A man signs up for a wilderness survival class expecting to learn how to start a fire with two rocks, and spends the whole time learning about water. Not just water, but the difference between water that flows and water that sits still until it turns dangerous. In the fourth week of Made Here, Brad Kirby uses that picture to show why the grace that made you new also made you an ambassador. What God pours into you was never meant to stop with you.
Read MoreMost of us believe the Bible matters. Living like we need it is another thing entirely. In week three of Made Here, Brad Kirby makes the case that being equipped in God's Word isn't reserved for pastors, theologians, or unusually serious Christians. Then he hands the morning to people who started with nothing and lets them show you what changed.
Read MoreIn the earliest days of the church, believers opened their homes, shared their meals, and met one another's needs as they came up. But it is possible to sit in a room full of people every week and still be completely unknown. In Acts 2, we see in the early church the difference between simply attending a church and truly belonging to one. Because the truth is, you can't become who God made you to be all on your own.
Read MoreWe wear the cross, hang it on our walls, and sing about grace almost every week. Somewhere along the way, the most stunning news in the world can quietly start to feel ordinary. In the opening message of Made Here, Brad Kirby walks through Ephesians 2 and asks what it really means to believe in Christ. It's a look at how God takes people who were spiritually dead and makes them new, and why that one truth changes everything about how we live.
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