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Part five of a seven-week series on how God has saved us and called us to use our time, talents, and treasures for His kingdom.  How do we steward these things with God's kingdom in mind?  What would our daily life or living look like?  We'll answer these questions throughout this series.  We'll talk about stewarding our treasures for parts four, five, and six of this series. 

Part four of a seven-week series on how God has saved us and called us to use our time, talents, and treasures for His kingdom.  How do we steward these things with God's kingdom in mind?  What would our daily life or living look like?  We'll answer these questions throughout this series.  For the next few weeks we'll be talking about how to steward our treasures and today we'l...

STEWARDS: Using Our Time, Talents, and Treasures For God's Kingdom | Decluttering Your Mind

Part one of a seven-week series on how God has saved us and called us to use our time, talents, and treasures for His kingdom.  Today we'll lay the foundation for the next 6 weeks of this series.

Today's message is a stand-alone sermon.  Our church has reached a milestone this year and is preparing to begin two services next Sunday.  As we transition and grow we want to make sure we stay focused and keep God in his rightful place at the top.  This morning our key passage is Revelation 2:1-5.  We're examining the church at Ephesus.  They received a sound report card and checked al...

How to untangle depression and how to equip yourself with biblical strategies for when you are depressed.

Sermon Series Untangled: processing emotions for God's purposes - when you're anxious. Part 2

The holiday season can bring about some unwanted emotions for many.  Some of us might feel lonely, anxious, hurt, sad, or hurried.  Throughout his life, we see in scripture that Jesus expressed real-life emotions.  Frustration, anger, agony, sorrow, and joy are just a few we find in scripture.  Hebrews 4:15 tell us that "...we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weak...

A three-week interview series where we’ll hear from different members of our church regarding some “uncomfortable” topics.  The church is not called to be comfortable. We are called to be the hands of feet of Jesus and often times that requires us to get our hands and feet messy because people are messy. Life is messy. When we walk into these uncomfortable things we can be confident that God will...

We’re in our 3rd week of the Flesh and Blood series. A series on spiritual warfare and how we can apply the armor of God to stand firm in Him against our spiritual enemy, the devil.  This morning this topic has brought us to the subject of Satan and his demons.  Scriptures tell us about both and that they both exist.  

A three-week interview series where we’ll hear from different members of our church regarding some “uncomfortable” topics.  The church is not called to be comfortable. We are called to be the hands of feet of Jesus and often times that requires us to get our hands and feet messy because people are messy. Life is messy. When we walk into these uncomfortable things we can be confident that God will...

Our key thought throughout this series has been, "What you see is not all there is."  That thought continues to ring true as we wrap up the series talking about Angels.  Scripture shows us evidence of God's army of angels.  Some of them are seen and some work unseen on our behalf.  We'll look throughout scripture, New and Old Testament, to answer a few questions about angels.

The Bible describes the spiritual battle that happens around us as "our struggle."  We need supernatural power to defeat Satan, and God has provided this by giving us his Holy Spirit within us and his armor surrounding us.  God's Holy Spirit is necessary and essential to living the life that God created you to live as a follower of Christ.  Today we identify three things you may not...

Today we're laying the ground work and talking about some basic fundamentals of spiritual warfare.  We're involved in a spiritual battle right now.  Whether we want to acknowledge it or not.  What do we need to know about the battle?  What are the spiritual forces of evil setting out to do?  How do we wage war?  We'll answer all these questions as we begin our sequel in the Flesh &a...

It's our final week in this series, and we look at a subject that Paul spent a lot of time writing about, guarding against the enemy.  Ephesians tells us all about putting on the full armor of God so that we can stand firm when satan attacks.  We can probably all admit that we fail to put on parts of that armor on a daily basis.  Satan attacks us in our daily lives at times without us realizi...

Scripture refers to the church as a family.   Every family at times experiences conflict. Some are better at dealing with conflict than others, but no one actually enjoys it.  If a church is acting like a family of God that we are called to be, then we will have ups and downs together, and at some point, that will include conflict.  This week we're going to look at some frequent causes of con...

We're continuing our series with a guest speaker today.  Montana Jones is bringing us a message on practicing accountability within the church family (aka "at the table").  This is a difficult subject to tackle and live out.  If we're being honest, no one really likes the word accountability, but it has a purpose.  It can seem painful in the moment, but later on, it yields the...

"The Table" is a word picture for the church.  Throughout this series, we've been answering common questions that most people have about "the table."   God made us for biblical community, and we see a great example of that community in Acts 2.  As we read through verses 41-47, we see several things the early church did that we can apply today to help cultivate biblical com...

In week three of this series, we're looking at what it takes to develop more profound and biblical friendships.  Have you ever found yourself in a place or season of life where you needed to make new friends?  Maybe you long to deepen your existing friendships.  With scripture as our basis, we look at three practical things we can do to make friends "at the table."  We'll take...

Week 2 of the series, Take Your Place At The Table.  God seated Jesus at the table and seats us with him.  What hinders us from sitting with Jesus?  We look at a few things that keep us from sitting with Jesus and three practical and biblical ways we can learn to sit with Jesus.

Week 1 of the series, Take Your Place at the Table.  This is a series on deepening and developing the relationships and friendships in your life.   Throughout this series, we'll hone in on this subject in the context of the local church.