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March 23, 2024 - Gospel Renewal From The Inside Out

One of the most stark contrasts in our Christian faith is between self-righteousness and grace. Nothing causes us to miss Jesus more than self-righteousness, and nothing brings us deeper into the rest Jesus gives than receiving his grace. Through this amazing parable we will see that core to the work Jesus wants to do in our lives is uproot self-righteousness from our heart and fill it in with grace, so that we can rest in the gospel.

March 16, 2025 - Gospel Renewal From The Inside Out

One of the most challenging questions of the Christian life is: how does our behavior fit in? It's so easy to begin to wonder one of two things: is God's love for me dependent on what I do, or, is what I do irrelevant and makes no difference in my life with God? Through this familiar and amazing passage, we'll see that the key is grace. Grace is free: it comes to us in spite of what we do. But to be God's grace, it also has a powerful effect. So we'll see that a saved life is a changed life. 

March 9, 2025 - Gospel Renewal From The Inside Out

One of the most difficult actions of the Christian faith is forgiveness. In our culture, forgiveness can be spoken of as a mistake. In our personal lives, the thought of forgiving those who have hurt us can feel impossible and unjust. As we continue looking into the renewing work that Jesus does in those who trust and follow him, we'll see that forgiveness is in the center. In fact, what Jesus wants us to understand is that he is changing our hearts so we can forgive others as He has forgiven us.

March 2, 2025 - Gospel Renewal From The Inside Out

The Good Samaritan is a parable that is familiar to nearly everyone, at least by name. Because of that familiarity, it's easy to lose sight of the revolutionary message Jesus intends it to have.  As we continue to look at how, through the gospel, Jesus renews us and our hearts, we'll see that He also brings His renewing grace to those around us as we begin to love others as He has loved us.

February 23, 2025 - Gospel Renewal From the Inside Out

Last week, as we dove into gospel renewal, we saw that Jesus renews us from the inside out by first changing what we treasure in life, to be him. This Sunday, we are going to press WHY this is so hard. Jesus is going to place his finger on the main thing that keeps us from putting him first so that he can uproot it and give us what is infinitely better. 

February 16, 2025 - Gospel Renewal From The Inside Out

One of Jesus' favorite questions to ask was "What do you want me to do for you?" If we could hear Jesus ask us that question, how would we answer? Through Jesus, God is moving this broken, fallen world to a glorious new creation: gospel renewal. A second question to consider is, how does this gospel reality go from the academic to something personally meaningful? It happens when we see that this renewal is something Jesus is doing in us right now and he begins by focusing on what we love.

February 9, 2025 - 1 Peter 5:6-14

One of the great metaphors for life is a journey and part of any journey, definitely part of our lives, is the reality that there are many struggles we must endure. Peter has made clear that sometimes we encounter these struggles because we are Christians. As we finish this letter, Peter's final word is a word of encouragement that we can and will endure all struggles by standing in grace.