Igniting the good life comes when we allow our lives to align with God's purpose for your life.

In this sermon, we explored the story of David and Goliath from 1 Samuel 17, focusing on how fear and pride can hinder us from living the life God intends for us. We began with a personal story about a friend who made a courageous decision that aligned with God's will, leading to a life of peace and no regrets. This set the stage for discussing how…

In the final week of our summer series "Fertile Ground," we explored the parables of the Mustard Seed and the Noble Cedar from Luke 13 and Ezekiel 17. The sermon emphasized the transformative power of Jesus' teachings, which, when planted in fertile hearts, can make individuals and communities extraordinarily fruitful. We discussed how fruitful peo…

Our fruitfulness is not a function of our starting point or current state, but of God’s promise and commitment to make us fruitful people.

In today's sermon, we explored the parable from Luke 14:15-24, where Jesus likens the Kingdom of God to a grand wedding feast. Despite the King's elaborate preparations, the invited guests fail to show up, leading to a second round of invitations extended to the unexpected and marginalized. This story underscores God's inclusive love and the urgenc…

Finding our faithful response to God's treasures and relying on our faith when we run out of talent.

The fruitful life is lived out of trust that, in every circumstance, God is doing his part to bring about fruitfulness.

There are factors about fruitfulness that are beyond our ability to control , fix, manufacture, or create.

Sometimes, all you need to do to find a solution, receive what you need, even get what you want, is to ask for it.

Jesus is going to invite us into a posture of engagement with God that’s going to come more naturally for some of us than others, Jesus is inviting us into a shameless audacity

Message on the parable of the generous landowner, or the workers in the vineyard. God's generosity is based on who he is, not what we have done.

The landowner provides fair wages to all his laborers and the last hired will be paid first.

The kingdom of God/Heaven: the range of God’s effective will, where what God wants done is done: “your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”

Jesus invites us into a life of prayer that bears good fruit for us and those around us.

Jesus wants us to START praying and be good at not stopping: always pray and never, ever, ever give up.

The problem of self-righteousness and our denial of our need for God

Self-righteousness decimates our ability to be fruitful in the ways that last and matter. The ways that transform us into the people we were made to be and bless those around us.

The Word of God is sown generously. When it finds good soil, you get disproportionally greater fruit.

When God’s Word lands on the good soil of our hearts, it finds fertile ground for a fruitful life.

No matter how messy your family might be, if you bring your gifts to your family, it will help bring some amount of life-giving order to disordered relationships and to make our families more beautiful and less messy.

Sin and brokenness patterns tend to repeat over generations becoming strongholds.

Patterns of sin and brokenness that repeat over generations tend to become strongholds in our families.

Intergenerational relationships

Leading a courageous life in family relationships. Courage is taking action, mourning, listening, breaking rules

In the midst of the mess, God loves to write beautiful redemption stories in and through the families we are born into and the ones we make along the way.

Tragedy introduces mess into every family. But God loves to write beautiful redemption stories in families through family -- whether biological or the families we make.

God welcomes us into his family, giving us a strong and stable place from which to do the work in ours.

Both faithful compliance AND faithful boundaries are faithful expressions of what it means to love and honor family.

God has invited us into his family, giving us a strong and stable place from which to do the work in ours.

Everything about who you are, who you’re becoming, and why you’re on earth is in God’s hands and can be woven into God’s good plans.

We cannot disconnect our purpose from the people God has connected us to.

We share a common purpose that we live out in both unique individual ways and together as a community.

Everything about who you are, who you’re becoming, and why you’re on earth is in God’s hands and can be woven into God’s good plans.

Our purpose is not intended to be a mystery that we may or may not stumble upon. We are God's handiwork, made to do good works. It doesn’t mean we know it all at once, but it is discoverable.

Everything about who you are, who you’re becoming, and why you’re on earth is in God’s hands and can be woven into God’s good plans.

Receive the generous gift of forgiveness and enter into Jesus's victory over sin and death. That gift calls us to love one another in real and tangilbe ways.

A journey to witness and reflect on the sacrifice Jesus made for us all.

Getting ready for Easter, no event in all of human history has changed more individual lives and had greater global cultural influence than what happened on Easter Sunday.

Jesus’s saving work for the world, for us, what he saves us from. What he saves us for.

hat problems WAS God solving with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?

We hunger for a savior who rescues us from the overpowering results of sin.

Hungry for a Savior - Jesus died for our sins.

Prayer and worship are the paths whereby we both cultivate a hunger for God and express our hunger for God.

Prayer and worship are the paths whereby we both cultivate a hunger for God and express our hunger for God.

When you take a good thing and try to make it an ultimate thing eventually it results in disastrous things and makes us lesser things, lesser people than God designed for us to be.

What does it mean to be Hungry for God.