This is the teaching podcast of Venture Church. Venture is focused on sharing the life shaping love of Jesus with people in Wilmington NC; helping them become God chasing, grace shaped, love agents.
What is baptism? Why do the do it? Is it important? This week we take a look at how baptism is a physical representation of our spiritual reality in Christ by seeing how it paints 4 pictures for us to look at.
What is repentance? It's a word we see pop up all over the Bible and in Christian circles. but what does it mean for my life? This week we discuss the powerful and vital necessity of pointing our lives to God through repentance.
Jesus' claim to be "the way, the truth, and the life" may be the boldest claim of Christianity. What does that mean to us today? Is Jesus the true road? if so, what does it look like to merge on to that road? Let's talk about that.
Today, as we celebrate our 8th Birthday, we ask the question, "Why do we do this? What's the point of church?" It turns out we have a mission straight from the mouth of Jesus. And we are so much better to accomplish the mission of the church when we do it TOGETHER. Happy Birthday Venture Church!
This week, Patrick Harrison brings a lesson on community that you don't want to miss.
This is week one of a series focused discovering the power of community. God created us to function best in a community. We are better together! This week we look at the earl church in Acts to see how they modeled this togetherness and the difference it made.
We've all made mistakes, experienced failure, and dealt with sin. And the result is Guilt. How do we worship God from a place of being guilty? Let's take a look at how King David worked through a major sin and guilt in HIs life through the prayer he penned in Psalm 51.
Happiness can be hard to hold onto. Someone once said "happiness is slippery." But God offers something better, Joy. Today we explore Psalm 126 and the question of finding joy even when life is hard.
We spend a lot of time celebrating things that we thing are great. It comes very naturally to us. And no one deserves or desires as much celebration as our God. We call that celebration of greatness worship. Let's take a look at Psalm 103 and what it can teach us about worshiping God.
Few things can move a group of people like a song. It's no surprise that the Bible has a book completely devoted to songs of worship. Songs to God and about God. This week we dive into our first of the series, Psalm 42. What does it mean to quench the spiritual thirst of our soul? Let's talk about that.
In this final week of our Study through 1 Timothy, we take a look at a battle strategy for taking on greed and other sins that place material things on the throne of our hearts. This final chapter is rich with teaching on overcoming the pitfalls of this world.
This week, Joe Cartwright brings a lesson about the dangers of comparison and the joys of leaning in to who God created you to be.
This week we move on through our study in 1 Timothy to chapter 5. As this letter to Timothy progresses, Paul addresses a group of overlooked people in need of special love. He also gives some advice on how to discern who is is in the most need. This message is brought to you by the one and only, Patrick Harrison. Enjoy!
