In Focus Church Podcast

We are in the ninth week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.

Did you know how you celebrate today is dependent on how you view yourself today? Today is a day of celebration to be sure. Today we celebrate the hope we have in a resurrected Savior. Today we celebrate that we were once lost and now we are found. Today we celebrate that we were once dead in our sins but now we are alive in Christ. But how you celebrate today is related to how you view yourself t...

This is a special day… not because it is the final round of the Masters in Augusta. Not because Tiger made his comeback appearance this weekend, but because it is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week. The Gospel writers tell us a large crowd gathered, spreading out palm branches on the road into Jerusalem, shouting with excitement, “Hosanna!” But not everyone was happy because this welcome was...

We are in the eighth week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.

We are in the seventh week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.

We are in the sixth of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.

This is the fourth week of our series "Sit, Walk, Stand". In this series we will walk through the book of Ephesians, and explore these three verbs as they describe our position, practice, and power. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians and our power in Christ over the devil and this world.

We are in week four of our series, Sit, Walk, Stand, where we are looking at the position, practice and power of those who are in Christ. Positionally we are seated with Christ in heavenly places. In practice we are to walk, or live in such a way that brings honor and glory to the name of Jesus. And we are to stand in the power of that name above all names, Jesus, who’s incomparable power is at wo...

We are in week 3 of our series, Sit, Walk, Stand, where we are looking at the position, practice and power of those who are in Christ. Positionally we are seated with Christ in heavenly places. In practice we are to walk, or live in such a way that brings honor and glory to the name of Jesus. And we are to stand in the power of that name above all names, Jesus, who’s incomparable power is at work...

This morning we’ll continue this series, Sit, Walk, Stand. This journey through Ephesians is allowing us to slow down and carefully study this letter from Paul to understand what He was trying to communicate to the Christians in Ephesus.

Today we are starting a new series in the book of Ephesians, called Sit, Walk, Stand. Very simply these three verbs describe our position, practice, and power in Christ as the church. Our position in Christ, our practice in Christ as Christians, and our Power in Christ in our relationships, over the devil and against the system of this world. So if you have your Bible with you, let’s look at the W...

We don’t have to look very far to see rising hostilities between all kinds of people in the world today over all kinds of reasons. Hostility often boils just below the surface waiting to explode and bring destruction to everything around it. Hostility is opposition or resistance to an idea or person with an attitude of enmity and anger, and if you have ever had someone become hostile towards you,...

Jesus is the true vine who imparts life to His people! What is our part? As we ABIDE in Him, we will be aligned with Him resulting in a life that trusts His ways and lives obediently. As we OBEY His words, we will find JOY when we ABIDE in His love. The branch only bears fruit when grafted into the vine. We are not to be distracted or concerned with the results, those are up to God. Our sole purpo...

Freedom. It is something we all desire and want. As a matter of fact, when it comes to freedom there are only two descriptors that really matter in this life, people who are free and people who are enslaved. God created us to experience and live in freedom. Practically speaking, history tells us that all of human life revolves around either having freedom or having it forcibly taken away. But did...

It’s January 16th, many of us are sticking to our new years resolutions. And as you work through the reality that broccoli and brussel sprouts don’t taste as good as a spoonful of sugar, eventually you start to notice that you feel much more energized after eating fruits and vegetables. Maybe your metabolism is kicking into high gear, your digestive system is flowing with a little more ease. Right...

This is week 2 of the ABIDE series we are doing in conjunction with all of Every Nation Churches throughout the world, and we walk through the book of John. We will also be corporately joining together for a week of prayer and fasting and consecration starting tomorrow. Abide means to remain or stay, and as we remain and stay in Christ we will begin to live our lives in a more God-honoring way. Th...

Today we begin a new sermon series that joins us with our churches in our Every Nation Churches spiritual family all over the world. The word abide means to remain or stay. Sometimes the boldest and most courageous thing we can do as God’s people is remain and stay. Jesus’ ministry was marked by those who remained and those who left. First and foremost to remain stable or fixed in the love of God,...

Today is Christmas at In Focus, and the third message in our series, “Our King has Come,” where we have been talking about how to approach and respond to a king. Although we don’t have much regal context, we do know Jesus is the King of Kings. If we know the Christmas story at all we know worship surrounded His birth. We also know that around the age of 2 the wise men showed up at Jesus’ house bri...

Tension. It can be a bad thing in some situations, like awkward family conversations, or stress in your muscles, but it can be a good thing as well, like a hammock or wires on a tension bridge. We believe the people of God felt the good kind of tension before Jesus came to earth as a baby. The good tension they felt for centuries concerned their covenants with God, that were good, and made a way f...

Today we are starting our brand new series "The King Has Come" as we celebrate the Christmas season. For years our church has been known as a church that wholeheartedly worships God. We believe many of you genuinely want to be in God’s presence, and worship is one of the ways we do that in this life. When it comes to worship, we are not talking about just the portion of the Sunday service where we...

Today we are continuing in our series on Proverbs entitled “Where is the Wisdom?”. Personified wisdom gives us insight into the heart of the Lord, who desires that all would turn from their own ways and follow His path of wisdom. Through listening to Wisdom’s voice, we are able to encounter the character of the Lord and reflect the temperament and ways of the Lord in our lives.

Where is the Wisdom? Folly, Fanatics and Fools is the series we are in, and this is week 4. We have covered the difference between Godly wisdom and human wisdom (one leads to righteousness the other to strife and destruction). We looked at the wisdom of generosity (what you keep is all you have, what you give God can multiply) and last week we covered the wisdom of teachability. (The wise walk wit...

The author of Proverbs is mainly concerned with the impartation of two things, Godly information, and a teachable spirit. You can have all the information, all the proverbs the Bible or even the world has to offer but if you are not teachable it won’t matter. Teachability is paramount to being wise. Wisdom is not a wealth of knowledge, but wisdom is demonstrated by applying the proverbs to our liv...

The “heart” represents the core of your being, your genuine self and inner person. The heart is the wellspring of life Proverbs says; therefore it is the causative source of your spiritual, emotional, and psychological life. What we value is driven by the nature of our hearts. Therefore, the decisions we make as it relates to our money being wise or foolish are determined by who is the King of hea...

It is easy to find people saying and doing unwise, foolish things. Today, being unwise, being as foolish as possible and catching it on video and posting it for the world to see or laugh at is standard practice. As long as you stay alive to keep doing foolish things, it is normal human behavior. But is it normal behavior becoming of a Christ follower? How should the people of the church be viewed?