Just as the Narrow Way is about less, JOHN 15 is about less. God's purpose in pruning is to make room for continued and ongoing growth, forming us into a resilient community of resilient disciples walking out a resilient faith. He won’t stop tending to the process of formation into a fruitful people who look and love like Jesus.…

“In a world that is counter to my growth into Christ-likeness, we must be aware of what is conforming or deforming us, and work to counteract it by actively pursuing formation into a people who look like Jesus and exhibit the fruit of our relationship with the Holy Spirit.” What is forming you, what is forming us?Therein lies the JESUS’ call to the…

Join us as we discuss the question, 'What will you do with all that you have been given? Intimacy with God and understanding our identity in Him lays the foundation for a powerful and impactful life.By Living Waters Rogue Valley

We dive into the topic of inheritance and what it truly means for us as followers of Jesus. We explore the idea that inheritance is not about money or possessions, but about the Holy Spirit coming and resting powerfully in our lives. Intimacy with God is the foundation of our inheritance, and how identity and inheritance flow out of that intimacy. …

Join us as we explore what it means to be adopted, apprentices, and ambassadors of Jesus. We delve into the concept of adoption, where we are brought into God's home and heart, becoming children of God. Through the teachings of Jesus, we learn how to be apprentices, following in his footsteps and learning from him as our master. As ambassadors, we …

In this teaching, we explore the importance of intimacy, identity, and inheritance in our journey with God. We are reminded that our identity flows from our intimacy with Him, and that walking in our identity is an expression of our deep connection with God. Through scripture, we learn that our true identity is found in Christ, and that we are deep…

Gideon was a man easy to overlook. In the book of Judges we learn the history of Israel when it was under oppression from surrounding nations, suffering from frequent raids. These raids were the consequences of turning their backs on God for years, but finally, the people were beginning to call out to Him for deliverance. God heard them and picked …

Many of us have hindered our relationship with God (and others) because we drag who we think He wants us to be (or who we think others want us to be) before Him, while withholding our TRUE SELF. This is what we mean by living in our FALSE SELF. And living in our FALSE SELF can become so normal/natural that we don’t even realize we are doing it!…

If you missed last Sunday, we talked about how God is leading us as a community around giving and our finances. Please give it a listen and enjoy a fresh perspective from our Pastors, Ryan and Kate.By Living Waters Rogue Valley

Join us as we explore the importance of relational intimacy with God, and how it impacts our lives and relationships. We share practical insights and personal stories, all with the goal of creating a safe and healthy community where love and forgiveness thrive. Get ready for honest conversations, challenging questions, and a whole lot of encouragem…

Intimacy with God is a beautiful process, that requires a constant yes, and a willingness to travel with Him into the deeper places. Intimacy isn't about reaching "it" as a destination, it is all about the daily journey walking with him through hard things, trusting Him in every season, and being bold going after things in our lives that hold us ba…

Intimacy is the root of your life in Christ. It is this connection to the source of life from which everything else grows. Daily, you will be allowing the roots of your life and love to stretch into the depths of God’s presence. Tha love that is abundantly available to you. New life, new daily habits, and new goals start right now.…

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Join us as we continue Advent, centering our heart on FAITH as we wait on Jesus, preparing our hearts to celebrate His birth, while also waiting for his arrival in and around the places in our lives that need Him desperately right now. He is not far off, and is "near the brokenhearted" (Psalm 34:18). No matter where you are, or what you are walking…

We are continuing our journey through "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" this season and I am excited to be sharing with you this weekend on portions of the book that have been impactful and somewhat challenging, especially in a season that wants to push us to extreme limits.We will also move into the next week of Advent as we prepare our hearts t…

Each Sunday and the corresponding week in this Advent season, we have a specific focus to help prepare our hearts to “receive” Jesus into our homes and hearts on Christmas as we honor and celebrate His birth. The process of preparation is to slow down, remain focused on Jesus in the middle of a hectic season, and fight the urge to get spun up or sp…

There are definitely prayers I can look back on and I’m very thankful that God didn’t move on my behalf and do what I wanted the way I wanted, and I have to admit that His Goodness and Wisdom have brought me here WAY better than my plan ever could have…But often when I think back across my prayer life’s journey, the moments that rise to the surface…

Prayer forms us into a vessel for His presence, but it doesn’t earn anything. It doesn't earn my our into His presence by jumping through prayer hoops. I was taught that prayer accesses what Jesus' life and blood poured out established for us.By Living Waters Rogue Valley

sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away...” Jesus is the Shepherd who stays when the wolves of life come to huff and puff and blow our houses down. Mixing parables a bit, but the point remains: We HAVE a Savior who guards and guides our lives, and fights anything that desires to "steal, kill or destroy". What does that mean for us…

The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard invites us all to examine our response to the extravagance of the Good News of Jesus. If you are like me, on first read you may identify with the laborers in some way or even struggle with understanding what Jesus is really trying to say. As we spend time contemplating this section of scripture, let’s inv…

We are here to remind you that we have a community wide reading. For the month of October, we are reading a book together and we've been telling you about it for a couple of months and we are so close to beginning. We are reading, Praying like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler State for the month of October.…

Here is your monthly announcements for what is coming up in the month of October. We want to do things a little bit differently than our usual highlights where we just talk through a little bit between what is coming up and share maybe a little bit more of the heart and vision behind some of these events and activities that we have going on.…

John 10:10 is a scripture we often share, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” When Jesus said this statement, it was in the context of his description of Himself as both The Gate of the sheep pen and The Good Shepherd. While we may have an enemy who wants to “steal, kill and d…

Let's dive into Matthew 7:24-27, the simple parable Jesus taught about two men - one who trusted the words of Jesus, and one who ignored them. Let's open our hearts and lives to Jesus, inviting Him to establish all that we are on all that He is - until nothing in our lives is built on sand.By Living Waters Rogue Valley

This week we have the privilege of having Sommer Bury give a message on The Parable of the Sower and the Seed.By Living Waters Rogue Valley

"Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants...” Matthew 18:23How we receive God's mercy and grace, and how we impart it to others is vital to living in and under the Kingdom of Jesus.By Living Waters Rogue Valley

Too often we read the Parable of the Good Samaritan as if we are the Samaritan, called by this story to help those in need, even our enemies. Is there more to it than a lesson to be kind to those in need; an additional and deeper Kingdom reality?By Living Waters Rogue Valley

This week we are walking through the Parable of the Mustard Seed and the Parable of the Yeast. Jesus was a storyteller. He used stories to help people understand what he was speaking to them. As a storyteller, this is one of the ways I was drawn into the Word as a kid, and still love to dig in as an adult. Join me as I tell some stories out of the …

Have you noticed how religion and doctrine seem to complicate God? The pharisees and religious elite were consumed by busying themselves with religious to-dos and complex behavioral and cultural box-checking. Jesus lived in a culture whose primary mode of learning was oratory, and baffled the religiously educated with the parables He told to expres…

Listen to Drew as he gives historical cultural context surrounding the parable of the prodigal son and how we can apply it to our own culture.By Living Waters Rogue Valley

Join us as we learn the WAY of Jesus together by diving into His powerful method of teaching and awakening hearts to His Kingdom: Parables. Parables are a powerful tool that Jesus used to invite his listeners into a whole new WAY of living, thinking and being.By Living Waters Rogue Valley

Our Galatians key verse was: Gal. 3:3 - “How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?”Why is this admonition important? Because it led into the entire section on the fruit (of the SPIRIT) in Galatians 5 and Galatians 6:7 - “God cannot be mocked, a person reap…

In Galatians Chapter 6, Paul challenges the church to be careful where they sow. There are two possible kinds of soil: the flesh or the spirit. He reminds us that once they had, they could not change the harvest.What is sown to the flesh will bring a harvest of corruption but the parts of their life they sowed to the Spirit will produce life. All t…

In this teaching, we will be exploring the words of Paul inviting us to “keep in step with the Spirit” and stewarding our freedom in Jesus. We will celebrate together that Jesus is enough for every place of pain or temptation or struggle that we carry in this life. If you are feeling weary of religious efforts or the cycles of temptation - The Apos…

Last Sunday was the 6th year anniversary being in our building. If you haven’t heard the miracle story of how we got here, we encourage you to watch. Join in on the story of what God is doing in and through our community.By Living Waters Rogue Valley

As His children, filled with His spirit, we are welcome to come to him with whatever it is that we are walking through. He is going to comfort our hearts, listen to what we are saying and meet us with love and understanding. And He is ready to direct our hearts. What Paul had experienced and what he knew to be true, he was speaking in this letter t…

Gal. 3:5 - "So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard??"The Early Church saw a POWERFUL, TANGIBLE and SUSTAINED move of God's Spirit. How did this take place? It wasn't because they were following the Law. The Law was powerless. It was because of their BELIE…

03:12 - Navigating Relational Disconnect 04:49 - God's Heart is for Reconciliation 08:36 - Dividing Over Lesser Things 12:10 - Walking out Christlikeness in our Relationship 16:06 - Living at Peace with Everyone 19:08 - Walking with Grace 21:13 - Invite Perspective to Come 23:03 - Pursue Reconciliation 24:42 - Allow His Conviction to Rest on Us 28:…

Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 03:20 - When Jesus Intercepts You 07:19 - The Completed Work of Jesus 11:50 - Paul Confronts Peter: Justified by our Faith in Jesus 16:46 - Our Death out of the Old Covenant 21:18 - Grieving Relationship Disconnections 26:00 - Breaking Relationship Over Lesser Things 28:08 - What Fragments Us Relationally 29:16 - Love Whispe…

Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 05:45 - Reading Galatians 1v13-14 10:55 - Reading Acts 7v57-8v1 12:43 - Paul's Moment of Transformation 14:37 - Capturing the Picture of Family 16:36 - Zealous Silencer to a Zealous Proclaimer 19:34 - Reading Galatians 1v15-17 22:08 - Seeing the Whole Picture 28:30 - The Author of Life 32:28 - The False Author 34:13 - He Wan…

Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 02:51 - How are you doing this morning? 05:49 - Building Update 09:22 - What is Historical Contextual Perspective 14:45 - Context is King when we are studying the Bible 17:06 - The Bible is Like a Map 20:09 - Bible Doesn’t Often Say Anything Clearly 30:00 - An Introduction to Galatians 34:57 - So What Can We Learn? 37:55 - R…

Kingdom over everything.Jesus said "seek first my Kingdom." He preached "repent, for my Kingdom is at hand!" What is the Kingdom? How do we seek it? How do we find it? How do we build it? These are vital questions as followers of JesusThis is no time to get our priorities mixed up! God's Kingdom is expanding and moving - Are we seeing, sensing and …

00:00 - Seek first the Kingdom 05:24 - You Cannot Serve Two Masters 08:30 - A Radical Act of Faith 09:51 - How the kingdom expands 11:45 - Do We Really Want this Kingdom? 17:02 - Justice in the Kingdom 25:35 - Serving in the Kingdom 28:14 - Repentance in the Kingdom 32:40 - A Supernatural Transformation 36:21 - Who is Truly The King of Your Life?…

00:00 - The King We Did Not Expect 05:22 - Understanding our own Theological Filters 07:07 - Is the Kingdom now or later? 09:56 - Daniel 2.32-45 - A Quick History 17:04 - The Rock “not cut out not by human hands" 21:14 - What the Kingdom Looks Like 24:53 - Stewarding the Kingdom 30:00 - What is the Kingdom? 35:04 - Who is on the throne of our heart…

11:42 - Whew, that was strange 17:50 - How it started 23:37 - My Sabbatical 28:12 - It began at Pentecost 32:24 - Rhythms and Practices 33:51 - The Practice of Freedom and Joy 36:17 - The Practice of Belonging 38:27 - The Practice of Burden-bearing 41:18 - The Practice of Unashamed Living 43:31 - The Practice of Being a Voice 48:07 - Responding to …

00:00 - Intro 11:28 - Worship is NOT Music 18:04 - We become what we behold 24:09 - When worship changes our perspective 30:00 - Where our minds are renewed 39:50 - Worship is our spiritual immune system 44:00 - Worship is warfare 46:20 - We have a communion feast to come into 46:45 - A Well of worship 49:30 - Seeing Jesus Once Again 51:50 - Minist…

00:00 - In Jesus, What do you look like fully alive 01:58 - What having a good Father gives us 06:50 - What will you do with all that you've been give? 11:13 - How are you embodying your inheritance? 12:51 - You are uniquely known and set apart 18:16 - Who is determining your worthiness? 23:05 - You are the only one who can answer this question 25:…

00:00 - Identity flows from Intimacy 05:00 - What did Jesus Accomplish? 09:54 - How Jesus transforms us to be more like Him 18:08 - Why this core belief affects your behavior 21:50 - Who do you say that I am? 26:14 - What the enemy is really after 31:20 - Finding our identity in the eternal 35:00 - The gift of the wilderness 37:26 - Confronting the…

When intimacy is the root, identity becomes the visible and internal structure of your life. A tree that grows from healthy roots. Who you believe you are will determine how you think about yourself and consequently, how you interact with others. You may struggle to take hold of the reality of being made perfectly new, entirely whole, completely ri…

Chapters: 00:00 - How NOT to give 05:14 - You are free from the Tithe 09:15 - Breaking shame about finances 13:18 - Healthy perspective of Biblical Prosperity 18:42 - What Kingdom Finances is all About 20:48 - Three Ways to Spiritually Prosper in our Finances 29:10 - Stewarding our Perspectives 32:00 - LW Finances…