I'm AngryLet’s Be Honest | Week 4October 18, 2020 | Adam Barnett--Ephesians 4:26 ESVBe angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.Psalm 4:4 NIVIn your anger do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent. Righteous Anger is a holy reaction to what makes God angry.1️⃣ Righteous Anger begins with humility.2️⃣ Righteous Anger leads to grief.3️⃣ Righteous Anger seeks redemption.Righteous Anger begins with humility, leads us to grief, and seeks redemption.Sinful Anger begins with ego, leads to rage, and seeks vengeance.When we find ourselves getting angry and when those emotions start to rise up, we should stop and ask ‘What is this big thing that’s so important to me that I get this defensive? Why is my heart moved to feel angry?’ If you ask that question, more often than not, you’ll immediately be embarrassed, because many, many times, the thing you’re defending is your ego, your pride, and your self-esteem.// Tim KellerEphesians 4:26 ESVBe angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger...Ephesians 4:27 ESV...and give no opportunity to the devil.Satan preys on angry hearts.

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I’m Angry • Let's Be Honest Week 4

What to Fear  Let’s Be Honest | Week 3October 11, 2020 | Bill Clark--We’re living into a new normal we don’t like and we find it scary.Philippians 4:6 NIVDo not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.Luke 12:4–5 NIVI tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.Fear, respect, and obey the Living God. Fear is a present moment reaction that is appropriate in the face of danger. Imagine you had a direct confrontation with the Living God. There is only one thing to be afraid of—the loss of friendship with God.God just IS and always has been. 

What to Fear • Let's Be Honest Week 3

Overwhelmed & Exhausted  Let’s Be Honest | Week 2October 4, 2020 | Adam Barnett--“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence… and that is activism and overwork. To be carried away by the multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work and destroys our inner capacity for peace.” // Thomas MertonMark 4:35-37 NIVThat day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Mark 4:38-41 NIVJesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”When the storm is raging, and Jesus is sleeping, which looks more powerful?1 Release the Idol of ProductivityPsalm 127:2 BSBIn vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat — for He gives sleep to His beloved.2 Learn to Say “No”3 Quit Something4 Fast from ___ for a week.“Abandon your spiritual disciplines for one week. While this may seem like a radical exercise, it may serve to free you from the performance trap, pride in your spiritual works, religious addiction, and the judging of those who do less than you. Use that time to relax and enjoy God. Spend an hour visiting with your neighbor about nothing important. Watch the sun go down. Talk a walk, not for exercise but just to walk and listen to the birds. Sit in silence. Do nothing. Need nothing.”// Richard Foster5 Take a NapMatthew 11:28-30 NIVCome to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Overwhelmed & Exhausted • Let's Be Honest Week 2

Nearness of GodLet’s Be Honest | Week 1September 27, 2020 | Bill Clark--Isaiah 40:1–2 NIV“Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for. Isaiah 40:6,7 NIV“All men are like grass…the grass withers and the flowers fade.”Isaiah 49:15 NIV“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget I will never forget you!”Isaiah 55:8 NIV“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.”...not by asking what if,but by believing even if.

Nearness of God • Let's Be Honest Week 1

Human Suffering & Deliverance  Faithful God | Week 4September 20, 2020 | Adam Barnett--We are desperate for an enduring sense of safety and security. Psalm 91:1–16 NIV Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.“Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him, I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”Matthew 4:6 NIV “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command his angels concerning you,” [Psalm 91:11] and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone’” [Psalm 91:12].Jim Elliott //“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Suffering and death serve our joy and glorify our God!Accept God’s invitation to rest.Psalm 91:1 NIV Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.Acknowledge God’s Presence with you.Psalm 91:11 NIV For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.Apply your suffering to serve others. 2 Corinthians 1:3–4 NIV Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. Soul liberation occurs when you replace “what if” with “even if.”

Human Suffering & Deliverance • Faithful God Week 4

The Blazing Furnace  Faithful God | Week 3  September 13, 2020 | Adam Barnett--Daniel 3:7 NIV Therefore, as soon as they heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp and all kinds of music, all the nations and peoples of every language fell down and worshiped the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.Daniel 3:9–12 NIV They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “May the king live forever! Your Majesty has issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the image of gold, and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into a blazing furnace. But there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego—who pay no attention to you, Your Majesty. They neither serve your gods nor worship the image of gold you have set up.”Daniel 3:16–18 NIV Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”But even if God does not...Daniel 3:22–30 NIV The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers who took up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and these three men, firmly tied, fell into the blazing furnace. Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?” They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.”He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.” Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way.” Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon.“The fact that Nebuchadnezzar, a pagan, identified the fourth being as deity is remarkable, though it is extremely doubtful that he would have had the insight to understand that he was in the presence of the Son of God. Yet, most Bible students do believe that this was a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ, who also appeared with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, who feasted with Abraham, who wrestled with Jacob, who spoke to Moses in the burning bush, who appeared to Joshua, who spent the night with Daniel in the lion’s den, and who came to be born in a stable. God manifest in the flesh!”// Donald CampbellIsaiah 43:2 NIV When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.But even if God does not...Soul liberation occurs when you replace what if with even if.

The Blazing Furnace • Faithful God Week 3

Old Testament Faith Faithful God | Week 2  September 6, 2020 | Bill Clark---Genesis 12:1-3 NIVThe Lord had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you." "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse.”Deuteronomy 9:4 NIVThe Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness. No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is going to drive them out before you.Exodus 34:6 NIVThe Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, is slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.Revelation 5:9-10 NIVAnd they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign over the earth."

Faithful Promise • Faithful God Week 2

Economy of MercyFaithful God  |  Week  1  September 6, 2020 |  Daniel  Bunn--Jonah 4:1-3 NIV But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Economy of Mercy • Faithful God Week 1

Our Mission  John | Week 15  August 23, 2020 | Bill Clark--John 20:10–13 NIVThen the disciples went back to where they were staying.Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”John 20:19–22 NIVOn the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.Peace be with you!Matthew 20:20–23 NIVThen the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.“What is it you want?” he asked.She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?”“We can,” they answered.Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.”

Our Mission • John Week 15

Jesus’ Kingdom  John |  Week 14  August 16, 2020 | Daniel Bunn--John 18:33-38 NIV Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”“What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.My kingdom is not of this world.

Jesus' Kingdom • John Week 14

Complete Unity  John | Week 13  August 9, 2020 | Adam Barnett--John 17:3 NIV Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.1 John 5:11-12 NIV And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.“The disciples were now entrusted with a new task. This involves inward purification. This purification is the work of the Holy Spirit. The very message which they are to proclaim will exercise its sanctifying effect on them. That message is the continuation of his message; their mission in the world is the extension of his mission.” // Frederick BruceJohn 17:20–23 NIV My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.Is unity even possible?John 17:24 NIV Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.John 17:25–26 NIVRighteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.“In this unbelieving world...Jesus goes forward. His disciples, soon to be scattered and shaken, would also go forward, infused with the Holy Spirit, united in loyalty, sure of God’s love in Christ, with a gleam of glory in their hearts, and aware of the unfailing presence of the living Christ among them. In them, and upon us as well, the Lord’s own prayer is being constantly fulfilled.” // R. E. White

Complete Unity • John Week 13

The Vine & The BranchJohn | Week 12August 2, 2020 | Adam Barnett--John 15:1-8 NIV I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.John 15:1 NIV I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.John 15:2,6 NIV He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.John 6:66 NIV From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.John 15:3 NIV You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.John 15:4-5 NIV Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.John 15:7 NIV If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. John 15:8 NIV This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.The first step of Christianity is to become Christ’s disciple; and its summit, to be Christ’s disciple.

The Vine & The Branch • John Week 12

Servant ChurchesJohn | Week 11July 26, 2020 | Bill Clark--Week 11 Devotional page 91John 13:1-9 NIV It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”“No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”“Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”John 13:12–17 NIV When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.John 13 | Jesus' picture of the kind of community God wants us to be.Chapter 13–18 | "love" used 31 times.Jesus wasn't just washing feet; he's giving a lesson to his followers.God wants us to become servant churches.

Servant Churches • John Week 11

A Contrast of ValuesJohn | Week 10July 19, 2020 | Adam Barnett--John 11:35 NIV Jesus wept. John 11:44 NIV The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”John 11:57 NIV The chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if anyone found out where Jesus was, he should report it so that they might arrest him.A Contrast of ValuesJohn 12:1–3 NIV Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.John 12:4–6 NIV But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.John 12:7–8 NIV “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”What is Jesus worth to me?Philippians 3:7–8 NIV But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ

A Contrast of Values • John Week 10

The Shepherd's VoiceJohn | Week 9July 12, 2020 | Bill Clark--John 10:1–6 NIV“Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.John 10:6 NIVBut they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.How do we hear to the voice of God?

The Shepherd's Voice • John Week 9

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