Beyond the Building

We are in week 2 of our Rivals series at Compass Worship. We are looking at some of the rivalries in God's Word and how we can keep from repeating history and see some amazing characteristics of our God. This week we looked at King Saul vs. David (specifically in 1 Samuel 24 & 26). Through this almost one sided rivalry we learned how to truly love our enemies (Matthew 5:43-44). While David...

This week at Compass Worship we started a new series called Rivals. We are going to be looking at some of the rivalries in God's Word and how we can keep from repeating history and see some amazing characteristics of our God. This week we looked at Cain vs. Able. Though it was a short lived rivalry it showed us how comparison can lead to hurt, hurt to jealousy, jealousy to anger and anger well...

This week at Compass Worship we finished up our "Just Tell Me Already" series. We focused on the principle of if we are pursuing His person, then we should wisely pursue our passions. We then looked at four ways God has given us to wisely pursue our passions; running everything through the filter of His Word, leaning into the presence of His Spirit, having a counsel of close spiritual co...

This morning at Compass Worship we leaned into the idea that waiting on the Lord is expected, expectant, and intentional. We were able to worship, and learn this morning from the Word and an expended time of lifting our voices and hearts to the Lord as we surrendered and invited Him to move in our lives. Listen in as some of this week's worship team; Bri, Ani, Owen, Kari, Braylon join Ian to s...

This week at Compass Worship we were in week 3 of our "Just Tell Me Already" series. We focused in on the life of Jospeh and learned some important truths about God's will for our lives. WE saw that God is more concerned about who we are than He is where we go or what we do. He desires to shape us into being the right person in the right place at the right time for His right purposes...

This week at Compass Worship we were in week 2 of our "Just Tell Me Already" series. We focused in on Psalm 37. We continued building on the foundational truth that God's will is more about who you are becoming than it is where you go or what you do. We learned this week that sometimes that means we find ourselves in a season of waiting. Waiting on the Lord is an active thing. We kee...

This week at Compass Worship we began a 4 week series we are calling "Just Tell Me Already!" We are going to journey through scripture to see God's will and direction for our lives. This week we laid a foundational truth that God is much more concerned with who you are becoming than He is what you do or where you go. God longs to be with us and longs for us to simply trust that He ha...

This week at Compass Worship we were blessed to have Courtney Middlesworth teach us about Emmanuel. Throughout scripture we saw that God has always desired to be with us. We see that God desires to be with us right where we are so that He can be known to all those around us. Listen in as Ian, Owen, Drew, Sol, Grant share their takeaways from the teaching. Our hope and prayer is that through the Be...

This week at Compass Worship we concluded our 10:10 Life series by focusing on the fullness of hope that is found when we anchor our lives to the life of Jesus, the cross and the resurrection of Jesus. We focused on the truth that Jesus is the only unshakeable hope that we have in this life, everything else that we try to put our hope in will ultimately fail us and leave us drifting. We looked at...

This week at Compass Worship we continued our 10:10 Life series by focusing on the faithfulness of Jesus. We saw from beginning to end we can be confident that Jesus is faithful in His promises. We learned that we have been offered the most indescribable gift imaginable through the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus but it is up to us to receive it. After listening to this week's te...

This week at Compass Worship we continued our 10:10 Life series by focusing on the power of Jesus. We saw through Paul and John the Baptist that a powerful life is a life acknowledges weakness. We learned that God's power is made perfect in our weakness therefore to display a fullness of God's power in our lives we need to make much of Jesus and less of ourselves. Since most of our student...

This week at Compass Worship we began a series called 10:10 Life. Throughout this series we will use John 10:10 as the core verse and look through the gospel of John to see how we can have life to the full. To start this series we saw that God's purpose through Jesus was eternal, creative, life-giving and darkness overcoming. We focused on the truth that Jesus always has been and always will b...

This week at Compass Worship we finished our series on generosity called Everything & More. We focused on 2 Corinthians 9:11-12 and saw how rich we are because God has enriched us in every way SO THAT we can always be generous. We learned the result of our generosity is people's needs being met and God being praised. We were challenged to acknowledge how much God has given us and He has gi...

This week were encouraged by Toby Middlesworth to Get in the "game" and stay in the "game." The game is living the life that Christ has called us to. We focused on having and eternal perspective and understanding that all we do is for God not us so that the world around us can see Him through our lives. Toby also encouraged us to remember it isn't about being perfect, it is about being willing tha...

This week at Compass Worship we continued our series on generosity called Everything & More. We focused on 2 Corinthians 9:1-9 and saw how our generosity journey starts with a decision from the heart. We were encouraged to remember that generosity is a spiritual discipline that reflects the heart of God to the world around us. It allows us to look beyond ourselves and see how God is able to pr...

This week at Compass Worship we continued our series on generosity called Everything & More. We are focused on 2 Corinthians 8 & 9 and looking at how we build our faith by understanding and practicing generosity in our lives. This week we look specifically at the call to "excel in the ministry of giving." Paul encouraged the church in Corinth to close the gap between intentions a...

This week at Compass Worship we began a new series on generosity called Everything & More. We are focused on 2 Corinthians 8 & 9 and looking at how we build our faith by understanding and practicing generosity in our lives. This we we look specifically at the Macedonian churches that even though the had incredible poverty and suffering they were incredibly generous. They had a mindset of a...

This week at Compass Worship we concluded our "Strange Stories" series by looking at Judges 3. We saw that even when we are faithless God is faithful. We looked at the cycle of the Israelites; Rebel against God, be oppressed, cry out to God, God provides a Judge, live in peace and then repeat. God heard their cries time and time again and He hears us when we cry out to him as well. We al...

This week at Compass Worship we continued our "Strange Stories" series by looking at Matthew 17. Through this "fish story" Matthew pointed us to the divinity of Jesus. Jesus, being the Son of God was exempt from paying the Temple Tax however, in order to remain on mission for His Father Jesus not only paid his tax but Peter's also. This was a beautiful picture of Jesus payi...

This week at Compass Worship we started a new series looking at some of the "strange" stories or events from scripture and what we can learn from them. We were in Numbers 21 this week looking to God's remedy for the Israelites complaining and impatience. We saw that in God's creativity He provided a remedy in which if the people wanted healed from the snake bite they would have t...

This week at Compass Worship we had a guest speaker, Jeremy Glasford teach us about forgiveness. He reminded us of the parable that Jesus taught in Matthew 18. Through this parable we saw that we all have a debt that can never be repaid BUT that we also have a God who is gracious and forgiving and willing to forgive and restore our lives through the life, death, burial and resurrection of His one...

This week at Compass Worship we conclude our journey through the book of Jonah. In Jonah 4 we are going to see that what God cares about above all else is people. Not perfect people, but all people. He is a gracious and compassionate God who slow in anger and abounding in love. Jonah had just been a part of a nations revival and yet he is angry and upset because God relented and the people he desp...

This week at Compass Worship we continued our journey through the book of Jonah. In Jonah 3 we are reminded that we serve a God of second chance, and with every second chance we have a choice. Jonah choose to listen and obey God by going to Ninevah proclaiming God's message. The Ninevities when they heard God's message through Jonah, choose to repent and turn away from their evil and wicke...

This week at Compass Worship we continued our journey through the book of Jonah. In Jonah 2 and we see God providing for Jonah. Jonah praying out of helplessness, not hopelessness. Jonah, even before a miracle praising God as the only one who could save him. Then we saw God in His perfect timing saving Jonah onto dry land. There may be times in our lives that God's provision seems more like a...

This week at Compass Worship we began a new series journeying us through the book of Jonah. From the first chapter we find a tension that is real in our lives just like it was Jonah's. God speaks but we don't want to do what He is calling us to do. Just like God spoke to Jonah and asked him to go to Ninevah to preach truth and repentance but Jonah choose to run the other direction from God...