Echo Life Church

On palm Sunday we continue to explore the last week of Jesus life. Jesus is for our city and so are we. We have a part to play, we need to be for the things that Jesus is for. If we're going to leverage everything God's given us, our city should reflect that. We learn that there is no greater symbol of the Gospel than serving other people.

If we're truthful and look at our lives we see that we've fallen short and scripture lets us know that. God's word lets us know that we're all on level ground, we're all equal in the sense that we've messed up. Romans 3:23 NIV "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". The good news: that's not the final word, Jesus had something else to say about this.

At some point in our lives, we've all felt like an outsider. In this series, we're going to take a look at the last week of Jesus's life, and we're going to see in a more heightened and highlighted way what Jesus is all about. Jesus is for Outsiders.

Pastor Joe wraps up this series on love, dating, and marriage. (This message is PG-13) Too many people associate the word "No" with God's view of us and with God's view of sex. Today we dive into romance and intimacy and see what God has to say about the lies that we hear and the truth that he has for us.

As we continue our series on love, dating, and marriage we understand that relationships take work. Any of us have an advanced in the areas that it takes to have a lasting relationship. We learn that our highest potential reach and our greatest satisfaction is when the creation is used in accordance with its design.

As we continue our series on love, dating, and marriage Pastor Joe asserts that many of us haven't matured past High School when it comes to the way we view relationships. Too often we look at relationships and try to see what we can take from them. When we can't find our significance in Christ we start searching for it in someone else.

Pastor Joe begins a series on love, dating, and marriage. We are reminded that God designed relationships. We've developed myths about relationships because culture has been the loudest voice in the room. Stop looking for an outside answer to an inside problem.

As pastor Joe wraps up this will series continue to look at Luke 2:52 - have you ever been in a season of life that you wish you could just skip past? Small steps now will lead to big change later.

As we continue to unpack Luke 2:52 we learn that we are better together. Proverbs 3:3 "Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart." Outwardly, inwardly, you need kindness and truth. It needs to be outwardly shown and inwardly sewn into our lives.

Echo Life Church turns 1 year old. Psalm 115:1 "Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness." Grow: to progress, to advance, to move forward. That's the call for this church to move forward, because those that stay in the past never have much of a future.

As pastor Joe continues to unpack Luke 2:52 we look at every area, how to better ourselves as Jesus did. Today pastor Joe focuses on favor with God. Define: Favor is unearned Grace.

As we begin 2018 Pastor Joe reminds us if there's always an opportunity for a new start. Over the next 5 weeks Pastor Joe will unpack Luke 2:52 "And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man."

Looking at Luke Chapter 2 pastor Joe talks about how we can look at biblical principles to move forward into the new year.

Pastor Joe invites us to celebrate this Christmas Eve with a message of Hope, Joy, and Love. We are reminded that Jesus brings light to the world.

Our world needs the best of what Jesus brought to it. We need more joy, we need more hope, we need more love, and we need more peace.

This Christmas season pastor Joe asks the question "what are you hoping for?" Romans 15:13 NIV May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Pastor Joe kicks off a new series to start the Christmas season. Our hope is that looking at the Christmas story with new eyes we'll see God's plan for this season to be Amazing!

Pastor Joe wraps up his Imagine If series by looking at the last two chapters of Galatians. If Believers really captured what Paul was saying in this "Manifesto" imagine what the world would look like.

As we continue this series, we see the central theme of this message in Ephesians 3:20-21 "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."

Pastor Joe continues the series as we study Galatians chapter 5 & 6. God wants us to trade in all our "only if's" for all his "imagine if's".

Sometimes we find ourselves in a season of busyness, sometimes we need to take a step back, look back at God's word and do some dreaming again. Pastor Joe poses the question "imagine if money wasn't a problem and failure wasn't an option, what would you do?"

Pastor Joe wraps up this series on looking back to move forward. We are commanded to be witnesses to all the world.

As we look back we discover that our call is to be a witness. Good gifts aren't meant to be buried. We need to understand that there is a great gift in the Holy Spirit.

Pastor Joe continues his series looking back to move forward. It's crucial for us to look back in God's word see what he prescribes for us today.

Pastor Joe Begins the series on looking back in order to move forward. We are reminded that the church is a movement, and movements move.