Study Guide Download Welcome to our Fall Bible Study of Paul’s Letter to the Ephesian Church! LifePoint’s mission is to influence people to find and follow Jesus with the goal of becoming Christ-like influencers. A Christ-like influencer engages with God daily. But...
We often think we know where we are heading and even how we’re going to get there. God often has other ideas. Sometimes He allows us to go through storms that threaten to batter and break us. At such times surrender to a God who would allow such storms seems like the...
With our eyes set on Jesus we’re changing to become Christ-like influencers. But what is the purpose of that change? Certainly, we bring God glory when our lives more closely resemble His Son. But living like Jesus also means we’re able to influence others by the way...
Small Things (Please enjoy this encore edition of our prayer devotional, originally published in October 2018.) Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin... Zechariah 4:10a bought a gift - two slender...
Study Guide Download Welcome to our Fall Bible Study of Paul’s Letter to the Ephesian Church! LifePoint’s mission is to influence people to find and follow Jesus with the goal of becoming Christ-like influencers. A Christ-like influencer engages with God daily. But...
Week 7 Paul & Power Week 7 Most of us measure success by whether or not we achieved the desired outcome. Success means achievement. Success, therefore, is rooted in our ability to control processes and circumstances to achieve the outcomes we want. But as we learn...
One way to gauge your progress as a person who wants to follow Jesus is to ask whether or not you engage with God every day. Do you instinctively turn to God as a habit and include Him as a normal part of your life? When we understand God makes movement toward us...
Study Guide Download Welcome to our Fall Bible Study of Paul’s Letter to the Ephesian Church! LifePoint’s mission is to influence people to find and follow Jesus with the goal of becoming Christ-like influencers. A Christ-like influencer engages with God daily. But...
Week 6 Mars Hill Week 6 This week in our study of Acts we’re going to examine Paul’s stay in Athens. After a series of troubling visits to Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea, Paul found himself in Athens waiting for his companions to join him. Taking advantage of the...
Giving generously means recognizing that God has given us gifts, talents, possessions, time, and influence to use for His purposes. We are merely stewards of what we have—it all belongs to God. Giving well means giving with open hands and hearts, trusting God to meet...
Study Guide Download Welcome to our Fall Bible Study of Paul’s Letter to the Ephesian Church! LifePoint’s mission is to influence people to find and follow Jesus with the goal of becoming Christ-like influencers. A Christ-like influencer engages with God daily. But...
Week 5Paul in PrisonWeek 5As we continue our journey through the book of Acts, we find Paul and Silas, his partner in ministry, in prison. They were arrested after casting a demon out of a girl who was being exploited by evil men who had found a way to make money from...
Relationships are central to the Christian Faith. The two greatest commandments in all of scripture are rooted in relationship – love God, love others. Jesus said that all of the words and laws of the Bible could be reduced to our need to love God and others. Indeed,...
Study Guide Download Welcome to our Fall Bible Study of Paul’s Letter to the Ephesian Church! LifePoint’s mission is to influence people to find and follow Jesus with the goal of becoming Christ-like influencers. A Christ-like influencer engages with God daily. But...
Week 4What Changes UsWeek 4 Everyone likes to be safe. Truthfully, there is a lot about “safe” to like. But “safe” very rarely changes us. Staying in a place of comfort and safety doesn’t change us in meaningful ways. Today we are going to look at an episode in Acts...
Our early life experiences, for better or worse, teach us how to love. Stumbling over the same irksome “dance steps” in their relationships, people usually have no clue there’s another way – a better way. Using attachment theory, experts Milan and Kay Yerkovich have...
Week 3PaulWeek 3 In the forefront of the Jewish authorities’ push to quell the spread of the early church, we find Saul. He is a Pharisee of Pharisees, high among the Jewish elite, a Jew among Jews. And he hates the church. He was complicit in Stephen’s murder and now...
This weekend, churches all across the globe are partnering with International Justice Mission (IJM) in Freedom Sunday. LifePoint is thrilled and honored to participate again this year and to host a very special guest speaker. Sean Litton serves as President of IJM,...
Study Guide Download Welcome to our Fall Bible Study of Paul’s Letter to the Ephesian Church! LifePoint’s mission is to influence people to find and follow Jesus with the goal of becoming Christ-like influencers. A Christ-like influencer engages with God daily. But...
Week 2StephenWeek 2 As the first church in Jerusalem grew, it faced both internal division and external opposition. Each of these problems was answered, in part, by Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit. Following the Spirit, Stephen responded in faith...
Loving others means taking action for someone else. We love others because God has loved us first, with extravagant, unconditional love. Love is meant to be given away in overflowing measure. God demonstrates His own love for us by sending Jesus to die for us. We...