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Message-Based Study Guides

December 3, 2023

Come They Told Me

Main Idea:

Sometimes God wants to grab your attention and will use something or
someone in your life in order to bring your focus on Him.

November 26, 2023

Pray Like This

Adam Udinski

Main Idea:

If you ever find yourself not having the words to pray, open up Scripture for guidance.

November 19, 2023

Pray Like This

Adam Udinski

Main Idea:

When the disciples pleaded, “Teach us to pray!” Jesus gave us the Lord’s Prayer. But all through his ministry on earth, even in his agony on the cross, Jesus modeled the life of prayer for us to examine and imitate.

November 12, 2023

Pray Like This

Main Idea:

“Mercy is NOT getting what we deserve (Punishment). Grace is getting what we don’t deserve (Gift).”

November 5, 2023

Pray Like This

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

Prayer is when we pick a moment to connect with God, to be brutally honest, be highly regarded, accurately heard, constantly reassured, and adequately filled.

October 29, 2023

In the Wind

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

Agape love in the biblical context is the highest form of love. It is a self sacrificial love, that we only have because of Jesus’ sacrificial love for us.

October 22, 2023

In the Wind

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

“He (God) is invisible, yet we see him move.”

October 15, 2023

In the Wind

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

Even when you believe in Jesus, a feeling of emptiness, a feeling that something is missing, can come over you. In that moment there are two choices: Diversion (finding a way to escape or bury the feeling), or Exploration. God calls you to exploration. He’ll show you that these feelings will point you back to him.

October 8, 2023

In the Wind

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

“Our purpose needs to not only be wrapped up in what we feel, but what we believe.”

October 1, 2023

In the Wind

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

“God is invisible but you see him work.”

September 17, 2023

Intended for Good

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

The life of Joseph shows us that bad things are going to happen, 
but God has overcome them. When things are going badly, God is up to something good. And when things are going well, God is up to something better.

September 10, 2023

Intended for Good

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

The life of Joesph gives us a glimpse of hard times
and what God does in the midst of them.

September 3, 2023

Family Sunday: Story of Ehud

Kenton Hock & Adam Udinski

Main Idea:

Ehud was the son of Gera the Benjaminite, and became an unlikely Israelite hero when he helped free the Israelite people from 18 years of oppression by the Moabites. Ehud reminds us that when we call on God there is freedom.

August 27, 2023

Parables: Mustard Seed

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

Jesus’ parable of the mustard seed is widely known, with the theme of this parable being how even in what may seem insignificant, God can make amazingly beautiful things come from them. Furthermore, Jesus uses the mustard seed to describe the Kingdom of God with an illustration of something small, showing how this mustard seed will grow into something astonishing and bigger than you even thought possible.

August 20, 2023

Parables: Good Samaritan

Rev. Scott Allen

Main Idea:

The theme of God’s provision through people continues in the Parable of the Good Samaritan. In this parable, God’s provision for a crime victim comes through the compassion of a foreign traveler, who evidently has enough wealth to pay for a stranger’s medical care. This may be the best-known of all Jesus’ parables, though it is recorded only in the Gospel of Luke.

August 13, 2023

Parables: Rich Fool

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

This parable emerges from Jesus response to a request from someone in the crowd to arbitrate between him and his brother over the matter of their inheritance. Jesus not only denies the request but rather uses it as a teaching opportunity to warn against greed and reliance on wealth for our security.

August 6, 2023

Parables: Wineskins

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine must be stored in new wineskins. But no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the new wine. ‘The old is just fine,’ they say.”

July 30, 2023

Parables: Wise and Foolish Builders

Adam Udinski

Main Idea:

Building on the ROCK.

July 23, 2023

Parables: The Ten Bridesmaids

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

Matthew 25:1-13 reinforces the call for readiness in the face of the uncertain time of
the second coming. And it challenges us to be living a life prepared for Christ.

July 16, 2023

Parables: Lost Sheep

Rev. Dr. Billy Burch

Main Idea:

Several of Jesus’ parables are about lost things that get found. Sometimes the search for the lost thing or person is very hard or very costly. But the finding ends in rejoicing and celebration. 

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