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Lent to Easter 2016 (4 of 7) by

Sermon Series:  Living Ink: Learning to Live in God's Story
Sermon Title:  From Brokenness to Beauty (4 of 7)
Scripture Reading:  Psalm 51:1-17; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Lent is a 40-day season when the church commemorates the time Jesus spent in solitude, in silence, and fasting in the wilderness. Jesus prepared himself in the wilderness for what the Father had for him in his life and ministry. In this season of wandering and preparation, we are invited to make room for God’s Spirit as we allow him to become the source of our strength and the Lord of our lives. In our Living Ink worship series, we will discover through the Scriptures that God is the Author of a grand narrative—a tale that encompasses all our struggles, pain, joys, and victories. This Author calls us to co-authorship, using our very lives to continue the Kingdom mission and vision of Jesus in a world poised for resurrection.

So what if we have grieved the Spirit by running away from God’s will for us, ending up in a pit of sin and despair? Is our brokenness ever too much for God? In the story of the prodigal son, we see that the Father is ready to welcome us home with open arms and redeem us.  In From Brokenness to Beauty (4 of 7), pastor David shows us how Christ revealed the prodigal’s father to be the God who runs after his wayward ones.  Listen to David and view the slides here.

Missio Dei (5 of 6) by

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You can view the slides to Jake Lee's message "Barns, Barricades & Brokenness" here

Sermon Series:  Missio Dei
Sermon Title:  Missional Living
Scripture Reading:  Luke 9:51-10:20; 12:13-21; 16:19-23; 19:11-21

One of the great challenges to the people of God from the very beginning has been how to engage with the broken world they found themselves in. What is an appropriate response? How are we to be disciples of a holy God in a sometimes unholy world? 

In Missional Living (5 of 6), Jake Lee calls us to pay attention to the life Jesus lived before His disciples, and the call He put on their lives in discerning what it means to be the people of God in the midst of a chaotic culture, by asking the question, "What is failure in the Kingdom of God"? And what might be the opposite of that?