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Legacy Sunday

Good people leave an inheritance for their grandchildren, but there is nothing more desirable than a good name. What does it mean to leave our children’s children a good name? Legacy is what we leave behind. We will all leave something, make it something or true value. Let’s live everyday considering those who are coming behind us and make sure that whatever time we have we are setting the stage for what comes next, both for our lives and the lives of those around us.

We Get To Give

We are all called to make a difference and to leave a legacy - which is when our life has an impact that lives on after we are gone. This week’s message is focused on the five Legacy Lanes (The Well, E3 Leaders, Local Missions, National Missions, International Missions) we have that help us leave a Godly Legacy. We can leave a legacy through our giving and through our serving, but the most important thing we can give is the hope we have in Christ. We can either give through obligation - because ...

All About Jesus

We are all called to make a difference and to leave a legacy - which is when our life has an impact that lives on after we are gone. Everyone can give and live extravagantly. It’s not about the dollar amount, it’s about the way you sacrifice in order to make a difference.

Dealing with Difficult People

We all have difficult people in our lives. We all know people who just know how to push our buttons and get us to respond in ways that makes us feel ashamed. God calls us to be a blessing to everyone, but how do we bless people who drive us crazy? This week we will figure out how we are to Deal with Difficult People.

Stressed Out!

Time and Money! There just never seems to be enough of either. What that means is that we end up wasting both trying to find peace. But that isn’t God’s design. The difference in the truth we hold and the truth we live become the pain we experience. But in the midst of this, God is calling us to rest, replenish, and refocus. To the degree we can do it, we will know peace.

What is God's Will?

“Why am I here?” - That is one of the most important questions we can ask in life. Christianity claims to have the answer, not just in general terms, but specific to each person's life. So how can we know God’s will and plan for our lives? We have a number of tools that God has given us. This week we will really dial into them so we can sense peace and certainty for our lives today and for the future.

Waiting

After discussing the importance of belief in miracles for the first three weeks of the series, Miracles?, we have grown to understand that there can be there can be no faith, no Christian hope, no Christianity apart from a robust belief in a personal, supernatural, interventionist God at its center. But even with that belief, sometimes we find ourselves in the midst of waiting for that miracle we want. What does it look like to see a miracle come after waiting? What does it look like to discover...

The New Creation

Miracles of the “New Creation” are the truly tough ones for us to consider. Because they require us to believe in things that would never and could never happen on their own. They force natural processes to be suspended, turned back, or broken. They violate not only our natural laws, but our instinctive logic of a thing. Yet, without them all our hope for the future and hope we have in Christ is lost. No matter how hard we try, we can’t parse them out and lay hold of the Promises of God. Once ag...

The Old Creation

What is a miracle anyway? What is happening to the created order when miracles are taking place? Are they “violations” as some have called them? What if they were a thing with Jesus, but only with Him? What difference does it make for my life and is there an effect from my incredulousness or unbelief?

The "Natural" Order

In our postmodern world, miracles and the supernatural are, at times, treated with the same level of thoughtful reflection as vampires and zombies. They may be popular, but anyone who takes them “too seriously” is treated as a pariah. So how should we treat and think about the miracles of the Bible? Are they just illustrative stories - hyperboles or metaphors? Does it matter? Do we have to believe in miracles to believe in Jesus? This month we will be looking at these questions and see if there ...

Promise of My Father (Fun Service - 2018)

Even in midst of this world’s disappointments, life is great when you know where you are going and why! It’s even better when you know nothing will keep you from getting there! This is the promise of the values we hold. Once we have embraced the first four core values, the last will become a byproduct of the others working in our lives.

Attitudes of My Father

Have you noticed the longer someone spends time with someone else the more of their mannerism, colloquialisms, and even their attitudes they begin to “pick-up”. This can happen “accidentally” but it doesn’t have to. We can impart the attitude and outlook we want the next generation to have with how and who we are with them.

Values of My Father

I raised my family playing baseball and softball. In both the first step for fielding any ball hit into the air is always back. I must have said, “Your first step is always back” a million times. That is true in baseball and softball, but in life, all of life, our first step is supposed to be towards God. When we want to celebrate, when we are scared, when we are confused, always take that first step towards God first. Towards God and then towards others, to help, for help, or just so no one has...

Words of My Father

"Faith is caught not taught." "Be a loud life, not a loud mouth." "They won’t care what you say, just what you do." There is a measure of truth in each and everyone of these sayings. They are a reaction to the opposite extreme, when people say one thing and then either never do it, or worse, go out and do the exact opposite. But the truth is the things that we believe and value need to be named, defined, and articulated in clear and certain ways repeatedly if we have any hope of transmitting the...

Seven Secrets of Resurrection

Recovery means healing — it’s what you do for yourself. But resurrection is different. Resurrection means you have nothing left — that you’re dead and buried, and you need someone else to dig you out. Through the power of His own resurrection, Jesus is able to bring life back to the places where death has taken hold of us — but only if we let Him. Join us this weekend for a special message from author and speaker Blaine Bartel as he shares his own story of life from death and invites us to exper...

Serve Your World

Serve Your Church

We are in week three of our series Change the World. Two weeks ago, Bri talked to us about changing the world by being a good neighbor in our communities. Last week, Tony talked to us about how being a world changer starts in the home with your family. This morning we'll be focusing on how you can change the world by serving the Church.

Serve Your Home

As followers of Jesus, we are all not only called, but commanded, to go make disciples. We are called to be "World Changers", but where should we start? The best place for us to show and share the love of Jesus starts right where we are ... It starts at home.

Serve Your Community

We know the commandment, "love your neighbor as yourself". It’s easy to wonder though - who is my neighbor? Jesus tells his disciples that it’s not just about knowing who your neighbor is, but rather BEING a neighbor. When we start acting like a neighbor to everyone we come in contact with, we start to see the atmosphere around us change.

Like A Child

One of the most specific examples we have of what our faith should look like is a little child. We are meant to behave as children of God. Why can we see God as our Father and how should we live our lives because of that truth?

Lessons From My Dad

Financial Instability and Inequality

The current economic climate may be good, but it is anything but stable! Economic uncertainty has been the hallmark of the last couple years. How should the church and it’s people be thinking about money and wealth in our current cultural climate? God tells us through Paul that we should not think about financial stability like the rest of the world. For us, money is nothing more than a tool. Not a tool to build our kingdom here on earth, but a tool to build His kingdom for eternity. Once we exe...

Truth

The Stranger Among Us

Orphans, widows and strangers are three groups of people the bible insists we should care for. For many, foreigners or immigrants meet the Biblical standard for “stranger”. So for us, as followers of Jesus, the question has to be, “how are we to care for them?” And how should we engage the cultural discussion going on about immigrants and immigration?

The Tie That Binds

Red or Blue; Republican or Democrat or Socialist or Libertarian; Black Lives Matter, White Lives Matter, All Lives Matter; Me Too Movement; Coastals and Middles; even Yankees and Southerners - it is US and THEM. The way the world identifies is to distinguish, to find those things that make us different and distinct and use them as markers. This has always created divisions, segregation, and distrust. But it isn’t supposed to be like that for us. We who have taken on Christ gave up everything els...

Mother's Day

There are countless mothers out there that exasperate themselves at times to tend to their family’s needs, desires, and safety. They sacrifice themselves at a ridiculous level just to see their children smile, hear them laugh and sing, and give them a chance to feel the same joy and happiness that they bring her. She is to be honored. This is what we see in the life and even in the dying nature of Christ. The man who was God – loving, honoring and tending to his mother, even in his hour of great...