23-0924: God confronts our rebellious heart with His relentless grace to invite us to trust His steadfast love and rest in His sovereign plan. In this last chapter we learn the motive that made Jonah run, he didn’t want God to save the Ninevites. Jonah grows exceedingly angry with God. God confronts him in...
“The tension of Jonah’s life, however, is that he loves Yahweh but has taken serious action against God’s intention to offer forgiveness to the violent (as he and Yahweh discuss in ch. 4). The tension between his “temple piety” and his attitudes toward the unjust world are true to life. The tensions represents the...
A church like Ephesus, highly committed to doctrinal diligence, was not only necessary to guard against, but one could argue, produced by the demand that arises from the false teachings and teachers that came so prolifically from a hyper-religious culture. No one sets out to abandon God’s love, but many wake up one day...
The church that properly stewards spiritual gifts is not impressed with the greatness of gift manifestation but grateful for the sacrifice made to exercise them for the good of others. Spiritual self-sufficiency is neither a Biblical nor a gospel virtue. We are all, each one, members of one body....
20-0119: Christ-followers are made a new creation in Jesus Christ for the work of His Kingdom through the gospel. When Jesus saves, He completely transforms. The Christian life is a journey of realizing more fully this transformation in every area of life, heart, mind, hands and feet. In this message, Pastor Lane outlines how...
19-1006: “A Legacy of More Jesus” captured the theme of LifePoint Church’s fifteen year celebration of God’s faithfulness this weekend. The celebration included many testimonies, baptisms, pictures, fellowship and a brief challenge by Pastor Lane. (Shared below.) The video includes a life impact testimony from Ethan and Tatum Lippert, an elder testimony from Jon...
19-0616: Christians entrust all of life to Jesus to love others deeply and live generously for His glory and to share the gospel. Addressing the topic of how Christians respond to attacks, wrongs and hurts from others, Pastor Lane shows how retaliation is always wrong for the Christ-follower. Jesus teaches that no matter how...
19-0324: God gives more when Christians live with the one priority to please Him in all of life. Countless things clamor for our attention in the world. We often ask God, “What is your will for my life?” But when we hear it we must be ready to receive by faith to follow in...
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...
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...