This Is Church: "How God Builds His Church: New Life"

Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast

August 25, 2024

Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

Colossians 2:14-15 “Both God’s love and God’s wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax — at the cross. Do you wish to see God’s love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God’s wrath? Look at the cross.” -DA Carson
“Learn to know Christ and Him crucified. Learn to sing to Him, and say, ‘Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am Your sin. You have taken upon Yourself what is mine and given me what is Yours. You have become what You were not so that I might become what I was not.’” -Martin Luther
Galatians 6:14 1 Corinthians 1:18 "Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close." -Bill Hybells
"The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it – to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible." -Chuck Colson KEEP LOOKING UP Colossians 3:1 "Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God." -Henri Nouwen
"Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you." -Charles Spurgeon Psalm 71: 1-3 (The Message Paraphrase) KEEP YOUR HEAD UP Colossians 3:2-11 "If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week." -Timothy Keller Philippians 3:12-16 (NET) ReplyForward