18-1118: God works to build the body when Christ-followers serve the body in unity. God, who saves by His grace, builds the church by grace. He designed the church to operate so that as each member serves it builds the whole body. He is the one who ordains and arranges that body as He...
18-1111: God empowers Christians with gifts of grace to serve among the body and build up all. In this second sermon on spiritual gifts, Pastor Lane addresses how God empowers each individual Christian. He provides three principles to understand one’s gifting, and a step to apply each principle. Gifts of grace don’t make people...
18-1104: Jesus builds His church by grace as He gifts and equips each person to serve and grow to full maturity. Ephesians 4 puts into action what Paul set forth in the first three chapters. In salvation, Jesus apportions grace on each Christian to serve in the church and as the church for the...
18-1029: God makes His people a royal priesthood to demonstrate and declare His glory through the gospel in the world. From the beginning, God chose His people to serve as priests but sin enslaved, by the Law, until it could be fully and finally atoned in Jesus Christ. Once atoned, God now commissions and...
18-1021: God shapes His people by His Triune nature for righteousness as He leads them in mission. Community and mission culminate God’s revelation as Triune. He sets His love on His people to set forth His love in the world for all to see. The most vibrant testimony is a congregation that faithfully displays...
18-0930: Christian worship forms a right response of one’s whole life to God’s Triune nature in salvation. The Trinity reveals the fullness of God in His revelation. In Ephesians 1:3-14, Paul provides a look at the revelation of God’s Triune nature as he helps us look back on our salvation. God’s work for our...
18-0923: God reveals His Triune nature that we might know the glory of His Oneness in communion with Him. When Jesus promises to build His church, we must know who He is so we can worship Him. God has revealed Himself progressively through history as One-in-Three and Three-in-One that His people In this message,...
Sermon Manuscript: 4-Mission, life with the Spirit_18-0916 LifePoint Sermon Resource webpage Subscribe on iTunes 18-0917: God saves through Jesus to send Christ-followers with Holy Spirit to impact the world with the gospel. Mission is how the church makes Jesus known in the world. We work with Holy Spirit to transfer the glory of truth through the gospel,...
Sermon Manuscript: 3-Expression, life by Spirit_18-0909 LifePoint Sermon Resource webpage Subscribe on iTunes 18-0909: Christians live by the Spirit to love others as we’ve been loved by God through the Expression of our life. What we come to know and believe about God changes the way we live. This is an inward change that God produces...
18-0902: God gives new life in Jesus to grow in Authenticity of His image and bear His glory in the world. When God saves a person He transforms them into His image. This process is called progressive sanctification. This can be one of the most misunderstood parts of a Christian’s life. In this message,...