24-1027: Love from God gives life that becomes life-giving as we love one another. Once John establishes the character of God as the foundation of our understanding for Him, and that our relationship with Him is due to His love for us to make us His children, he moves to the next aspect of...
24-1006: Abiding in God’s love empowers one to truly walk in His light. John continues to show Christians how God intends for us to walk in His light as we are completely immersed in His love. This has been God’s design from the very beginning, because, as John later states, God is love. But...
24-0929: Real Christ-followers live by faith in the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ to walk as he walked. John writes his letter out of a deep abiding with the Lord Jesus and from a deep affection for His followers, to remind them that the foundation for all his message is the unending,...
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...