"This Christmas I got my wife an Instant Pot. It's a modern twist on the old pressure cooker. It essentially works the same way----the top seals on there pretty tight. Inside there are two things that happen: heat that starts to buildup and steam that is released. You can put in a whole frozen chicken and in three minutes it'll pop out to be dinner for you! It's awesome! Maybe not, don't try that at home. It's a little nerve wracking with this 'bomb' you have in your kitchen. We turn it on and m...
Jan 23, 2018•44 min•Ep. 81
: Over the Christmas and New Year holiday, my family and I had the chance to get away and we went up to a cabin in the mighty metropolis of Hot Sulfur Springs. My whole family was there and we had a great time. We had planned this pancake breakfast for New Year's Day. There was no shortage of texts messages back and forth about the kind of pancakes we were going to eat. Oatmeal pancakes. Banana pancakes. We got up on New Year's Day with sleep in our eyes and deprivation in our souls because we h...
Jan 16, 2018•42 min•Ep. 80
"The year was about AD 90, around two decades before the temple that stood in Jerusalem had been absolutely leveled. Emperor Titus, along with his Roman army, came in and absolutely leveled the central spot of worship in Judaism. In doing so, they started to remove even the very soul and heart of that religion. They've never worshipped the same since that building was destroyed. The Apostle John, at this point in time, is a friend of Jesus. He's one of the only disciples still alive. In fact, mo...
Jan 09, 2018•44 min•Ep. 79
Dec 25, 2017•37 min•Ep. 78
Dec 19, 2017•53 min•Ep. 77
Dec 14, 2017•42 min•Ep. 76
"Turn with me to Isaiah 40. We're journeying with the prophet Isaiah as he points us to the coming Christ, in this Advent season. We're using lectionary passages, passages the church universal has decided on, in a given year, to lead us to the birth of Christ. This Sunday's passage is Isaiah 40:1-11. As I was reviewing it on the plane back this week, I had an experience come back to mind. I was a backpacking guide throughout my college years. One night we were in the wilderness outside of Creste...
Dec 14, 2017•45 min•Ep. 75
"{Recorded at Denver International Airport on the way to Ivory Coast, Africa. Ryan Paulson and Aaron Bjorklund went to help at a leaders' and pastors' conference.} The English word 'advent' comes from the Latin word 'adventus.' It means coming or visit. It's a four-week season in the church calendar where churches all around the globe prepare for the birth of Christ. It's a time that's epitomized by three postures of the soul. One of those postures is intentional waiting. We remember that there'...
Dec 05, 2017•37 min•Ep. 74
Listen as Pastor Ryan Paulson continues in the Dwell series with "Dailed In" taking from 1 John 4:1-20.
Nov 20, 2017•45 min•Ep. 73
Listen as Dr Wenig shares with us in week 4 in our Dwell series with his sermon "Our Great God and His Glorious Goal" taking from 1 John 2:28 - 3:10 .
Nov 14, 2017•41 min•Ep. 72
" The Israelite people were a people committed to memory. They were committed to remembering the journey that they'd walked as a nation and as a people. They had wired into the rhythm of their year certain mile-markers that they'd cross that were reminders for them....to not forget the story. One of those mile-markers is called The Feast of Booths. It would happen around late fall, every year. The command came out of Leviticus 23:42-43. You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israel...
Nov 07, 2017•45 min•Ep. 71
" In 1918 the United States government finished the construction on Fort Knox. Fort Knox is where you want to go if you're interested in stealing 5000 tons of gold. It's the only place in the United States, or in the world, that you could do that. But here's the problem---if you tried to break into Fort Knox, you would find that the sides have granite walls that are four feet thick. This would prevent you from getting into the sides of the building. If you say, okay, I will tunnel my way in. I'l...
Oct 31, 2017•43 min•Ep. 70
" There are times when it's hard for us to believe that the authors of the Scriptures actually were real people. That they lived real lives. They had real struggles. They had real joys and real successes. The author of 1 John is a man by the name of John. He was a real person who had some pretty unique experiences in his life. He was one of the best friends of Jesus while Jesus walked the earth. He was one of the twelve disciples, but he seemed to have been in the inner circle. He had access to ...
Oct 24, 2017•46 min•Ep. 69
"Over the last few weeks we've been living in the parable of the Prodigal Son that's found in Luke 15. We're in our last message of this series that we've been doing. Remember, a parable literally means 'to throw alongside of.' In this parable, it's Jesus taking the story of a father and his two sons and he throws it alongside of the reality of the world we live in and the kingdom that Jesus came to inaugurate. We said earlier that a parable presents a picture for us to climb up inside of and ex...
Oct 17, 2017•46 min•Ep. 68
Freeway | Acceptance | Luke 15:19-24 | Week 5
Oct 09, 2017•42 min•Ep. 67
Pastor Larry Boatright continues the Freeway Series, using Luke 15:19-24 to share about forgiveness.
Oct 03, 2017•48 min•Ep. 66
"Certainly we can relate to the feeling of pursuing freedom and finding ourself in cages. That song (Cages) by NeedtoBreathe poignantly points that picture of the place we often find ourselves in. It's the place that the prodigal son found himself in. He believed he was on the pathway to freedom, but he found that he was actually on his way to confinement. We're going to pick up that story again today. If you have your Bible, turn with me to Luke 15..."
Sep 26, 2017•45 min•Ep. 65
We have all of the DNA of freedom, yet we often find ourselves in confinement. Everything in us cries out that we were designed for something more and something bigger and something better, and yet, we look at our lives sometimes, and our lives defined by a fear that we can't get over, a guilt that we can't shake free of, and a despair that seems so prevalent that it defines our everyday reality. We look at ourselves, we look at our own hearts and our own souls and the desire is in us to go, yea...
Sep 19, 2017•45 min•Ep. 64
"I always get excited about a new series beginning and this one is no different. As I've had the chance to study over the last few weeks and look through, hopefully a fresh lens, the story of the Prodigal from Luke 15, it's once again captured my heart and reminded me of the story that we find ourselves in as human beings. Specifically, and uniquely, as followers of the way of Jesus. My hope is that over the next six weeks this story would be an invitation to you back into the greatest story eve...
Sep 12, 2017•45 min•Ep. 63
Sep 05, 2017•41 min•Ep. 62
As we continue our series on Proverbs, this sermon was on generousity, drawn from multiple texts in the book of Proverbs.
Aug 29, 2017•42 min•Ep. 61
Aug 22, 2017•49 min•Ep. 60
Aug 07, 2017•38 min•Ep. 59
Jul 30, 2017•47 min•Ep. 58
A sermon by Nirup Alphonse
Jul 25, 2017•35 min•Ep. 57
Jul 25, 2017•23 min•Ep. 56
Jul 25, 2017•7 min•Ep. 55
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Jul 25, 2017•48 min•Ep. 53
Jul 25, 2017•41 min•Ep. 52
