HeyJaredCarpenter's Way Messages
"Belong by Grace. Free by Truth. A community following Jesus together." Weekly messages from Carpenter's Way Fellowship in Groves, Texas. Pastored by Jesse Lofton.
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Don’t Love the World; Abide in Him (opens the original)
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Why does finally getting the promotion, the upgrade, or the win so often leave you feeling emptier than before? A few ancient lines from 1 John 2 name that pull with surprising honesty.After a flood ruins a garage full of stuff, a couple promises each other they will never let that much pile up again. Two years and one more flood later, the garage is full again. The heart works the same way, reaching for comfort, connection, and a sense of being enough in places that act like seawater on a lifeb
Real Eyes: Finding Assurance of Salvation (opens the original)
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How do you actually know that you know God? First John 2 lays out a test for that question, and it has almost nothing to do with what someone says and everything to do with how they treat the people around them. The test starts with commandments, but not as a scorecard for earning anything. Keeping them is simply the evidence of what's already true underneath. From there the letter narrows the whole thing down to one measurable question: love or hate. Hate gets defined here as nothing more drama
Walking in the Light (1 John 1) (opens the original)
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A quick flashlight experiment opened the day, and it revealed something the room already suspected: nobody there was struggling alone. That's where a new series through 1 John begins, called Real Eyes, tracing what it means to walk in the light instead of hiding in the dark.The teaching moves through four familiar ways people avoid being fully known: chasing spiritual language with no real anchor, curating an online self that looks better than real life, blaming the past instead of owning the pr
Why Pray if God Already Knows (opens the original)
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Does Jesus actually hear your prayers, and how long is he allowed to make you wait for an answer? This final stop in our Ask Anything series takes on the question you asked more than any other: prayer, and why it feels so hard even when we know it matters.We walk through the honest, sometimes uncomfortable truth about how God answers. If your prayer life has felt more like a struggle than a strength lately, you're in good company here. We're not chasing perfect prayers, just an honest, ongoing c
What Science and Genesis Agree On (opens the original)
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Did the first people on earth have belly buttons? It sounds like a throwaway question until it opens up something much bigger about where everything, and everyone, actually came from.This is part of an ongoing series built entirely from real questions people have asked, and this round tackles two of the biggest ones: how did it all begin, and how does it all end. It walks through where Genesis and modern science actually agree more than most people expect, why every person alive traces back to o
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