We live the Fruitful Life when we devote ourselves fully to following Jesus.

The kingdom of God/Heaven: the range of God’s effective will, where what God wants done is done: “your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”

Jesus invites us into a life of prayer that bears good fruit for us and those around us.

Jesus wants us to START praying and be good at not stopping: always pray and never, ever, ever give up.

The problem of self-righteousness and our denial of our need for God

Self-righteousness decimates our ability to be fruitful in the ways that last and matter. The ways that transform us into the people we were made to be and bless those around us.

The Word of God is sown generously. When it finds good soil, you get disproportionally greater fruit.

When God’s Word lands on the good soil of our hearts, it finds fertile ground for a fruitful life.

No matter how messy your family might be, if you bring your gifts to your family, it will help bring some amount of life-giving order to disordered relationships and to make our families more beautiful and less messy.

Sin and brokenness patterns tend to repeat over generations becoming strongholds.

Patterns of sin and brokenness that repeat over generations tend to become strongholds in our families.

Intergenerational relationships

Leading a courageous life in family relationships. Courage is taking action, mourning, listening, breaking rules

In the midst of the mess, God loves to write beautiful redemption stories in and through the families we are born into and the ones we make along the way.

Tragedy introduces mess into every family. But God loves to write beautiful redemption stories in families through family -- whether biological or the families we make.

God welcomes us into his family, giving us a strong and stable place from which to do the work in ours.

Both faithful compliance AND faithful boundaries are faithful expressions of what it means to love and honor family.

God has invited us into his family, giving us a strong and stable place from which to do the work in ours.

Everything about who you are, who you’re becoming, and why you’re on earth is in God’s hands and can be woven into God’s good plans.

We cannot disconnect our purpose from the people God has connected us to.

We share a common purpose that we live out in both unique individual ways and together as a community.

Everything about who you are, who you’re becoming, and why you’re on earth is in God’s hands and can be woven into God’s good plans.

Our purpose is not intended to be a mystery that we may or may not stumble upon. We are God's handiwork, made to do good works. It doesn’t mean we know it all at once, but it is discoverable.

Everything about who you are, who you’re becoming, and why you’re on earth is in God’s hands and can be woven into God’s good plans.

Receive the generous gift of forgiveness and enter into Jesus's victory over sin and death. That gift calls us to love one another in real and tangilbe ways.

A journey to witness and reflect on the sacrifice Jesus made for us all.

Getting ready for Easter, no event in all of human history has changed more individual lives and had greater global cultural influence than what happened on Easter Sunday.

Jesus’s saving work for the world, for us, what he saves us from. What he saves us for.

hat problems WAS God solving with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?

We hunger for a savior who rescues us from the overpowering results of sin.

Hungry for a Savior - Jesus died for our sins.

Prayer and worship are the paths whereby we both cultivate a hunger for God and express our hunger for God.

Prayer and worship are the paths whereby we both cultivate a hunger for God and express our hunger for God.

When you take a good thing and try to make it an ultimate thing eventually it results in disastrous things and makes us lesser things, lesser people than God designed for us to be.

What does it mean to be Hungry for God.

In moments of great need and in every other moment, what we most truly long for is God, and when we pursue God with passion, determination, and longing, all the other things that we long for: peace, family, satisfaction, relief, rest, and the list goes on, find their proper place in our lives and be satisfied to the right measure and at the right t…

The invitation for all of us in this series is to cultivate a deeper hunger—a hunger for God that is worth building your life around and that can and will make you strong to endure anything that life might throw at you.

Sermon series on cultivating a hunger for God. We can long/hunger for God and bring our other longings to God

And apart from some intentional spiritual and emotional work, most of us are going to hunger for a very narrow range of things: Applause. Approval. Success. Control. Money. Comfort. Convenience. Adventure. Independence. God hard-wired each of us up with a hunger for Himself When we settle for less than God we miss what we were designed to run on an…

Even though it seems crazy and even though the journey is not easy: the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.

in Jesus and because of Jesus and through Jesus: -you are more powerful than you now see or know -but you need to see it and know it -in part because you’re up against more and different kinds of opposition than you can see or know

Spiritual Power in everyday places can meet resistance. When we live into the Spiritual Authority we’ve been given and bring Spiritual Power to everyday places, people will start to think of us when they have a spiritual question or need. We’ll get to point them to God.

Jesus has given us everything we need to continually carry Spiritual Power into every place, situation, and relationship we find ourselves in, even when there is opposition.

Our battle is not against flesh and blood but spiritual forces of evil--and the Lord has given us authority and armor to fight this battle.

Exploring Spiritual Authority - it isn’t about having power over people because of how much you pray or how much Bible you know

He’s given us this power and authority, there must be some sort of reason we might need it

The early stories of Jesus alluding to this spiritual authority and see that one of the key components is deep connection to Jesus.

Open up the Scriptures and see what they teach about who Jesus is and what he tells us about who we are and what we’re called to do.

Painting a picture of what we can hope for as we place our hope in Jesus.