Episodes
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Red Stuff and Birthrights
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Baggage--we all have it and we all carry it. The baggage we carry weighs down our relationships with others--family and friends, co-workers and neighbors. Our baggage gets in the way of an honest walk with God, ruins marriages, and ends friendships. BUT…there is good news for those who are weary of carrying their baggage everywhere they go.
Through the life of Jacob we will learn how God uses our baggage to help us know Him, and then invites us to give Him all that weighs us down. In Jacob’s baggage we find redemption, reconciliation, purpose, and value. Life does not have to be heavy. We are invited to travel light. Baggage will teach us let go.
This week we will open up the bag of family relationships and sibling rivalry, revealing the impact Jacob and Esau's relationship still has on our world today.
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Dwell, Part 2
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Chloe shares her testimony and journey to baptism!
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
New Life Sunday
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Celebrating the sacrament of baptism as we dwell in the new life we have in Christ. To dwell in Him is to hunger, desire, and yearn to get rid of the "old" and embrace the life we were created to live.
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Dwell
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
To be holy as God is holy is a call to heart purity that is best exemplified in how we love others--not in the checklists, the do's and don'ts, and the "dips."
Allowing ourselves to dwell in Him leads to a stronger presence of God in our life that brings about genuine worship--a move of God that leads us to seek that which we may be lacking. Or as Rich Villodas puts it, to ask ourselves... "Do I worship God or do I worship the experience of God?"
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Overflow
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Last week, six of our teenagers attended Nazarene Youth Conference in Tampa Bay. Over the course of their time there, they had an opportunity to drink the water of life--to taste and and be filled to overflowing, to hear the ways God is calling them toward His purpose! There's something stirring in our young people, and as a result, in our congregation as well.
Water was made to move. When it sits still, it gets nasty. Our teens have living water that is ready to move, and it will move with or without us. So our challenge is this--how can we, as a church, facilitate the flow of that water?
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Do I Will God’s Will?
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
We strive to live Godly lives and to act in Godly ways, but do we actively seek to understand what God wants for us and the people in our sphere of influence? Do we want what God wants? Do we will His will in our lives?v
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Holiness in Action
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
In 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, Paul charges Christians to spread "the fragrance of the knowledge of [Jesus Christ] everywhere." For we are the "aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing."
Unfortunately, not everyone likes the scent of his truth. While our witness always spreads the fragrance of Christ, it's not always received the same way. Regardless, our testimonies produce a powerful fragrance that God delights in, for nothing pleases Him more than to see his Son glorified in our lives.
We were given the power of the Holy Spirit to USE it for the fulfillment of God's purpose in our lives. Have you put your holiness into action?
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Horizontal Holiness
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
The call to holiness begins with (and is about) our relationship with God--a vertical atonement in which God draws near to us and we draw near to Him, and then its horizontal application to our everday lives.
Whatever is inside of us is what comes out of us. If we have discontent, bitterness, hurt... that's what we'll give others. If we're drifting off course or allowing the world to fill us, that's all we'll be able to offer, because our horizontal relationship is an expression of our vertical relationship. If the vertical is out of whack, so is our witness to the world.
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
Nothing to See Here
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
We like the idea of being in the presence of the Holy Spirit, but often draw the line at wanting His presence in us. But the filling of the Holy Spirit that takes place in Acts 2:3-4 is a complete and total permeation and saturation of the Spirit--there was fire in the house and in those waiting in the upper room! And just like it is with smoked meat, where the evidence of a fire (smoke) is soaked up by the meat and not just on the surface like it is with imitation smoke, you can't cover up the real thing!
Are you wanting God to simply fill the room? Or to fill YOU? The difference is critical... and a fire is burning for those who would seek it.
Sunday Jun 11, 2023