A Transforming Word

In today's message, Pastor Bill will remind you that comparison is the thief of our joy. Be honest, we've all compared ourselves to someone else many times before... And likely it didn't benefit you at all. When it comes to the gifts that God gives us, it can be easy to see someone who's on a stage and think that their gift is better than yours working in childcare, for example... But God, in His...

In today's message, Pastor Bill will remind you of the dangers of gossip. Gossip is when we choose to secretively engage in speaking bad or untrue things about others or choosing to not stand for the person being gossiped about... And we've all likely been the unfortunate subject of gossip, it hurts, especially from those you love. The Bible tells us that God hates gossip, and as Christians, we sh...

In today's message, Pastor Bill will warn you about the dangers of envy in your life. Envy is the feeling that we get when we want something that someone else has, we're jealous of them in some way or another. This idea of envy goes against what Christians are supposed to stand for. As Christians, we're called to celebrate with one another in every success and triumph, not break each other down ov...

In today's message, Pastor Bill will remind you that just because we've accepted Christ and been given the Holy Spirit... That doesn't make us perfect. Even with the Lord in our lives, we'll still make mistakes. We'll still say things we regret, do something we know we shouldn't, or disregard what we know to be right... But what we do have in the Lord is forgiveness. No matter what, if we confess...

In today's message, Pastor Bill will remind you that you need the empowering of the Holy Spirit in your life. When you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior, you're given two things. The Holy Spirit and the calling to share the Gospel with others... And in order to share the Gospel, you need the Holy Spirit. We need the guidance of the Holy Spirit to give us insight as to the right time to speak,...

In today's message, Pastor Bill will share with you about how you can approach God. It's important that when we come to the Lord in prayer, we can come to Him with humility and trust. We come with humility because we ultimately don't know what God has for us but we come with trust to believe His plans are for our good... We can't ever put a ceiling on God. We can't limit Him to our finite understa...

In today's message, Pastor Bill will share with you about the fruit of the Holy Spirit. When we're born, we're all sinners. We all have an innate desire and ability to sin against God... But when we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, the Holy Spirit enables us to overcome sin... And not only does the Holy Spirit allow us to squelch the sinful things in our lives, but it also helps us to train up t...

In today's message, Pastor Bill will encourage you to just do something! But not just anything! As followers of Christ, we're all given unique gifts through the Holy Spirit for the building up and edifying of the Body of Christ. When we live into the gifts and talents that God has given us, there's true joy and blessing... And while not all of us have a ministry or a platform yet to use our gifts...

In today's message, Pastor Bill will share with you about how we can talk to the Lord. Some people might think you can only speak to God with “thee” and “thou” type of speech but that's not the only way. We can talk to God as if He were a person in the room with us. We can speak honestly and openly to the Lord in all that we experience... But we should never be disrespectful. God hears and sees ou...

Complaining is an issue that most people struggle with from childhood on. Today, Pastor Bill invites you to look at how complaining caused lots of problems for the Israelites. And it’s still causing problems for you thousands of years later. You see, when you complain, you’re really telling the Lord that what He’s doing isn’t good enough. This breaks God’s heart and makes Him angry. But you can ch...

Someone once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Well, today, Pastor Bill shares you don’t have to be stuck in that cycle. When you’ve blown it (like we all do at times) you can follow the example of the Israelites and make a marker. For them, these stones reminded them of how they’d messed up. Pastor Bill shares that marking...

People are, by nature, self-focused. And, so, from childhood on, you have to learn that you’re not the center of the universe and you should care for the people around you. And that’s exactly what Pastor Bill shares today. When the Israelites were preparing to enter the land that God had promised them, they were to keep a rearguard to protect the weaker people in their camp. And God wants you to d...

Did you know that there’s a battle raging all around you? But this war isn’t over land or money. It’s about unity among God’s people. You see, God’s enemy knows that the quickest way to gain footing is by instigating chaos and ushering in dissension. So, that’s his goal. He wants to fracture the unity that followers of God have because of Jesus. Today, Pastor Bill encourages you to fight back by a...

There have probably been times in your life when you wonder if you need your hearing checked where God’s concerned. You just aren’t sure if you’re hearing Him. Well, in today’s message, Pastor Bill shares that God does speak to you. In fact, He wants to guide you through life. Just like the Israelites heard the different trumpet calls and responded with action, God wants you to follow the things H...

We have so many voices in our ears in this modern world. We fill any free time we have with scrolling through social media, browsing newsfeeds, watching television, or listening to the radio or podcasts. We’re often tuned into just about everything besides God’s Word. It’s no wonder we feel like His will for us is a grand mystery. As Pastor Bill will explain in today’s message, if you’re intention...

God wants to be intimately involved in all your decisions. That doesn’t mean you need to pray over what color shirt you wear today, but when it comes to relationship choices and other areas of your life that reflect on Him and your relationship with Him, He should be a part of it – in fact, He should be central to the process. As Pastor Bill will challenge us in today’s message, make a practice of...

Community is one of the greatest gifts and necessities that God’s given us. In the beginning, when God created Adam, he was in a perfect state – sinless and exactly as God intended Him to be – yet Adam needed something else… he needed companionship. Satan will do his best to directly attack us in that area of weakness. As Pastor Bill will remind us in today’s message, God is always with us, and He...

God uses people of all ages and maturity levels, with widely varying talents, skills, and personalities. He gifts us in different ways, and as you develop in your faith, you’ll find that He uses you in new ways. As Pastor Bill will warn in today’s message, you may have a tendency to write off others or write yourself off as not being usable by God, but that’s never true. Submit yourself to Him and...

What are your top priorities? For some, it may be their families, for others their careers, and for others, it may simply be their own pleasure. Those are earthly treasures. That doesn’t mean they’re bad things…family for example is an amazing gift from God, and careers can be used to bring Him glory and accomplish a lot of good, but as Pastor Bill will challenge us in today’s message, bringing Go...

Has God spoken to you recently? You may not be aware of it, but the answer is yes. He speaks to all of us regularly. The problem is that many of us aren’t listening. If you are listening, that’s great, but there’s another step still – you need to do what He’s telling you to and be who He wants you to be. As Pastor Bill will challenge us in today’s message, it’s time to be the Church that God has c...

Our ultimate purpose is to glorify God. He created us for His pleasure, and He gave us free will so we could choose whether to worship Him or not. If you choose to reject that calling, you’re rejecting life with Him and choosing eternal death. That’s not His fault. As Pastor Bill will point out in today’s message, if you choose to accept that invitation, you’re choosing eternal life and He freely...

Have you ever received a homemade gift that you knew required a lot of time, thought, and energy on the part of the giver? It may not have been expensive, and it may not have been something very useful or something you had asked for, but knowing that they gave their time and energy to make it made it incredibly meaningful. While God does call us to give of our money and material resources, some of...

Even after you die to self as we’re called to do by Christ, you’ll still have freedom to make choices. As Pastor Bill will clarify in today’s message, you don’t become a robot, controlled by the Holy Spirit whether you want to be or not. You still must choose to follow the Holy Spirit as He leads. He won’t force you into anything. You choose to dedicate yourself as a temple of His Holy Spirit. You...

Some people fear or hate Christianity because they see it as a life controlled and restricted by rules that a distant Deity put in place. That’s a lie from the enemy. Christianity isn’t about the rules. It’s not about a prescribed way of living. It’s about having relationship with your loving Creator. Today, Pastor Bill will remind us that God went to great lengths to have this relationship, and l...

You have to know your weaknesses and be prepared to make big changes in order to walk with Jesus. As Pastor Bill will illustrate in today’s message, the transition from a life in the world into a life in the Kingdom of God is a complete one-eighty. Sadly, many of your friends that remain in the world will be resistant to your new faith and lifestyle. As much as you love them, they may try to pull...