Sermon title - Transformation Sermon series title - INCREASE YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGuX4qi4r2g Key Scripture passage - Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day—about 3,000 in all. (Acts 2:41) Sermon description - The transformation of our cities is the reason the local Church exists! Personal transformation leads to corporate transformation (unity), which results in city transformation. None of this is possible apart from the power of the Holy Spirit, who empowers us to be a bold witness for Christ and impact our world with the Gospel of the Kingdom!

LifeWay Church Weekly Sermons

Transformation

Sermon title - Fellowship Sermon series title - INCREASE Sermon description - A transformed family transforms a city, but what does a transformed family look like? Listen as Pastors Travis and Leslie continue our INCREASE series speaking to the importance of genuine fellowship in the Body of Christ. Key Scripture passage - Be devoted to tenderly loving your fellow believers as members of one family. Try to outdo yourselves in respect and honor of one another. (Romans 12:10)

Fellowship

Sermon title - Diamonds in a Field YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuRb0iU12xY Key Scripture passage - “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field." (Matthew 13:44) Sermon description - There is a call on every heart to be known by God and to know Him! He created each of us uniquely with purpose; no one left out. He loves you and calls you by name. You are like a diamond in a field with a God-created ability to shine brightly because of Jesus in you!

Diamonds in a Field

Sermon title - Servant of All Sermon series title - INCREASE Key Scripture reference - In the human body there are many parts and organs, each with a unique function. And so it is in the body of Christ. For though we are many, we’ve all been mingled into one body in Christ. This means that we are all vitally joined to one another, with each contributing to the others. (Romans 12:4-5) Message description - Just as Jesus came to serve, we are all called and uniquely equipped to do the same. "In serving one another we become free" (Cultivate).

Servant of All

Sermon title - The Transformed Mind Sermon series title - INCREASE YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b68tsyynK5M Key Scripture reference - And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2) Message description - The renewed mind transforms a person. A transformed person transforms a family. A transformed family transforms a city. Listen to the first message in our INCREASE series by Pastors Travis & Leslie Wright.

The Transformed Mind

Speaker's name - Matt McCloskey Sermon title - The Last Sermon YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adsFvdRzi8U Key Scripture reference - Make very sure that you never refuse to listen to God when he speaks! For the God who spoke on earth from Sinai is the same God who now speaks from heaven. (Hebrews 12:25) Sermon description - Listen to this challenging message from guest speaker Pastor Matt McCloskey.

The Last Sermon

Sermon title - You are God's Beloved Child YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cvLto62kXQ Key Scripture passage - For the Holy Spirit makes God’s fatherhood real to us as he whispers into our innermost being, “You are God’s beloved child!” (Romans 8:16) Sermon description - Through Jesus' resurrection we have become God's beloved children! We have a Father in God, a brother in Jesus, and there is now no barrier between His holy presence and His children. It's time to step into our inheritance as sons and daughters of the King!

You are God's Beloved Child

Sermon title - Ready to Soar Sermon series - Eagle Up! YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btuYtPPWCIw Key Scripture reference - But those who wait for Yahweh’s grace will experience divine strength. They will rise up on soaring wings and fly like eagles, run their race without growing weary, and walk through life without giving up. (Isaiah 40:31) Sermon description - Just as eagles are created to soar, so are we! Through the Holy Spirit's power we have been equipped to fearlessly soar without striving. We become master "fishers of men". We have supernatural vision and renewed strength. We live on higher ground; seated in Heavenly places! This is our position in Christ! It's time to eagle up!

Ready to Soar

Sermon title - Eagle Up! Sermon series - The Most Holy Place Key Scripture reference - His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. (2 Peter 1:3-4) Sermon description - Through Christ we have been fully sanctified; set apart and made holy. We are partarkers of the divine nature, and have been equipped with everything we need to walk as Jesus walked! We are eagles, not turkeys, and it's time we learn to soar!

Eagle Up!

Sermon title - A Holy Nation YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Go1y-Ab8Eg Key Scripture passage - ...for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9) Sermon description - From the beginning God's desire was to dwell with a holy people. Because of sin our perfect union with God was broken, for a holy God cannot dwell with an unholy people. Yet through Jesus we have been cleansed and made holy! A holy God now dwells within His holy people....His holy Church...His holy Nation!

A Holy Nation

Sermon title - The Most Holy Place YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlnKi7F834 Key Scripture reference - And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. (Hebrews 10:21-22) Sermon description - As believers we can now enter into the Father's presence with confidence! Through the power of Christ's blood we have been purified and made holy once and for all! As we step into this finished work we are empowered to walk as He walked! He is holy...therefore we are holy!

The Most Holy Place

Sermon title - Our Way of Life Key Scripture passage - Delightfully loved ones, if he loved us with such tremendous love, then “loving one another” should be our way of life! (1 John 4:11) Sermon description - Our way of life is to receive the love of God and then pour that same love out to others. True love is an action verb! We cannot say we love God and not love each other. God is love, and He lives within us!

Our Way of Life

Sermon title - The Thing I Seek Most YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7B8N_43us Key Scripture reference - The one thing I ask of the Lord—the thing I seek most—is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord’s perfections and meditating in his Temple. (Psalm 27:4) Sermon description - What is the thing you seek most? Intimacy with the Father is an invitation, not a duty. Through intimacy our identity is formed, we learn the heart and nature of our Father, and can then accurately represent Him to the world around us.

The Thing I Seek Most

Sermon title - Activ8 - Ever Increasing YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMNsLA8sEF8 Key Scripture reference - Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness; you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God. (2 Cor. 9:10-11) Sermon description - We reap what we sow, and the harvest we reap is determined by the type of seeds planted. When we sow seeds of love, peace, mercy, generosity, kindness, and forgiveness we will reap a harvest of righteousness and the Kingdom increases! The harvest is now!

Activ8 - Ever Increasing

Sermon title - Activ8 - Spirit Operatives YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3iSEwezvo4 Key Scripture reference - But the love of God will be perfected within the one who obeys God’s Word. We can be sure that we’ve truly come to live in intimacy with God, not just by saying, “I am intimate with God,” but by walking in the footsteps of Jesus. (1 John 2:5-6) Sermon description - You have been born from above! Now, what is the Father inviting you to bring forth from the Spirit by following the example of Jesus our savior. This life in Christ is exciting and full of His power and authority! You are an operative of His Spirit!