Christ is Your Life
Since your life is now hidden in Christ, put away your old thoughts, character, and behaviors and put on your new self.
Rooted in Christ Alone
Just as you have received Jesus Christ as Lord, continue to live in him, being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude.
The Struggle for Maturity
When our priorities line up with God’s mission in the world, we’ll be willing to do hard things for Him.
The Preeminence of Christ in All Things
Christ is supreme in the original and new creation, and especially in the church, as he leads the Divine Conspiracy, overcoming evil with good. Download The Map, a study guide companion to each week’s sermon, designed to help you consistently reflect on Scripture as you pursue maturity in Christ.
A Call to Growth in Christ
An ever-deepening knowledge of the Father as revealed by Christ leads to purposeful and fruitful Christlike character and conduct as the Spirit strengthens us to continue growing in Christ. Download The Map, a study guide companion to each week’s sermon, designed to help you consistently reflect on Scripture as you pursue maturity in Christ.
Beachheads, Platoons, and the Frontlines
God uses the local church as a beachhead, establishing a base of operations, equipping and resourcing soldiers on the frontlines of Kingdom work. Download The Map, a study guide companion to each week’s sermon, designed to help you consistently reflect on Scripture as you pursue maturity in Christ.
The Graduate’s Commissioning and Empowerment
Jesus commissions us to go and make disciples and empowers us with the Holy Spirit to be His bold witnesses. May we be of one mind and one accord in our calling. Download The Map, a study guide companion to each week’s sermon, designed to help you consistently reflect on Scripture as you pursue maturity in Christ.
Basic Training and the Work of the Ministry
Like soldiers in basic training, we’re being equipped, we’re maturing in our Christlikeness, we’re growing in unity for the sake of the mission—to enact and proclaim the Kingdom Gospel. Download The Map, a study guide companion to each week’s sermon, designed to help you consistently reflect on Scripture as you pursue maturity in Christ.
Reading in Context
Reading Biblical Narrative: How the Stories of the Bible Can Change the Story of Your Life is a six-week equipping class offered in the Fall semester of 2018. The goal of the course was to equip Christians to read the stories of the Bible with a greater awareness of their historical, literary, and devotional contexts and for the purpose of life change. Download the Handout from Week 3.
The All-In Soldiers and Their Spiritual Insight
If we’re going to be the Unstoppable Force He’s using to change the world, we’ll need to follow His lead, willing to become something different, not for our own sake, but for the benefit of others—emptying ourselves, humbling ourselves, denying ourselves, giving up our own way, taking up our cross, and following Him. This is the Jesus way. Download The Map, a study guide companion to each week’s sermon, designed to help you consistently reflect on Scripture as you pursue maturity…
What is a Story?
Reading Biblical Narrative: How the Stories of the Bible Can Change the Story of Your Life is a six-week equipping class offered in the Fall semester of 2018. The goal of the course was to equip Christians to read the stories of the Bible with a greater awareness of their historical, literary, and devotional contexts and for the purpose of life change. Download the Handout from Week 2.
The Undisputed Leader and His Cause
The church of Jesus Christ is a missional movement, made up by God’s “called out” ones who embrace, enact, and proclaim His Kingdom Gospel. Download The Map, a study guide companion to each week’s sermon, designed to help you consistently reflect on Scripture as you pursue maturity in Christ.