Meekness is the Christian’s response to the Father’s power, plan, and purpose in Christ

Humility creates fertile soil for all other virtues (including kindness) to flourish, as our eyes look away from ourselves and are fixed on Christ.

The primary purpose of the gifts of the Spirit are not to merely manifest God’s power, but to mainly manifest Christ’s love.

God's plan was to take the wilderness that Zechariah and Elizabeth experienced and use it to bring John the Baptist into the world, the greatest prophet of the entire OT, so that he could pave the way for the Messiah.

We prioritize godliness over giftedness, so that our giftedness can bring God the most glory and bring our Church the most godly good.

The power of the Spirit enables us to experience the love of the Father.

Spiritual people are not spiritual because of their great gifts; they are spiritual because of their great salvation.

God created men and women to be equal in their value, different in their gender and distinctive in their roles and in their mission to display the gospel and we glorify God when we celebrate and demonstrate those truths in our homes and in our church.

"In whatever you do, do all for the glory of God."

We are committed to the teaching of God’s Word because we are called to transfer God’s Word to the coming generations.

Remembering who Jesus is and what He accomplished for us reminds us of who we are and how we are to live for Him.

Flee from idolatry by fleeing to Christ so that you will have the grace you need to fight against the day to day schemes and seductions of the devil.

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

We fight the temptations produced by presumption and pride through the power of persevering grace in Christ.

God calls us to become all things to all people that by all means we might save some for the sake of the gospel.

The Apostle Paul demonstrates subjecting your personal rights to the sake of the gospel

We must know God's truth so that we can display God's love, even when it requires us to limit our liberties.

We must know God's truth so that we can display God's love, even when it requires us to limit our liberties.

God supplies us with contentment in Christ so that whether we are single or married, we can live lives of undivided devotion to Him as we wait for His return.

God gives us grace to see the gospel as both the model and the motivation for our marriage.

God uses the gospel to give us grace to make Christ to center of our marriages, not ourselves.

The one who fears the Lord will always be secure.

Be content in the situation or circumstance in which you were called - God's call to salvation and faithful service to Him is independent of one's state (situation or circumstance).

Heavenly Father, thank you for the grace that uses my circumstances to sanctify me; please give me the grace to sanctify my circumstances to glorify You.

God calls husbands and wives to regularly celebrate their marriage covenant by coming together in their one flesh union to serve their spouse, stop sinful temptation, and silence satan's lies.

Christ purchased us for God through the death of His body on the cross so that we could glorify God through our bodies for the sake of cross.

Be who you are in Christ, not who you were before Christ.

Because Christ suffered the greatest wrong to forgive our sins, we can suffer great wrongs by forgiving one another so that the world will know we are Christians by our love.

The Church is called to display Christ's love by rescuing the sinful, growing the godly, and declaring the gospel.

God calls us to be spiritual fathers and mothers who demonstrate His love through Christ-centered lives that compel imitation.

God gives us great comfort in being citizens of Christ’s already and not yet Kingdom so that we can have great courage in living cross-centered lives right now.

God calls us to put off self-exalting pride and put on self-forgetting humility by remembering God's glorious grace.

Remembering the resurrection replaces the fear of the death with the hope of eternal life and empowers us to live for the glory of Christ today.

God calls pastors to be examples of what it means to be servants of Christ who faithfully steward the responsibility and privilege of giving the gospel to God's people.

God calls all believers to be builders of Christ's church.

Overview: When our eyes have been opened to the extravagant worth of Jesus, we live to declare his extravagant worth to a watching world. We do this by giving who we are and what we have in loving adoration and humble worship of Jesus.

The spiritual maturity of a Christian is centered on Christ crucified and revealed by the Holy Spirit.