As we come to the end of another year, it’s natural to take stock of our lives and ask whether we’ve had a successful year. But how do we measure success? The Apostle Paul gives us a rubric for doing so in 1 Thessalonians.
Big Idea: Greatness in the kingdom is not defined by prideful ambition but by childlike humility.
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Big Idea: Our greatest need as believers is to know God better!
Big Idea: We come to the Lord's Table as a sign of our union with Christ and communion with one another.
Big Idea: Jesus is the King’s Son who forgoes His rights and pays our ransom tax so rely on Him and reflect Him!
Big Idea: The power for life and ministry is rooted in our complete reliance on Jesus and His Word!
Big Idea: Our future experience of glory is rooted in the grief of our glorious Savior.
Big Idea: The hope of salvation is built on Jesus’ sacrifice alone and not on our own.
Big Idea: Since Jesus is God and the only door into His Kingdom, the church must profess Him and proclaim Him!
Big Idea: Beware of your self-righteousness which blinds you to your ongoing need of Jesus!
Big Idea: Jesus affords hope to all who acknowledge their incurable disease, including the Gentiles.
Big Idea: Faith that results in genuine worship recognizes Christ as an abundant Lord and self as an undeserving sinner.
Big Idea: Your worship is determined by who you are! Unless God changes your heart your worship is useless!
Big Idea: God is determined to save sinners through ordinary people who preach Jesus Christ!
Big Idea: Trust Jesus fully even in impossible situations because He is God who is with us and saves us!
Big Idea: Jesus is a compassionate, resourceful, and all-satisfying Giver, so receive Him and give Him to others.
Big Idea: The fear of man is so crippling, it causes us to do things we never thought we could do.
Big Idea: The man of God upholds and protects the body of truth.
Big Idea: Christmas is a story of a big God who came as a humble Savior for the little, the common, and the fearful.
Big Idea: Rejoice in God because of who He is and because of what He has done!
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