Our vision for every Life Group is to have three dimensions. These three dimensions Jesus himself walked out: time with God, time with the body of believers, and time with those who do not know Jesus yet. Doing these together makes us truly family. The foundation is relationships.

The Church needs both the pastoral and apostolic in its fabric, nature, and life!

Peter has written these two letters (1st and 2nd Peter) in order to stimulate wholesome thinking. The Holy Spirit living in us must continually regenerate our minds. What we think about dictates much of our lives. We can have health in this area; we can be holy!

Our walk with the Lord is predicated on our ever-growing knowledge of God, therefore Scripture is paramount. Peter explains why we can have confidence in the reliability of Scripture and that we will do well to pay attention to it!

We are exhorted to clothe ourselves with humility toward one another, this is in the context of spiritual guidance. God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. What does that mean? We are told to humble ourselves under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift us up in due time. Without this humility we shut off the flood gates of grace in our lives and cease to grow in our discipleship. The Church is also stunted in its growth.

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

All Christians have a calling! Every person who is a disciple of Christ should impact those around them by the life they live, the words they speak, and the deeds they perform. There should not be a clergy and laity divide. We are living stones being built into a spiritual house, we are all equal. We also discuss "Black Lives Matter" as well.

We are God’s elect, chosen according to the foreknowledge of God, sanctified by the work of His Spirit. We are told we will suffer grief in all kinds of trials and that our faith will be refined. The goal of our faith- the salvation of our souls. His clear directive to us: Be holy! What is holiness? How can we be holy? We will examine these things.

Part 2- We continue to follow Elijah's supernatural adventure with hearing and obeying the word of the Lord. Elijah must return to face the rulers and false prophets who are keeping Israel from experiencing God's plan. He will experience the high point of his life and ministry, only to be thrust into deep despair. Sounds a bit like bi-polar disorder? Join us as we delve into what God wants us to learn about following Him, and obeying his Word.

Ecclesiastes 7:14 says, “In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: surely God has appointed the one as well as the other.” God redeems all things. He uses the adversity in our lives to conform us to the image of His Son. Make no mistake about it, we should count it all joy when we go through trials!

Jesus is alive forever more! Not only is He found to have been resurrected but also everything that the disciples were given also had resurrection life! Jesus sends His disciples out to tell all nations the good news. All people can join the kingdom! His last words are, “I will be with you,” hearkening back to the first chapter declaration- Immanuel- God is with us.

Jesus offers the greatest critique of the Pharisees’ hypocrisy. Don’t be a Pharisee. Stop acting. Be real.