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In week two of our series "First and Foremost," Will looks in to not only what it means follow Jesus totally, but also what it costs.

As we kick off 2024, we are answering the question: how can I make this year matter? Most of us are spending our time creating, planning, and dreaming up well intended New Year Resolutions...and yet most of us will get to February and forget our resolutions altogether. How can we break this cycle and make this year count? What does the bible tell us about how to have a year full of real, lasting t...

This week, Haley Sloan takes on one of the hard topics of the Christian faith and answers the question: What actually is sin?

Are you stuck in the past or worried about the future? This week, Haley walks through what it looks like to be an "in-between people" and how to enjoy the here and now!

This week, Student Intern Alex Romig shares a message with us about what it looks like to have a relationship with Jesus.

On night two of Fall Retreat, Haley follows the question "what is love?" up with a charge for us to be the community of love.

On night one of Fall Retreat, Haley answered the question: What Is Love, and How Do We Become People Who Love?

In our third week of our series "The Way", Haley talked to us about the importance of Sabbath. She explains that a true 24 hour Sabbath brings transformation as you are intentionally taking the time to stop and delight in the Lord. What is holding you back from a day of Sabbath? If it is because you are "too busy", then this episode is especially for you!

This week, Will talked to us about the importance of practicing silence and solitude. Focusing on the text of Mark 1:12-13, Will highlights Jesus practicing this very thing and he invites us to join him in the silence. So what is distracting you from embracing the silence? Are you willing to accept Jesus' invitation and rest in the silence and solitude?

This week we kicked off the Fall Semester with our new sermon series: The Way. Using Matthew 11:28-30, Haley calls each of us out for falling into the trap of busyness. Are you unable to slow down? Are you leaning into the busyness rather than taking time for true rest? Is there actually a different way to live other than in busyness? I guess you'll have to tune in to find out.

This week Elizabeth wraps up our sermon series in James. She dives into how our biblical faith is not blind, and how it is important for us to realize that. Our faith is built around trusting evidence of God's faithfulness and knowing the promise Jesus represents. Where have you seen God's goodness in your life? Do you seek Jesus or what He does for you? Is there an area in your life where...

This week we continue our sermon series in James, Haley walks us through the fourth chapter. Peace is something that we truly desire in our lives, so what are the 3 keys for finding peace in our lives? What steals our ability to find peace? What makes it hard to hold onto peace? What is something in our lives that we need to surrender to God to allow us to find peace?

This week, we continue our study of James. Haley looks at the third chapter of James, where he speaks about the taming of the tongue. The tongue contains a lot of power in our everyday lives. How do the things we speak impact others? Our words are direct reflections of our heart so what do they show the people around us? Why should we care about the words we speak? What are our words creating?

As we continue to work our way through the Letter of James, Elizabeth jumps into Chapter 2. James challenges us to show our faith through our works because faith without works is dead. Elizabeth gives us an amazing understanding of this chapter as well as the biblical view that faith and obedience are essentially unified. What would someone say you are passionate about looking at your life from th...

This week we start a new sermon series in the Letter of James. Haley dives in giving us an outline of what direction we will be going down over the next few weeks. What are some takeaways from this letter, as we look inward and at our own hearts? How can we transition to being contributors rather than just consumers? How are we going to allow the Letter of James to transform us into new followers...

Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection and beating yourself up for your flaws? We can relate. In this sermon, our special student guest, Kaleigh Martin, recaps what we learned about the Shema (Deut. 6:4-5) at Spring Retreat and reflects on the powerful truth that God has shown us grace upon grace. What would it look like to rest in that abundant grace and allow God to shape you?

When asked what the very greatest commandment was, Jesus answered: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ Sound familiar? He’s quoting the Shema! To close out our weekend of reflection on this prayer, Haley shows us what the greatest commandment...

Imagine you are about to enter a room, and inside it you will see the thing you want most in the whole world. What would be inside? In our morning devotional from Spring Retreat, Elizabeth continues to lead us through the Shema (Deut. 6:4-5) and reflects on the fact that God says His most important commandment is to love Him with our entire being. The truth is that what God wants most in the whole...

For thousands of years, Jewish people have prayed these words every morning and every evening: “Hear O Israel, the LORD is our God, the LORD is one, and as for you, you shall love the LORD your God with all of your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” This prayer is called the “Shema.” To begin our Spring Retreat, Haley encourages us to reflect on the very first word, which is S...

What is God up to? As we wrap up our sermon series through the Covenants we look at the Davidic covenant and the new covenant. God has been planning to restore humanity and their hearts made of stone. After countless failures, and broken covenants God reacts in a way we never thought God would. What are these covenants and how do they affect our lives today? When the Israelites break the covenants...

This is the third week of our covenant series, and this week Elizabeth goes over the Mosaic covenant. The Israelites have just been freed from slavery in Egypt and are on their journey through the wilderness. During this, Moses and God make a covenant covering the Israelites in God’s glory and His promise. What does God ask for in us? Where do we find ourselves freed and healed through God? What a...

This week we continued our series on the different covenants God makes with us in the Bible. We focus on the Abrahamic covenant that God makes, the promise of his family becoming as numerous as the stars, and God’s blessing on Abraham and his family. What happens with this covenant, and what can we learn from Abraham in this story? What do we learn about God’s character through this covenant he ma...

This is the final week in our sermon series, The Other Side of Grace. As we wrap up our study in Matthew 23, how might we grow deeper in our faith? Jesus has been calling out and exposing the Pharisees of the wrong they have been doing, although they may be living and doing the required tasks, they're missing the point. God cares about your heart, soul, and mind more than what we produce. How migh...

This week we continue our sermon series in Matthew 23. As we continue to dive into Matthew 23, we look at the Woes. Jesus is calling out the people with how they are acting. How might He be calling you out? Jesus sees the potential we carry and knows that we are better than we are acting. How might we show that we are someone who lives with integrity? How might we live into being people who invite...

This week we dive into our new sermon series, The Other Side of Grace. The past few weeks we have been in Hosea and we have looked at the kind of grace that God shows us when we sin. Now as we dive into Matthew we are beginning to see a different side of grace from God. How would you describe grace? What if we were people who decided to be the same on the outside as we are on the inside and allowe...