Living Faith Lancaster

Nick explores Job's situation at the conclusion of the book: confronted with very real suffering and very hard questions, can we simply trust Him?

Justin discusses Elihu's closing statements and God's appearance in Job's story, specifically God's presentation of the vastness of the universe and Himself as its own justification.

Nick continues exploring Job's story, focusing on the arguments his friends presented during their time "comforting" Job.

Parke confronts a challenging lesson in Job: how to complain in your trial while remaining faithful to God.

Justin continues our Wisdom series by introducing the story and Book of Job. Why do bad things happen to good people. Also, why do good things happen to good people? Job suffers tragedy without a reason and begins his journey to understand why. This lesson concluded with BibleProject's Wisdom Series video on Job which you can view here.

Nick concludes the Ecclesiastes portion of the Wisdom series by focusing on the author's desire to follow God, looking at the moments throughout his despairing account where he turned his eyes towards heaven.

In this lesson, Nick explores the Teacher's viewpoint as an example of living life without God. All is not "Hevel, Hevel" when your life includes Him.

In this lesson, Justin continues our Wisdom series by introducing Ecclesiastes and pondering with The Teacher the apparent meaninglessness of it all. We began the lesson by viewing BibleProject's overview video of Ecclesiastes which you can view here.

Nick continues our time in Proverbs, focusing on Proverbs 30's insight from Agur. Join as he discusses how to approach wisdom with humility.

In this lesson, Nick continues our exploration of Proverbs, focusing on the poems from "Lady Wisdom" calling people to turn to her ways.

Justin begins our five months in the Wisdom books with the first section of Proverbs in Chapters 1-7, ten speeches from a father to his son instructing him in the ways of Wisdom.

In this community participation lesson, Bob prepared us for Christmas with Rich Mullins' song "You Gotta Get Up (Christmas Song)." This featured more interaction and sharing from the community which isn't as easy to hear on the recording, so we listed this as a bonus. Enjoy!

In this episode, our series teachers spend time discussing their experience with music, the lessons they learned going through the series, and shared some thoughts about our interaction with music as believers.

In this week's Christmas devotion Justin uses the German folksong O Tannenbaum as a metaphor to discuss the Tree of Life and the appearance of trees in the Bible.

In this lesson we transition our series to focus on Christmas songs. We begin with a Christmas devotion helping us imagine the time and place of Christ's birth. We introduced the lesson viewing the Bible Project's theme video "The City" because we were spending our time focusing on a small city. You can view the video here.

In this lesson, Justin uses the John Newton/Chris Tomlin song Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) to discuss two key points believers must understand to live a full life in Christ. We began the video by viewing the Bible Project's word study video on "Grace" which you can view here.

In this episode, Dave leads a time of community discussion centered on the themes in the song "I Surrender All." We started by viewing this video about the origin of the song.

In this lesson, Justin focuses on the theme of God's love using John Mark McMillan's song "How He Loves" as a starting point. We began the lesson by viewing a video about the origin of the song which you can view here.

In this lesson, Dave discusses the hymn "Be Thou My Vision" - its origins and themes.

In this lesson, Nick shares his thoughts inspired by the Hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" by Horatio Spafford. During the lesson, we viewed the video by Hymns of Note about the story of the hymn which you can view here.