WEEKLY SERMON REFLECTIONS

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.

PRAYER OF THE WEEK:

Lord Jesus, fill the caverns of my soul with Your Spirit of Truth and the overwhelming revelation of Your love for me. Help me to rest in Your finished works on the cross, so that I may do Your good works on the earth, by loving You with all my heart and loving others with the light and the life You have given me by Your grace. Give me wisdom and show me where I might surrender more fully to You and Your purpose for my life. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

DAY
01

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:14-21

REFLECTION:

When we are rooted and grounded in the love of God, we can truly embrace the cost that was paid for our freedom—our redemption. He wants more than surface-level faith from us. He wants to fill us to overflowing as we surrender to Him.

RESPONSE:

Do you know that you can never surprise God? He knows you, He created you, and He loves you. Do you view yourself through the lens of a beloved child of God? How would life be different for you if you went about your days knowing 100% that God loves you most?

DAY
02

…walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

Ephesians 4:1

REFLECTION:

Our calling is to live as new creations–hands-free from the weight of our mess–so we can be light in the darkness and hope to the hurting.

RESPONSE:

How does knowing that you are saved by grace, not by works, change the way you live your daily life? What level of peace do you feel when you rest in His grace versus striving in your own efforts?

DAY
03

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Ephesians 2:8-10

REFLECTION:

We are saved by God’s grace alone! We cannot earn our salvation—it is a free gift that we receive by faith. We are not saved by our works; rather, we are saved for the good works that God has planned for us.

RESPONSE:

How does knowing that you are saved by grace, not by works, change the way you live your daily life? What level of peace do you feel when you rest in His grace versus striving in your own efforts?

DAY
04

So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My lambs.” He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Tend My sheep.

John 21:15-17

REFLECTION:

Jesus says: You’re complete in Me. Now live it out–love Me by loving others. Jesus doesn’t reject Peter for his past failure–instead, He restores him and reaffirms Peter’s purpose in the kingdom. 

RESPONSE:

What would it look like for you to show your love to God through loving and caring for the people that He’s put in your life?

DAY
05

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

Ephesians 4:17-24

REFLECTION:

Going to church isn’t the same as ‘walking in a manner worthy of the calling.’ It’s not about checking a box—it’s about transformation. Of course, going to church is very important, but it’s not the end-all, be-all. Becoming more and more like Christ is our upward aim.

RESPONSE:

Do you ever feel like you’re just going through the motions? What can you do to actively be renewed in the spirit of your mind and become more like Christ?