Gift Exchange
This holiday season you may receive the exact gift you wished for. However, there is always the gift that is the wrong color, size, or style. Fortunately for us, we can exchange the gift to get exactly what we need. This Advent season our series is called Gift Exchange and we will look at the gift we received through Jesus and our ability to exchange the negative things of this world for Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love.
ThankFull
Keeping our fuel tank full is important for a number of reasons. The primary reason is that we don’t try to run our car on empty, but there are problems that cause the engine to not run as it is designed if we are constantly running low on fuel. The same is true for our spiritual fuel tank. If we allow our faith to run low because we are not aware of the things we should be thankful for, the Enemy can use that emptiness to cause our faith to not function as it should. During the month of November we are going to be talking about being “ThankFull” in our faith and in our lives.
November 2024
Turning Points
Turning Points are situations or times when a significant change in a situation occurs. In these moments there is usually clarity and a move toward something better. In this new series, we will look at five people in the Bible whose turning point was the result of an encounter with Jesus.
September 2024
Influencers: Showing People Jesus
There are times in our lives when things have gone wrong or at least off course and we wonder why. Sometimes we may step off the perfect path we thought we were on and wonder if God is still there and if He could ever use us again, only to find that it’s that situation, that struggle that God will use to bring about glory to Himself. For four weeks we will be going through the book of Philippians and we will discover that God is God no matter what.
July 2024
No Matter What
There are times in our lives when things have gone wrong or at least off course and we wonder why. Sometimes we may step off the perfect path we thought we were on and wonder if God is still there and if He could ever use us again, only to find that it’s that situation, that struggle that God will use to bring about glory to Himself. For four weeks we will be going through the book of Philippians and we will discover that God is God no matter what.
July 2024
Living Series
We have been told our whole lives that true living is the ability to do whatever we wish and to find success in that. What if that is not the secret to true living? The Apostle Pere writes that true living comes from something else. He tells us about true living that is possible because we have a hope that is living and provided through Jesus and protected by God for us.
June 2024
Stop Signs, Turn Signal, and Splinters
Sometimes we may miss our own shortcomings because we are so focused on others' wrongs. Jesus reminds us that we should be slow to judge others and quick to work out our own issues. This Sunday “Stop Signs, Turn Signals, and Splinters” will help us the understand the problem, the fix, and the purpose for judgment refocused.
June 2024
Here I Am, Send Me
Would we be able to say to God, ‘I’m Here, I’m yours, do with me what you will.’ That, in essence, was Isaiah’s response after having a vision where God asked who He would send to the people of Israel who needed a word from God. The question is still open now as many need to hear God’s Word today. Will we respond to God’s call with”Here I am, send me.”
May 2024
Abiding In Love
As Jesus addresses the disciples in what is known as the ‘Upper Room Discourse,’ he reminds them about the ability they found and ministry in which they engaged because they abided in Jesus. Soon things would change and the disciples could no longer count on Jesus being with them, but he insisted that if they were to abide in his love, they would bear much fruit and prove to be Jesus’ disciples.
April 2024
Good Shepherd
We all long for a life where we feel looked after and protected. This is especially true when life gets messy and feel out of control. Jesus, in the Gospel of John, gives us the image of himself as the Good Shepherd who knows his sheep and lays down his life for them. He is our Good Shepherd and longs for us to follow him.
April 2024
God’s Rest
Rest. we all desire and need it. The author of Hebrews speaks about entering into God’s rest and how that is possible though many have forfeited the right to enter into that rest.
April 2024
Reconciled To Peace
After Jesus’ resurrection, he appears among the disciples and proclaims, “Peace be with you!’ In essence, Jesus was announcing wholeness over the disciples and was about to commission them to go and proclaim the reconciliation of peace to others.
Scripture: John 20:19-31; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
April 2024
Here Is The Church
If you ask someone about the church, what kind of a reaction would you get from them. Unfortunately, it might not be the positive reaction you had hoped for. This five-week series looks at the beginning of the church and the four Great Cs that Jesus gave the church to make it the community he designed it to be.
What Now?
After Jesus' resurrection, the disciples were sure that the Kingdom of Heaven would be established here on Earth very soon. "What now," would have likely been the thing that was on their minds. Despite the disciples' desire to become warriors for the Kingdom, Jesus gave them a different purpose. Before his ascension into Heaven, Jesus told them that they would soon be his witnesses to all the world.
Empty
Emptiness is usually not considered a good thing. If something is empty, it usually means it is void of anything valuable; however, for the Christian, the empty tomb means EVERYTHING! It’s the empty tomb that is the foundation of the Christian faith. If the tomb were not empty, then Jesus would merely be another religious martyr and not the Messiah.
Toward the Cross
During the final weeks of Jesus’ ministry, he went from being rejected in his hometown, praised as King and redeemer in Jerusalem, and finally being hung on a cross as a criminal. Join us these next two weeks as we journey toward the cross.
S7GNS
How can we be sure Jesus was the Son of God? Fortunately, John wrote down the seven signs of Christ’s Divinity in the Gospel of John that point us to that certainty. For the next seven weeks as we look at each sign and how these miracles point to the arrival of the Messiah, the Son of God.
Second Chances
Second chances! Are there things of which you feel like God could never forgive? On our first Sunday of 2022, we will look at one of the greatest second chances recorded in scripture.