Connection Point Podcast

No matter how far away or how near to God you feel today... Jesus is making peace available to every person who will receive it. Peace starts with making Jesus the "cornerstone" of the life you are building.

Journey through the first half of Ephesians chapter 2 with us. We will ask the important question: who are you following?

We wrap up our lost series by journeying through the parable of the lost son in Luke chapter 15. Here we are reminded that God wants to be near us, and he chooses to call us his children!

This month we are journeying through the three parables found in Luke 15. Today, we look at the parable of the lost sheep, and discover that God continually pursues us when we are lost because he truly knows us.

We wrap up our series with a discussion about finding new things to set our minds on. When we choose gentleness, we show the world the power and testimony of Jesus... the Gospel. Prayer will bring us peace, and the power of the peace and gentleness is more impactful than we give credit. As we fill our minds with new things, we can ask ourselves these questions: Is it helpful? Is it true? Is it kin...

We aren't just talking about the "bad" thoughts. What if Jesus had access to every thought we have? What if he got the final say as to what thoughts we build on and what thoughts we put away? In the 3rd message of our series, we are talking about what it actually means to take thoughts captive and how we can do it in real time.

Our mindset - how we think and what we think about - matters. Our mindset will effect the course of our life. In the enemy's effort to destroy our lives, he will wage war on our thoughts. What can we do when we find ourselves there? Through God's power and wisdom there is a way to defeat the enemy's attack on our minds.

Our mindset matters. What does God think about when he thinks about you? Do God's thoughts about you change the way you see him? For the next three weeks we will discuss defeating thoughts that will harm us, taking captive those thoughts, and defending our minds by intentionally thinking about new things.

God can handle our anger, and he desires a relationship with us even when we aren't feeling it. He wants the same kind of relationship with our enemies. These are some of the things that Jonah chapter 4 would have us wrestle with. While this book ends abruptly, it begs us to ask ourselves the question, "What is God doing in me?"

This week, we take a look at Jonah chapter 3. Jonah finally enters the city with a message from God. The people's response is one of humility and turning away from evil - a response that moves God to act on their behalf. God sees us and is deeply moved when we take steps in his direction!

Jonah finds himself overboard the ship he was using to run from God. In a place of deep darkness he remembers the Lord. He shifts his attention off of himself and towards Jesus, and it changes the way he faces death. What could this teach us about how we face hardship?

Have you ever found yourself running from God? In the first week of this series, we meditate on Jonah chapter one. Here we find a prophet running from God's call to share a difficult message. We'll consider what it looks like when we choose to run from a God who never leaves us.

When we believe that when there is room for everyone in the Body of Christ there are some important decisions we get to make. We choose our posture towards evil before we encounter it, we choose not to take revenge into our own hands, and we choose to serve people in all walks of life... even our enemies.

In the second week of our series we discovered our true need for one another. We need each other to stay on fire for Jesus.

We take a look at the first 8 verses of Romans 12 today, as we begin a new series called One. We are called to live as one body of believers. What does that mean? Today we consider how surrendering our lives to Jesus actually transforms us so that we can love and strengthen one another.

We end our series on James by considering the power of committing our thoughts and actions to Jesus. When we turn to prayer and praise when we experience joy or trouble, we remind ourselves that the whole of our lives belongs to Jesus.

This week we look at James Chapter 4, and consider what a life submitted to God can look like.

We're in James chapter 3 and considering the power of our words.

Today we start a new series with James chapter 1!

In the last message of our Fall Forward series we allow the end of Matthew Chapter 6 to shed some light on what it means to experience rest. Worry tethers us to parts of our future that we cannot control and keeps us from taking action in the present. Jesus' words offer us a clear path through our worry: "Seek first the Kingdom of God".

Have you ever considered fasting as a spiritual discipline worth practicing? In this message we look at the discipline of fasting, those throughout The Word who have fasted, and how the practice of fasting can remind us that it is the Lord who ultimately sustains us.

In this series we discuss what it means to fall towards Jesus, not further away from him, when life becomes challenging. This week we look at how prayer can move us into a space with Jesus where he gets to see the real us, and our lives start to change.

It's inevitable that we will experience times where we feel like we are "falling". Whether by failure, tragedy, anger, or pain... every person has moments of weakness and discouragement. When we feel that way we have a choice to make. Will we fall backward, away from Jesus? Or will we fall forward, toward Jesus? This message begins a series of conversations about what it means to choose to fall fo...