Being Challenge! New Series in September

The most important target to hit as a disciple of Jesus is BEING in a relationship with Him.

We know what it’s like to have the desire to grow in our relationship with God and yet feel stagnant. Being Challenge leads readers to a stronger relationship with God through simple challenges that focus on the 5 keystone habits of Jesus: community, scripture, prayer, solitude and church.

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• September 11 Intro

  • Day 1: Tuesday

• September 18

  • Commit to Community Day 6

• September 25

  • Study Scripture Day 13

• October 2

  • Prioritize Prayer Day 20

• October 9

  • Seek Solitude Day 27

• October 16

  • Choose Church Day 34

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September 11th we are starting the Being Challenge.

Red Letter Challenge is a dynamic 40-day experience that helps people more effectively follow Jesus Christ!

• Practice the Habits of Jesus

• Find Joy in Relationship with God

• Discover Purpose Being with God

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Purchase the Workbook

• Grabe a Workbook.

  • The books can be shared but feel free to grab what you need

• The church has ordered some Being books.

  • The books cost the church 25$ Per Book

  • As with everything if 25$ is too much please take one.

• Both Amazon and RLC both are selling the book

  • both links are included.

    • Amazon may be faster,

    • RLC will be cheaper.

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Being Challenge: A 40-Day Challenge to Be Like Jesus

By Zach Zehnder

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Missio dei: The Heart of God (Teaching Series)

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From the beginning, God has been sending his spirit out to bring life and beauty in the universe. It's a great sending. In this sending, we can see the heart of God as we join in with God’s mission.

Here is the amazon link for the book we are using.

The Great Sending: God's Heart for the World Beating Through You

By Sohns, Will

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Reading Plan
Read around the readings for Sunday

• 7/24/22

  • Acts 2:14a 22-321
    Peter 1:3-9
    John 20:16-24

• 7/31/22

  • Malachi 3:1-5
    Hebrews 3:1-6
    Matthew 16:13-20

• 8/7/22

  • Numbers 21:5-9
    1 Corinthians 1:18-25
    John 12:27-36

• 8/14/22

  • Isaiah 61:1-4
    Galatians 4:4-7
    Luke 4:16-24

• 8/21/22

  • Isaiah 40:1-5
    Hebrews 10:11-18
    John 1:29-348

• /28/22

  • Isaiah 53:4-12
    1 John 4:9-16
    John 8:21-30

• 9/4/22

  • Psalm 103:8-19
    2 Corinthians 5:11-21
    John 14:1-6

Richer: Finding Meaning in our Favorite Verse (Teaching Series)

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There are many Bible verses that are so loved by the church. Over the centuries, these verses have been encouraging and equipping the church in its walking with the Lord. So let's dive deep into these beloved verses to gain an even richer love and understanding.

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Reading Plan

• July 3rd 22
  John 3:16

  • John 2-3

• July 10th 22
  1 Peter 3:15

  • 1 Peter 3

• July 17th 22
  2 Corinthians 12:9

  • 2 Corinthians 12

In All Things (Teaching Series)

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While sitting in prison, the apostle Paul receives word of a new church. He pens a letter of encouragement, filled with love and songs, about how Jesus the Christ is in all things. This is a reminder that the Christian story encompasses all things. Nothing -- and no one -- is left out.

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Reading Plan

• May 29th 22 -
  Creator of All things -

  • Genesis 1, Colossians 1:1-20

• June 5th 22 -
  Redeemer of All Things -

  • Colossians 1:19-28, Luke 23:33-43

• June 12th 22 -
  Lord of All things

  • Colossians 2, Luke 15

• June 19th 22
  Servant of All Things -

  • Colossians 3:12-Ch4, John 13

• June 26th -
  Restorer of all things -

  • Colossians 3:1-11, Matthew 8

Spiritual Conversations (Teaching Series)

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When it comes to evangelism, we have real fear of giving offense or being rejected. This fear creates barriers for many Christians when it comes to talking about their faith. Many people have said when spiritual conversations happened previously, it only created tensions and arguments. What I have seen is when we meld our faith with grace and good news, it will become a joy to have spiritual conversations, because it is indeed good news.

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Reading Plan

• April 24th 22 -
  How will they hear -

  • Romans 10 - 11:6

• May 1st 22 -
  Why We Stopped Talking -

  • Luke 22:54-62 , Ezekiel 34:11-17, Colossians 4:2-6

• May 8th 22 -
  Beautiful Conversations-

  • Isaiah 52

• May 15th 22 -
  Egar Conversationist -

  • Ephesians 5-6

• May 22nd 22 -
  Everyday Conversations -

  • Acts 4, 1 Peter 3:13-21

LHM
(Lutheran Hour Ministries)

Book which inspired this series.

The Reluctant Witness: Discovering the Delight of Spiritual Conversations (Lutheran Hour Ministries Resources)

By Everts, Don

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Seeing is not Believing

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Seeing is Not Believing:  A Deep Dive into the Passion of the Gospel of Mark

Revealing True Power: The Gospel of Mark

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Mark begins his Gospel showing his full intent, “This is the beginning of good news of Jesus, the Son of God.” This declaration of Jesus as the Son of God still deconstructs our own wants and dreams for power, from our feckless notions of political power, to the notions of us who want to gain power from religious dogma, to our own personal wants for notoriety and importance. Mark's Gospel reveals true power as we follow Jesus to the cross, revealing the good news of a life reborn of freedom.

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The Gospel of Mark

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Await: Daily Gifts From a Loving Father

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Remember being little and excitedly waiting for Christmas to come. As we await the coming messiah, its like we are moving on a grand advent calendar moving closer to the coming Christ. But waiting is hard and can feel like there is nothing good for us. In that struggle of waiting God leaves us daily gifts, a foretaste of what is to come.

Forgive and Give

God gave His one and only Son so that we might be forgiven. This core idea of the Christian faith seems to permeate Paul’s words as he works to reconcile the relationship with the Corinthians. A generous spirit is one that heals people. It's amazing to think of how a generous spirit in all ways, especially our money, could heal and give good news to so many.

Say What!? Thats Not In The Bible

There are many phrases that we think are good and Christian; however, they are not actually found in Scripture at all. So we are looking at some of those phrases and exclaiming, “Say What?! That's not in the Bible.”

Red Letter Challenge! New Series in August

By putting God's words literally into practice, you will find the life God has made for you!

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• August 15th Intro

  • Day 1: Tuesday

• August 22nd

  • Being Day 6

• August 29th

  • Forgiving Day 13

• September 5th

  • Serving Day 20

• September 12th

  • Giving Day 27

• September 19th

  • Going Day 34

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August 15th we are starting the Red Letter Challenge.

Red Letter Challenge is a dynamic 40-day experience that helps people more effectively follow Jesus Christ!

The RLC is unique because it takes Christ’s literal words and gives you practical daily challenges based on those words.  The RLC will give you targets to shoot for to help you measure how you are practically following after Him.  RLC believes that Jesus followers want to be the best Jesus followers that we can be not out of obligation, but out of gratitude for what Jesus has done for us!

Do you have what it takes to really follow Jesus?  To truly do what He said?
I believe you do!

The RLC will help you:

1)     Have a deeper relationship with Jesus.

2)     Receive God’s forgiveness in your life and give grace to others.

3)     Give you a greater heart of service.

4)     Help you become more generous.

5)     Give you confidence to speak about what Jesus has done in your life.

Ready to take the challenge?

Purchase the Workbook

• RLC Recommends 1 Book per person,

  • This is best case however the book is expensive, and I believe it can be shared.

• The church has ordered some RLC books.

  • The books cost the church 24$ Per Book

  • As with everything if 24$ is too much please take one.

• Both Amazon and RLC both are selling the book

  • both links are included.

    • Amazon may be faster,

    • RLC will be cheaper.

Buy the Book on Amazon

Red Letter Challenge - A 40 Day Life Changing Experience

By Zach Zehnder

Buy on Amazon

Buy the book on Red Letter challenge Site

Ordinary Sinners

Adam & Eve, Noah, David, and so many more -- These people are constantly talked about in the Scriptures, not because they are perfect or holy but because God works “thru” ordinary sinners.

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Entrusted - Paul's Final Letter to Timothy

This is the message I’ve been set apart to proclaim as preacher, emissary, and teacher. It’s also the cause of all this trouble I’m in. But I have no regrets. I couldn’t be more sure of my ground, the One I’ve trusted in can take care of what He’s trusted me to do right to the end. Now, go with the faith; you have been entrusted into all the world.

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Rise - Hope in the Resurrection

The resurrection of Jesus was an event that surprised the earliest followers of Jesus and forced them to rethink everything they thought they knew about Jesus, themselves, and the world. They believed that the risen Jesus inaugurated God’s new creation, making it possible to become new and different kinds of humans in every aspect of our lives.

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All Nations

New Sermon Series for Lent.

All throughout the Gospels people’s nationalities are mentioned. Why are the gospel writers spending precious ink telling us where some of these people are from? Perhaps, their nationality is part of the story and shows us another part of God’s love for all people.

All Nations - The Diversity of the Gospel

All throughout the Gospels, people’s nationalities are mentioned. Why are the gospel writers spending precious ink telling us where some of these people are from? Perhaps, their nationality is part of the story and shows us another part of God’s love for all nations.

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Faith & Family Dysfunction - Working our Way Through Biblical Dysfunction

Anxiety, pitting our family and friends against each other, group think, and bitterness. These all take life away from us and can cause us to live in despair. But when we look through the main story of scripture we see a family who is extremely dysfunctional, and yet God never leaves them and we know them as the patriarchs

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The Standard Sermon Series

The Ten Commandments have long been the standard to which we judge how we should live. But how many do we have to keep so that we can stay on God’s good side? Is it one or five? I mean, some of these are easy, like don’t muder. I haven’t broken that yet. However, when we look deeper at the commandments, we see a deeper standard for our lives.

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God's Greater Story [Romans] Sermon Series

Paul in Romans is not speaking of a belief that is only for himself, a personal theology or a record of his personal spiritual journey. Paul is speaking of God and God’s work among his people, a saving work that includes all nations and that extends throughout all time. Paul’s words of faith are not for himself alone but for all peoples. Paul tells the Romans and us God’s greater story.

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The Jesus Experience Sermon Series.

Luke’s Story of Jesus  Luke wants to tell us a story; no, he wants to give us an experience. It’s about someone who is doing something new, someone who is bringing miracles, healings, and parties, someone who defies expectations, someone whom everyone has an opinion about, and who will save the world.