God is our shield and our protector, he cares for us and watches over us, and will deliver us! But as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego declared, sometimes that deliverance doesn't look the way we want...so what do we do when God's protection doesn't feel very protective?By Dustin Strauss

In ancient days people saw their gods as local and limited, but the God of Israel revealed to them that he was always with them, wherever they were, and whatever they were going through. A disciple is one who knows that God is always with us!By Scott Koreman

Walking with God fills our lives with all kinds of wonderful blessings and gifts, and he calls us to be a part of the work he is doing in amazing and important ways. But a disciple understands that while God calls us and cares for us, we are not the point, he is!By Dustin Strauss

A disciple knows who it is that we are worshipping, and responds to the lavish promises and provision of God with lavish generosity and freedom!By Dustin Strauss

God's mind and ways are far beyond what we can know or understand, but at the same time he is not unknowable. As disciples he means for us to know him and walk with him, and he has given us his law and his word that we can know his heart and his mind and how he means us to live!By Scott Koreman

A disciple is one who knows the provision of God, but the provision of God is not everything we want all the time so that we never have to rely on him again. God provides enough that we can walk with him one day at a time.By Dustin Strauss

Following God can be scary and even dangerous, but a disciple is a person who knows the power of God, and knows that he can protect and provide no matter what he calls us into.By Dustin Strauss

This week we step into our new theme for the year, "The Mind of a Disciple". We're going to exlore what discipleship looks like, what it means, and what God means to do in us. Join us as we begin our journey together!By Dustin Strauss

The Armour of God doesn't do us any good unless we put it on!By Scott Koreman

The Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. The Word embodied in Jesus and given to us in the scriptures. It is truth and life, and speaks hope into the world!By Dustin Strauss

Watch at: https://youtu.be/aS9xeWv0PwY?t=1577By Scott Koreman

God has given us tools to protect us and prepare us, and the faith that he provides is a shield that keeps the attacks of the enemy at bay!By Scott Koreman

If we believe the gospel, we should be filled with a hunger to share it!By Dustin Strauss

God provides us his armour not so that we can hide, but so that we can carry his gospel of hope and life out into the world to the people who need to hear it!By Dustin Strauss

God provides us the righteousness of his own son as our protection. It's not something we can earn or gain for ourselves, but a wonderful gift from him!By Scott Koreman

Paul tells us that the first piece of the armour that God has given to us is the Belt of Truth. But what is that truth? How do we define it? And what does it mean for us as we seek to walk with God?By Dustin Strauss

The Armour of God is a powerful tool given to protect and equip us for the good work that God has prepared for us!By Scott Koreman

God has spoken to us, given us his word, that we can know relationship with our creator. Is there any greater gift we can have?By Dustin Strauss

In light of the incredible things that Peter reveals to us, he then asks us, how then should we live? If Jesus really is who he says he is, and if his promises are really true, then that has to change everything!By Dustin Strauss

As we have our Annual General Meeting this week, we hear the words of Peter calling forward to us and the things he sees facing the church.By Dustin Strauss

We must know the word so that we can discern good and faithful teaching. We must stand firmly on the truth of Jesus!By Scott Koreman

The Apostle Peter knew his life was coming to an end, and he wrote a letter to the church telling us these final things. Let us hear and obey the words that the Spirit has given us through him.By Dustin Strauss

When God brings his word to life within us, we are transformed - our appetites, our behaviours, our purpose are all made new as we live in submission to his will and his ways!By Dustin Strauss

The Word Alive in Us should lead us to surrender and trust, knowing our heavenly Father is in control!By Scott Koreman

When the Word is alive in each of us, we are drawn together to become the body of Christ, his church, walking and living in his power together!By Dustin Strauss

When God's word lives in us his holiness lives in us!By Scott Koreman

This week we're beginning our new series exploring what it means for the Word to be alive in us!By Dustin Strauss

Jesus taught us all about life and walking with God, and at the end he taught us what to do with all of that - to take his teaching, and teach others. Go make disciples!By Dustin Strauss

Jesus is alive! Join us as we celebrate the resurrection and explore what it means that Jesus is raised to life again for us!By Dustin Strauss

Jesus has taught us how to live, how to worship, how to follow, but he also told us about the end. Our lives and this world will not go on forever - God will bring a conclusion to all things according to his will and for his glory. How does that change the way we should live?By Dustin Strauss

Jesus is calling us to follow him, but we have to set down everything we are and everything we have if we do. The Rich Young Ruler couldn't do it. Can we?By Dustin Strauss

The call of Jesus isn't to deny the world, it's to deny ourselves. We don't want to follow the patterns of the world, but Jesus is inviting us to see that the problem isn't all around us, it's in us too.By Dustin Strauss

Jesus taught us what our mission looks like, what he has called us to do, and he is inviting us to follow him as he brings his Kingdom here to the world!By Scott Koreman

Jesus told us how to live, how to worship, and he finished his sermon on the mount with how to follow. He has grand promises and serious warnings for us on this journey, but he promises he will walk with us all the way through it!By Dustin Strauss

So much of our efforts to worship wind up focused on ourselves and what other people think, but Jesus is calling us to look up and see our Father!By Dustin Strauss

Jesus calls us to do something harder than anything else - love our enemies. The people who are hurting us, the people who make our lives miserable, the people who hurt the people we love. How can we do that? We need Jesus!By Dustin Strauss

Jesus has taught us how to live, and what life in his kingdom is supposed to look like. We are called to something far deeper than just acting nice!By Scott Koreman

If we are living in the kingdom, that kingdom should be shining through us and bringing light and salt to the people around us!By Dustin Strauss

What did Jesus tell us about his kingdom? What did he tell us about life and worship and relationship? Join us as we begin our study of the things Jesus said to us, and what he means for us to do about it!By Dustin Strauss

Jesus is the resurrection and the life, and he has power over death and all of creation. We have nothing to fear if we believe in him!By Dustin Strauss

Jesus doesn't point toward the way, he doesn't tell us about the truth, and he doesn't describe life. He IS these things, and he is inviting us to know them in him.By Dustin Strauss

Jesus is the light of the world, driving out darkness and helping us to see!By Dustin Strauss

The Word was made flesh, and he told us that he is the very thing that sustains and feeds us. He is the bread of life, and is everything we need to live!By Scott Koreman

Jesus is the Gate and the Good Shepherd. He is the way and he is the guide, and he came to lead us home!By Dustin Strauss

As we explore the word this year, we come to the season of advent and confront the reality that the word is not a book but a person, and that person has told us what he is. Jesus is the Word made Flesh, and he has come to reveal his Father to us!By Dustin Strauss

The power of prophecy is not the telling of the future, but God calling us back to relationship. He wants us to trust him, to know that he is in control, and that he desires that we would live in relationship with him!By Dustin Strauss

Walking through hardship and suffering is incredibly difficult for us to do, and we can even often feel like we're failing because as followers of Jesus shouldn't we be filled with joy all the time? God has filled his word with lament to show us that he hears our cries, and that our hurts are not failure but part of relationship.…