Storyline Church - Arvada: Recent Episodes
Storyline Church Arvada
The following is audio from Storyline Church in Arvada, Colorado. To learn more about Storyline Church and to plan your visit, please visit our website at Storylinechurch.net
Pastor JT continues in 1 Corinthians 3, calling us to all participate in the mission of God. We see our evangelism should result in the planting of churches. But our mission doesn’t stop there - it continues with the building of these churches on the foundation of Jesus Christ.
Pastor JT preaches from 1 Corinthians 1 & 2, grounding us in the one sound of the gospel. Jesus saves us from our sin and sinful lives to live with agency and urgency by the Spirit’s power.
He also updates and invites us to join him in a new season at Storyline Church, One Sound, where we will pray boldly and give sacrificially so the Gospel can go forward throughout Colorado
Pastor JT concludes our series in Philippians, reminding us that we are in Christ. For those who believe, we are now saints, secure in Christ. We live continually by grace, participating as part of the family of God.
Pastor JT exhorts us to gospel partnership from Philippians 4. We see as Paul continues his mission, he invites the Philippians to partner with him and is grateful for their obedience. However, even in the invitation, he knows that Christ will strengthen him for the mission by His presence.
Logan Talamas shows us how the Proverbs teach us to be wise with our speech. Our words are powerful, so it is important to be slow to speak. Wise speech is honest, honoring, and helpful. This kind of speech can only overflow from us when we are filled with the wisdom of God.
Pastor JT celebrates men this Father’s Day as he shows the value and purpose given to all men from Genesis 2. We see man’s worth is not in what he does, but Who he belongs to. From this foundation, he is given a place, vocation, and authority to represent God in his rule and relationships.
Josh Navey continued in our series on Human Flourishing by showing our relationship with work & rest from Genesis 2. Being made in the image of God, all of humanity is made to work. Still, we are called to resist the pull of self-sufficiency by practicing rest, remembering that we live in the sufficiency of Someone else’s work.
Greg Stier teaches through the story of Palm Sunday from Mark 11. Expected to come as a warrior King, Jesus showed the better way for our salvation by coming as a humble servant willing to die to give us life. God’s way is much harder, but far better, than our human expectations.
Pastor JT focuses on the second temptation in Luke 4. Jesus was tempted to gain power by living in the kingdom of man rather than the kingdom of God. He reminds us to worship God alone, which is displayed in our behavior.
Pastor JT starts to walk through the types of temptations Jesus experienced in Luke 4. The first temptation of pleasure tries to offer the good thing as ultimate. But we were meant to take pleasure in the good thing only as a shadow of the greater thing - the One who who gives the gifts.
Pastor JT continues in Joel as we see the hope of renewal in chapter 2. For those in Christ, we will one day experience in full what we only now know in part - the renewal of all creation, the restoration of our emotions, and the presence of God dwelling fully with us forever.
Pastor JT finishes our series on Jonah by highlighting God’s indiscriminate grace. We often come to God like Jonah wanting a gospel of fairness and justice for our enemies. But for ourselves, we want a gospel of grace and mercy. Thankfully, our God is overflowing with grace for those who don’t deserve it, which, as it turns out, is all of us.
Josh Navey shows the gift of repentance from Jonah 3. Repentance goes against our nature, but calls out the lies of what we thought would fulfill. In God’s sovereignty, He has required repentance of everyone, knowing He has also provided both the faith for and the means of salvation through Jesus Christ.
Pastor JT reflects on the gift of God’s sovereignty from Jonah 2. The character of God invites Jonah to pray and pursue His presence, even after persistent rebellion. God’s response is to hear, answer, and deliver Jonah out of the depths into new life.
From Jonah 1, Pastor JT shows the lengths that God will go to accomplish his purpose. Even in Jonah’s disobedience, we see the patient, merciful love of God. He is the God that provides rescue, even to those determined to have nothing to do with Him.
Pastor JT begins a series through the book of Jonah. From the first few verses, we see God call Jonah to an unexpected mission. Jonah fled from God, desiring justice for the enemies he was called to, but knowing there was more mercy in God than sin in his enemies.
Pastor JT reviews our mission statement from Matthew 22. We exist to live in God’s story by knowing Jesus and loving all people. Our mission is not something to do, but someone to love.
From Luke 1, Pastor JT walks through the hope of the Advent season. Advent is about the retrieval of our affections for King Jesus. We declare His faithfulness as we witness and worship the King who came to us offering salvation.
Pastor JT refocuses our hope from WHEN Christ will come to the truth THAT Christ will come. From the New Testament, we know that Christ will return, coming to raise the dead and execute perfect justice as He establishes His kingdom without end.
Pastor JT calls us from Acts 2 to live as the family of God. While the Church universal is certainly our family, we are called to live intentionally with our local church. We should use our gifts to gather, give, and serve, doing so with such love that it marks us as Christians to those around us.
Pastor JT encourages us from Ephesians, where we see the role of the Holy Spirit. The promised Holy Spirit grants faith, sanctifies, and perseveres the saints. He is the guarantor of our faith, applying the work of Christ to all believers.
Pastor JT connects how Jesus is the only solution to what went wrong. We are brought out of exile, depravity, and death because of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. In the great exchange, Jesus brings us into the presence of God, giving us His righteousness and life.
Pastor JT shows how our God graciously makes himself known to us through Scripture. 2 Timothy 3:16 declares all Scripture is God-breathed, or inspired. Therefore, it is authoritative, inerrant, necessary, sufficient, and clear. Because of this, we have a God who can truly be known.
Pastor JT answers the question, “What is God like?” Through the Bible, we see God’s nature and character revealed. We understand His character traits as both incommunicable and communicable. Knowing the difference can help us both avoid sin and pursue the good life in Jesus.
Pastor JT shows how the Bible answers the question “Who is God?” We see God is Trinity who eternally exists as one essence and three distinct persons, each of whom is fully God, yet there is one God. We can be saved because of who God is.
This past Sunday, Pastor JT introduced our new sermon series Theology Together. We see in Matthew 28 the call to be both baptized believers and learning disciples. So, in this series, we will seek to know God better so that we will love God deeper.
This past Sunday, Pastor JT focused in on our one sound - the gospel of the kingdom. In Acts 1, we see the disciples long for the kingdom. Jesus explains that in this kingdom, we receive the power of the Spirit and are witness of the One we love, reaching everyone to the ends of the earth.
This past Sunday, Pastor JT continued our series on “Why It Matters,” focusing on the Word. Our faith is not inherited or cultural, but rather it is born from and maintained by the Word of God. 2 Timothy 4 calls us to exhort each other toward flourishing, avoid myths, and fulfill our ministry by being faithful to the Word, not an outcome.
This past Sunday, Pastor JT showed us the purpose of communion in Matthew 26. The sacrament calls us to remember what Christ has done, bringing assurance. But it also builds anticipation as we rehearse the day we will share a meal with our Savior in His kingdom come.
This past Sunday, Pastor JT began a new series on “Why It Matters,” starting with baptism. In Matthew 28, we see that Christians are called to both share the gospel through evangelism and show the gospel through baptism. In baptism, we show that we have been cleansed and forgiven, have the Holy Spirit, have died to sin, have new life, and are clothed in Christ.
Pastor JT shows us that Romans 12 invites us into a new way of living because God loves us, not so that God will love us. As his church, we should have a fragrance of love and trusting God with all things.
Pastor JT walked us through 1 Timothy 4:6-10, reminding us that we are always being formed by something. Setting up gospel rhythms rather than resolutions helps us train, labor, and strive intentionally toward godliness.
In Romans 9, Pastor JT shows how God is more merciful than we could ever imagine. God’s children are not determined by lineage or merit, but by being in Christ alone.
This past Sunday, Pastor JT preach through Romans 8, in which we were reminded of God‘s faithfulness. But God‘s past faithfulness does not remove our present suffering. Yet in this, we can eagerly wait for our future hope with patience because we know Who we are waiting on.
Pastor JT reviewed the book of Romans, picking up in chapter 8. We see that those in Christ are now under no condemnation, not because of what we do, but because of what God did.
Adam Wiggins walked us through Matthew 6, showing us our model for prayer. We see that prayer is less about us and more about dependence on who God is and what he wants. The work of prayer is aligning our desires with God’s desires.
The church is not a place, it’s a people gathered. Hebrews 10 reminds us that gathering is essential for Christians. We gather to encourage one another and rehearse the one true story.
Greg Stier from Dare To Share shared a word on Evangelism. He challenged us to share the Gospel one time this week
JT preached on the spiritual discipline of stewardship on Sunday. In Matthew 6, we see that our hearts and our treasures are intertwined. Jesus invites us to redirect our ambition toward the kingdom through generous giving.
Sabbath is the act of faith to stop, to cease. It is rest in a Person, resisting the lie that we are God, and renewing our minds to the truth that the work has already been finished for us in Christ.
The book of Luke shows us how life happens around the table, where Jesus sees us and welcomes us. While our hunger reminds us that we are needy and dependent, the table invites us to be fully satisfied in Him.
Colossians 3:16 emphasizes the value of Bible reading, reminding us to “let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.” In order to have the Word dwell in us, we must take the time to dwell in it’s inexhaustible riches as it points us to Christ.
This week starts our series on Walking with Jesus: Rhythms of the Good Life. 1 Timothy 4 calls us to train ourselves for godliness. To follow Jesus means not only to believe in his life, but to imitate his way of living.
Nathan Lorick reminded us that the God we serve is sovereign and able to do what seems impossible. In light of that, the Church is called to pray earnestly, daringly, and faithfully, pleading to our God who hears our cries.
Doug Hixson reminds us from Acts 8 that we should be interruptible - ready to immediately obey God’s call to proclaim the good news of Jesus. People are scrolling, looking for the answer everywhere they go. We have the answer!