2012

|giv| 2012

The holiday season is generally marked by consumerism, consumption, and materialism. But God sees Christmas in a whole different light. Leaving the comforts of heaven, He came to earth as the man Jesus, on a rescue mission to seek and save what was lost. Each year, we take a few weeks to talk about Jesus' incarnation, and its implications on our lives.

Alongside each year's |giv| series, we all rally around a project to be generous to, in response to Jesus' generosity to us. In past years we've given shoes and jackets to Columbia's homeless population, built safe houses for boys and girls rescued out of India's sex slave industry, translated the bible into the Huba language, and given Christmas gifts to kids in the Yucatan peninsula.

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A Marriage You'd Actually Want

So many people have seen or experienced bad marriages that marriage is seen as useless or as hell on earth. At the same time, some deify the idea of marriage as their ultimate hope, bringing an end to their hell of single unhappiness. This 10-week series takes an honest look at marriage, unpacks God's intention for it, and paints the picture of a marriage you'd actually want.

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As part of this series, we produced an accompanying book. The Campaign Resource Guide includes additional reading and discussion questions for each week.


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Videos:

How We Met

Friendship with Benefits

The Only Reason a Marriage Fails

Servant Lovers

Party Jesus

This series takes five weeks to welcome people into our Jesus-centered family on mission by talking about parties, feasts, and celebrations. The bible has a surprising amount of things to say about Jesus' attendance in and around the party scene.

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Humility

In a culture where pride, self-esteem and self-actualization are seen as a virtue, Jesus gives us a vastly different picture of humble confidence. This series takes five weeks to look at the humility of Jesus and how that instructs, motivates and demands our humility in response.

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How the Gospel Spreads

This series takes 9 weeks to look at Jesus advancing His kingdom through the early church in the book of Acts.  We will discuss major missional themes that directly apply to our church in a season of rampant change, as we strive to continue aggressively advancing the gospel in our city.

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James

This series will take 11 weeks to work through the book of James, intentionally taking large chunks of scripture to show the overall themes of the book.

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