"Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path." (Psalm 119:105)

We offer this tentative listing primarily for our worship leaders and their preparation. However, we also hope it will encourage everyone to read the Scripture passages in advance as you listen for God to speak.

Jan 4 – Living by Faith: Mustard Seed Faith – Luke 17:1-10 (“The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.”; Faith is not a feeling, but an action of trust dependent on the object/person of our faith; Faith is trust in Christ)

Jan 11 – Living by Faith: Everything is possible with God - Mark 9:14-29 (“ ‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.” Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”; “If you can” contrasted with Matthew 8:3, “If you are willing…”; Faith prays; Faith remains reliant on Jesus, and not on our own efforts for Jesus)

Jan 18 – Living by Faith: Trusting the Authority of Jesus - Matthew 8:5-13 (“The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me.”; Faith is humble knowing we receive by grace; Faith meditates on the sovereign authority of Jesus over all things)

Jan 25 – Living by Faith: God Works in Us, Not Just For Us - Matthew 14:22-33 (“Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said; Faith that God’s power works in us, not just for us; Faith in God’s power to make us new creations in Christ)

Feb 1 – Living by Faith: Faith is persistent when God seems reluctant - Matthew 15:21-28 (“Jesus did not answer a word…Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment”; Faith not discouraged when forced to wait; Faith holds to the goodness of God in the face of suffering)

Feb 8 – Living by Faith: The Prayer Offered in Faith - James 5:13-18 (“Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.”; Forgiveness; Healing; Trusting God to work through us)

Feb 15 – Living by Faith: In Life and in Death – Hebrews 11:1, 13-16, 32-40 (“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”; “All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.”; God’s promises in this age and the age to come)

Feb 22 – First Sunday in Lent; Take Your Next Step: Baptism – Romans 6:1-14 (“Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.”)

Mar 1 – Take Your Next Step: Word, Prayer, and Worship – Acts 2:42-47 (“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer… Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God”)

Mar 8 – Take Your Next Step: Membership – 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 (“For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink… The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”… But God has put the body together… Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”)

Mar 15 – Take Your Next Step: Life Groups – Hebrews 10:19-25 (“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”

Mar 22 – Take Your Next Step: Serving – 1 Peter 4:7-11 (“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.”

Mar 29 – 5^th Sunday – One Service only at 10:00am; Palm Sunday; Take Your Next Step: Discipling Others – 1 Peter 3:8-17 (“But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.”)

Apr 2 – Maundy Thursday – Journey to the Cross (confession, repentance, forgiveness, and renewal)

Apr 5 – Easter Sunday: Christ’s Resurrection and the New Creation – 2 Corinthians 5:11 – 6:2 (“And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again… Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation”)