July 19th, 2026

“The Bullies & The Bereans”

Acts 17:10-15

Rev. Tyler Dirks

Sermon Audio

Sermon Outline:

1. The Bullies
2. The Bereans
3. The Body

Reflection Questions:

1. When (and how) have you been a bully?
2. When have you been preoccupied with a particular brand of Christianity (or theology), and/or the celebrity appeal of a certain personality?
3. When have you personally and profoundly wrestled with the Word of God/Jesus of Nazareth? When have you experienced and enjoyed Jesus as bridegroom and palpable boss of your life?
4. What is one of your best memories of belonging to, and fully participating in, the body of Christ?

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July 12th, 2026

“Jesus Consequences”

Acts 17:1-9

Rev. Tyler Dirks

Sermon Audio

Sermon Outline:

1. Changes the Trajectory
2. Cripples the economy
3. Caught in His Current

Reflection Questions:

1. What is your favorite disruptive and/or controversial thing Jesus says in the Bible?
2. When have you engaged Jesus in a specific follow-up conversation about a point of emphasis where you felt He was being a bit too extreme?
3. What are 2 primary and personal implications ofActs 17:2-3 (“Paul reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to SUFFER and to rise from the DEAD)? …see also John 3:14, 5:39; and Luke 24:27, 44.
4. How do you currently participate in the market for respectability, validation, and achieving control through fear? …Deep dive? Dabble? Disrupt?
5. What if just one of the unflattering stories about David was true of you, and what if God published that story? Would you rage against God for shaming and dishonoring you? OR would you invite everyone to joyfully come and meet a God who exposes everything you’ve ever done?
6. When was a time you experienced the real consequences of believing in Jesus of Nazareth (it wasn’t mere philosophy, or theological knowledge, or abstract theories)?

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July 5th, 2026

“How the Law Works in Our Lives”

Romans 7:7-13

Rev. Bailey Wagner

Sermon Audio

Sermon Outline:

1. The Law Reveals Sin
2. The Law Results in Death
3. The Law Reorients us to Jesus

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June 28th, 2026

“Patience & Power”

Acts 16:16-40

Rev. Tyler Dirks

Sermon Audio

Sermon Outline:

1. Punishing
2. Patience
3. Power

Reflection Questions:

1. What kinds of punishing situations have you experienced? For example, being followed around by someone with a spirit of divination – repeating one sentence of accurate information about you for days many days? Or being seized and dragged and falsely accused by people who are upset with you because you threatened their wealth?
2. When was a time you chose to be patient and endure hardship because it was a way to experience fellowship with Jesus (Philippians 3:10), and fill up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions (Colossians 1:24), and partner with the body of Jesus in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus (Revelation 1:9)?
3. When was a time that you chose to be patient and endure evil in order to give stubborn people time to repent (2 Timothy 2)?
4. When was a time you sang Psalm 2 in the face of injustice?
5. When was a time you chose to be “absurdly” confident in God, while being in an explicit position of weakness?

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June 21st, 2026

“Our Designs, God’s Direction”

Acts 16:6-15

Rev. Tyler Dirks

Sermon Audio

Sermon Outline:

1. Frustrated
2. Fellowship
3. Fruit

Reflection Questions:

1. When was a time God frustrated your good plans? How did you feel about that?
2. How have you experienced deeper fellowship with the spirit of Jesus when you have been forced to wait and wonder what’s going on?
3. How have you personally experienced hopeful groaning (supernaturally assisted by the Spirit of Jesus)?
4. When was a time you experience something unexpectedly exceedingly joyful and fruitful?

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June 14th, 2026

“What You CAN Do”

Acts 16:1-5

Rev. Tyler Dirks

Sermon Audio

Sermon Outline:

1. Where & Who
2. Do
3. Emphasize

Reflection Questions:

1. Where (and who) do you regularly & joyfully choose to be (with)? What do you specifically and substantially enjoy about that particular environment (and community)? How does that setting (and society) help you to see and savor Jesus?
2. When was a time you shrewdly overlooked (or bypassed) something controversial or problematic in order to focus on something emphatically, essentially, and preeminently joyful?
3. Based on your most honest reading of Scripture – what is the emphasis of the Bible?

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June 7th, 2026

“Startled in the Wilderness”

1 Samuel 23:14-29

Rev. Sid Druen

Sermon Audio

Sermon Outline:

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May 31st, 2026

“Groaning & Growth”

Acts 15:35-41

Rev. Tyler Dirks

Sermon Audio

Sermon Outline:

1. Sharp Disagreement
2. Strengthening Churches

Reflection Questions:

1. When you read that Paul & Barnabas have a sharp disagreement (and they stop working together), how does that make you feel? Do you feel ho hum about it? Or do you feel panicked and unsettled?
2. What passages of the Bible have you most thoroughly imaginatively immersed yourself in? What are some specific (and deeply personal) thoughts and feelings you have about those stories and scenes of Scripture?
3. How do you feel about God’s habit of sharing VERY sensitive information about people?
4. How have you experienced God being VERY present with you in your groaning?

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May 24th, 2026

“Confusion & Communication”

Acts 15:22-35

Rev. Tyler Dirks

Sermon Audio

Sermon Outline:

1. Clarification
2. Communication
3. Constructive Confusion

Reflection Questions:

1. When was a time you endured punctilious and pedantic confusion and distress?
2. Are you genuinely willing to own the fact that you, and/or your tribe, have messed up in specific and substantial ways? What’s a recent example?
3. When was a time you chose to talk to someone in person, because you (or your tribe) had troubled them?
4. When was a time you found yourself dealing with worthless confusion?
5. When was a time you were confused, but being confused was way better than the delusion that you had “it figured out”?
6. Do you agree that God is redemptively confounding you with the stories He offers you in The Bible? Why or why not?

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May 17th, 2026

“What’s Necessary”

Acts 15:1-21

Rev. Tyler Dirks

Sermon Audio

Sermon Outline:

1. Joy
2. Freedom

Reflection Questions:

1. Do you agree that JOY is a necessity? What are some of the particular and primary hallmarks of the Joy of Jesus of Nazareth? How can you practically and personally enter, and participate in, the joy of Jesus of Nazareth everyday?
2. When have you entered into a complicated and messy situation (replete with weakness and wrongness) as the joy set before you?
3. How do you personally hold the tension presented in Scripture where James, Peter, and Barnabas seem to be mature, strong, and wise inActs 15; but immature, weak, and wrong in Galatians 2?
4. How do you personally hold the tension presented in Scripture where Paul says what he says in Galatians 4:9 and 5:12 versus what Paul says in Romans 14:1-2 and 15:1?
5. How do you personally experience the freedom of being a follower of Jesus of Nazareth?

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