Why should we seek out and follow God? Pastor Tebben uses Psalm 96 to explore why God what God has done to earn our respect and admiration.
Should people fear God? Is He this being that will punish us for anything He deems bad or is He a God of Love? Rev. Brian Tebben uses Exodus 34:1-10 to explore what God is really like and how we are to respond to him.
Why do good things happen to bad people? God just seems unfair doesn’t He? Hurting those who seek to do good and rewarding those who do bad things and God never seems to give an explanation. Many of us feel the same way as Jonah did when God spared Nineveh from ultimate and complete destruction. Rev. Brian Tebben uses Jonah 4 to give us a rare glimpse into God’s reasoning of why He does what He does.
Have you ever loved something so much that it hurt when that thing failed or broke; a child, job or maybe a project? If so, you have a sense of how God looked at Nineveh and how he looks upon us. He loves us so much that He’s not willing to give up on us. Rev. Brian Tebben uses Jonah 3 to explore how the Ninevites responded to the anger of a God who loved them too much to give up on them.
‘Born Again’ is a phrase thrown around a lot these days, but what does it truly mean? Rev. Brian Tebben uses Jonah 2 to see how Jonah became ‘Born Again’ and how his prayer in the whale is an account of the danger he faced in the storm and of God's salvation. He came out of death and received new life and how we can do the same.
The story of Jonah has been told and retold so most people know about Jonah being swallowed by the fish, but why? What led him to end up in the fish’s belly? Rev. Brian Tebben uses Jonah 1 to explore what Jonah did that led him to that moment and why we should learn from Jonah’s mistakes before we end up in our own fish’s belly.
The story of Jesus calling His first disciples is well known by many, but is it just a story of how Jesus got the disciples or is there something that we can learn from it for today's world? Rev. Brian Tebben uses Mark I to explore what it can teach us living in this modern world.
There are many different Christian Churches in the world, but how can this be true? There is one Jesus, there should be one Church, right? Rev. Brian Tebben uses I Cor. 12 to explore how we as Christians can exist and serve together despite our differences and how we can all stil be one body in Christ.
Christians go to Church, but is it because they have to or is it something they want to do? Or should it be one or the other? Rev. Bill Heersink examines I Corinthians 9 to see how Paul advises us to view our work for God.
If 'freedom in Christ' means we gain real freedom, how should we live when someone objects to our expression of that freedom? Steve Zaiser uses I Corinthians to help us understand how Paul suggests we live that freedom without hurting others.