Sermon by Adam Gibson on November 12, 2023.
In the final week of this series, we've chosen a few of the texts we've received throughout these seven weeks to discuss and answer from a biblical perspective.
Embodied | Q & A | November 12
Embodied | Agape | November 5
Sermon by Jon Ludovina on November 5, 2023.
Last week, we unpacked the whole chapter of 1 Corinthians 15, looking at how the reality of bodily resurrection fills us with great strength, empathy, and hope. This week, we anchor in one verse as we focus on the question, “How do we walk faithfully in love in the cultural moment we find ourselves in?”
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Embodied | Resurrection | October 29
Sermon by Jon Ludovina on October 29, 2023.
Last week, we talked about Genesis 3 and how, because of the fall, we experience breakdown and pain at all levels, including in our bodies. In 1 Corinthians 15, we flash forward to look at the end of the story for our bodies, connecting how knowing the end of the story for our bodies shapes how we live here and now.
Embodied | Epithumia | October 22
Sermon by Jon Ludovina on October 22, 2023.
For the last few weeks, we’ve camped in Genesis 1-2 and painted this beautiful picture of God’s design, His intent for humanity, and what reality should look like. And yet, these ideals are not the reality of our lived existence. Genesis 3 goes on to tell us why that is.
Embodied | Eros | October 15
Sermon by Adam Gibson on October 15, 2023.
So far, we looked at Genesis 1-2 and what it means to be embodied and gendered. Last week, we discussed joining those two genders in marriage. This week, we examine Genesis 2 further to discuss the sexual expression of embodied gendered humans inside a covenant union.
Embodied | Union | October 8
Sermon by Jake Blair on October 8, 2023.
This week, we look at Genesis 2 and discuss the origin story of marriage. What’s marriage for? That word, or idea, has been around since the dawn of time. And based on your cultural context, you will get different answers about what that word means. So what’s marriage for? Who or what gets to define marriage? Is it me, my feelings, or is it based on biology or something else?
Embodied | Ish and Ishah | October 1
Sermon by Jon Ludovina on October 1, 2023.
Last week, we began our new series discussing what it means to be an embodied person. This week, we continue that discussion as we talk about gender. Where does gender come from? Why did God create male and female? What is the ideal relationship between men and women supposed to be? How should men and women treat and think about each other?
Embodied | Telos | September 24
Sermon by Adam Gibson on September 24, 2023.
Oversimplified narratives about our bodies surround us. Through conversations and airwaves, we are constantly told what we should pursue with our bodies, how we should think about them, and what dangers follow disagreement with the cultural ethos of desire, gender, sexuality, and marriage.
But these messages skip over some very essential questions–questions like: what is your body, exactly? What is your body for? Who created it, and with what purpose? What is the eternal destiny of our bodies, and how does that inform what we do on a normal week?
Join us for an eight-week series unpacking God’s plan for the human body–a majestic story from beginning to end.
The Family of God | Parenting Part 2: Reactive Discipline | March 7
Sermon by Jon Ludovina for March 7, 2021.
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The Family of God | Parenting Part 1: Proactive Discipleship | February 28
Sermon by Jon Ludovina for February 28, 2021.
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The Family of God | The Power to Heal the World | February 21
Sermon by Adam Gibson on February 21, 2021.
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The Family of God | Kids Have Imaginary Friends, Adults Have Imaginary Enemies | February 14
Sermon by Adam Gibson for February 14, 2021.
Here is this week's sermon along with a LifeGroup guide. Also, for those with children, please use our Kidtown guides to help teach and lead your children this week.
KIDTOWN AND STUDENT GUIDES
The Family of God | Passive Men & the Women Who Resent Them | February 7
Sermon by Adam Gibson for February 7, 2021.
Here is this week's sermon along with a LifeGroup guide. Also, for those with children, please use our Kidtown guides to help teach and lead your children this week.
Kidtown and Student Guides
The Family of God | Marriage in the Family of God | January 31
Sermon by Adam Gibson for January 31, 2021.
Here is this week's sermon along with a digital worship guide that includes songs to sing, prayers, and scripture to read. Also, for those with children, please use our Kidtown and student guides as a resource to teach and lead your children each week.
Worship Guide
January 31, 2020
Use this guide as a script, and, if possible, ask for a volunteer, roommate, or virtual participant to read the parts aloud. There are links to the songs to play and sing along with or, sing them a cappella. We want this to be a helpful guide for you and your community to participate together in worshipping the Lord.
Call to Worship - Scripture
Have someone read this scripture aloud:
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure.
Revelation 19:7-8
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Have someone pray for your time.
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Benediction
Have someone read this benediction from Revelation 1:4-8:
Grace to you and peace
from Him who is and who was and who is to come,
and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness,
the firstborn of the dead,
and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To Him who loves us
and freed us from our sins by his blood,
and made us to be a kingdom,
priests serving His God and Father,
to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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The Family of God | Dating in the Family of God | January 24
Sermon by Adam Gibson for January 24, 2021.
Here is this week's sermon along with a digital worship guide that includes songs to sing, prayers, and scripture to read. Also, for those with children, please use our Kidtown and student guides as a resource to teach and lead your children each week.
Worship Guide
January 24, 2020
Use this guide as a script, and, if possible, ask for a volunteer, roommate, or virtual participant to read the parts aloud. There are links to the songs to play and sing along with or, sing them a cappella. We want this to be a helpful guide for you and your community to participate together in worshipping the Lord.
Call to Worship - Scripture
Have someone read this scripture aloud:
Praise the Lord, all nations!
Extol him, all peoples!
For great is his steadfast love toward us,
And the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord!
Psalm 117
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Have someone pray for your time.
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Benediction
Have someone read this benediction from Romans 15 aloud:
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Kidtown and Student Guides
The Family of God | Dealing With Your Past | January 17
Sermon by Jon Ludovina for January 17, 2021.
Here is this week's sermon along with a digital worship guide that includes songs to sing, prayers, and scripture to read. Also, for those with children, please use our Kidtown and student guides as a resource to teach and lead your children each week.
Worship Guide
January 17, 2020
Use this guide as a script, and, if possible, ask for a volunteer, roommate, or virtual participant to read the parts aloud. There are links to the songs to play and sing along with or, sing them a cappella. We want this to be a helpful guide for you and your community to participate together in worshipping the Lord.
Call to Worship - Scripture
Have someone read this scripture aloud:
Psalm 62 says:
For God alone my soul waits in silence;
from him comes my salvation.
He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall never be shaken.
For God alone my soul waits in silence,
for my hope is from him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
On God rests my deliverance and my honor;
my mighty rock, my refuge is in God.
Trust in him at all times, O people;
pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us.
Pray
Lord we ask that you would meet us here this morning - in Your word, in our worship of You, we ask that you would be true to your word that you are our refuge, our mighty rock.
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Pray
Have someone pray for your time.
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Benediction
Have read this benediction from Romans 11 aloud:
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
Kidtown and Student Guides
The Family of God | The Family You Were Made For | January 10
Sermon by Jon Ludovina for January 10, 2021.
Here is this week's sermon along with a digital worship guide that includes songs to sing, prayers, and scripture to read. Also, for those with children, please use our Kidtown and student guides as a resource to teach and lead your children each week.
Worship Guide
January 10, 2020
Use this guide as a script, and, if possible, ask for a volunteer, roommate, or virtual participant to read the parts aloud. There are links to the songs to play and sing along with or, sing them a cappella. We want this to be a helpful guide for you and your community to participate together in worshipping the Lord.
Call to Worship - Scripture
Have someone read this scripture aloud:
Psalm 57: 1-7
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me,
for in you my soul takes refuge;
in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge,
till the storms of destruction pass by.
I cry out to God Most High,
to God who fulfills his purpose for me.
He will send from heaven and save me;
he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah
God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!
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Have someone pray for your time.
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Benediction
Have read this benediction aloud:
(based on Psalm 138)
Go with confidence into the days ahead,
trusting in God’s unfailing love and faithfulness.
God will not abandon you,
for you are the work of His hands—His own creation—
and His love endures forever.
So go in joy to love and serve the Lord!
Amen.
Kidtown and Student Guides
The Family of God | Trinity Love | January 3
Sermon by Adam Gibson on January 3, 2021.
During recording we experienced technical difficulties and apologize for the audio quality.
Here is this week's sermon along with a digital worship guide that includes songs to sing, prayers, and scripture to read. Also, for those with children, please use our Kidtown and student guides as a resource to teach and lead your children each week.
Worship Guide
January 3, 2020
Use this guide as a script, and, if possible, ask for a volunteer, roommate, or virtual participant to read the parts aloud. There are links to the songs to play and sing along with or, sing them a cappella. We want this to be a helpful guide for you and your community to participate together in worshipping the Lord.
Call to Worship
Have someone read this scripture aloud:
Exodus 34:6b
The Lord, the Lord, is God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.
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Benediction
Have someone pray this aloud to close:
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
Kidtown and Student Guides
Exiles | Forever Family
Sermon by Adam Gibson on September 4, 2016.