What if the most powerful thing you could do this week wasn't climbing higher, but bending lower? In this message, we step away from our Back To The Heart series to unpack one of Lakeside's core values: Serving Is The Norm. Walking through Philippians 2, we look at the One who had every right to sit in judgment and instead wrapped a towel around His waist and washed feet. Jesus didn't just teach us to serve. He showed us how.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why what you focus on determines what you do, and how to keep your eyes on Christ in a culture that keeps them on yourself (Philippians 2:4)
• How Jesus emptied Himself to serve us, and what that means for a life that's always "too busy" (Philippians 2:7)
• Why you are not without a gift, and how God designed you to serve others in your own unique way (1 Peter 4:10, Romans 12:4-8)
• How to serve the Lord with gladness and find the joy that only comes from being used by God (Psalm 100:2)

This week we find ourselves wrapping up Saul's story... Samuel is dead. The Philistines are gathering. And when Saul looks out at the army coming for him, the Bible says terror fills his heart. He asks God for direction. For the first time in his life, he gets nothing back.

In this final message of A Heart In Decline, we watch Saul, out of options and out of answers, do the one thing he once condemned, sneak out in disguise to consult the very mediums he had expelled from his kingdom. It's a sobering picture of what happens when we'd rather find an answer we like than surrender to the one God's already given.

In this episode:

• Why Saul's real problem was never fear itself, but what fear kept leading him to do
• What it looks like when we refuse to confront the thing that's actually controlling us
• Why no other answer, no matter how comforting, can replace real repentance
• What Saul's story sets up for the next chapter in Back To The Heart

Scripture referenced: 1 Samuel 28:3-20

In this episode, we continue our series "Heart In Decline" with a hard look at 1 Samuel 18 and what happens when jealousy is allowed to take root. King Saul had every reason to celebrate David. Instead, comparison crept in and slowly changed the way he saw the person right beside him.

In this episode you'll discover:

• Why jealousy targets other people but ends up destroying the one who carries it
• What it means to have a healthy heart that can genuinely celebrate someone else's win
• How comparison magnifies what we don't have and minimizes what God has already given us
• The connection between fear and jealousy, and why they feed each other over time
• What it practically looks like to bring jealousy to Jesus before it changes how you treat people

Whether you're walking through a season of comparison or just want to guard your heart before it starts, this conversation will challenge you to trade jealousy for gratitude, one day at a time.