This opening session lays the foundation for a biblical understanding of spiritual gifts by exploring why the gifts matter, how they function in the body of Christ, and what healthy use of the gifts looks like today. The teaching helps listeners step into the journey with faith, humility, and expectancy as they discern how the Spirit has uniquely equipped them.

Drawing from God’s pattern of calling leaders, this message shows how His direction often requires a reordering of our location, our spiritual condition, and our priorities. Accepting God’s call touches time, talents, and resources, and often presses against personal comfort. True leadership begins with surrendering to God’s rearranging work so His purposes can take root.

Text: Psalm 50:7-15

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

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.

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.

An overview of the world between Malachi and Matthew, tracing how empires rose and fell, cultures collided, and Israel lived through centuries of upheaval and longing. This session shows how Persian policy, Greek influence, Maccabean revolt, and Roman rule shaped the world Jesus would enter, revealing why the Gospels unfold the way they do and why Israel’s anticipation for a Messiah burned so intensely.

Text: Proverbs 6:16-19

Whatever you do avoid causing division.

Text: Hebrews 6:2

Your capacity for input depends largely upon your output.

This opening session establishes the foundation for prophetic ministry by contrasting lifeless idols with the living God who continually speaks. Participants explore the many ways God communicates through Scripture, creation, angelic messages, His own voice, and the Holy Spirit. The teaching emphasizes that genuine prophecy always aligns with the written Word and can never contradict it. This session introduces prophecy as hearing God and sharing His message, awakening a sense of wonder that the God of the universe chooses to speak to His people.

Text: Daniel 3

God is calling us to trust Him through thick and thin.

Text: Revelation 2:1-7

Make sure that your relationship with Jesus is top priority.

Text: Daniel 1:1-21

Heaven calls us to be different so we can make a difference.