Everyone needs an encourager.

Everyone needs a reject.

Message looks at two kinds of spiritual offerings: with our mouth and with our hands.

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Message looks at the gifts each has been given for the building up of the body of Christ.

Message looks at the gifts each has been given for the building up of the body of Christ.

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Mothers' Day 2010

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Message looks at how Christians are given fair warning that the expression of our faith will rock the boat, and how we care called to respond in a Jesus-like way when we are harassed for our faith.

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Message compares and contrasts the kingdom of the world with the Kingdom of God, and shows the varieties of Christian responses to the State.

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This message concludes the Romans series with a call for men to “get on their boots” and walk in the light.

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Palm Sunday

Passage speaks of the effects of what Jesus has won for us: because he has restored the image of God in us, a pattern of sin is a denial of our nature and a dissatisfying way of living. Our call is to count ourselves dead to sin and alive to Christ, not allowing sin to reign in our lives.

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The chapter is not about being bad—it’s about someone trying to be good, and finding their dark side illuminated by God’s law. Message speaks about this reality, setting up our desperate need for a savior.

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The focus of this majestic passage is the life God gives though the Son and the Spirit (in contract to the death wrought by sin).

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This message looks at the cosmic implications of God's plan for Heaven/Earth, showing how this hopeful vision of the future can direct our lives here and now, especially in times of momentary hardship.

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Guest Speaker: Pastor Gary Walter.

A deeper look at the love of God that will not let us go -- that love that lies at the heart of what Jesus has done for us.

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A deeper look at the love of God that will not let us go — that love that lies at the heart of what Jesus has done for us.

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Guest speaker Pastor Keith Ferrin dramatizes Romans 5-8.

Jesus was born into a broken world as an “at-risk” child, showing God’s heart for those at risk in our world, especially children.

Christmas—the incarnation—is all about the love of God that GIVES. This message sets the table for the this Christmas Presence series by speaking about the Giving God.

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This message looks at the story of the good Samaritan, and the healing ministry of Jesus. It challenges us with the commission of Jesus to show compassion ("Just as the Father has sent me, so I send you").

Message looks at Paul’s opening greetings, and focuses on V5-7 where he conveys a threefold call to obedience, belonging and to holy living.

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Paul presents his driving motivation to preach the gospel which is…V16-17 “the “righteousness of God”. This phrase is the theme of Romans and refers to God’s actions to repair and set right the worlds fracture resulting from sin.

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God’s wrath against humans is his gracious anger that we need to respect.

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Many believers assume that being a good Christian means doing more and doing it better. But our status does not depend on our doing good—it’s grounded in what God has done in Jesus, which levels the playing field in the community of faith.

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Explores how religious practice can become a way of avoiding God, or worse, an illusion of controlling God.

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This passage is the heart of Romans—the righteousness of God—which is all about the justice/redemption/reconciliation that God has brought about in Jesus for the healing of the world.

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As Illustrated by the life of Abraham, faithful believing in God has three benefits: it impacts our children and grandchildren, it changes our disposition from hopelessness to hope, and it leads us to worship the only one who fully trustworthy.

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This message unpacks how God uses distress to develop endurance, character, and hope in our lives.

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This Message unpacks one of the more complex passages in Romans. This passage speaks of the spread of sin begun with Adam and the great reveal of that disease begun with Jesus.

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Christmas—the incarnation—is all about the love of God that GIVES. This message sets the table for this Christmas Presence series, by speaking about the Giving God.

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Confirmation 2010

Why do we play?

Baptism

Message introduces the series by looking at three critical moments in Family History: That family is God’s idea, that every family is broken, and that Jesus, the head of our household, starts a new family by restoring our relationship to God and to one another.

Message explores the biblical mandate to pass down the faith to successive generations.

Message looks at the covenant renewal ceremony as a basis for our committing ourselves to God, his family and the world God loves.

Message looks at the reality of sin in relationships and the essential gift of forgiveness, with a challenge to give the gift of forgiveness to repair broken relationships.

Christopher Sure, the Pastor we support in Kodera, Kenya, speaks on how we can bear fruit.

Two little words in our Bibles are important markers to help us recognize what God has to say about the purpose of His actions and what He offers us for our faith.

What do we need to age well? Our culture that says aging well is about freedom and independence and security and comfort. From a Biblical perspective there are three important ingredients to aging well and finishing well: a wholehearted faith; a stirring challenge and a community of support.

Message sharply contrasts the triumphal entry as a parade of victory with the journey to the cross, emphasizing that the way of victory for the believer is though a journey toward the cross.

Message unpacks how the “third day” is an important clue in scripture for a desperate situation beyond all hope… except for what God can do. The question of “what are you pinning your ultimate hope on?” will come into focus. Message ends with a challenge to place our hope in the resurrected Jesus.

Message introduces GROW with the challenge to “make the journey” by committing to four practices.

How to read, reflect , pray though and apply the Bible in daily reading.

Spiritual gifts: what they are, how to use them and how to get started in a ministry and a mission.

Why do the Gospels present, as an historical claim, that Jesus was born of a Virgin—that this was a special Being who came in a special birth. Why does that matter? What is at stake in that question? This message answers those questions, showing what it all means for us.

When you peel away the props around the naivety scene, we find a message of great joy that seems to elude many around Christmas. This message unpacks the character of that joy—that it is not dependent on our circumstance—to show the difference the Joy of the Lord means for us.

The story of Christmas is not just a pretty story about a cuddly, cute baby depicted with a fuzz filter on the lens. It is not a sentimental metaphor that illustrates to us that we all ought to wish harder that there would be peace on earth. It is a claim. It is a truth claim shot in HD. It is a claim that in Jesus, something staggering was happening. This message explores the difference Jesus makes when we open our lives to his reality.