MAde for more (life)

College Pastor Drake Wayland, shows us in Ephesians chapter 2 how we are all sinners and deserve to die and suffer eternal punishment. But Christ through His love has saved us to redemption to live a life for His glory. God is not willing any should perish but that all should come to repentance through Christ, we are made for more, by giving up our desires for Christ.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND

Speaker Chris Hurt expresses the importance of making our mind up on issues that we face in culture. The culture is continually dragging us away from walking with Christ and living the Christian life Gods calls us to. Are we willing to step away from the culture and make up our mind for Jesus?

the “s” word

Speaker Chris Hurt dives into relationships and how God designed sex for the man and woman in a covenant before God in marriage. God calls us to a life of purity in and out of marriage, as the cultural norm is that sex is a normal thing out of marriage. God challenges us to see sex as a healthy and beautiful thing He created within a specific boundry to glorify Him!

Spiritual Disciplines

Speaker Chris Hurt calls us to judge the life we live and to evaluate the spiritual disciplines that Jesus calls all believers to practice. Christ invites us into a new life after salvation that glorifies Him, we are led through this by the Holy Spirit to reflect the change God has done through the cross. What disciplines can you add to your life to show the change that Christ has accomplished inside of us?

Life of a believer

College Pastor Drake Wayland dives into what life looks like after accepting Jesus as Savior, as many struggles in this life will happen. As we face adversity we are called to lean upon God’s strength to trust He will guide us to the promises He’s given us. Jesus calls us to give up our own life for His sake because as He gave up His life we must be willing to die with Him.

1 John 5- Jesus is the true god

College Pastor Drake Wayland shows how Jesus is the true and living God who came down from heaven to meet us where were at. He knows the pain and suffering we’ve gone through, allowing Him to relate to us as the God who reached down to save us. It’s never about who we are or what we do but about what Jesus did on the cross for humanity.

1 John 4- perfect love

College Pastor Drake Wayland breaks down 1 John 4 on how we are called to test the spirits whether they are of Christ or the world. Anyone who confesses that Jesus has come in the flesh and that He is the Son of God is truly saved, the one who does this truly is saved by Jesus sacrficie on the cross. We also showcase our love by how we show God’s love in our life to others in loving our neighbor.

1 John 3:11- love one another

Chris Hurt shows us in 1 John 3:11 that we are called to love another just as Jesus has, to work together for God’s glory. Be willing to do something for others not just by our speech, but by our actions showing our love for others. If we follow our own heart it is deceitful and hurtful to others along with ourselves. Our actions always flow from our identity, so are you identifying with Jesus or your own heart?

1 John 3: Child of God

Chris Hurt goes over the process of being transformed to a new person in Christ, to not live the current life of sin, but to be free in Jesus. Once we are saved we are called to actually change in pursing a relationship with Christ give us the evidence and confidence to know we are rooted in Jesus sacrifice on the cross.

1 John 2:15-29 It’s all about Jesus

College Pastor Drake Wayland addresses the temporary pleasures the world gives and chooses the life Christ offers with freedom from sin. Jesus gives us the confidence to pursue on to the end and to persevere as Christ conquered on our behalf taking us from death to life.

1 John 2: Live Like Jesus

College Pastor Drake Wayland dives into the topic of how we live our life for Jesus as a result of how we love others because of the love He has for us. It’s never too late to accept Christ and there isn’t any sin that He didn’t pay for, on the cross He shed His blood so all could be saved that accept Him.

1 jOHN 1: fELLOWSHIP WITH GOD

College Pastor Drake Wayland kicks off the semester in 1 John diving into the relationship with the Light of the World, who is Jesus the Messiah. We can know that we have Jesus by the actions that come from our faith, and how His Holy Spirit changes us from the inside to know the Father. We can only know the Father by placing our faith in His Son who died for our sins on the cross.

Focus on the finish: Week 2

College Pastor Drake Wayland calls us to be disciplined as Paul is active in his faith, to stay in the race of faith to pursue God and His commands. After we are saved, we are then given a direction to follow who is Jesus, as He lived a perfect life to honor the Father so we must do in living out God’s purpose.

Focus on the finish: WeeK 1

College Pastor Drake Wayland dives into 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 on the topic of fighting the Christian fight to live for Christ glory as Satan tries to get us off the path. We are called to finish the race that is set before us, to spread the Gospel and persevere through the hard times that we face as God is always with us.

Uncomfortable: week 3

Speaker Chris Hurts follows up with what is the next step in our life that God is calling us to. Just as Jesus, in Matthew 14:22-33, called Peter to go out of the boat onto the water Jesus calls us to take the next step of faith in our life. Whatever the next step is whether salvation, baptism, or the call of life we are to choose to have faith in Christ.

Uncomfortable: Week 2

Speaker Chris Hurts discusses the uncomfortable faith that Abraham had to have to trust God’s plan for his life. We are called to the next step in life and God wants to be the center of that decision, so we must be willing to go forward in God’s promises even when we don’t understand how He’s working in our life.

Uncomfortable: WeeK 1

College Pastor Drake Wayland expresses the uncomfortable decisions and seasons of life that we as Christians must face. In John 13:1-17 we see Jesus wash the Disciple’s feet as He has become the servant of all, this calls us to be uncomfortable by doing the lowest of acts to be servants. We are not called to what we desire in life, but to completely give up everything to run after the Savior of Life.

Theology: Heaven

Speaker Chris Hurts illustrates the beauty of what the Bible says about Heaven. As the believers, those who have placed their faith in Christ as Savior will inherit eternal life because of what Christ did on the cross. As Revelations describes God’s great throne with Jesus, who is the Lamb will be in its midst, ruling and reigning to this very day.

Theology: Hell

Guest speaker Chris Hurt dives into what the Bible says about Hell, as it is one of the most talked about subjects that Jesus addressed while fulfilling His ministry on the Earth. We see from the story of Lazarus and the rich man a picture of what Hell looks like in Luke 16:19-31. To escape death and Hell which is a result of sin, we must trust in our Savior and acccept the Lord Jesus that God rose Him from the dead.

Theology: Baptism

This week college Pastor Drake Wayland goes into repentance and baptism in Acts 2 as Peter spreads the Gospel at Pentecost to the multitude. Baptism fulfills all righteousness as Jesus gave us the example that baptism expresses our decision that we made to believe in Christ. Baptism is for believers who have accepted Christ and in obedience to His command get baptized to show outwardly the inward change.

Theology: God’s Word

In this new series, College Pastor Drake Wayland expresses the great wisdom and knowledge we gain from reading God’s Word. As we see in the parable of the sower, God’s Word lands in different ways in our lives, but His will is for it to be planted on good soil. The good soil is where it takes root and is firm in our hearts to not just hear but to be doers of God’s Word.

Jesus is the Light: Week 2

Speaker Chris Hurts discusses in Acts 16 the story of Paul, Silas, and Timothy spreading the Gospel to strengthen the church in numbers. We should be in a community of believers who push us to go out of our comfort zone and witness for Christ. As Christ called multiple disciples to work as a team, our goal too should be to find our people to tell others about the Light of God.

Jesus is the Light: Week 1

College Pastor Drake Wayland preaches about how as followers of Christ we are to be the light in the world by spreading the gospel. Christ should be the light in our lives to do the great commission to spread the good news to all nations. The outcome of following the Light should produce a completely different life that glorifies God in every aspect.