Wrong Life

Welcome! Today is our third and final message in this series on common mistakes that Christians of all ages and maturities can make in their lives. Our first message was entitled “Wrong House,” and we looked at how people can have misconceptions about the Christian life that lead them to go to the wrong “house”, the wrong spiritual “place” that they think God wants them to inhabit. Three such wrong houses we looked at were (1) the idea of adding rules and requirements to live by beyond the principles of the New Testament, (2) the idea of focusing on outward actions to the degree that a lukewarm heart towards God is not addressed in one’s life, and (3) the idea that is OK to live out the Christian life apart from seeking and maintaining deep interdependent relationships with other Christians.

Wrong Name

Welcome! Today is our second message in this series on common mistakes that Christians, both those new to the faith and those who have been believers for decades, can make in their lives. Our first message was entitled “Wrong House,” and we looked at how people can have misconceptions about the Christian life that lead them to go to the wrong “house”, the wrong spiritual “place” that they think God wants them to inhabit.

Wrong House

Welcome! Today I am excited to begin a new series dealing with common mistakes that Christians, both new and old, often make in their lives. The series is motivated in part by things that I see on campus. There is a stereotype that college freshmen are clueless and gullible, and, although I am not sure how true that stereotype is, I do see certain mistakes that freshmen make again and again. One of the most common mistakes freshmen make is that they significantly underestimate how much time they need to devote to their classes if they hope to do well. There is a big difference between high school courses and college courses; in most cases, material in college is presented at literally double the pace that it is presented in high school. Furthermore, a greater burden is placed on the student to actually sit down and study the material for mastery; there is a lot less “hand-holding” in college classes than there is in high school.

"Idle" Worship

2 Thessalonians 3:6-18

Good morning!  Today is the final message in our series “Follow Christ. He Comes!” which has been a study of the two letters to the Thessalonian church.  Acts 17 tells the story of how Paul and his friends came to Thessalonica as they passed through Macedonia preaching the gospel.  They spent only a short time in the city, two to three weeks, before the Jewish leaders who opposed the gospel formed a mob and incited a riot to drive them away.