Summary: One of the greatest opportunities facing a missional church in the south is dismantling legalism--both cultural legalism and personal legalism. How does a missional church dismantle legalism? The PEOPLE of grace TREASURE grace. We treasure grace by personally treasuring, eagerly expecting, purposefully working for, and humbly honoring Jesus. Text: Titus 2:11-15 Title: A People and a Place of Grace Speaking: Isaiah Lewis Date: March 23

Summary: Continuing our study of Titus, we take a look at how believers can "decorate the gospel" with the works God has prepared for us.

Text: Titus 1:10-16

Title: Good Works & the Gospel: Seeking the Glory of God

Speaking: Isaiah Lewis

Date: March 16

Summary: 1) The only truly culturally-relevant church is a counter-cultural church. 2) Every church is in danger of becoming culturally irrelevant and redundant. 3) Sojourn must be a culturally-relevant church. But how? We avoid cultural irrelevance by treasuring gospel truth. In other words, we want to avoid the 4 steps revealed in Titus 1 to make a church culturally IRRELEVANT and redundant.

Text: Titus 1:5-16

Title: How to Make a Church Culturally IRRELEVANT in 4 Steps

Speaking: Isaiah Lewis

Date: March 9

Summary: We could sum up human history as a crisis of leadership, and our typical responses to leadership are fear and skepticism. But in God’s kindness, Jesus’s intention for the leaders of his church reveals Jesus’s love for his church. And that means, Christians find relief in trusting qualified elders, as they follow the Chief Shepherd.

Text: Titus 1:5-10

Title: Jesus’ Love through Leadership: The Requirements of Elders

Speaking: Isaiah Lewis

Date: March 2

Summary: This sermon explores the biblical role of elders as qualified, spiritually mature servant-leaders who are called to shepherd God’s people and guard sound doctrine through Christ-like leadership rather than domineering authority.

Text: Titus 1:1-11

Title: The Role of the Elder: Overseers of Gospel Ministry

Speaking: Pastor Nick Pacurari

Date: February 23

Summary: As we continue our study of Titus, we look at the gifts God gives us for living life to the fullest.

Text: Titus 1:1-4

Title: The Greatest Gifts from the Greatest Givers

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: February 16

Summary: We believe the gospel is for every person, for all of life, in every culture. But what how do we define culture? What describes every culture in a fallen world? What makes the believer different from the surrounding culture? And what does God call believers to do within any given culture? God invites you to embrace and embody the gospel of his grace as a gospel for every person, for all of life, in every culture.

Text: Titus

Title: Titus: The Gospel for Every Person, All of Life, Every Culture

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: February 9

Summary: This week we look at the person and work of Jesus, and how he draws us to himself by ministering to our past, present and future.

Text: Philippians 3:1-16

Title: The Alluring Beauty of the Person and Work of Christ

Speaking: Dr. Craig Doctor

Date: January 19

Summary: Pastor Isaiah Lewis introduces the focus of our new study, the epistle of Titus. In this overview, we look at the overarching message of Paul's letter and are challenged to both embrace and embody the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Text: Titus 1:1-4

Title: Titus Overview - Embrace and Embody the Gospel

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: January 26

Summary: Perhaps it's time to stop just reading your Bible and praying! Are there better motivations for these spiritual disciplines? Yes--Read your Bible and pray to cultivate communion with the Lord, and to seek personal transformation from the Lord.

Text: 2 Corinthians 3:7–18, Exodus 33, 34

Title: Cultivating Communion, Seeking Transformation: “Stop just reading your Bible and praying!”

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: January 19

Summary: As we begin a new year, we are reminded of our mission and the God who sustains us as we follow Him.

Text: Exodus 3:1-7

Title: Prayer for a Weak & Weary Worker & Witness

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: January 5

Summary: During our Christmas Eve service, we conclude our series on the seven prayers from the hymn, "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel." We reflect on Jesus' advent as the King of the Nations.

Text: Micah 4:13–5:7

Title: Come, King of the Nations

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: December 24

Title: Come, Emmanuel

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: December 22

Summary: The “O Emmanuel” Antiphon reads: “O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope of the nations and their Savior; Come and save us, O Lord our God.” This ancient Christian prayer and the passage it comes from confronts us with the covenant-keeping God--and the lengths he will go to compel our trust in him.

Text: Isaiah 7:1-14

Title: Come, Emmanuel

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: December 22

Summary: The “O Oriens” Antiphon reads: “O Dayspring, splendor of light eternal and sun of righteousness: Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.” This ancient Christian prayer and the passage it comes from confronts us with the darkness of human experience apart from the intervention and self-revelation of God. So how do we cultivate faith in the dark as we wait for the dawn? By believing that Jesus is the sunrise of our vindication, restoration, and celebration.

Text: Malachi 3:16-4:3

Title: Come, Dayspring: Cultivating Faith in the Dark as We Wait for the Dawn

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: December 15

Summary: The “O Clavis” Antiphon reads: “O Key of David, O Royal Power of Israel controlling at your will the gate of heaven; come break down the prison walls of death for those who dwell in darkness and the shadows of death; and lead your captive people into freedom.” This ancient Christian prayer and the passage it comes from reminds us that Jesus unlocks our days and our destiny.

Text: Isaiah 22:20–25, Rev. 1:12-20, 3:7-9

Title: Come, Key of David

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: December 8

Summary: As we continue in our study of the 7 prayers in the hymn, "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," we look deeper into Jesus' coming as the Root of David.

Text: Isaiah 10:33-11:12

Title: Come, Root of David

Speaking: Chris Eaves

Date: December 1

Summary: The second Antiphon reads: “O Sacred Lord of Ancient Israel—Who showed yourself to Moses in the burning bush Who gave him the holy law on Sinai Mountain—Come, stretch out your mighty hand to set us free.” This second of seven ancient Christian prayers and the passage it comes from confront us with the misery of mankind, the mercy of God in our misery, and the reality that Jesus is the Freedom-bringing Lord who knows our misery and responds in mercy.

Text: Exodus 2:23-3:15

Title: Come, O Lord: Misery, Mercy, and the Freedom-Bringing Lord

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: November 24

Summary: “O Come, Wisdom from on high.” The first of seven prayers for Advent and the passage it comes from remind us that Jesus is the wisdom of God; and it calls us to worship him while we wait for him.

Text: Isaiah 40:12-31

Title: Jesus, the Wisdom of God

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: November 17

Summary: In this "Reformation Day" sermon, Pastor Jeff Lynn takes a look at one of the Sola's of the Reformation - Faith Alone.

Text: Galatians 2:15-21

Title: "Faith Alone" - A Gospel-Centered Faith for Believers

Speaking: Pastor Jeff Lynn

Date: November 3

Summary: Jesus considers missing the glory of his upside-down kingdom to be the single greatest possible tragedy of your life.

Text: Matthew 7:13-28

Title: The Greatest Tragedy of Life

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: October 27

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