Arbor Church

“You had one job! ” … We’ve all heard it, especially when that one job isn’t done well. Today, Cliff teaches from the Parable of the Ten Minas: as followers of Christ, what is our One Job?

This Memorial Day weekend: a message from the book of Job, not about the earthly wars we often remember at this time but about another kind of warfare entirely. We win these spiritual battles when we use God’s strategies, and Cliff reveals the 3 strategies that He has given us to be victorious over the Enemy.

New series this week! Cliff opens Priorities with a fresh take from the life of Joshua. Say it with us: It’s not my way or your way … it’s only God’s way.

Scott wraps up our Good News series with a message on our access to God: why do we have access to God? what privileges does this access bring? … and how can we use this access in the way He intended?

Today, Alison with a word not just for mothers but for women everywhere, from Proverbs 31. This chapter doesn’t read like good news to those of us who see it as an unattainable standard for women. But … what if Proverbs 31 is about who we are, not who we aren’t?

This week in our Good News series, a message about God’s love – truly the greatest news ever told. From 1 John 4, Cliff teaches us about God’s love, and what it means for us to be on the side of love.

Today, Scott uses Paul’s letter to Philemon to outline the good news of God’s forgiveness … and who we are because of it.

From John 6, Cliff tells the well-known story of Jesus feeding a crowd with loaves and fishes, and invites us along the way to stop and reflect on what Jesus can do with whatever we are willing to offer to Him: He alone can take broken pieces and from them create masterpieces.

Cliff opens our Good News series with a message on Jesus’ mission to seek and save what was lost. Along the way: a sheep, a coin, a son, distractions, carelessness, and a simple truth: Jesus doesn’t care how you got lost. He just wants you to be found.

This Easter Sunday, Bryan takes us a walk with two men on the road to Emmaus… reflecting on all that’s happened, reflecting on this last year for all of us, and listening to what Jesus has to say about Himself through His own words.

Scott closes our series Letters to a Young Church with Paul’s final exhortations to the Galatians, on the topics of bearing each others’ burdens, sowing and reaping, and the art of gentle restoration.

*…Do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. * – Galatians 5:13b. Today, Bryan looks at our freedom in Christ from another perspective. Along the way: shoulder demons, shoulder angels, logs, specks, spiritual fruit, and a man named John Baker . How will you use your freedom?

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. – Galatians 5:1. Scott shows us what the Scripture has to say about how to stand firm in that freedom and avoid the yoke of slavery.

New interim pastor Cliff Tadema continues our series Letters to a Young Church with a message on Galatians 4 and our freedom in Christ.

Thessalonians was a letter of encouragement, but Galatians is a little more confrontational. The early church, barely a few years after Jesus founded it, had already begun to suffer a division as legalism and tradition took the place of grace and freedom. Scott digs into the story of the Galatian church and shows us why this story sounds so familiar. (Plus, he says the word circumcision a lot.)

In the his closing thoughts in 1 Thessalonians, Paul admonishes the young church to build … with their leaders, with each other, and with God.

On this Super Bowl Sunday, Scott opens Thessalonians to the last part of Chapter 4 and the first part of Chapter 5, and speaks to the hope that Christians have of life with Christ in death.

The Apostle Paul did some stuff that was downright crazy from the world’s perspective. And as God works in us to sanctify us… well, that can look a little crazy, too. Today, David speaks from 1 Thessalonians 4 on the beautiful, crazy life of the Christian.

The culture is a little different than it was in Bible times, but some things about the life of a Christian haven’t changed. As we look at the 3rd chapter of 1 Thessalonians, Scott outlines the trials we can all expect … as well as strength, encouragement, and a life of love and steadfastness.

In the second chapter of 1 Thessalonians, Alison leads us through the establishment of Paul’s credibility and outlines both the pastor’s part and the church’s part of the worthy walk that God has called us into.

Bryan leads us through 1 Thessalonians 1 and Paul’s encouragement to the church to continue in their faith, love, and hope.

Alison and Bryan wrap up our Still series with a message for the Arbor family, about who we are, what our church means, our family values, what’s changed, what hasn’t, and where we want to go together. It’s been one crazy year … but we are still Arbor.

A special Christmas Eve message reminding us that we can be still … because God is still with us.

The short story of Mary and Joseph, though just a prelude to the bigger story of Jesus, reminds us that in the midst of uncertainty and waiting, God is still moving – and when God moves, we need to get moving with him.

This Christmas, in all the chaos in our world and in our lives, we’re exploring the idea of Still . Bryan opens with a look at a time in the history of God’s people that’s rarely part of the Christmas story: the 400 years between the Old and New Testaments. Reduced to a comma in sentences, a single blank page in your Bible – where was God during these centuries of silence?