The Summit Church

Nothing on Earth Compares

To KNOW the Son

God, Where's MY Help?

God, Which Direction Should I Go?

The Bible does talk about God’s guidance in our lives, but it puts the emphasis in different places. It puts much more emphasis on knowing God and trusting God and becoming the kind of person God wants you to be than it ever does in detecting some mystical guidance in a particular decision.

Prayers that Move Jesus Most

Where are You God?

So when we are in the midst of death and destruction, if we cling to Jesus, our resurrection will be as sure as his.

How Long?

This feeling of pain and abandonment is very real and it could last a very long time, but that doesn't mean that Jesus isn’t aware of it.

The Tenants and the Vineyard

Jesus provides a startling analysis of the human heart—one that is revolutionary and true in every generation.

Either a Sheep or a Goat

You are either a sheep or a goat. You are either committed to the mission, all-in for Jesus, using your resources for the Kingdom, or you are not. You are either praised for your commitment and welcomed into the kingdom or condemned and left out of it. No middle-ground. And that puts the lukewarm Christian in a very precarious position.

11th Hour Faith

So much of our soul unrest comes from having a 'contract' mentality with God.

Hidden Treasure

The value you place on something is shown by what you’ll give up for it. When Jesus talked about finding the Kingdom, he used terms like that. He taught that finding the Kingdom was like finding something of such incredible value that you’d gladly leave everything else behind to get it.

A Parable about Parables

This weekend is going to answer a lot of questions for you. It’s going to explain the dynamics of what is going on in your heart when the Word of God is being taught and why some people, even though they are really smart, can’t seem to grasp the truth and don’t believe. It will explain why so many well-meaning people interpret the Bible in different ways and why sometimes the Bible feels so hard to obey.

Fighting for Hope

Moving Forward in Racial Diversity and Reconciliation

When it comes to racial reconciliation, none of us are where we should be. But we can all walk forward together.

Freedom from Comparison

Each person has been uniquely assigned a role in bringing glory to God. Comparing roles only leads to discord; our call is to hear the words of Christ – “Follow me.”

Alive in Me

If the resurrection happened, it's 'game on' for all things Christian. If it didn't, then it's game over!

Punished for Me

This week we’ll walk through the actual moments of the crucifixion and see the clues the writers put in there to explain why it happened. And then, we’ll do what we’ve done the previous weeks of our series, “Instead of Me”—we’ll see how the responses of the people surrounding the events are supposed to give us pictures of us.

Accused for Me

In "Accused for Me" we’ll look at how the four primary characters surrounding Jesus’ trial represent us and give a glimpse into four potential ways we can respond to Jesus.

Abandoned for Me

As we continue our series, “Instead of Me,” we’ll look at just why Jesus endured the rejection and abandonment of his loving Father and why it makes all the difference for our lives.

Betrayed for Me

You can tell whether you are a “Judas” or a “Mary” by how you respond when life disappoints you. Do you get angry, like Judas, because God doesn’t seem to keep up his end of the deal, or do you, like Mary, consider Jesus a better treasure than an easy life? Which one do you relate to more?

Never Forget

But I Am Not Enough

Moses, the good-looking, adopted son of Pharaoh, actually starts Exodus 3 as a pretty insecure guy after a string of setbacks. We’ll see this weekend through his story that confidence comes not from discovering greater things about yourself or tapping into your potential but rather from seeing how big and powerful God is, discovering his purposes for your life, and getting swept up in them.

You Don't Get Your Own Personal Jesus

Many people think the second commandment (don’t make carved images) is just a restatement of the first commandment (don’t have other gods before God). They’re actually quite different. The first is about worshipping other gods instead of God; the second is about worshipping the right God in the wrong way. We may not think we can relate much to this commandment because we don’t have any gold statues in our homes that we bow down to every day. But as we continue our “Not God Enough” series this we...

Your God is Too Small

This weekend, we’ll start our series “Not God Enough” and tackle the conception that God is just a slightly bigger, slightly smarter version of us and how it creates so many problems in our lives. There’s a man in the Bible who had more questions for God than anyone else I know of, and his story gives us some wisdom to apply to our questions about the universal problem of suffering.

The Heart of Prayer

Our prayer life, the content of our prayers or our lack of prayer, reveals the condition of our hearts.

Does Prayer Change the Mind of God?

When it comes to prayer, there are a lot of stories from the Bible and truths that just hurt your mind when you try to understand them. One of those is the indication from Scripture that God knows the end from the beginning and will accomplish his fixed and eternal plan. So why pray? Does that mean that prayer is less a way of changing God’s mind and more a way of changing us?

How to Actually Pray

Aren’t you glad there’s a story in the Bible where Jesus explains to his disciples how to pray? He even gives us a model prayer to follow. This week Pastor J.D. walked us through the Lord’s Prayer and shared some practical suggestions for how to either start a daily prayer time or jump-start your prayer time if you’ve gotten into a rut.

How to Deal with Unanswered Prayer

The first week of our new series, “Ask,” will not just be an attempt to get you to make a New Year’s resolution about your prayer life. Together we’ll look at Jesus’ example and see that his whole life was saturated with prayer and that the main way we access his power is by praying in four specific ways.

Christmas at DPAC: 2017

For all that I need, all that I lack, all that I could never be in myself, Jesus is the great I AM.

Prince of Peace

There is freedom in not having to worry whether you will face adversity or prosperity today when you are in and with the Prince of Peace!