23-0917: God, who is sovereign to save, calls His people to be a faithful witness so the nations can hear and believe. Jonah goes to Nineveh to preach the message God gave him, but he is not thrilled about it. The text seems to show that he gave no extra effort, only the bare...
And we do this, WE do this, not just you or me, but together WE do this to grow up and become like Jesus. You can grow individually, but you cannot grow up alone. No person grows to maturity to become like Jesus without others. There is no individual process to maturity that excludes...
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 King is Coming states the doctrinal conviction that the One who came, Jesus, is King and is coming again. He who came from heaven, bore our sin on the cross, was buried and raised on the third day, and ascended as King is coming again to culminate the full measure of His victory...
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...
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...
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. ...
The God of the Bible is a powerful God who is mighty to save His people; the Lord of all creation who works all things for His people in accordance with His will....
22-0227: Worship centers God’s people on Jesus to serve His mission that produces more glory through worship. When the exiles returned they found that rebuilding was going to be hard. Fear of the people was real. So they began rebuilding by centering their lives on worship. Their practice reveals powerful impact on and importance...