The sermon "Home Invaders" emphasizes building our lives on a solid foundation and protecting our homes from spiritual invaders. It explores the roles and responsibilities of men and women in the home, highlighting the importance of providing, protecting, and regulating God's image and likeness. The sermon warns against pride and apathy as destructive home invaders. Believers are called to be vigilant and resist these invaders, ensuring that their lives and relationships are grounded in God's truth and protected from destruction.

This week in our series "A House On Fire", we continue to explore the parable that Jesus introduced in the Sermon on the Mount when He compared our lives and how we live to a house. This week uses the metaphor of a thermostat/smart home hub as a means of highlighting the primary, but not sole, responsibility of women to lead in creating, establishing, and regulating a healthy emotional and spiritual environment within themselves and the lives of those in their families. Roles and responsibilities are not singularly exclusive to men or women but are mutually shared by men and women, with each being given a primary area of focus/responsibility by God in creation. Women are called to reflect God's "likeness" (His characteristics, what He's like) and lead their families in growing in and living out the "likeness of God" in their own lives through compassion, grace, patience, love, faithfulness, forgiveness, and justice. Ultimately, the goal is for men and women to co-rule equally and in doing so, together reflect God's image and likeness in a way that demonstrates His love and righteousness to the world around them.

Joining Jesus' disciple making movement means we have to first take responsibility to be disciples.

We cannot love and care for others from a distance. Like Jesus, we have to be willing to get our hands dirty.

Compassion leads to responsibility, which leads to a willing spirit that takes action in the lives of others.

We don't change in order to be accepted by God. We are accepted by God because of Jesus and that causes us to change.

Jesus left heaven and came to earth to seek and save those who are lost. For many of us, the reason we assume Jesus is mad at us, is the exact reason He searches for us.