Living Faith Lancaster

Nick explores Job's situation at the conclusion of the book: confronted with very real suffering and very hard questions, can we simply trust Him?

Justin discusses Elihu's closing statements and God's appearance in Job's story, specifically God's presentation of the vastness of the universe and Himself as its own justification.

Nick continues exploring Job's story, focusing on the arguments his friends presented during their time "comforting" Job.

Parke confronts a challenging lesson in Job: how to complain in your trial while remaining faithful to God.

Justin continues our Wisdom series by introducing the story and Book of Job. Why do bad things happen to good people. Also, why do good things happen to good people? Job suffers tragedy without a reason and begins his journey to understand why. This lesson concluded with BibleProject's Wisdom Series video on Job which you can view here.

Nick concludes the Ecclesiastes portion of the Wisdom series by focusing on the author's desire to follow God, looking at the moments throughout his despairing account where he turned his eyes towards heaven.

In this lesson, Nick explores the Teacher's viewpoint as an example of living life without God. All is not "Hevel, Hevel" when your life includes Him.

In this lesson, Justin continues our Wisdom series by introducing Ecclesiastes and pondering with The Teacher the apparent meaninglessness of it all. We began the lesson by viewing BibleProject's overview video of Ecclesiastes which you can view here.

Nick continues our time in Proverbs, focusing on Proverbs 30's insight from Agur. Join as he discusses how to approach wisdom with humility.

In this lesson, Nick continues our exploration of Proverbs, focusing on the poems from "Lady Wisdom" calling people to turn to her ways.

Justin begins our five months in the Wisdom books with the first section of Proverbs in Chapters 1-7, ten speeches from a father to his son instructing him in the ways of Wisdom.

In this community participation lesson, Bob prepared us for Christmas with Rich Mullins' song "You Gotta Get Up (Christmas Song)." This featured more interaction and sharing from the community which isn't as easy to hear on the recording, so we listed this as a bonus. Enjoy!

In this episode, our series teachers spend time discussing their experience with music, the lessons they learned going through the series, and shared some thoughts about our interaction with music as believers.

In this week's Christmas devotion Justin uses the German folksong O Tannenbaum as a metaphor to discuss the Tree of Life and the appearance of trees in the Bible.

In this lesson we transition our series to focus on Christmas songs. We begin with a Christmas devotion helping us imagine the time and place of Christ's birth. We introduced the lesson viewing the Bible Project's theme video "The City" because we were spending our time focusing on a small city. You can view the video here.

In this lesson, Justin uses the John Newton/Chris Tomlin song Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) to discuss two key points believers must understand to live a full life in Christ. We began the video by viewing the Bible Project's word study video on "Grace" which you can view here.

In this episode, Dave leads a time of community discussion centered on the themes in the song "I Surrender All." We started by viewing this video about the origin of the song.

In this lesson, Justin focuses on the theme of God's love using John Mark McMillan's song "How He Loves" as a starting point. We began the lesson by viewing a video about the origin of the song which you can view here.

In this lesson, Dave discusses the hymn "Be Thou My Vision" - its origins and themes.

In this lesson, Nick shares his thoughts inspired by the Hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" by Horatio Spafford. During the lesson, we viewed the video by Hymns of Note about the story of the hymn which you can view here.

In this lesson, Nick begins a two-part cycle "Mystery and Awe" covering two beloved hymns. The hymn he explores in this lesson is the classic "How Great Thou Art."

In this lesson, Justin begins our series examining songs of the church for scriptural connections and accuracy. Our first song of the series is the hymn by "Major" Whittle, I Know Whom I Have Believed. The refrain for this hymn is a direct quote of the KJV translation of 2 Timothy 1:12.

In this lesson, Parke uses 2 Timothy to continue our discussion of themes from Paul's letters. During this lesson we viewed the Bible Project's overview video of 2 Timothy which you can view here.

Nick continues his discussion of Paul's letter-writing period, focusing on Paul's mission of encouragement.

Nick continues our lessons inspired by Paul's letters, meditating on Paul's missionary letters.

In this lesson, Justin explores Colossians and emphasizes that our life's purpose isn't to be saved from death but to be called to life.

In this lesson Nick continues discussing the themes of authority and freedom, ending with some rules to help guide us to living in the life God calls us to through Christ.

In this lesson, Nick continues to explore lessons from Paul's missionary period, focusing on the powerful authority and freedom we are given in God's grace through Jesus' Spirit.

In this lesson, Justin begins our second Paul series, focusing on lessons from his missionary period. We concluded the lesson with a video from BibleProject's Luke-Acts series which you can view here.

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Due to technical issues we do not have Pt 2 & 3 of this lesson series. in those parts Nick discussed how God was preparing Paul for his mission long before the fateful death of Stephen and long before he met him on the road to Damascus. In this lesson, Justin begins our first series focused on Paul. In this lesson, we focus on Paul's motivation to protect and uphold the Law before his dramatic moment with Jesus. We closed the lesson by viewing Bible Project's theme video on the Law which you can view here.  

Nick concludes our Holy series discussing how God's presence is what brings Holiness. It's not an absence of sin, but a filling of Him.

In this lesson, Justin continues the Holy series by discussing how God's holiness brings restoration - resetting things physical and spiritual back to where they were intended in his original plan. We began the lesson by viewing BibleProject's video "Holiness" which you can view here. You'll hear Justin reference the taglines below during the first part of his lesson:

Nick continues our Holy series on Easter Sunday, exploring how Holiness brings life. We began the lesson by viewing BibleProject.com's video "Holiness" which you can view here.

Parke introduces our lesson series "Holy" discussing what it means to say that holiness brings purity to followers of Christ. We used the BibleProject's theme video "Holiness" in the lesson which you can view here.

In this lesson, Nick discusses what the "New Temple" of Jesus' followers looks like compared to the Temple still run by men. We introduced the lesson with BibleProject.com's theme video about the Temple.

In this lesson, Nick continues exploring Acts, focusing on Chapter 2.

Justin begins our series exploring the first portion of Acts focusing on the Gospel and Acts accounts of the 40 days Jesus spent visiting and teaching His disciples after His resurrection. We began the lesson with a BibleProject video from the Luke-Acts Series, which you can view here.

In this episode Nick concludes our Spirit series exploring the Spirit as God's Presence. We began the lesson with the BibleProject's theme video "Holy Spirit" which you can view here.

In this lesson Nick continues exploring God's Spirit, focusing on the Spirit's Power.

Justin begins our series on The Spirit with a discussion of the Hebrew and Greek vocabulary used in the Scripture, and then our first Spirit lesson: the Spirit of Creation and (re)Creation. We viewed the BibleProject's theme video on The Holy Spirit which you can view here.

Nick concludes our (re)Creation series discussing the theme "Water of Life." We began the lesson by viewing BibleProject's "Water of Life" video which you can view here.

Justin continues our (re)Creation series with this lesson on Christmas morning: The Tree of Life, enlisting our children to place ornaments on representations of the Tree of Life (Creation), a Christmas Tree (Incarnation), and the Cross (Atonement and reCreation). We viewed the "Tree of Life" video by BibleProject which you can view here.

Justin continues our series talking about what we are being remade for: a New Heaven and a New Earth. During this lesson we watched BibleProject's video "Heaven and Earth" which you can view here.

In this lesson, Parke begins our (re)Creation series talking about new life. During this lesson we viewed the Bible Project's video "New Humanity" which you can view here.

In this lesson, Nick continues our series discussing the Book of John. In the opening of the lesson, we reviewed the BibleProject's overview video which you can view here.

In this lesson, Justin begins our study of the Gospel of John, looking for the connections to our recent and upcoming series. At the beginning of the lesson we viewed Jabe Nicholson's Scripture Snapshot of John which you can view here. We concluded the lesson with a clip from Brian Hardin's Promised Land.

In this lesson, Nick concludes our series exploring Jesus' identity.

Nick explores the title Jesus often used to refer to himself: The Son of Man in this week's lesson. At the end of the lesson we viewed the Bible Project's theme video Son of Man which you can view here.

In this lesson, Justin begins our series discussing Jesus' identity by focusing on his role as The Messiah. During the lesson, we viewed The BibleProject's theme video on the topic and used their outline for the discussion. You can view the video and download their study notes here.

Justin, Nick, and Dave discuss lessons and themes from the summer series we covered: God; Genesis; and Creation, tying them together and finding ways to apply them to our lives.

In this lesson, Nick discusses the connections between our God & Creation series, exploring the identity of the God of Creation. For background you can view the BibleProject series here.