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Kat Cannon
Janna teaches about Paul's exhortation to the Colossian church to be devoted to prayer, and what that should look like for us.
Meghan teaches on the purpose of marriage, the difference between a covenant and a contract, and the incredible way God approaches covenant.
Melanie Gibson explores Paul's reasoning that if anything goes against the basics of our faith, something is wrong.
This is Week 2 of "Beyond Me: A Study Through Colossians." What we believe determines how we live, so it's important that we believe the truth. Thankfully, the truth isn't hidden. God's revealed it through Jesus Christ. Meghan Congdon teaches on Paul's beautiful prayer for the Colossian church and what it means for us.
Join us as we start our journey through Colossians with Dr. Jackie Roese's study, "Beyond Me." Meghan Congdon teaches the big picture context, the theme of the letter, and the practical application of Jesus as our ultimate reality.
The only way we can really know who we are is through our relationship with God and Who He Is. One of the best ways we can remember our identity in Him, then, is to preach the gospel to ourselves every day. We're worse than we think we are. We're loved more than we can imagine.
We hear that when we remember someone with a gift, that it's the thought that counts. But the better we know a person, the more thoughtful we can be - and the same is true with God. When we remember Who God Is, we remember Him in ways that reflect His character, not according to who we are. After all, it's not the thought that counts - it's the heart.
Kat Cannon shares what biblical remembering is all about, and sets up our six-week study with a challenge to remember the things God tells us in a full-body "zakar" kind of way.
If God had a nametag, "Yahweh" would be what He would put on it. As the Great I AM, Yahweh comes down to know us, to be known, and to be everything we need.
Ezekiel Chapters 40-44 describe a magnificent Temple that is yet to appear on the earth. We'll look at the ideal dwelling place of God and consider how it spurs us on to become holy as Temples of God ourselves.
Why does God choose to tell us the end from the very beginning? We'll look at Ezekiel 36-39 to begin unpacking God's future plans for His people.
Ezekiel 34 gives us instructions on how to be good sheep in the flock of the Good Shepherd.
We have three enemies - the world, Satan, and our sinful flesh - that often come disguised as friends. And even if He sometimes feels like an enemy, God is the One True Friend we can always count on.
We hit rock bottom with the Jews in exile as Jerusalem falls and the Temple burns. What do we do when there's no place left to go but up? Perhaps rock bottom with God isn't such a bad place to be.
Whatever trouble God's people get themselves into, whatever impossibility we're facing, whatever our past and whatever our sins, Jesus is the solution.
God disciplines Israel for failing to fulfill her God-given design. He places His chosen people in the center of nations to bless to their neighbors and reveal the glory of God. Instead, they follow the pagan ways of the countries around them and reduce their worship to mere ritual and lip service. How can we avoid their mistake? How do we glorify God?
Psalm 1 opens the book of Psalms with an invitation to look at our hearts and see if we're following God's way or the ways of the wicked. Those who choose to pursue God's heart will be "like trees planted by streams of water" under His care and growing strong.
The Psalms are far more than words to be analyzed. God gives them to us to teach us how to pray and be transformed into people who have hearts like His. Our first session in "Psalms: conversations with God" looks at how we can approach the Psalms, ways they teach us to love God, and exploring the Christian discipline of meditation to learn how to pray these beautiful songs back to our Heavenly Father.