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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, August 25, 2019 “Whenever you fast...” (Jesus in Matthew 6:16). For the forgiven, fasting should be a matter of “when”, not “if”. Steve Smith preaches on the seldom-covered discipline of fasting from several passages in Scripture (2 Chronicles 20:1-4; Isaiah 58:1-12; Joel 2:12-17; Matthew 6:16-18; Acts 13:1-3). Steve’s message asks and answers 3 questions...

Micah Tuttle :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, August 18, 2019 “Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back... and the waters were divided.” (Exodus 14:21) When the Israelites found themselves caught between the Red Sea and their enemies, God delivered. Micah Tuttle preaches from Exodus 14, revealing 10 steps to follow in times of crisis that lead to our deliverance and...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, August 11, 2019 "...whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies..." Many things in life demonstrate that by design we are stronger together. In Steve Smith’s message about spiritual gifting, three insights from 1 Peter 4:10-11 emphasize the importance of serving one another with our spiritual gifts in a hostile worl...

Kyle Clarkson :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, August 4, 2019 "I run in the path of your commands..." (Psalm 119:32). Kyle Clarkson preaches from Psalm 119 and the importance of spending time in God's Word. Kyle brings out 3 things we need to understand about the Bible for spiritual fitness: Its prominence, its power in our life, and its person—Jesus Christ—the Word that became flesh.

Travis Lee :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, July 28, 2019 Are we being the people God has called us to be? During a special morning of worship in song led by the Travis Lee Band (Travis, Allegra, and Vic Lee), Travis Lee presents a message from Matthew 5:11-13 and a picture of Christian life unpolluted and undiluted from the world and its trials. As “salt of the earth,” followers of Christ are chall...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, July 21, 2019 “...she brought an alabaster vial of perfume, and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.” Steve Smith preaches from Luke 7:36-50 on what it means to worship God. From the example of the woman...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, July 14, 2019 One of the most important disciplines we can develop in our walk with Christ is prayer. Steve Smith introduces a new topical sermon series entitled “Summer Training for Spiritual Fitness” with a workout routine from Luke 11:1-13 and Jesus’ instructions on prayer. Steve presents important truths that teach us to pray regularly, humbly, persis...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, July 7, 2019 “Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will...” Steve Smith completes our “Hebrews: Greater Is He” sermon series with a final encouragement from Hebrews 13:20-25. From the close of the book, Stev...

Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, June 30, 2019 Today’s culture is skeptical of the idea of submission to leadership, sometimes with good reason. Bob Short preaches from Hebrews 13:17-19 and God’s ideal design for church leadership, how to respond when such authority figures are abusive, heretical, or hypocritical, and the Biblical attitudes and responsibilities prescribed for the shepherds...

Steve Smith :: Sunday, June 23, 2019 :: Creekside Church Certain things that believers do make our true colors hard to hide. Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 13:9-16, presenting 3 practices that enable us to remain faithful and reflect our true colors as members of God’s unshakable kingdom—specifically, when we shun legalism, show loyalty, and sacrifice lovingly. Steve’s message follows a number...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, June 16, 2019 On Father’s Day we prove we are children of our Heavenly Father when we live in obedience to Him that enables us not just to survive, but to thrive, in today’s world. Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 13:4-8 and what acceptable service with reverence and awe towards God looks like in marriage, in money, and in our mindset. Steve’s message fo...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, June 9, 2019 “Let love of the brethren continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.” From Hebrews 13:1-3, Steve Smith challenges us to stand and deliver...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, June 2, 2019 Those in the church are subject to increasing hostility by the enemies of God. Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 12:18-29, sharing two privileges afforded those in a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Our participation in the New Covenant and “a kingdom which cannot be shaken” give reason for entrance into and enduring holiness in th...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 26, 2019 “...strengthen the hands that are weak... make straight paths for your feet... Pursue peace with all...” Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 12:12-17 and presents 3 steps to finishing the race of faith in the grip of God's grace—Providing others with stability and support, pursuing peace and purity, and protecting against apostasy. Steve’s mess...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 19, 2019 “...those whom the Lord loves He disciplines...” Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 12:4-11, highlighting 3 reasons endurance in our Christian life is incentivized by the difficulty of God’s discipline: It proves God’s love for us, provides us with life, and produces the peaceful fruit of righteousness within us. Steve’s message follows the in...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 12, 2019 Scripture has a lot to say about our love toward mothers and mother-like figures in our lives. Steve Smith preaches a Mother’s Day message showing 3 biblical examples in Jesus, Ruth, and Timothy that teach us a valuable lesson on how to demonstrate love toward mom, and how it relates to the love of Christ in our own hearts.

Kyle Clarkson :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 5, 2019 “...since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” The race we run as men and women of faith is fueled by the heroic examples in Hebrews 11, though they were less than perfect. Kyle Clarkso...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 28, 2019 Authentic faith manifests itself in the face of human and spiritual difficulty. Steve Smith highlights 3 feats of faith from Hebrews 11:30-40 that mark those who courageously face adversity with a view toward eternity. By faith, we enjoy victory when we struggle, endure agony when we suffer, and enter glory through our Savior Jesus Christ....

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 21, 2019 In 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, we discover 3 ways that Christ’s resurrection is essential to the Gospel that compels believers to consider the claims of Christianity and convince believers of their faith’s credibility. In this Easter Sunday message, Steve Smith offers fulfilled prophesy, recorded testimony, and the changed lives of believers as...

Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 14, 2019 “By faith Moses... considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.” Bob Short delivers a Palm Sunday message from Hebrews 11:24-29 on Moses, his parents, and the children of Israel under Moses’ leadership, where we see that genuine faith fears no foe and pursues the unseen prize.

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 7, 2019 Isaac, Joseph, and Jacob didn’t always follow the Lord, but by the end of their lives they were models of genuine faith. Steve Smith’s message on Hebrews 11:20-22 reveals from the actions of these “fathers of the faith” 3 facets of authentic faith needed for standing on the promises of God.

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 31, 2019 When Abraham was called out, he went out and camped out without knowing how it would turn out. From Abraham’s example in Hebrews 11:8-19, Steve Smith outlines five habits that don't make us faithful, but mark us as faithful. Through authentic faith, we can obediently enter the unknown, patiently endure the uncomfortable, continuously eye th...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 24, 2019 The perversion Noah saw in his time is all too familiar in the world today, and it calls for the same response from God’s faithful. Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 11:7 and the example of genuine faith of Noah, who “being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which He...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 17, 2019 The faithful walk of a believer is often jeered rather than cheered by an increasingly hostile world. Steve Smith’s message highlights the scripturally obscure character of Enoch, who is said to have “walked with God” faithfully for most of his life. Steve presents two aspects of Enoch’s walk from Hebrews 11:5-6 that entice us to possess an...

Mark Kline :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 10, 2019 “By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.” Mark Kline preaches from Hebrews 11:4. As children of Adam, Cain and Abel both believed in God. But while Cain wanted to come to God his own way,...