Sermon Series | April 27-May 25, 2025
The series is a five-week journey from Resurrection to Pentecost. We will closely examine the Scripture surrounding these events. As we end this series, let’s ask God to mark us—not with religious behavior but with spiritual fruit. Let’s ask Him to lead us forward into freedom and growth.
We’re trying to become People of the Book—not just people who read about the Bible from other books or occasionally dip into Scripture for a quick word of encouragement but people who live in it, who are formed by it, and who open it expecting to hear from the living God.
People of the Book
We want to be People of the Book.
We want to be people who not only respect the Bible, quote it occasionally, or affirm it from a distance, but people who also love it, live in it, wrestle with it, and are formed by it. People come to it with expectancy—people who open its pages are like hungry souls opening the oven for fresh bread.
We don’t want to build our lives on secondhand spirituality. We’re grateful for wise teachers and trusted commentaries, but at some point, we must put down the books about the Book and pick up the Scriptures. This is a unique invitation to meet with Him, know Him, and hear His voice, not because God is impressed by our reading habits.
In John 10, Jesus says seven times that His sheep hear His voice. Not once. Not twice. Seven. He repeats Himself not because He’s running out of material but because He’s making a point. He’s a God who speaks. And we are a people meant to listen.
Christianity is not merely the affirmation of ideas—it’s the ongoing, daily, heart-to-heart connection with the God who is alive. The Bible is not a dead document. It is breathed out by God (2 Timothy 3:16-17), living and active (Hebrews 4:12), and it has this stunning, mysterious way of intersecting with precisely what we’re walking through.
You’ve felt it, haven’t you? Those moments when a line from Scripture lands with surprising force—like it was written just for you. A quiet reminder that the God who once spoke still speaks. The same Spirit who inspired these words now applies them to our hearts.
We don’t want just to know a lot about the Bible. We want to be shaped by it, shaped in our thinking, directed in our doing, and softened in our feelings. The Bible transforms what we believe and how we live, love, and serve.
When we read the Bible, we aren’t performing a ritual but are invited to a meeting with God Himself. We’re moving from information to transformation, from knowledge to communion. As we search the Word, the Word searches us. There is no pretending. It is just the sacred, slow work of being changed increasingly into the image of Jesus.
So let’s be People of the Book. Let’s not settle for being people who occasionally glance at it; we want to dwell in it. Meditate on it. Obey it. We want to be the kind of community rooted, shaped, and filled by the word of God.