Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, February 26, 2017 Like a dance, marriage involves hearing the music, knowing the cues and the steps, who is to lead and who is to follow, and how to manage things when toes get stepped on. Following an announcement from Katelyn Short about our Easter Egg Hunt, Bob Short covers 1 Peter 3:1-7, instruction for both partners in marriage. It's true that husbands and wives can feel as they are from different planets, but God created both in His image to have d...
Feb 25, 2017•50 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, February 19, 2017 The Holy Spirit enables us to act differently than the world in which we live as resident aliens. Nick Reed preaches his last message at Creekside from 1 Peter 2:18-25 about the hard choices to love God and others, including our enemies, and to live out our faith, even when injustice seems to win. "For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in His steps.”
Feb 18, 2017•54 min
Kyle Clarkson :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, February 12, 2017 "Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.” Kyle Clarkson presents a message from 1 Peter 2:11-17 on freedom, what it brings to our lives, and living selflessly in true freedom. The Biblical view of freedom in verse 16 contrasts to our culture's view well represented in the 90's Soup Dragons hit: "I'm free to do what I want any old time." We desire freedom, but we are all slaves to...
Feb 11, 2017•43 min
Mark Kline :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, February 5, 2017 You don't need a collar or a coffer to be a priest. Following a missions update before our upcoming quarterly missions offering, Mark Kline continues our 1st Peter series with a message from 2:4-10 and the incredible truth and privilege of the priesthood of every believer in Jesus Christ. Mark teaches about the significance of the temple (the spiritual house whose foundational cornerstone is Christ), the Priesthood (where every believer ...
Feb 05, 2017•38 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, January 29, 2017 Contrary to the humanist notion that people are "basically good", the gospel begins with the reality that our hearts are "desperately wicked." But thank God that's not the end of the story. Nick Reed preaches from 1 Peter 1:22-2:3 about the importance of Scripture in the process of sanctification, a believer's desire to (and struggle in) becoming more like Jesus. As a newborn craves milk to live, we should look to God's Word through His S...
Jan 28, 2017•43 min
Alan Crim :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, January 22, 2017 "If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." (C.S. Lewis) Preaching from 1 Peter 1:13-21, Alan Crim teaches that the things that give us the most joy leave us wanting more as long as we are "resident aliens", homesick for the day Christ Jesus is revealed. The feeling of homesickness leads to holiness if it begins with filling our minds wi...
Jan 22, 2017•32 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, January 15, 2017 Hope lives in eternity, but eternity starts now. Nick Reed continues our series on 1 Peter, drawing from 1:3-12 for a lesson on how we let God turn suffering into blessing, not expecting God to change our circumstances but to change us through our circumstances. We can have the abundant life Jesus speaks about when we let Him be everything.
Jan 14, 2017•34 min
Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, January 8, 2016 Following a brief interview with Lucas and Lois Richard in preparation the mission field in Liberia, Bob Short introduces "Resident Aliens," our new series on 1st Peter. Christians are residents in a world that should see our hope for another world. Bob uses Peter's introduction (1 Peter 1:1-2) to outline God's work in us, and draws a lesson from the life of Peter, who learned to see God's perspective when he set aside both fishing net and...
Jan 08, 2017•56 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, January 1, 2017 What God calls you to He will equip you for. For this first Sunday of the new year, Creekside's 'Family Church' Sunday included this service for all ages. Nick Reed's message from Nehemiah 1:1-4 encouraged us to make New Years resolutions sure to succeed: resolutions that line up with God's by considering our passions, our talents, and what breaks our hearts. Heather Reed follows with a lesson for our Sunday School kids on how we can be li...
Dec 31, 2016•38 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Saturday, December 24, 2016 Choose today which kingdom you will serve. Nick Reed finishes our 'A King from Small Things' series with a Christmas Eve message from Luke 1:31-33. The humble birth of Jesus led to His ministry, death, resurrection, and ultimately His eternal reign as King. Nick challenges us to make Christmas personal by putting our trust in the eternal throne of our Savior Jesus Christ rather than earthly kingdoms. In His gospel is where we find hope...
Dec 23, 2016•34 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, December 18, 2016 God's plan has always been to reign as King and redeem sinners like us. Our King, who uses unlikely means—sinners like us—to display His power, chose to reveal His plan of salvation not to kings or priests, but to lowly shepherds. Nick Reed preaches from Luke 2:8-20, the humble beginning of a gospel message God wants revealed to everyone, and one we should preach to ourselves, especially at Christmas. In light of the fact that our identi...
Dec 18, 2016•53 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, December 11, 2016 In a season of remembering the birth of Jesus, it's easy to caught up in everything except Jesus. Some Christmas music, our Sunday School Christmas program, and Nick Reed's message brings our focus back to Christ. Introducing our Christmas season series, 'A King from Small Things.' Nick preaches on Mary's humble story from Luke 1:26-38. God's power is seen through the unlikely. Mary found favor with God not because her own greatness, but...
Dec 10, 2016•50 min
Mark Kline :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, December 4, 2016 Are you suffering? Are you cheerful? Are you sick? In this climactic and encouraging final message on James (5:13-18), Mark Kline presents three answers to the above situations facing us all. Mark also teaches on the role of elders in the church, the relevance of anointing with oil, and the restorative power of prayer. What a blessing it is to be a church that cares for each other to glorify a God who cares for us.
Dec 04, 2016•53 min
Alan Crim :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, November 27, 2016 Where is your treasure? Alan Crim teaches from James 5:1-11, giving us a portrait of two kinds of treasure, one that ruins (vs. 1-6), and one that renews (vs. 7-11), both beginning with desires that can lead to either judgment or better treasure depending on how we act of them. In short, what we treasure will transform us, for better or worse. Alan's message follows a brief announcement from the deacons about Creekside's mortgage.
Nov 27, 2016•31 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, November 11, 2016 "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God." (James 4:6,7) Nick Reed covers chapter 4 of James, showing that the pursuit of true righteousness begins with godly humility. Nick's message follows a quarterly missions update from Mark Kline, a prayerful send-off to the Hillesheim family, and an Angel Tree announcement from Marge McKeever.
Nov 19, 2016•54 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, November 13, 2016 Our words start in our hearts. Whether it's in church, with our families, or on Facebook after a particularly contentious presidential election, we clearly need serious help in controlling what we say. Nick Reed covers James 3 and how much we need the Spirit of God to tame the tongue, to consider how words affect others and ourselves, to take every thought captive, and to build a heart-changing habit of abiding in Christ—the only way to ...
Nov 12, 2016•54 min
Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, November 6, 2016 After some reassuring words about the shootings in Des Moines this past week, Bob Short covers James 1:26-2:13 and the sin of playing favorites. What we believe (that all people are created in God's likeness) should impact what we do (in loving your neighbor and meeting their needs without showing favoritism). Bob also explains the royal law (2:8) and the law of liberty (2:12), God's judgment under which should guide how we speak and act....
Nov 06, 2016•39 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, October 30, 2016 Actions give a bullhorn to your faith. Nick Reed continues our series from the book of James with a message from 1:19-26 and 2:14-26 about a living faith that combines belief and action, a faith that overcomes fear and proves Jesus to the world by walking the talk.
Oct 28, 2016•45 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, October 21, 2016 Choose you kingdom: "...the rich man (will) fade away in the midst of his pursuits. Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial..." Nick Reed takes us through the trials described in James 1:9-18, challenging us to view money on earth the same as it is viewed in heaven. We also have a call to stand up under trials because Jesus endured, and like His suffering, we have the promise of an end to ours one day. Nick's message follows ...
Oct 23, 2016•56 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, October 16, 2016 “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds..." (From James 1:1-8) Nick Reed begins a new series on the book of James, preaching a view of joy as something greater than happiness, and our identity in Jesus as something greater than our circumstances. Changing our view of trials by looking to the end result changes how we go through it. Nick reminds us that God will use a trial to build our perseverance for the ne...
Oct 15, 2016•50 min
Mark Kline :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, October 9, 2016 "I have hidden Your word in my heart…" (Psalm 119:11) Young and old, we can always memorize more scripture, and we know we should. But do we? Mark Kline's message challenges us with the purpose of committing God's word to memory as well as the benefits, including the strengthening of our faith, help in witnessing to and counseling others, a means of God's guidance, a stimulation for meditation, and a supply of spiritual power. Mark also n...
Oct 09, 2016•46 min
Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, October 2, 2016 Christians are running the race on borrowed time, talent and treasure. Bob Short preaches a message on stewardship, the God-given charge to care for what He has given us for life and godliness. Beginning with God as the owner and source of all we have, Bob uses numerous scriptures to take us through the importance of cheerful and decisive giving back to a God who invites us to test His provision, wants to bless us, and presents His love th...
Oct 02, 2016•40 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, September 25, 2016 Evangelism is not a one-time event, but a lifestyle—a desire to be a part of what God is doing in the world. Nick Reed preaches to a hundred people about the other hundred empty chairs the room. Evangelism scares us when we are depending on ourselves to reach others, but dependence on the Spirit of God in us should leave no room for fear. A soul raised to a new life in Christ is a miracle of God, and Nick challenges us to an abundant li...
Sep 24, 2016•51 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, September 18, 2016 This bittersweet service began with a presentation in word and music from Karen Baptist Church, the Burmese congregation that has been meeting at Creekside Sunday afternoons for many years, and have now been blessed with a building of their own. Nick Reed's message following that is on the prayer, which should be God-centered, specific, and bold, desiring to align our heart with God's heart instead of the other way around. We are not th...
Sep 16, 2016•51 min
Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, September 11, 2016 Training for godliness has its benefits in this life and the life to come. Bob Short introduces our new sermon series 'Running the Race' with a message on the value of "fueling up" from the word of God as well as a practical approach to making scripture reading a part of our discipleship routine. Bob also highlights expectations and misconceptions about the Bible, its basic structure, the importance of context and genre, and a case stud...
Sep 09, 2016•45 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, September 4, 2016 We are empowered to live out the Fruit of the Spirit as a package to reveal the glory of God. Nick Reed puts a bow on the package with a concluding message in our Fruit of the Spirit series on self-control, and how we use it to keep our top priority at number one. Using Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son from Luke 15:11-32, Nick explains how a lack of self-control, when we don't find full sufficiency in God our Father, leads to prodigal ...
Sep 03, 2016•53 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, August 28, 2016 "My God's good, but He's not safe." (Andy Mineo) Gentleness is strength under control, and exercising it takes discipline. Nick Reed preaches on gentleness, something often misunderstood as weakness and hard to manage with a temper, but easier in the true strength of the Holy Spirit and when we realize God has been gentle to us in what Jesus did for us. Nick's message follows an introduction of Mike Johnson as a new elder at Creekside, and...
Aug 26, 2016•48 min
Alan Crim :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, August 21, 2016 The Holy Spirit, indwelling every believer, wants to build faithfulness into our lives. Alan Crim continues our Fruit of the Spirit series with a message on faithfulness from Galatians 5:16-25. Alan explores what faithfulness is, the results of being faithful, and pursuing faithfulness by walking in step with the Spirit, sowing the right seeds, and transformation.
Aug 21, 2016•32 min
Nick Reed :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, August 14, 2016 Goodness in the context of the Fruit of the Spirit is living out Godliness toward others. Nick Reed preaches on goodness, which isn't found in us naturally, but in God's very nature, perfectly lived out in Jesus, who makes us good through His heart-transforming work on the cross. From the testimonies Nick begins his message with, to his conclusion, the goal of living out Spirit-led goodness is to lead others to Christ.
Aug 13, 2016•49 min
Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, August 7, 2016 Counter to the cultural idea of random acts of kindness, God's kindness, and the kindness we are to reflect in the Fruit of the Spirit, is with purpose and directed to a need. Bob Short preaches from Ephesians 2:4-7, 5:1, and other scriptures on the mercy-, grace-, and love-guided kindness we see in God and seek to extend to others—a kindness without harshness that's anything but random. Bob's message follows Mark Kline's announcement about...
Aug 07, 2016•42 min
