Lifepoint Church - Messages From The Stewarts Creek Campus

Heart & Soul : This Changes Everything – Week 2Leave us a comment and share with a friend.Are you a Guest? We would love to know you. Text CONNECT to 615-551-9800 or submit the Connect Form — https://lifept.org/guestIf you wish to give online visit https://lifept.org/give

Gather & Scatter : This Changes Everything – Week 1Leave us a comment and share with a friend.Are you a Guest? We would love to know you. Text CONNECT to 615-551-9800 or submit the Connect Form — https://lifept.org/guestIf you wish to give online visit https://lifept.org/give

Message from 1 Samuel 18Message by RC Ford from the Stewarts Creek CampusIt’s easier to run hard after the heart of God when you have friends who also run hard after the heart of God. Their iron sharpens your iron, and your iron sharpens theirs.

When we use our emotions as a guide, not a gauge, and jump in unchecked, we bring disaster not only to us but also to people we don’t want to hurt. Most everyone has been hurt by someone’s unchecked emotion, whether by divorce, affairs, lies, rebellion, or worse.

Jesus says a lukewarm Christian makes him sick. He doesn't mean the temperature of their passion; hot water and cold water are both good. It's the distance they are from the source that is making them lukewarm and ineffective witnesses.

Seven — Week 6Message by RC Ford from the Stewarts Creek CampusJesus told the church in Philadelphia, I’m opening a door & I know you have little power...you’re small, don’t have a lot of money/resources...no clout in society but that’s ok because it’s not on you, it’s on me. You can’t save anyone, but I can. You have limits but I don’t. So, just be faithful, trust me, and watch what I will do through you.

The church in Sardis was a zombie church: it looked alive on the outside, but on the inside it was dead.The dead need revival and the way to revival is to repent. Jesus said to wake up, remember the gospel that saved you. Proclaim it in the church, the streets, your homes, your neighbors, to the nations.

How do you as a believer remain loving and tenderhearted to the world but still remain strong in your convictions? If you see sin as a disease like cancer, you know you can hate the sickness separate from the person who is sick. We aren't told to just be tolerant of our enemies but to love them. Christians have a much higher bar to cross when it comes to tolerance.

There is nothing that makes a church more ineffective than worldliness. A church can have the nicest building, the best programs, but it will all be for nothing if the people of the church live no differently from the culture they’re supposed to be reaching.

Jesus tells us, Don’t fear those who can only kill your flesh because I’ve got your soul. I know what you’re going through and I've got this. 

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first.Revelation 2:4-5

Marriage is an institution where you get to put the King on display to the world through Christlike, grace-filled love and intentionality with your spouse.

What are you setting your sights on? The things of earth that fade away, or the things of God?

You might not be able to explain how God will do what he promises, you just need to have faith that he will.

We can't fix sin on our own. Like David, we have to learn that the only way out of sin is repentance. We will never find a shortcut or a back road away from sin.

People with faults are what the Christmas story is all about. Your family of origin is not a mistake. You are not your family and you don't have to make the same errors. Your family is there for a purpose and God will use it in the greater story.

The Christmas story didn't start with a baby in a manger, but with a promise given to a pagan idol worshipper.

Psalm 100:1-5, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Ephesians 5:20, Romans 1:21-23, Colossians 3:15-18

Generosity should be seen as a privilege, not a sacrifice. Your blessing, not your duty. God never promised you’d be wealthy, but He promised, if you’re obedient, your life would be rich.

Being a royal priesthood means every Christian is a minister. You serve organically at home to your spouse and kids, at school, and work. When He saved you, the Holy Spirit empowered you with spiritual gifts to use to build up the church. Where are you serving at church?