Resources For Character

Text: 1 Kings 19:1-18

There is help for depression.

Text: Luke 15:11-32

Healthy relationships are inviting and provide space for free will.

A call to live with the settled assurance that comes from knowing who we are in Christ. Drawing from Hebrews 10:19–25, this message shows how Jesus gives believers a clean conscience, a secure identity, and full access to God’s presence. With humor, testimony, and down-to-earth teaching, it reveals how true spiritual confidence produces boldness before God, clarity in our witness, and commitment to the community that shapes us. Listeners are invited to move beyond uncertainty, anchor themselves in God’s promises, and embrace the courageous, steady life that grows from confidence in Christ.

An invitation to see Scripture not as an old religious text but as the living Word that reveals Jesus and draws believers into relationship with Him. It highlights how Scripture protects us from deception, exposes the enemy’s strategies, strengthens us against temptation, and equips us to navigate life with wisdom and clarity. Through vivid examples and biblical insight, the teaching shows how the Word shapes character, anchors identity, and becomes a lifelong source of guidance, joy, and spiritual resilience.

Here the focus turns to how apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers work together to equip the church. Each gift contributes something distinct, and the church matures when all are present, recognized, and allowed to function as Christ designed.

This session highlights the pastoral and teaching gifts, showing how they build stability, clarity, and care within the church. Shepherds nurture and guide people through life, while teachers ground the community in truth so it can grow with confidence.

This session brings the series together by showing how every believer has a part in the work of ministry. When leaders equip the church and people step into their God-given roles, the whole body grows stronger, healthier, and more effective in fulfilling Christ’s mission.

Explore how Scripture frames leadership as a calling rooted in character, service, and Spirit-empowered gifting.

Text: Psalm 50:7-15

Settle in your mind once and for all that God owns it all

Text: Matthew 6:24-34

Exercise your faith and it will chase away your worries

Text: Colossians 3:22-4:1

Let the Master be the motivation for your work.

Text: Proverbs 21:5

Slow and steady wins the financial race.

Text: Proverbs 22:7

Do everything possible to avoid the lure of the loan

Text: Proverbs 11:14

You must look for wise counsel rather than wait for it to come to you

Text: Proverbs 12:22

Honesty is the key that opens the door to intimacy

Text: Proverbs 24:27

Work for your money then get your money working for you

Text: Proverbs 21:20

Prepare for tomorrow so you can enjoy it when it arrives

Text: Proverbs 11:24-25

Joy is found not in hoarding but in sharing

Text: Proverbs 13:22

Your grandchildren will thank you for today’s wise choices

This opening session introduces the purpose and background of Hebrews, written to Jewish believers under pressure to abandon their faith in Jesus. The teaching highlights the book’s central aim: to show the absolute supremacy of Christ over angels, Moses, and every previous revelation, and to anchor weary believers by fixing their attention on Him.

Exploring Hebrews 3–4 and the theme of entering God’s rest. By looking back to Israel’s unbelief at Meribah and Kadesh Barnea, it warns against hardened hearts and calls believers to perseverance, mutual encouragement, and confidence in the salvation God provides. Rest is presented on several levels—from belonging to God, to trusting His grace, to anticipating the final eternal rest He promises.

Hebrews 8–9 opens a deeper look at Jesus’ ministry by contrasting old structures with the reality now found in Him. The teaching highlights a better sanctuary, a better covenant and a better sacrifice, showing how each Old Testament pattern pointed forward to Christ’s finished work. With the author’s pastoral heart in view, the focus remains on encouraging weary believers to see Jesus clearly and continue trusting Him.

Hebrews 11 explores faith through the lives of those who trusted God across generations. Their stories illustrate spiritual sight, endurance, obedience and hope, even when promises remained unfulfilled in their lifetime. Together, they form a witness that grounds Christian perseverance in God’s long, reliable faithfulness.

Hebrews 12 calls believers to run their race in light of the cloud of witnesses already described. The teaching ties endurance to God’s loving discipline, warns against bitterness and drifting and lifts the vision of the community toward the unshakable kingdom they belong to.

Romans is Paul’s fullest explanation of the gospel and its power to transform both individuals and communities. The teaching in this series explore Paul’s background, the purpose of the letter, and the tension-filled world of the Roman church — a divided, multi-ethnic congregation learning to live out the gospel together. With warmth and clarity, the session highlights Paul’s passion to preach Christ, his conviction that the gospel reveals God’s righteousness, and his confidence that this message is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. It invites listeners to approach Romans not as a textbook, but as a life-shaping proclamation of God’s rescue plan for the world.

This session walks through Paul’s argument in Romans 1:18–3:20, showing that all people—pagan, moral, and religious—fall short of God’s standard. The teaching traces themes like suppressing truth, the limits of moral effort, and the failure of the law to save. Paul’s conclusion is clear: humanity cannot fix its condition and needs a righteousness that comes from God.

Paul shifts from humanity’s problem to God’s solution in Romans 3:21–26. This session explains how God provides righteousness through faith in Jesus, rooted in the story of Scripture. The teaching explores redemption, propitiation, and how God remains just while declaring sinners righteous through Christ.

This session outlines what salvation includes: justification, sanctification, and glorification. The teaching explains how justification gives peace with God, access to grace, and hope in suffering. Paul’s repeated use of “therefore” shows how these truths shape the Christian life and confidence in God’s future work.

Romans 7 highlights the struggle between desire and ability. This session explains why the law cannot produce righteousness and why human effort falls short. Paul’s description of inner conflict prepares the way for the hope found in Romans 8.