Community - Live As Family in 2023

Onward: Launching into a New Year Week #1 "Community - Live As Family in 2023" Biblical Text: Acts 2:42-47, 4:32-34, John 17:20-23, Hebrews 10:24-25, Topics Covered: Community, Fellowship, Unity, Church Family, Goals, Big Idea of the Message: We want to live as the family of God in 2023 Application Point: Becoming a vital member of a community that is known and needed by one another Discussion Questions for the New Year: What are 5 ways you could develop the relationships you need in your life this week? Who are your mission-minded, like-minded friends? Who are the people who make you love God more? Who can you safely share your soul with? Who are wise mentors you could pursue?

Living Stones: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Living Stones: Looking Back, Looking Forward Biblical Text: Joshua 4:1–7, Exodus 12:24-27a, Deuteronomy 6:20-25, 1 Corinthians 11:25-26 Topics Covered: New Year's, 2023, Remembering, Faithfulness, Trust, Future Big Idea of the Message: God’s faithfulness in the past reminds us that we can trust him for the challenges of the future. Application Point: Take time to remember what God has done for you this year as you consider your plans for and concerns about this new year. Discussion Questions for the New Year: What kinds of memorials do you need to make as you remember God's faithfulness in your life in 2022? How has God been faithful in 2022? How has God provided in 2022? How has God surprised you in 2022? How can you memorialize these events, celebrate what God has done and pass on these stories to others in 2023? How has God been with you in difficult circumstances in 2022? What difficult circumstances might we be tempted to pick up stones of anger, bitterness, and unbelief as we move from 2022 to 2023? What is one thing that worries you about this coming year? How can we cultivate our faith to trust God in the midst of the uncertainties of the future of 2023? What are some ways to remind yourself personally of God’s faithfulness? What are some ways of sharing God's faithfulness to others in 2023? How can we pray for each other in the new year?

Letting Christmas Define our Lives (2 Thessalonians 1:11-12)

 

Sunday, December 27th - Pastor Kyle Van Tine - (2 Thessalonians 1:11-12)  

Click Here to Listen to "Letting Christmas Define our Lives" 

Questions for Personal/Family/Group Study

Work Backwards
How do you define your life; as primarily proactive or reactive, and why?
How do you want to be remembered by your family, friends, coworkers and neighbors?  
What would it look like to finish well in your marriage and leave a godly legacy for your family?
Are your daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals and habits consistent with what you believe?
   
Live Consistently
Where are the areas of inconsistency in your life? (Examples: self-discipline, church vs private life, marriage, family, work, private life?) Are you honest about your inconsistency?
What are the major lessons you’ve learned from your failures in 2015?  What are you need to do to keep from making the same mistakes?

Make Resolutions
If hoping alone is not a viable strategy for growth and change, how will your 2016 be different than 2015?
What areas in your life need to change in 2016? What projects and goals do you want to accomplish in 2016? Use the S.M.A.R.T method for help (Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound).

Be Intentional
Where have you seen a disconnect in your life between good intentions and good actions?
Who will you pour into and invest in during 2016? How will you encourage, cultivate and challenge them this year?
As the saying goes, “Find your misery and you will find your ministry”, what breaks your heart, makes you angry, provokes you; what will you do about it in 2016?
What season of life are you in and how does that season (e.g. singleness, retirement, etc.) shape your ministry? 

Stay Faithful
How have you personally been enriched by the faithfulness of others?
Who will your faithfulness impact, encourage and guide?

How can you cultivate faithfulness and long obedience in the same direction? 

New Year's 2015 - "A New You" - John 3:1-15

Well it's New Year’s 2015. How many of you guys have made a New Year’s Resolution? Culturally we love and celebrate New Year’s because it represents a time to start over, that we can change, that we can start off with a clean slate. I’m not against new year’s resolutions I think they can be helpful, I think they can be a form of repentance but New Year’s cannot produce a new you. Resolutions can produce behavior modification but not heart transformation

Big Idea: Jesus didn't come to make us better; he came to make us new! 

-The Necessity of New Birth (John 3:1-3) 

-The Nature of The New Birth (John 3:4-6)

-The Evidence of the New Birth (John 3:7-8)

-The Basis of the New Birth (John 3:9-15)

You can listen to "A New You" by following this link. 

  

"Great is thy Faithfulness" a sermon on the text Genesis 15:1-21

It's New Year's Eve and I wanted to post my last sermon on God's Faithfulness to encourage you as we come into the year 2015 of our Lord. This sermon comes from Abram's encounter and covenant with God in Genesis 15. You can listen to the sermon here.