Beyond the Building

This week Ian, Jeff, Kate and Madison discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We were able to hear from Kate Hornocker this week about how to hear from God and how to live prepared to respond to His voice. Kate is a recent graduate of Grace College and is preparing to go into the mission field in France with Greater Europe Missions (GEM). The call God has on her heart is to move the gospel t...

This week Ian, Owen, Jeb, Zach and Kaylin discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 5:12-42. Through these verses we saw the motivation of the church was to love God, love people and proclaim Jesus. We also were challenge to consider what truly motivates us and what we may need to do to shift our motivations into the proper place. Our...

This week Lucas, Kaleb, Connor and Brayden discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 4:32-5:11. We spent our time looking at how the enemy often uses subtle deceptions like doubt, shame, fear and the blame game to lead us to places we never wanted to be. Though that we created a gameplan centered around faith, forgiveness, power of th...

This week Lucas, Kaleb, Caedmon, Carter and Diya discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 4:1-31 and talking about living in such a way that people know we have been with Jesus and responding to opposition of Truth the same way Peter, John and the other believers did. Asking God to see the opposition, and to empower them (us) to bold...

This week Ian, Harrison, Leah and Jeff discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 3:1-16 and talking about how when we treat everyday as if it might be someones' "One Day" we can trust that God will do something great in and through us for the sake of His kingdom. Our hope and prayer is that through the Beyond the Buildin...

On this week's episode Ian, Kayce, Kyah, Carter and Ben discuss their takeaways from the Compass Worship teaching delivered by Courtney Middlesworth. We focused on how God throughout history has been pointing toward our redemption and longing for us to come home with Him to embrace the fullness of our identity in His family. Our hope and prayer is that through the Beyond the Building podcast you w...

This week we again recorded the Compass Worship teaching so that all our listeners could be connected with this weeks teaching. We looked at the life of Peter, specifically at the interaction that he had with Jesus after having denied Him three times. From that interaction we learned that our failures are not the end of our story, rather they are an opportunity for God to show us His grace, and de...

This week we again recorded the Compass Worship teaching so that all our listeners could be connected with this weeks teaching. Isaiah 46 offers us so many reminders, challenges and encouragement to remember who the One True God is and that we can trust that He alone is able to carry and sustain us and that He always see and cares for us as He alone knows the end from the beginning. Our hope and p...

This week we again recorded the Compass Worship teaching so that all our listeners could be connected with this weeks teaching. Sara Brookshire helped us see not only the Gospel in at the Manger but also what our response to the gospel should be. As you listen take note of how God might be leading you to better respond to the gospel this Christmas and beyond. Our hope and prayer is that through th...

This week with the majority of our students being on Christmas break we decided to record the Compass Worship teaching so that all our listeners could be connected with the teaching. We plan to do this over the course of Christmas break in hopes that after you listen you will continue the conversation with those around you. So you won't hear any discussion rather you can create your own discussion...

This week Jeff, Katelyn and Stella discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. As we continued our Advent series we were reminded that Christmas is not our birthday. We looked at the origin of gifts from the Wise Men and discussed what Jesus may have on His Christmas list this year. A couple suggestions were: To give generously beyond ourselves, to give an invitation for someone to attend a Chri...

This week Ian, Selah, Angie and Jeff discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We started a short series about practicing Advent. This week we saw that we have from Day 1-24 to prepare for a very special guest and we should be doing everything we can in our lives to make sure we are ready to celebrate His arrival. We looked specifically at John 1:1-14, and would encourage you to read these ver...

This week Lucas, Angie, Lake, Jordan and Joe discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 2:42-47 and talking about how the people continued to move the gospel message of Jesus after they believed, repented and were baptized. We saw from these few passages that it takes devotion to God's Word, learning what Jesus did and then doing it. W...

This week Lucas, Caleb, Carter, Leah and Naomi discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 2:22-41 and talking about the biblical response to hearing the gospel message of Jesus. We learned that when people are captivated by the truth of the gospel, they responded to that belief by repenting and surrendering in baptism. Our hope and pra...

Enjoy this special edition of Beyond the Building as Jeff, Angie, Paige, Brooke and Amaya give you a few highlights from this years Compass Girls Conference This year the theme was Under Pressure and it focused on 2 Corinthians 4:8-12. Through the course of the day we saw that pressure, even when it isn't fun, or easy can forge us into a position with Christ that will give us the power to not just...

This week Lucas, Nathan, Paige and Ty discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 2:1-21 and talking about the the boldness and confidence that Peter and the apostles displayed as they received the Holy Spirit and moved. We were challenged to consider how the Holy Spirit was prompting us to move the gospel message forward "as we go" thr...

This week Lucas, Harrison, Brayden and Corbin discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We began our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 1:1-11 and talking about the church being a movement, not just a place you go. It was a movement of people who had their hearts and minds captured by the gospel message, and yielded to the Holy Spirit's leading. We were challenged to continue the movem...

This week Lucas, Carter, Caden, and Isaiah discuss their takeaways from this week's teaching. We finished out our series this week looking at Philippians 4:8. From that passage we learned we are to meditate on what is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and praiseworthy. By allowing those thoughts and God's Word to "land" in our minds we reduce the space for anxious thoughts to...

This week Lucas, Kaleb, Nolan, Drew and Carter discuss their takeaways from this week's teaching. We focused again on Philippians 4:6 where not only did Paul tell us to pray specifically but to pray with gratitude. We learned that graditude is a pathway to peace because it changes our perspective, creates a mindset of abundance, builds grit, and reminds us of the community God has given us. **Whil...

This week Ian, Kaleb, Austyn, Lucus and Lauren discuss their takeaways from this week's teaching. This week we focused on Philippians 4:6 and Paul's instruction for us to pray specifically about our anxiety. We were challenged to name our anxiety, be specific about what we need God to do, pray scripture over our anxiety and to celebrate God's control and goodness. **While we are focusing on the sp...

This week Jeff, Joe and Courtney discuss their takeaways from this week's teaching. This week we began our 4 week series on Overcoming Anxiety. We focused on Philippians 4:4-5 and talked about how we need to rejoice, or celebrate in truths about God and the first two truths we looked at were that God is in control and God is good. If we can stay positioned between these two truths we can begin to...

This week Ian, Kylie, Carter and Kaleb as they discuss their takeaways from this week's teaching. This week we finished our Knowing You series by focusing on where we are from. We looked at Philippians 3:18-20 and 1 Peter 2:9-12. We saw that in Christ, we are citizens of heaven and because this world is not our home we will think and live differently than the rest of the world. As Christ followers...

This week Ian, Jackson, Eva and Katie discuss their takeaways from this week's teaching. This week we continued in our Knowing You series focus on Matthew 5:13-16. We looked at the truth that our identity determines our activity and God calls us the "salt of the earth, light of the world and city on a hill." When we know who we are we are able to go be who we are to the world around...

This week Ian, Alex, Michael and Lucas as they discuss their takeaways from this week's teaching. This week we continued in our Knowing You series. When we know who we are in Christ we will know what to do. We focused on 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 and saw that if we are in Christ we are Ambassadors for Christ, you are an ambassador of Christ, chosen and appointed by God to represent and promote His...

This week Ian, Leah and Alex as they discuss their takeaways from this week's teaching. This week we began a series called Knowing You. When we know who we are in Christ we will know what to do. This week we looked at Ephesians 2:10 and saw that In Christ we are God's Poetic Statement, His Masterpiece, created of Him, for Him and from Him for His divine purpose. When we embrace that truth...