Each week, take 5 days to dive deeper into the heart of our Sunday sermons! Through key insights and scripture, this format will allow for further personal reflection and spiritual growth. Keeping this at the dinner table, discuss it with family and/or friends.

Lord, teach us to be noble of heart—to think, plan, and act in ways that do good in this world. Let your justice and compassion, shown to us in your Word and through the life of Christ, be our constant guide and hope in a world that often glorifies selfishness and evil. Help us, by your Spirit, to discern where we need to change so our lives align more fully with your Kingdom vision. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

America is free because of the noble sacrifices of those who were and are willing to give all. Nobility means being someone who is generous, selfless, and willing to do what is right—even when it’s extremely difficult.

Who do you know that exemplifies these traits and how do you see it working out in their life? How can living with nobility bring greater blessing to the individual and to those around them?

Ernest Hemingway said, “True nobility is being superior to your former self.” Our Christian walk will include continually putting off the ‘old self’ to be renewed day by day as we fix our eyes on Christ. It always starts with our thought-life. What we think about affects our actions and the way that we relate with others

What do you spend the majority of your time thinking about? Take inventory. If using Phil. 4:8-9 as a filter, which ones might need to be replaced with more God-honoring ones?–Think about these things!

If fun, happiness, and self-satisfaction is the pursuit, nobility will never be encountered. These verses in Isaiah invite us to long for true justice and righteousness in leaders and in ourselves. A noble person thinks about and makes plans to do good and then stands by those plans and sees them through.

How are we responding to the needs of others around us? What actions might God be calling you to do to allow more flourishing of His kingdom in the world around you?

We need to do the right thing, even if it’s hard and costly. We need to stop being rogue (going our own way) and letting the world's ways influence our actions or passive attitudes.

Where have you lost hope? Where have you let cynicism take over or passivity in your response to doing the right thing?

We often trade away what’s right and allow evil to endure because we prioritize our own rights and comfort over nobility. This is the easy route. God never said life or doing the right thing would be easy. But to pursue nobility means that you will persevere in the midst of evil to bring “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven…” This is the way of Christ.

Where have you let compromise in and taken the easy route? What good can you do today to push back on the evil in this world?