22-1003: LifePoint Church exists to glorify God and make Jesus known by leading people to be real Christ-followers in life together. LifePoint aims to never forget where we’ve come from because every year has been a testimony to God’s grace. And where we are as a church today, and all that is before us,...
“Scientific evidence to date clearly does not show the existence of a gene or genes that cause transgenderism. Instead, changes to a few limited regions within the human genome demonstrate a low level of correlation with a transgender identity. The simplistic “born this way” argument regarding transgenderism is inconsistent with current scientific research. The...
Where ideologies and movements blatantly oppose God’s creational design and commands of Scripture, Christians hold a responsibility before God, to our brothers and sisters in the Church, and to our fellow man to speak up and labor for the good of humanity in bearing a faithful witness to the truth of God’s Word....
This Bibliography provides a collection of resources that Pastor Lane is developing to to resource the church to live out a faithful witness in every realm and place where God has placed them, and to equip parents to teach their children a healthy and faithful Biblical sexuality at every age. This resource will continue...
People of the crowd often experienced the same Jesus as any other but did so on their terms so they can make Him fit their life, instead of adjusting their life to Him. People came to Jesus to get help for their life now. Jesus was pleased to serve tirelessly. But He never served...
Obedience is not about accomplishing something FOR God but trusting in Him to be brought close WITH God and made LIKE Him. Peter lost focus on Jesus by seeing the wind. Jesus allows our failure to teach us His sufficiency. He is not afraid of your little faith, but He calls you to Himself...
Jesus takes a meager portion measured to feed a boy and blesses it to satisfy the multitude of thousands. Surely if a Christ-follower is to learn anything about serving from this miracle it is this, that a lack of natural resource never means lack of supernatural provision for ministry. ...
22-0821: Jesus is worthy of a Christ-follower’s life fully given to spread His fame by faithfulness. Matthew 14 brings John the Baptist’s ministry to completion by telling how he was imprisoned and martyred by Herod. And in this way Matthew honors John for his life of faithfulness to introduce and point people to the...
"Familiarity from what was visible blinded them to the revelation of the divine. Unbelief always values what is seen over the unseen, what is known over revealed, what is explainable over incomprehensible, and what is controllable over what seems inconceivable. Their response was rooted in the fact that they didn’t believe God, and they...
22-0508: God leads us through repentance that we might walk in right relationship with Him and bear a faithful witness in the world. Ezra 10 continues the story of the exiles under conviction for intermarriage. the conviction spreads through all the people and they gather around to learn what to do. Ezra meets with...