Sola Church

How can we be generous with the gifts that we've been given? Who God designed you to be determines what He intends you to do.

How can we learn to be generous with time, our most precious commodity, a place where we, historically, have had the least margin?

Humans are overcomers. Its what we do. We overcome obstacles, we overcome setbacks, we overcome adversity and we overcome even the most shameful things only to be better and greater than we were before. That is part of our humanity, but what we will learn today, from the words of Jesus is that overcoming is not just a function of work or tasks or planning or actions, but that there’s a spiritual overcoming that is inside of each of us and Jesus actually prays for each of us that we may have that in our lives.

We can sometimes believe that we are islands, alone in this world, getting as much as we can with little to no help, but Jesus teaches us about the interconnectedness of humans and God, so that we may achieve fruit and joy in this life.

One of the greatest things that makes us human is our ability and our desire and ability to serve another. Serving others is the human difference and we’ll explore today how service makes us human.

Opening message in Sola's fall series: What Makes Us Human. "My hope is that you’ll come to understand that even if we don’t always feel valuable or useful or special that our God feels those things about us. We’re going to use the words of Jesus, the central character of our Scriptures and our faith to show us how our creator, our God feels about humanity and i think you’ll be very surprised how different your view may be of yourself than the one God has of you."

Why Am I Here? This is NOT and existential why am I here in the universe…its a positional question…why am I here in this moment in this place in this time? Have you given that much thought? Most of us haven’t. Most Jesus followers and those considering following Jesus, get stuck seeing the events of the world a bit like a merry go round that spins out of control and we wonder how to stop it or maybe how we can get off. We see things we don't agree with around us and we wonder Why am I here?