Carolina Family Church (audio)

What is the result of choosing to live like Jesus? If we choose to do this, what difference will we see in our lives? In this example, Jesus dramatically compares the life built on His foundation and the life built on a human foundation.

Resurrection Day is the most significant holiday on the Christian calendar. Our forgiveness was secured on the cross, but our hope was assured with the empty tomb. Today, we remember the resurrection and the life it promises.

Our character reflects whomever we follow. A disciple should ultimately be a carbon copy of their teacher. As He continues The Sermon on the Plain, Jesus describes what it tangibly means to follow Him and be transformed into His likeness.

Anybody can love a person who loves them back, but Jesus expects more of His followers. As the Sermon on the Plain continues, Jesus upends His disciples’ understanding of how to react when they are taken advantage of because of their faith.

Despite the incredible things that are happening through Jesus, He needs the disciples to understand the reality of what they are doing. This will not be a path to wealth and power; quite the opposite. In our message this week, Jesus sets the stage for what true blessing and success look like.

Things are starting to heat up with Jesus’ ministry, and the religious establishment is getting more and more uncomfortable with this new teacher. In an attempt to trap Jesus, the Pharisees question Him on Sabbath rules and end up getting put in their place.

This week we are discussing how Luke describes the initial calling of some of the disciples. They left everything to follow Jesus! The insight we learn from their stories can encourage us. We must recognize that Jesus is the LORD, choose to FOLLOW Him daily, while acknowledging that we need Him because we are SINNERS.

After being baptized, Jesus went into the wilderness for 40 days. There He was tempted by Satan in three significant ways. How did Jesus handle these temptations? Let’s look together in Luke chapter 4 to learn how to handle temptations we might face.

To begin His ministry, Jesus chose to be baptized by John in the Jordan River. John was baptizing people for the repentance of their sins. But why would someone who had no sin to repent choose to be baptized?

Luke is a first-class historian. His orderly account of what God did through Jesus’ ministry is captivating and eye-opening. As we start our study, we will better understand who Luke is, who he was writing to, and why he took the time to record these events in such meticulous detail.

Ultimately, we cannot control anyone else. Experiencing community is dependent primarily on our commitment to character. Will we choose to be the kind of people who experience fellowship, or will we choose to be people who allow wedges to be driven between us and others?

Fellowship in the church starts with the understanding we are all the same but then builds with the understanding we are all different. When we embrace the gifts God has given us and the gifts He has given to our brothers and sisters in faith, we can experience the fullness of being part of the Body of Christ.

Being people of peace should be easy in our relationships with other Christians, right? Maybe not. What do we need to maintain unity with other Believers even though we may have differences? In this part of Ephesians 4, Paul shows us what holds us together.

It doesn’t matter how many resolutions we keep this year, if our relationships are in the tank, our year will go down the drain. In this message, we will start a 4 week study of Galatians 4 and learn how to honor God in our relationships.

Can a King be born to seemingly average people in the middle of nowhere? Would anyone believe it? What if that was the plan all along? As we read the Christmas story from Matthew’s Gospel, we will see that was exactly the case.

When Jesus arrived, He brought with Him everything we need for everlasting life. This Christmas we look at the gifts Jesus brought to us, starting with the perfect example of His life.

At the end of this whole letter, Paul summarizes his point in his own handwriting. He really wants the Galatians to build their lives on this truth. As we have studied this letter, we have learned to do the same.

Spiritual growth is not a competition to see who can earn more of God’s love or approval. Having a grace-based understanding of the Gospel and how we are supposed to live as Christians helps us see that we are teammates and partners. Paul describes this beautifully in our passage this week.

If it isn’t a law that guides us, then what does? How are we supposed to live a life that brings glory to God, and how do we know if we are doing it? In this passage, Paul talks about what the Spirit produces versus what the flesh produces.

Look out for Christian cannibals! Legalism causes Christians to spiritually eat each other alive. This is not what we were set free to do, so in this passage, Paul explains what our approach to one another should be. Our group will explore how this mentality shift affects our relationships.