Sermon by Michael Bailey on January 4, 2026.
This Sunday we wanted to reflect on how God has been incredibly faithful and kind to our church family over the past 10 years. As we celebrate what He’s done we also look ahead at what He will do next.
JOHN
The book of John is a firsthand account from one of Jesus’ closest friends—someone who walked with Him, heard His voice, saw His miracles, stood at the cross, and ran to the empty tomb — so that “you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God” (John 20:30). At its heart, the Gospel of John invites us not only to know the facts about Jesus but to encounter His love in a way that changes how we see ourselves, our purpose, and the world around us.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: The Word Made Flesh
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Week 2: John the Baptist
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Week 3: Follow Me
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Week 4: Water into Wine
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Week 5: Cleansing the Temple
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Week 6: You Must Be Born Again
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Week 7: The Women at the Well
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Week 8: The Pool of Bethesda
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Week 9: The Bread of Life
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Week 10: The Jesus Dilemma
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Week 11: The Light of the World
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Week 12: The Man Born Blind
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Week 13: The Good Shepherd
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Week 14: Lazarus & Resurrection Life
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Week 15: The Escalation
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Week 16: The Triumphal Entry
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Week 17: What True Greatness Looks Like
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Week 18: The Shape That Love Takes
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Week 19: The Way Home
Advent Guides
Advent is the season of anticipation in the church calendar—a time to prepare our hearts to celebrate the arrival of Jesus, the promised Messiah and Light of the World.
This digital Advent guide is designed to help you engage with Scripture daily, reflect, and pray, either on your own or as a family. It includes a daily Scripture reading plan along with a Family Advent Wreath/Candle Lighting Guide.
Jonah | The Really Bad Prophet
The book of Jonah has captivated and perplexed audiences for generations. It’s often understood as “that story about a guy who got swallowed by a whale.” But truth be told, there’s so much more going on than that. At its core, Jonah is a story about a prophet who calls others to repent but refuses to repent himself. And ultimately, about a God who will go to extreme measures to try and change that about him.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: You Can’t Outrun God
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Week 2: The Pit and the Promise
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Week 3: Overthrown By Mercy
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Week 4: The Scandal of Grace
Ecclesiastes | And the Power to Enjoy
In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon pulls no punches. Though he has access to more wealth, prestige, experiences–though he has more accomplishments than most humans ever will–he finds the end result of them all severely lacking. “Vanity,” he says. Meaningless. A striving after the wind.
In chapter 5, he notes there is a difference between having wealth and possessions and “power to enjoy them” (Eccl 5:19). The whole book seeks to answer the question, how do we, as finite humans who all face the certainty of death, get the power to enjoy the imperfect lives we have?
The only answer, which we’ll trace through the major movements of the book, is to live with a perspective that is beyond the sun, rather than under the sun. To have our eyes set on the eternal, not the earthly.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Is This It?
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Week 2: That Won't Fix You
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Week 3: Toil, Vexation and the Gift of Joy
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Week 4: Everything In Its Season
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Week 5: Two Are Better Than One
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Week 6: The Disease of More
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Week 7: Keeping the End in Mind
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Week 8: The End of the Matter
After the Cross of Christ
Because of Jesus' resurrection, everything has changed.
In our previous sermon series, we unpacked the significance of Jesus' atoning death on the Cross. For this series, we're shifting our focus to a short period immediately after Jesus' death and resurrection, and all that entails for us as we grow in following Jesus together.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Breakfast on the Beach
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Week 2: The Road to Emmaus
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Week 3: The Ascension
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Week 4: Pentecost
Stand-Alone | Easter 2025
Sermon by Michael Bailey on April 20, 2025.
Our church family spent Easter Sunday together, celebrating our Risen Savior! Baptism videos from the Easter Gathering and this week's LifeGroup Guide are below.
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The Cross of Christ
It has been said that the Atoning work of Jesus is like a multi-faceted diamond. What Christ accomplished on the cross is massive, and its window into the heart of God is grand. In this series, we study the many things Jesus’ death and resurrection achieved as we prepare our hearts and minds for Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Substitution
Week 2: Expiation
Week 3: Redemption
Week 4: Adoption
Week 5:
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Week 6:
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JAMES
To faithfully follow Jesus, our faith must be marked by action. Our belief should lead us into good works and obedience. In the book of James, we are challenged by the brother of Jesus to examine the authenticity of our faith and to ensure that it fills each area of our everyday lives.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Consider it Joy (James 1:1-12)
Week 2: When He Is Tempted (James 1:13-18)
Week 3: Be Doers of the Word, and Not Hearers Only (James 1:22-2:13)
Week 4: Is It Faith? (James 2:14-26)
Week 5: Taming the Tongue (James 3:1-18)
Week 6: What Causes Quarrels Among You? (James 4:1-12)
Week 7: You Are a Mist (James 4:13-5:6)
Week 8: Establish Your Hearts
Known and Loved
“Known and loved.” That’s a powerful phrase.
At some level, all of us are looking for places in life where we feel known and loved. Some of us have that, and some of us don’t. Others of us are looking for that in family, romance, friendships, or any number of things - and have felt hurt or betrayed in the process.
And yet, the beauty of Scripture says this is what Jesus offers us when we follow Him.
For this series, we’ll spend three weeks looking at how Scripture calls us to be known and loved by God, known and loved by each other, and making Jesus’ love known to our neighbors.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Known and Loved by God
Week 2: Known and Loved by Others (1 John 4:7-12, 19-21)
Week 3: Knowing and Loving Our Neighbors
Revelation | The Advent of Jesus
SERMONS | ADVENT PROJECTS | RESOURCES | TEXT-IN QUESTIONS
The word Advent means “arrival,” and this time of year, the global church celebrates the arrival of the birth of Jesus. But this celebration is not an end in itself. It’s a reason to hope as we look ahead to the second Advent - the return of Jesus.
For the next four weeks, we’re looking at the book of Revelation and what Jesus’ second Advent will look like. Far from being a book filled with hidden codes and secrets, Revelation teaches us how to live between the first and second Advent. Because Jesus was born, we can live with the hope that Jesus will return. All our hope for the future is tied to a baby that gives us a “no matter what” hope for the future.
This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Pulling Back the Curtain
Week 2: The Baby Who Slayed the Dragon
Week 3: The Way of the Lamb vs. the Way of the Dragon
Week 4: All Things New
One of our goals as a church family is to be generous people. So every year around the holidays, we press into generosity to think about God’s generosity to us and to talk about how we can grow in walking in the kind of generous love He’s shown to us.
Each year, we focus on three practical ways to grow in generosity:
PROJECT DETAILS
1 - Start Tithing
We consider tithing a spiritual practice that helps develop a lifestyle of sacrificial generosity. We encourage church members to set up a recurring tithe because the gospel transforms us to be generous around the holidays and throughout the year. It’s also specifically how we fund and fuel all we do as a church in our city.
2 - Give to Serve the City
Serve the City is our initiative as a church family to partner with local organizations serving the most vulnerable people in our city. This year, we are raising $20,000 to fund the various Serve the City initiatives we do throughout the year to serve these organizations and the people they work with. These funds will also go towards our Serve the City Weekend on March 22, 2025. We partner with the following local organizations:
Transitions
Home Works
The Ezekiel Center
Epworth Children's Home
Daybreak
Salvation Army
3 - Personal Finance Seminar
We want to equip our church family to be spiritually healthy by stewarding the financial resources God has entrusted us. On January 25, 2025 from 9am-12pm at our Downtown church, we’re hosting a practical training class to manage your finances, pay off debt, invest well, and practice biblical generosity.
Check out our Year of Biblical Literacy site for more articles, podcasts, and book recommendations.
BOOKS | COURSES | ARTICLES
Throughout the year, we want to know the concepts and passages you wrestle with. We'll answer some of these questions in podcast episodes throughout the year.
To submit your topic or question, text "LEXINGTON" followed by your topic to 855-855-0655.
Stand-Alone | The Purpose & Power of God's Word
Sermon by Brandon Clements on November 24, 2024.
We are often distracted many different things that gain our attention and focus. This week we look at the Apostle Paul's words that show us 3 distinct benefits of focusing our attention on the Lord.
Hebrews | Christ & the New Covenant
Near the tail end of our Year of Biblical Literacy, we come to the rich, dense book of Hebrews. It’s full of callbacks and history, threads pulled from all across the Old Testament. The author assumes intimate knowledge of the old covenant –the sacrificial system, the tabernacle, the promised land–and then shows that they were incomplete, only “copies and shadows.”
Each is an arrow pointing to Christ, who himself becomes the mediator of the new covenant–the perfect high priest, the meeting place between God and man, the source of eternal rest for those united to him.
This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Christ and the New Covenant
Week 2: The Descent and Ascent of Christ
Week 3: Christ the True and Better Moses
Week 4: Today, If You Hear His Voice, Do Not Harden Your Hearts
Week 5: Christ the Perfect High Priest and Sacrifice
Week 6: Directions for Endurance
Week 7: The Hall of Faith (and the Vision Required to be There)
Week 8: A Loving Father's Unshakable Kingdom
Week 9: A Tale of Three Mountains
Check out our Year of Biblical Literacy site for more articles, podcasts, and book recommendations.
BOOKS | COURSES | ARTICLES
Throughout the year, we want to know the concepts and passages you wrestle with. We'll answer some of these questions in podcast episodes throughout the year.
To submit your topic or question, text "LEXINGTON" followed by your topic to 855-855-0655.
The Gospel | The Kingdom of God is at Hand
SERMONS | RESOURCES | TEXT-IN QUESTIONS
How would you summarize Jesus’ teachings? Depending on who you ask, you’re likely to get different answers. However, Jesus’ summary statement is actually one of his first statements in the Gospels: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
In other words, Jesus’ life and teachings are all about ushering in God’s loving rule and reign on Earth as it is in Heaven. So what might His kingdom look like in our city, and how do we faithfully follow Him in our time and place?
Join us for five weeks as we examine the life and teachings of Jesus and consider how the good news of the Kingdom and its King changes everything.
This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: The Kingdom of God Is at Hand
Week 2: The Bread of Life
Week 3: The Redemptive Power of Forgiveness
Week 4: Idolatry in the Kingdom
Week 5: The Pursuit of Greatness
Check out our Year of Biblical Literacy site for more articles, podcasts, and book recommendations.
BOOKS | COURSES | ARTICLES
Throughout the year, we want to know the concepts and passages you wrestle with. We'll answer some of these questions in podcast episodes throughout the year.
To submit your topic or question, text "LEXINGTON" followed by your topic to 855-855-0655.
Psalms | Ancient Songs for Modern Hearts
The Psalms are a unique collection in the Old Testament: 150 poems, songs, and prayers covering approximately 1,000 years of Israel’s history. The writers cover everything from hatred to pure joy and nearly everything in between. Some of the language and honesty in the Psalms are shocking–even uncomfortable to hear–because of how unfiltered they come across.
Amidst the raw emotions, the Psalms offer a beacon of hope. They guide us to understand what’s going on in our hearts and how to realign ourselves with reality, offering a path to transformation and spiritual growth.
In this series, we’ll spend six weeks looking at specific chapters as we ask how God wants us to shape us as His people.
This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: A Theology of Song
Week 2: Engaging Negative Emotions
Week 3: A Psalm for Meditation
Week 4: Arrows and Blessings
Week 5: A Song for the Politically Weary
Week 6: God’s Love, Known & Experienced
Check out our Year of Biblical Literacy site for more articles, podcasts, and book recommendations.
BOOKS | COURSES | ARTICLES
PSALMS OUTLINE
Throughout the year, we want to know the concepts and passages you wrestle with. We'll answer some of these questions in podcast episodes throughout the year.
To submit your topic or question, text "LEXINGTON" followed by your topic to 855-855-0655.
How Long O LORD? | A Study of the Minor Prophet Habakkuk
SERMONS | RESOURCES | TEXT-IN QUESTIONS
The prophets are a diverse group of writings. They come from different periods, face different issues, and are written in different genres.
The book of Habakkuk, in particular, speaks to us on our journey to Christian maturity. It mirrors the moments we all encounter—when our understanding of God’s character seems at odds with our current circumstances, when we question God’s plans, and when injustice, both individually and collectively, seems to prevail.
When that happens, what do we do? How do we respond? How can we trust God is still in control of it all? We’ll spend the next four weeks in Habakkuk exploring these questions.
This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: How Long, O LORD?
Week 2: How Can This Be?
Week 3: The Cup That Is Coming
Week 4: Yet I Will Rejoice
Check out our Year of Biblical Literacy site for more articles, podcasts, and book recommendations.
BOOKS | COURSES | ARTICLES
HABAKKUK OUTLINE
Throughout the year, we want to know the concepts and passages you wrestle with. We'll answer some of these questions in podcast episodes throughout the year.
To submit your topic or question, text "LEXINGTON" followed by your topic to 855-855-0655.
W I S D O M
SERMONS | RESOURCES | TEXT-IN QUESTIONS
How do we become people who build our lives on God’s wisdom rather than ruining them? How do we navigate life and all its complexities? How do we make sense of death and suffering? How about friendships, wealth, and decision-making? What about sex and marriage?
These questions are where the Old Testament’s wisdom books come in. Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs depict how to navigate life’s complexity. Through poetry and narrative, the Bible shows us following Jesus is more than just acquiring knowledge. It’s about seeing reality the way God sees it and learning how to live within it—in short, it’s about becoming a person of wisdom.
This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Wisdom and the Fear of the LORD
Week 2: Wisdom and Decision-Making
Week 3: Wisdom and Pride
Week 4: Wisdom and Wealth
Week 5: Wisdom and Sex
Week 6: Wisdom and Friendships
Week 7: Wisdom and Conflict
Week 8: Wisdom and Self-Discipline
Week 9: Wisdom and Words
Check out our Year of Biblical Literacy site for more articles, podcasts, and book recommendations.
BOOKS
VIDEOS
Throughout the year, we want to know the concepts and passages you wrestle with. We'll answer some of these questions in podcast episodes throughout the year.
To submit your topic or question, text "LEXINGTON" followed by your topic to 855-855-0655.
Ruth
SERMONS | RESOURCES | TEXT-IN QUESTIONS
The story of Ruth centers around one of the most vulnerable and marginalized figures in the Old Testament. This series examines God’s sovereignty over all of life and how God uses unlikely people to bring hope and healing to the world.
This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Compromise, Bitterness, or Faithfulness?
Week 2: God’s Faithfulness in Your Faithfulness
Week 3: The Risk of Hope
Week 4: The Story Behind the Story
Check out our Year of Biblical Literacy site for more articles, podcasts, and book recommendations.
BOOKS
VIDEOS
Throughout the year, we want to know the concepts and passages you wrestle with. We'll answer some of these questions in podcast episodes throughout the year.
To submit your topic or question, text "LEXINGTON" followed by your topic to 855-855-0655.
Ghosts & Ancestors
It’s often said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
As we look at the first five books of Scripture, stories abound of those who trusted God and those who did not. Some, through faith, went on to be ancestors who blessed those after them. Others proved to be ghosts that haunt their lineage with heartache and pain.
As we learn to interpret the narratives in the Torah, both the negative and the positive, we’ll see how God works in the midst of it all and calls us into his story, inviting us to walk in the steps of our ancestors who came before us.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: The Two Paths
Week 2: Abraham
Week 3: Esau
Week 4: Jacob
Week 5: Leah
Week 6: Moses
Week 7: Aaron
Week 8: Joseph
Check out our Year of Biblical Literacy site for more articles, podcasts, and book recommendations.
BOOKS
PODCASTS
This will be updated as we progress through the series. Stay tuned!
VIDEOS
Throughout the year, we want to know the concepts and passages you wrestle with. We'll answer some of these questions in podcast episodes throughout the year.
To submit your topic or question, text "LEXINGTON" followed by your topic to 855-855-0655.
Advent 2023
SERMONS | ADVENT GUIDE | ADVENT PROJECTS
"Advent" means "arrival." And since the early church, God's people have celebrated the arrival of Jesus' birth during this time of year. As we remember his first arrival, we also look ahead to Jesus' promised second arrival - when He will return and make all things new. So, each week, we'll look at different aspects of Christ's coming and how that should shape how we think, feel, and react to the Christmas season.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Hope
Week 2: Peace
Week 3: Joy
Week 4: Love
Week 5: Christmas Eve
To help us prepare our hearts for the Christmas season, we wrote an Advent devotional guide for you and your LifeGroup to work through during this season. The suggested donation is $8 per copy.
One of our goals as a church family is to be generous people. So every year around the holidays, we press into generosity to think about God’s generosity to us and to talk about how we can grow in walking in the kind of generous love He’s shown to us.
This year, we are focusing on three practical ways to grow in generosity:
#1. START TITHING
We consider tithing a spiritual practice that helps develop a lifestyle of sacrificial generosity. We encourage church members to set up a recurring tithe because the gospel transforms us to be generous around the holidays and throughout the year. It’s also specifically how we fund and fuel all we do as a church in our city.
#2. PERSONAL FINANCE SEMINAR
We want to equip our church family to be spiritually healthy by stewarding the financial resources God has entrusted us. On January 27 from 9am-12pm at our Downtown church, we’re hosting a practical training class to manage your finances, pay off debt, invest well, and practice biblical generosity.
#3. GIVE TO SERVE THE CITY
Serve the City is our initiative as a church family to partner with local organizations serving the most vulnerable people in our city. This year, we want to fund the various Serve the City events we do throughout the year to serve these organizations and the people they work with. These funds will also go towards our Serve the City Weekend on March 16, 2024. We partner with the following local organizations:
Transitions
Home Works for America
The Ezekiel Center
Epworth Children's Home
Daybreak
Salvation Army
Embodied
Oversimplified narratives about our bodies surround us. Through conversations and airwaves, we are constantly told what we should pursue with our bodies, how we should think about them, and what dangers follow disagreement with the cultural ethos of desire, gender, sexuality, and marriage.
But these messages skip over some very essential questions–questions like: what is your body, exactly? What is your body for? Who created it, and with what purpose? What is the eternal destiny of our bodies, and how does that inform what we do on a normal week?
Join us for an eight-week series unpacking God’s plan for the human body–a majestic story from beginning to end.
DISCLAIMER for parents:
During this series, we'll be talking about subjects like gender and sexuality. We will strive to make the sermons appropriate for preteens in the auditorium, but we realize this may bring up additional conversations. We wanted to let you know in advance so you aren't caught off guard or thrown into conversations you weren't prepared for.
The one sermon that may not be ideal for preteens is the Eros sermon on 10/15. On this Sunday, we will open space in Kidtown for preteens who want to serve the younger children.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion, we'll be posting resources for each week of the series.
Week 1: Telos
Week 2: Ish and Ishah
Week 3: Union
Week 4: Eros
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Week 5: Epithumia
Week 6: Resurrection
Week 7: Incarnation
Week 8: Q & A
Q & A Podcasts
During our Embodied series, we had over 70 questions texted in. To cover these questions more fully, we’re releasing a handful of extra podcast episodes to further equip you.
During the series, we want to know the concepts and ideas that you wrestle with the most or would like to learn more about. We'll base the final sermon of the series off of the submissions we receive.
To submit your topic or question, text "LEXINGTON" followed by your topic to 855-855-0655.