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Fighting Temptation

Fighting Temptation We live in a world that looks at temptation and pleasure as the ultimate prize. Just think about all of the ways we are enticed to #treatyourself. Now, pleasure in and of itself is not bad, and we are not told to shy away from it altogether. However, a lot of pleasure is…

How God’s Joy is Better Than Instant Gratification

It seems like every year the “latest and greatest” inventions all serve to attempt to make life easier and more comfortable. And at the root of nearly every software update and newest gadget or widget is the goal to close the gap of time between desire and pleasure. In other words–instant gratification. Let’s be clear,…

Engaging the Battle

Engaging the Battle Newbreak’s Sermon Study Guide is an in-house resource that serves sermon-based Life Groups and/or individuals who want to reflect further on how the message contributes to their spiritual formation. In this week’s study, we talk about seeing all battles as spiritual battles as we look at the famous “battle of Jericho,” which…

Engaging The Battle

Engaging The Battle Our journey through life is filled with battles; some are physical like illness or injury, and some are mental like depression or anxiety. One of the categories of battles we don’t talk about as often in life are spiritual battles. Those are the battles that are underlying in just about every obvious…

Look Up

Look Up Newbreak’s Sermon Study Guide is an in-house resource that serves sermon-based Life Groups and/or individuals who want to reflect further on how the message contributes to their spiritual formation. In this week’s study, we talk about the power of holy encounters with God. God is involved in the ordinary details of life, but…

Look Up

Look Up It is so easy for us to be incredibly disconnected from the world around us and the experiences of life despite living in the most connected time thanks to technology. Think about the last time you sat down to watch a movie, were you tempted to pick up your phone and scroll through…

Where Was Jesus Before the Gospels?

Have you ever thought about what Jesus was up to before the incarnation, before Christ came as an infant? For millennia, theologians have marveled at what it means that Jesus has eternally existed as the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel. This is part of the larger revelation of the Trinity, and without getting lost…

Letting Go

Letting Go We’ve all heard the phrase, “New year, new me!” We may have even uttered those words ourselves. Some of us even say this at the beginning of a new month, or nearing our birthdays. It stands to reason that we crave fresh starts because our journey through life can be messy and difficult,…

Letting Go

Letting Go Newbreak’s Sermon Study Guide is an in-house resource that serves sermon-based Life Groups and/or individuals who want to reflect further on how the message contributes to their spiritual formation. In this week’s study, we talk about being branded by God–belonging to Him as He shapes our identity. In this part of the book…

Made For More Than Manna

You are made for more. This is something we have been talking about weekly as we go through a sermon series in the book of Joshua. Some of these passages and themes are accessible and easy to get excited about. Others, however, might cause us to raise an eyebrow, grit our teeth, or scratch our…