Elevating Life Church Messages

One of the challenges in Christianity is understanding the difference between judgment and discernment. This week's message, "Religious People Are Judgmental; Spiritual People Are Discerning," will share the distinction between the two and give straightforward ways to cultivate the divine habit of discernment to kill the practice of judgment. Also, a secret ingredient will be reveale...

Many Christians believe life is about living in this hell and surviving it until the next life, God's Kingdom. Wrong! God's Kingdom exists now through the Way, Truth, and Life of Jesus, allowing people to thrive in God's Reality in the present. This week's message, "Religious People Want Out of Hell; Spiritual People Don't Want To Return To Hell," will share the resol...

Like Easter eggs filled with treasures for children, the empty tomb of Jesus gives hope for a fulfilled and fruitful life. This week's message, Religious People Grow Leaves: Spiritual people Produce Fruit, shares the expectancy of Jesus and how it feeds the soul to produce the Fruit of life where all enjoy its treasures. It will also show how people produce leaves rather than Fruit when King J...

Belief plus actions equals faith! This week's message, "Religious People Go to Church; Spiritual People Belong to Church," will show how dividing the faith formula (belief + action) results in half of a faith where people go to church rather than belong to it. Also, it will show how to solve the problem of understanding that Christianity is not just another religion but a truth about...

Speaker: Senior Pastor Drake Hunter

Observing the faith today, encouraging others has gone by the wayside, and discouragement is how most Christians walk. This week's message, "Religious People Push You Down; Spiritual People Lift You Up," flips that upside down and will show how encouragement is the oxygen of the soul. It will also give creative ways to "Think Outside the Bun" to encourage others during dish...

If there ever was a person who had the right to think like a victim, it was Jesus. However, he never did. Just the opposite. This week's message, "Religious People Think Like  Victims: Spiritual People Think Like Victors, will show how going the  second mile creates "deference" in the soul to resolve defensive living  and put offensiveness to rest. It will also give the secret of ho...

This week's message, "Religious People Dish Out Bologna; Spiritual  People Bring Home the Bacon," reveals if a Christian is phony or  trustworthy. It will teach the listener how to develop their "no" muscle  to stop dishing out bologna towards their faith and beef up their "yes"  to God. A "yes" that brings home the bacon to grow God's Kingdom  through the way, truth, and...

Next to love, self-control is the most critical thing in life. This  week's message, "Religious People Have a Relationship with Their Bible;  Spiritual People have a relationship with God," focuses on Grace and  truth and how they work together with time to grow life's grace-filled  relationships with God and others. It will also show how self-control is  essential to navi...

The Christian idea of love means seeking the other person's good, even at the expense of my good. This week's message, " Religious People Say, I Love You Because I Need You; Spiritual People Say, I Need You Because I Love You,"  focuses  on the expectation of loving people responsibly through God's way. It  will also show how a heart of reconciliation is vital to mending broken &nbs...

“Love”  is a word that is thrown around a lot these days with little  understanding of its true meaning.  We tend to love things and use  people rather than using things and loving people.

Guest Speaker: Reagan Gardner

If you feel like your life is out of control, then remember these two words of Jesus..."Follow Me."

All  people are born to matter and be significant in life. But they fail to  do so because bad things take over their perspective and attitude. The  result; they "fall" into the lostness of life. This  week's message, "Religious People are Lost; Spiritual People are  Found," shares the vanity of rules and good intentions and shows how  life can be found. Found wi...

A  craze in Christian culture today is people know how to say "Sorry" but  fail to apologize where they become better. This week's message,  Religious People Apologize; Spiritual People Repent, will explain what it means to be "poor in spirit" to gain a repentance attitude reflecting a humble  soul. Also, it will uncover the two lousy character traits stopping  people from...

Integrity

Senior Pastor Drake Hunter, Lead Pastor John Waters, Executive Pastor Matt Wulf and Financial Elder Lanette Gimbel.

"A Gift For The Pastor"

When hearing the word Apocalypse, many people think of the world's  end and act accordingly. Unfortunately, that thinking and practice  reveal true identity. The message, "Are Your Ready: The Apocalypse,"  uncovers the literal sense of who belongs to Jesus and who identifies  with the Beast. By the message's end, a person will know if their  forehead and hands are aligned...

Christians are to build their lives on the holiest faith derived from  the Good News of Jesus. They are to concentrate and dedicate themselves  to God's love through prayer and obedience by staying alert and keeping  accountable to other true believers. The message, "The Epic Story of Us  and God," will reveal how to be considerate to godly living and remind Christians that the...

Many Christians want to curse the darkness when they should turn on  the light. This week's message, "Walking in the Light," will remind  Jesus's followers to reflect God's light and love as they stay true to  their beliefs. It will also encourage God's children to remain strong in  the LORD when friends walk away from the light of fellowship. In  addition, it will teach t...

Are  you a "good" loser? Becoming a person who knows how to lose well is a  significant advantage of the Christian faith. This week's message, Death Can't Stop Me,  will show how all people experience loss, including death, and how it  is just a new beginning. It will also instruct you how to cut losses and  move on to relish The Day of the Lord, freeing you from corr...

The favorite people of God to love are the ones who choose to praise and adore Him in the new life given through the  resurrection of Jesus Christ. This week's message, "God's Favorite  People to Love," will comfort believers and encourage them to stay  strong through God's love as they continue to put their hope in the  perfect future of Christ. Also, it will show how Jesus' e...

This  week we will discuss the process of gaining wisdom, and then how we are to cultivate our wisdom into focused action. We are taught that living with one and not the other is useless, but using both in harmony is the ultimate expression of our faith.

Contentment isn’t an excited kind of happy, it’s more like a peaceful ease of mind.  It’s being satisfied with what you have, whatever that is. I like to  define contentment as a state of the heart and mind. It’s a restfulness, a place of trust, peace in the midst of plenty or want. And it’s something we can learn. This week, we'll find out how to be "Uncomfortable in the World" and find...