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Today we come back to the book of Daniel to take a look at a circumstance where there was a big trial that was being faced and we’re going to see how it was approached. And since it has to do with overcoming lions, it seemed appropriate to call this message: Taming Trials. The place where we find this account is in Daniel chapter 6.  If you’re familiar with the Bible, you are familiar wi...

Last week we started a sermon series working our way through the book of Daniel in the Old Testament.  In the first two chapters, we met Daniel and his three friends, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, or Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and we saw their faithfulness in the midst of great trial.  We also met the king, Nebuchadnezzar who was the head of the immensely powerful kingdom of Babylon...

Today, we’re beginning a new sermon series where we’re going to take the next 5 weeks to look at the book of Daniel in the OT.  The truth is that the temptation to conform in Daniel’s day was just as great as it is in our day today. That’s because conformity isn’t a cultural problem, it’s a human problem. So, when someone steps up in the midst of the pressure to conform and dares to...

Today, we are going to think together about faith. Are you a person who finds it easy or difficult to put your faith in other people or things? The truth is that the depth of our faith if fluid. It will change based on how we feel or in what we’re being asked to place our faith.  The real measure of our spiritual health is the state of our faith. If our faith is thriving, then there will be s...

"I just don’t know where the time goes." "There aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done." "I’m too busy." Have you ever thought, or said, any of those things?  Sure, you have…we all have.  Our collective psyche as Americans operates in that realm.  We’ve convinced ourselves that there’s more to do than there is time available to get it done.  And that’s true.&nbsp...

Today we continue our new sermon series, Fresh Start , as we talk about prayer. If we are going to have a fresh start in our prayer life, we need to reimagine, rethink and refresh the ways we think about prayer. In order to do that, Pastor Jason is going to lead us through four different ways to look at prayer: Why We Don’t Pray, What Prayer is Not, What Prayer Is, and Why We Should Pray.  We...

Today we continue our new sermon series, Fresh Start , as we talk about parenting. We will talk through four keys to a fresh start in parenting, but these keys can be applicable to most of our relationships. They are specifically applied to parenting in the sermon today, but we believe they can broaden to fit into a very real application in your life, whether you are a parent or not. We invite you...

Today, we’re starting a new sermon series called Fresh Start .  All of us have circumstances in our lives where we are hopeful for a fresh start, a new beginning. It might have to do with your family, your faith, your prayer life, or how you use your time. Things aren’t working very well and you don’t really like it, but you just sort of put up with it. Or, you come up with a way to...

Today, we are going to take a look at the last words of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church in Rome. You would think these would be famous last words as well, because they’re in the Bible, but today we’re calling these Unfamous Last Words, because often times they are overlooked. We invite you to join us as we look into these often overlooked last words of Paul as we wrap up our series ca...

Today we’re going to be talking about finding purpose. We don’t need to be a part of the 75% who struggle to find meaning in who we are or what we’re called to do. We’re calling this message, On Purpose . That’s because we’re going to address this topic “on purpose”, or intentionally, and also because it is on purpose…about purpose. The reason this is on our mind today is that it is esse...

Today we continue our series, Romans: Grace Changes Everything . In Romans 15, Paul is trying to help us get a glimpse of what biblical unity looks like. Pastor Jeff is preaching today about Unity on Display . As we look at unity on display, we’re going to consider where we need it, when we see it and how we live it. And given all we see around us today, in the world and in the church, i...

Today we move into the second half of Romans 14, continuing our series - Romans: Grace Changes Everything. Paul begins to shift his focus here from the weak in faith to the strong in faith. The first half of the chapter he wrote about specific hangups for the spirituall weak, he finished out this chapter writing to the spiritually strong and their freedom from those hangups.  Paul cautioned t...

Today we continue our series called Romans: Grace Changes Everything . Paul had just finished writing about our love debt toward one another and the summary of the law being in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself . We ended last week with this commendation from Paul: But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires (13:14). As we begin R...

THE TIME IS NOW .  That’s a little phrase you might say or hear when it is time to take some action. When it comes to our passage for today, the Apostle Paul has a message for all of us and it is also that, The Time Is Now . For a couple of chapters, Paul has been giving us some very practical and timely wisdom about how to live in the church and in the world. He has called us to ma...

They say there are two different types of people in the world…those who are rule followers and those who, if an authority lays down a rule, will feel the pull to break it. Submitting to authority is something people approach very differently. Sometimes it has to do with a smaller issue, but other times the issues involved are very consequential. Today we’re going to take a look at a...

Today we’re going to be talking about Raising the Bar on Relationships. We find his discussion of it all in Romans 12. The Apostle Paul, the author of the book of Romans, has a real burden for the nature of the relationships we have with one another in the church. It is his desire that our relationships would be so strong that regardless of what would come up, we would have the foundatio...

Today, we’re returning to our series, Romans: Grace Changes Everything . This has been a verse-by-verse study through the book of Romans in the New Testament. And as we come to our text for today, there is a major shift happening in the book. That passage is Romans 12:1-8. As Paul turns this corner into chapter 12, he starts to get very practical. He says, “In light of all these tru...

The title of today’s message is Cause and Effect . We all know what that is. If one thing happens, something else is going to result. If you eat Bruster’s Ice Cream every day, you’re going to get huge…enjoyment out of it. If you sign your children up for SonZone, they’re going to have a good time.  If you leave your dog outside during your fireworks, you can get injured. T...

Do you ever find yourself saying something like, “That just doesn’t make sense”? I certainly have, because there are some things that don’t make a lot of sense to me. For instance, why is it only acceptable to eat certain foods with certain meals? Why can’t you have orange juice with dinner, or ice cream with breakfast? And why do we eat kale for ANY meal? It doesn’t make sense.&nbs...

We have been in a series where we’re taking a look at the book of Romans in the New Testament. This was written to a group of people who were relatively new to the faith and they came out of vastly different religious backgrounds from one another, so Paul is trying to get them on the same page by helping them understand the basics of faith in Jesus. There were a lot of things muddying th...

Today, we’re going to be looking at some choices. In fact, we’re calling this message, Critical Choices . That means two things, one is that the choices we’re going to look at are critical, in that they are important, and we’re also calling them critical, because there have been people who have been critical of them. The place where we find these critical choices discussed is Romans...

We’re in the midst of a study through the book of Romans called, Romans: Grace Changes Everything . And in this book, the Apostle Paul has been telling the Christians in the church in 1st century Rome, and us by extension, that we’re in a fight. It is a fight with sin and evil and Satan and the forces of darkness in our world. And there’s an implicit question being asked along the w...

Today we’re going to look at a passage where the Apostle Paul is talking about this four-letter-word: HOPE . We hope for many things. Hope, though, isn’t something we are always confident in . Hope can feel synonymous with a dream. It doesn’t always feel real or even attainable. As Paul wrote this letter to believers in Rome, he specifically talked about a kind of eager anticipation and the confid...

Today we’re going to talk about a leader we ought to follow in our lives. As we are led by this leader, we are called to copy all of His movements and actions. Paul wrote in our passage today about those who are led by the Spirit. When we are led by the Spirit we become obedient to the Word of God and our lives begin to show more and more likeness to the life and ways of Jesus Christ. He is the le...

Today, we’re going to be talking about things being Made New . Companies and entrepreneurs are always working to make things new and make improvements on current designs. There’s a lot of time and money that is invested into making products new and sometimes those work out and sometimes they don’t. It’s never a sure thing. But today, we’re going to take a look at something else that...