Arbor Church

Bob Lee talks about Matthew the Tax Collector and Simon the Zealot and how we are united under Jesus, no matter the differences we have with each other.

Jake Goetze talks about the lesser-known disciple Andrew and his very important role in bringing others to Jesus.

Peter is one of the most famous disciples, known both for his boldness and his collapses. In the second message in the Disciples series, we take a deeper look at who he was and what we can learn from him about being a disciple of Jesus.

Bob Lee opens our series on the disciples of Jesus with some background on what it meant to be a disciple in Jesus’s day, and then focuses on one disciple in particular: John, the “disciple whom He loved.”

In the final message in the Heaven series, we learn how to live in the light of our new Home: how the reality of Heaven can and should affect our day-to-day lives here on Earth.

What will the new Heaven be like, exactly? Are we going to be young or old? Will it be like an eternal church service, or are we going to float around with harps? Will we remember our life, or become bored with eternity? Drawing from Scripture and the best resources we have, Jake answers some of the most frequently asked questions about where we’ll spend eternity.

Heaven will be wonderful… but it has an opposite. Bob tackles the hard question of why a place exists apart from God, and how anyone could deserve to be sent there.

What will Heaven be like? Jake opens the series by collecting hints from Scripture about what we can expect after we die, focusing in this first message specifically on Heaven as it exists today, before God makes all things new at the end of history.

You’re at a coffee shop with Jake, and he’s got 20 minutes to convince you to follow Jesus. What’s his pitch? (Hint: the resurrection of Jesus, and the overwhelming evidence for its reality, is a centerpiece.)

In this special Good Friday service, we are invited to remember a unique and holy pain: the redeeming pain of Jesus as he suffered his final hours.

Stories of deep pain and redemption told firsthand by Arbor Church members: chronic physical pain, loss of loved ones, broken families and marriages, and God’s faithfulness.

How do we–and should we–respond to pain? Jake discusses the three typical responses to pain, and Davy joins him to talk about how they are responding to the pain in their lives. We learn some practical ways to respond to pain from the apostle Paul, who was no stranger to it.

Jake launches our series on pain by talking about the reality of pain, drawing from his own experience walking through some of the deepest pain any parent can feel. God can feel very absent in these times, and Jake uses the unlikely example of John the Baptist to illustrate this difficult response.

Special guest Pat Swanson uses the story of Dorcas to teach us how to excel at the art of neighboring by knowing and loving those who live near us.

Bob shares from Acts 8 about how God uses really difficult circumstances for good.

Jake talks about the cost of following Jesus and what is given in return.

Jake teaches about the mistakes made during the early days of the early church and the lessons embedded within them.

Bob shares from Acts 2 and compares the early church to the modern church. How could our community become more like theirs?

Today Jake discusses the message shared in Acts 3. What exactly was said, how was it shared, and what does that mean for our world today?

In our first sermon series as a new church, Jake teaches from the book of Acts about the early days of the church and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Launch Sunday! Why we’re here, how we got here, and where we’re going … together.

Jake tells the story of how he and his family walked through every parent’s worst nightmare: their 3-year-old daughter Maggie was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.