Covenant Life Church

Over the past two weeks, we’ve been exploring the areas of life in which balance doesn’t work. In areas like faith and prayer, an absolute choice is required, and we need to be unashamedly and whole-heartedly unbalanced. This week, we’re wrapping up this three-part series with a message called Unbalanced Words. The Bible has a lot to say about our words and the fact that what we say is important....

This week, we’re continuing our “Unbalanced” series, exploring the areas in our lives in which we need to be all the win with no compromise and no diluting. Pastor Jay Mann from Lifegate Church talks about the need for unbalanced prayer. By looking at Nehemiah’s prayer in Nehemiah 1:5-11, we will learn four lessons about effective prayer and unpack five conditions of answered prayers throughout th...

The modern world has a Goldilocks complex. Just like the little girl in the story, we want everything just right. Not too much of this or too much of that. Our culture seems obsessed with finding the perfect balance. While there is wisdom in the concept of balance, there are some things in which you don’t want to find balance. Being called balanced is generally a compliment, but there are some are...

Join us as Pastor Jay Mann from LifeGate Church shares a message about face-to-face encounters, including the importance of encountering God rather than simply studying Him, the role God takes when someone encounters Him, what happens to those who have an encounter and how we can have our own!

Everybody wants to start the new year off right. We share resolutions, diets, work out regimens, money-saving tips, time-saving ideas, life hacks and all sorts of things, and we want to feel like we have a better plan to meet the challenges that may have whooped our tails last year. Jesus said something in Mark 2:23-28 that we need to slow down and understand because it’s the key to becoming whate...

The Christmas account in the Bible is really an account of what happened in the lives of the people who heard about the birth of Jesus. It's unlikely that any of them fully grasped what Jesus was going to do during His time on this planet, but all of them heard enough of the facts to know that something was special about this baby. This week, as we celebrate Christmas together, we're taking a look...

After the wise men returned to their land without reporting Jesus’s whereabouts, King Herod went on a rampage, but before he gave the order to kill all babies in Bethlehem under the age of two, God warned Joseph in a dream to escape with his family to Egypt. They stayed until Herod died, and when the Lord told Joseph that it was safe to go back to Israel, he chose to go to back to his hometown of...

In his famous tragedy, Shakespeare wondered through the voice of Juliet, “What’s in a name?” Depending on the situation, sometimes there’s a whole lot in a name! As Christmas approaches each year, different things stand out in the Bible’s account of the Jesus’s birth, and this year, what stood out most was the names He was or was to be called. Some of these names were specified and commanded by an...

In Luke 8:18, Jesus says, “Pay attention to how you hear.” This seems like a warning or an imperative for followers of Christ. Pay attention to — or be careful — how you hear His teaching, which is the Word of God. Most people don’t think much about it; you just hear it how you hear it. Jesus was serious, though, because not hearing correctly comes with consequences. He said that those who listen...

One of the clearest themes throughout the Bible is freedom. God wants to set people free, and Jesus came to make that happen — to set us free from disease, spiritual blindness and the pain of tragedy and trauma. Even in the Old Testament, God was constantly bringing freedom to His people and declaring freedom over situations in which people were hopelessly bound. This week, we’re going to continue...

This week, we’re continuing the Patriarchs, Prophets and Priests series with a special focus on Thanksgiving. Genesis 14:17-24 is interesting. Abraham is the patriarch — or father — of the Jewish faith and a prophet, and Melchizedek is a priest. This means that all three roles in our series about patriarchs, prophets and priests are present in this one passage of scripture. If you ever wondered wh...

As we continue the Patriarchs, Prophets and Priests Series, we’re going to continue to look at Aaron. We found out last time that Aaron was the brother of Moses and was right by his side as Moses negotiated the release of the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery. Through the first message, we learned that all Christians are priests to the extent that we can go straight to God without the need for a media...

This week, Jay Webb from West Metro FCA uses the account of Naaman washing seven times in the Jordan River (2 Kings 5) to illustrate the fact that each of us has something holding us back or hindering our walk with God. As Jay puts it, everyone has a spot. In addition to the sins and shortcomings that may impede our spiritual growth, we likely have certain expectations about how our lives ought to...

As we continue our series called “Patriarchs, Prophets and Priests,” in which we are looking at the lives and experiences of Old Testament heroes of the faith, we're now turning our attention to Aaron. Before cell phones, you often did not know who was calling your phone or who they were trying to reach, but when it comes to spiritual matters, you don’t have to wonder who’s calling or who the call...

We are continuing our series called “Patriarchs, Prophets and Priests,” a series in which we are looking at the lives of the men and women of the Old Testament and finding the parallels for our lives. It’s like looking at character sketches of the framers and founders of our faith. You can’t talk about patriarchs without talking about Abraham, and today is our third and final message about him. Wh...

For a couple of months now, we have been in a series called “Patriarchs, Prophets and Priests.” In this series, we’re looking at the men and women of the Old Testament to see the lessons we can take from their lives that will help us as we live our lives and follow Jesus. Last week, we started talking about Abraham, the ultimate patriarch of the Jewish people. Almost every time Abraham is mentione...

We are continuing the series called Patriarchs, Prophets and Priests and today, we are focusing on the person who best fits the profile. The book of Genesis declares that he was a prophet, but he is also the best candidate for patriarch. Abraham is considered the patriarch of the Jews; he is the beginning of the family tree for the Jewish people. Abraham heard the voice of the Lord speaking to him...

In this short but powerful message, Pastor Mark Stroud from Kingdom Rock Family Worship Center uses Isaiah 60 to remind us that God is calling us to arise and shine our lights in the darkness around us. To do this, we must give Him our painful past and trust Him with our future.

As we continue our series called “Patriarchs, Prophets and Priests” this week, we get the privilege of looking at some of the women of God in the Old Testament who were respected, revered and admired. They were used by God to bring about victories in war and politics; they fought racism and oppression and made the worlds in which they operated safer. Throughout this series, we’ve talked a lot abou...

Prayer is difficult for a variety of reasons. Maybe, you’re busy and don’t have as much to pray as you would like. Perhaps, your thoughts go into overdrive when you attempt to pray, you get overwhelmed by all the situations and people should pray about or you start to feel guilty for not praying as fervently or as long as you could have. We’ve learned a lot of life lessons from the people that we’...

One of the most frequent ways God is identified in the Bible is as the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob. They are three of the main patriarchs of the Jewish faith. Joseph is Jacob’s son, and he is — as much as anyone — responsible for the formation of the nation of Israel. The actions of Joseph set the stage for Moses to rise and lead the massive and powerful nation of Israel into its destiny in th...

For the past five weeks, we have been in a series called Patriarchs, Prophets, and Priests, in which we’ve looked at the lives of people from the Old Testament to discover the lessons that their lives can teach us. Today is the second part of a message we started last week about Daniel called Character Counts. Daniel was operating in a culture that valued politics and pandering, but he didn’t do t...

We’re continuing our “Patriarchs, Prophets and Priests” series this week, exploring the lives of the Old Testament saints of God who helped to form the foundation of our faith and applying important lessons to our lives. This week, we’re going to look at Daniel. He is likely best known for not being eaten by lions, but there is a lot more to learn from Daniel’s life. As we zoom in a little further...

In our “Patriarchs, Prophets and Priests” series, we’re looking at the Old Testament heroes of the faith and finding the lessons we can learn from their lives. So far, we’ve talked about Noah and Jeremiah, and this week, we’re looking at the life of Job, a man who is famous for suffering with grace and patience. Job was respected and loved, but as a result of a conversation between God and Satan,...

We’re continuing our “Patriarchs, Prophets and Priests” series this week, looking at the lives of Old Testament heroes of the faith to learn the lessons we can learn from them. Last week, we talked about Jeremiah’s unqualified calling and explored the fact that he was very young when God called him. As expected, he was scared to death, but God assured Jeremiah that He would with him. This week, we...