Eric breaks down why God is A God Worth Knowing, not just worth learning about. Relationship and God's character are the focus points.
News Worth Knowing
Mile Polley presents why the Gospel is News Worth Knowing. He walks through why we share, focusing on the urgency of the Gospel.
Worth It
Reid Jilek introduces the STP 2015, "Worth It". He answers what "worth it" means, and where we should find our worth.
Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Reid unpacks Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. He discusses Foundation, Image, and Purpose that the Bible gives us as men and women.
Convinced that Jesus is on Every Page
In Bible Study Training from June 13th, Tim Devane talks on the point of the Bible: Jesus. The entire Bible points to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his person is on every page. The Bible is not about us, but it is for us.
Relationships (Part One)
In the first Relationships talk, Reid and Nikki Jilek talked about friendships, dating, marriage, sex, and how the truth of Jesus and the Bible inform our relationships.
Convinced of Success
In evangelism training from June 18th, Dan Grano talks about what it looks like to fail in evangelism and what it looks like to succeed.
"Taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God." - Bill Bright
Convinced of God's Sovereignty in Evangelism
In this talk, Dan Grano ask the question, "What happens to create life in a non-believer?", and delves into what God's sovereignty means and the implications that God's sovereignty has on evangelism.
Convinced of Grace
For Theme training on June 9th, Reid Jilek asks questions of what grace really means, why it is sometimes hard to receive, and why we can bask in God's grace.
Convinced that Man Wrote The Bible, and So Did God
In this talk, Tim Devane touches on two categories of Biblical conviction: Head categories (i.e. the Bible has over 20,000 verifying manuscripts) and Heart categories (i.e. the Bible is filled with good things and has real implications). Tim goes on to dive into how and why we doubt the Bible and what it says.
*Free to Approach God
In this talk Reed Schaaf talks about how we are free to approach God because he is whole heartedly for us because of Jesus. Reed poses the question why do we pray and the reasons for coming to God in prayer and reading the word in faith.
*Free to Love
Jared Grove in this talk starts off by asking the question Why are we here on this earth? What is our purpose in life and why do we just not go straight to heaven when becoming believers in Christ? He than unpacks this question and helps to answer some of the many questions generated from last weeks missions talks about going into the world and making disciples of all nations.
*Testimony - Ann Musech
Before Theme Training Ann shares her testimony of how God has moved in her life and moved her away from a false happiness into the never ending love that he gives to all.
*Freedom of Speech
In this talk Cody Walkup talks about our freedom to openly share the gospel with people that we meet and whom we have conversations with. Also he addresses some of the freedoms that we have in talking with each other and our freedom from our desire for attention, pride, and ourselves.
*Cause I'm Free... Free Fallin'
In this talk Brent Cramer unpacks evangelism from the angle of our weaknesses and broken people and how God soverign over our failures. He then delves into how God uses broken people for his glory and that through our failures God grows us and works through us and those failures to influence others for his glory.
*Free or Formulated
In this leaders training Jake Fletcher talks about the different types of people, whether they are free or formulated types of thinkers and how that affects our interactions with disciples and how both are integral and important in leading disciples better.
*The Truth Will Set Them Free
In this theme training Andrew Knight goes through his "Tale of Trees". In this tale Andrew unpacks the transition that humans made in Genesis from being in perfect marriage with God in the garden to separation from him after the fall. And through this Andrew talks about the tree of the cross that restores us to God and brings us to the tree of life so that we can be with God once again. Andrew than ends the talk with the call to missions and the desperate need for missionaries around the world. He encourages the project to pray about missions and sending and going themselves, and ends with an impactful time of meditation and prayer for the world and the brokenness of the world today.
*Free to be Friends
In this leaders training Jake Fletcher talks about our need as leaders on project to not only lead our disciples but to listen and engage them. He prefaces this talk with the statement "you are set free from the burdens of leadership positions through the gospel centered freedom of servant hearted leadership to be friends with disciples". A long intro to be sure, but one that helped to outline our freedoms from the burden of leadership and to just simply love on and engage the disciples on project.
*Free Your Mind
In this talk Reed Schaaf talks about meditating on the word of God and what exactly meditation of God's word looks like and what it entails. He unpacks this topic and addressing some common misconceptions about what meditation is and what it looks like to meditate on God's word.
*Free From the Love of Money
During this life training Cody Walkup talks about our freedom from the love of money. He unpacks this with the thought of "We are freed up to give generously when we trust the provision of God over the security money offers". He breaks down what it means to live freely in the security that God provides for his children and what it looks like to use and spend money with a serving and giving heart.