Archive for Discipleship
Updates on the Website
We’re working hard to provide more and better content on the website. This includes many things but I want to point your attention to the updated teaching content.
If you miss a week you can tune in online as we walk through Mark (or any other series from the past).
So if you want to check things [...]
Gospel of Mark Reading Guide
check out our new “reading guide” page under resources for updates – HERE.
The Gospel of Mark
Over the next nine months at LifeConnection we will be walking through the Gospel of Mark together. Jesus is the center of the Gospel & the center of our faith, so our time in Mark will prove [...]
The Gospel & Summer Vacations
Our family is getting ready for a short vacation time away next week. Like everyone else this creates its fair share of stress as we prepare to leave and travel with our children. But our hope, like everyone, is to create loving & lasting memories for our kids.
Here is a very helpful short 3-part series [...]
Dating & Mating Begins this Sunday
What are your expectations for dating and marriage?
We live in a culture looking for love that will satisfy and fulfill? But what if Godʼs intention for marriage has more to do with growing you to look more like Christ than making you happy? What if dating and marriage is more significant than you originally thought? [...]
Discerning Idolatry in our Hearts
Yesterday we finished up our series Plastic Jesus by talking about “Relational Idols.” Here is the full 12 ways to recognize the growth of Idolatry in our hearts from John Piper. I’d encourage you to read through these carefully and reflectively to discern the idols of your own heart. (source)
Enjoyment [...]
How Sunday Becomes the Ministry of EVERYONE
Written by an Aussie 15 years ago this is an excellent article pointing to the active ministry role every Christ Follower can have each & every Sunday. I’d highly encourage you to spend some time reading, digesting, & taking next steps to apply Colin Marshall’s insights. Imagine the impact you can have in someone’s life [...]
Her & Him: The Gospel & Gender (Week3)
Great controversy and confusion surrounds the perception of gender roles, sexuality, and identity in our homes, in our churches, and in our city. What light does the Gospel bring to bear on these poignant and important issues? In the glamorized sexual revolution of today, can Scripture provide insight and application that neither conforms nor exaggerates? [...]
Financial Peace University Starts Next Week
In December we looked at the Gospel’s call on our lives to live generously with our finances. But where do we begin? How do we grow in generosity and develop our stewardship? How do we move beyond a guilt-driven conscience to become a cheerful giver as the Scriptures describe?
Noland Road Baptist Church has graciously invited [...]
How God has Worked Video…
Over the last month and a half we invited LifeConnection Partners & Attenders to submit a few sentences celebrating how God has been at work in their lives over the last year through their involvement in our church.
In this video the LifeConnection Ministry Team reads those emails. We shared this video on Sunday as part [...]
Gospel Generosity in Action
Last week at LifeConnection, we considered our core value of Generosity. In the Gospel, we find an extremely generous God who has given His only Son Jesus to die for our sins, in our place, to bring us back to Himself. Because of God’s grace in our lives, we are moved to respond in worship, [...]
