Generosity: Pursuing a Better Reward

March 10, 2025 | Kolburt Schultz

This is the ninth sermon in our “Gospel Culture: Living Out our Church Values” series.

SERMON OUTLINE:

1. Money is [Not] neutral.

2. A goal better than being rich.

3. Two tools for maintaining the proper goal.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  • Why does our culture struggle with both generosity and contentment? What has God used to grow you in these areas previously? 
  • What scares you about being more generous? How can Scripture and other Christians alleviate these fears?
  • Are we a generous church? What can we do to become more generous?

Categories: Gospel Culture: Living out our core values Series

Outdo One Another in Showing Honor

March 6, 2025 | Aaron Britton

This is the eighth sermon in our “Gospel Culture: Living Out our Church Values” series.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  • What are some good ways to honor and encourage one another? Differentiate that from flattery. How can we make this a more consistent practice in our life? 
  • Why do you think the default setting in our relationships is so often the opposite of honoring one another?
  • For personal reflection: who in your life needs an encouragement and needs to be honored this week? How can you plan  to have that interaction?

Categories: Gospel Culture: Living out our core values Series

Holiness: Reflecting the Beauty of Jesus

February 17, 2025 | Kolburt Schultz

This is the sixth sermon in our “Gospel Culture: Living Out our Church Values” series.

SERMON OUTLINE:

1. Holiness: Who has it and who doesn’t.

2. Holiness: A framework for understanding.

3. Holiness: Why it matters and how to grow in it.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  • How do you typically feel when you hear Christians talking about holiness? How does our culture respond to the topic of holiness? Why?
  • Which aspect of the New Testament’s teaching on holiness or “living worthy” are you most challenged by? Encouraged by?
  • Are we a holy church? How can we cultivate a deeper culture of this kind of holiness?

Categories: Gospel Culture: Living out our core values Series

Healing and Refreshing

February 10, 2025 | Chris Taylor

SERMON OUTLINE:

Authority (Revelation 3:14)

Diagnosis (Revelation 3:15-17)

Remedy (Revelation 3:18, Isaiah 55:1-3)

Affectionate call of a loving Christ (Revelation 3:19-22)

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  • What are some of the ways the American church has become like Laodicea?
  • Are there things that you personally have begun to trust in over Christ?
  • How can we be refreshing and healing to our culture? Answer specifically in terms of your spheres of influence.

Categories: Stand Alone Series

Honesty: Walking in the Light

February 2, 2025 | Kolburt Schultz

This is the fourth sermon in our “Gospel Culture: Living Out our Church Values” series.

SERMON OUTLINE:

1. The appeal of honesty

2. The problem of honesty

3. The power of honesty

4. The practice of honesty

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  • When do you find it hardest to be yourself or to be vulnerable? When are you most able to be real?
  • In your own words, how is our culture’s obsession with “authenticity” different from biblical “honesty”?
  • Are we an honest church? How can we cultivate a deeper culture of this kind of honesty?

Categories: Gospel Culture: Living out our core values Series

Humility

January 21, 2025 | Aaron Britton

  • Let your table know a time you learned something from a friend, spouse, or peer that was very helpful to you.
  • What are some ways that we can be others-centered and care for one another well?  What makes this hard in our culture?
  • Pray for each other at your table that you will grow in humility and others-centeredness.

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Testimony Sunday – 2024

January 15, 2025 | Various Speakers

  • What difficulty or loss are you grieving from this last year? How can you see Jesus working in the midst of that?
  • What from this last year do you need to leave behind? What needs to die in your life for God to do something new and better?
  • Who is God putting on your heart that needs to know the love of Jesus? How will you be intentional to share Good News this upcoming year?
  • What does radical obedience to Jesus look like this upcoming year? Where is He calling you to step into more intentional ministry?

Categories: Stand Alone Series

A Heart for Mission

January 5, 2025 | Kolburt Schultz

  • Which of the aspects of Jesus’ ministry (Head, Heart, Hands) are you most excited about? Which do you most struggle with?
  • What does brokenness look like in your neighborhood? How can our church help bring healing?
  • Have a volunteer at your table pray for us to have compassionate hearts and for laborers to be sent into the fields.

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