New Life Young Adults

For week 3 of our Ears to Hear series we discussed the ways that the Holy Spirit speaks to us internally and three ways that we can test and discern this voice.

For our second week of "Ears to Hear," we studied the central belief in the Scriptures that Yahweh is a speaking God and began to discuss what things need to be present in our hearts and lives, if we are going to hear him clearly and consistently.

Brandon Robinson talks about hearing the voice of God in silence.

Pastor Matthew talks about being prepared for your calling starts with grasping the love of Christ and being filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

For the conclusion of our Ancient Chaos series, we studied the role that obedience plays in our life of faith and what disobedience and sin does to us even after conversion.

For part 5 of our Ancient Chaos series, we studied one of the main ways that the gospel is presented and articulated in the New Testament - "the Kingdom" - and discovered the importance of interpreting sin through this important paradigm.

For part 4 of our series on sin, we studied in brief the sacrificial system, how it was a response to the destruction of sin, and how Jesus fulfilled this system with his death and resurrection.

For week 3 of our Ancient Chaos series, we studied the giving of Torah to the people of Israel and his promise of Shalom that was available to them, if they lived in covenant obedience to Yahweh. In this study and within this framework, we found that sin is not going against the arbitrary preferences of God, but violence against Shalom and the way things are supposed to be.

For week 2 of our series on sin and shortcomings, we studied Yahweh's ordering of the universe (Genesis 1-2) and Adam and Eve's act of sin (Gen. 3) that ushered in and inaugurated the reign of chaos in God's good creation.

Why is it important to understand the topic of sin? Why engage in such a study? For week one of our series "The Ancient Chaos" we sought to unpack and answer these questions and, in doing so, found that to the extent that we understand our sin and depravity is the extent to which we can understand the depths of God's grace.

Our own Bethany Cantrell shares her story of the journey that the Lord has taken her on in the valley and how she has learned to trust him even in seasons of darkness.

Jesus taught his disciples in John 16 that one of the primary things that the Holy Spirit would do is guide His followers into all truth. If the Holy Spirit is about guiding us into truth then we should be about posturing our lives to listen. This week we looked at the role that listening for the Holy Spirit plays in our lives and why it's so important to our lives of faith.

Pastor Andrew talks about what it looks like to engage God in prayer.

Pastor Gabe talks about meeting with God through solitude, stillness, and silence.

Pastor Brad talks about how to cultivate a deeper trust in Christ.

Our own Sarah Bram shares her story of the journey that the Lord has taken her on in her search for community and becoming comfortable with the person God has made her to be.

Pastor Josh, Dr. Mark Mayfield, and Pastor Brad field some live questions about the issues of mental health.

Dr. Mark Mayfield talks about the power of being seen.

For the final installment of our Life Together series, we looked at the connection between our relationship with God and our relationships with one another and found that reconciliation in broken relationships is crucial to pursue if we are going to live in right relationship with God.

Pastor Matthew talks about John 17:21, "that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me."

As we began our series titled "Life Together," we looked at what the author of Hebrews has to teach us about the relationship between faith and community and what this truth means for us today.

For the final installment of our series on calling and vocation we looked at the trap that we can fall into in trusting on the certainty of tomorrow. In doing so, we discovered that Kingdom vocation is not "one day" but is here and now. At every turn we are invited into faithfulness and attentiveness to what God's put in front of us today.

For part 3 of our series on calling and vocation we looked at what Scripture has to say about counsel in decision-making and found that often the greatest impediment to us discerning the leading of God in our lives is our deep-seated individualism.

Vocation is a gift from God yet we all too often fall prey to the temptation to abuse it and turn it into something it was never designed to be. For week 2 of "Called" we gave attention to this reality and defined the three primary ways that we as young adults can mishandle the gift of vocation in our lives.

In kicking off our series on vocation and the will of God, we looked at and defined the two-fold calling that transcends every other calling: to be reconciled to the Father and to engage our sphere of the world with the ministry of reconciliation.

"Who am I?" is a question all of us wrestle with. It is the question of identity. In this teaching, Pastor Andrew discusses how the encounter with Jesus shifts the source of our identity.

How are we to live wholeheartedly when we enter into seasons of trial? What ought to anchor us in these painful seasons? In week 5 of our "All" series, we explored these questions and more and found that suffering both plays a unique role in our life of faith and can be the terrain upon which we learn to love God well.

In week 5 of our "All." series, we study the role that joy serves in our lives today and a great enemy to maintaining joy in our lives: envy.

For part three of "All," we studied the gift of Sabbath and the role it played in the life of Israel and the role it continues to play in our lives today.

For week 2 of our "All" series, we looked at the great paradoxical confession of the church - that God is transcend and immanent - and pinpointed a big deterrent from us living with an awareness of God's immanent presence with us - clutter.

How are we to live in such a way that God has all of us? How are we to fully obey the commandment to love our God and our neighbor? For part 1 of our series called "All," we began to answer these questions and found that there is inseparability of living for God and living with Him.

Pastor Andrew talks about how to find Christ in the Old Testament.

Pastor Jason talks about how the OT stories come together in the great story of God's kingdom.

As we began our series "Out With the Old?" we established the "ground rules" that are necessary to keep in mind if we are to responsibly and correctly engage the Old Testament. In doing so, we found that the Old Testament plays a crucial role in our lives as "new covenantal" believers.

Pastor Brad discusses ways to successfully get through difficult seasons in young adulthood.

In wrapping up our Eternity series, we sought to answer the question, "How now shall we live?" as we look ahead to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.

In the third installment of our Eternity series, we examined how our modern notions of heaven fit and do not fit into the Bible's narrative of God's redemption of humanity and creation.

For week 2 of our Eternity series we explored the topic of hell and how it relates to the nature of God. In doing so, we found that though hell is inescapably present in the teachings of Scripture, God is still presented in both the Old and New Testament as a God who is all-loving to his creation and worthy of our trust.

For the first installment of our Eternity series we considered what Scripture does and does not clearly say about death and the afterlife. In considering this, we discovered the New Testament authors' primary purpose in explicating death and the afterlife in the first place: to excite hope for our future resurrection and the life of the world to come.

Pastor Matthew talks about Philippians 4 and thinking about such things and putting them into practice.

Pastor Andrew explains how the concluding line of the Lord's prayer pushes into radical dependance on God.

For part five of our series on the Lord

For week four of our series "Teach Us to Pray", we examined the heart, the grand movement of the Lord's Prayer that pleads for the Kingdom of God and his reign to extend both in the public spheres of the earth and in our personal lives today.

In week 3 of our series "Teach Us to Pray," we studied the phrase "Hallowed be your name" - the first of five requests found in the Lord's Prayer. In doing so, we found that praying these words reminds us that our life is not about our life and that the honor and glory of God stands as the supreme purpose for which we were made.

In week 2 of our series "Teach Us to Pray," we studied the first phrase of the Lord's prayer and discovered the reawakening that can occur when we come to God anew as "Father."

What's so important about the Lord's Prayer? What role is it to serve in our lives today? As we began our series "Teach Us To Pray", we answered these questions and discovered that this prayer, the greatest prayer, is the one that grounds and informs all other prayers.

For week 2 of our series, You & the New Year, we look at Jesus' invitation to Kingdom life, which we find is a life characterized by receiving the love of God and extending love back to him and to our fellow man. In doing so, we find life as it was meant to be lived.

As we begin a new year we look into the long-tested practice of building sacred rhythms into our lives. In doing so, we find that these rhythms posture us to live the entirety of our lives in the love of the Lord.

As we begin a new year we look into the long-tested practice of building sacred rhythms into our lives. In doing so, we find that these rhythms posture us to live the entirety of our lives in the love of the Lord.

Pastor Brad talks about how to lean into God's best for your relationships.

Pastor Brad talks about how to lean into God's best for your relationships.