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Growing Past Your Past

Adulting, Exodus 20:5-6, Genogram, Growing Past Your Past, Hebrews 2:11, Matthew 10:37, Psalms 79:8

Sunday, January 15th

People have an immense power to shape one another in profound ways, including spiritually and emotionally. God made us that way. Growing up, our families shaped us for better or worse (actually, for both). While our family of origin may have passed along good ways of doing life, what do we do with the broken ways?

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Growing Up to Be Your True Self

Adulting, Ephesians 1:3-14, Growing Up to Be Your True Self, New Creation

Sunday, January 8th

Growing up physically and intellectually do not guarantee we will grow at the same pace (if at all) emotionally and spiritually. Charting a path of growth towards becoming our true selves requires that we take an honest look in the mirror. Are you ready?

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Your Word of the Year

Melissa Fisher, New Year, Psalm 16:11, Word of the Year

Sunday, January 1st

Picking a word of the year is different than your typical New Year’s resolution. It doesn’t exist to be a constant reminder of what you “should be doing.” Instead, it stands as an inspiration of who you really are in Christ and how you want to live. The word invites you to think about who you want to be, who God created you to be. So, choose a word that will help you experience this.

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Spiritual Refugees

1 Timothy 4:7-8, Christmas, Eric Bryant, John Burke, Kenny Green, Matthew 22:1-10, Refugee, Spiritual Refugees

Sunday, December 18th

There are lots of times in life when we need a safe place: when we feel beaten down from the pace of life, when we feel we can’t live up to people’s expectations, when we’ve made a terrible mistake and have no place to turn, when we feel chained to an addiction or stuck in sinful patterns that hurt us and harm others. But where do we turn when we need a safe place?

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Local Refugees

Christmas, Deuteronomy 26:12, Eric Bryant, John Burke, Kenny Green, Local Refugees, Matthew 2:1-18, Refugee

Sunday, December 11th

It seems there’s constant crisis with war, poverty, sickness and natural disaster in our world today. Likely, most of us feel powerless in the face of so much chaos, so we tune out the pain and focus on the near and familiar. However, with refugees here in our own city, it’s harder to ignore the needs that are practically on our doorstep. How can we raise our heads above our own self-interest to see those desperate for us to care?

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Global Refugees

Christmas, Eric Bryant, Global Refugees, John Burke, Kenny Green, Luke 2:1-14, Matthew 25:31-40, Refugee

Sunday, December 4th

While most of us are preparing for Christmas, millions of displaced people around the world are wondering what the future holds and whether or not they’ll see home again. It’s a sobering thought. The question is — should we care? Does this matter to us? And why would we talk about this leading into Christmas?

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The Centered Life

Daniel 11-12, Rick Shurtz, The Centered Life

Sunday, November 27th

For what are you striving? What are you clinging to in order to get to where you want to be? Me-centered living often seems the best way to live. It can work for a short while, but it ultimately fails us. So how can we put God at our center trusting Him with all things and live a more profound yet Centered Life?

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Epic Fail? :: Financial Failure

Epic Fail?, Eric Bryant, Financial Failure, John Burke

Sunday, November 20th

One of our top fears, according to Gallup and other polls, is losing everything. Most of us are wealthier than 6 billion people and yet it’s never enough. We still fear and don’t feel rich when in fact we are. Why is it never enough? It’s ironic. We fear God wants to take from us, when in fact God wants to make us rich — truly rich. But what is truly rich?

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Epic Fail? :: Marriage Failure

Epic Fail?, Eric Bryant, Hosea, John Burke, Kenny Green, Marriage Failure

Sunday, November 13th

Whether single, married, divorced or somewhere in between, we likely all have strong feelings about the idea of marriage. What is God’s perspective? How do we find hope a midst our relational challenges and failures?

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Epic Fail? :: Moral Failure

2 Samuel 11-12, David, Epic Fail?, Eric Bryant, Moral Failure, Robb Overholt

Sunday, November 6th

There’s a reason the saying, “To err is human,” exists — we all make mistakes. However, there’s a big difference between letting mistakes become a pattern versus allowing God to turn those mistakes into lessons from which we can heal and grow. So what perspective can we gain about the times we’ve had moral failures?

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