Longing for a King
Romans is the Apostle Paul’s fullest and clearest treatise on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Throughout history, this letter has opened eyes, awakened hearts, and set movements in motion. It’s both profoundly theological and deeply personal, revealing the truth about God, humanity, and salvation. John Stott rightly called Romans a manifesto of freedom in Christ - a freedom that remakes our lives, forms us into God’s people, and sends us as witnesses of Jesus in the world.
How Grace Abounds
Romans is the Apostle Paul’s fullest and clearest treatise on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Throughout history, this letter has opened eyes, awakened hearts, and set movements in motion. It’s both profoundly theological and deeply personal, revealing the truth about God, humanity, and salvation. John Stott rightly called Romans a manifesto of freedom in Christ - a freedom that remakes our lives, forms us into God’s people, and sends us as witnesses of Jesus in the world.
What Grace Does In Us
Romans is the Apostle Paul’s fullest and clearest treatise on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Throughout history, this letter has opened eyes, awakened hearts, and set movements in motion. It’s both profoundly theological and deeply personal, revealing the truth about God, humanity, and salvation. John Stott rightly called Romans a manifesto of freedom in Christ - a freedom that remakes our lives, forms us into God’s people, and sends us as witnesses of Jesus in the world.
It Has Always Been Grace
Romans is the Apostle Paul’s fullest and clearest treatise on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Throughout history, this letter has opened eyes, awakened hearts, and set movements in motion. It’s both profoundly theological and deeply personal, revealing the truth about God, humanity, and salvation. John Stott rightly called Romans a manifesto of freedom in Christ - a freedom that remakes our lives, forms us into God’s people, and sends us as witnesses of Jesus in the world.
The Gospel of Free Grace
Romans is the Apostle Paul’s fullest and clearest treatise on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Throughout history, this letter has opened eyes, awakened hearts, and set movements in motion. It’s both profoundly theological and deeply personal, revealing the truth about God, humanity, and salvation. John Stott rightly called Romans a manifesto of freedom in Christ - a freedom that remakes our lives, forms us into God’s people, and sends us as witnesses of Jesus in the world.
Everyone Needs the Gospel
Romans is the Apostle Paul’s fullest and clearest treatise on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Throughout history, this letter has opened eyes, awakened hearts, and set movements in motion. It’s both profoundly theological and deeply personal, revealing the truth about God, humanity, and salvation. John Stott rightly called Romans a manifesto of freedom in Christ - a freedom that remakes our lives, forms us into God’s people, and sends us as witnesses of Jesus in the world.
The Religious Need the Gospel
God's standard is absolute perfection, and knowing His law only increases our accountability - religious rituals and outward actions can't save us because God looks at the heart, which we're powerless to change on our own. The good news is that Jesus perfectly kept the law on our behalf, His righteousness has been credited to us, and the Holy Spirit is actively transforming our hearts from the inside out.
The Moral Need the Gospel
Romans is the Apostle Paul’s fullest and clearest treatise on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Throughout history, this letter has opened eyes, awakened hearts, and set movements in motion. It’s both profoundly theological and deeply personal, revealing the truth about God, humanity, and salvation. John Stott rightly called Romans a manifesto of freedom in Christ - a freedom that remakes our lives, forms us into God’s people, and sends us as witnesses of Jesus in the world.
The Universal Need
Romans is the Apostle Paul’s fullest and clearest treatise on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Throughout history, this letter has opened eyes, awakened hearts, and set movements in motion. It’s both profoundly theological and deeply personal, revealing the truth about God, humanity, and salvation. John Stott rightly called Romans a manifesto of freedom in Christ - a freedom that remakes our lives, forms us into God’s people, and sends us as witnesses of Jesus in the world.
The Gospel Changes Everything
Romans is the Apostle Paul’s fullest and clearest treatise on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Throughout history, this letter has opened eyes, awakened hearts, and set movements in motion. It’s both profoundly theological and deeply personal, revealing the truth about God, humanity, and salvation. John Stott rightly called Romans a manifesto of freedom in Christ - a freedom that remakes our lives, forms us into God’s people, and sends us as witnesses of Jesus in the world.
Everyday Disciple-Making
September is the time we remember and recommit ourselves to our Mission: Forming whole-hearted disciples of Jesus in life-shaping relationship for everyday disciple-making ministry. As we study Paul's letter to Philemon, we'll explore our mission statement and commit to living it together in the coming year.
Life-Shaping Relationship
Philemon is a case study in gospel formation, the deeply personal (gospel identity), relational (gospel community), and purposeful (gospel mission) life-shaping process of discipleship to Jesus. The situation that occasions Paul’s short letter to Philemon would have been commonplace, but Paul’s solution is extraordinary. Paul pleads with the wealthy Philemon to choose of his own accord to receive his runaway slave Onesimus back, not as a criminal but as a brother in the family of God.
Whole-Hearted Disciples
Philemon is a case study in gospel formation, the deeply personal (gospel identity), relational (gospel community), and purposeful (gospel mission) life-shaping process of discipleship to Jesus. The situation that occasions Paul’s short letter to Philemon would have been commonplace, but Paul’s solution is extraordinary. Paul pleads with the wealthy Philemon to choose of his own accord to receive his runaway slave Onesimus back, not as a criminal but as a brother in the family of God.
They Will Listen
Through a study of the book of Acts, we're asking the Spirit to conform us to the patterns and practices of the early church — a people who love the lost like Jesus, give of themselves in rhythms of blessing and hospitality, and who seek to engage in curious, spiritual, and gospel conversations. We want the Spirit to do an Acts 3-4 kind of work this week, fulfilling Jesus’ promise in Acts 1.8: You will receive power, and you will be my witnesses. This week, the Spirit, through Paul, finishes what was started by taking the gospel to the ends of the known world. The anticlimactic ending to Acts encourages us to participate with the Spirit in His missionary endeavors.
The Gospel on Trial
Through a study of the book of Acts, we're asking the Spirit to conform us to the patterns and practices of the early church — a people who love the lost like Jesus, give of themselves in rhythms of blessing and hospitality, and who seek to engage in curious, spiritual, and gospel conversations. We want the Spirit to do an Acts 3-4 kind of work this week, fulfilling Jesus’ promise in Acts 1.8: You will receive power, and you will be my witnesses. This week, the gospel message is on trial. But what we find is that it is so much more than just a message; it is a living and risen savior, and that as that message is on trial, God is more faithful and alive than we ever knew. God is sovereign and also involved as trials come. We get to continue to participate, knowing He is the faithful one and working.
Word Increased Mightily
Through a study of the book of Acts, we're asking the Spirit to conform us to the patterns and practices of the early church — a people who love the lost like Jesus, give of themselves in rhythms of blessing and hospitality, and who seek to engage in curious, spiritual, and gospel conversations. We want the Spirit to do an Acts 3-4 kind of work this week, fulfilling Jesus’ promise in Acts 1.8: You will receive power, and you will be my witnesses. This week, we see how the community of God and the truth of God and his word empower and realign the church for the ongoing mission of making disciples of Jesus.
I Have Many in This City
Through a study of the book of Acts, we're asking the Spirit to conform us to the patterns and practices of the early church — a people who love the lost like Jesus, give of themselves in rhythms of blessing and hospitality, and who seek to engage in curious, spiritual, and gospel conversations. We want the Spirit to do an Acts 1-2 kind of work, fulfilling Jesus’s promise in Acts 1:8: You will receive power, and you will be my witnesses. This week, the church mourns the loss of James, is surprised by the imprisonment and release of Peter, and continues to grow and multiply.
There is Another King, Jesus
Through a study of the book of Acts, we're asking the Spirit to conform us to the patterns and practices of the early church — a people who love the lost like Jesus, give of themselves in rhythms of blessing and hospitality, and who seek to engage in curious, spiritual, and gospel conversations. We want the Spirit to do an Acts 1-2 kind of work, fulfilling Jesus’s promise in Acts 1:8: You will receive power, and you will be my witnesses. This week, the church mourns the loss of James, is surprised by the imprisonment and release of Peter, and continues to grow and multiply.
Saved By Grace
Through a study of the book of Acts, we're asking the Spirit to conform us to the patterns and practices of the early church — a people who love the lost like Jesus, give of themselves in rhythms of blessing and hospitality, and who seek to engage in curious, spiritual, and gospel conversations. We want the Spirit to do an Acts 1-2 kind of work, fulfilling Jesus’s promise in Acts 1:8: You will receive power, and you will be my witnesses. This week, the church mourns the loss of James, is surprised by the imprisonment and release of Peter, and continues to grow and multiply.
All That God Had Done
Through a study of the book of Acts, we're asking the Spirit to conform us to the patterns and practices of the early church — a people who love the lost like Jesus, give of themselves in rhythms of blessing and hospitality, and who seek to engage in curious, spiritual, and gospel conversations. We want the Spirit to do an Acts 1-2 kind of work, fulfilling Jesus’s promise in Acts 1:8: You will receive power, and you will be my witnesses. This week, the church mourns the loss of James, is surprised by the imprisonment and release of Peter, and continues to grow and multiply.