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Reset
When your life gets complex and full of challenges, how do you reconnect with "The Simple Gospel"? How do you hit the reset button for your connection to that Simple Gospel? Tough financial times, family…
Created about 1 month ago
2 Corinthians 12:7 (KJV), 2 Corinthians 12:8 (KJV), 2 Corinthians 12:9 (KJV), 2 Corinthians 12:10 (KJV)
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Simplify
The gospel is simple and that simple gospel promises to help simplify your life. At our core, we long for simplicity. What is "simplicity"? One definition from the Thayer Bible Dictionary is: The virtue…
Created about 1 month ago
2 Corinthians 1:12 (KJV), 2 Corinthians 11:3 (KJV), Colossians 3:22 (KJV)
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Provoking a Response - Boldly and Clearly Proclaiming the Gospel of Grace
When the Gospel goes out boldly, it provokes a response, just as it did when Jesus first presented it, and as it did when his followers presented it. The responses are different, but there will be a response.…
Created about 1 month ago
Acts 17:1 (KJV), Acts 17:2 (KJV), Acts 17:3 (KJV), Acts 17:4 (KJV), Acts 17:5 (KJV), Acts 17:6 (KJV), Acts 17:7 (KJV), Acts 17:8 (KJV)
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Faith Point
Sermon Notes from The Vine Tom Wood People don't stop believing. People start believing in something else. We all live by faith. The difference is really what it is you have faith in: money, looks,…
Created 2 months ago
Hebrews 11:29 (KJV), Hebrews 11:30 (KJV), Hebrews 11:31 (KJV), Hebrews 11:32 (KJV), Hebrews 11:33 (KJV), Hebrews 11:34 (KJV), Hebrews 11:35 (KJV), Hebrews 11:36 (KJV), Hebrews 11:37 (KJV), Hebrews 11:38 (KJV), Hebrews 11:39 (KJV), Hebrews 11:40 (KJV)
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BETTER
Faith is looking to a better City, and by doing so, to live better right now. We tend to live like this life is the only life. We put our $ and time into things that are only focused on this life. But…
Created 3 months ago
Hebrews 11:13 (ESV), Hebrews 11:14 (ESV), Hebrews 11:15 (ESV), Hebrews 11:16 (ESV), Hebrews 11:17 (ESV), Hebrews 11:18 (ESV), Hebrews 11:19 (ESV), Hebrews 11:20 (ESV), Hebrews 11:21 (ESV), Hebrews 11:22 (ESV), Hebrews 11:23 (ESV), Hebrews 11:24 (ESV), Hebrews 11:25 (ESV), Hebrews 11:26 (ESV), Hebrews 11:27 (ESV), Hebrews 11:28 (ESV)
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The foolishness of faith
Faith looks like this: following a faithful God in ways that appear foolish. It also looks like, to many, that it (faith) is only for a few. Those without faith, however, are very aware of your actions,…
Created 3 months ago
Hebrews 11:7 (ESV), Hebrews 11:8 (ESV), Hebrews 11:9 (ESV), Hebrews 11:10 (ESV), Hebrews 11:11 (ESV), Hebrews 11:12 (ESV)
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The Signature of Faith
God wants you to believe and then see, not necessarily see then believe. We all live a life of faith, the question is......what do you have faith in? Faith, as vs. 1 says, is the conviction of things…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2012-01-29
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The Dance of Desire
Join the dance of growing freedom from the over-desire for money. FLEE - FOLLOW - FIGHT Step one - Flee Flee from autonomy Stop trying to build a life that allows you to be "un-needy", independent…
Created 4 months ago
1 Timothy 6:10 (ESV), 1 Timothy 6:11 (ESV), 1 Timothy 6:12 (ESV)
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Freed to Truly Live
What a great passage in 1 Timothy. Read it twice. A MESSAGE FOR RICH PEOPLE (you're probably one of them if you own a device on which to read this) Living generously frees you to take hold of that…
Created 5 months ago
Romans 8:32 (ESV), 1 Timothy 6:17 (ESV), 1 Timothy 6:18 (ESV), 1 Timothy 6:19 (ESV)
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Tim Barton - Celebrating The Amazing
An unexpected gift is exciting. Think about going to someone's house and being given some gift you weren't expecting. You'd be pretty excited. To be amazed, translated means the effect that being in…
Created 5 months ago
Luke 2:17 (ESV), Luke 2:18 (ESV), Luke 2:19 (ESV), Luke 2:20 (ESV)
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4th Sunday of Advent - The Candle of Peace
What are you losing peace over in your life? Politics, finances, relationships? Isaiah paints a picture of what peace is, using the word meaning "shalom" (shalom means hello, goodbye, but also completeness,…
Created 6 months ago
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2nd Sunday of Advent - The Candle of the Way
The Journey Out of Darkness We are blind, and in this verse he promises to lead us and guide us down paths and in ways we haven't known before. The darkness he describes comes from a word that is used…
Created 6 months ago
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1st Sunday of Advent - Candle of Hope
What is your hope in? Some have their hope in human help. Ahaz thought he could rely on help from the King of Syria, so he paid him to attack his enemy. But the King took out not only Ahaz's enemy but…
Created 6 months ago
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Thrive - part 2
We were created to live in Christ, which means living in love. Some of us need to learn what it means to live in Christ, to live in love. Learning how to do this will create two things in you: enormous…
Created 7 months ago
Philippians 2:1 (ESV), Philippians 2:2 (ESV), Philippians 2:3 (ESV), Philippians 2:4 (ESV), Philippians 2:5 (ESV), Philippians 2:6 (ESV), Philippians 2:7 (ESV), Philippians 2:8 (ESV), Philippians 2:9 (ESV), Philippians 2:10 (ESV), Philippians 2:11 (ESV)
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2011-11-13
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Thrive - part 1
Living in His Story Thrive - part 1 The church at Philippi was likely the church that supported Paul more than any other. He's in prison, in Rome as he writes "to live is Christ, to die is gain." He's…
Created 7 months ago
Philippians 1:19 (ESV), Philippians 1:20 (ESV), Philippians 1:21 (ESV), Philippians 1:22 (ESV), Philippians 1:23 (ESV), Philippians 1:24 (ESV)
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Get in the Game
Be available to be equipped and employed in ministry. Vs. 11-12 this is the calling to which you've been called - Building up the body of Christ. No longer a spectator: you're equipped for ministry.…
Created 8 months ago
Ephesians 4:1 (ESV), Ephesians 4:11 (ESV), Ephesians 4:12 (ESV)
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Unity in Ministry
God has given each of us a ministry. Find it through and in your sphere of influence. 7 times, Paul calls us to "oneness" in verses 4-6 here. This oneness is what allows ministry to flourish. He says…
Created 8 months ago
Ephesians 4:1 (ESV), Ephesians 4:2 (ESV), Ephesians 4:3 (ESV), Ephesians 4:4 (ESV), Ephesians 4:5 (ESV), Ephesians 4:6 (ESV)
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Called to Serve
If you want to pursue your "high calling" you have to go low, as Paul is here in Eph 4. He was humble and his humility was evident to those that he encountered and those he wrote to. If you don't feel…
Created 8 months ago
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Remember Who You Are
Martin Luther said "We don't need to be taught as much as we need to be reminded...." Remember who you are....son(or daughter) of the King. •You are chosen by God... called by God, urged by Him to…
Created 9 months ago
Ephesians 4:1 (ESV), Ephesians 4:2 (ESV), Ephesians 4:3 (ESV), Ephesians 4:4 (ESV), Ephesians 4:5 (ESV), Ephesians 4:6 (ESV), Ephesians 4:7 (ESV), Ephesians 4:8 (ESV), Ephesians 4:9 (ESV), Ephesians 4:10 (ESV), Ephesians 4:11 (ESV), Ephesians 4:12 (ESV), Ephesians 4:13 (ESV), Ephesians 4:14 (ESV), Ephesians 4:15 (ESV), Ephesians 4:16 (ESV)
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Living in His Story....the motivation for ministry
We were made by God to live in His story. Before the law, it was all about giving more and more to whatever diety or dieties you swore allegiance to or believed in. In this time, you not only never…
Created 9 months ago
Romans 5:6 (ESV), Romans 5:7 (ESV), Romans 5:8 (ESV), Romans 5:9 (ESV), Romans 5:10 (ESV)
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-08-21
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Living in His Story
God in us, through us and beyond us. He writes His story in us. We are His workmanship, his work of art, his poem. He freed us through Jesus work, so we can live out His story freely. You are connected…
Created 10 months ago
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A Desire for Healing
First things first, you need to know that you are broken. From there, you must decide that want to be healed. Just as Jesus asked the man in vs. 6, "Do you want to be healed?" The lame man was also relying…
Created 10 months ago
John 5:1 (ESV), John 5:2 (ESV), John 5:3 (ESV), John 5:4 (ESV), John 5:5 (ESV), John 5:6 (ESV), John 5:7 (ESV), John 5:8 (ESV), John 5:9 (ESV), John 5:10 (ESV), John 5:11 (ESV), John 5:12 (ESV), John 5:13 (ESV), John 5:14 (ESV), John 5:15 (ESV)
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Genesis 1:26
Genesis 1:26 (ESV)
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."Created 10 months ago
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Genesis 1:26
Genesis 1:26 (ESV)
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."Created 10 months ago
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A Desire for Prayer
Martin Luther - "If only i could look at Prayer like the dog Looks at the meat." The widow was desperate and had to annoy the unrighteous judge to get him to give her justice. Won't God answer our prayers…
Created 10 months ago
Luke 11:13 (ESV), Luke 18:1 (ESV), Luke 18:2 (ESV), Luke 18:3 (ESV), Luke 18:4 (ESV), Luke 18:5 (ESV), Luke 18:6 (ESV), Luke 18:7 (ESV), Luke 18:8 (ESV), Romans 8:31 (ESV), Romans 8:32 (ESV)
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Luke 18:8
Luke 18:8 (ESV)
I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"Created 10 months ago
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A Desire for Heaven
Colossians 1:3-5 *Increasing your hope in heaven will increase your hope right now. We typically are overly optimistic or pessimistic about now (we're simply too focused on the now), and we make an…
Created 11 months ago
1 Corinthians 15:19 (ESV), Philippians 3:20 (ESV), Philippians 3:21 (ESV), Colossians 1:3 (ESV), Titus 2:13 (ESV)
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A desire for His Kingdom
God wants you to fall so in love with Him, to increase your desire for Him so much, that you will give up or lose your desires for the things of the world. To overcome your desires for the little things…
Created 11 months ago
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1 Corinthians 12:27
1 Corinthians 12:27 (ESV)
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.Created almost 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-05-15
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John 20:21
John 20:21 (KJV)
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.Created about 1 year ago
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1 Corinthians 12:1
1 Corinthians 12:1 (NIV)
Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.Created about 1 year ago
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Luke 24:18
Luke 24:18 (NIV)
One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?"Created about 1 year ago
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Luke 19:42
Luke 19:42 (NIV)
and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-04-03
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Luke 19:40
Luke 19:40 (NIV)
"I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."Created about 1 year ago