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A New Work – What Does it All Mean? January 14, 2024 Pastor: Mason Peters This week Pastor Mason invites to consider what a new work inside you means. <br/4 1) A NEW WORK – DEFINITION Scriptures referenced: Phil 1:6, Philippians 1:6 (NIV) being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Implication #1 – Your salvation is...

A NEW WORK – PHILIPPIANS April 07, 2024 Pastor: Mason Peters This week Pastor Mason takes us on a tour of the city of Philippi, to see how God still changes lives, can use anyone, and finishes what he started. Main Scripture Reference(s): Genesis 1:1, Genesis 2:2, Exodus 3:3 BOOK 1:1 (VER) Quoted passage goes here... 1) GOD STILL CHANGES LIVES Scriptures referenced: Acts 16:6-40, 2) GOD STILL USES...

He is alive! What Difference Does that Make for You? March 30, 2024 Pastor: Paul Knight This week we celebrate Jesus being risen. Pastor Paul knight asks us what difference does that make in our lives? Does it address fear, a desire to know Jesus, or making a difference in the lives of others? Main Scripture Reference(s): Genesis 1:1, Genesis 2:2, Exodus 3:3 Matthew 28:1-15 (NIV) After the Sabbath...

The words of Jesus are loud and clear, "no one comes to the father but through me" how we respond is up to us. As we walk through holy week, what soil will you be? 1) THE CONCRETE PATH. . . . AMBIVALENT. but nothing more See also Matthew 26:14-16,47-51; Matthew 27:11-26 2) THE ROCKY GROUND. . . CONFLICTED, but nothing more See also Matthew 1:11, Matthew 21:23-27 3) THE THORN-FILLED SOIL . . . RECE...

Genuine Faith March 03, 2024 Pastor: Patrick Severson If someone claims to be a follower of Christ but there is no change in their life are they really saved? Pastor Patrick Severson walks us through the concept of genuine faith. Main Scripture Reference(s): Matthew 25:31-46 Matthew 25:31-46 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly...

Coming from HOPE Studios, this is Hot Seat, where our pastors answer your burning questions, unfiltered. Listen along as Pastor Paul Knight, Pastor Patrick Severson, and Pastor Mason Peters, randomly draw your questions and answer them unfiltered.

Marriage: Sometimes You Need a Knot February 25, 2024 Pastor: Paul Knight Submissiveness, servant-hood, and forgiveness, what would our marriages look like if we applied these concepts instead of looking at marriage being "for me"? This week Pastor Paul Knight asks us through what biblical marriage looks like. Main Scripture Reference(s): Ephesians 5:21-33, Matthew 19:6, Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV) Su...

The Rest for Us February 18, 2024 Pastor: Paul Knight Work six take one. That's the pattern God outlined for us in the bible. What if we are a people who are to be different from other people. What if we are not made to be ruled by a schedule or work? Pastor Paul takes us through the concept of biblical rest, and how God might provide for us if we actually trusted. “Remember the Sabbath day by kee...

Working For the Good of My Neighbor February 11, 2024 Pastor: Paul Knight Making Your Work "More" Main Scripture Reference(s): 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 (NIV) Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are givin...

Work that Glorifies God February 04, 2024 Pastor: Paul Knight Making Your Work "More" Main Scripture Reference(s): Colossians 3:17, Colossians 3:1-17, Colossians 3:17 (NIV) And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Colossians 3:1-17 (NIV) Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on thing...

The Gift of Work January 28, 2023 Pastor: Paul Knight Making Your Work "More" Main Scripture Reference(s): Genesis 2:1-3, Genesis 2:15, Exodus 20:9 Genesis 2:1-3 (NIV) Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it...

Soul Whisperer Feb 26, 2023 Pastor: Paul Knight Discovering the art of being a spiritual influencer 1. Becoming like Jesus, a Soul Whisperer. “Discovering the art of being a spiritual influencer.” Scriptures referenced: Matthew 9:9-13, Mark 6:30-37, John 4:9-15, Luke 19:1-6 & 9-10 Matthew 9:9-13 (NIV) As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth....

The Bible is Historically Reliable, You Can Trust It! January 15, 2023 Pastor: Paul Knight The Most Popular Book… Can You Trust It? Main Scripture Reference(s): Isaiah 40:8 NIV, 2 Timothy 3:14-17 NIV, Luke 19:37-40 NIV Isaiah 40:8 (NIV) The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever. 2 Timothy 3:14-17 (NIV) But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have...

A Dangerously Beautiful Book! January 8, 2023 Pastor: Paul Knight The Most Popular Book… Can You Trust It? Main Scripture Reference(s): 2 Timothy 3:16, Psalm 119:105, Jeremiah 15:16, Proverbs 2:1-10 2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV) All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, Psalm 119:105 (NIV) Nun Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my...

Fill Us Up, Please! July 17, 2022 Pastor: Paul Knight Living the Two Step Life. One step away from the darkness, one step toward the light. Main Scripture Reference(s): Ephesians 5:8-21 (NIV) For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord....

The Silent Killer June 26, 2022 Pastor: Mason Peters Be Church! Living up into who we are Main Scripture Reference(s): Ephesians 5:3-8 (ESV) But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sur...

Be Imitators of God June 19, 2022 Pastor: Eric Kuehner Be Church! Living up into who we are Main Scripture Reference(s): Ephesians 5:1-2 (ESV) Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 1) 1. Be Like The Father Scriptures referenced: Genesis 1:26, Leviticus 11:44-45; 19:2; 20:7; 20...

Trading Places May 29, 2022 Pastor: Eric Kuehner Be Church! Living up into who we are Main Scripture Reference(s): Ephesians 4:20-24 (ESV) But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self,* which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to...

No Looking Back May 22, 2022 Pastor: Patrick Severson Be Church! Living up into who we are Main Scripture Reference(s): Ephesians 4:17-19 (ESV) Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardnes...

TRUTHING May 08, 2022 Pastor: Mason Peters Main Scripture Reference(s): Ephesians 4:14-16 (ESV) So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body...

God’s Game Plan for the Church May 01, 2022 Pastor: Mason Peters 1) ) To Equip the followers of Jesus to accomplish the mission of the Church Scriptures referenced: Ephesians 4:12 (ESV) To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 2) To mature . . . the followers of Jesus to the point of unity Scriptures referenced: Ephesians 4:13 Ephesians 4:13 (ESV) Until we...

Gifts Given April 24, 2022 Pastor: Eric Kuehner Main Scripture Reference(s): Ephesians 4:7-10 (NKJV) But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men."* (Now this, "He ascended"--what does it mean but that He also first* descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who d...

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN April 10, 2022 Pastor: Mason Peters Main Scripture Reference(s): Matthew 21:1-11 (NKJV) Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage,* at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose [them] and bring [them] to Me. 3 "And if anyone says a...

Invest and Invite April 03, 2022 Pastor: Jason Wood Main Scripture Reference(s): John 4 (NKJV) Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria. 5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is ca...

Kneeling before the Father Ephesians 3:14-15, Ephesians 3:20, Matthew 6:1-9, Psalm 95:6-7 Notes: Praying for inner strength Ephesians 3:16-17 Ephesians 3:17 (The Living Bible) And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. Ephesians 3:14 & 16 ESV For this reason I bow my knees before the Father . . . that according to the riches of h...