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Have you ever had a moment that divided your life into before and after? It’s easy to say “God loves me” when life makes sense. But when life falls apart, the real question surfaces: has His love changed? We pray and it gets worse. We obey and it costs us. Someone else gets the answer we’re still waiting for. And pain starts to look like rejection. In the final message of our Unshaken series, Paul...

Sometimes the hardest part of life is realizing how little we can control. You may not know how this will turn out. What you really want is to know you won’t face it alone. Whether it’s loneliness, a struggling child, a strained marriage, grief, or financial pressure, we often slide from “this is painful” to “maybe God is against me.” In Romans 8, Paul doesn’t explain every painful circumstance. H...

The hardest part of suffering is often the silence after you ask God why. It’s one thing to go through something painful. It’s another to pray about it, wait, and hear nothing you can recognize as an answer. A good-sounding Christian sentence can feel very small beside a hospital bed, an empty chair, or a family coming apart. In Romans 8, Paul doesn’t give us a timetable. He gives us three promise...

What do you do when you know God loves you, but the pain hasn't gone away? In this message from our Unshaken series, Pastor Cody walks through Romans 8:18–25. Christian hope doesn't deny what hurts – it declares that hurt will not win. Creation groans. We groan. But because Jesus is risen, the groan isn't the final sound. Whatever chapter you're in, it isn't the last one. So live like your last ch...

How much life can you handle without losing who you are — without losing your cool, your bearings, your mind? That may be one of the best tests of true Christian maturity. Because there are a lot of Christians who know the Word, go to church, and can quote the verses — but when real life hits, they don't always do very well. They can talk about grace but aren't very gracious. They can talk about f...

You can be close to the things of God and still feel far from God. Close to the things of marriage and still feel far from your marriage. Most of us know when something isn't working — when anger is controlling us, anxiety is running the show, or our private life and public life no longer match. So we try to change our behavior. We download an app. Start a plan. Make a rule. And for about four day...

We're kicking off a new series called Unshaken. On this Freedom Sunday — marking one year since Charlie Kirk's death and 25 years since September 11 — we're reminded that freedom is precious, and costly. But there's a freedom no government can give and no culture can take away. In a culture that never forgets your failures, Romans 8 hands down a verdict that can never be reversed: there is now no...

Sometimes I look back at an old picture of myself and think, "Who let me leave the house looking like that?" The haircut. The clothes. Whatever was happening — I thought it looked good. Why? Because everybody around me looked like that. I wasn't consciously imitating anyone. I was simply absorbing what was around me. That's how formation usually happens. Nobody wakes up one morning and decides, "I...

Every family has a story. Some are spoken on purpose. Others are repeated so often nobody even notices anymore — "we never have enough," "people can't be trusted," "marriage is always hard." Repeated long enough, those statements become stories. And stories repeated long enough become beliefs your children carry into their own future. Mephibosheth knew what it was like to live inside the wrong sto...

Have you ever noticed you can hear somebody's voice even when they're not in the room? Your mother's warning. A friend's advice. The critic who said one thing three days ago that you still can't shake. We all have voices in our heads. The question isn't whether you're listening — it's who's earned the right to shape you. We're living in the loudest culture in human history. Before your feet even h...

Have you ever picked up your phone to check one thing, and twenty minutes later you're still scrolling? You didn't decide to spend twenty minutes there. You didn't make a plan. You just picked it up — and when you finally put it down, you're rarely more peaceful. You're usually more distracted. Your phone may be a tool, but it is not neutral. Every day, it's presenting you with ideas about what de...

Life is a journey — mountains, valleys, vista points, and a whole lot of weight we weren't meant to carry. As we close out our Enjoying the Journey series, we look at Hebrews 12:1-2 and the race that's set before us. The writer of Hebrews knew what it was like to grow tired — to feel the pull to quit. His answer wasn't try harder. It was lay aside the weight, and fix your eyes on Jesus. Some of wh...

Failure shows up in everyone's life at one time or another. A broken relationship. An unfulfilled dream. A moment you acted on impulse instead of trusting God. Moses knew that story well. He killed a man, was rejected by his own people, and spent the next forty years running — from a prince in Pharaoh's palace to a shepherd in the wilderness of Midian. By every human measure, his first attempt at...

God told Abraham to leave his country, his family, and everything he had ever known — and go to a land He would show him later. No route. No timeline. No guarantee of what was ahead. That's still how He works. In this message, we look at what Abraham's call reveals about how God leads His people. Most of us don't struggle because God hasn't spoken — we struggle because He hasn't told us everything...

Every table leaves a legacy. The question is not whether you're leaving one — but what you're leaving behind. Most fathers aren't trying to fail their families. They're working, providing, showing up, keeping their heads above water. But here's the tension: you can be successful in the things that matter least while failing in the things that matter most. Our culture asks what college your kids go...

Every table has a dynamic. And when nobody knows their role, everybody feels the tension. We live in a culture that is deeply suspicious of order — especially in marriage. Words like "submission" and "leadership" land like fighting words. But Paul isn't writing a power manual. He's describing a picture of something far more beautiful: a marriage that reflects the way Christ loves the church. In Ep...

Every family has an empty seat. A prodigal son. A wayward daughter. A relationship that went cold. Someone who walked away and hasn't come back yet. In Luke 15, Jesus tells what we've always called the Parable of the Prodigal Son — but it's actually the parable of two sons. And if you only follow one of them, you'll miss the radical message Jesus is after. The younger son takes his inheritance ear...

You probably didn't wake up this morning planning to wound anybody with your words. But somehow, by the end of the day, tone crept in. Sarcasm landed wrong. Silence spoke louder than you meant it to. And the atmosphere in your home shifted — not because of some big blowup, but through the daily cuts that nobody tracks. The atmosphere of your home is carried in your voice. Proverbs 18:21 says death...

It's easy to look across the table and see the problem. It's much harder to look inward and ask what you brought to it. In James 4, James doesn't point the finger at your spouse, your family, or your coworkers. He points within. Most of our relational conflict isn't just about what someone else did — it's about what was already living underneath the surface in us. Our insecurity, pride, unmet expe...

You didn't choose the table you grew up at — but it shaped you more than you know. The conversations, the silence, the tension, the warmth — all of it discipled you before you even knew what discipleship was. In Genesis 50, Joseph stands face to face with the brothers who betrayed him. Sold. Lied about. Forgotten. He had every reason to let his past define his future. Instead, he gives us one of t...

Broken Vessels follows the stories of the five women included in the genealogy of Christ found in the first chapter of Matthew: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. It is about 75 minutes in length and is a series of monologues delivered by each of the characters, linked together with a recitation of the genealogy. it’s five stories of five sinners point to one Savior, Jesus Christ the Immanue...

In Matthew 4:19, Jesus doesn't say "Figure it out." He says, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." The making is His work. The following is ours. In this message, we explore what happens to a person who keeps following Jesus: they naturally start fishing. Not because they're polished or pressured, but because Jesus changes what they love, what they see, and who they live for. Jesus call...

Following Jesus will cost you—but it leads to real life. In this message, Jesus gives one of His clearest and most challenging calls: deny yourself, take up your cross daily, and follow Him. This isn’t a call to casual belief or comfortable Christianity—it’s a call to surrender. To take up your cross means letting go of control, laying down your desires, and choosing Jesus over yourself—again and...