Reimagined
In Biblical times, the great danger was that you’d worship Baal or Asherah or Diana of Ephesus. Today, the great threat to your faith is that you’ll worship... nothing. Something cataclysmic is happening in the soul of the Western world: We are losing our ability to even imagine the reality to which the Biblical authors give witness. In this series, we'll explore Jesus’s invitation to reimagine life. What would it be like to have the "mind of Christ," to see the world through His eyes?
Week 1: Reimagined
In Biblical times, the great danger was that you’d worship Baal or Asherah or Diana of Ephesus. Today, the great threat to your faith is that you’ll worship... nothing. Something cataclysmic is happening in the soul of the Western world: We are losing our ability to even imagine the reality to which the Biblical authors give witness. In this series, we'll explore Jesus’s invitation to reimagine life. What would it be like to have the "mind of Christ," to see the world through His eyes?
Week 2: The End of Suffering: How the Worst Things can be the Best Thing for your Soul
The Scriptures invite us to see our suffering and hardship in a way that does not comfortably fit with modern American attempts to avoid anything hard. In this message, we'll explore James' (outrageous) suggestion that we should "consider it pure joy whenever we face trials."
Week 3: The Kingdom of Heaven is upside-down: How the Beatitudes changed everything
Immediately after Jesus selected his disciples, he began teaching them about the kingdom of heaven by way of the Beatitudes. This teaching was confronting, upside-down and counter-culture, but was one small step in what would be a three year journey towards reimagining the kingdom of heaven and how to get there.
Week 4: The Potter's House. Jeremiah 18
We live in a world that says only you can define who you are and what’s good for you. But in Jeremiah 18, God invites us to join Jeremiah on a field trip to a potter's house and reimagine our place in His world.
Week 5: The Truth About You, or how a cluttered soul can blind you to your own motives.
We’ve all experienced others misreading our motives. If you’re emotionally mature, you’ve most likely caught yourself misreading others. But, what about your own motives? How good are you at reading your own heart? In John 8, Jesus challenges us to see the truth about why we do what we do and what we most love in life.
Week 6: The Decisive Moment: How the coming of Jesus changes everything
Mark tells a different Christmas story. He makes no mention of a manger, angels, or shepherds. Rather, Mark invites us to reimagine Christmas, to seriously consider how the coming of this humble King marks the decisive moment in human history and in your life.
Week 7: Great Expectations. Isaiah 9:6
Just like the early prophets, we need to take our disappointments and unmet expectations to God. Then pray like He can do anything he wants to, whenever He wants to, despite what happened yesterday, last year, or in the last decade. God is in the business of working miracles and He won't stop in 2021.
Week 8: Positioning Your Life for Growth in 2021. Part 1
The Christian life is counterintuitive. We naturally want to fix ourselves and our world through our own strength, ingenuity, and passion. But, inevitably, this fails. In this two-part series, we talk through what it looks like to position our lives to depend upon God's strength to change us and our world in 2021.
Week 9: Positioning Your Life for Growth in 2021. Part 2
The Christian life is counterintuitive. We naturally want to fix ourselves and our world through our own strength, ingenuity, and passion. But, inevitably, this fails. In this two-part series, we talk through what it looks like to position our lives to depend upon God's strength to change us and our world in 2021.