Arbor Church

This Labor Day weekend, Bryan concludes our Summer with Jesus with a message from Acts 1, as Jesus spoke his final words on Earth. Like the disciples, we’ve spent time with Jesus… and now it’s time to show up like He did, in His likeness.

Cemeteries aren’t very … summery. But today we visit one with Alison: from John 11, the story of Lazarus, Martha, Mary, our plans, God’s plans, and an empathetic, life-giving man named Jesus.

From the first lie in the Bible (in the first chapter of Genesis!) to Jesus’ words of warning in John 8… today’s message from Cliff is about the lies the enemy tells us, and what we need to do to overcome them with the truth that comes from Jesus.

It’s a very special Sunday at Arbor: today we celebrate with families who are dedicating their children. Michael, our Children’s Director, gives a message from Matthew 19. Jesus said, “let the little children come to me … for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” What did He mean? Can we see and love people the way Jesus sees and loves people?

This week on Summer with Jesus , Scott Hetherington speaks on a pattern of living that Jesus taught his disciples and modeled throughout his ministry: retreat with Jesus, restore with God … and return with purpose.

From John 4, Bryan teaches on the story of Jesus’s conversation with the woman at the well. What happens when we’re confronted with a sin or change we need to make in our lives?

Special guest and longtime friend of Arbor Mike North delivers today’s message. Our mission at Arbor is to help the hurting… and to do that we must first address our own hurts, habits, and hangups. Mike challenges us to examine ourselves honestly and with humility, and to draw near to God for help and healing.

Today, Cliff starts a new series, Summer with Jesus , in which we’re looking at things that apply to us personally based on what Jesus did and what Jesus said. Today, from Matthew 8, the story of Jesus healing a man with leprosy.

In this special Father’s Day message, Bryan teaches us about about the influence fathers wield, whether they intend to our not, and – from the familiar story of an official with a sick son – shows us how to be intentional with that influence.

Today, Cliff teaches us from Matthew 28 that “all authority has been given to Jesus in Heaven and on Earth. Go ye therefore…” Will you trust Jesus? Will you go?

“You had one job! ” … We’ve all heard it, especially when that one job isn’t done well. Today, Cliff teaches from the Parable of the Ten Minas: as followers of Christ, what is our One Job?

This Memorial Day weekend: a message from the book of Job, not about the earthly wars we often remember at this time but about another kind of warfare entirely. We win these spiritual battles when we use God’s strategies, and Cliff reveals the 3 strategies that He has given us to be victorious over the Enemy.

New series this week! Cliff opens Priorities with a fresh take from the life of Joshua. Say it with us: It’s not my way or your way … it’s only God’s way.

Scott wraps up our Good News series with a message on our access to God: why do we have access to God? what privileges does this access bring? … and how can we use this access in the way He intended?

Today, Alison with a word not just for mothers but for women everywhere, from Proverbs 31. This chapter doesn’t read like good news to those of us who see it as an unattainable standard for women. But … what if Proverbs 31 is about who we are, not who we aren’t?

This week in our Good News series, a message about God’s love – truly the greatest news ever told. From 1 John 4, Cliff teaches us about God’s love, and what it means for us to be on the side of love.

Today, Scott uses Paul’s letter to Philemon to outline the good news of God’s forgiveness … and who we are because of it.

From John 6, Cliff tells the well-known story of Jesus feeding a crowd with loaves and fishes, and invites us along the way to stop and reflect on what Jesus can do with whatever we are willing to offer to Him: He alone can take broken pieces and from them create masterpieces.

Cliff opens our Good News series with a message on Jesus’ mission to seek and save what was lost. Along the way: a sheep, a coin, a son, distractions, carelessness, and a simple truth: Jesus doesn’t care how you got lost. He just wants you to be found.

This Easter Sunday, Bryan takes us a walk with two men on the road to Emmaus… reflecting on all that’s happened, reflecting on this last year for all of us, and listening to what Jesus has to say about Himself through His own words.

Scott closes our series Letters to a Young Church with Paul’s final exhortations to the Galatians, on the topics of bearing each others’ burdens, sowing and reaping, and the art of gentle restoration.

*…Do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. * – Galatians 5:13b. Today, Bryan looks at our freedom in Christ from another perspective. Along the way: shoulder demons, shoulder angels, logs, specks, spiritual fruit, and a man named John Baker . How will you use your freedom?

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. – Galatians 5:1. Scott shows us what the Scripture has to say about how to stand firm in that freedom and avoid the yoke of slavery.

New interim pastor Cliff Tadema continues our series Letters to a Young Church with a message on Galatians 4 and our freedom in Christ.

Thessalonians was a letter of encouragement, but Galatians is a little more confrontational. The early church, barely a few years after Jesus founded it, had already begun to suffer a division as legalism and tradition took the place of grace and freedom. Scott digs into the story of the Galatian church and shows us why this story sounds so familiar. (Plus, he says the word circumcision a lot.)