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Cruciformity

Cruciformity

Do we shape the culture, or does the culture shape us?

Cruciformity

Cruciformity

The direction, the flow, of culture right now is a flow toward division. Divisiveness. Do you pick up on that? We live in a divided country, divided by labels and preferences and walks of life. But Jesus and the Bible teach unity. But how can we get there? How can we flip the culture script of division to unity and peace? Join us as we open the Bible to Matthew and Corinthians to reset our thinking and become Cruciformed in peace to one another.

Cruciformity

Today we look at Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. We're digging deeper so as to not miss the whole story of the gospel in this encounter. Because this text demonstrates that when Jesus reconciles us to God, he also reconciles across every single divide that exists horizontally. Our gender differences, economic differences, our racial, our ethnic, and cultural differences. When we get reconciled to God, we get reconciled to each other. And both of these things happen in this...

Cruciformity

Today we look at one of the biggest questions we ask as Christ-followers, “How do I know God’s will for my life?” This question arises as we make big life decisions. Decisions about school, work, dating, marriage, where to live, what to drive, the list goes on and on. What’s God’s will for me? How do we find that out? Listen along as we open the Bible and talk about this big life question.

Cruciformity

In this series we've been talking about how as followers of Jesus our lives take the shape of the cross. The cross is a symbol of submission and sacrifice - and it is the pattern, the path, the model, for how those who choose to follow Jesus live their lives. We've talked about the difference between believing and faith, serving God, serving others, hungering for God and now this week, we are going to talk about how we hear God.

Cruciformity

We have been talking about Cruciformed faith, and today that shifts a bit. Today we’ll understand that , seeking in this Cruciformed life, leads to finding, and that leads to a hunger for God. What does it really look like for us to hunger for God and how do we know if this hunger we have is REAL?

Cruciformity

How do we live a cruciformed life to other people in the church? Today we’re going to be looking at the idea of serving and how we live toward others. Jesus gave us the best example of how to do this; one example is found in Philippians chapter 2. Listen along to today's message taught by Student Ministries Associate Pastor, Kelsey Weller.

Cruciformity

There is a death that must happen in order for us to live. A death to our identity and a death to the labels we take on and allow society to place on us. Today we look at how we as Christ-followers can live a surrendered, Cruciformed life toward God, with Jesus being our example. When we desire to live a Cruciformed life, we desire to live a life patterned after the cross and how Jesus lived.

Cruciformity

An authentic experience of Jesus requires that we enter into his often ignored and disregarded teaching to: deny ourselves, take up our crosses, and lay down our lives for his sake and others. The New Testament is filled with with references to ‘die’ to ourselves and submit our lives to the leadership of Jesus. But the story doesn't end in death, Jesus' story didn't end in death and neither does ours. We die to ourselves to be born into a new life in Christ. “I have been crucified with Christ an...

Cruciformity

In today's message, Grant Bruscoe teaches on living a transformed life when it comes to how we view our accomplishments and achievements. There's nothing wrong with performing well or being successful, but when we allow our achievements and even our downfalls to define who we are, we've greatly missed it.

Cruciformity

Cruciformity: is crucifixion and conformity combined. It means a life that is patterned after the crucifixion. In this series we will be studying what it means to biblically live a full and happy life. We will never know who we truly are or how to live until we learn how to find our identity in what Jesus did on the cross and what that means to us every day.

Stand Alone Message

God is a loving Father who initiates an outpouring of grace on us, and we receive this grace through Jesus. No one is excluded from that! North Pacific Foursquare District Supervisor, Gabe Barreiro, was with us Sunday teaching a compelling message on God's healing and plan for our lives through His grace.

Easter with Summit

A revival isn't something you do or go to, it's something that you experience, it's something that happens to you. But how do we experience this revival? In order for there to be a revival, for something to be re-vived and brought back to life... something has to die. Today, Easter Sunday we look back at the most significant death and revival of all time. But this story doesn't end in death, give the Savior 3 days. Revival! He is risen! In the resurrection, we find new life.

Stand Alone Message

Andre Lewis is the Director of Youth for Christ in Spokane. He and his family have attended Summit for several years and we are excited to have him preach again at Summit. Listen along to this message where Andre opens the Bible to teach about our inheritance as Christ-followers and what implications that should have on our daily lives everywhere we go.

Sacred Sexuality

Ultimately, all of the images and illustrations used in the Song of Songs are used to describe one thing. It’s this one thing, this one idea, that will wrap this series up. The poems in this book all capture the joy, the complexity, the intensity, of this thing that we call love. We dive into the deeper meanings of different types of love and go back to the greatest and first love.

Sacred Sexuality

Song of Solomon speaks to and inspires us regarding our most significant relationships. There are things like attentiveness to the needs of the other; appreciation of beauty, fidelity. There are certainly, principles embedded within the Song of Solomon which can be extracted and applied to our earthly relationships. But the Song of Solomon goes deeper than the superficial exchange between two passionate lovers. The song of Solomon unpacks the story behind the story. God's love story to us....

Sacred Sexuality

Even in the darkest nights and toughest times, our lover can be found. There will be days that feel like nights... dark, cold, and lonely. There will be times when you’re just out of sorts, moments when you feel like you’re ‘missing’ someone, or something but you’re not sure who or what. And in those moments there is one who says, “If you seek ME, you’ll find me.” Listen along to "Seek and you will Find" in our current teaching series on the Song of Solomon

Sacred Sexuality

The wisdom of being encouraged to not awaken love before it’s time is not implying that we should to dismiss our sexuality. This is not repression, the rejection and denial of feelings in shame rather this is waiting to awaken love, acknowledges the inherent God given value in the act of sex. Listen along to Sunday's Message taught by Pastor Grant Bruscoe.

Sacred Sexuality

Why do a series at church on the book of Song of Solomon? It is precisely because of our society's obsession with romance, love and sexuality, that indicates something must be said. Something is off. Not in that we are sexual - God made us that way. Our inordinate obsession and deep crisis of unrealized expectations seems to indicate that we’re missing something. We’ve wandered into the woods, and we can’t seem to find our way out. We bring this longing and looking for love back to God and to th...

Sacred Sexuality

As we open this Old Testament book of the Bible, we will start with going under the surface to ask, "What's really going on here?" There has always been a lot of confusion and misunderstanding surrounding this book, why it's in the Bible and how/if we can apply the text, to name a few things. We're diving into this series and the Bible to understand this book and how it can reshape our understanding of it and sacred sexuality as God intended it for us all.

Acts: The Origin of Who We Are

This is where Acts chapter 28 opens, it’s like a scene from Survivor. They’re on the beach, Paul builds a fire, he gets bitten by a snake but doesn’t die. The whole beginning of Acts 28 is crazy. And of course, the people on the island are impacted by the gospel. Just like every where else the gospel went, even here, and even when it’s on accident, people are blown away. Listen along to our series conclusion.

Acts: The Origin of Who We Are

In Acts 27 the ship that Paul is traveling on encounters a storm. A physical, literal, storm. But what we see in him; what we learn from him; in the middle of this storm, has direct application to the storms that we face, and we face very real storms. We have money storms, and relationship storms, marriage storms, parenting storms, business storms, emotional storms. Storms are a very real part of a very real life. So how do we handle them? How do we navigate them? Listen along to "The Storms of ...

Acts: The Origin of Who We Are

What if, in life’s unexpected, unwanted, most challenging, and most confusing circumstances, we had a faith that completely redefined our emotions, or our responses, or even our perspective? What if our faith could leak into those times when we lose the game. When we didn’t get the promotion, when people don’t stay loyal, when things didn’t work out. A faith like that would be game changing. Which is why Paul’s story, and Paul’s experience, of putting his faith to work, even in the most confusin...

Acts: The Origin of Who We Are

Sometimes the tension builds in our lives, doesn't it? In circumstances and in instances, the pressure builds and stress compounds. And then, there’s that moment; that moment when, “Ok. Everything is going to be alright. And you breathe.” That’s what we hope today’s message accomplishes for you. And in the breathing, to know it comes from confidence in Christ and today we look at where this confidence come from.

Acts: The Origin of Who We Are

The Ephesian Church worked very hard to walk in obedience to God; however, their work took first place in their lives. The moment our working and doing become void of our loving Jesus and one another, our work will all be in vain. In John 14 Jesus says, "Remain in my love... love each other in the same way as I have loved you." Listen along as Generations Pastor Grant Bruscoe teaches out of Acts 20 on abiding in Christ.

Acts: The Origin of Who We Are

One of the reasons we're studying the book of Acts is that this book shows us real and authentic Christianity; and that is something we desperately need. Maybe you’re wondering, “What does a random story about a random group of people rioting have to do with me?” It's because people were making their own gods, idols. But how can something a mere mortal has made give us care, love, and protection. The answer is, it can't. This is where the gospel came in and exploded the crutch of false idols in ...

Christmas at Summit | 2017

We light a candle, to remind ourselves on the darkest day of the year, that in the darkest moments of life, regardless of where they fall, we have a Savior who enters in that darkness and joins us, redeems us, and renews us. This Christmas celebration is an announcement in the dark and cold of winter, that light and life are growing again and it is a symbol of what God can, and will do, in you.

Acts: The Origin of Who We Are

We now come to Acts chapter 18 where the gospel continues to spread and be preached in new places to Jews and Gentiles alike. A new player comes on to the scene, Apollos, a Jew who spoke and taught accurately the things of Jesus but still himself needed to grow in his knowledge and understanding of the way of God. We can learn the things of Jesus from the most eloquent speakers, but until we dive into the Word of God ourselves, we will only go so deep in our personal spiritual maturity.