Kyle Clarkson :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, July 31, 2016 Pearls are created from an oyster's attempt to remove an irritating grain of sand from its mouth. Likewise, becoming a great pearl for God comes through irritation. And irritation requires patience, this week's message on the Fruit of the Spirit. Kyle Clarkson teaches from James 5:7-11 on the command to have patience, Biblical examples of patience, and God's plan and purpose for the grains of sand in our lives. Kyle reminds us that no ma...
Jul 31, 2016•39 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, July 24, 2016 When life feels out of our control, we can know that God is in control—but that's just a start. Nick Reed continues our Fruit of the Spirit series on the topic of peace and how we can find and know it. The single greatest obstacle to experiencing God's peace is a prayerless life. Like Daniel's prayerful response to facing the lion's den in Daniel 6:1-10, we can find true peace in the midst of fear and anxiety by living a prayerful life. Nick...
Jul 24, 2016•51 min
Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, July 17, 2016 Fruit is organic, something that naturally comes out when we live by the Spirit. Through scripture and an interesting word study, Bob Short continues our exploration of the Fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5 with a message about joy, something that doesn't depend on our circumstances but on the grace of God and the hope of our salvation. As healthy trees undergo pruning, abiding in Christ and living by the Spirit will inevitably bring tria...
Jul 17, 2016•48 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, July 10, 2016 "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." If our hearts are open to the presence of God, we WILL be changed by it. Nick Reed begins our series on the Fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5:16-26, a list of attributes that Jesus perfectly displayed, "fruit" that in our own lives is evidence of sin overcome by the blood of Christ and a life changed by the power of the Holy Spirit. The kind of fruit you bears in your life shows ...
Jul 08, 2016•44 min
Kyle Clarkson :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, July 3, 2016 Many will cry "Lord, Lord!", give lip service and even have a Christian lifestyle down, but their hearts may still be far from God. Kyle Clarkson ends our Sermon on the Mount series in Matthew 7:21-29 showing the distinction Jesus makes between the religious who say and do the right things and the redeemed whose heart has been transformed. This calls us back to all that Christ taught in His Sermon on the Mount, to those who "do the will o...
Jul 03, 2016•42 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, June 26, 2016 "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you." Starting with our overarching 2016 theme of "occupying our street" with the Gospel, Nick Reed teaches from Matthew 7:12-23, where the "Golden Rule" surfaces as the one main thing Jesus wants His followers to take from His Sermon on the Mount. Nick links this principle for loving our neighbor to drawing others to the kingdom, to the hard road of loving those we'd rather not,...
Jun 26, 2016•57 min
Mark Kline :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, June 19, 2016 In the first few verses of Matthew 7, Jesus teaches an important lesson on human relationships, but one that is often misunderstood. Should we judge others or not? How do we deal with the "plank" in our eye when approaching others about their sin? Mark Kline covers what it means Biblically to judge rightly with spiritual discernment but without Pharisaical condemnation, and how we should help others caught in sin, with a spirit of gentlenes...
Jun 19, 2016•46 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, June 12, 2016 Most things we get anxious about are out of our control by definition. Nick Reed preaches from Matthew 6:25-34, Jesus' teaching about the destructiveness of worry in His Sermon on the Mount. From this message we are reminded of God's authority and care for us, and that freedom and peace come from Christ, who takes away not only our sins but any need we might have to worry.
Jun 11, 2016•51 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, June 5, 2016 "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:21) Nick Reed covers Jesus' teaching about treasures in Matthew 6:19-24, a lesson about trusting God and working for riches we CAN take with us. Nick reminds us that we will always protect our greatest investments, investments which are held in our hearts and revealed in our lives. Jesus says we can't serve both God and money, and we can't see clearly when we try. Nick's ...
Jun 04, 2016•53 min
Kyle Clarkson :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 29, 2016 Should prayer be about technique or performance? Or about our relationship to whom we pray? Kyle Clarkson preaches on the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:5-15. From Jesus we have an example of how to model the attitude of our hearts, our adoration of God, our acceptance of His will, and what we ask of our giving and forgiving Father who already knows what we need.
May 29, 2016•43 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 22, 2016 "Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them..." (Matthew 6:1). Giving, prayer and fasting are good things unless they're done with the wrong motives. Nick Reed preaches on the piety found in the first 8 verses of Matthew 6, where Jesus unmasks the hypocrisy of the Pharisees doing religious deeds to gain honor for themselves. Jesus is after our hearts, and a heart of humility brings much greater rew...
May 21, 2016•46 min
Kyle Clarkson :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 15, 2016 How should a disciple respond to those who do us wrong? The heart of sinful man seeks to make things right through vengeance. Kyle Clarkson preaches from Matthew 5:38-43 and explains the difference between the Old Testament "eye for an eye" principal of civil law and Jesus' very different point about our personal reaction to offense. Followers of Jesus, our Savior who gave up His rights and position for us, know there are far greater thin...
May 15, 2016•40 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 8, 2016 "Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’…" (Matthew 5:37a) Nick Reed begins a Mother's Day message honoring moms and reminding us the importance of "occupying our street." Today's text from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount is Matthew 5:33-37 regarding the taking of oaths, which is more than purging your vocabulary of swear words, but letting a true change of heart in Christ change how we revere the name of God and live with integrity. Jesus, the pe...
May 07, 2016•46 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 1, 2016 "...if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell." Nick Reed covers the controvertial teachings of Jesus on lust and divorce in Matthew 5:27-32 as we continue our series on the Sermon on the Mount. Nick reminds us that God's grace is freeing. It doesn't take away earthly consequences of our past sins, but it allows us to live well i...
Apr 30, 2016•58 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 24, 2016 Jesus: “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment...'" Nick Reed preaches from Matthew 5:21-26, revealing that the letter of the Law is pointless unless we understand the intent of he Law, which is not behavior modification but holiness. The Pharisees tried to follow the Law o...
Apr 23, 2016•46 min
Kyle Clarkson :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 17,2016 “...unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.” God's law is not a guideline, but the way we must live to be right with God by perfectly reflecting Him. The trouble with the law, however, is that we can't keep it. Kyle Clarkson's message on Matthew 5:17-20 emphasizes the answer to this futility as the righteousness only available in and throug...
Apr 16, 2016•46 min
Kyle Clarkson :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 10, 2016 If we love Jesus we will be salt, we will be light, and we will eventually be in trouble. Kyle Clarkson preaches from Matthew 5:11-16 on how a Christian's life on earth should add flavor as salt does and light the darkness as a well-placed lamp does. As a result of following Christ we will also endure trouble, but not without honor because of the One who endured far more on our behalf.
Apr 10, 2016•38 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 3, 2016 All have ears, but not all hear. All are broken, but not all are ready to be healed. Nick Reed starts off a new series on the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' teaching that was and still is counter-culture and counter-intuitive. Nick preaches from Matthew 5:1-12 and the blessings of being poor in spirit, mournful, meek, humble, seeking the right things with the right heart, merciful, peacemakers and the persecuted. Nick's message follows an intro...
Apr 02, 2016•56 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 27, 2016 Everyone has the same need to know and love and to be known and loved. Nick Reed preaches an Easter Sunday message on the death and resurrection of Jesus that is proof of God's love. A living Savior is our invitation to abundant life and freedom from sin, and knowing how loved by God we truly are should change the way we live.
Mar 25, 2016•54 min
Tim O'Byrne :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 20, 2016 God, where are You? Some of us feel alone in our pain, separated from people and even God. Tim O'Byrne takes us through Psalm 22, where David's pain and isolation draws a picture of what Jesus would endure. Tim reminds us that there is freedom, relief and redemption, not in repressing our pain, but expressing it to a God who is near. Despite what we feel, in Christ we are never alone in our pain because of a Savior who suffered pain and k...
Mar 20, 2016•48 min
