BECOME SERMON SERIES
Series Synopsis
Finding freedom in Jesus is so transformative it can only be described as being born again—but it's just the beginning. Everyone who belongs to Jesus is invited to become like Jesus. In this series we'll learn to practice the ways and rhythms of Jesus in the form of classical spiritual disciplines. We'll learn to position ourselves daily before God for the purpose of encounter, spiritual formation, and becoming like the One we follow.
Spiritual Disciplines WEEKLY Calendar
This weekly calendar is designed to help you bring the Spiritual Disciplines into your whole life. This isn’t an exhaustive list of every spiritual discipline, but rather meant to give you a framework for you to build upon. We encourage you to continue finding and implementing new spiritual disciplines in the days to come. As you cultivate habits, these things will turn from something you “should do more” to practices you love and relish. Theories shape our ideas about life, but habits shape us from the inside out.
This resource corresponds with many of the Spiritual Disciplines highlighted in this sermon series. The sermons explain several disciplines in depth, so they are a helpful resource when using this calendar.
An Explanation of The Artwork
This beautiful artwork was created by Storytelling & Visual Arts Team member Vania Ayala.
When we make the decision to follow Jesus and accept him into our hearts, we become new creations.
BECOME: CELEBRATION
Josh Dool / November 24, 2019
Psalm 16:5-11
In this final week of our ‘Become' series we'll look at how the purpose of the disciplines is that they would lead us to deeper joy in Christ, and how God's desire is that this joy would manifest itself through the discipline of Celebration.
BECOME: CONFESSION
Matt Menzel / November 17, 2019
Psalm 51:1-19
In this sermon we will unpack confession, a classical spiritual discipline that Jesus had no need of but invited us to practice for our own joy. We will see that the ongoing practice of confession is a path to true freedom, a way to walk out our hope in Jesus, and a doorway to our God-gifted purpose in life.
BECOME: SERVICE
Josh Dool / November 10, 2019
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
As we examine the Spiritual Disciple of Service we'll see how God uses it to remake us so that we are more oriented around God and others than ourselves. We’ll take a look at how service overflows from the heart as a result of feasting more on the treasures of eternity than the treasures of today, and examine how/why we should engage in the discipline of service.
BECOME: SECRECY
Matt Menzel / November 10, 2019
Matthew 10:16-19
In this sermon we will unpack one of the faulty stories of our culture that has many of us living for attention from others instead of relationship with God. Jesus invites us to live out of a better story (the Gospel) and cultivate new desires through the spiritual practice of secrecy.
BECOME: WORSHIP
Matt Menzel / October 27, 2019
Psalm 150:1-6
In this sermon we'll unpack the nature of true worship and explore why we should hunger to worship in spirit and truth.
BECOME: SIMPLICITY
Matt Menzel / October 20, 2019
Luke 12:22-34
In this sermon we will explore Jesus call to seek his Kingdom before anything else. What does that mean in a world as obsessed with accumulation as ours? What truths are Jesus' followers meant to build their lives on to show the world what real life looks like?
BECOME: STUDY & MEDITATION
Aaron Boswell / October 15, 2019
Acts 2:42-48, 1 Timothy 4:7b
In this sermon we’ll examine the spiritual discipline of fasting, the feast that God has prepared for us, and the things that we are often tempted to satisfy our appetites with.
BECOME: FASTING
Josh Dool / October 7, 2019
Matthew 4:1-11
In this sermon we’ll examine the spiritual discipline of fasting, the feast that God has prepared for us, and the things that we are often tempted to satisfy our appetites with.
BECOME: PRAYER
Matt Menzel / September 29, 2019
Matthew 6:9-13; Daniel 9:17-19
In this sermon we'll examine the obstacles of praying as Jesus taught us and the power of prayer in setting us free.
BECOME: SILENCE & SOLITUDE
Matt Menzel / September 22, 2019
1 Kings 19:1-14
In this sermon we'll examine the purpose and practice of silence and solitude in the Christian life.
BECOME: SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES
Matt Menzel / September 15, 2019
Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 8:18-22
In this sermon we'll focus on the nature of our 'labour' as disciples of Jesus by unpacking a brief theology of spiritual disciplines.
BECOME: LOVE, LIVE, LABOUR
Matt Menzel / September 9, 2019
Matthew 22:34–40; Joshua 22:5; 24:14-15
This sermon will explore what we want to become as a local church in this time and place. We'll lean on our two recent series through Matthew and Joshua to see our call to become a people who love God with heart, soul, mind, and strength. Who live as conduits of Jesus' presence on earth. And who labour toward the renewal of all things.