One to go and do your will, to fulfill all that is written of me in your Word!’ ” First he said, “Multiple burnt-offerings and sin-offerings cannot satisfy your justice” (even though the law required them to be offered). And then he said, “God, I will be the One to go and do your will.” So by being the sacrifice that removes sin, he abolishes animal sacrifices and replaces that entire system with the new covenant. By God’s will we have been purified and made holy once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah! Step Two: Connect our hearts to His purpose to see great things take place. Psalms 127:1-2 If God’s grace doesn’t help the builders, they will labor in vain to build a house. If God’s mercy doesn’t protect the city, all the sentries will circle it in vain. It really is senseless to work so hard from early morning till late at night, toiling to make a living for fear of not having enough. God can provide for his lovers even while they sleep! If you spent your life chasing after God, but never achieved anything the world would consider great, would you be content? 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
fences {part 3} Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Sep 22, 2019 Exodus 3:5-14 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “ I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘ I am has sent me to you.’ ” It is vital importance to not let the disappointments of your past domesticate your faith for the future. -Kelly Stickel Excuses justify staying where you are. Excuses validate mediocrity. Excuses strip you of authority and power to problem solve. Excuses are self focused. Excuses champion a defeated mentality and outcome. Excuses put success out of reach. God will use what you have to overcome your excuses Exodus 4:8-9 Then the Lord said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.” You will always rise or fall to the level in your life that your heart sees yourself at. Big Idea: Testing always precedes promotion. (promotion in your thinking) Prophetic Word: Some erect fences thinking they are protection when in reality they are prisons. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
fences {part 4} Speakers: Pastor Patrick Kelley Pastor Matthew Kirkpatrick Pastor Christine Phillips Originally Recorded: Sep 29, 2019 Mark 6:1-6 He left there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. “Where did this man get these things?” they said. “What is this wisdom that has been given to him, and how are these miracles performed by his hands? Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended by him. Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his household.” He was not able to do a miracle there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he was amazed at their unbelief. He was going around the villages teaching. Faith always starts with what you have. If we close ourselves off with the fences we have created due to familiarity we fail to see to the new things God has for us or what he is teaching. Familiarity steals honor and intimacy. If familiarity steals our honor and intimacy to God than in order to defeat familiarity we need to give honor and have intimacy. Faith is found in intimacy. Familiarity causes us to build a fence without even knowing it. Without intimacy we limit ourselves to the God we receive much like the people of Nazareth. Big Idea: The God that you perceive is the God that you’ll receive. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
fences {part 2}: Sep 15, 2019 Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Sep 15, 2019 Numbers 13:17-33 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds, and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath. They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs. That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there. At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan." But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it." Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are." So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them." Never doubt in the darkness what God has declared in the light. Other peoples’ opinions can become our limitations. Big Idea: Wherever we lean into, a path appears. Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. How To’s: Abiding in God reframes our thoughts. Who are you surrounding yourself with. What is your self talk 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
fences {part 1} Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Sep 8, 2019 Psalms 78:41 Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel. The limitation is our thinking. Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you. “As we think, we change the physical nature of our brain. As we consciously direct our thinking, we can wire out toxic patterns of thinking and replace them with healthy thoughts.” -Dr. Caroline Leaf Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Our heart thinking creates fence lines in our lives. Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. Once you draw a conclusion about yourself, you’re likely to do two things; look for evidence that reinforces your belief and discount anything that runs contrary to your belief. Big Idea: Our heart thinking builds a fence line, and God will only farm to that fence line. -Kelly Stickel How can I extend my fence lines? Recognize where you have built a fence. Pray until you believe God is able to do all things. Create 3-4 small positive statements to confess over yourself daily. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
#trending Speaker: Pastor Christine Phillips Originally Recorded: Sep 1, 2019 Philippians 4:4-9 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. We chase what’s trending because we’re looking for fulfillment. Whats trending around us is often not true So often what’s trending is simply someone else chasing an empty dream “It’s impossible to live the right life when you have the wrong friends” -Craig Groeschel Whats trending moves us to action (or inaction) Big Idea: If what’s trending in you is not bending you to where God wants you to be, then you’re not following God. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Through the Roof Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Aug 25, 2019 Mark 2:1-12 And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven." Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, "Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?" And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your bed and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" —he said to the paralytic— "I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home." And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!" We can’t allow our emotions to stop us from helping people to Jesus Obstacles will always present themselves as reasons that you cannot follow God Big Idea: Getting people to Jesus will always cost you something. Joy will accompany the cost. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
The Well of Decisions Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Aug 18, 2019 John 11:1-44 Jesus was always living from a larger context. A different context will bring with it different timing. God’s Timing always brings the most glory to God. Everything God does is to build our faith. The larger context always trumps the immediate. 1 Peter 4:1-2 Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin. As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. Helping those Jesus brings life to, is one of the ways that we know that we’re living in the right context. What well are you drawing your decisions out of? Big Idea: In order to fulfill God’s plan in your life you’ll have to take your eyes off the smaller picture/context and get focused on the larger one. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
The Fathers Heart For First Speaker: Pastor Frank Yazvac Originally Recorded: Aug 11, 2019
The beginning is not the end Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Aug 4, 2019 Joshua 2:1-24 Your starting point doesn’t have to be your destination. Stop choosing your past and start choosing your future. Big Idea: It’s never too late to allow God to fulfill His purpose in our lives. God has constantly used the weak, the broken and the unexpected for His purpose. We need to allow our belief in God to change our actions. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup Get Baptized (sign up in your bulletin or digital connect card)
Life Is Messy Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Jul 28, 2019 1 Kings 1:1-53 Humility is the default position in the Kingdom of God. If we ride different, we’ll rule different. Punishment or Mercy? Mercy = compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm. Since God is merciful…..this is who we are to be. Big Idea: #BeDifferent When you have the ability….use mercy instead of punishment The new you is meant to love radically. The new you is meant to live mercifully. 5 things to help you this week - is one of these your next step? See you next week! Invite someone to come with you! Pray and Read your Bible! Find a place to serve! Connect in a LifeGroup
Deep Calls Deep Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Jul 14, 2019 Psalms 42:1-7 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?" These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. True worship is not external, but internal — heart and head, emotion and thought, spirit and truth Great return calls for great investment. The height of your revival will be determined by the depth of your repentance The deep things of God call out to you and I. Big Idea: Only the depth of God will fill the deep place in our hearts. A great move of God requires hunger and longing not found in the reg. Aren’t you tired trying to fill that void with things that fall short and were never designed to fill that place?
Don't Give Up! Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley Originally Recorded: Jun 23, 2019 Galatians 6:7-10 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. We cannot live for ourselves and think we will inherit heaven…..Here or in eternity. If you’ll sow to please the spirit you will begin to live with eternity in view, and that changes everything. Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Romans 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. One of the reasons that you’re weary in doing the right thing, is because your focus is on the wrong place. The world needs to see Holy Spirit good. The world needs to see Holy Spirit perseverance. Big Idea: Which voice are you going to listen to?
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