Lanterns Church

This is week 6 of our series Sermon On The Mount. We are to live our lives with actions of love, love our family, our friends, and even our enemies. We look closely to the teachings of Jesus as He shows us the calling on our lives as sons and daughters of God, a lifestyle that will set us apart bringing glory to God and His Kingdom. Don't we all want there to be a little more love in this wor...

This is week 4 of our series Sermon On The Mount. Do you follow through on your commitments? Is your heart filtered through God's will when you say yes or no to something? In a world where many people offer false hope, lies, and a lack of honor... God calls us to a lifestyle of communicating with straightforwardness, transparency, honesty, and respect. The way we think of one another and the...

This is week 3 of our series Sermon On The Mount. Jesus says in the Sermon He didn't come to abolish the law but to fulfill its purpose. Also Have you been Angry before? Have you had broken relationships? Jesus teaches us what to do with our anger and the importance of seeking reconciliation. We discuss the context of His teachings and how we can apply it to our own lives, looking to God to g...

This is week 2 of our series Sermon On The Mount. Salt brings out flavor and light reveals things that were in darkness. As followers of Jesus Christ we are called to be the salt and light of the world. With that in mind... How are you impacting the world with your life? Are you truly allowing God and His word to guid you through your days to better the world around you? Let's continue to ope...

This is our first week of our series Sermon On The Mount. This series is looking over one of the most amazing sermons given by the most amazing preacher and teacher, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. In Matthew chapter 5 the foundation is laid out and the stage is set for this sermon. We see clearly to answer to the call on our lives from Jesus and His teachings begins with a heart change, our hea...

This is Week 3 of our series Preparing The Way. ask yourself this question, who is it you Follow? Do you choose to follow your flawed self, do you follow someone of the broken world, or do you follow God and His church? Who and what we follow will impact our lives. When we follow God, we will be able to lead others to follow God as well. We read over scriptures Matthew 4:18-25, 1 Corinthians 3:3-5...

This is Week 2 of our Series Preparing The Way. We look closely at Jesus preparing for the start of His public ministry. Are you Prepared for the ministry God has for your life? Will you be prepared to follow God's will even in the face of temptation at your most physically drained moments. We Discover how we should depend on God and His word in the midst of all situations, God is a provider,...

This is our first week of our series Preparing The Way. We see clearly we are to prepare the way for the Lord. So many times in our work places, with our families, and in our cities where we live we don't make ourselves available to make clear a way for people to know Jesus. We ourselves can easily build roadblocks for others to see a clear path to Jesus. Through repentance there is forgivene...

Today we expand on the Scripture of Romans 10:9. We have all made mistakes, we have done unrighteous things, we have committed sins. Now the Good News is there is a God that has a redemptive plan for mankind, and if we confess and believe in what is true we will be saved. What a gift it is for us to be removed from something horrible even though we do nothing to earn this opportunity. Hearing this...

We conclude our series of Truth and Dare with this week's talk.  Through our faith we are meant to shine, we have a God-given purpose to live on mission for others. All people should be invited to know God. Through struggles and suffering there is a God that offers comfort, peace, strength, and truth. Will we make our lives available for God's light to shine in and through us? Who will w...

This is week 5 of our series Truth and Dare. When continue to go through the book of Daniel and see how he had a faith he would not compromise. Is there an area in your faith where you compromise for the world? Does your character truly reflect your faith? We look at the historical account of Daniel and the lions den. We are called to not compromise our faith even in the face of lions or whatever...

This is week 4 of our series Truth and Dare as we walk through the book of Daniel. Have you ever struggle to admit you were wrong? Sometimes we struggle to do the right things because we let our pride get in the way. In chapter 4 We see a powerful king has been humbled by the one true God and we are reminded of our chance to respond to God's grace. we read over scripture in Daniel 4:1-18, Dan...

This is week 3 of the series Truth and Dare. What trials have you had to face while others were watching? When trials come do you choose to stand up and stand out for God's Glory? We continue to walk through the book of Daniel and discuss the importance of not looking to false idols and making sure we don't choose certain things of this world to be an idol for us. When we look through Da...

This is week 2 of our series Truth and Dare. As we continue to walk through the book of Daniel we see the importance to speak truth into all areas of our lives and the lives of others. Will we use our words for God's plan or stay silent in fear of what could happen to our lives here on earth when we speak truth? Will we dare to share? We read scriptures Ephesians 4:17-25, 2 Timothy 3:10-13, L...

Today we start the series Truth and Dare as we walk through the book of Daniel. We look at the life of Daniel and see how distinct he was with his life. We too should be determined to live a distinct life in response to our faith, Do you find yourself allowing your earthly circumstances to weaken your faith? When you know a truth how do you communicate with others, Do you Fight for the right thing...

Today we finish our series Core Values. We are called to be Disciples, that make disciples, that make disciples... During our time we discuss the importance of discipling Children and also having a childlike faith ourselves. God shows us in scripture how much He cares for the kids. Also we discuss how older Christ followers should be investing in the younger generations and those disciples should...

This is week two of our series Core Values. This week we focus on the importance of serving one another in love. Christ followers need each other, we are designed to do life with one another with love. In scripture the church is compared to a body... all parts are important, we are many parts but one body, if a body was all eyes how would we hear anything... if the body was all ears how would we s...

This is the start of our series Core Values. Our Core Values are Love God, Love People, and Love Discipleship. We discuss the fact that if we are truly disciples of God we will love God... if we love God we will love people... if we love people we will make disciples. As we examine our love for God we should reflect on the fact that He so loved us first. By having daily encounters with God we can...

This Easter we talk about the theme of water, The living water that God is and also water with baptism. If you have felt yourself dehydrated from the consequences of your plans know there is a God that says instead you can come to Him and live out the plan He has for you. A plan to replinish you and keep you healthy like a watered garden even through the most "scorched" situations in lif...

This is our Good Friday Service titled "A Good Friday Intervention." We discuss the importance of interventions. Interventions can be painful but are good, and when done with love they can even be life giving. God has tough conversations for us that are embedded with truth and love, but our worldly ways can distance us from being able to hear God's intervention. His word has us refl...

As we conclude our series "Time" we finish walking through the book of James.  Drifting away from a plan laid out for the better of mankind makes us wanderers. To wander away is partnered with the involvement of unrighteousness in our lives. God calls the people known as the church to be used as a tool to help bring people back to God. A multitude of sin is covered when we reach out to p...

This is week 6 of our series Time.  So many of us have experienced a time when we tried to make a plan for it to just end up not working out. These self-made plans can create a mess in our lives and in the lives of others. The good news is there is a God, Creator of all things, that has plans that will always work out. We discover the importance of carrying out God's plans even over our own w...

This is week 5 of our series Time.  So many people have experienced being wrongly and rightly judged in their lives. With scripture using some type of the word "judge" over 700 times, we discuss the importance to take a deep look to understand this topic correctly. There is types of Judgement we should never do and is horrible. There are also good ways, honorable ways to examine..."...

During Week 4 of our series Time we discuss how a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. God's Word shows us this is relatable to our tongues... what we say matters. Will we use words to bring life or death, to praise or to curse, to love or hate, encourage or discourage? These are questions we should take time to reflect on and examine our hearts because people with genuine faith will de...

This is week 3 of our series Time. We take a look at the importance of sharing favor but not having favoritism. If we are not intentional with our time with people favoritism can creep into our lifestyles. In the book of James chapter 2 We also discuss how our faith should be partnered with good deeds.  If we have a genuine faith we will be impacted by the favor of God and desire to share favor wi...