Simple Church

We are in the midst of our culture changing. Some say that the Bible doesn't apply to today's world. However, with this message, we find out that God's way speaks truth in today's chaos and warns what the world says about us.

It's rather surprising that when Jesus, the king of kings and lord of lords, comes to Earth in the form of a baby, He didn't receive a royal welcome. Instead, what that humble, dirty, unassuming first Christmas teaches us is that Jesus is for all people.

The King lowered Himself and came to Earth to give a gift to His people. But the gift is not something we can hold in ours hands--it is Christ in us. What Jesus Offers Us is Himself.

Jesus is one of the most influential people in all of history. No one is loved and hated, debated, or has had more impact on this world than Jesus. So who is Jesus? Does who we say Jesus is align with who God says he is?

In years gone by, we've heard the Christmas story from the side of Joseph, Mary, the shepherds, wise men, and even the inn keeper. But this year we are going to pull back the veil and peer into the Creator's workshop to see Christmas from Heaven's perspective. This first week we explore why Jesus came.

We like the new shiny... the new gadget, the new trendy clothes, the hip new coffee house. We pursue the shiny. When we look at scripture, we begin to see that we are supposed to be the shiny - that special something that draws people in to relationship with God. Learning to live a life of shiny is a mandate we all have as Christians.

Parenting is chock full of questions that range from how to handle shared parenting when mom and dad aren't together to when to have the "sex talk" with your kids. While the answers may be simply spoken, they are not simple to live out. Join us as our pastors take the stage to answer parenting questions from the congregation.

Kids need so much from their parents to help them develop into adults who are healthy mentally and physically and growing spiritually and relationally. But what do the parents need to be able to help them do this? There are 5 things every parent needs to be able to parent their children from a place of wholeness.

Since service has been cancelled for today to prepare for the transition to the new building, our Pastor has recorded a short devotional on 1 John 3:11-18. In this devo, he shares how when you love God, your love for people will abound with the natural result being that we serve the world.

We don't know much about Jesus as a child, but we do know from Luke 2:52 that he grew mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially. As parents we couldn't pray for anything greater for our kids than that. But after we pray, what else are we responsible to provide our children? Today we will discuss the 5 things every kid needs.

Because parenting is so stressful, it is hard to resist the temptation to respond emotionally to our children when they misbehave. Is it possible to achieve scream-free parenting? It is when you realize you cannot control your kids, but you can control yourself.

Parenting is one of the most frustrating roles in life. It is one that is rife with many questions and very few answers. Can we successfully put together the puzzle pieces of our kid's lives that will help them become a healthy, mature individual? The answer is yes, but we must start with firm relational foundations.

AHA happens when we are suddenly awakened to our sin, we become brutally honest about how we got into that sin, and then we take steps of repentance towards the Father's house. But does your AHA story end there? If it does you are missing out on the greatest part of God's story for you - the celebration!

In the past few weeks we have talked about a sudden awakening and brutal honesty, but AHA only happens when the third element of immediate action is present. This is the part of AHA we all struggle with the most. We don't mind the awakening and it may hurt to be honest, but to get up and do something is what we refuse. Getting up and doing something immediately is the only response that will bring...

Most of us have an easy time being honest with others about their issues, but can we be honest with ourselves? It does us no good to be awakened to our circumstances if we can't be honest with ourselves about how we got ourselves into them. The second step of any AHA experience will require brutal honesty with yourself.

Have you ever been awakened suddenly? These awakenings are never pleasant or welcome, but they are necessary sometimes. One of the key ingredients to AHA is a sudden awakening - one that awakens us to where we were, where we are, and where we could be.

Aha—when your life collides with God’s grace and there is an undeniable change. This week, we go back to the parable of the prodigal son and take a look at the place where all AHA stories begin - the distant country.

The three ingredients that come together to produce an Aha moment in your life are: a sudden awakening, brutal honesty, and immediate action. An Aha moment will forever change your story. This week we start at the beginning of the story... Aha starts at home.

Waiting is never easy, especially when you're waiting on something you're excited about. It is in the waiting that hope can be lost. Can we learn to hold on to hope in difficult times? Today we discover the keys to maintaining hope are found only in relationship with God.

The end of the world is a popular topic in our movies and TV, but do we know what the Bible says about the end and when it will come? More importantly, because the Bible points to an end, what are we doing to be ready for it?

Do you feel useful or useless? Even though you may have low self-worth, you are God's masterpiece and He can always use somebody for something.

In our modern society, can a dysfunctional family really be what God had planned for us? Today we look at how a home that is a blessing to its occupants and others takes making an intentional choice. That choice will be to accept dysfunction or to drive it out of our homes by making God the centerpiece of our lives.

Walking the line is all about devotion. But what exactly is daily devotion? If we are to truly walk the line, we must have our focus on Jesus. Can we truly live a focused life with all of complexities and distractions of life? Listen to today's message from Corbin Huffman of LifeChange Church in Newark, Ohio.

With our lives overwhelmed we have a never ending chase for rest. Searching anywhere and everywhere, the chase just adds to the burden. Where can we find true rest? Maybe we need to stop looking for the where and start looking for the who.

We believe that faith is conjured up by repeating the same thing over and over to ourselves... "I do believe, I do believe...." But is this real faith? In fact, what is faith at all? And once I have it, how do I keep faith so that I don't stop believin'? Tune in to today's message to find out.