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Every good work

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Christine McEvoy // Guest Speaker
2 Corinthians 9:6-15

As believers, we know that God gives to us abundantly and provides for all our needs. But what might it look like if we, through our abundance, found ways to provide for the needs of others? Guest speaker Christine McEvoy gives us new perspectives on generosity as an act of faith.

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Go…come…do this

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Go...come...do this
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Rev. Steve Cushing // Guest speaker
Matthew 8:5-11

What is the thing we call faith? Can we quantify it? Use it as currency to get what we want from God? No — faith is when we abandon what is comfortable and reach out for the Kingdom of God. Our guest speaker is Reverend Steve Cushing from the New England Seafarers Mission. Find out more about NESM: https://neseafarers.org/

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Redemption

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Revelations 21:1-5

The future is not filled with pain, tears, and death — it’s a future with laughter, joy and intimacy with God. That’s the power of redemption.

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Sanctification

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
1 John 3:1-3

Looking for real life transformation? There is a power that changes who we are and radically alters the way we respond to our circumstances: it’s Jesus.

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Discipleship

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Deuteronomy 6

Christian discipleship is about a better way to do life. Walking in the way of Jesus — and helping others do the same — isn’t easy, but it leads us to a life of truth and love.

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Faithfulness

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Ephesians 2:1-11

This is what it means for us to pledge our faithfulness to Jesus: a new life, a new relationship with God, and a new future – forever.

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Repentance

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Acts 2:1-41

No matter how strong, rich, or smart we are, we still can’t do it all on our own…but God can. There is no repentance or embracing of the truth, without God’s Holy Spirit.

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Evangelism

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Cindy Comiso // Associate Pastor
Acts 17:16-34

We know that God is good and His goodness is breaking through into our world. What is holding us back from sharing our hope and faith in Him?

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The Revival Life

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
2 Chronicles 7:11-16

Lost people returning to God, desperate people finding new hope…sounds good, right? But how badly do we want revival? Do we want God enough to earnestly and truthfully seek His face?

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Sovereign

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Isaiah 66:1-2 and 18-24

Let’s talk about the good news that God is in control even when it doesn’t seem like it, and His perfect will is, even now, breaking through into our broken world.

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Justification and belonging

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Galatians 2:11-21

Do I belong to God…or not? Am I “in” or “out?” If I’m basically a good person, is that good enough? Let’s explore what it means to give our allegiance to Jesus and be justified through unity with Him.

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Resurrection

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Romans 8:18-25

No idea or moment in history will have more impact than the day a living Jesus walked out of the grave. Resurrection is God bringing us hope.

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The rewards of fasting

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Matthew 6:16-18

God is the giver of all good things, and fasting is a spiritual practice by which we can access even more of the good things that He wants us to experience.

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Called to be free

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Galatians 5: 13-26

In Galatians, Paul writes about true freedom — not hedonism, but servanthood and submission that leads to closeness with God. How can we achieve this in our modern lives?

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Sabbath

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Exodus 20: 8-11

God offers us the practice of Sabbath — not a duty we have to submit to, but a gift given to us for flourishing. It’s both a rhythm for finding peace and a resistance against the pitfalls of a world that is always demanding that we do more, strive for more, want more, and take more.

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Out of the whirlwind

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Michael Chu // Guest Speaker
Selected passages from the Book of Job

Just when Job thinks that God does not care about him, God speaks — to show that He does care, He asks for our reverence, and He draws us near to His holy presence.

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Going deeper

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Job 28:1-28

The book of Job pushes us past questions like “Why do we suffer?” or “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Instead, we can take lessons from Job and lean into pursuing God’s wisdom for our lives.

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Jesus, the perfect Job

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Luke 24: 36-48

Why do we suffer? Through Jesus, we find that our world is built on the wisdom of a God who is able to take suffering and out of it create life and restoration.

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Making sense of the world

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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Job 12 and 13

“What did I do to deserve this?” When it feels like your world is falling apart, can you approach God with your anger and your pain? The answer is yes — Jesus makes a way for each of us to contend for the heart of God.

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After silence falls

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Michael Chu // Guest Speaker
Job 2:13 and Job 3:1-8

We often assume that showing our pain to God or others is a sign of weak or even collapsing faith, but nothing could be further from the truth. We learn from Job that when we have the courage to bring our genuine, broken selves to God, He draws us near to Him.

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