Fir Road Christian Church

God created us with the needs of Affirmation, Adoration and Attention.  This week we look at why those needs are not being met by todays current culture and how our church will be better when we are able to meet those needs in our church family.

God desires us to grow in community because he knows that his church is better together in heart mind and soul. This week we look at two more things that destroy relationships and two things that build them up.

God desires us to grow in community because he knows that his church is better together in heart mind and soul. This week we look at two things that destroy relationships and two things that build them up.

Our lives were designed to be community projects. We weren't created to be independent, autonomous, or self-sufficient. We were made to live in a humble, worshipful, and loving dependency upon God and in a loving and humble interdependency with others. This week we look at how our lives are better together.

Guest Speaker Chris DeWelt

Early Christians were challenged to show their faith through by what they did. THIS IS AN EXPECTATION THAT CONTINUES FOR US TODAY. GOD DESIRES FOR PEOPLE TO GO OUT AND INVITE ANYONE AND EVERYONE TO RESPOND TO THE GOSPEL MESSAGE.

As we cultivate our Faith, we have to learn that God is waiting for his children to dream of solutions to the problems in the world.  And maybe God wants to use you in a way you’ve never, ever even thought.  To use you to make a significant difference in the world in some part of the world.  In this message we are challenged to pray and ask God “What’s Next?’

Your life is actually shaped by your commitments. We become whatever we are committed to.  If you don’t commit yourself to anything you become nothing in life.  You’re shaped by your commitments. To make an eternal difference I must join with others on mission.  God has a life mission for your life and you can only do it in the context with others.

Today we learn about God’s laws of planting and harvesting.  We are called to plant seeds every day and every where. If you ignore the laws of sowing and reaping in your life it’s going to hurt you.  It will harm you.  If you wisely use the laws of sowing and reaping in your life you’re going to be blessed by it.

WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE THE CHOICES OF HOW WE WILL LIVE OUR LIVES : With just 24 hours in a day, but countless options  and opportunities of how to use them.  In all our decisions we need to remember that God has given us this life, and we have the responsibility to live it out the best way possible.

In the story of the feeding of the 5000, Jesus uses an unsolvable problems to do miracles.  He has the capability to turn a little into a lot. Thats true in our lives too, and like the boy in the story, we just have to give him what we have and let him multiply it. ++ This week we concluded our service with a Cultivate Faith Campaign presentation. ++

God desires for us to take steps in Faith that keep us growing, sowing, and going.  THESE STEPS OF FAITH ARE FOCUSED ON TRUSTING IN GOD because God has a plan and a purpose for us and we believe that God is going to do his will in us.

In last weekend’s message, Jacob Taylor taught how to see with eyes of faith instead of eyes of fear. Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

This week we look at the gift of Jesus that God gave to us.  Of all the things God could have given to us - he gave us Jesus - because our greatest need is forgiveness and salvation.  Jesus is the only gift that gives us those.

The concluding message of this series where we’ve discovered the secrets of how God sees our treasures and wants us to use them to be a blessing to us and to others. We take the time to look at our standard of living and our standard of giving.

In Matthew 6:19-24 Jesus teaches us to store up for ourselves treasures in heaven. And ultimately people who spend their lives moving away from their treasures have reason to despair. And those who spend their lives moving toward their treasures in heave have reason to rejoice.

The example of giving in 2 Corinthians 8:1-5 teaches us that giving is an evidence of God's grace in our lives and how we can have an abundance of Joy when we live out the Treasure Principles

We start off this Series by examining our approach to money and possessions, which is central to our spiritual lives. Jesus reminded us that whatever treasures we store up on Earth will be left behind when we leave and whatever treasures we store up in Heaven will be waiting for us when we arrive.”

"The Parables of Jesus" This week we looked at a parable of the net where Jesus teaches about about real results of what will happen one day when the time comes for everyone to be gathered, and separated into those who are part of the kingdom and those who are not.

This week we looked at a parable of the leaven in Matthew 13:33.  In it Jesus uses the illustration of the rising bread to teach about the growth of God’s kingdom.  We learn from it, several different characteristics of what we should expect God’s kingdom to do and how we can be part of it.

This week we looked at the parable of the midnight visitor; that contrasts how people view and respond to our ‘ask’s’ to how God views and responds to our ‘ask’s’.  God wants to give us the good gifts we ask for.  We also look at the greatest gift we should be asking God for.

This week we look at the Parable of the Growing Seed in Mark 4:26-29.  It is a reminder that God’s Kingdom will experiences uncontainable growth.  And as his kingdom workers there is a key for us to be part of that growth.

This weeks message we continue to look at our vision of Growing Together and how through Tending Needs of others we can be the church that is humble and hospitable in the ways God desires us to be.

As a church our vision statement is Growing Together.  One way that we are going to be intentional about growing together is through the idea  of CULTIVATING ROOTS.  It’s our vision to have a church that develops deep rooted disciple makers through careful attention and training.

As we look to the future of the church we lay out the vision of being intentional about grafting people into our church family through care and connection.