Living Stones
Growing People, Multiplying Leaders

E28 Our Ongoing Fight for Religious Liberty

Freedom Sunday

Americans are freedom loving people! We have enjoyed the freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our conscience since the founding of our great nation 245 years ago. Freedom has been part of the air we breathe!

You’re not free if your beliefs are confined to your mind. Everyone in world history, under every sort of regime has been “free to believe.” What makes America unique is our freedom to peacefully live out those beliefs, and the Constitution protects that freedom.

“I always strive to keep my conscience clear before God and man.” - Acts 24:16

E27 An Unstoppable Force

Special Delivery - Week 4

As we wrap up our series, Special Delivery, we circle back to the goodness of God and His desire and burden for the brokenness of His people! Are you excited to partner with the Holy Spirit to redeem His people and are you confident of His power to work through you?

“This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace.” - Colossians 1:6 NLT

E26 Believing the Father's Love

Father's Day 2021

This Father’s Day, Pastor Ronnie Johnson delivers a message on the Love of the Father. For many of us, we know lots of information about the Father’s love, but find it hard to believe that this love is available to us unconditionally and at all times. Pastor Ronnie shares about what it looks like to progress from simply knowing of the Father’s love to truly believing the Father’s love for us personally.

E25 Financial Blessing

Special Delivery Week 4

We have been focusing on learning to listen to the language of the Holy Spirit, so we can determine WHO the Lord wants us to touch and WHERE the special delivery takes place. Today we focus on one of the ways that God will use to demonstrate His goodness and greatness in someone’s life: financial provision from the Lord. God wants us to be thoughtful and generous with our resources, and He intends for us to use our money to display His goodness and faithfulness in miraculous ways! 

Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share. 1 Timothy 6:18 NKJV

E24 Understanding Heaven's GPS

Special Delivery Week 3

In our current series, we're talking about how God wants us to proactively partner with Him and to respond to the needs of the world by delivering His miracles. Today we talk about the specifics of following the direction of the Holy Spirit. How do we understand Heaven's GPS?

Text: Philip and his encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:26-39)

E23 The Mindset of Someone who Partners with God

Special Delivery- Week 2

Episode Notes

Before we get to the specifics of how to deliver the miracles, we need to first talk about some of our false mindsets that gets in the way.We need to do the difficult work of internal change, so that we can be ready for the practical steps. Today we will be talking about 4 shifts in mindset if we are wanting to partner with God to deliver His miracles!

“My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working” - John 5:17

E22 Redeemed to Partner with God

Special Delivery - Week 1

What if God’s plan was for ordinary believers, like you and me, to partner with Him to deliver miracles to others?

What if the Lord actually wanted you to experience them on a more regular basis? God did not place you on this earth to notice Him at work only once or twice in your whole life. He wants this to be a lifestyle!

The truth is, you were born to live a supernatural life doing God’s work by God’s power.

“The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.” - 2 Chronicles 16:9 NLT

E21 Celebration Sunday

Now - Week 5

You can’t out-give God.

God came up with the idea of multiplication.

If you give him your time, he multiplies it. If you give him your money, he multiplies it. If you give him your talent, he multiplies it. If you give him your energy, guess what? He multiplies it.

It’s the same principle as planting seeds.

“You won’t regret it. No one who has sacrificed his home, spouse, brothers and sisters, parents, children – whatever – will lose out. It will all come back multiplied many times over in your lifetime. And then the bonus of eternal life!” (Luke 18:29-30 MSG)

E20 Kingdom Life: Righteousness, Peace, and Joy

Mother's Day 2021

Join us for our Mother's day service as we unleash Marion Johnson as our special speaker for today!

E19 Be Strong and Courageous

Now - Week 4

Moses took the Israelites out of Egypt, Joshua would lead them into the promised land. The Jordan served as a boundary between what the Israelites presently had and what God had promised them on the other side. Symbolically in Scripture, the Jordan represents decision. They are ashamed of their past and afraid of their future. This is a NOW moment. Will they seize the opportunity their parents missed?

“Be strong and courageous, for you are the one who will lead these people to possess all the land I swore to their ancestors I would give them. Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do. Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” - Joshua 1: 6-9

Launching in 1981 as just 30 people in a living room in Northwest Indiana, Living Stones has grown into a vibrant multi-generational church family. Stones are a product of God the Creator — formed in nature and no two are alike. As we come to faith in Jesus Christ, scripture tells us that we are like living stones in the hand of God and He is using us to build up a spiritual house. Our foundation was built on the work of nurturing and restoring healthy, biblical marriages. In continuing that mission, everything we do here at Living Stones is centered around loving, healing, and equipping individuals and families to grow into a greater likeness of Christ Jesus! By the Holy Spirit, we exist today to Renew Hearts, Restore Homes, Reform Culture and Reach the Nations with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:4-5 ”As you come to him who is the Living Stone — he was rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious — you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house.” We are a family — misfits, hypocrites, creatives, addicts, reformers, over-churched, unchurched, wanderers — each of us a stone, uniquely crafted by the hand of God, made alive through Jesus, and now living by the power of the Holy Spirit. Together, we are Living Stones.