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This week marked the beginning of a brand new series called In God We Trust: Finding Financial Freedom. When it comes to walking in relationship with Jesus, we’re called to surrender the entirety of our lives to Him, including in our finances. This week’s message focused on the problem with Idolatry and placing other things in our lives, like money, as the main idol. Money in itself isn’t evil. Go...

For the final week of this series we explored the idea that you get what you deserve. So often we think of bad things happening to bad people and good things happening to good people. However, when we look at Scripture, we realize that we have a lot to be thankful for. Thank God we don't get what we deserve because the only thing we deserve is death. But through a relationship with Jesus, we're gi...

This week’s message explores the untruth that we won’t have bad days as followers of Christ. The harsh reality is that life doesn’t magically get easier when we begin to follow Jesus. In many cases, it’s the complete opposite. We begin to realize that following Jesus can be more difficult than following the ways of the world. The truth is that Jesus never said we wouldn’t have bad days. Instead, J...

Throughout this series we’re looking at common misunderstandings of our faith. This week, we focused on how Jesus spoke about the idea of forgiveness. Is Jesus really ok with us not forgiving others? Ultimately, we look to Scripture for guidance and see that forgiveness is something that we do, not only for the other person but also for ourselves. Jesus never wanted us to live a life of bondage be...

This week, we’re beginning a brand-new series called Things Jesus Never Said. The first statement we tackled was, "Do Whatever Makes You Happy." Whether it was the Greeks of Paul's day or the people we interact with daily, so many people have believed that substances, experiences, or people can bring them true happiness. However, as Christ followers, we know that some of the things that make us "h...

This week, Pastor Jerry shared with us 4 observations from Philippians 3:12-21 for what it might mean to turn over a new leaf in our walk with God this year. The New year is an exciting opportunity to start our lives on a brand new page, and our God can do far more than we could ever hope or imagine. With humility, let’s pursue Jesus together and allow our future inheritance to impact how we live...

Merry Christmas! We often experience peace in this world, but that peace is momentary. The Christmas story, however, is about a lasting peace. In Luke's Gospel, we see the shepherds present at the birth of Christ. Although shepherds weren't allowed in the temple because they were ceremonially unclean and often thought of as thieves and liars, they're present in the Christmas story to show that the...

As we come to the end of our Christmas series, Peace. We’re reminded of the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth. As we see in Luke’s Gospel, Zechariah is a priest. He's familiar with God's ways and understands what it means to be in the presence of God. Yet, when an angel of the Lord appears to him in the temple, he doubts what the angel is saying—that his wife Elizabeth will have a child in her old...

In this second message of our Peace series, we're continuing to discuss how to live a life in peace, especially during a month like this one! This week, we're following along with the story of Joseph. Joseph allowed love to triumph over fear in his interactions with his pregnant fiancé, Mary. His faith allowed him to be obedient in this difficult moment, following God without delay. We can follow...

This week, we're starting a new series called "PEACE." In each message, we'll be talking about a different situation surrounding those involved with the birth of Christ, and how those people found peace in a variety of circumstances. This week, Rachel shared about how to deal with curveballs in life. Life can throw curveballs at us at any time, and sometimes it feels like everything is going wrong...

Throughout this series we’ve looked to Jesus as the ultimate hero, but he was also the ultimate hero maker. We’re followers of Christ because Jesus made hero makers of his disciples who made heroes who made heroes, etc. But when it comes to winning like a hero maker, many of us are running in the wrong direction. The world tells us that winning requires us to get ahead, to be first. In the Kingdom...

This week's message continues our Hero Maker series by examining how to help others grow. In week 2, we learned how to practically help the people in our lives grow into heroes. This week, we'll look at how Jesus spent intentional time with his disciples to help them become better leaders. By living like hero makers, we inspire others to lead the life God has for them. Jesus modeled this for us in...

In this week's message, we're continuing our Hero Maker series by looking at how to see potential in others. In week 1, we learned what it means to be a Hero Maker. This week, we'll learn how to make that practical with the people in our lives. By seeing potential in others, and encouraging them, we can help them to reach their God-given purpose! We see great examples of this in Matthew chapter 4!...

In this first week of our Hero Maker series, we'll be learning how to think like a Hero Maker. As disciples of Jesus, our job is to shepherd others and help them reach their potential. This week, we'll be looking to Matthew 28 to explore what it means to disciple others. This first week is essential if you want to be successful in discipleship!

During this final week of our 5 Pursuits series we’re highlighting the importance of generosity in our lives. Here at Beach Church, we seek to pursue a lifestyle of generosity as an expression of gratitude for all that Jesus has done for us. Like so many things in our faith, it’s about perspective. The more gratitude we have for the things and people in our lives, the more generous our hearts beco...

This week we talked about what it means to serve others as members of the kingdom of God. Here at Beach Church, we seek to pursue a lifestyle of serving as the most authentic expression of Jesus’ love to the world. Jesus came to the world to serve others and did so in a way that we could never repay. This lifestyle of serving doesn’t necessarily look all that different than our everyday lives. It...

Here at Beach Church, we seek to pursue community through a circle of believers where we can grow stronger in our walk of faith. Being in relationship with others is vital to our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. As we get plugged into life groups and find community, we’re able to lean on people during times of stress and grow, not only in our relationship with Jesus together but also wit...

In Week 2 of our series, 5 Pursuits, we examined what it means to pursue worship. In John 4, we see a Samaritan woman come face to face with Jesus. She asks Him about whether the Jews or the Samaritans know the correct mountain on which to worship God, not seeking a location, but rather the true and proper way to worship God! This woman, like so many of us today, are spiritually thirsty, looking t...

We’re committed to pursuing a relationship with Jesus both for ourselves and others. We have made the intentional “first step” choice to place our hope in Jesus as the Lord and Savior of our lives and are actively seeking to pursue relationships where we invite others to take their first step as well. As we begin our 5 Pursuits series, week 1 focuses on taking those first steps of faith. This week...

In this final week of our Sowing & Reaping series, we looked back to previous weeks of the series and were reminded what it meant to clear the soil, sow the seed, and reap a harvest. As the Holy Spirit produces this harvest in our lives, however, we’re left with the reality that we have a real enemy who comes to kill, steal, and destroy these fruits in our lives. We can’t fight these spiritual...

Now that we’ve prepped the soil for planting, it’s time for us to sow the Word of God into our lives. Through the daily reading of God’s Word and memorizing Scripture, we allow the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us every day of our lives and produce those fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control. And while it’s not an overnight...

When we think about sowing into a relationship with God, there’s hard work to be done. We can’t plant the Word of God in soil that’s filled with roots of pain, sin, and death. We need soil free of all that for new seed to be planted and those new roots to take hold. We need the Holy Spirit to work in and through us as we prepare our souls for what’s sure to be a bountiful harvest of love, joy, pea...

This week marked the beginning of a brand new series we’re calling Sowing and Reaping. This series is all about looking at the fruit of the Spirit that can be produced in our lives when we sow the Word of God into our hearts. The principle of this series comes from 2 Corinthians 9:6-13 where Paul is writing to the church in Corinth encouraging them to sow generously. We’ll see that throughout this...

In our final week of the Road Trip series, Pastor Jerry continued elaborating on Paul’s writings to the Ephesians regarding relationships. Paul outlines the dynamics that should occur between parents and children and masters and slaves. Paul then uses the imagery of a Roman soldier’s armor to give the Ephesians a picture of the way they should spiritually guard themselves against the devil. We too...

This week’s Road Trip message took us to Chapter 5 in the book of Ephesians. Paul’s letter has a heavy focus on what it means to love people well. Paul encouraged the people in Ephesus to be children of the light, and he reminded them that they were once in the darkness that often surrounds them in the world. Paul’s letter also focuses on them having a sacrificial love in marriage and how spouses...