Kiss Stupid Goodbye — Week 3: Goodbye to Going It Alone
There's a lot of talk in the church about doing life in community but when push comes to shove, sharing our lives with one another isn't easy. Sometimes it's just way more convenient and comfortable to go alone. But there's no such thing as a solo-Christian. In this teaching we explore both the challenges and the transformative power of doing life in community.
Kiss Stupid Goodbye — Week 2: Goodbye to Rushing Decisions
We live hurried lives which often lead to rushed decisions. When asked what one must do to achieve spiritual health, the theologian Dallas Willard once said, You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from you life. In this teaching, we explore both philosophical and practical ways to approach the process of eliminating hurry and rushed decisions from our everyday lives.
Kiss Stupid Goodbye — Week 1: Goodbye to Losing Your Temper
Jesus devotes more of His sermon on the Mount to the problem of anger and hostility than to any other matter. The answer is to right the wrong in persistent love, not to harbor anger, and to right it without further real and imaginary wrongs.
Divinely Dysfunctional — Week 5: Mary
Mary is given a child to raise that will cause her great joy and great pain. We see through her that God’s favor and blessing often takes us to places we would never choose. There is nothing flashy about Mary, yet her faith is demonstrated by obedience.
Divinely Dysfunctional — Week 4: Bathsheba
The darkest and most tragic moment in King David’s life which brings about more heartache than he could have ever imagined was 2 Samuel 11 and Bathsheba. Yet there she is right up to the end of his life and right there in the genealogy of Jesus!
Divinely Dysfunctional — Week 3: Ruth
Through the story of Ruth we’ll see God’s loyalty to her revealed and what that says to us today about His faithfulness to redeem.
Divinely Dysfunctional — Week 2: Rahab
We’ll look at another of the women who are mentioned in Jesus’ lineage, Rahab, and see what her story can help us to see about our own story of God’s love, faithfulness and redemption.