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Know Your Works: Maximizing the Life of Faith

Rev. 2:18–29

June 7, 2020 • Randall Harris

If we're going to be witnesses to the world, we can no longer be on the sidelines of issues like justice and race. The church should be concerned about justice because God is a just God who cares for the widow, the orphan, the poor, the unborn, the oppressed, and the immigrant

Behold, The Worthy Lamb

July 12, 2020 • Jon Aragon

Jon Aragon continues ends our series in Revelation 5 — It’s one thing to wonder if someone else’s freedom is worth fighting for. But when you identify with that someone and commune with them, that’s when it’s no longer a question. You fight and you press ahead. Is that not what God did for you and for me? Christ’s worthiness is connected to what he did. To the world, a slain lamb looks like failure, but not to us. Why would you want to identify with weakness, a lamb? The cross of Christ is foolishness to a fallen world. God will use weakness to shame the proud.

A Hurting People

July 5, 2020 • Dave Saville

John writes Rev. 4 pastorally to hurting people, to people up to their eyeballs dealing with culture and their own sin. They need a window into some greater reality that is meant to affect their hearts and not just tickle their imagination.

Do You See?

June 28, 2020 • Darryl Williamson

This letter from Jesus is a highly contextualized letter to the church in Laodicea. But we get through this letter what a truly successful church looks like and what it doesn’t look like. In so many ways, this letter is a church revitalization letter.