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Good morning family! As we dive into this Summer Series, we have the privilege of hearing from some of our favorite pastors and leaders from around the country. Today, we will hear from our own Director of Outreach & Missions, Karla Garrard.
As we dive into this Summer Series, we have the privilege of hearing from some of our favorite Pastors and leaders from around the country. Today, we will hear from our own Lead Pastor, Brent Garrard. We hope you will engage in today's message and hear clearly what God has spoken over you.
As we dive into this Summer Series, we have the privilege of hearing from some of our favorite Pastors and leaders from around the country as our Pastor takes time to rest, seek God, and recharge for the coming year. Today, we will hear from Dr. Joel Muddamalle, who serves as the Director of Theology and Research for Proverbs 31 Ministries and Lysa TerKeurst, and is a part of the preaching team at Transformation Church with Pastor Derwin Gray right outside the Charlotte, NC area.
As we dive into this Summer Series, we have the privilege of hearing from some of our favorite Pastors and leaders from around the country as our Pastor takes time to rest, seek God, and recharge for the coming year. Today, we will hear from our own Youth Director, Kēvin Carlie. We hope you will engage in today's message and hear clearly what God has spoken over you.
Good morning family! As we dive into this Summer Series, we have the privilege of hearing from some of our favorite Pastors and leaders from around the country as our Pastor takes time to rest, seek God, and recharge for the coming year. Today, we will hear from Dr. Chris Johnson, lead pastor of Divine Unity Community Church. DUCC is a part of our Every Nation family in Harrisonburg, Virginia. We hope you will engage in today's message and hear clearly what God has spoken over you.
War is a terrible, horrific thing. So in trying to describe the gravity and seriousness of living a life that pleases God in a fallen world, a world that is still affected and influenced by Satan and sin, the metaphor the Apostle Paul used was war. God never wanted us to have to deal with the horrors of war, it nonetheless became a normal, consistent part of this broken world after the fall. Consequently, it was something Paul’s readers could comprehend, just as it is something we can understand...
Our enemy, the devil hates everything God loves. So if God’s plan from before the beginning is to create a new society of reconciled people, then the enemy and his hordes will do everything within their power to destroy it. If God through Jesus has broken down every wall of division and hostility between ethnicities and cultures, then the devil through his demonic forces will do all they can to rebuild and fortify them. Does God want His reconciled and redeemed family to live with one another in...
Summer vacation. Mission trip. College. Business trip. The hospital. Covid. War. They all have something in common. Do you know what it is? In this case, the one thing these all have in common are they all things you “return from,” or at least you hope so. In our most recent context you could say that we have been returning back to some normalcy over the last few months. From late 2019 till now has been a crazy, roller coaster ride, a long drawn out process, where at this point it seems we have ...
We are in the Twelfth week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.
We are in the eleventh week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.
We are in the tenth week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.
We are in the ninth week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.
Did you know how you celebrate today is dependent on how you view yourself today? Today is a day of celebration to be sure. Today we celebrate the hope we have in a resurrected Savior. Today we celebrate that we were once lost and now we are found. Today we celebrate that we were once dead in our sins but now we are alive in Christ. But how you celebrate today is related to how you view yourself today. our celebration of your aliveness is directly proportional to your understanding of your forme...
This is a special day… not because it is the final round of the Masters in Augusta. Not because Tiger made his comeback appearance this weekend, but because it is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week. The Gospel writers tell us a large crowd gathered, spreading out palm branches on the road into Jerusalem, shouting with excitement, “Hosanna!” But not everyone was happy because this welcome was a problem for the Pharisees. Of course, Jesus is the Messiah. He had come to Jerusalem to save his p...
We are in the eighth week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.
We are in the seventh week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.
We are in the sixth of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.
This is the fourth week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.
We are in week four of our series, Sit, Walk, Stand, where we are looking at the position, practice and power of those who are in Christ. Positionally we are seated with Christ in heavenly places. In practice we are to walk, or live in such a way that brings honor and glory to the name of Jesus. And we are to stand in the power of that name above all names, Jesus, who’s incomparable power is at work in us to stand in faith until the end.
We are in week 3 of our series, Sit, Walk, Stand, where we are looking at the position, practice and power of those who are in Christ. Positionally we are seated with Christ in heavenly places. In practice we are to walk, or live in such a way that brings honor and glory to the name of Jesus. And we are to stand in the power of that name above all names, Jesus, who’s incomparable power is at work in us to stand in faith until the end.
This morning we’ll continue this series, Sit, Walk, Stand. This journey through Ephesians is allowing us to slow down and carefully study this letter from Paul to understand what He was trying to communicate to the Christians in Ephesus.
Today we are starting a new series in the book of Ephesians, called Sit, Walk, Stand. Very simply these three verbs describe our position, practice, and power in Christ as the church. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our Power in Christ in our relationships, over the devil and against the system of this world. So if you have your Bible with you, let’s look at the Word of God, specifically Ephesians chapter one. The title of this morning’s message is We (not I) Go...
We don’t have to look very far to see rising hostilities between all kinds of people in the world today over all kinds of reasons. Hostility often boils just below the surface waiting to explode and bring destruction to everything around it. Hostility is opposition or resistance to an idea or person with an attitude of enmity and anger, and if you have ever had someone become hostile towards you, or someone you love you know how frightening and unsettling it can be. As a Christian living in a wo...
Jesus is the true vine who imparts life to His people! What is our part? As we ABIDE in Him, we will be aligned with Him resulting in a life that trusts His ways and lives obediently. As we OBEY His words, we will find JOY when we ABIDE in His love. The branch only bears fruit when grafted into the vine. We are not to be distracted or concerned with the results, those are up to God. Our sole purpose is to stay connected to Jesus and trust the outcome to Him. We don’t compare or become discontent...
Freedom. It is something we all desire and want. As a matter of fact, when it comes to freedom there are only two descriptors that really matter in this life, people who are free and people who are enslaved. God created us to experience and live in freedom. Practically speaking, history tells us that all of human life revolves around either having freedom or having it forcibly taken away. But did you know you could be free and more enslaved than an enslaved person? The only thing worse than bein...
It’s January 16th, many of us are sticking to our new years resolutions. And as you work through the reality that broccoli and brussel sprouts don’t taste as good as a spoonful of sugar, eventually you start to notice that you feel much more energized after eating fruits and vegetables. Maybe your metabolism is kicking into high gear, your digestive system is flowing with a little more ease. Right? You feel your body responding to what you eat. See eating is something that starts with our mouth,...
This is week 2 of the ABIDE series we are doing in conjunction with all of Every Nation Churches throughout the world, and we walk through the book of John. We will also be corporately joining together for a week of prayer and fasting and consecration starting tomorrow. Abide means to remain or stay, and as we remain and stay in Christ we will begin to live our lives in a more God-honoring way. This is how we were meant to live, to glorify God, to know Him more and to make Him known more. To kno...
Today we begin a new sermon series that joins us with our churches in our Every Nation Churches spiritual family all over the world. The word abide means to remain or stay. Sometimes the boldest and most courageous thing we can do as God’s people is remain and stay. Jesus’ ministry was marked by those who remained and those who left. First and foremost to remain stable or fixed in the love of God, to continually receive, believe, and trust that Jesus is all we need for salvation and holiness. Bu...
Today is Christmas at In Focus, and the third message in our series, “Our King has Come,” where we have been talking about how to approach and respond to a king. Although we don’t have much regal context, we do know Jesus is the King of Kings. If we know the Christmas story at all we know worship surrounded His birth. We also know that around the age of 2 the wise men showed up at Jesus’ house bringing gifts and desiring to worship the young toddler king. And one of the things we noticed from th...
Tension. It can be a bad thing in some situations, like awkward family conversations, or stress in your muscles, but it can be a good thing as well, like a hammock or wires on a tension bridge. We believe the people of God felt the good kind of tension before Jesus came to earth as a baby. The good tension they felt for centuries concerned their covenants with God, that were good, and made a way for them to be in relationship with a Holy God, but there was something better, and they were still l...
