Ashley Ridge Church Weekly Service

Ephesians 3:14-21 and 4:30-32 We have superpowers. We should use them.

How do we fight our battles? God gives us the tools we need, but we have to use them.

James 1:1-4 Life will knock you down. We fight to get back up because we know what we're fighting for.

1 Timothy 4:7-12 - Fighting the good fight requires a different set of muscles, but those muscles need training and work like the rest if their going to function at peak performance.

1 Timothy 1:18-19 and 6:11-12 The world doesn't need fewer fights, it needs better fighters. Fighting the good fight starts with knowing what we're fighting for.

Luke 12:32-34 - We can have more stuff or we can have more stories. Jesus says one is better than the other and it's our tranquility that is at stake.

Luke 12:27-31 Stress is bad. Too many times our default setting is to manage stress instead of eliminate it. But what if the opposite of management is margin? What if margin is the land where relationships thrive and stress dies?

Ecclesiastes 4:6 and Luke 12:13-26 If our money could talk, it would tell us a lot about our anxiety and stress levels. What if the things Jesus had to say about money could help us trade our worry for wisdom and find freedom in the margins?

Sometimes we celebrate each other’s struggles…because it makes us feel better about our own. But deep down we're all the same, only different. It’s going to take all of us TOGETHER to get the job done. So what's God's plan? 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 (NLT)

Ecclesiastes 2 and 1 Corinthians 15 It's Labor Day weekend and we want to talk about your labor. Does work feel meaningless? Has cynicism crept into your life along with a weariness of it all? It doesn't have to be that way. God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet, not hard hearts and soft feet - and Jesus makes all the difference between the two.

The Church is remarkable. And against all odds, it changed the world. There is still a great deal that needs changing. By God’s grace and with your help, perhaps we can be a small part of bringing about that change.

Matthew 25:14-30 What will we do with what God has given us?

In a culture of slactivists and martyrs, Jesus is looking for the doers. Will we be found among the overwhelmed and debilitated, the busy and unaffected, or the present and purposeful? Matthew 25:14-46 (NLT)

Psalm 133 We all want to live our best life and we want to focus on the good stuff. Do we know what the good stuff is? More importantly, are we willing to fight for it?

Psalm 126 Life comes with plenty of unintended consequences, but some consequences are predictable - like joy. If you're like most people, you could probably use more joy in your life. Don't wait to stumble on it. It's not yours to take, but it is yours to have.

Psalm 122 There's no place like this place near this place so this place must be the place.

Psalm 121 Life is a journey. Do you know where you are going? Do you know how to pack and how to get there? Important questions for vacation, even more important for life.

Lamentations 3:16-33 God is great and God is good, but life is hard and bad stuff happens. What do we do with that? How do we handle the stuff singing can't fix?

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Love songs describe love as everything from reckless to endless, but is it possible that we have misunderstood the true nature of love? What if we could love each other better if we understood love better?