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Jesus was preparing the eleven men He had left for His pending crucifixion, His resurrection, and His subsequent departure for heaven. He gave them this great metaphor of the True Vine as one of His encouragements. Jesus wanted His friends, not only those eleven, but those of all time, to know that He was not going to desert them, even though they would no longer enjoy His physical presence. Join us for the conclusion of I AM JESUS.

The dictionary defines light as “something that makes vision possible”, or to be more technical, “electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength that travels in a vacuum with a speed of about 186,281 miles per second; specifically: such radiation that is visible to the human eye.” Those are technical definitions of light, but the concept of light is so much more than that. When Jesus said, “I am the light of the world,” what did He mean? The answer may surprise you.

Baptism is an extraordinarily important thing, and extraordinarily impactful when done the right way. We get so many emails and questions about it that I decided to spend an entire service talking about it. The reason this is so important is when you read the New Testament, every time a person crosses the line of faith to follow Christ, any time somebody has an AHA moment about Jesus, the Bible says they went out immediately and were baptized.

A woman seizes the opportunity to invest in God’s work by providing shelter for one of God’s called servants. That investment invites God to do some incredible things in her life, starting with getting a child she had always wanted but could never have. In this message, we’ll discover ridiculous faith leads to ridiculous investment in God’s work, and I will introduce something I believe God wants our church to do. Get ready – it’s ridiculous.

A businessman says, “I am so far in a financial hole I can never dig myself out.” A single mother of three works a full time job and cleans houses on the side. She says, “There’s just too much. I don’t have any help; I can’t raise these kids.” A widow about to lose her sons to a debtor was desperate for the prophet's help. Her last possession was a jar of olive oil. Elisha told her to collect as many jars as she could, then God did more than she could imagine. When you find yourself on “empty”, you can experience God’s ridiculous provision when you have ridiculous faith.

What's interesting about Elisha is he was very ordinary. He wasn't the son of a priest, he wasn't a monk, and he wasn't like some sort of outward spiritual giant. He was an ordinary guy who was living at home with his parents, working on a farm when God called him to do something incredible. To answer God’s call, Elisha had to do something very ridiculous. In this message we will discover what we have to do to answer God’s call when it comes.

Sometimes we face a situation or a circumstance, and we try to balance it out. But what do you do when you’ve got 5000 people and they all need to be fed. You think I’ll throw in everything I’ve got – five loaves and two fish – but what is that going to do to the scales? What do you do in a circumstance when you throw in everything you’ve got and it just won’t move? In this lesson Bobby shows us how to balance the scales in our favor.