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Message-Based Study Guides
Grow deeper in applying God's Word and living out Sunday's message
July 27, 2025
In Christ: Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
Adam Udinski
Main Idea:
Ephesians 4:17–32 urges believers to no longer live like the Gentiles, who are darkened in their understanding and separated from God due to ignorance and hardened hearts. Paul calls for a transformation—putting off the old self corrupted by deceitful desires and putting on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. He instructs Christians to speak truthfully, manage anger without sinning, work honestly, and use their words to build others up. The passage ends with a call to kindness, compassion, and forgiveness, just as God in Christ forgave us.
July 20, 2025
In Christ: Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
In our study of Ephesians, a book of the Bible written by the Apostle Paul, we have seen chapters 1-3 describe doctrine – the particulars of what we believe. Now, in chapters 4-6 we will find what it means for us to live in Christ. In response to the doctrine, these chapters are about what we do. Depending on our translation, verse 1 of chapter 4 says to lead a life, or live, or walk the life we are called to by God.
July 13, 2025
In Christ: Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
Rev. Scott Allen
Main Idea:
In Ephesians 3:14-21, the Apostle Paul offers a heartfelt prayer for the believers in Ephesus. He kneels before God and prays that they would be strengthened with spiritual power through the Holy Spirit, deeply rooted in Christ’s love, and able to grasp the vastness of God’s love. Paul’s prayer builds toward a beautiful crescendo: that they may be “filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” He ends with a doxology, praising God’s ability to do far more than we could ever ask or imagine.
June 22, 2025
In Christ: Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
Rev. Scott Allen
Main Idea:
God is in the business of transforming lives. Consider the Apostle Paul, the writer of the book we are studying, Ephesians. Paul was notorious for persecuting Christians, but Jesus confronted and changed him completely. In Christ, Paul spread the gospel across the world. God is still transforming people today to do His good work.
June 15, 2025
In Christ: Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
Adam Udinski
Main Idea:
What does it mean to live your life “In Christ”? Join us this summer as we break down the book of Ephesians and learn from the apostle Paul as he taught the early church in Ephesus the very same thing. This week Adam picked up in Ephesians 1:15-23 to close out the 1st chapter.
June 8, 2025
In Christ: Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
What does it mean to live your life “In Christ”? Join us this summer as we break down the book of Ephesians and learn from the apostle Paul as he taught the early church in Ephesus the very same thing: how we are saved in Christ, to be in union with Christ, to build our relationships in Christ, and so much more.
June 1, 2025
Baptism Sunday 2025
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
Baptism is a powerful and important step for Christians, symbolizing our new life in Christ and our commitment to follow Him. It is an outward expression of an inward faith, showing our love for Jesus and our desire to be united with Him. Through baptism, we publicly declare that we belong to Christ, embracing His grace and the new identity we have as children of God.
May 25, 2025
To Hope
Henry Hutchinson
Main Idea:
Walking with God is a joy beyond measure. He has promised us deliverance, and by His everlasting grace, we can place our full trust in Him. Even in our suffering, when we fix our eyes on Jesus—the One who never leaves His children in their darkest moments—we are truly blessed. We have the privilege of hoping in the One who conquered death itself. What an incredible gift that is!
May 18, 2025
Holy Spirit Life
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
The Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts to all those who believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior. He will make these gifts clear to us, if we make a conscious choice to walk with Him. Last week we saw that many of these gifts are mentioned in Scripture. Today we’ll look closely at a few of the
gifts.
May 11, 2025
Holy Spirit Life
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
When we give our lives to Jesus, we receive the Holy Spirit in that moment. The Holy Spirit is essential to your life. The Spirit will grow you closer to God and change your daily life. So what does it mean when we say you will be continually “filled with the Spirit” as mentioned in Ephesians 5:18b?
May 4, 2025
Holy Spirit Life
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
Ephesians 4:3 tells us “Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace.”
The Holy Spirit keeps us united with God but also united together as His people. Today we will look at the unity we receive with the God the moment we accept Christ as our Savior and the role of the Holy Spirit.
April 27, 2025
Holy Spirit Life
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
The Holy Spirit is essential to your life. The Spirit will grow you closer to God and change your daily life. He breathes spiritual vitality into our hearts, guiding, empowering, and sustaining us in our journey with God. Without the Spirit, faith becomes mere formality, but with Him, we experience true transformation, discernment, and the living presence of Christ within us.
April 20, 2025
Easter Sunday
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
The morning is a time for celebrating new life and reconnection with God. A traditional Jewish morning prayer, called Modeh Ani, says, ”I thank you living and enduring King for restoring my soul to me. Great is Your faithfulness.” Psalms 143:8 says, “Let me hear of Your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting You.”
Come morning we don’t know what any day will hold. On Sunday morning after the crucifixion of Jesus, Easter Sunday, the followers of Jesus the Messiah found Him alive!
March 30, 2025
Speaking Into The Chaos
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
Today, as we read through Ezekiel and how the Word speaks into the chaos, we will look at the story of the Valley of Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37. And we will find that nothing is impossible for our God; He has the power to restore even what appears to be totally lifeless and impossible.
March 23, 2025
Speaking Into The Chaos
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
God established covenants with His people in the Old Testament; these were binding promises He made to them. As the pages of the New Testament open, we see He makes another binding promise: the new covenant in Christ. Today we as we read through Ezekiel and how the Word speaks into the chaos, we will delve into the origin and purpose of both of these covenants.
March 16, 2025
Speaking Into The Chaos
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
Early in the book of Ezekiel the prophet warns of God’s judgement on the people and coming destruction. Then it happens. In the middle of the book (chapter 33) Ezekiel gets a message from Jerusalem: “The city has fallen!” But right away God, in a new message to Ezekiel and the people, declares His love and compassion for them. In an analogy that still reverberates in us through Jesus today, God declares Himself the Shepherd who will rescue His flock of sheep.
March 9, 2025
Speaking Into The Chaos
Rev. Dr. Billy Burch
Main Idea:
“God can turn your test into a testimony.”
We are halfway through our series Speaking Into The Chaos. And as we read through the book of Ezekiel, one theme that has been recurring is what happens when we reject God and why, as a result, we need Jesus. In the passage before us God’s chosen people continue to sin. Here we will also see an example of other nations that oppose God and what is in store for them as a result.
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