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CHURCH CAMP: Mountaintops 2 // PASSIONATE

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“I believe kids at this age NEED other adults in their lives saying the same things as their parents, AND peers who believe what they do. I still believe kids ARE the church, not the future of the church”

“Mountaintop experiences help even when you’re not on the mountain.”

1. MountainTop Moments

  • Vibrant is single-minded, active, fun, bold, dynamic, life-worship of God.

2. MountainTop Moments create Passion

Exodus 32:31

“Most of us don’t have an obedience problem we have a passion problem.”

Exodus 33:12-18

3. Passion = obedience

John 14:15

4. Passionate Disciples obediently pursue more of God

5. Passion creates a request for more presence

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DEEP DIVE: Lessons From Africa

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Matthew 28:19-20

Lesson ONE: Phony Faith vs. Authentic Faith

Mark 9:13-25

Lesson TWO: Importance of Honor

Mark 6:1-6

Lesson THREE: I will give everything for the Gospel

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

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DEEP DIVE: I'm Out

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John 6

  1. Jesus doesn’t always make it easy. I’m out when things get tough.

  2. Jesus didn’t apologize for offending them. I’m out when something offends me.

    1. Let me be clear: JESUS is perfect, WE are not. Just because Jesus didn’t apologize, doesn’t mean you don’t have to. We have to be careful not to be so SACRED, that we never say I’m Sorry.

  3. The crowd vs The disciples.

The crowd had a starving spirit…ME CHURCH spirit..
-always wants more
-never satisfied. Never content.
-tend to want the power only for the POWER.

Things Jesus DID NOT do for a starving spirit…

  1. Keep feeding them baby food.

    1. If you only receive from God in worship services...you need to go deeper.

    2. In the context of someone else’s words..

    3. From the verse of the day...

  2. Stress himself out trying to keep them happy.

  3. Let them stay in that mindset.

  4. Run after them and beg them to come back.

  5. Blame himself.  He gave it over to His Father.

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FULL HEART GREAT GAIN: The Windows of Heaven

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Malachi 3:6-18

  1. It’s called cheating.

  2. Sometime something really is blocking our prayers.

    1. 1 Peter 3:7 TPT

    2. 1 Peter 5:5 NLT

    3. Romans 2:8 NLT

  3. Blessings sometimes really do come in disguise.

    1. “God’s love is unconditional, but His blessings are very conditional.”

  4. God cares deeply about HIs house.

    1. Tithing is one of those pieces of religion, of ritual, that we should stick to. It’s a constant reminder of who is in charge…and who is not.

      1. There are more than 2000 verses about money.  Jesus taught on it constantly!

        1. You could learn something new about money from the WORD every day for 5 years and not be done.  

        2. If the church talks a lot about money, it’s just mirroring the Word. 

      2. It’s also one of the last pieces of spiritual health that people conquer.

  5. Do you have an eternal perspective?

    1. Matthew 6:19

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FULL HEART GREAT GAIN: No if's

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1 Timothy 6:1-10

  1. GREAT GAIN. No if’s.

  2. FULL HEART. Contentment

    1. Appreciation + eternal mindset + low need = contentment

  3. The Root

    1. 1 John 2:16 “For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”

    2. Is there ONE THING, that, if changed, would change a lot of other things?

Use one of these as a phone background this week to help you remember to meditate on God’s Word!

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ManFest: Jesus, the Masculine Model

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Genesis 5:1-2 // Hebrews 4:15 // Luke 2:52 // Mark 12:30

Wisdom - Mind - Thoughts

Stature - Physical  - Strength

Favor with God - Spiritual - Soul

Favor with People - Social - Heart

Growing People Change - Galatians 3:26-28


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Between Two Gardens: Part 3

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The Kingdom of God is upside down.

  1. To become a leader, be a servant

    1. Matthew 20:24-28

  2. To truly find life, die to self.

    1. Matthew 16:24-25

  3. To get back at your enemy, love them.

    1. Matthew 5:43-48

    2. Romans 12:19-21

  4. To become rich, give money away.

    1. Luke 6:38

    2. Luke 16:8-9

    3. 2 Corinthians 9:10

    4. Matthew 6:33

Luke 4:14-30

  1. GOD IS NOT AN ENABLER (but be careful what you pray for)

    1. God promised to take care of Israel’s spiritual health.  But what happens when taking care of physical needs is no longer beneficial to the spiritual health? Does God place priority on the spiritual or the physical?

  2. DON’T BECOME YOUR OWN GOD.

LOCAL WAYS TO GIVE & SERVE:

GLOBAL WAYS TO GIVE & SERVE:

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Between Two Gardens: Part 1

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Genesis 2:15-17

Genesis 3:1-7

  • Eyes Opened

    • WHY WOULD A GOOD GOD, PUT THAT TREE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!

      • 1. Love can’t exist without a choice.

      • 2. Perfection doesn’t help us!

    • Why is this evil in my life?!

      • 1. You may have brought it onto yourself at some point, by wanting your eyes to be opened.

      • 2. Other people’s eyes being opened, bring evil into the world.  

    • Shame comes from within...it’s not covered up easily.

Genesis 3:8-13

  • Mouths Opened

    • The power of confession

      • 1. Secrecy doesn’t work anyway

      • 2. There’s mercy in confession.

Genesis 3:14-24

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Use this phone background to remind yourself all week of God’s promises!

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EPIC Weekend with Tim Bennett

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Comment below and tell us what you’ve learned this weekend!

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Saturday - 6:15pm - May 18

2 Samuel 9:1-13 NLT

The lovingkindness of God will:

  1. Search for you

  2. Sustain you

  3. Supply for you

  4. Seat you

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Sunday - 9:15am - May 19

Luke 2:21-35

  1. Stick with it.

  2. See in it.

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Sunday - 11:15am - May 19

Mark 10:46-52

What to Expect When You’re Expecting:

  1. The Closeness of Jesus

  2. The Censure of the World

  3. The Call

  4. The Cure

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Mamapalooza: Children of the Light

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1 Thessalonians 5 TPT

1 Thessalonians 5:5-6 TPT, “For you are all children of the light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night nor to darkness. 6 This is why we must not fall asleep, as the rest do, but keep wide awake and clearheaded.”

  1. AWAKE AND CLEARHEADED

    1. “Some of us will never move forward spiritually before we’ve broken secrecy with ourselves…”

    2. “We’re called to be WARRIORS, not sleepers.  Put your ARMOR on, not your pajamas.“

    3. To do that, we have to remain awake and clearheaded.

      1. We win battles in the spiritual.

      2. We see things through the spiritual

        1. Not the emotional, not the physical.

        2. FASTING helps us to see through the physical and the emotional.

  2. BE SKILLED. BE FAITHFUL. BE QUICK.

    1. Thinking you know everything, is a really quick way to fall asleep.

      1. There is something unique about the Christian experience, that is asks us to CONSTANTLY and self-sacrificially CHALLENGE ourselves...just like HE did.

      2. Your skill-building isn’t about YOU...

    2. You can’t fall asleep standing up!

    3. The spiritually AWAKE, give their time generously to people.

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Be what God has called YOU to be.  Some of us are mothers, some are evangelists.  Some are prophetess’, some are business-women. Some are homemakers, some are church elders!  Be the YOU, that God has called you to be, and STAY AWAKE. You can fall asleep at ANY age, any stage of growth. Don’t.


For you are all children of the light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night nor to darkness.


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BIRTHDAY WEEKEND: What You Delight In

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Psalm 1:1-6

  1. The Power to Do Joy

    1. vs. 1 “Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers”

  2. Comes From What You Delight In

    1. vs. 2-3 “But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. 3 They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do.”

    2. Delight in: they choose to like the safety of the walls of sobriety, the challenge of living different, the benefits of serving God, the truth of the gospel. They willingly comply. Delight in how booze makes you feel, or how that high affects you, and you will lose yourself to it.

  3. But Unfocused People…Don’t.

    1. vs. 4-6 “But not the wicked! They are like worthless chaff, scattered by the wind. 5 They will be condemned at the time of judgment.  Sinners will have no place among the godly. 6 For the Lord watches over the path of the godly, but the path of the wicked leads to destruction.”

    2. Wickedness is different from occasional evil; wickedness is a settled, chosen, practiced evil.

      Wickedness happens when we stop believing in the reward for living well. We begin to believe that wickedness will win, and all we can do is give in to it.

For the Lord watches over the path of the godly,  but the path of the wicked leads to destruction.

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BATTLES: We Are Citizens

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Psalm 73:25, ""Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you"

Acts 16:16-24

  • Bad things are not always bad things.

    1. Hebrews 12:7-11, “As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? 8 If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. 9 Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever? For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. 11 No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.”

Acts 16:25

  • Midnight singing & dungeon faith

    • “Those who wish to sing, will always find a song.”

    • “God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas--but for scars.” Elbert Hubbard

Acts 16:26-34

  • SUDDENLY--

Acts 16:35-40

  • We are citizens.


Here’s what I’ve learned about battles…

  1. BATTLES are not always bad things.

  2. We need the battles, to shape who we are, and to teach us who God is.

  3. Faith isn’t what makes it all work out in the end (God has already done that)...faith is what gets us through the middle part.  It’s the substance of things hoped for, it’s the evidence of things not yet seen...it’s mysterious and magical and amazing..It creates, it imagines, it hopes, it designs, it’s the language of God, because it is CREATING. CREATING LIFE.

True faith does not merely resign itself to a divine plan, nor trust detached promises; faith embraces a promising Person. That person, values spiritual health, above everything, because physical health and physical wealth don’t last for eternity.  

We must remember the promises in which Christ is clothed, but let us never preach a set of clothes. It’s the person of JESUS that stands at the center of saving faith.

In the end, this series about been about faith.  Faith in the face of battles. Enemies that cannot be overcome. Walls that cannot be torn down.  Relationships that cannot be restored. Faith in the face of the impossible. But not faith in yourself. Or the universe. Or love, or faith in faith itself.  Faith in Jesus Christ, the overcomer. The victorious savior of our souls. We are citizens in HIS kingdom. And we fight our battles as HIS warriors, ‘cause there is nothing that can stop our God.




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BATTLES: Wake The Dawn

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2 Chronicles 20

  1. Take Your Positions

    1. Acknowledge the problem AND the source

    2. Pray & Worship

      1. Names of God

        1. Jehovah Jireh - The Lord will provide

        2. Jehovah Nissi- The Lord is our banner (deliverer)

        3. Jehovah Shalom - The Lord sends peace (comfort)

        4. Jehovah Rapha - The God who heals

        5. Jehovah Ra’ah - The Lord is the Way, my shepherd

        6. Jehovah Tsidkenu (Sid-ken-ew)- The Lord is our righteousness

        7. Jehovah Shammah - The Lord is our light, ever present

    3. Know your own limitations

    4. Decide to obey & march

  2. Do Not Be Afraid

    1. Obey & march

    2. SING

    3. Declare victory

    4. “Wake the Dawn” Psalm 108

    5. Put on armor Ephesians 6

  3. The Lord is With You

    1. Who can be against you?! Romans 8

    2. YOU don’t need fight

    3. Freedom & hope for a future

    4. Valley of Blessing

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