Description: “With all the religious writings in the world why should I believe the Bible and not one of the other religious books?”  That’s not just a common question, but a really good question.  In this message we answer it.

Description: “Faith” or “believing” in Jesus, God, and the Bible as God’s Word is not a matter of blindly accepting something despite what the facts tell us.  Instead our faith is about following the evidence to where it leads.  In the end “faith” is because of the evidence not in spite of it.

Description: What does it mean for you when you feel a call from God to go deeper in your love for God and love for people?  When you look at other people who God has called and used, the step they almost always had to take was to make some kind of sacrifice.  We dig into a famous scripture text in this message to see how “to love means to make a sacrifice.”

Description: Where do you want to be more than anywhere else? The writer of Psalm 84 explains that His favorite place was the presence of God. The truth is, no matter who we are, our desire is the same. We’d rather be in God’s presence than any other place.

Description: Our understanding of belief and what God says belief is are sometimes two different things. We’re looking at an event in the book of Acts where God clarifies what He means by “belief.”

Description: Unforgiveness is strange because inside we’re trying to hurt the person who hurt us or somehow hold onto unforgiveness in the name of justice.  But the problem is unforgiveness mostly hurts us, not the one who hurt us.  There’s another big reason why it’s wise for us to be “forgivers.”  We’re digging into Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 18 to find out what this wisdom is.

Description: One of the strangest things about life obviously isn’t how long it is, but how short it is, especially compared to eternity.  The strangest thing of all is how this short little time called “life” determines the eternal  existence for each of us.  As we look at the book First Peter we discover that the knowledge of this reality is perhaps the single greatest principle of wisdom.

Description: We are more likely to find things when we’re looking for them. That little law of the universe is the basis for the most important principle we all need to learn in order to be people who God uses to connected lost people to Him.

Description: We can say we support a cause on facebook, or tell people we believe in something, but the biggest sign of our commitment is when we’re willing to do something for the cause. We know this world needs a change, and it’s the church’s responsibility to step in and make that change! Listen as we dig into the book of Acts and learn what Stephen did to really show he believed in what he said he believed in.

Description: Have you ever heard someone say (maybe you’ve said it) “I’m a Christian but I just don’t want to be a part of the church.”  While all of us understand people have had some legitimately bad experiences, the reality is it’s impossible to be a Christian and not a part of the church.  The book of Corinthians deals with this very question and we dig into “why” in this message.

Description:  A person’s experience with God’s people often determines whether they run to God or from God.  The story Jesus tells of the “prodigal” son is a window into why this happens.

Description: In life there are so many things we call urgent, but when we really evaluate there is one urgent thing that stands out above the rest. In the book of Colossians Paul directs believers to what really matters most. Learn how to live with urgency the way Paul did.

Description: Who we are determines what we do. When we remember who we are, what to do is the easy part. Paul tells the Colossians that once they remember who they are, they need to apply that paradigm to every area of their lives.

Description: Our hearts and minds are always going to be drawn to something. For some of us it is our careers, some of us are drawn to sports, and some of us are drawn to being in relationships. However, Paul writes the church in Colosse and tells them that because you have given your lives to Christ, your old self is dead, so set your mind and heart on things above. He tells them that everything they do should be held up against the backdrop of eternity because a new heart brings a new life.

Description:  It doesn’t do any good to run fast if you’re running in the wrong direction.  You can work hard, work well, do all the right things but in the end get nowhere.   But in this scripture we study in the message, it turns out there are ways to ensure that doesn’t happen.

Description: There’s probably hundreds of reasons to go to church, serve at church or even lead a church or start a church.  But there’s one feeling inside that drives us at lateCHURCH more than anything else.  In this message we talk about why we started lateCHURCH, why we’re still doing it, and what has happened so far.

Description:  Jim Lewis is the Director of the Old Savannah City Mission.  LateCHURCH partners with the mission in their program to bring people permanently out of homelessness and addiction.  In this message Jim continues our study of Colossians.

As we begin this study of the book of Colossians, we find out right away that there is one decision that all of must face.  Yes, there are all kinds of decisions in life we have to face.   For many of those decisions, we’ll make good choices and for many we won’t.  But all of those decisions put together don’t add up to the importance of this one single decision that every human being must face.