Category: open-house
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Remember the Oil (Open House)

Scriptures:1 Samuel 16:13; 1 Samuel 10; Revelation 16:1; Isaiah 61; John 1:16; Romans 12:2; Psalm 45:7 Remember the Oil There are always two ways to live. Two ways to lead. Two ways to love. Two ways to respond when life presses in and the stakes feel high. Scripture paints this contrast vividly through two kings:…
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The Mission Must Go On (Open House)

Scriptures:Mark 8:27–35; Mark 9:31; Matthew 16:13–24; Romans 12:10; Proverbs 19:21; Romans 8:14–17 The mission must go on. Those words don’t arrive softly. They carry weight. They sound like conviction. They confront comfort. And yet, beneath them is grace—the kind that refuses to leave us smaller than we were called to be. In Mark 8, Peter…
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The Standard of Sonship (Open House)

Scriptures:Matthew 5:1–16; Romans 12:2; John 15:15; Numbers 13–14 There is a standard in the Kingdom of God—and it has never changed. Like a home plate in baseball, it remains 14 by 14 inches whether you’re five years old or pitching in the major leagues. The plate does not expand to accommodate inexperience. The standard does…
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A Listening Leader (Open House)

Scriptures:1 Samuel 1; 1 Samuel 3; Psalm 27:4; Romans 10:17; John 10:27; John 7:37–38; Proverbs 4:20–22 A Listening Leader We live in a loud world. Every scroll, every headline, every conversation competing for our attention. And beneath all that noise, there is a subtle strategy at work—distraction. Not destruction. The enemy cannot destroy the purposes…
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Open Hearts, Open Heaven (Open House)

Scriptures: 2 Kings 22:1–2; 2 Chronicles 34:1–3; John 1:16; Romans 8:14–17; Ephesians 3:20–21; Hebrews 12:2; Psalm 27:4 Open Hearts, Open Heaven What if a normal Sunday becomes an altar of transformation? What if a Tuesday morning commute invites the whisper of heaven? What if worship becomes more than a song, and fasting more than abstinence, but…
