Fall 2021
Dec. 5 - Dec. 24, 2023
Everything changed in a moment. When Jesus was born, He gave us the chance to be known, accepted, and forgiven. When we experience His love, we can’t help but come to worship.
Join Damascus Road this Christmas series for Come to Worship as we explore different postures and ways to worship God including lifting your hands, bringing your gifts, and bowing before Him as we come to worship the King.
Nov. 7 - Nov. 28, 2021
Trauma and suffering are encoded into the heart of Christianity. At Passover, we eat bitter herbs to remember the societal suffering of Israel during their exile in Egypt. Many of Paul’s letters to the early church were written against a backdrop of brutal religious persecution. And Christ’s sacrificial death is at the center of all we believe. The Bible is open and honest about the trauma experienced by God’s people. Yet, those accounts are not there to be needlessly painful or difficult. Stories of Biblical resiliency can be a great comfort to us when it comes time for us to eat our own bitter herbs.
As Christians, we’re offered a hope beyond mere survival, beyond the shadow of death. We can look to God with hope. God offers us a vision of how the world should, could, and will one day be. Let’s learn to set our eyes on that vision and live, not in resigned acceptance of things as they are, but in resilient hope of how they might one day be.
oct. 17 - Oct. 31, 2021
A "guilty Christian" should be an oxymoron -- Isn't that the whole point of why Jesus came? To wash away our sins? To make us white as snow? To take the judgement for our faults on his shoulders so that we didn't have to bear them on ours? Why then do so many Christians struggle with feeling ashamed, with feeling guilty for sins we've committed in the past? Why, though we profess to be forgiven, do we fail to feel forgiven?
Join Damascus Road as we explore what a verdict of "not guilty" really means.
Sep. 12 - Oct. 10, 2021
Most of us struggle with sharing the Gospel. We aren’t sure how. We’re intimidated. It can feel inappropriate and intrusive. Do they really want to hear this from me? So maybe we need to step back and re-learn how to share. Paul writes, “We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too” (1 Thessalonians 2:8 NLT). This is his mission strategy, to not only share the Gospel but to share his life with others as well. For Paul, sharing the gospel is not about stopping random people on the street or going up to the coworker or classmate he’s never talked to before and launching into a sermon. It’s about sharing his whole life with others.
Join Damascus Road as we explore what it really means to share the Gospel with others. We’ll examine what the Bible teaches us about partnering with God and understanding properly what we are and are not responsible for. Let us learn how to not only share God’s good news but our own lives as well.
Aug. 22 - Sep. 5, 2023
We are made for life together. Whether it’s in the family we were born into or the family we choose for ourselves, the way we craft our home life can nudge us towards God and others or further into isolation. If we want to craft a life of connection, character, and growth, we need to make some commitments: commitments to each other and to the way that we live together.
Join Damascus Road as we look at the three core areas we need to be committed to so we can craft a home life worth living.