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In this message, Pastor Pete used the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace as an example for standing firm in faith during a challenging situation. Their story shows us that standing firm takes courage and faith, but when we stand we have the opportunity to inspire others. The enemy is constantly putting pressure on us through a culture that bows to many different idols. L...

While Babylon is the physical setting for the book of Daniel, in Part 2 of this series, Pastor Beth Miller suggests it’s also a mentality, or way of seeing the world. And it still exists today. It’s a confused way of thinking that elevates self, lowers God, and blatantly stands up to God in pride. So when the sin of pride is all around us, how do we humble ourselves and see sanity restored?

Pastor Pete began a new series this week called “The Daniel Dilemma” to teach us how to stand firm and love well in a culture of compromise. From the day Daniel was brought into Babylon, he stood for his faith. His example shows us how to live in a culture that is constantly shifting its core values and has turned tolerance into compromise. We do this by learning to live in the tension between tru...

Pastor Pete wrapped up the “Holy Spirit” series by teaching about the three different baptisms mentioned throughout the New Testament that are available to followers of Christ, and explained what the third baptism, the baptism in the Holy Spirit, is. The word baptism means “to be immersed in.” The first baptism happens at salvation as we are immersed into a relationship with Christ and His body. W...

In this third message of the “Holy Spirit” series, Pastor Pete tackles the term “charismatic,” and brings clarity to its true meaning. Charismatics aren’t people who are crazy in church; they’re people who believe the Holy Spirit is still living and working in the lives of people today and has given each of us the “spiritual gifts,” or “divine enablement,” we need to do the work He has called us t...

If you’ve ever struggled with wanting to control the narrative of your life and panic when that control is removed from you, especially when life throws you a curve ball or you have to walk through something that wasn’t part of your plan for your life, then you’ll appreciate this message from our lead pastor’s wife, Kelly Jankowski. Using the story of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and personal exampl...

In this second message of the “Holy Spirit” series, Pastor Pete explained the meaning of two of the three major holidays on the Jewish calendar: Passover and Pentecost. In the Old Testament, Passover celebrates when God spared the lives of the sons of the Israelites who put lamb’s blood over their doors during the plague in Egypt. This was a foreshadowing of what Jesus would do for us. Jesus, who...

Who is the Holy Spirit? The third person of the Trinity has often been misunderstood resulting in some keeping Him at an arms length. In part one of this new series, Pastor Pete taught us who the Holy Spirit is and how we can strengthen our relationship with God by opening up our hearts to Him. The Holy Spirit is like a breath of fresh air. He is unseen, unpredictable, powerful and refreshing, and...

Easter is ore than just a fun holiday for giving kids baskets of candy. It's more than just a historic day that we remember. It's a celebration of the event and the person that not only changed history, but also has changed countless lives. On Easter, we celebrate the only person who ever walked out of a tomb never to return again! Using the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, Pastor Pet...

Our Good Friday Experience

As Pastor Pete concluded this series, we learned another way to live through our darkest hours by observing how Jesus endured His darkest hours. After hours of suffering on the cross, Jesus said, "Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit." By making this declaration as His darkest hours drew to an end, Jesus showed us how to trust God, surrender our struggles to Him, and then completely let them...

This week we learned another way to live through our darkest hours by observing how Jesus handled His darkest hours. After hours of suffering on the cross, Jesus declared, "It is finished." While Jesus Himself was not finished, His work on the earth was complete when He defeated the enemy once and for all through His death on the cross. As He recognize His most difficult trial had come to a victor...

This week we learned another way to live through our darkest hours by observing how Jesus handled His darkest hours. After hours of suffering on the cross, Jesus showed His humanity by addressing His need for help with the words, "I am thirsty." The fact that He, as the Son of God, asked for a drink demonstrates that none of us are so self-sufficient that we can survive our darkest hours without t...

“My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?” How can it be that Jesus would have felt forsaken as he hang on the cross? In this moment, Jesus was all human. He had to be for the perfect sacrifice of sin to work and for God to be a just God. Make no mistake about it though, it offers an incredible model for us as Jesus demonstrated that is OKAY to bring your hard questions to God. In fact, we learn...

This week we learned another way to live through our darkest hours by observing how Jesus handled His darkest hours. In His greatest moment of pain on the cross, Jesus was not focused on Himself; instead, He focused His concern on His mother and her future. Through His example, Jesus showed us that even when we are going through a difficult situation personally, we need to be sure we are taking ca...

This week we learned another way to live through our darkest hours by observing how Jesus handled His darkest hours. As He hung on the cross between two criminals after being brutally beaten and mocked, Jesus could have focused on His own problems. Instead, by ministering to the criminal who hung next to Him who was experiencing the same things He was, Jesus taught us that we can take what we're g...

We've all gone through dark times. Jesus was fully human and experienced pain too. His time on the cross was his darkest hours. The Darkest Hour is a 7 - week series that will look at the seven statements that Jesus made from the cross that will help us find hop when life hurts and learn how to respond in our darkest hours. In part one, we look at Jesus' statement of "Father, forgive them..." Past...

Today, the phrase “Facebook official” means that you aren’t really in a relationship until you change your Facebook relationship status to say that you are. The way our culture views relationships is radically different from what Scripture declares, so in this series we’ll see what the Bible has to say about some of our “Facebook official” relationship statuses. In part four, Pastor Pete tackles t...

Today, the phrase “Facebook official” means that you aren’t really in a relationship until you change your Facebook relationship status to say that you are. The way our culture views relationships is radically different from what Scripture declares, so in this series we’ll see what the Bible has to say about some of our “Facebook official” relationship statuses. In part three, Pastor Pete gives a...

Today, the phrase “Facebook official” means that you aren’t really in a relationship until you change your Facebook relationship status to say that you are. The way our culture views relationships is radically different from what Scripture declares, so in this series we’ll see what the Bible has to say about some of our “Facebook official” relationship statuses. In part two, Pastor Pete & his wife...

Today, the phrase “Facebook official” means that you aren’t really in a relationship until you change your Facebook relationship status to say that you are. The way our culture views relationships is radically different from what Scripture declares, so in this series we’ll see what the Bible has to say about some of our“Facebook official” relationship statuses. In partone, Pastor Pete gave a chall...

As Jesus followers, we can set all the goals we want, but if our main goal isn’t to become more like Jesus, then we are missing the whole point of the Christian walk. In the fourth and final installment of our New Year’s series on #goals, Pastor Pete uses the story of Jesus washing his disciples feet to illustrate that our attitude should be the same as his as we follow in the footsteps of the one...

Every New Year, many people setgoals of how we want to grow and improve, but there’s often a seemingly infinite gap between our intentions and our actions. In this four-part series, we want to provide Biblical advice and practical tools to help us create the right changes in our lives and to ensure our progress sticks. In part three, Pastor Pete talked about the importance of keeping our lives ali...

Every New Year, many people setgoals of how we want to grow and improve, but there’s often a seemingly infinite gap between our intentions and our actions. In this four-part series, we want to provide Biblical advice and practical tools to help us create the right changes in our lives and to ensure

We all have goals in terms of how we want to grow and improve, but there’s often a seemingly infinite gap between our intentions and our actions. In this four-part series, we want to provide Biblical advice and practical tools to help us create the right changes in our lives and to ensure our progress sticks. In part one, Pastor Beth reminds us to check our settingsas we set our goals with an enco...