Episodes
Sunday May 19, 2013
Waiting... for the Promise #5
Sunday May 19, 2013
Sunday May 19, 2013
Right before Christ ascended into heaven, He told His disciples to do two things:
- -Go back into Jerusalem (the city where, a few weeks prior, Jesus Christ was crucified)
- -WAIT for the empowerment that comes with the promise of the Holy Spirit.
Sunday Apr 28, 2013
Waiting for the Promise #4 - Finding Rest
Sunday Apr 28, 2013
Sunday Apr 28, 2013
One of the most significant aspects of waiting for the Lord can involve ceasing from our activities & work - a.k.a. regularly disengaging from the demands of life, our never-ending to-do lists, & the constant input of media, music, & noise so that we can come to rest in our body, soul, & mind, thereby recharging, refocusing, & renewing our relationship with God. A great way to do this on regular basis is to celebrate a weekly Sabbath rest where we buck the busyness trends of our culture, lay aside the “tyranny of the urgent” & let the Holy Spirit remind us of who (& WHOSE) we are by affirming our identity as human BE-ings, (not human DO-ings,) created in the IMAGE of God to live for the GLORY of God. The Sabbath rest involves four steps:
- -CEASING
- -RESTING
- -CELEBRATING
- -REFLECTING
Sunday Apr 21, 2013
Waiting For The Promise #3 - Active Waiting
Sunday Apr 21, 2013
Sunday Apr 21, 2013
The phrase, “wait for the Lord” can sound like a call to passivity, a challenge to sit, bored & doing nothing, (a la a visit to the doctor’s office or sitting at DMV), until such a time as the Lord God is finally ready to act on our behalf, & give us insights & instructions for who/what/where/how He wants us to engage our world around us. This doesn’t give us a picture of what Biblical ‘waiting for the Lord’ is - in Scripture, we are called to “wait for the Lord” & while we are depending on Him & listening to Him for the leading of the Holy Spirit, we are also challenged to engage with our families, friends, co-workers, & community, to be involved in the day-to-day “taking care of business” of being a Christ-follower. What this looks like in each of our lives might be best discovered by answering the following questions:
- What is it that God has already spoken to me to be being & doing in the past? Keep doing this.
- Lord Jesus, what do you have for me to be & do today? Do this.
- What does it look like, lived out, to love God with all of my heart & love others like I love myself? Do this.
Sunday Apr 14, 2013
Waiting... on the Lord... in faith
Sunday Apr 14, 2013
Sunday Apr 14, 2013
We're continuing in our "Waiting For The Promise" series - today we're talking about the significance of Waiting on the Lord, in faith, & what that might look like lived out. Our text for today begins in Psalm 27.
Sunday Apr 07, 2013
Waiting For The Promise #1
Sunday Apr 07, 2013
Sunday Apr 07, 2013
The Resurrection was POWERFUL. But it didn't EMPOWER the disciples to carry out the mission Christ gave them (Check out Matthew 28:18-20). Instead of sending the disciples immediately into their neighborhoods (& beyond) to carry the message, Jesus told them to go back into Jerusalem to WAIT for the promise: God's Holy Spirit would come & provide them with all of the fuel necessary to be able to not only live for Christ, but to live as witnesses of all they had seen, sharing the message of the gospel with power, conviction, & supernatural insight. Our text for the day is Acts 1:1-11.