What do you do when you’ve given up and thrown in the towel? Where do you go from there? How do you keep going forward? In this special Easter message, we looked at what happens when we feel that hope has died and there is no way forward by looking at how Jesus triumphed over death.
04.14.19 - The Trial
In the final days of his earthly ministry, we see how Jesus deals with extreme stress, violence, unfair accusations, and injustice. How can we, like Jesus, handle the most difficult aspects of life with patience, grace, and humility?
In this week's message, we discover the truth about how Jesus leads his people, and how we can faithfully follow him through some of the most painful moments of our lives.
Lent | Week 6: The Trial
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is our third week of devotions, running from Sunday, April 7th to Saturday, April 13th:
The Trial
This week we are looking at the trial of Jesus unfolding. Why do you think there is such a stark difference between the accusations thrown at Jesus and how Pontius Pilot reacts to his case?
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04.07.19 - The Meal
Jesus gave his followers a very specific way to remember him always. But what did it mean in his day? What does it say for us now? In this message, we will look at the last meal Jesus had with his followers on a very tense night before he was betrayed and arrested.
Lent | Week 5: The Meal
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is our third week of devotions, running from Sunday, March 31st to Saturday, April 6th:
The Meal
This week we are meditating on the story of Jesus’ last meal with his disciples before the crucifixion. What do you think the disciples were thinking or feeling during this moment? What would you do if you were present in this moment?
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Lent | Week 4: Washing Feet
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is our third week of devotions, running from Sunday, March 24th to Saturday, March 31st:
Washing Feet
This week we are meditating on the story of Jesus washing the disciples feet at the Last Supper. What do you think the disciples were thinking or feeling during this moment? What would you do if you were present in this moment?
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03.24.19 - Why Faith Matters
We live in a culture that values style over substance. However, Instinctively, we all know there is something broken in that. We appreciate people of character and people of substance at work, at home, or in school.
In this week's message, we look at one of the strangest miracles Jesus ever performed and see what it means for us to be fruitful and make something of our time on earth.
Lent | Week 3: Why Faith Matters
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is our third week of devotions, running from Sunday, March 17th to Saturday, March 23rd:
Why Faith Matters
This week we are meditating on the story of Jesus and the fig tree. This scene comes just after Jesus flips tables in the temple. What is it trying to tell us about faith?
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03.17.19 - The Final Week
The final week of Jesus’s life is rich with joy, sorrow, and agony. In this message, we are going to look at why Jesus' is so angry with the religious leaders of the day and what that means for Christians attempting to live authentically today.
Lent | Week 2: Cleaning House
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is week 2 study: Cleaning House
Cleaning House
Jesus makes a scene when he enters the temple in Jerusalem. What point is he trying to make?
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03.10.19 - Return of the King
The final week of Jesus’s life is filled with drama. So much happened that week that the gospel writers spend one-third of their writing about Jesus on that week.
In this series, we will look at the events of that week leading up to Easter, and we will examine what we can learn as disciples of Jesus from those events.
In this message, we are going to look at Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem as he rode in on a donkey and what that means about politics, kingdoms, and power.
Lent Devotional: Week 1
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. Lent is a period of 40 days where Christ’s followers observe a period of fasting and studying scripture, representing the 40 days that Jesus spent in the desert preparing for his earthly ministry. Lent is time of self-examination and preparation for the coming of Easter. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is our first week’s study, starting with Ash Wednesday, March 6th:
WEEK 1: ENTRANCE
Jesus enters into Jerusalem to much fanfare, which upsets the religious leaders. Join us this week as we read and reflect on Jesus’ triumphal entry as his final week of ministry on earth begins.
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03.04.19 - Restored Image
If the image of God within us gets damaged our shattered, how can it get restored? How can we become whole again and become who God intended us to be?
In the final message of this series, we are going to look at how God restores and look at steps we can take to live fully as image bearers of God.
Also, in this message Chris references a list of scriptures that he challenges us to memorize. That list of scriptures is available below for you to download and use in your own personal study:
02.24.19 - Shattered Image
We may be people created in the image of God, but that image gets battered and bruised in different ways in our culture.
In this week's message, we will look at how we can recognize that we are being told and how to focus our minds on God’s truth about who we really are.
02.17.19 - Naming Rights
We love to put labels on things. When we put a label on a person or a group, it can give us permission to write them off as a whole. What labels are you wearing right now? And what does the Bible say about who and what really defines us?
In this week's message, we go back to the author and creator of our existence to find out who we truly are and how being made in the image of God changes our mission and purpose.
02.10.19 - Grace, Not Rules
The thing needed in your life and mine is a healthy dose of grace. The thing Christianity offers (and its unique contribution to the world) is grace. In this week's message, we looked at that idea and talk about how grace frees us from having to measure up and perform to prove our worth.
02.03.19 - We, Not Me
Jesus taught and modeled the life of faith as being more like a relationship with your heavenly father than as a religion with rules and systems. But if we are in a relationship built on love with God, how is that going? Are we truly loving God or are we just going through the motions?
In this week's message, we looked at some questions we can ask ourselves to see where we are in our faith, and we will get some steps to take to move forward.
01.27.19 - Love, Not Like
Jesus taught and modeled the life of faith as being more like a relationship with your heavenly father than as a religion with rules and systems. But if we are in a relationship built on love with God, how is that going? Are we truly loving God or are we just going through the motions?
In this week's message, we will look at some questions we can ask ourselves to see where we are in our faith, and we will get some steps to take to move forward.
01.20.19 - Lost, Not Found
So many people throughout history have focused on Jesus. They’ve sung about Him, talked about Him and given their lives to Him. But if people are all about Jesus, then it sort of begs the question- What is Jesus all about? What is His heartbeat? What did He care about?
We picked up where we left off in The Main Thing series this week, looking at some direct quotes from Jesus to see what matters most in life and how we can align our lives with that.
01.06.19 - Who, Not What
What matters most in life? What is the main thing? What is my purpose on earth? How can I best spend my time becoming who God is calling me to be? In this series, we will see that the main thing in life is more of a Who than a What.