Lifetree Community Church

Two weeks ago Pastor Vic introduced us to a passage from James where the wisdom of the world is contrasted with the Wisdom from Above. We are surrounded by experts - people who know exactly what we should do and how we should do it and why we should do it their way, but how do we know what is wisdom and what is not? Today, we examined what it means that the wisdom from above is Peace Loving which...

This week, we got a chance to hear the testimonies of our missions team who earlier this month spent a week in Guadalajara, Mexico. While they were there they helped continue the construction of a local community center and orphanage as well as ministered at three different rehab centers. Listen in to hear the funny stories and memories of the trip as well as how God worked in each of their lives...

Wisdom From Above

Today we had the honor of hearing from Gail VanBriggle who alongside her family is a missionary to Belgium. She shared about the work God is doing in Belgium and stories about why missions both local and global really matters.

Studies have shown past few years, we are losing trust in other people, and in our institutions. We don't trust our government, schools, banks, or even each other. How many times have you been going through a problem and you’ve heard someone say to you, "You just need to trust God"? Maybe you’ve heard it so many times and want to believe it but hearing it and believing it seem discon...

As we get ready to send our missions team to Tlajomulco next week, we stopped to ask what difference does a one week-long trip really make and is it enough of a difference to justify all the time, energy, and resources it will cost? In this week's message, Pastor Dan spoke about the importance of going and how the the danger is not going is that those who are part of the Far Away eventually be...

Back in January, we took time as a church to pause and listen to what God was saying to us about 2023. God put it on our hearts that this would be a Year of Awakening; there were parts of us that were not awake, and God was going to be speaking to those places like an alarm clock and getting us to wake up. Now, it is end of June - means we are almost exactly half way through 2023. It’s time for us...

Today, we wrapped up our series on Manna by looking at one last way that God provides. This time we focused on something God told Moses to do that related specifically to the next generation. They need to know that not only is there manna for us, but there’s manna for THEM.

During this series, we've been looking at all the different ways God provides. This week, we turned to the New Testament where Jesus teaches us to not be concerned about perishable things like food and to stop being so worried about where our daily needs are coming from. He has it. He will provide. Instead, we should be spending our energy seeking the eternal life He wants to give you.

Guest Speaker: Pastor Ray Tate

During this series, we've been looking at all the different ways God provides in each season of life. There are times you have no means of providing - you are up against it, and God shows up supernaturally. Then there are seasons where God blesses us with family and a job and health and the ability to live in a way that leads to provision. No matter how God provides, everything you have is alw...

Have you ever felt you needed to do something, but there was no juice to do it? We can talk until we’re blue in the face about how there’s manna for that, but some days it feels like there isn’t. God gives you what we need to accomplish what is in front of you, but there are some days when there is no manna for that. It's not because God has failed or forgotten, but instead it's because Go...

Manna is a constant reminder that God is always faithful even when we aren’t. God does not send manna because you deserve it, but because He loves you. He knows who we are and what we’ve done and gives us manna anyway.

This week at Lifetree, we had the privilege of hearing the transformative stories from some of the men at Adult & Teen Challenge New Jersey, an organization that helps individuals struggling with addiction find recovery and walk in freedom and God's purpose for their lives. If you would like to learn more about this life-changing program, you can visit their website at https://tcnewjersey....

Last week, we explored the truth that God has manna for us whenever we recognize a need. There's manna for that. But, as wonderful and miraculous as manna is, there’s a problem with it - it has a terrible shelf life. Manna is literally only good for one day before it becomes rotten. It is not rotten because what God provided is no longer good; it is rotten because God has new manna for you. Wh...

We all have needs that are depleted daily and need to be replenished, and the reality of depleting resources creates pressure to provide. This week, Pastor Dan shared one simple statement that can honestly, genuinely relieve the pressure or provision off you. Whatever you have a genuine need for, There’s Manna For That.

This week, we kicked off a new series called Manna. Manna is the food God provided to the Israelites while they were in the desert. While they most likely didn't expect to receive food that was so simple and practical, God knew what they needed better than they did. Just like the Israelites, we think we know what we need, but He actually knows what we need! God’s provision may not be what we e...

There’s so much to the story of Jesus's death and resurrection, and yesterday we focused on just one part - specifically on what the people were shouting while Jesus was on the Cross: “You saved others but You can’t even save Yourself.” They just left out one word. Let’s fix it for them: “You CHOSE to save others, but You CHOSE not to even save Yourself.”Jesus made a choice. He did not have to...

We've looked at ways God asked others to do some Holy Nonsense over the past few weeks. As we celebrated Palm Sunday this week, we looked at one more example of Holy Nonsense. This time it wasn’t something God was asking of us, but rather something God Himself did.

If you've been in church for a while, you probably know the story of Joshua leading the Israelites into battle against Jericho, and how after marching around the city seven times the walls came tumbling down. Have you ever stopped to think about nonsensical those battle instructions were? Even though it sounded like nonsense, they obeyed God’s battle instructions 100% and inherited the promise...

GOD may prompt you to do Holy Nonsense in the places you know the best, so you can know Him as you’ve never known Him before. It'll require that you make a choice. Is your life meant to be spent for what you want it to be? Or will you leave that behind and follow Him wherever He leads you? God is coming for your boat, and when He does He just may prompt you to do some holy nonsense in the plac...

Last week we introduced the concept of Holy Nonsense. There are times when God will prompt us to do something that seems like nonsense to us. Holy Nonsense is God’s preferred method for acting in powerful ways in this world because it is so obvious that it’s ridiculous that it can only be God. This week, going to turn our attention to another story of Holy Nonsense - and this time we will find tha...

Often we are confronted by problems that are greater than our capacity to solve, and God has the solution for us. What He asks you to do may sound like nonsense, and it will work. Because it has nothing to do with the nonsense, and everything to do with trusting Him.

As we wrap up this series, we look at the final step in God’s process of bringing the dead back to life - breath. Without oxygen, the cells in our bodies can’t survive and the entire body shuts down within minutes. More than anything else, the human body relies on oxygen for survival. When God created man, He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person....

There are relationships that we may have given up on that God hasn’t. We talked last week that the first step in that process is alignment. This week we learned the second step of God’s reviving work is to connect new muscles. Bones can’t stay together or move without muscles. Muscles are what keeps us connected in relationships. The heart of God has always been to be in a relationship with us - t...