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Rescue Teaching Series – Spring 2012
Rescue Week # 1: Life at the Threshold of Hell
Israel was an unfaithful lover to God just as Gomer would be an unfaithful wife to Hosea. Both found themselves at the threshold of hell. Why do we end up in these places of pain and suffering? How do we understand this in light of a God we call loving? How does God rescue us from these places?
Rescue Week # 2: The God Who Never Gives Up.
Israel was the unfaithful lover to God and yet God continually, persistently, always, never gives up. God reveals this ultimately in the unfailing expression of his love for us when his Son Jesus comes for us to rescue us…
(Worship Pastor Darrell Pittman Teaching Today)
Rescue Week # 3: Rescue at a Shoney’s Diner
Hear the story of redemption and the power of God’s love…
Rescue Week # 4: Rescue from Death Itself
Out of the worst kind of death and suffering, God promises the power of new life. The story of redemption goes beyond life and extends through death itself. Paul picks up on the promise Hosea offers to Israel through Jesus Christ…
Rescue Week # 5: A Father’s Rescue
Jesus sits down to dinner with two groups of people and tells a parable about two sons. Both need to be rescued. Both require the rescue of a Father who loves them equally and without comparison or chastisement for their sins and faults…
Revive Teaching Series – Spring/Lent 2012
Revive Week # 1
Repentance. Not a word we use with lots of flowery language and joy. It’s on one hand, “I’m sorry,” or on the other hand “Turn or burn.” So just what is repentance and how did Jesus use it? Why does Jesus weep for Jerusalem when he talks about repentance? What might each one of us repent of? (Pete Marra Teaching Today).
Revive Week # 2: Repentance + Gilligan’s Island
Repentance is much about inviting God to change us from living out a false life, and into the life we were created to live so we may fulfill God’s purpose for our lives. To do this requires stopping and looking at everyone else’s sins, shortcomings, and failures, and realizing our own sins, shortcomings and failures.
Revive Week # 3: When Lost Things Are Found
Repentance is much about recognizing Jesus seems to have more to say about us joining the search for that which is missing, than it is for us to have the best seats at the banquet. Have you joined God in the search for the missing?
Revive Week # 4: When Jesus Goes to a Well
600 year old feuds over dishes. Sounds like a Biblical story doesn’t it? So Jesus meets a woman at a well – she thought she was his enemy, but he asks her for a drink. Just how big of a deal was this? And what’s up with those five husbands? Maybe repentance is about leaving wells of our past, present, or even future excuses…
Revive Week # 5: Thief
Two criminals. One on the right and the other on the left. We don’t know which one he was. We don’t know his crimes. But his words in the midst of the yells, taunts, and anger of the crowds brought forth one of the most powerful realities of God’s love: even in his death, Jesus is still reaching out to all of us thieves…
Revive Week # 6 Easter: Why Do You Look for the Living Among the Dead?
Why do you look for the living among the dead? That’s a big question. The women went to the tomb on Easter morning with a bag of spices in hand, expecting that Jesus was dead and still in the tomb. They expected that the movement was over. But new creation had come…
Tattooed Priests Teaching Series – Winter 2012
Tattooed Priests Week # 1
Holy Barbecues. We make sacrifices everyday. In the ancient world, sacrifice was a way of life. God has an entirely different idea of sacrifice: once the sacrifice is made, it’s over.
Tattooed Priests Week # 2
Big Curtains + Naked Priests. One day each year, one man in all of Israel went behind the curtain to be in God’s presence – to be in the most holy place on earth and bring the inner holy presence of God, outward to the normal and ordinary places and people. This was the practice year after year until a new high priest came and changed everything…
Tattooed Priests Week # 3
Worship. Before the ordination of the priests, they came to worship before God at the temple. What is your worship like? How do you worship? What needs to change in the way you worship? Worship Pastor Darrell Pittman teaches on worship today.
Tattooed Priests Week # 4
Tattooed Priests. In the ancient world, one could spot an Egyptian Priest from a mile away – they had tattoos all over their bodies. God’s call to us is to be a Kingdom of Priests and a holy nation. Everyone is a priest, and everyone is meant to create space in their lives and help create space in the lives of others for God. How well do your “tattoos” reveal the presence of God to those around you?
Tattooed Priests Week # 5
Whitewashed Tombs. That’s what Jesus later called them. People who have all the boxes checked on the list but the wrong kind of heart. There are two halves of the same life: the way to life through Jesus and the way of life in Jesus. The question is this: who do you follow – a list or Jesus?
Tattooed Priests Week # 6
The God of the Party. In Leviticus 23, there is an ongoing command: stop, rest, party, repeat. It happens weekly and at the three major feasts. Maybe there’s something here for us in our busy fast-paced lives today…are we batteries to be consumed and thrown away, or people, beloved and redeemed by God from the slavery of the human system?
Tattooed Priests Week # 7
Jubilee Part One: Politics + Economics. Faith and politics. The two subjects raise lots of eyebrows, suspicions, and challenges during election years. What is a priest to do with politics? How do we engage? Do we disengage? Politics tells us much about who is in charge and Israel had an entirely different way of doing life when it came to politics and economics…
Tattooed Priests Week # 8
Jubilee Part Two: Outreach + Evangelism. Evangelism. Not many like this word. It’s someone else’s spiritual gift. It’s too “in your face.” And yet, Jesus makes the proclamation at the start of his ministry that Jubilee has come. What might Jesus be asking us when his ministry starts with discipleship and ends with a Great Commission?
Twenty-Five Twenty-Two Teaching Series – Christmas 2011
2,522 Week #1
A promise to a priest. That’s where the whole story begins. Zechariah and Elizabeth were upright and blameless before God. After six months of preparation for one day of service in the temple, Zechariah is visited by a messenger of God. What happens is shocking…
2,522 Week # 2
The promise to a poor girl from Nazareth. That’s where the story gets better. The angel of God comes to Nazareth (Nazareth!?!) of all places and God puts the future of the universe in the hands of a 13 or 14 year old girl. Perhaps this says something about the nature of God’s promises…
2,522 Week #3
Pete Marra Teaching Today
What are you faithful for? There are lots of things that we can be faithful to or for, but what Mary and Elizabeth show us in Luke’s account of God’s promises to us goes way beyond…
2,522 Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve. It all starts with a scandal of a young girl and her to-be-husband who will be having a baby. Then no room at the inn. But where’s the real scandal in Christmas Eve?
Re-Enlist Teaching Series – November 2011
Re-Enlist Week #1
Vision. To know where you’re going, you’ve got to know where you’ve been. This week’s teaching looks to the past, present, and future, and considers the vision for the coming year at Revolution Church.
Re-Enlist Week #2
Re-Enlist. Heaven is about three things: worship, a community, and a community meal. Everything we do now is preparation for then. How are you using your time, talents, and gifts now to mirror what will one day be? Joni Way teaching today.
Re-Enlist Week #3
Clay. Part of the re-enlist process is being moldable in the hands of God. Do you put yourself in God’s hands? Are you pliable? Pete Marra teaching today.
Relevant Teaching Series – October 2011
Relevant Week #1
John 14:1-14. Trinity. There’s an easy word. You don’t find it in the Bible and yet this is the way that we understand God – Father, Son, Holy Spirit. How is one to begin understanding this? How do Father, Son, and Holy Spirit work in the world? What is God doing with us? For us? In us? We come to see a Divine Family inviting us in to the divine life…
Relevant Week #2
John 1:1-5, 14. In the beginning was the Word. This is a pretty powerful statement John made about Jesus. In the ancient world, the Greeks believed there was a “cosmic glue” that held everything together. John lets the world know that this glue is none other than Jesus…
Relevant Week #3
Ezekiel 37:1-14. Alive or living? There’s a difference. Ezekiel came across dry bones in a valley and God made them live. The Holy Spirit has been working from the time of creation, breathing new life into humanity, filling the prophets, priests, and kings of old, and the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead comes to us and gives us life. Are you settling for being alive…or are you truly living?
Relevant Week #4
Luke 15:11-32. Fathers. Some experiences of our earthly father are better than others. Some have been joyous. Some painful. In one of the most well recognized passages of Scripture we gain an understanding that our heavenly Father is unlike any other father we’ve ever known.
Relevant Week #5
Romans 2, 5, 12. Grace. It’s a tough word for today’s world. It’s so much easier to earn it, buy it, possess it, barter or trade for it. But grace isn’t about what we do or what we earn. It’s about what God has given – freely. God reveals himself to us. God responds to our needs so we can respond to God. And then God renews us. Grace. Not a moment of our lives goes untouched by the grace of God. It’s really that great.
Relevant Week #6
Ephesians 2:1-10. Kingdom + Resurrection. Near or Far? That’s an important concept we learn from the time we are little kids watching Sesame Street on television. It’s also important to our understanding of God. Is God near or far?
Rubble Teaching Series – September 2011
Rubble Week # 1 – Why?
Habakkuk 1:1-11. When evil and suffering happen to us our key question is this: why? Why did this happen? Habakkuk teaches us that the questions can draw us closer to God so that we behold him in the midst of the pain we feel.
Be the Revolution Send Out This Week: Brian Ebel
Rubble Week # 2 – What?!?
Habakkuk 1:12-2:5. When we watch evil, challenge, struggles, and suffering unfold before our eyes, the key question for God becomes this: what are you doing?!? Habakkuk teaches us that beyond the questions of trying to understand what is happening there is an opportunity to wait upon God and embrace him in the midst of the pain we feel.
Rubble Week # 3 – Worship!
Habakkuk 3:1-19. After asking why and beholding God, asking what!?! and waiting upon God to embrace him, there is in the midst of our waiting a new question…when? Habakkuk teaches us that when is the question of spiritual maturity – a question of deep trust and the recognition that God is at work. In the midst of when, we have the opportunity to worship the God who is bringing evil, suffering, and pain to an end…
