Sermons

An interesting thing about sheep – if a sheep gets rolled over on its back, it’s considered “cast” and can’t get back up. A sheep needs the help of the shepherd to get back on its feet. Similarly, when we feel like life has left us upside down, we need the help of our good shepherd Jesus to save and restore us.

We are all led by something. We follow different things, looking for satisfaction and fulfillment, but ultimately still thirst for something more. When we let Jesus lead us, he will lead us to waters that satisfy.

Today we discuss how everything starts with rest. Rest allows us to enter our week and our work from a place of fulfillment and satisfaction. But sometimes we, like sheep, need some help to convince us to rest.

David wrote Psalm 23 during a season filled with anxiety and unknown. As we read this psalm, it helps position us to have strength in the midst of struggle. We take hope that “I have a shepherd” in Jesus, a shepherd who rescues, redirects, protects, and provides for us, His sheep.

As we go through life, we find ourselves in confusing, unknown, and unfriendly situations. It’s often not until we get to the other side of that situation that we understand it. Today we unpack some “spoiler alerts” to remember, whatever you are going through now, or may go through in the future.

What are you thinking? Our minds are a powerful place, and our thoughts have the ability to lead and direct us in places we may not want to go. To win the battles in our mind, we must audit and define our thoughts, argue with our thoughts, and ask God to transform our thoughts.

Eric Hoffman, the AG national youth director for missions, joins us today and speaks about being obedient in our faith, giving God our unwavering “yes” to whatever He asks of us.

As we end this heart series, we talk about cultivating a heart for the church. The church is what God (still) wants to use to make a difference in the world – let’s be reignited and passionate about what God is doing through the church! Let’s pray for our church, prioritize the church in our lives, and participate and invest ourselves into what the church is doing.

We believe many myths about being busy. But busyness causes stress, unhappiness, and distance from God. Some practical things we can do to keep from feeling “too busy” are to simplify our lives by saying “no” to some things, slow down and make time for rest, and seek God by prioritizing time with Him daily.