02.16.20 - Set Free (Ch 41)

So often, we want to change and grow and become something better, but we feel trapped. We feel stuck. We feel like something is holding us down, and we can’t break free. In this message, we are going to look at a powerful encounter that Jesus had with a woman caught in adultery, and we will learn something about what enslaves us in the modern world and how we can break free from those things. 

This week’s message aligns with Core 52 book, Chapter 41: Freedom.

For all of 2020, Area 10 Faith Community is reading through Mark Moore’s book, Core 52: A Fifteen-Minute Daily Guide to Build Your Bible IQ in a Year. If you would like to purchase a copy of Core 52, they will be for sale at the Welcome table on Sunday mornings for $10/copy.

02.09.20 - Lower Your Potential (Ch 42)

All of us have an internal drive toward growth. As we look at our lives we want to make things better. Humans have been wired that way since the beginning of time. The scriptures point us to growth and change and give us keys of how to change. In this new message series, we will look at how we can be better and how we can become all that God is calling us to be.

This week’s message aligns with Core 52 book, Chapter 42: Radical Change.

For all of 2020, Area 10 Faith Community is reading through Mark Moore’s book, Core 52: A Fifteen-Minute Daily Guide to Build Your Bible IQ in a Year. If you would like to purchase a copy of Core 52, they will be for sale at the Welcome table on Sunday mornings for $10/copy.

01.26.20 - The Secret Life, Part 2 (Ch 21)

What does it look like to do a good thing and then not tell anyone about it? What value is there to keep quiet about something? In our social media age, the temptation is always there to broadcast our accomplishments. But Jesus challenges us to do good and do what is right but to do it quietly. In this message, we look at the idea of giving away money and how we can do that with the right hearts and motives.

This week’s message aligns with Core 52 book, Chapter 21: Money.

For all of 2020, Area 10 Faith Community is reading through Mark Moore’s book, Core 52: A Fifteen-Minute Daily Guide to Build Your Bible IQ in a Year. If you would like to purchase a copy of Core 52, they will be for sale at the Welcome table on Sunday mornings for $10/copy.

01.19.20 - The Secret Life, Part 1 (Ch 20)

Jesus was pretty critical of people who do things to be seen by others - especially when those are “religious” things: Praying so that others will notice you — giving money so that other people be impressed. In this message, we talk about the value of secrecy, and we will look at how Jesus taught us to pray. Prayer doesn’t have to be fancy or mystical. Jesus challenges us to keep it real and be our authentic selves as we pray.

This week’s message aligns with Core 52 book, Chapter 20: Prayer.

For all of 2020, Area 10 Faith Community is reading through Mark Moore’s book, Core 52: A Fifteen-Minute Daily Guide to Build Your Bible IQ in a Year. If you would like to purchase a copy of Core 52, they will be for sale at the Welcome table on Sunday mornings for $10/copy.

01.12.20 - Getting It Right (Ch 19)

Everyone wants to do the right thing. Even the people who do terrible things, think they are somehow doing the right thing for them in the moment. But what does it mean to truly do what is right? Jesus challenges to dig deeper on morality and “doing the right thing” and look at our own hearts and motives. In this message, we hear the challenging words from Jesus and see how we can apply them.

This week’s message aligns with Core 52 book, Chapter 19: Morality.

For all of 2020, Area 10 Faith Community is reading through Mark Moore’s book, Core 52: A Fifteen-Minute Daily Guide to Build Your Bible IQ in a Year. If you would like to purchase a copy of Core 52, they will be for sale at the Welcome table on Sunday mornings for $10/copy.

01.05.20 - The Good Life (Ch 18)

Every now and then we hear something that seems unbelievable- something that makes us exclaim “For real?!” In this new series to kick off 2020, we will look at Jesus’s most famous teaching- the Sermon on the Mount and we will learn how he challenges us to be different than the culture around us with some powerful teaching that will make you say “For real?”  In this message, we will look at what makes a life a good life and we will see how Jesus’s idea of that is counter-intuitive.

This week’s message aligns with Core 52 book, Chapter 18: Blessedness.

For all of 2020, Area 10 Faith Community is reading through Mark Moore’s book, Core 52: A Fifteen-Minute Daily Guide to Build Your Bible IQ in a Year. If you would like to purchase a copy of Core 52, they will be for sale at the Welcome table on Sunday mornings for $10/copy.

12.22.19 - Cherished

We think of Christmastime as a season of giving, and that makes sense because the original Christmas story of the birth of Jesus is actually a giving story also. "God so loved the world that he gave his only son." In this message, we look at the true meaning of Christmas and explore what it means to be cherished by God.

12.15.19 - Called

Everyone in the Christmas story was chosen for a purpose. Mary struggled a bit with that calling from God, as did Joseph. In this message, we look at what it means to be called by God and how we can respond to God’s call in our lives. We also interview the Brents to learn the passion that God has placed on their hearts as a family.

Please note that the Brents will be living in an area that is sometimes hostile to Christianity, and so the exact location has been extracted from the audio. Thank you for understanding.

12.08.19 - Carried

Mary is told by God that she is supposed to carry God’s baby- a boy named Jesus. How terrifying was that for her? And while she was carrying God’s baby, who was going to carry her through this difficult time? In this message, we look at the idea that God carries or sustains us when we are in pain.

12.01.19 - Created

Two thousand years ago, when Jesus came to earth as a child, the world could not possibly foresee what that would mean for the history and fate of humanity. But God knew, and he had planned for this since before the dawn of creation. Join us this Advent season as we explore the implications of that Holy Night so very long ago.

11.17.19 - Death to Self

The book of Esther ends with the Israelites gaining victory over their enemies. In many ways, that feels satisfying as we all love a good underdog story. But for as many questions as it answers, it kicks up other hard questions about God’s judgment and wrath against a group of people. In this final message of the Esther series, we look at how God brings about ultimate justice and how we can experience his grace in the midst of justice.

11.10.19 - When God Brings Justice

We are surrounded by injustices throughout the world. Injustices in our personal lives, systemic injustices, or injustices against ethnic groups and nations. Does God sit back and let it all happen without intervening? Why would he do that? In this message, we look at how a dramatic turn of events allows the Jews to escape genocide in Persia and how God brings about justice in a tough situation.

11.03.19 - Pulling The Strings

We talk a lot about luck in our culture. When things go well, we say we had good luck. When they go poorly, we say it is bad luck. Where does chance fit into God’s plans? Is luck a real thing? And if not, how do we explain the unusual coincidences in our lives? In this message, we will watch Queen Esther put together a plan to ask the King to rescue the Jews, and see how God is working behind the scenes through all the coincidences.

10.20.19 - The Sky Is Falling

What we do when it looks like everything is falling apart? We’ve all had those moments where even our best plans seem to come undone. In this message, we will look at a turning point in the book of Esther where things are going so well, and then things unravel pretty quickly, and we will look at how pride is usually the cause of our undoing.

10.13.19 - The Invisible Hand

How does God work in our lives? How can we see his handiwork? What do we do when God seems absent? What do we do when it feels like God has forgotten us. In this series, we will look at those questions as we study through the book of Esther - A story set in ancient Persia where the people of God felt abandoned by God. In this message, we will set the stage of the story and see the beginning of God’s work.