Most people in our modern-day world pursue paths that are neat, safe, and predicable. You are to go to school, make good grades, get a scholarship to college, graduate and get a job...in the field of your major, get married, buy a house, have children, retire, live comfortably on our pension, see the grandkids during the summer, die, and go to heaven, and it’s all supposed to happen in that order. And because we live our lives that way, inside the lines, we assume that the path that God has for us is neat, structured, and clean. God’s will for our lives must conform to this pretty trajectory for life that we imagine for ourselves, and we struggle to accept or to do anything that is presented to us that is outside those lines. The problem with this perspective is that we do not serve an inside the lines kind of God. The God captured in Scripture is a God who challenges His children to think outside the conventional frameworks in order to reach other people and honor Him with the way we live.
When God Colors Outside The Lines
Hosea 1:1-3
March 28, 2021 • Dr. Delman Coates
Shine Bright Like A Diamond
April 14, 2024 • Dr. Delman Coates • Matthew 5:14–16
Light is the first entity that God created. This suggests that the darkness we are in should not cause us to feel resigned to futility; it should not cause us to throw up our hands in surrender. For when things are at their darkest, God is just starting to move. When things are at their worst, God is just beginning to turn things around. We can trust that there is something on the other side of darkness, and what’s on the other side is going to be better, brighter, and bigger than what existed before.
I'm Salty
April 7, 2024 • Dr. Delman Coates • Matthew 5:13
When Jesus called His followers “salt,” He actually bestowed upon us a badge of honor. He was giving them then and us now a sense of our identity, purpose, and function in the Kingdom. He was saying that when people ask who you are as a believer, you should be able to tell them, “I’m salty.” Being salty is not something bad, it’s something good. When we’re salty, we’re living the way Jesus commanded us to in His Word. But how do you know if you’re living a salty life? Well, that’s what we’re going to look at in this message.
The Greatest Comeback Of All Time
March 31, 2024 • Dr. Delman Coates • John 20:1–10
Jesus Christ orchestrated the greatest comeback in the history of the world. And there is no event in history more memorable and none more life-changing. And as we read the story of His comeback, we can learn so much about what it will take for Him to help us with the comeback we’ve been waiting for in our own lives. So in light of that, we are going to look at three things that need to happen if we want to experience a God-sized comeback.