23-1029: Generosity flows from a heart that weighs its giving by the promise of God’s all-sufficient grace above one’s personal need. When Jesus teaches on generosity He uses a most unlikely model, a poor widow. Knowing that the total amount of her gift was incomparably less than anyone else’s, Jesus stated that her gift...
22-0313: God speaks His Word to awaken our hearts for His greater glory in life. Big words have a way of awakening us to the reality that present. When the returning exiles allowed their circumstances to overwhelm them and they stopped working, forsaking God. But God is faithful. He comes to them in grace...
God’s perfect plan held a greater glory for Joseph than just fulfilling his immediate desire to get out of jail, and He always holds a greater glory for the Christian’s life too. Joseph’s character was forged as he guarded his heart in his remembrance of the love and favor that God has bestowed on...
19-1124: A hard heart toward God produces unlimited wickedness, but the heart surrendered to God produces compounding glory. The chapters immediately following the fall of humanity demonstrate the rapid, expansive and pervasive spread of sin. This is graphically seen first in Cain’s murder of Abel. Sin does not wait to drive its slave to...
17-0702: God’s Word gives abundant life to those who want it; who hear it, hold to it and humbly trust in Him. Pastor Lane introduces a new summer series entitled “Kingdom Secrets: studies from select parables in the gospel of Luke”. In this first sermon he identifies four different kind of soils that represents...
Pastor Lane continues the Shaped series in Deuteronomy exploring the second foundation, cultivating a heart for obedience. Christians cultivate this heart by listening to God and His Word, inclining one’s heart, practicing repentance as an act of faith, and submitting oneself to Jesus’ lordship. Deuteronomy 4:1-40 ultimately points to Jesus in that He is...