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Fountain City Church | Columbus, GA
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon Pastor Grant continues our series on community.
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Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant continues our series on community.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Christina continues our series on community by teaching on the power of Hospitality.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Daniel uses the second chapter of the Book of Acts to build three Pillars of Community.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant lays the biblical foundation for what Christ-centered communities look like.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant teaches us how the only way to build the kingdom of God is to become like Christ.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Daniel Miller teaches us about intercession and how we partner with God to build his Kingdom with it.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant teaches us about the role of an ambassador of God's Kingdom.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant teaches us what it looks like to respond to the world in Christ-like way.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Brandon McKenzie closes out our series on the book of James.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant teaches on the call of the Lord to Abram.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Join us this week as Pastor Grant shares some important information about the future of Fountain City Church.
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Listen in on this Sunday's message as we finish our journey through the book of James!
Our very own Sherri Foarde teaches on James 5:7-12, drawing from the text and her own personal experience with staying steadfast through suffering.
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Brannon Wilkinson and team share of their recent mission trip to Africa!
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Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant continues our series on the book of James.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant teaches on the role and value of fathers.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant continues our series on the book of James.
To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant continues our series on the resurrection of Christ, and what that means for us in our doubting, discouragement, and disappointment.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Daniel Miller continues our series on the resurrection of Christ, and what that means for us in our doubting, discouragement, and disappointment.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant continues our series on the resurrection of Christ, and what that means for us in our doubting, discouragement, and disappointment.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant continues our series on the resurrection of Christ, and what that means for us in our doubting, discouragement, and disappointment.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant continues our series on the resurrection of Christ, and what that means for us in our doubting, discouragement, and disappointment.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Daniel Miller continues our series on the resurrection of Christ, and what that means for us in our doubting, discouragement, and disappointment.
To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.
You can also find us on social media here:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbus
Instagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant continues to teach on the resurrection of Christ, and what that means for us in our doubting, discouragement, and disappointment.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant teaches on the resurrection of Christ, and what that means for us as followers of Christ.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant talks about the day Jesus rides into Jerusalem, Palm Sunday.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Dr. Eddie Curran continues our series on the book of James.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. This week, we take some time to go over our heart for missions and multiplying the church. To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Christina Hayes finishes our series, The Heart of a Champion.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Daniel Miller continues our series, The Heart of a Champion.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant Collins continues our series, The Heart of a Champion.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant Collins begins our series, The Heart of a Champion.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Kathryn Means continues our series on the book of James.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Daniel Miller finishes our series on Consecration.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant Collins continues our series on Consecration.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Thank you for tuning into this week's sermon at Fountain City Church. In this sermon, Pastor Grant Collins begins our series on Consecration.To learn more about our church, visit our website at www.fountaincity.org.You can also find us on social media here:Facebook: www.facebook.com/fcccolumbusInstagram: www.instagram.com/fcccolumbus
Join us in the first part of a two-part Christmas miniseries. In this first sermon, Pastor Grant teaches on how Christ came and is also coming again.
In this next part of our series on the Holy Spirit, Dr. Diane Swanson teaches on the gifts of tongues and the interpretation of tongues.
In this part of our Holy Spirit series, Pastor Grant teaches on how the Holy Spirit empowers us with creativity and establishes order.
Join us as we begin our new series on the Holy Spirit. In this first part, Pastor Grant shares on who the Holy Spirit is.
Pastor Grant teaches how we can seek the Lord and His word for answers to controversial subjects.
In this next part of our marriage series, One Flesh, Pastor Grant teaches on the mission of marriage.
In this next part of our One Flesh series, Pastor Grant teaches on the role of a husband according to Ephesians.
Join as we continue the series on marriage. In this second message, Pastor Grant teaches on the biblical picture of the role of a wife.
Join us as we begin a new series on marriage. In this first sermon, Pastor Grant teaches on the original purpose of marriage.
Today, Pastor Grant shares about James 1:19-21: How practical steps in conforming with the way of Jesus though being quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.
Today Pastor Grant shares about James 1:13-18: How we are not tempted by God, but our own desires. God brings us out of temptation and into deliverance.
For Week 4 of our series on Kingdom Relationships focusing on singleness, Kathryn Means shares that singleness is a gift to be celebrated and lived out with purpose, whether you're single for a season or for a lifetime.
Join us for week three of the Singled Out series, focusing on relationships in The Kingdom.
Today we begin out new series, Singled Out, where we talk about what relationships look like in The Kingdom.
Join us for our corporate time of worship, prayer and Word as Pastor Grant continues in our series the Fear of the Lord.
Pastor Grant continues in our Fear of the Lord series and talks about the Living Word, the written Word, and the spoken Word of God.
Join us for our corporate time of worship, prayer and Word as Pastor Grant continues in our series the Fear of the Lord.
Join us for our corporate time of worship, prayer and Word as Brandon talks about what it means to fear the Lord and how that translates to our daily lives.
Pastor Grant discusses what it means to fear the Lord and how that is the starting point for Jesus' second greatest command: to love your nieghbor as yourself.
Deuteronomy 10:12-20
Join us for the final message from our series In the Wilderness with Jesus as Pastor Christina speaks about the test of the heart.
Read with us: Matthew 4:5-7
In week three of In the Wilderness with Jesus, Pastor Grant shares about the test of Submission.
Join us in Matthew 4:5-7.
As we continue in our series about Jesus in the wilderness, we read about His first temptation: “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Today we discuss how God's Word, the Scriptures, is the answer to our hunger and need.
Join us as Pastor Grant introduces In The Wilderness With Jesus, our short series about fasting, the wilderness, trials, and temptations.
As we continue in our Advent Series, Carry the Name, Pastor Grant shares what it means for us to be carriers of JOY.
As we continue in our Advent Series, Carry the Name, Pastor Grant shares what it means for us to be carriers of PEACE.
Isaiah 9:2-7
Join us at 11am for our Sunday Gathering as we worship together and hear from Pastor Grant about checking our own hearts and loving our enemies.
This week Pastor Grant shares about being a missionary to the people and the places where we are planted.
Today we get to hear from our team who recently visited Albania and the Balkans for a missions trip. They share what they learned about God, about themselves, and about the Albanian people.
We invite you to PRAY, GIVE & GO.
Balkan Countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.
Visit fountaincity.org/give and select "Balkan REACH" to give.
Do you struggle with knowing your purpose in life?
The Scriptures say that we were meant to contend with horses and to walk on floodwaters.
Join us in Jeremiah 12:1-5.
How do we pray for transformation? What does it mean to be missional?
Today Sherri shares what it means to pray for and into missions?
Isaiah 57
Everything starts and ends with learning how to be with the Lord and wait on Him. But what does this mean for us?
Psalm 123.
As we continue in our mini-series on Mission, we are joined by guest speaker Ryan & Amy Jacobs, missionaries to Malawi.
At the beginning of 2022, we talked about Jesus' invitation to "come and see". But to come and see what?
Today Pastor Grant discusses the posture of God when he reveals himself to Isaiah and what that means for us in our day-to-day lives.
Today Mariel Villarreal will conclude our mini-series on Formed by Community.
Join us as she discusses how we can see others through God's heart in the context of community.
In 1 Corinthians chapter 3, Paul says that we are God's temple. But what was the temple and how are we a temple?
Today we discuss what this verse means for us today and how it calls us to live differently.
As we continue in our mini series about being formed by community, Trish talks about how we as the Body of Christ is the Bride of Christ.
Ephesians 5:25-27
As we continue in our mini series about being formed by community, Pastor Grants talks about how we are all the Body of Christ and how living unified effects those around us for God's Kingdom.
1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-26; 13:1-8
Today Pastor Grant reminds us of the importance of accountability and how growth & maturity comes through devoting ourselves to the people of God & His process in community.
As we begin the last section of our series on Spiritual Formation, Pastor Grant introduces what it means to be Formed by Community.
Mariel shares her story as she encourages us that God desires to speak to us and the importance of His prophetic voice in our lives.
David shares his story and challenges us to allow the Holy Spirit to not only reveal our blind spots but to help us address them.
Join us as Trish shares what what it means to take a holistic approach to following Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:12-23
We are in a series on Spiritual Formation, and over the next several weeks we are focusing on how we are formed by the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit. Praise is the Spirit-inspired response of ordinary people who have been changed and filled by God.
Today Pastor Grant shares about how one of the primary signs of the work of the Spirit in our lives is that we are filled with praise that declares and magnifies who God is.
We are in a series on Spiritual Formation, and over the next several weeks we are focusing on how we are formed by the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit.
The work of the Holy Spirit in us is to transform us and change us. The work of the Holy Spirit through us is to transform and change the world. The baptism of the Spirit is His power to carry out His purposes.
We are in a series on Spiritual Formation that will take us through the month of August, and we’re talking about how we grow and how we're being formed.
Today we’re going to lean in and talk about how the Holy Spirit forms us.
Join us this Pentecost Sunday as we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the early church with special guest Stephen Castellow.
Read along with us in John chapter 3, verses 1-12.
As we continue talking about what it means to be formed into the image of Jesus, this week we are looking at Jesus' most pronounced, counter-cultural statement: "IF YOU WANT TO BECOME LIKE ME, YOU MUST DENY YOURSELF, TAKE UP YOUR CROSS, AND FOLLOW ME."
Join us in Mark chapter 8, verses 34 through 38.
In Matthew chapter 9, verses 12 and 13, Jesus says, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Jesus was challenging the cultural norm of his day, and he is still calling us to live counter-culture today.
Join us as we continue in our series, Formation.
In Matthew chapter 11, verses 28-30, Jesus says “Come 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 lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
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Prompting questions & reminders from today's message:
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What weariness and burdens do I need to give to Jesus this week?
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Do I have any resistance to receiving God's gentleness and love toward me?
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What will you have to take off in order to put on compassion and kindness? (Colossians 3:23)
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Who is God asking you to see and be available to this week?
For the first 4 months of the year we focused on God's Presence. Now we are looking at how we are being transformed by His Presence.
Join us as Pastor Grant introduces our next sermon series: Formation.
Scripture has two invitations that are woven into the Biblical story from the first page to the last and we see those two invitations explicitly in the resurrection story as well: COME and SEE & GO and TELL.
On this Palm Sunday Dewayne will be sharing about worship while reading about Jesus' triumphal entry from Mark chapter 11, verses 1 through 11.
Today we wrap up our series on Presence, focusing on how we experience God’s presence and His power through one another.
Matthew chapter 18, verses 19 through 20 says: “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
The Gospel According to John opens like this: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
As we've been talking about becoming people of God's presence over the last several weeks we've talked a lot about prayer. Today we're talking about the role of the Scriptures.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 says "pray without ceasing...for this is the will of God for you..."
As we continue in our series on Presence and Prayer, Brandon shares about persistent prayer - praying without ceasing - and how we put that into practice both individually and corporately.
Many of us know about Jesus. But do you have a relationship with Jesus?
Jesus invites us into relationship with him. Not just a master-servant relationship. No, he also invites us into a real friendship with him.
But how do we cultivate this type of relationship, this friendship with Jesus?
In prayer.
Session 3: Tools to Strengthen Your Devotional Life
Having An Actual Prayer Life: A Prayer Workshop
Brad Stroup of Dallas House of Prayer
Session Highlights:
I. Practical tools
II. Conversations with Jesus
III. Make it a lifestyle
Session 2: Learning to Abide
Having An Actual Prayer Life: A Prayer Workshop
Brad Stroup of Dallas House of Prayer
Session Highlights:
I. Defining devotional prayer
II. God prioritizes our love
III. Abide in his love
Session 1: The Power of a Weak Reach
Having An Actual Prayer Life: A Prayer Workshop
Brad Stroup of Dallas House of Prayer
Session Highlights:
I. Cultivating a life of prayer
II. The common thread of weakness
III. Our victory is in the reach
IV. Embracing the process
Today's guest speaker is Brad Stroup, director of the Dallas House of Prayer. He shares his story and invites us all to say "Yes" to adventures with Jesus.
Today's message is a primer for the 3-part mini conference Brad is leading this weekend immediately following our Sunday morning gathering. Look out for those sessions to be uploaded soon.
“...Be still, and know that I am God…” -Psalm 46
God invites us into stillness and quiet as an act of resistance and trust. It is in this stillness that we learn who God is and who we are.
Our biggest problem with prayer isn’t mechanics or prayer itself; our problem with prayer is the preconceived notions and misunderstandings about God and ourselves that we bring to prayer.
When someone says the word "mission" what comes to mind?
In our final Vision 2022 message, Pastor Grant shares what God's BIG mission of reconciling the world to Him means for us today, right now where we are.
What does it mean for us to be formed into the image of Jesus?
Pastor Grant challenges us to move beyond Sunday sermons or just another podcast and to move towards making daily choices with Jesus that change who we are....to take seriously who we are becoming through our routines, our habits, and the ideologies that we digest and to return to Jesus as the center of everything.
What does it mean to be a people of God’s presence?
join us as Pastor Grant answers that question and shares some practical ways we can begin living in God’s presence.
“The practice of dreaming and living on mission with Jesus begins with his invitation to ‘Come and see.’” -Pastor Meiko Seymour
Today we conclude our Advent series, The Gift of Jesus, as one of our Elders, Diane Swanson, shares about Love.
Today we continue in our Advent series, The Gift of Jesus as one of our Elders, Ashley Mele, shares about Joy.
Joy is an attitude to adopt - it is not dependent on our current circumstances, but on our Hope in God's promise.
Kurt Plagenhoef, missionary to Albania and the Balkans, shares that it's all about Christ, His Kingdom, and reaching lost souls for Christ.
Romans 15:17-21
Philippians 1:21
Matthew 3:2; 4:17; 10:7
Matthew 6:10
Revelation 11:15
Psalm 2:8
Matthew 6:33
2 Corinthians 5:14
Pastor Grant begins our Advent series entitled The Gift. Today we focus on Hope & Anticipation.
Mark 1:1-3
1 Peter 1:3-7, 13
How do we prepare the way for Jesus?
1. We make space for God & live awake to His presence.
2. We set our hope on His return.
Are you awake to God and aware of His Presence? Are you cultivating a heart of hope that is anchored in what He has done? Are you looking forward to what He will do?
Join us as we continue in the Gospel According to Mark, chapter 12, versus 13-17 and ask the question, "Whose mark is on your life?"
Guest speaker Rick Collins challenges us to set up a watchtower. Join us in the Gospel According to Mark, chapter 12, verses 1-12.
Ouida Bradford is the state director for Georgia Chi Alpha Campus Ministries. Ouida joins us today as we close out Mark chapter 10, verses 46-25.
Today we look at James and John's audacity to ask for status and greatness. But do we see the faith and relationship that allows them to ask such a question of Jesus?
Join us in Mark chapter 10, verses 32-45.
As we continue in Mark chapter 10, verses 6-9 we discover more about what God says about about marriage. And in doing so we also learn how God views gender and sex.
Key points:
- Marriage is a union between a male and a female.
-your gender is purposeful and intentional
-your gender is central in how God created marriage
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Marriage means leaving home.
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Sex and One-ness are essential.
Other Scripture referenced: Psalm 139:13-16; Ephesians 5:22-33
Jesus addressed marriage by addressing the disciples' question about divorce.
Today we continue in The Gospel According to Mark, chapter 10, verses 1-12.
Pastor Grant continues in our series from The Gospel According to Mark, chapter 9 verses 14-29.
Highlights from the message:
Sometimes the key to overcoming disappointment isn’t in receiving “justice” or “breakthrough” but in knowing the heart of God.
There is value in this season whether or not you feel powerful and it isn’t something you wanna post about.
Die to the influencer culture and allow Him to take you through the process where you become the sign and wonder the body is hungry for.
We have to come to a place where we can be real with God about what hurts us in disappointment- and in that place of leaning in we can receive the yield of new life in the Spirit if we go through the cycles of life and death with Him.
Sometimes- I do mean sometimes- disappointment is a gift to show us where our focus has been on the wrong thing.
It’s the place where we let ‘what it was supposed to be like die’ and we lay on the potter’s wheel open to experiencing the wonders of Jesus if we keep our heart open to that exchange.
What does God give us to overcome disappointment?
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Covenant Relationships with the Body of Christ
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The Spiritual Gifts
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Hunger for Jesus - a life in the Spirit
We continue our series through the Gospel According to Mark. We pick up at Mark chapter 9, verses 1-13.
Other Scripture references:
Daniel 7:9-14
Malachi 3:1-2; 4:4-6
2 Corinthians 3:7-9, 13-18
1 Corinthians 4:15-16
1. WHAT KIND OF FATHER IS GOD?
- Luke 15:11-24
2. WHAT ARE FATHERS CALLED TO DO?
a. provision
b. protection
c. purpose
i. John 1:19-23
ii. Luke 1:76-79
3. WHAT DO WE DO WHEN OUR EARTHLY FATHERS AREN’T GOOD LIKE FATHER GOD?
MARK 8:34-38
Why is this passage so important?
1| Jesus says to deny yourself.
a. to deny: i) to affirm that one has no acquaintance or connection with someone; ii) to forget one's self; lose sight of one's self and one's own interests
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Philippians 3:4-9
2| Jesus says you must take up your cross.
Philippians 3:10-11
The cross life is the command to die to yourself SO THAT the image of Christ-the actual life of Christ-can be lived out through you.
Galatians 2:20; 5:16-25
3| Jesus says to follow him.
MARK 8:22-26
Two interpretations of this passage:
1. A story about a blind man and a progressive healing.
Three things we need to see:
A. Jesus heals the sick.
B. Jesus took the man outside the village.
C. The man isn't completely healed the first time Jesus prays.
2. A literary device used by Mark to connect Mark chapters 1-8 to Mark chapters 9-16.
How we develop a distorted view of Jesus:
I. a misreading of the Scriptures
II. the curvature of our own heart's ambition
III. our worldview
Scripture references for today's message:
- Acts 1:4-8
- Joel 2:28-29
- Acts 2:38-39
- Acts 19:1-6
Grant's Final Thoughts:
- if you are called to follow Jesus, you are called to live on mission with Him
everywhere you go.
- Every single one of us shares in a common purpose...to go into all the world
and make disciples from every nation baptizing them into the Name of the Father,
Son, & the Spirit, and teaching them to obey all that Jesus has commanded. We
are all on mission with Jesus.
- You cannot be good witnesses without power. 100% of you have been
promised the Holy Spirit. And Jesus says He is necessary for the journey.
A powerful message about Pentecost on Pentecost Sunday 2021.
Sermon Notes
Acts 1:1-8
Power (v.8a) - We miss the full empowerment of the Spirit.
Purpose (v.8b) - We neglect the ultimate missional purpose of the Spirit.
Person (v.6) - We minimize the personality of the Spirit.
Participation (v.4-5) - We excuse our participation in the Spirit's mission.
Promise (v.4) - We forget that Pentecostal power is a promise.
As we continue in the Gospel according to Mark, we pick up in Mark 8:11-21 just after Jesus feeds the second multitude of people.
Do you have eyes but do not see?
Do you have ears but do not hear?
Through a series of questions Jesus challenges his disciples, and us.
We are the salt and light of the world. But if salt loses it's saltiness, what is it useful for? And if a lamp is hidden under a bowl, what good is it?
Join us from the park as Grant wraps up our mini series on who Jesus is. This week Grant shares how Jesus is better than everything else.
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What stood out to you most from today's message?
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What is something (or someone) in your life that you have given allegiance over Jesus?
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What are some places where God may be challenging you to to realize that Jesus is better?
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Join us from the park as Grant discusses how Jesus is a Servant and how that demands we live a certain way today.
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What stood out to you most from today's message?
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When you serve others are you serving to advance yourself or Jesus' name?
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What does submission to others look like in your personal life?
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Who is one person you can selflessly serve this week? What would that look like?
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Last week Pastor Grant shared how Jesus is God with us. This week Grant and Roman have a discussion about how that actually plays out in our daily lives.
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What stood out to you most from today's discussion?
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How has Jesus shown up for you through another person? Share a specific example.
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How has God used you to impact to someone else's life? And how did that experience affect your faith?
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How is God calling you to be Jesus to those who are often overlooked in our current culture?
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Join us as we begin our new mini series, Jesus Is. This week, we look at how Jesus is God with Us and what that means for us today.
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What stood out to you most from today's message?
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Where do you struggle with understanding that Jesus is fully man and fully God?
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How have you molded Jesus into who you want him to be instead of who Scripture says he is?
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What does it mean to be devoted to knowing Jesus through the revelation of the Scriptures?
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As we continue our 2021 Vision series, Ashley shares about the Holy Spirit and why He has such and important role in our lives.
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What stood out to you most from today's message?
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How have you experienced the Holy Spirit in your life?
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What does it look like to invite the Spirit into your daily decisions?
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How can you partner with the Spirit to exhibit more fruits of the Spirit?
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Where do you feel the Holy Spirit leading you after today's message?
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As we continue our 2021 Vision series, Krissy shares why community is so vital to our walk with Jesus and a few practical ways to walk in authentic community with others.
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What does Jesus' prayer in John 17 tell us about the value of community?
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How has community positively impacted you?
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What are some obstacles keeping you from truly engaging in and committing to community?
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Are you committing to a community on your own terms? How might you need to adjust those terms?
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Fountain City Church invites you to partner with us as we continue in our mission to develop and train missionaries by completing our building renovations. Pastor Grant shares how Barnabas and a group of women drastically impacted the early church through their support. Watch this message on our YouTube channel to see some photos and videos of our auditorium before and during renovation.
How will you partner with us?
To give, visit fountaincity.org/give.
For questions, email info@fountaincity.org
Thank you for listening.
And thank you for partnering with us to see our city changed.
As we continue our 2021 Vision series, Grant shares why it’s so important for us to be rooted in the Scriptures after giving a few reasons behind why we are resistant to being devoted to the Word.
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What does it mean to be devoted to the apostles’ teachings and to the Words of Jesus?
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What parts of the Scriptures do you wrestle with?
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What are obstacles to you devoting yourself to the Word?
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How does devotion to the Scriptures personally impact your life? What effects does it have on you?
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Grant and Krissy share how looking back at 2020 we see that some amazing things happened in our FCC community. Then they look forward with excitement at 2021.
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What can you celebrate from 2020?
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What do you look forward to in 2021?
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How can you love your community more in 2021?
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How can you practice radical generosity?
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Justin and Ashley share their Jesus story.
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What is your Jesus story?
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Who will you share it with?
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This week we look at a single verse and discuss the implications of how a seemingly brief encounter with Jesus changed a man’s future. And this story reminds us that we no longer have to look at our past. Instead, Jesus invites us to move forward with him.
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What has Jesus done for you?
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What does God want to remind you of?
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What are some things that God wants you to let go of in order to more forward with Jesus?
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What is your Jesus story?
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Who will you share it with?
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This Advent season is quite different from years past. But the Reason for the season remains and that gives us Hope and Joy. Where does your joy come from?
Pastor Grant reminds us that Jesus is the Good News, and that Good News is meant to bring joy to all people.
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- What stuck out to you most from the message?
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What is your joy tethered to?
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When is the last time you felt true joy?
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What is one thing you can do to choose joy when your present situation is everything but joyful?
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How does the good news of Jesus change the way you respond to life’s messes?
This Advent season is quite different from years past. But the Reason for the season remains and that gives us Hope.
But is your hope in the right One? Pastor Grant reminds us that we can hope in the future promises of God by looking at the fulfilled promises of God in the past.
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What do you feel most stood out from the message today?
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How does the hope found in God’s already-fulfilled promises affect how you make decisions today?
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What are some breakers or obstacles keeping you from seeing the hope of Jesus?
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What are some anchor points that provide hope for you?
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How does hope in Jesus challenge us to look at our present obstacles?
A question for a time of prayer and reflection:
- Do I live in fear of God or in devotion to him?
This week Diane Swanson shares that when we dwell in Jesus, we don’t have to live in anxiety but can choose to release our stress and be filled with His peace.
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Where are you dealing with anxiety and stress in your life?
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In what ways do we participate with anxious feelings and thoughts?
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When you’re anxious do you move toward control or escape?
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What’s one way God has met you in moments of anxiety and given you peace?
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Our story is powerful and if we look we can see God moving in our story. Pastor Rick Collins invites us to remember God's presence, remember God's provision, and remember God's purpose in our story. And then to share our story with others.
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What story is God writing for you?
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What is one of God's blessings from your past that you need to remember in order to be energized for today?
"In the Wasteland" is our message series all about the stirrings of the Spirit - how we move from apathy to alive and awake in the Spirit.
The wasteland is the place of clarity, repentance, contending, and renewal.
The Holy Spirit does not just make things better - He makes dead things new.
Listen as Pastor Grant shares about God’s posture towards us when we’re in the wasteland season.
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What is God’s nature towards us while we’re in the wasteland?
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How are your arms closed towards what God is offering to you?
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What parts of your heart is God exposing? How does that contrast with his heart?
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Is there something that God has started in you that you’ve given up on?
"In the Wasteland" is our message series all about the stirrings of the Spirit - how we move from apathy to alive and awake in the Spirit.
The wasteland is the place of clarity, repentance, contending, and renewal.
The Holy Spirit does not just make things better - He makes dead things new.
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After listening to the message, share your answers to the following questions with a small group of people and encourage them to do the same.
-What does this message say about God? About us?
-What are areas of your life where you have given up and have stopped contending?
-What are areas of your life where you continue to contend?
A question for a time of prayer and reflection:
-What is an area in my life where I have been contending but instead I should be waiting?
We are living in a cultural moment with a lot of tension. Listen as Pastor Grant discusses what it means to belong to a body and to each other.
Read along: Romans chapter 12.
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What does it mean to be devoted and committed to each other through the redemptive work of Jesus?
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How does being united in Jesus change the way we value each other?
A good question for a time of prayer and reflection:
- Who is someone in the Body of Christ that I strongly disagree with and what does it look like for both of us to be a part of the same family?
In the Wasteland is our new message series all about the stirrings of the Spirit - how we move from apathy to alive and awake in the Spirit.
The wasteland is the place of clarity, repentance, contending, and renewal.
The Holy Spirit does not just make things better - He makes dead things new.
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After listening to the message, share your answers to the following questions with a small group of people and encourage them to do the same.
-How do confession and repentance look in your own life?
-How does repentance force you to think and live differently?
-What is holding you back from repentance?
-How does your view of God’s character affect your practice of repentance?
A question for a time of prayer and reflection:
-Who can I invite to practice confession with me this week?
In the Wasteland is our new message series all about the stirrings of the Spirit - how we move from apathy to alive and awake in the Spirit.
The wasteland is the place of clarity, repentance, contending, and renewal.
The Holy Spirit does not just make things better - He makes dead things new.
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After listening to the message, share your answers to the following questions with a small group of people and encourage them to do the same.
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How has the collapse of our systems and norms forced you to face the dead areas in your life? Are there any areas of subtle sin, unhealthy habits, or false beliefs about who you are or who God is?
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How are you like the Pharisees in presenting yourself as a clean cup but have a dirty inside? Or as a whitewashed tomb who looks nice but is dead and dying on the inside?
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What dead attitude or habit or way of thinking do you need to repent from and give to God?
Two questions for reflection and prayer:
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If someone was to come you looking for life and hope, will they find a dead person pretending to be alive? Or will they find a living person who was once dead?
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Do you have clean hands and a pure heart?
Dr. Mark Merrill, superintendent of the Georgia District Assemblies of God, joins us for our Family Day Celebration. Dr. Merrill invites us to remember the favor and faithfulness of God because remembering anchors us in who we are and who God is.
Pastor Grant recaps Mark chapter 7 before we finish out the chapter with what seems like "just another healing". But we discover that this passage speaks volumes and compliments the earlier parts of the chapter.
Read along: Mark 7:31-37.
Join as as Krissy Collins leads us through our next passage from the Gospel according to Mark. We’re discussing the faith of a Greek woman who shows us what relentless faith looks like.
How do we get clean? One of the key realizations of the Christian life is that we are deeply jacked up. Join us this week as we talk about our useless attempts to get clean in our own strength and how Jesus is the answer to the malady of our souls.
Join us for our series from the Gospel according to Mark as we discuss how God’s posture towards us in crises: Jesus meets us in the middle of our chaos and crises to introduce peace.
Join us for our series from the Gospel according to Mark as we discover that God can take what little we may have and multiply it for His glory and to build His Kingdom.
Join us for our series from the Gospel according to Mark, as we look at Jesus' invitation to "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest." and discuss why rest is so important for us.
Join us for our series from the Gospel of Mark, as we discuss the life of John the Baptist and the call to persevere through difficulty by knowing who we are and living surrendered to God. Read ahead—Mark 6:14-29.
Join us as we worship together and study from the Gospel of Mark, chapter 6:1-6, and come back to a revelation of the glory of God hidden in plain sight, most of all in Christ.
Join us as we continue in the Gospel of Mark as Rick Collins teaches in chapter 5, verses 1-20 where we see a collision of kingdoms. Jesus’ pronouncement that “the Kingdom of God is near” was a prophetic call to war...and it still is.
Join us as we continue our series in the Gospel of Mark as Pastor Grant shares from chapter 4, verses 35-41, and elaborates on the peace and authority of Jesus over the chaos of the world around him and his invitation for us to join him in this way of life.
This week Rick Collins joins us as a guest teacher, as we continue our series on the Gospel of Mark and the kingdom parables and their relevancy and implications in our world right now.
Join us as we talk about the origins of one of Pentecost as the birth of the Church and what the Spirit does in our lives.
Join us this week as we dive into Mark chapter 4 and talk about the nature of parables and Jesus’ invitation to cultivate open hearts and open ears.
This week as Pastor Grant talks about the allure of the familiar and God’s plan to make us new wineskins in this season.
Happy Mother's Day! Join us for this Sunday's digital gathering from Grant & Krissy's home as they talk about the Art of Mothering. Whether you're a biological mother or not, every woman has been entrusted with others that God has called you to mother.
Pastors Grant and Krissy talk about the relationship between surrender and freedom and the invitation to us all to enter into a life of freedom in Christ.
Join us for this week's breakdown as Grant and Krissy dig a little deeper into the topic of hardship and suffering and why it’s so important in our cultural moment.
Grant and Krissy share on the unique nature of suffering as a Christ follower and how it produces a life of perseverance, joy, and hope.
Pastor Grant invites us to consider the invitation in this moment to wake up to the coming Kingdom of Jesus.
Pastor Grant talks to us about how resurrection is the foundation of our lives in Christ and the impact that has on the way we live each day.
Pastor Grant talks about the necessity of wilderness seasons to shape us into the image of Jesus and to fill us with the power of the Holy Spirit.
Pastor Grant shares on the moment we’re standing in which God is calling His people to recognize the spiritual resource they are called to be in their distinct families and neighborhoods.
Pastor Grant and his wife Krissy break down this week’s message about the vision for Fountain City Church as well as the greater body of Christ.
Pastor Grant Collins shares part 1 from our 4-part vision series, sharing the vision for Fountain City Church and our long range mission as part of the Body of Christ.
Pastor Grant teaches from Hebrews 10:19-25 about confidence in Christ and the beautiful invitation we have to live in confidence because of the finished work of Jesus and what he did on the cross.
Pastor Grant speaks on how God treats lepers and outcasts in the Kingdom of God and the invitation that is for us to do the same.
Guest speaker Andrew Chalmers continues our study in Mark and talks about the importance of intimacy with the Father.
Gilbert Nestor speaks from Mark 1:21-28 on the authority of the ministry of Jesus and how that impacts our daily lives as Christ followers.