Without faith, it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11 teaches and illustrates what a life of faith looks like. We live by faith because God is faithful and can be trusted. So we can feel confident and settled, knowing that God is trustworthy. The life of faith, then, is one where we can persevere in doing what is right and even take appropriate risks for God. 

Strengthen Your Core is a sermon series that rehearses our “core identities” of who we are in Christ as a church. We are disciples, family, servants, and ambassadors. All of these identities are grounded in the gospel, the good news of Jesus’ kingdom.  This is displayed in Jesus' death on the cross and the free gift of salvation through His grace.

Throughout the centuries, God’s people have faced a wide variety of circumstances, from tremendous suffering to inexpressible joy. And, throughout the centuries, God’s people have found solace and strength in the book of Psalms which beautifully depicts God’s character, grace, and faithfulness. This summer, we will be covering various Psalms as they reveal to us the truth about God’s character and our need for Him.

Instead of sermon discussion questions this summer, you can purchase and use the study Praying the Psalms by Tim Keller. It is a PDF download which you will have access to immediately after purchase. This study can be used for your own personal devotions or a discussion guide for your Group. Click on the link to purchase the right number of leader guides and/or participant guides.

After we believe in Jesus, we begin a lifelong journey of becoming more like Him. We can be tempted, however, to stray off His path if we are not careful. God has given us the strength to follow Christ through some basic practices, also known as spiritual disciplines. These practices help us to walk in a manner worthy of the gospel.

We believe that Jesus is better than anything this world has to offer. We can be confident that our culture’s idols—the things we value above all else—cannot save or satisfy. Only Jesus can. Therefore, we earnestly desire that all people would turn from their sins and trust in Jesus as their Savior. While we may think the things of this world are good, Jesus is better.

Do Christians have to obey the Ten Commandments? Or are they just some irrelevant code of law from long ago? In our series on the Ten Commandments, we seek to instruct Christians how to rightly relate to God's Law as expressed in the Ten Commandments. If we properly understand these Commandments, we will feel the depth of our sin but also see the greatness of Jesus’ mercy in fulfilling the Law.  

Do Christians have to obey the Ten Commandments? Or are they just some irrelevant code of law from long ago? In our series on the Ten Commandments, we seek to instruct Christians how to rightly relate to God's Law as expressed in the Ten Commandments. If we properly understand these Commandments, we will feel the depth of our sin but also see the greatness of Jesus’ mercy in fulfilling the Law.  

The apostle Paul wrote the book of 1 Corinthians to apply the gospel to life of the Corinthian believers and deal with the various problems in their church. In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul defends the resurrection from those who would claim that it could never actually happen. But Paul ends 1 Corinthians 15 with an important exhortation for the Corinthians, and even for us today.

Songs are powerful because they are often a response to a profound experience. When we feel joy, we often burst forth in song. When we are deeply hurting, lament pours onto the pages. The songs we sing reflect what our hearts worship. This Advent, we are studying songs that were sung by Bible characters in response to God’s greatest gift, Jesus Christ.

Jesus commands us that we are to make disciples as we “go” (Matthew 28:18). Lincroft Bible Church has a mission from God to make disciples. This has led us to our rally cry for this year: WALK WORTHY.  We want to take the next step in following Jesus and align ourselves with Him in our beliefs and actions and to grow in our purpose, mission, and identities as a church.

As we have learned to love God deeply and to love one another passionately, we want our love to move outward toward others. We want to love our neighbors boldly. There is no better way to learn how to love boldly than to study the life of Jesus.  By boldly loving those with whom He came in contact, He has become our perfect example. For the next 12 weeks, we will be studying Luke 13-16 to observe how Jesus’ bold love to save sinners motivates us to love our neighbors boldly. 

The gospel is a message of great depth and beauty but also of profound simplicity. Jesus has come to live the perfect life we have all failed to live. As the perfectly obedient sacrifice, Jesus offered Himself on the cross, taking the penalty of our sins so that we might be forgiven. But Jesus did not stay dead. He rose again, conquering sin, death, and the devil. Because of His resurrection, we can have a new spiritual life now and the promise of bodily resurrection later.

1 Corinthians 15 seems to explain these truths better than any other chapter of the Bible. For the next two weeks (and Good Friday), we will explore the depth, beauty, and simplicity of the gospel as found in 1 Corinthians 15.

The New Testament devotes considerable time to instructing the church in how to live as family. In fact, there are 59 “one another” commands in the New Testament, and 15 out of the 59 are the same: “love one another" (25%!). Therefore, how we treat one another is very important in God's eyes. This series will focus on providing practical instruction on loving each other well. 

Why do we as Christians gather together for worship? Asking such a question actually connects us to the people of Israel in profound ways. God has always been concerned with gathering people to Himself so that they might worship Him. It first began with Israel and now culminates in the church through our connection to Christ. Today, we will see how Israel’s gathering together for worship can inform the importance of our worship gatherings.

Loving well means that we love God deeply, love one another passionately, and love our neighbors boldly. We spent the Fall of 2021 learning to love God deeply. We are now turning our attention to what it means to love one another passionately. To guide our thinking about loving one another, we will be working through the book of 1 John. 1 John was written to help churches to know the one true God and to learn how to love one another. 

As the people of Israel languished in exile, one question which arose for them about God was, “Have you rejected us forever?” It could have certainly seemed so, for from the end of Malachi to the beginning of the New Testament were 400 “silent years” where God did not send any prophets among the people. But when the New Testament opens, God comes to His people in love and He speaks through the birth of His son, Jesus Christ.

In order to love well, we must know the God who loved us first, for the heart cannot love what the mind does not know. To know God more, we must know what he is like. Therefore, studying his attributes is one of the best ways to come to know him. As we walk through the book of Psalms, we will begin by seeing God as our refuge.  Cards with the "Attributes of God" can be downloaded and printed HERE.

Love is a word that is easy to say but difficult to define with any precision. As Christians, we know that God is love. But what does that mean? And how does God's love influence our understanding of love? In 1 Corinthians 13, the apostle Paul lays out one of the most compelling descriptions and definitions of love ever put into words. This series explores what the Bible means by the word 'love' and how our love can be changed by God's love. 

As a church this year, we want to LOVE WELL. Loving well means we love God deeply, love each other passionately, and love our neighbors boldly. You can hear more about "LOVE WELL" from the pastors on our YouTube page or by clicking HERE.  

What is a man? What is a woman? And why does it matter? Confusion reigns in our culture today about the meaning and purpose of human life. Too often we attempt to live as autonomous individuals rather than those in deep relationships with one another. In Side by Side, we explore God's original design for men and women, how it was corrupted by sin, but how God redeems it in Christ. 

King David faced many trials and complex circumstances. Yet through it all, he trusted in God and lived a faithful life before the Lord. A faithful life, however, does not mean perfect. David definitely failed (sometimes spectacularly). But through those failures, he turned from his sin and entrusted himself to the Lord. This series explores how David points us forward to the King we really need, Jesus. We will see how we can live faithful lives in a complicated (modern) world. 

In our sermon series, Renew: Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ, we found that we are saved by believing the gospel message, the good news that life with God is available through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. The gospel not only brings us into a right relationship with God, it is also the way we grow in our faith. We are made new through the gospel, but, as Romans 6-8 shows us, we are also becoming new. Romans 6-8 shows us how to live the new life we have in Christ and how to put Christ’s power on display in our own lives. You can download the study packet below.

In our Sermon Series, The Gospel of Mark, we will focus on the true King, Jesus Christ, who enters into public ministry by proclaiming the arrival of God's Kingdom.  The Gospel of Mark explains how to live as a follower of Christ, so join us as we look at His ministry and His journey to the cross.  You can download the study guide for The Gospel of Mark below.

Our sermon series,  A Thrill of Hope, comes from the lyrics of “O Holy Night.” If you remember the song, the very next line is, “a weary world rejoices.” It is hard to find a better description of our world right now. It is anxious, depressed, and weary. It needs hope. And that hope is found in Jesus Christ. He is the hope of the world.   Join us on Sundays to see how the gospel gives us hope and how we can share this hope with others.  You can download the discussion questions for each week below.

In our sermon series, Strengthen Your Core - Living Our Gospel Identity, we saw how core strength  allows the gospel to influence every area of our lives and to change those areas on a deeper and deeper level.   The gospel moves us from not only changing how we behave but also to shaping our motives, desires and loves.  You can download the discussion questions for each week below.