Sermon by Adam Gibson for April 18, 2021.
The World, the Flesh, & the Devil | Not Today Satan | April 18
Midweek Podcast | "Where there's fight, there's life."
This week we’re joined by Midweek-staple Pastor Michael Bailey from Midtown Lexington.
Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:
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Almost 100 years ago, an Anglican bishop, J.C. Ryle wrote these words:
“Let me talk to you about true Christianity. There’s a vast quantity of religion current in the world that is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the real thing which was called Christianity 1800 years ago...There are thousands of men and women who go to chapels and churches every Sunday and call themselves Christians. Their names are in the baptismal register. They are reckoned Christians while they live. They are married with a Christian marriage service. They mean to be buried as Christians when they die. But you never see any ‘fight’ about their religion! Of spiritual strife, and exertion, and conflict, and self-denial, and watching, and warring they know literally nothing at all. ...The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict or fight. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a scanty round of formal religious services once or even twice a week, but the great spiritual warfare … its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests … of all this they appear to know nothing at all.
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The World, the Flesh, & the Devil | The Three Enemies | April 11
Sermon by Adam Gibson for April 11, 2021.
Kidtown Guides & Sermon Worksheet
Easter Gathering | 2021
Midweek Podcast | Columbia. You'd Rather Be Here.
This week we’re with Pastor Allen to talk more about Sunday’s sermon. Plus, the campaign begins for Columbia’s newest slogan! #ColumbiaSC #YoudRatherBeHere
Local Spotlight of the Week
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Greater Than | God Is Greater Than Your Shortcomings | March 28
Sermon by Allen Tipping for March 28, 2021.
Kidtown & Students Guides
Midweek Podcast | Elohims and the Empty Religion of Instagram
We’re back this week with Pastor Michael to talk more about this week’s sermon.
Local Spotlight of the Week
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Greater Than | God Is Greater Than Your View of Him | March 21
Sermon by Jake Blair for March 21, 2021.
Kidtown & Students Guides
Midweek Podcast | The Love Stronger Than Death
We’re joined by pastor Michael Bailey from Midtown Lexington as we talk more about this week’s sermon.
Local Spotlight of the Week
Resources mentioned
“Where Harry Potter Characters Would Get Coffee in Columbia” by Soda City Podcast
“Things Too Wonderful for Me: The Book of Job and the Love Stronger than Death” by Samuel Wells
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Greater Than | God Is Not Small | March 14
Sermon by Jake Blair for March 14, 2021.
Kidtown & Students Guides
Midweek Podcast | Raising the Next Generation Together Part 2
We’re back this week with Pastor Jon Ludovina to talk more about this week’s sermon.
Local Spotlight of the Week
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The Family of God | Parenting Part 2: Reactive Discipline | March 7
Sermon by Jon Ludovina for March 7, 2021.
Kidtown & Students Guides
Midweek Podcast | Raising the Next Generation Together
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We’re joined this week with Pastor Jon as we pull the curtain back and talk more about this week’s sermon.
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The Family of God | Parenting Part 1: Proactive Discipleship | February 28
Sermon by Jon Ludovina for February 28, 2021.
Kidtown & Students Guides
Midweek Podcast | How did we get here?
We’re back this week with Pastor Brandon Clements from Midtown Lexington as we talk more about this week’s sermon.
Resources mentioned
“This is How You Heal the Wound” by Tony Woodlief
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
We’re in week 2 of Lent. For those fasting with us, we’ve got a resource to help.
Graphic referenced in today’s podcast.
The Family of God | The Power to Heal the World | February 21
Sermon by Adam Gibson on February 21, 2021.
Kidtown & Students Guides
Midweek Podcast | "This was my perception, can you help me?"
We’re back this week with Pastor Brandon from Midtown Lexington as we pull the curtain back and talk more about this week’s sermon.
Full quote referenced in the podcast:
“Historians will record that in the early decades of the twenty-first century we became an unforgiving society, a society of furies, a society in search of guilt and shame, a society of sanctimonies and “struggle sessions” American-style. They will admire our awakening to prejudice but lament the sometimes prejudicial ways in which we acted on our progressive realizations. In this respect America should become more Christian. (There, I said it.) For all our elaborate culture of self-knowledge, for all the hectoring articulateness of our identity vocabularies, we are still, each of us, our own blind spots. We should welcome every person we meet as a small blow against blindness.”
- “Steadying” by Leon Wieseltier in Liberties
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Our Ash Wednesday event is canceled but check out our resource on fasting for you and your LifeGroup to walk through - here.
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The Family of God | Kids Have Imaginary Friends, Adults Have Imaginary Enemies | February 14
Sermon by Adam Gibson for February 14, 2021.
Here is this week's sermon along with a LifeGroup guide. Also, for those with children, please use our Kidtown guides to help teach and lead your children this week.
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The Family of God | Passive Men & the Women Who Resent Them | February 7
Sermon by Adam Gibson for February 7, 2021.
Here is this week's sermon along with a LifeGroup guide. Also, for those with children, please use our Kidtown guides to help teach and lead your children this week.
Kidtown and Student Guides
The Family of God | Marriage in the Family of God | January 31
Sermon by Adam Gibson for January 31, 2021.
Here is this week's sermon along with a digital worship guide that includes songs to sing, prayers, and scripture to read. Also, for those with children, please use our Kidtown and student guides as a resource to teach and lead your children each week.
Worship Guide
January 31, 2020
Use this guide as a script, and, if possible, ask for a volunteer, roommate, or virtual participant to read the parts aloud. There are links to the songs to play and sing along with or, sing them a cappella. We want this to be a helpful guide for you and your community to participate together in worshipping the Lord.
Call to Worship - Scripture
Have someone read this scripture aloud:
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure.
Revelation 19:7-8
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Pray
Have someone pray for your time.
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Benediction
Have someone read this benediction from Revelation 1:4-8:
Grace to you and peace
from Him who is and who was and who is to come,
and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness,
the firstborn of the dead,
and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To Him who loves us
and freed us from our sins by his blood,
and made us to be a kingdom,
priests serving His God and Father,
to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.