Bethel Community Church Orlando

Family Ties: Common Cause

All families have one thing in common: conflict. Conflict within the family is often complicated and complex. With every problem we face, God has given us directions on how to deal with it in the best way. So, "What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you?"

Family Ties: What Can I do to Help?

If you knew that asking a simple question was the key to a great family, would you ask it? The word submission often gets a negative reaction, but Ephesians 5 gives us a biblical example of mutual submission that isn't negative at all. It's actually the cornerstone for the ideal family. Practically, we can benefit our family members by regularly asking them this one question. 

Family Ties Series Introduction

You don't come from an ideal family. You haven't created the ideal family. There is real and there is ideal, and there is a gap between them. There is real and there is ideal, and there is a tension between them. And it is a tension we dare not resolve, because the future of our families depend on it. 

Pursuing Christ with Passion

Indifference. Lack of passion. It's something we all struggle to overcome. Sometimes we lack passion in our spiritual life. We will see that pursuing Christ with passion brings true joy. If we are passionate about something, we will urgently and sacrificially pursue it. When we are actively looking for Christ’s rule in our life, we are much more likely to find it.

The Goodness of God

What would happen if we lived in the reality of God's goodness? When we feed on God's goodness, we can truly experience who God is. "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!"

Twisting the Truth // Week 5: IT'S NO MISTAKE

Sin is "a willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle." But we don't like to think of ourselves as sinners. We like to think that we're mistakers who need to do better. The truth is that we are all sinners with no hope if we depend on our efforts and our righteousness. When we embrace the fact that we're a sinner, we are able to engage in God’s grace, forgiveness, pardon for sin, and have a personal relationship with our Savior, Jesus.

Twisting the Truth // Week 4: SAYS WHO?

Another way that the unseen world affects our seen world is through authority. God is at work through human authority: the good and the bad. We will see that how we respond to authority is a spiritual issue.

Twisting the Truth // Week 3: IT'S ONLY PHYSICAL

Culture is always pushing us away from the life-giving message of the Gospel. Culture tells us that sex is only physical. That it’s just an activity. However, God created sex, and His view is different than culture's.

Twisting the Truth // Week 2: FACING FORWARD

One way the invisible world impacts our visible world is through pain. We are tempted to examine our pain, suffering, and loss within the context of our own life. However, God has given us three big dots: in the beginning, in the meantime, and in the end. These three dots give us the context for all of the suffering we will experience in this world. 

Twisting the Truth // Week 1: ALL IS NOT AS IT SEEMS

There’s an invisible world that impacts our visible world every single day. This earth has been placed under the authority of a personality that Jesus refers to as the Devil. The Devil's agenda is the end of human life, and the means by which he accomplishes that is deception.