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Luke 14:15-24 (CSB) God wants HEAVEN CROWDED Bring LIFE IN JESUS to EVERY LIFE in our communities We reach wide Everything has been PREPARED There is ROOM at the TABLE Jesus invites us to REACH WIDE - with the same REACH that RESCUED us

Our DNA: What Makes Us "Us" | Week 1 | It's About Life | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma We are about LIFE, because LIFE is who JESUS is 1 John 5:11-13 (CSB) Our mission is to bring LIFE IN JESUS to EVERY LIFE in our communities John 1:4 (CSB) John 10:10 (CSB) John 20:31 (CSB) We CARRY the life: I carry the life of Jesus WITH ME and IN ME Galatians 2:20 (CSB) We CARE for lives: every life in our COMMUNITIES matters to God... And if it matters to Him, it must matter to us We CLING to the spirit: we cling to the Holy Spirit as our source - because we can't do this mission without Him Ezekiel 47:1, 8-12 (CSB) John 7:37-39 (CSB)

A God of Justice | Josh Sperry | Life Center Tacoma David was ANOINTED long before he was APPOINTED. God was shaping him in private before using him in public. Justice: Making things right according to God's character and design. Injustice: The abuse of power, the neglect of the vulnerable, or the failure to act when wrong is done. Psalms 89:11-14 (NIV) 1 Samuel 17:26 (NLT) Justice begins with seeing clearly David sees what others can't or won't, the vulnerable and the hurting [Ansel Adams Photo] "I just want people to see what I see" -Ansel Adams What cause is the Lord calling you to stand for? Justice is rooted in God's character, not human strength 1 Samuel 17:32-37 (NIV) Justice doesn't come from having power - it comes from knowing the God who defends the powerless. Injustice, by contrast, is always about power misused. Justice confronts evil courageously 1 Samuel 17:45-50 (NIV) Justice happens when ordinary people walk into hard places because they know God walks with them. Justice brin

Jesus is Building Something (Part One) | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma We don't just GO to CHURCH; we ARE the CHURCH. Exodus 19:5-6 (CSB) 1 Peter 2:4-10 (CSB) We have a new STATUS We have a new RESPONSIBILITY When was the last time you OFFERED a SPIRITUAL SACRIFICE to God?

Jonah | Week 4 | The God Who Won't Quit On You | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma Jonah 3:10-4:11 (CSB) God doesn't QUIT on Jonah even though Jonah QUIT on God At the HEART of our PROBLEMS we often find a PROBLEM of the HEART Proverbs 4:23 (CSB) You can OBEY with your FEET and REBEL with your HEART God doesn't just want Jonah to OBEY; He wants him to CHANGE God gets the LAST WORD

Jonah | Week 3 | Mercy for the Mess | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma The God of the Bible is a God of SECOND CHANCES. "Jonah's story shows us a God who doesn't just send storms to stop us - but grace to restore us." -Tim Keller Jonah 3:1-10 (CSB) Life is MESSY because SIN makes a MESS We like to RECEIVE mercy; God loves to GIVE mercy. Exodus 34:6-7 (CSB) Psalms 86:15 (CSB) God is PATIENT, but not PERMISSIVE 2 Peter 3:9 (CSB) Jeremiah 18:7-8 (CSB) Romans 2:4 (CSB)

Communion in message Jonah | Week 2 | Desperate Prayers to a Gracious God | Pastor Doug Myers | Life Center Tacoma The God of the Bible has a plan that cannot be sabotaged. "God is both too holy and too loving to either destroy Jonah or to allow Jonah to remain as he is, and God is also too holy and too loving to allow us to remain as we are." -Tim Keller Jonah 1:17 (CSB) God ANSWERS when we CALL Jonah 2:2 (CSB) "Something happens when I pray and something doesn't happen when I don't pray." -Dick Eastman God saves from DEATH not DARK DAYS Jonah 2:1-7 (CSB) Romans 6:23 (CSB) God's COURSE CORRECTION might be MESSY Jonah 2:8-10 (CSB) Psalm 139:7-12 (CSB) Psalm 145:18-19 (CSB)

Runaway | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma God Doesn't run away from runaways 1. Jesus treated Jonah as HISTORY, not ALLEGORY 2. The Bible locates Jonah in REAL TIME and SPACE 3. MIRACLES in Jonah are consistent with God's POWER Jonah 1:1-16 (CSB) Jonah RUNS from God's CALL Jonah TRIES to run from God's PRESENCE Running from God is COSTLY We can RUN, but we can't HIDE God CARES enough about us to PURSUE US

The Invitation | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma Jesus offers an OPEN INVITE Matthew 11:28-30 (CSB) WHO does Jesus invite? Ecclesiastes 7:20 (CSB) Two dangerous lies to avoid: I'm not GOOD ENOUGH for His invitation I don't NEED His invitation WHAT does Jesus invite them to do? Jesus invites us to a CHOICE Direction: COME TO ME Directive: TAKE MY YOKE Discovery: FIND REST "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you." -Saint Augustine of Hippo | Confessions, Book I Chapter 1

Get Back Up! | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma Proverbs 24:16 (CSB) If you've been KNOCKED DOWN, you don't have to STAY DOWN. Jesus laid His LIFE DOWN, so you can GET BACK UP. John 8:2-11 (CSB) Shame SEPARATES but grace STOOPS Someone has to PAY; grace says it doesn't have to be YOU Grace won't CONDEMN, but it will call you to CHANGE Romans 8:1 (CSB) Micah 7:8; 18-19 (CSB)

How's Your Fruit? | Pastor Nate Birdine | Life Center Tacoma Galatians 1:6-9 (CSB) Galatians 5:1, 13-26 (CSB) 2 Corinthians 5:17 (CSB) Accept the invitation of liberty Analyze your own fruit Allow The Spirit to move through you Psalm 51:10 (CSB)

Rivers in the Desert | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma Isaiah 43:16-21 (CSB) What do we do with dry seasons? God is WITH YOU in the WILDERNESS God is MAKING a WAY Dry places can be HOLY PLACES God's provision is TRANSFORMATIONAL Isaiah 44:3 (CSB) John 7:37-39 (CSB)

The Backstory | Week 5 | Gold in the Seams | Pastor Karina Torres | Life Center Tacoma Creation | Covenant | Chains | Crown | Collapse God doesn't just REPAIR what's broken, He TRANSFORMS it. God entered into the brokenness God formulated a plan of a hope and a future Jeremiah 29:11 (CSB) God created a way where we could have a deeper relationship with Him Jeremiah 29:12-14 (CSB) God made a way where his spirit would dwell in us Ezequiel 36:26-28 (CSB) Acts 2:1-4 (CSB) Romans 8:11 (CSB) 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (CSB) There is nothing too broken that God cannot transform Only with God there is gold in the seams

The Inevitability of the Flood | Pastor Brandon Beals | Life Center Tacoma Genesis 4:25-26 (NIV) Genesis 6:5-6 (NIV) The Flood is Coming! Genesis 5:3-24 (NIV) Hebrews 11:5 (NIV) Jude 1:14-15 (NIV) Genesis 5:29 (NIV) Ephesians 1:4 (NIV)

The Backstory | Week 3 | Chains | Pastor Eric Boles | Life Center Tacoma Delivered…not yet free Exodus 14:12-13 (CSB) Connection not just correction Romans 7:19, 24-25 (CSB) Romans 8:35-39 (CSB) The Burden of Freedom 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (CSB)

The Backstory | Week 2 | Lopsided In Our Favor | Pastor Doug Myers | Life Center Tacoma Genesis 12:1-3 (CSB) God CALLS God COVENANTS Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18a (CSB) God COMPLETES it IN CHRIST Mark 15:33-34 (CSB) Isaiah 53:8b (CSB)

The Backstory | Week 1 | Where It All Started | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma Have you ever noticed how hard it is to have CLARITY when you lack CONTEXT? The Bible is one UNIFIED STORY that leads us to JESUS. Genesis 1:1 (CSB) The story STARTS with GOD, not with ME. CREATOR Genesis 1:1 (CSB) CREATION Genesis 1:31 (CSB) COMMISION Genesis 1:26-28 (CSB) Genesis 2:15 (CSB) CRASH Genesis 3:4-7 (CSB) The GOOD NEWS starts in Genesis. God CALLS Genesis 3:8-9 (CSB) God COVERS Genesis 3:21 (CSB) God COMMITS Genesis 3:14-15 (CSB) The God who CREATES will also RE-CREATE. Ezekiel 36:26 (CSB) Jesus is the one who can TRANSFORM OUR STORY.

Does It Really Work? | Week 5 | Finding Joy In Obedience | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma John 14:15 (CSB) Obedience isn't LEGALISM Obedience is LOVE 1 Samuel 15:13-22 (CSB) Step One: LISTEN Step Two: SURRENDER Step Three: RESPOND 2 John 1:6 (CSB) Walking the path of obedience will not always be CONVENIENT or COMFORTABLE - but it always leads to the right DESTINATION.

Does It Really Work? | Week 4 | Does Forgiveness Really Work? | Pastor Tyler Sollie | Life Center Tacoma Forgiveness isn't a FEELING “Forgiveness is granted (often a good while) before it is felt—not felt before it is granted. It is a promise to not exact the price of sin from the person who hurt you." "If you wait to feel it before you grant it, you’ll never grant it; you’ll be in an anger prison.” -Tim Keller Colossians 3:12-13 (CSB) For a Jesus follower, FORGIVENESS isn't OPTIONAL Forgiveness is HARD WORK because it is HEART WORK Matthew 18:21-35 (CSB) Forgiveness is not the same as RESTORATION Amos 3:3 (CSB) The PRICE of forgiveness is FREE and the PRODUCT of forgiveness is FREEDOM “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” -Tim Keller