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Sundays: Teaching through Colossians Once a Month

Sundays: Teaching through Colossians Once a Month

Starting May 2018 and during the current Luke and Acts Introduction to Christianity series, pastor Matt will be teaching through Colossians once a month. Matt started in April, last Sunday, covering the first chapter. Interestingly, the underlying original Greek word 'telos' is mentioned in the Bible's New Testament book of Colossians in the first chapter when Paul writes:

Him [Jesus] we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature (telos) in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. (Colossians 1:28–29 ESV)

Christianity is defined and determined by God, specifically, Jesus the Christ, and when we begin to trust in him, we then continue to follow him throughout our life (i.e. mature). He is the point of our salvation and relationship to him as well as our life on the earth.

Sundays: Christ and Christianity via Luke's Gospel and Acts

Sundays: Christ and Christianity via Luke's Gospel and Acts

Starting the Fall 2017, we are teaching through Luke's Gospel and Acts about Christ and Christianity. Either Jesus the Christ (Messiah) existed or he didn't. If he did, then we need to learn and trust who he really is. He is who he says he is or he's not. He can't be a figment of our imagination, the object of our own interpretation, defined by our experiences (good or bad), or changed by social pressure.

C.S. Lewis once summarized that Jesus is either a liar, lunatic, or lord. We've added one to that list -- legend. Jesus is either a liar, lunatic, legend, or lord. If he's Lord, then we are to trust him. If he's not, we walk away.

Become a person inspired by truth and love today to make life, disciples, and churches all about Jesus.

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Sundays: 2022 Teaching Series
Sundays: 2022 Teaching Series
Sundays: What are we teaching through in 2021?
Sundays: What are we teaching through in 2021?

We are starting our Sunday sermon series in Revelation, which is the Bible’s last book.

Sundays: What are we teaching through in 2020?
Sundays: What are we teaching through in 2020?

We are:

  1. completing the “Relationships: Inspired by truth and love” series by February and

  2. then digging into 1 and 2 Corinthians to answer, “What is the most important thing in life?”

Read more on “What should I expect on a Sunday gathering?”

Sundays: What are we teaching through in 2019?
Sundays: What are we teaching through in 2019?

We will take time during Sunday gatherings to go through:

  1. How to teach kids (on Sundays and in the rest of life)

  2. Hebrews (in the Bible's New Testament)

  3. Relationships (family, friends, dating, engagement, marriage, divorce, re-marriage, death)

Sundays: Teaching through Hebrews
Sundays: Teaching through Hebrews

In the Spring of 2019 after our current teaching through the Bible’s Luke and Acts about Christ and Christianity, we will be going through another New Testament book of Hebrews. Hebrews quotes a lot from the Old Testament and a book that helps people understand the connection between Christ and salvation (i.e. being a Christian) as well as Christ and the Old Testament (i.e. was Jesus ever mentioned before he came to the earth?).

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Two Marriages by T4G
Two Marriages by T4G

Watch 1 of several T4G recorded testimonies of people unashamed of the gospel and convicted to love those around them in order that they would come to know and trust Christ Jesus. As some of the videos reveal, not all respond in faith, but we continue to love regardless of their response because God continued to call us to believe in him.

Believing Differently by T4G
Believing Differently by T4G

Watch 1 of several T4G recorded testimonies of people unashamed of the gospel and convicted to love those around them in order that they would come to know and trust Christ Jesus. As some of the videos reveal, not all respond in faith, but we continue to love regardless of their response because God continued to call us to believe in him.

A Prisoner Set Free by T4G
A Prisoner Set Free by T4G

Watch 1 of several T4G recorded testimonies of people unashamed of the gospel and convicted to love those around them in order that they would come to know and trust Christ Jesus. As some of the videos reveal, not all respond in faith, but we continue to love regardless of their response because God continued to call us to believe in him.

Love People, Not Evangelism by T4G
Love People, Not Evangelism by T4G

Watch 1 of several T4G recorded testimonies of people unashamed of the gospel and convicted to love those around them in order that they would come to know and trust Christ Jesus. As some of the videos reveal, not all respond in faith, but we continue to love regardless of their response because God continued to call us to believe in him.

Skepticism and Depression Because of a Brother's Death Turns to Trust in Christ by a Sister's Love
Skepticism and Depression Because of a Brother's Death Turns to Trust in Christ by a Sister's Love

Watch 1 of several T4G recorded testimonies of people unashamed of the gospel and convicted to love those around them in order that they would come to know and trust Christ Jesus. As some of the videos reveal, not all respond in faith, but we continue to love regardless of their response because God continued to call us to believe in him.

Willian and Danica are brother and sister, growing up in a Christian home, later walk through the death of their brother and the pain of missing him. They grew up with parents that "were dedicated to the Lord and taught us who Christ was" and in a "Christian high school and Christian college and going to church." William shares about how he "mentally agreeing to the idea of God ... all those things led me to believe that I was a Christian."

What is the Highest Good in Life?
What is the Highest Good in Life?

Watch 1 of several T4G recorded testimonies of people unashamed of the gospel and convicted to love those around them in order that they would come to know and trust Christ Jesus. As some of the videos reveal, not all respond in faith, but we continue to love regardless of their response because God continued to call us to believe in him.

Caleb meets Billy in a college philosophy class, as Billy had been looking for more than mere knowledge to get a degree but searching for knowledge that affects real life. Billy searched Plato's Republic among other historical philosophers and literature looking for the answer to, "What is the highest good in life?"

More Than A Fairy Tale by T4G
More Than A Fairy Tale by T4G

Watch 1 of several T4G recorded testimonies of people unashamed of the gospel and convicted to love those around them in order that they would come to know and trust Christ Jesus. As some of the videos reveal, not all respond in faith, but we continue to love regardless of their response because God continued to call us to believe in him.

The above video features Michael having been in a tutoring situation to Steven, and how the gospel humbles us to love beyond barriers like ethnicity and language. Michael became unashamed of the gospel and was transformed to love because of God's gracious work in him to consider asking Steven if he would like read and study the Bible. Steven replied yes and wondered about the stories. More time seemed to focus on explaining the language, but that still did not stop Steven from learning about the Bible, history, God, and the gospel of Christ.

Skepticism Turns to Trust in Christ Jesus by Jim Munroe
Skepticism Turns to Trust in Christ Jesus by Jim Munroe

I Am Second interviews Jim Munroe, one who had a developed skepticism of God knowing that sometimes things are fake and used as a show since he's a magician. Jim Munroe's skepticism turned to trust in God, and Munroe uses the life story of the blood transplant he endured to cure his cancer. The life story truly is a natural way to describe the spiritual truth of how Christ Jesus becomes our eternal substitute for salvation in reconciling us to God through the cross and resurrection.

Gospel-Centered Living
Gospel-Centered Living

Nothing is like Christianity because of what's at the center, Christ Jesus, and we believe that's good news (gospel).

If something else takes the center of Christianity, Christianity then falls apart. The strength, power and life of Christianity is the rock solid truth of God in three persons - the Father, Son Jesus, and Holy Spirit. Within the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, God spoke the world into existence. Therefore, Christians believe in the only, true, breath-taking creator of the world.

Without him, we have nothing. Disbelieve him and Christianity becomes charitable organizations of brainwashed people wondering aimlessly through the world speaking and believing gibberish. Even in self-less acts of kindness exists the self, known more as self-centeredness.

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Listening: The Forgiven by Zimmerman Band
Listening: The Forgiven by Zimmerman Band

A great song capturing the turning from and turning to. We turn from sin and our sinful state to God the one who's drawing our faith to be in him. This is repentance, a turning and transformation, for God's purposes and will.

Listening: Awake My Soul by Zimmerman Band
Listening: Awake My Soul by Zimmerman Band

C.S. Lewis said that our desires for things that harm us are not too strong, but our desires for God are too weak. That is what this song means to us. We want god to awaken us deeply, and remind us that He is worth waking for.

Listening: Hopefully Broken by Zimmerman Band
Listening: Hopefully Broken by Zimmerman Band

Christian musician artists, Zimmerman Band, brings the truth and love of God via the gospel to bear on our hearts, realizing the reality of the world and ourselves that we are broken with him as our hope. Therefore, we are not hopeless in life; rather, filled with great hope -- him.

Listening: The Books of the Bible Song
Listening: The Books of the Bible Song
Listening: Sweet Victory Song
Listening: Sweet Victory Song

I feel thorns where my crown was
(I be weak but I'm alive)
From the dusk until dawn yeah
(I'll survive 'cause I got) sweet victory
Nobody can take it from me sweet victory
'Cause I got (sweet victory) yeah

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Singing: Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me
Singing: Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me
Singing: Give Me Jesus
Singing: Give Me Jesus
Singing: O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer
Singing: O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer
Singing: We Look to You
Singing: We Look to You
Singing: I Lay It All
Singing: I Lay It All
Singing: All Creatures of Our God and King
Singing: All Creatures of Our God and King
Singing: He is Our God
Singing: He is Our God
Music: Original Piano Arrangement of Amazing Grace by Adam's Road
Singing: Church Sing-Along Songs by the Village Church Set 1
Singing: Church Sing-Along Songs by the Village Church Set 1

Featured set songs:

  1. God Alone
  2. Warrior
  3. Now to Him
Singing: Church Sing-Along Songs by the Village Church Set 2
Singing: Church Sing-Along Songs by the Village Church Set 2

Featured set songs:

  1. Come Behold The Wondrous Mystery
  2. God our Rescuer
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