In week two of Growing Up in Christ, Mark takes us from the eerie “Backrooms” meme to the collapse of Enron, where the smartest people in the room made foolish decisions, and asks what we’re actually missing: wisdom. Drawing on Ephesians 4 and Proverbs, he shows that information fills the head, but wisdom changes the heart. It requires submission, and it can’t be downloaded; it’s caught from those who have walked the road before us. As a youth-obsessed culture runs short on wisdom, the church has a chance to shine like a light on a hill, and the invitation is to stop chasing more information and start asking God for his wisdom.

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Trudi Sayers opens a brand-new series, Growing Up in Christ, by naming something many of us feel but rarely say out loud: our culture has stopped valuing maturity, rewarding emotional reactivity, entitlement, and the endless chase for instant gratification instead. Paul writes to the Ephesians that the church is meant to grow up no longer infants tossed by every wind of teaching, but built together in love until we reach "the full measure of the fullness of Christ", and Trudi traces what that actually costs, landing on the staggering true story of Maximilian Kolbe, who walked into a Nazi death bunker in place of a stranger. The chief mark of maturity, she argues, was never ambition or achievement — it's self-denying love, and the invitation this morning is to put away childish ways and discover what a mature church can do for a world in crisis.

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Picking up where last week's message on intercession left off, Daniel looks honestly at the uncertainty pressing in on all of us AI, war, economic strain, a shaking world and asks a simple question: will the church shrink back, or step forward? Drawing from Hebrews 10 and the extraordinary true story of Brother Andrew, the young Dutchman who smuggled Bibles behind the Iron Curtain, Daniel makes the case that courage isn't a personality trait reserved for the bold it's hardwired into every believer's identity in Christ, and it's exactly what the enemy works hardest to steal. This message is an invitation to name your discouragement, take hold of faith and the Holy Spirit, and walk forward into whatever God has called you to.

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