James 1:1-4 Life will knock you down. We fight to get back up because we know what we're fighting for.
Oct 20, 2019•40 min
1 Timothy 4:7-12 - Fighting the good fight requires a different set of muscles, but those muscles need training and work like the rest if their going to function at peak performance.
Oct 13, 2019•46 min
1 Timothy 1:18-19 and 6:11-12 The world doesn't need fewer fights, it needs better fighters. Fighting the good fight starts with knowing what we're fighting for.
Oct 06, 2019•40 min
Luke 12:32-34 - We can have more stuff or we can have more stories. Jesus says one is better than the other and it's our tranquility that is at stake.
Sep 29, 2019•49 min
Luke 12:27-31 Stress is bad. Too many times our default setting is to manage stress instead of eliminate it. But what if the opposite of management is margin? What if margin is the land where relationships thrive and stress dies?
Sep 22, 2019•40 min
Ecclesiastes 4:6 and Luke 12:13-26 If our money could talk, it would tell us a lot about our anxiety and stress levels. What if the things Jesus had to say about money could help us trade our worry for wisdom and find freedom in the margins?
Sep 15, 2019•36 min
Sometimes we celebrate each other’s struggles…because it makes us feel better about our own. But deep down we're all the same, only different. It’s going to take all of us TOGETHER to get the job done. So what's God's plan? 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 (NLT)
Sep 08, 2019•39 min
Ecclesiastes 2 and 1 Corinthians 15 It's Labor Day weekend and we want to talk about your labor. Does work feel meaningless? Has cynicism crept into your life along with a weariness of it all? It doesn't have to be that way. God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet, not hard hearts and soft feet - and Jesus makes all the difference between the two.
Sep 01, 2019•35 min
The Church is remarkable. And against all odds, it changed the world. There is still a great deal that needs changing. By God’s grace and with your help, perhaps we can be a small part of bringing about that change.
Aug 25, 2019•32 min
Matthew 25:14-30 What will we do with what God has given us?
Aug 18, 2019•39 min
In a culture of slactivists and martyrs, Jesus is looking for the doers. Will we be found among the overwhelmed and debilitated, the busy and unaffected, or the present and purposeful? Matthew 25:14-46 (NLT)
Aug 11, 2019•39 min
Aug 04, 2019•46 min
Psalm 133 We all want to live our best life and we want to focus on the good stuff. Do we know what the good stuff is? More importantly, are we willing to fight for it?
Jul 28, 2019•42 min
Psalm 126 Life comes with plenty of unintended consequences, but some consequences are predictable - like joy. If you're like most people, you could probably use more joy in your life. Don't wait to stumble on it. It's not yours to take, but it is yours to have.
Jul 21, 2019•42 min
Psalm 122 There's no place like this place near this place so this place must be the place.
Jul 14, 2019•28 min
Psalm 121 Life is a journey. Do you know where you are going? Do you know how to pack and how to get there? Important questions for vacation, even more important for life.
Jul 07, 2019•40 min
Lamentations 3:16-33 God is great and God is good, but life is hard and bad stuff happens. What do we do with that? How do we handle the stuff singing can't fix?
Jun 30, 2019•36 min
Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Love songs describe love as everything from reckless to endless, but is it possible that we have misunderstood the true nature of love? What if we could love each other better if we understood love better?
Jun 23, 2019•42 min
2 Samuel 6:13-22 In life we can be so worried about who is watching and what they think that we have adapted our movements to the expectations of others. The question we ultimately have to answer is: Who are you trying to impress?
Jun 16, 2019•35 min
Psalm 8
Jun 09, 2019•49 min
Exodus 14-15 If you want your heart to be healthy, you have to exercise. If you want your heart to be strong and send life coursing through every part of your system, you have to sing - preferably loud and often. It's science.
Jun 02, 2019•48 min
We all want to win. After all, winning is better than not winning. In a game a win is defined, but life is not a game. And winning in the most important areas of our lives isn’t always clear. So, how do we win?
May 26, 2019•42 min
1 Samuel 1:8-18 Who are you? Lots of people and things in our lives try to speak into our identity, but how do we really answer the question? It’s difficult to know who we are until we know whose we are.
May 12, 2019•38 min
Luke 5:17-24 We celebrate what God did. We talk about what He’s going to do, but we often get stuck on figuring out where God is today. What are you willing to do for your friends to get to Jesus?
May 05, 2019•46 min
John 20:24-31 Ever have doubts? Even after all they had seen Him do, the disciples still had doubts. So what do we do with them?
Apr 28, 2019•40 min
John 20
Apr 21, 2019•33 min
Our approach matters. How do we talk about our faith in a way that's truthful and authentic? It might not be what you think. It's time to change the conversation.
Apr 14, 2019•44 min
Luke 10 & John 13 If you want to be in a right relationship with God, how does that happen? Jesus gave us a new command that changed everything.
Apr 07, 2019•38 min
Matthew 16:13-18 and Luke 22:14-20 New things don’t generally bother us until we realize it means letting go of old, comfortable things. How does what was fit with the story Jesus is writing?
Mar 31, 2019•42 min
John 6:2, Matthew 26:55-56, Acts 2:42-47 There was something irresistible about the faith of Jesus’ followers in the first and second centuries, and yet there is something incredibly resistible about the faith of his followers today. What gives?
Mar 24, 2019•38 min
