Beyond the Building

Listen to this weeks Compass Worship teaching from Courtney Middlesworth and then stay tuned for our usual conversation led by Derek Middlesworth. This week Derek, Bridgette, Trey and Ethan share their takeaways from Courtney's teaching based on how God is always with us and always in control through "captivity," exile, and the homecoming. Hear as they share what God taught them this week and how...

Listen to this weeks Compass Worship teaching and then stay tuned for our usual conversation led by Ian Brookshire. Ian, Miranda and Daniel will share their take aways from teaching as we looked at Daniel 10. Through this event in Daniel's life we learned that while we are waiting God is working. We were reminded that our God is a lifter, He lifts us when we are weak. We were reminded that we...

This week we have started our summer at Compass by posting our Compass Worship teaching and our usual conversation led by Ian Brookshire and crew. We are in week 3 of our Unwavering Series and we looked at Daniel 3 and the Unwavering Faith of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego as they faced a fiery trial. We learned that their faith in the One True God helped them stand tall in the midst of the unkno...

This week Ian, Bri, Grace, Claire, Hailey, Alli and Kari share their take aways from the Compass Worship teaching. We are in week 2 of our Unwavering Series and this week we focused on Daniel 6 and how we can live Unwavering when under attack. We saw through the life of Daniel that even when we are under attack we can be confident in who our God is. Daniel showed this through serving God with inte...

This week Ian, Miranda, Owen, Sam, Emmaline, Jocelyn and Jeb share their thoughts on finding rest. Sara Brookshire taught at Compass Worship this morning and walked us through the importance of the Sabbath and how God established the foundation of Sabbath.-  As a reminder that brings hope -  As a reminder of freedom -  As a reminder that we can trust him. She also showed us that Jesus expands and...

This week Ian, Bobby, Kayce and Jeff share their thoughts from this week's teaching from the book of Jude. In Jude's letter to believers he seeks to rally the people to "contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people." He pleas with the people, with us, to angonize for, fight for the unchanging truth of the gospel not allowing people to sneak in an...

This week Ian, Jeff and Nate discuss their takeaways from this week Compass Worship teaching. As we celebrated Easter together we were reminded that because the tomb was empty and because Jesus was alive we can have confidence in our position with God, and our ability to overcome sin and live our lives surrendered and glorifying to Him. We looked Matthew 27-28 as well as Paul's words in Romans...

This week Ian, Emily, Nate and Lauren share their thoughts from this week's teaching. We had a guest speaker, Brayden Cromwell teach us about living with Faith over Fear. Brayden showed us examples through the Old and New Testament how to live in the faith of who God is, and how to allow that faith to carry you through every situation where fear could stop us from being who God created us to b...

This week Ian, Amaya, Trenner, and Addison share their thoughts from this week's teaching. There are so many phrases, ideas or beliefs in our culture today that sound like they kinda sorta could be true but in reality they aren't true at all. In fact many of them are in direct opposition to God's Word. This week we looked at the idea of self-love or self care. We talked about our natur...

This week Ian, Jeff, Courtney and Emerson share their thoughts from this week's teaching. There are so many phrases, ideas or beliefs in our culture today that we need to be sure we are aligning our lives with The Truth and not our truth. We focused this week on two truths about truth; just because you believe something doesn't mean it is truth. Truth is more than just what you believe, tr...

This week Ian, Josiah, Lauren and Jacob discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. Jacob Pularski taught us today that we can stay strong in our faith even when things get uncomfortable, or in the midst of chaos because of the faithfulness and strength of our Father. Our hope and prayer is that through the Beyond the Building podcast you would continue the conversation of God's Word in your...

This week Ian, Nolan, Owen, Jamie, Sam, Jeb, and Jace discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We wrapped up our journey through the first 9 chapters of the book of Acts. In our time in Acts we have seen how God designed the church to be a movement. How the church was never intended to be about a building or one set location rather it was a group of people committed to Loving God, Loving Peop...

This week Ian, Kayce, Braylee and Jeff discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. The first seven chapters of Acts we have seen the movement of the gospel move primarily through Jerusalem, now in chapter 8 we see the "church leave the building." We looked at Philip's ministry in Samaria, the joy that the response the gospel can bring to a city. We also looked at the truth that the...

This week Lucas, Kaleb, Angie, Alyssa and Amaya discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We were back in the book of Acts again looking at the life of Stephen from chapters 6-7. From these chapters we saw that Stephen was a man "full of faith, the Holy Spirit, God's grace and power and that he was committed to the principles of the church to; Love God, Love people and Proclaim Jesus....

This week Ian, Jeff, Kate and Madison discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We were able to hear from Kate Hornocker this week about how to hear from God and how to live prepared to respond to His voice. Kate is a recent graduate of Grace College and is preparing to go into the mission field in France with Greater Europe Missions (GEM). The call God has on her heart is to move the gospel t...

This week Ian, Owen, Jeb, Zach and Kaylin discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 5:12-42. Through these verses we saw the motivation of the church was to love God, love people and proclaim Jesus. We also were challenge to consider what truly motivates us and what we may need to do to shift our motivations into the proper place. Our...

This week Lucas, Kaleb, Connor and Brayden discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 4:32-5:11. We spent our time looking at how the enemy often uses subtle deceptions like doubt, shame, fear and the blame game to lead us to places we never wanted to be. Though that we created a gameplan centered around faith, forgiveness, power of th...

This week Lucas, Kaleb, Caedmon, Carter and Diya discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 4:1-31 and talking about living in such a way that people know we have been with Jesus and responding to opposition of Truth the same way Peter, John and the other believers did. Asking God to see the opposition, and to empower them (us) to bold...

This week Ian, Harrison, Leah and Jeff discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. We continued our series on the book of Acts looking at Acts 3:1-16 and talking about how when we treat everyday as if it might be someones' "One Day" we can trust that God will do something great in and through us for the sake of His kingdom. Our hope and prayer is that through the Beyond the Buildin...

On this week's episode Ian, Kayce, Kyah, Carter and Ben discuss their takeaways from the Compass Worship teaching delivered by Courtney Middlesworth. We focused on how God throughout history has been pointing toward our redemption and longing for us to come home with Him to embrace the fullness of our identity in His family. Our hope and prayer is that through the Beyond the Building podcast you w...

This week we again recorded the Compass Worship teaching so that all our listeners could be connected with this weeks teaching. We looked at the life of Peter, specifically at the interaction that he had with Jesus after having denied Him three times. From that interaction we learned that our failures are not the end of our story, rather they are an opportunity for God to show us His grace, and de...

This week we again recorded the Compass Worship teaching so that all our listeners could be connected with this weeks teaching. Isaiah 46 offers us so many reminders, challenges and encouragement to remember who the One True God is and that we can trust that He alone is able to carry and sustain us and that He always see and cares for us as He alone knows the end from the beginning. Our hope and p...

This week we again recorded the Compass Worship teaching so that all our listeners could be connected with this weeks teaching. Sara Brookshire helped us see not only the Gospel in at the Manger but also what our response to the gospel should be. As you listen take note of how God might be leading you to better respond to the gospel this Christmas and beyond. Our hope and prayer is that through th...

This week with the majority of our students being on Christmas break we decided to record the Compass Worship teaching so that all our listeners could be connected with the teaching. We plan to do this over the course of Christmas break in hopes that after you listen you will continue the conversation with those around you. So you won't hear any discussion rather you can create your own discussion...

This week Jeff, Katelyn and Stella discuss their takeaways from Compass Worship. As we continued our Advent series we were reminded that Christmas is not our birthday. We looked at the origin of gifts from the Wise Men and discussed what Jesus may have on His Christmas list this year. A couple suggestions were: To give generously beyond ourselves, to give an invitation for someone to attend a Chri...