23-0521: The grace of God in the gospel of Jesus Christ produces a people united in His fellowship and mission in the world. Luke’s record of Jesus’ followers after Pentecost provide insight for every Christian today. We glean the values of the early community that shaped the church, and understand how those values formed...
18-1118: God works to build the body when Christ-followers serve the body in unity. God, who saves by His grace, builds the church by grace. He designed the church to operate so that as each member serves it builds the whole body. He is the one who ordains and arranges that body as He...
18-0429: Jesus prays for Christ-followers to live in God’s true salvation of life for the glory of His Name in the world. John 17 records Jesus’ High Priestly prayer that he prays before his crucifixion. His prayer reveals his heart for the Father’s will, his followers’ faithfulness in serving His Kingdom mission, and for...
16-0522: Pastor Lane concludes the UNITED series, a study of 1 Corinthians by showing how Gospel unity fuels God’s people for mission. Three pillars establish our unity, the gospel, Spirit, and a new identity. Then, he offers four encouragements to remain in Gospel unity for Kingdom mission. Sermon Manuscript...
16-0221: Jesus saves people to live in unity of fellowship with Christian brothers and sisters, and to live in purity of life. Unity and purity are two realities accomplished by Jesus on the cross. They are truths for Christians to live from, not to strive toward, as they apply the word of the cross...
16-0214: Church discipline is a difficult topic for the church, and not a very popular one in the church today. But when a situation arises, God’s Word has not left us without direction and instruction for how to address open sin from a hardened heart in the church. In this sermon Pastor Lane explains...
16-0131: The church that wants to be united must follow it’s leaders. But, who are those leaders? And how can the church know which leaders they should follow? The Bible is clear on leadership in the church, but we’ve lost much of that clarity today. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 4, Pastor Lane explains Paul’s...
16-0124: God builds His church by uniting His servants to labor in His wisdom. Pastor Lane addresses the divisions in the Corinthian church from 1 Corinthians 3 and shares five shifts that every Christian must make in order to live in unity among the church and do God’s Work. Each person must make each...
16-0110: Pastor Lane begins a new series entitled “UNITED: Together in the Gospel”, a study of First Corinthians. Corinth was a thriving, cosmopolitan city full of immorality. And the Corinthian church was not much different, full of divisions and all types of immorality. But the problems and immorality of the culture are never too...