Starting Point
Everything that exists had a starting point . . . including you. You may have started on purpose. You may have started by accident (from your parent’s perspective). You may even have started through the magic of medical science. Whatever the circumstances, you had a starting point and it began before you were aware of it.
Physical life is one of many starting points. Your formal education had a starting point. Your career had a starting point. Your romantic life had a starting point. Your experience as a parent had a starting point.
Faith has a starting point as well.
Join us Sunday April 3-24 as we explore where to start.
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Week 476 // April 03, 2016 // Everything Has a Beginning
During childhood, you may have been handed a faith framework through which you began to view the world. For a lot of us, that childhood framework didn’t survive the rigors of adulthood. It’s not enough to say, “The Bible says…,” in the face of real-life tragedy. Adults often need a new starting point. But the starting point for Christian faith isn’t, “The Bible says…” It’s better than that. It’s Jesus.
Week 477 // April 10, 2016 // The Problem
Guilt is powerful. Shame can be crippling. We all have things in our pasts that haunt us. We have sin.
It only takes a word, a picture, or a name to bring it all back. We know we can do better from this point forward, but how are we supposed to fix the past? We can say we’re sorry. We can ask for forgiveness. But some of the things we’ve done hang over our lives like a cloud.
What can wash away our sins?
Week 478 // April 17, 2016 // Trust
The three largest faith traditions—Judaism, Islam, and Christianity—claim the same starting point: a man named Abraham.
All three agree that sin made a mess of the world and God started his clean up operation with Abraham.
God made a series of promises and Abraham’s response to those promises didn’t just have implications for his personal starting point or the starting points of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. It had implications for your starting point as well.
Week 479 // April 24, 2016 // Grace
Guilt is powerful. Shame can be crippling. We all have things in our pasts that haunt us. We have sin.
It only takes a word, a picture, or a name to bring it all back. We know we can do better from this point forward, but how are we supposed to fix the past?
What can wash away our sins?
