No Limits

Listen to Jonathan Woolner speak on Sunday, February 21st of 2016. Paul wishes for love to abound and overflow in remarkability and in excellence. Knowing God’s love, and our response to that love while near people who are hard to love. 

Read along in Philippians 1:9-11

Read the Week 4 Growth Group Discussion Notes

Creating Space for Mercy and Grace

Listen to Jonathan Woolner speak on Sunday, February 14th about knowing grace, being grace in the flesh, and living into the Christ pattern of death followed by replenishment and resurrection. 

Read along in Phillipians 2:5, Phillipians 1:7-8, Galatians 2:20, and Colossians 3:1-17.

Read the Growth Group Discussion notes too. 

Saying Yes To Life (Even the Hard Parts)

Listen to Jonathan Woolner walk through the book of Philippians on Sunday, February 7th of 2016. God is faithful to complete the good work He started in you. Are you open to that? We have to let some parts of us die to allow God’s resurrection power to replace them. 

Read Philippians 1:1-6, Genesis 1:1-2:1

Review the Growth Group notes

Grace and Peace in The Flesh

Listen to Jonathan Woolner speak on Sunday, January 31st, 2016 about identifying things that keep you from accepting grace and peace. He also introduces the concept of being grace and peace to others around you. Later on this series we will be discussing ‘how’ to do this stuff, not just discuss the ‘what’. 

Read along in Philippians 1:1-2

Growth Group Questions

The Ultimate Scapegoat

Listen to Jonathan Woolner speak on Sunday, January 24th. The Hebraic perspective is explored. They think of sins in the community sense, rather than in the individual sense. The goat with our sins has left and is not coming back. When you forget who you are in Jesus, the church becomes “Sin Management 101”

Read along in: 

  • Leviticus 16:3-5, 6, 7-10, 20-22 The Day of Atonement. The scapegoat is led out into the wilderness with all the sins of community loaded onto it  to take away their sins for one year. 
  • John 19:15, 16 Jesus is before Pilate & led away from Jerusalem to take away the sins of world once and for all. 
  • Hebrews 10:1-4, 11 The law is a shadow of what is to come. We don’t have to keep sacrificing goats because Jesus was the sacrifice to end all payment for sins. 

Genealogies: Math and the Good News

Listen to Jonathan Woolner speak on Sunday, January 17th, 2016 about the genealogy of Jesus and David. It is a story about the “One God” who was faithful. He uses the ordinary to redeem His creation. Three genealogies reveal multiple ways God reveals His plan to redeem humankind. 

Read along in Matthew 1:1-17, Luke 3:23-38, 1 Chronicles 1

Blessing the Hated

Listen to Jonathan Woolner speak on Sunday, January 3rd, 2016 about Noah’s curse on his youngest son, Ham. Jesus blessed and loved those who have been living under a curse, including the descendants of Ham: The Canaanites, among others. We are called to step aside from cultural norms and follow His radical example.

Read along in Genesis 9:20-28, Judges 10, Mark 7, Matthew 15, Luke 6

God With Us

Listen to Peter Gothold teach on Sunday, December 27th, 2015 about the significance of Jesus coming to be with us, humankind. We are challenged to define the relationship we have with God and eschew the temptation to believe that ambivalence is an option in this mental exercise. The system of grace and reconciliation only works if Jesus is actually God in the flesh.

Read along in Matthew 1:18-23