Sermon Outline: How do we become Christians? Repent and believe the Gospel. How do we grow deeper as Christians? Repent and believe the Gospel. Q1: Repentance: What’s the sin underneath all your sin? Underneath every sin is a lie. Every sin at its deepest root springs from unbelief. Our problem lies in the gap between… Read more »
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Resources for Lent
Ash Wednesday, February 22nd, marks the beginning of the season of Lent for the Church calendar. Lent is the 46 days leading up to Easter that the Church has historically set aside to intentionally prepare our hearts for celebrating the Resurrection. It is a season of “Good-Grief and Grace-Tears” as we approach the celebration that… Read more »
Grace Fueled Obedience (1 Peter 1:13-25)
Sermon Outline: Command #1— Set your hope (1 Peter 1:13). Command #2— Be holy (1 Peter 1:14-21). Command #3—Love earnestly (1 Peter 1:22-25). Discussion Questions: What are the things that narrow your gaze or focus? What desires/hopes cloud your mind from seeing Jesus? How does hope in the Gospel broaden your gaze? Or, how is… Read more »
A Reason to Rejoice (1 Peter 1:3-12)
Sermon Outline: A salvation worthy of celebrating (1 Peter 1:3-5). A reason to rejoice, even amidst suffering (1 Peter 1:6-9). A reminder to understand the times we live in (1 Peter 1:10-12). Notable Quotes: “A very strong proof of this destruction of death and its conquest by the cross is supplied by a present fact,… Read more »
Elect and Exiled, Chosen and Homeless (1 Peter 1:1-2)
Sermon Outline: Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ… (1 Peter 1:1a) To those who are elect exiles… (1 Peter 1:1b) Know that… (1 Peter 1:2) Discussion Questions: What are some examples of how the American church has struggled to remember we are exiles? How does living as if this is our home negatively impact our… Read more »
1 Peter Resources
This past week we began a study through the amazing book of 1 Peter. As a church we desire to be a place where we can gather to encounter the person of Jesus through the transforming study of His Word, and to that end we will be studying verse-by-verse through 1 Peter in order to glean… Read more »
Growth Through Pain (Intro to 1 Peter)
Sermon Outline: A confusing theme in 1 Peter… Evil is real, God is good, and that’s not a contradiction. It turns out, we aren’t the first ones to suffer… Could something bigger be going on behind our suffering? Discussion Questions: When in your life did you grow the most as a follower of Christ? How… Read more »
Spring Semester 2023 Discipleship Collectives
Our Discipleship Collectives (DCs) are the frontline of discipleship and care at missio Dei: Falcon. We operate our DCs by semester, so the hope is that you can find a group and stick with that group until May, when we’ll take a break for the summer. There are two great ways to get connected to a… Read more »
Missio Dei: Raleigh Launch!
On January 15, 2023, Missio Dei: Raleigh had its very first service! Fifty adults and seven children got to hear Ed preach the Word and had the good news of the Gospel shared with them! That’s a huge praise! It’s exciting to see God building His kingdom! Check out some of the pictures from the launch… Read more »
The Song We Were Born Remembering (Psalm 90)
Sermon Outline: Longing for home (Psalm 90:1-2). Remembering we are dust (Psalm 90:3-6). The origin of our problem (Psalm 90:7-11). Finding our way home (Psalm 90:12-17). Notable Quote: “Our commonest expedient is to call it beauty and behave as if that had settled the matter. Wordsworth’s expedient was to identify it with certain moments in… Read more »
