
BEYOND SUNDAY
What is God saying and how will we respond? Taking the conversation beyond Sunday and going deeper into what we hear from God and how we will respond.
Beyond Sunday: Forgiveness Makes a Way
God is a God who forgives, offering us a way to redemption on this journey. We are invited to be active participants in the reconciling work God is doing in us and through us on this journey. Will we come and receive this forgiveness?
Beyond Sunday: God is Enough for the Journey
What satisfies us? Choosing to be satisfied by something or someone other than God will leave us dry and barren, searching for more. God satisfies our deepest needs. Will we trust Him on this journey?
Beyond Sunday: Covenant Relationship
Guided Journey: Trusting the Leader. We can trust God to guide us on this journey. His goodness awaits our presence. Will we choose to trust God, who calls us into intimate covenant relationship?
Beyond Sunday: God is Our Refuge
Guided Journey: Trusting the Leader. Psalms give us a picture of who God is and what He invites us into. He is a God who offers shelter and protection on this journey. Are we looking for shelter and protection from something or someone other than God?
Beyond Sunday: Practicing the Presence of God
The new covenant (Jesus) offers us a pathway into the presence of God- to be near Him, to know Him and for our identity to be spoken over us. Will we walk with Him, practicing the presence, on this journey?
Beyond Sunday: Developing Character Through Suffering
Part of preparing for the journey is knowing that there will be trials and we will face troubles, but we can take heart because Jesus has overcome the world. Unpacking our identity in preparation to walk with Jesus is character forming. Will we walk with Him, allowing the trials to shape our character, on this journey?
Beyond Sunday: Winter Camp Edition
Churches, leaders, and teenagers gathered at Double K Retreat Center for the annual Pacific Northwest Association (PNA) Winter Camp. While at camp we learned we ALL have a story, a story God is writing and when we tell our story, we tell of HIM. This Winter Camp Edition features our Camp Director (Erin) and two teenagers who courageously share their story God is writing.
Beyond Sunday: Rooted Hope
We have been given identity and called to a Kingdom mission. By God’s grace and mercy we can live out what He has called us into. Will we walk with Him, living out our calling, on this journey?
Beyond Sunday: Living the Call - Part 2
We have been given identity and called to a Kingdom mission. By God’s grace and mercy we can live out what He has called us into. Will we walk with Him, living out our calling, on this journey?
Beyond Sunday: Living the Call - Part 1
We are called to this journey not because we’re qualified, but because of our identity. The same God who created us and spoke our identity into us also calls us and forms us into maturity. Will we walk with Him, accepting our calling, on this journey? https://www.seedsofhope.me
Beyond Sunday: Led By the Spirit
Like Jesus, our mission comes out of our identity and our fulfillment of the mission flows out of that identity. His Word instructs us, His Spirit to empowers us. Will we walk with Him, led by Word and Spirit, on this journey?
Beyond Sunday: God’s Abundance
God is a God of abundance. He has spoken identity into us and formed us with specific, unique, giftings in preparation for the journey He has invited us to. God does not call the equipped, He equips the called. And He delights when we walk in the giftings He has given us. Will we walk with Him, exercising the good gifts He has given?
Beyond Sunday: Unpacking Identity
God speaks His identity into us. He has created us, called us, redeemed us, and empowered us with His Spirit to walk with Him, live for Him. God has prepared a way for us to journey with His son, Jesus. Will we walk with Him, in an identity spoken by Him?
Beyond Sunday: Hello
It’s time to review the year, prayerfully look ahead, and attend to those necessary goodbyes and make some room to welcome the needed hellos. How do we even begin to make sense of a whole year? 525,600 minutes. 365 days. 52 weeks. 12 months. 4 quarters. In all of these there are highs and lows, victories and defeats, great experiences and traumatic ones. Through it all, God desires to be with us. He gives us echoes of His presence all throughout the year; do we hear them? Are we paying attention? Do we desire to give Jesus access to all 525,600 minutes of our year to come?
Beyond Sunday: Goodbye
Looking back at the ways God showed up and spoke to us in the past year helps us trust Him for whatever we face in the coming year. Reflecting lets us recognize the incredible faithfulness and goodness of God - something worth celebrating!
Beyond Sunday: Christmas Inside Out - Blue Christmas
At Christmas we tend to focus on all the fun, exciting and celebratory moments of the season, even while pain, hurt, and sorrow may exist. It would be easy to push aside those things for the sake of the season but God offers the gift of comfort, healing, and peace. This Advent season are we willing to be honest about our hurts, bringing them before Christ, and accept His love, care, and compassion so we might find healing and restoration?
Beyond Sunday: Christmas Inside Out - Joy
Joy comes in the presence of God (Ps. 30, 16). The good news of the gospel John exhorts (Luke 3:18) is the presence of God with us, Emmanuel (Jesus). We can have joy now because God has promised redemption and reconciliation. Happiness is dependent on circumstances, Joy comes from God. This Advent season, does your joy overflow to your circumstances or do your circumstances dim your joy?
Beyond Sunday: Christmas Inside Out - The Key to Peace
In the context of 1st century Israel, fear and anxiety is the reality of everyday life. God desires to work through Zacharias and Elizabeth to prepare the way of the Lord. Their son, John lives a unique life, unbothered by the fear and anxiety of the present day. He is completely committed to the mission God has designed, making the present temporary and the eternal primary. This Advent season, do we recognize that peace is not the result of a world without chaos, but rather a deep trust in the God who prepares the way?
Beyond Sunday: Christmas Inside Out - HOPE
Christmas Inside Out - Hope in a culture of fear, apathy, and unbelief.
Do we hope for the redemption of the world, for the deliverance of our souls? Jeremiah reminds us of the branch David promised to God’s people for rescue, return and redemption. Jesus is the fulfillment of this hope and in Luke 21 we read the hope we hold onto. This is a promise not just of future glory but God’s goodness in the here and now. This Advent season, do we hold onto the hope of Jesus or do we feel the fear, apathy and unbelief in the waiting?
Beyond Sunday: Kingdom Ready
Is our focus on God's Kingdom breaking in and our invitation to be ready with God? Or have we been sleeping, going through the motions, seemingly with nothing at stake? We are reminded to be on guard and keep watch for the return of Christ. This readiness changes how we live everyday. Will we accept the invitation to partner with God and live with Kingdom readiness?