Lifetree Community Church

Since the beginning of time, God has been telling us His plans. The hard part is not figuring out what God is doing; it is believing it. God has told us He hears our prayers, but do you believe it? Are there prayers you have stopped praying? Maybe this Christmas season, it's time to start them up again. God is doing more than we think, and the first step is believing what He says He is doing.

They Knew The Times: Christ the Transformer of Culture

The past few weeks we’ve been talking about culture. Culture is what we make of the world. Sometimes as we walk through life and encounter elements of culture, even though we know what is good and right, we just don’t want to do it. We want to experience that part of culture. This week we looked at three stories of people who did just that. While looking at these stories, we see the Paradox of Cul...

This week we continued our series called Thew Knew the Times. While looking at Daniel’s story we see how God chooses to use his people within culture rather than in opposition to it. Sometimes we wonder if the skills we have are any good to God. However, the truth is that God takes your abilities and makes you extraordinarily useful within culture.

They Knew The Times

This week, we are celebrating 13 years of Lifetree Community Church! Over the past few weeks, we’ve talked about what we do as the church. This week we flipped the question to ask "What is He doing?"

The past few weeks, we've been examining what we are doing as a church. God has created this thing we call the church and has put the map of life inside each of us, but none of us have a complete map. God has broken it up into pieces and given us each a part. Our job, and the THIRD thing we are supposed to do, is collaborate and share the different parts of the map that is in us. As we do that...

Last week, we kicked off a new series called "What Are We Doing?" where we are re-examining our purpose as a church. While churches do a lot of things, there are three things that stand out as core purposes of our church, and they're found right in our name. This week we looked at the second thing we are here to do. God has called us to be COMMUNITY BUILDERS.

In a few weeks, we will celebrate 13 years of Lifetree Community Church. A lot has happened since October 10, 2010, and over time, it can be easy to forget what we are dong here. So, as we get ready to celebrate our 13th birthday, it's time to remind ourselves What Are We Doing here. Over next few weeks, going to re-discover, to re-awaken, or maybe for you for the first time, to hear why we ar...

This week at Lifetree we had our Kids Takeover Sunday where our Treehouse Kids and ROOTED Youth hosted the service, led us in worship, and shared a message that God has put on their heart. We wrapped up our series on Wisdom From Above by focusing on the last attribute found in James 3: the Wisdom from Above is Always Sincere.

Wisdom From Above: Shows No Favoritism

Wisdom from Above: Full of Mercy & Fruit

Wisdom from Above: Willing to Yield

This week during our series Wisdom from Above, we explored the next quality of God’s Wisdom - being Gentle At All Times. While some might think being gentle is being quiet, soft, or easy, in the Bible we see time and time again that GENTLENESS is the key to POWER.

Two weeks ago Pastor Vic introduced us to a passage from James where the wisdom of the world is contrasted with the Wisdom from Above. We are surrounded by experts - people who know exactly what we should do and how we should do it and why we should do it their way, but how do we know what is wisdom and what is not? Today, we examined what it means that the wisdom from above is Peace Loving which...

This week, we got a chance to hear the testimonies of our missions team who earlier this month spent a week in Guadalajara, Mexico. While they were there they helped continue the construction of a local community center and orphanage as well as ministered at three different rehab centers. Listen in to hear the funny stories and memories of the trip as well as how God worked in each of their lives...

Wisdom From Above

Today we had the honor of hearing from Gail VanBriggle who alongside her family is a missionary to Belgium. She shared about the work God is doing in Belgium and stories about why missions both local and global really matters.

Studies have shown past few years, we are losing trust in other people, and in our institutions. We don't trust our government, schools, banks, or even each other. How many times have you been going through a problem and you’ve heard someone say to you, "You just need to trust God"? Maybe you’ve heard it so many times and want to believe it but hearing it and believing it seem discon...

As we get ready to send our missions team to Tlajomulco next week, we stopped to ask what difference does a one week-long trip really make and is it enough of a difference to justify all the time, energy, and resources it will cost? In this week's message, Pastor Dan spoke about the importance of going and how the the danger is not going is that those who are part of the Far Away eventually be...

Back in January, we took time as a church to pause and listen to what God was saying to us about 2023. God put it on our hearts that this would be a Year of Awakening; there were parts of us that were not awake, and God was going to be speaking to those places like an alarm clock and getting us to wake up. Now, it is end of June - means we are almost exactly half way through 2023. It’s time for us...

Today, we wrapped up our series on Manna by looking at one last way that God provides. This time we focused on something God told Moses to do that related specifically to the next generation. They need to know that not only is there manna for us, but there’s manna for THEM.

During this series, we've been looking at all the different ways God provides. This week, we turned to the New Testament where Jesus teaches us to not be concerned about perishable things like food and to stop being so worried about where our daily needs are coming from. He has it. He will provide. Instead, we should be spending our energy seeking the eternal life He wants to give you.

Guest Speaker: Pastor Ray Tate

During this series, we've been looking at all the different ways God provides in each season of life. There are times you have no means of providing - you are up against it, and God shows up supernaturally. Then there are seasons where God blesses us with family and a job and health and the ability to live in a way that leads to provision. No matter how God provides, everything you have is alw...