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Shannon O’Dell

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  1. Aug 16

    Build Your Family on a Sold Foundation | Shannon O'Dell

    Jenga is Swahili for "build." You stack 18 levels, three blocks wide, and then everybody starts pulling pieces out. The tower stands or falls on one thing: what's underneath. Pastor Shannon opens a new series on the family with the game on stage and five building blocks that decide whether a home holds up. Authority. A Roman officer in Matthew 8 gets something most religious people missed, and Jesus is amazed by it. Get the order right (God, then your spouse, then your kids, then your job) and everything else has somewhere to sit. The Bible never says family first. It says seek first the kingdom. Identity. The day your identity shifts from Jesus to your kids is the day you stop living for Jesus and start living for them. Children are arrows, and arrows have a target. Three ways parents get this wrong: performance, reputation management, and emotional dependence. Plus the one nobody wants to hear, living vicariously through your kids instead of releasing them to be victorious. Responsibility. Nobody shapes your child's soul but you. Some homes are run by CEO kids who set the calendar, decide about church, and call the shots. Parents, be the CEO of your home. Priority. Priorities are what you say. Commitments are what you do. If you want to know what somebody actually prioritizes, don't ask, just look at what they're committed to. Shannon calls it the decision before the decision, and it's why he doesn't have to think about whether he's praying with Cindy tonight. Consistency. You're parenting a worshiper. That doesn't happen in a week. It happens when you do it again, and again, on the days you don't feel like it. Scripture: Matthew 8:5-10, Matthew 6:33, Romans 13:2, Psalm 127:3-5, Ephesians 6:4, 1 Timothy 5:8 Wherever your foundation is right now, you can go back and fix it. That's the whole point of the series. Subscribe for new messages every week from Brand New Church.

    Build Your Family on a Sold Foundation | Shannon O'Dell
  2. Aug 9

    God's Promise Prevails in the Storm | Ryne Lynch

    Jesus told Paul he was going to Rome. The sail should have taken three or four weeks. It took two and a half years. In between, Paul sat in a Jerusalem jail, got put on a ship that never should have left, spent 14 days in a storm with no sun or stars to steer by, watched all 276 people on board give up hope, and got bit by a snake about five minutes after washing up on an island he'd never heard of. None of that canceled what God said. We're in Acts 27 and 28 this week, walking through three things that didn't change the promise: the delay, the difficulty, and the detour. Delay shows you where you've started cutting corners. Storms show you what you actually trust when the cargo goes over the side. And Malta, the island nobody would have picked, is where the gospel landed and stayed. That island is over 85% Christian today, with a port named after Paul and a holiday every year for the day the ship wrecked there. You don't get to pick the storm. You do get to pick whether you trust Jesus in it and how you respond. Some of what we cover: The delay in your life doesn't change the promise over your life Cutting the rope on the lifeboat (Acts 27:30-32) God never promised Paul the boat. He promised him Rome. Paul shook the snake into the fire and got back to work Stay faithful where you are, because everything you need to get where you're going is already there Scripture: Acts 9:5, 9:15, 23:11, 27:20, 27:30-32, 28:1-10, Philippians 1:12-14, 4:22 If this one hit you, like it, subscribe, and send it to somebody sitting in a season they didn't plan on.

    God's Promise Prevails in the Storm | Ryne Lynch

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