Casas Church

David's story has many ups and downs, but even during the low moments, he finds a way to pull himself up. When we go through difficult times and come out the other side do we ever feel alone and isolated in what we just experienced? The key is to not “numb out,” but face it, process it, and try to connect to your life's larger story. God has brought you through before and He’ll continue to be with...

All of us go through difficulties, challenges, and hard times. Not one of us has experienced a trouble-free life. However, we can choose to see difficulty as a teacher. Through adversity, we learn perseverance and how God pulls us through time and again. It can build up our faith in new ways and we can face the next thing with more grit. 

This series will give you tangible ways to find grit-filled faith. Grit, in this case, means the resiliency to come back from something and be ready to face the next challenge. This happens in partnership with changing your lens on how you may view God. We should strive to cultivate a strong faith, but what practical steps can we take to pursue that? 

When people misuse God and use Him in a way that doesn't reflect who He is - it can be difficult to trust people, the church, or religion. How do we move forward together in a way that won't crush spiritual journeys?      

We began the New Year altogether at one service. Glenn shared the idea of the importance of remembrance, but with that, the need to recognize that we don't need to hold onto things God has already forgotten. If we constantly dwell on the things that bring us shame how will we be able to experience the joy of a relationship with Him? 

When hope becomes difficult to hold we have the tendency to become cautious or hesitant when hope to right in front of us. We don’t want to have our hopes dashed. However, we can be the ones that hold onto hope and change the world - even if the world doesn’t change around us. In Luke 1:26-38 we see Mary deciding to hold onto hope because “nothing is impossible with God.” Let that be the source of...

Join us as we finish our series Christ Minded

Christ-minded humility isn’t the practice of making yourself less. It’s living in a way that lifts others up. We often see humility as debasing ourselves, but that’s an old way of thinking that Paul is breaking away from in Philippians. We see true humility in the life of Christ. He treasured everyone and sought to lift up others because that mattered most just as God treasures you today.  

What if as a church we decided we want to become like-minded in living out how we’ve been treated by Jesus? People would then experience His encouragement, a sense of fellowship, tenderness, and compassion because it would be central. Beliefs, theology, and doctrine rarely work to center us. If we share together what Jesus gives to us we can offer that to others. 

Differences between us are not bigger than the bond we share as believers in Christ. Amidst all the noise of our arguments, we lose the ability to hear the people around us and their search for unconditional love and hope. We’re never going to agree on all the details, but we can agree on a larger unifier that brings us together - Christ. 

We may often hear the phrase “Churches just want your money.” How can we look at giving beyond that statement? In 2 Corinthians, Paul gives us a picture of what giving should look like and why it’s important. There’s a different kind of giving that comes from the heart and is rooted in the joy we have in our dreams for the community around us. 

In Romans Chapter 14, Paul describes a third way to live when disputable matters arise. We don’t have to figure out everything or try to disagree in the correct way. Following Christ in faith is all Paul says we need when lines are drawn. We don’t have to convince each other of one “right way” or argue our point. We only need to put our energy into pursuing our relationship with Jesus, allowing Go...

Oftentimes disagreements and tension can create distance and resentment between us and the relationships in our lives. In order to reconcile those meaningful relationships, we need to remember to see them as God sees them, choose to lean into the difficulty rather than avoid the discomfort, and take the vulnerable step of removing any obstacles in our power to remove.

When life can feel all tangled up there are two practical things that you can do: prayer and meditation. Prayer holds the possibility of changing you or God changing something for you. Meditation is an opportunity to pause and can pull you back to who God is and what He has for you. With both practices, you can know that whatever you face - you can always come before God and cast your cares on Him...

Sometimes we might struggle with the concept of relationship instead of religion. Glenn shared three practical steps on Sunday to help increase our relational connection to God. He challenged us to try them out this week and see what happens. Step One: Pray through Psalm 139: 7-12. Step Two: Practice imagining God just smiling at seeing you. Step Three: Practice enjoying the company of God, with o...

Reading the Bible can seem complex, but Glenn illustrated a “funnel” process to reading that starts with Jesus and who we know Him to be and ends with the text itself. This allows us to take a step-by-step approach to understand scripture. How you read the Bible can truly become a helpful tool in your spiritual journey. 

How do we live by faith? What do we do when we don’t know what to do? Ryan shared four simple steps to help and encourage us in our faith journey. We can step out in the confidence we have within our relationship with God because He is always with us. 

Why do we sing? Singing at church could be thought about in three specific ways:  upward, outward, and repeatedly. We sing upward from the heart to God with gratefulness. We sing together outwardly because we bless one another. Finally, we sing repetitively because we need repeated positive experiences that build up in our minds and hearts to carry with us. It’s all about the relational connection...

Unlike the Greeks, we have one word for love and we use it for everything. Whether we love our family or our favorite sandwich, it’s the same word. Ryan walked us through the different words for love that the ancient Greeks used to help us understand what definition of love we mean when our updated mission says, “Loving people.” We want to be a church that seeks the good of someone else without ou...