Growing People, Multiplying Leaders

E30 The Idolatry of Stress!

Squeezed - Week 2

5 years ago

We are doing this series called "Squeezed" to directly address the stress-filled culture we are living in right now in 2020. As the people of God, we are not meant to live under an existential dark cloud, waiting for the next catastrophe to strike. We are called to live with joy, faith, peace and a heart eager to learn and grow regardless of what is going on in our world today!

In today's message, we will contrast how the world views stress against what the word of God teaches. Regardless of where you go on Sunday, when we are stressed, who we truly worship is revealed! Do we face stress with distraction or do we center on the presence of Jesus?

Text: Genesis 28:16

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.