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Micah: Who is like the Lord?, Week 2
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Serving Like Jesus
As Jesus washes the feet of his servants, we learn to serve like Jesus:
1) in love
2) in humility
3) in action
Whole Life Discipleship
Learning to love the Lord your God will all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is a lifetime journey of the work of God in you to form you and mature you and shape you into the likeness of Jesus. These verses form the foundation for two of our values as a church: holistic transformation and beauty and brokenness. Holistic transformation anticipates the work of sanctification where our whole being is changed by the gospel at work in us. And beauty and brokenness calls us to see what is beautiful and what is broken in the world around us, in us, and in the people we interact with.
Compassion with Conviction
"Do not judge" in Matthew 7:1 does not... cannot... mean to never judge. To rightly judge is a heart posture.
When we recognize the great mercy we have received through Christ, two things happen:
1) We recognize how great is our sin of which we have been forgiven and
2) Our hearts soften to the needs and shortcomings of others, freeing us to move toward them in ways that are genuinely helpful, not merely reactive.
Ambassadors: Our Strategy as a Church
In 2 Corinthians 5, Paul says that "we are ambassadors." Powered by the gospel, we as a church represent the interests, purposes, and priorities of God to our community. And how? Through our 4 part strategy:
Connect. Belong. Thrive. Celebrate.
What's in a name?
Our new series, Foundations, begins with a look at 5 foundational truths of the church from Matthew 16:13-20.
1) Jesus is the Christ
2) The truth of Jesus is revealed by the Father
3) Jesus builds his church (not us)
4) The church is on the offensive and
5) The church has authority here on the earth
The Light Has Come - Christmas at the Park
For the first Christmas event for New Creation Church, Pastor Steve speaks on The Light Has Come. Light reveals, light warms, and light gives life.
Jesus, the true light, reveals both our need for God and reveals God.
Jesus, the true light, warms our hearts to the work of God in us.
Jesus, the true light, gives us life by the giving of his own life for us.
Shining Forever
The last week of our Advent series, Light in the Dark. We look at the ultimate end of the themes of light and dark in the Bible in Revelation 21 where we see that:
Jesus, the Light of the world, reveals the glory of God.
Jesus, the Light of the world, shines forever, dispersing all darkness.
Jesus, the Light of the world, is also the Lamb who brings us with him into the New Creation.
The Darkest Moment
The darkness over the face of the deep at Creation and the felt pitch darkness of the plate in Egypt both dim in comparison to the darkest moment in history - as Jesus was crucified. As Jesus hung on that cross, hope was fading. As Jesus died, it seemed as if hope died with him. But at the darkest moment, the light of Christ breaks in.
The Outer Darkness
The plague of darkness was God's judgment upon Pharaoh and Egypt, but it also points us to the ultimate judgment, Hell, which Matthew refers to as the outer darkness. But just as Egypt was in darkness for 3 days, so also was Jesus in the outer darkness of the tomb for 3 days. But then he walked viciously from that tomb and invited us into his marvelous light.
The First Day - Light and Order from Dark and Chaos
It is the same God who spoke light into the dark at Creation who stepped into the darkness of our world as its light. Pastor Steve begins a new series "Light in the Dark" exploring the themes of light and dark throughout the whole of the Scriptures starting with a comparison of Genesis 1 and John 1.
As You Know
Guest speaker, Pastor Scott, reminds us from 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 that God is with us, God is in us, and God is for us.
Live for, Long for, and Labor for the New Creation
Guest preaching at Chapel for Calvary Chapel Bible College, Pastor Steve calls us to live for, long for, and labor for the New Creation.
Every Stone, A Story
After generations in slavery to Egypt and then 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, Israel was finally entering into the Promised Land. In Joshua 4, God gives a command: to take stones and create a monument to remember the character and work of God. In this message, Pastor Steve starts a new tradition for New Creation Church to stop each year and remember the faithfulness of God.
Seeing the Glory of God
In this message from John 11 where Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, we see:
1) Jesus does the unexpected
2) Jesus demonstrates his humanity
3) Jesus displays his divinity
Escalating Christology
John 9 is more than the healing of a blind guy. It's a lifetime of discovery and growth in understanding in who Jesus is compressed into one single day. The man born blind grows:
from seeing Jesus as a man
to a prophet
to clinging to his testimony when others attack his faith
to identifying himself as a disciple
to grasping that Jesus is from God
to "Lord I believe"