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He’s calling us to walk a road that will include a cross in order to be free from pain eternally. As we wrap up our humility series, Cathy Kerton-Johnson asks us to compare kingdom values to worldly values. She walks us through the human need for comfort and significance and how those needs undermine the ability to live out kingdom values. We cannot have kingdom values without dying to self. We pr...

He is gracious, but His standard is clear. Forgive Continuing our humility series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks why humility requires us to walk in forgiveness. Forgiveness is transactional. We forgive and we are forgiven. We pray that as you listen to this message, there would be grace in your heart to release the power of forgiveness in your own life.

The greatest way that He could exalt us is giving us more of Himself. On his birthday, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson dives back into our humility series. He reminds us why we are pressing into humility, to get more of Jesus. We pray that as you listen to this message, you would get a greater revelation of the worthiness of Christ.

This week, we take a break from our humility series to hear from Jonathon Forte, one of our missionaries and long-time friend. He shares from his heart and experiences what it means to minister out of the love of the father. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you are filled with the love of God and that you are inspired to follow His voice the next time He prompts you.

We follow a gospel that is deeply offensive. It offends because it is holy. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues our series on humility acknowledging the offensive nature of the gospel. He tells the story of how the pharisees were so offended by Jesus’s actions they wanted to kill. Furthermore, Jesus said “blessed is he who is not offended by me.” We pray that as you listen to this sermon, the Holy S...

But if we want to go into our father's presence, if we want to be part of his kingdom, then we actually have to abide by the laws and the rules and the ways of that kingdom. This week, Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson speaks to us about offense. Getting rid of offense in our hearts makes the pathway to the presence of the Lord clear. We pray that as you listen to this, God gives you grace to release...

Will you be the servant of your brothers and sisters? This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson talks about humility in servanthood. As a church, we want to press into the whole of the kingdom of God, not just the parts that are easy, and fun for us. He tells the story of how Peter being humbled paved the way for Pentecost. If we say yes to being humbled by the Father we will see more of the Kingdom come...

It s so easy for us, for our sin in our sin to surround ourselves with people who tell us exactly what we want to hear, especially when it has to do with affirming the sin that we're living in. This week, Joe Biddle teaches on how to be humble and weary of false teachers. He admonished us to press into the Holy Spirits’s discernment, and ground ourselves in the truth of the Gospel so that we are n...

This week, one of our elders, Henrik Soderstrom, shares with us the nature of being like Christ as Salt and Light in this world. He starts by magnifying the nature of Jesus and then moves on towards Jesus’s command to be salt and light and this world. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you feel the freedom to bring out the honor in those around you.

This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson outlines how Jesus demonstrated humility by giving up everything to come and lay down his life for us. He calls us to examine our hearts and ask ourselves what has been keeping us from submitting our pride to Christ. We pray that as you listen to this sermon there would be a grace in your heart to ask for the humility of Christ.

Really, really what humility comes down to is our willingness to say Jesus, you really are worth everything. Continuing our humility series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson goes after religious pride and fake humility. Real humility is the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all. To illustrate this he dives into the story of David offending his wife with his worship. What if we honored God reg...

Pride must die in us or nothing of heaven will live in us, it must die, you know, and death. Continuing our series on pride, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson talks about putting death to our pride and flesh. He begins by telling a story about how pride showed up in his own life recently, and how that affected the presence of God around him. Then, he talks about the freedom available to us on the other side...

The absolute beauty of our humility is that with everything that we lay down, we will become more aware of him. This is the first week of our new series on humility. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson outlines what the Lord has been speaking to him about humility, and why we are diving into a new series. He pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be emboldened to ask the Lord for humility.

We are one with the Lord. The promise for us is the joy of knowing that we are forgiven. This week we take a pause from our Worship series to celebrate the resurrection. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson starts with Johns account of the resurrection. In this passage, Jesus is highlighting the fact that He made a way for us to enter in and become children of God. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you...

The closer we get to Jesus, the more we see our own deprived state, and the more we are relentlessly in love with Jesus. This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson walks us through Luke 7 and John 12. We always have more of ourselves to give, and more of Jesus to love. There is both a cost and a reward to worshipping Jesus and He is worth it! We pray that as you listen to this sermon you will remember how...

*Listening Note: Audio issues were resolved quickly. Everything about sacrifice is modeling Jesus This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson highlights the worth of Christ. He is worthy of our sacrifice of praise. To be a living sacrifice is truly the way to worship Him. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, there would be an increase in the ease of worship as you come alive to His worth.

True worship is surrender. After exploring corporate worship, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks what it means to worship the Lord in secret. First, he outlines how Jesus himself stepped away from the crowds to worship the Father alone. Then, he talks through what his own secret worship looks like and challenges us to press into the secret place for more of the Lord.

What do I expect to happen when I sing? This week, worship pastor Tyler Dresbach walks us through the power of corporate worship. He touches on times in the bible when the people of God joined together in some. He mentions how members of our body have used worship to reflect what they Lord has done in their life. We pray that as you listen to this sermon the Lord ignites in your heart a passion fo...

What place does pattern and ritual have today? This week in our worship series, Cathy Kerton-Johnson walks us through the value in the liturgy that the church has used for millennia. Without realizing it, we can build our lives on feelings and things that can crumble. When we use the word of God as the scaffolding of our lives then it becomes more than just words on a page, but a fountain that wel...

The whole point of theology and being grounded is that our affections would be stirred to know him and to love him. After a desperate plea for more volunteers for slides, Tyler Dresbach unpacks how the cross is the basis for all encounter. God has revealed himself to us, and the response to that revelation is worship. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, you would be awakened to worship the...

What better reward is there than Him? This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks what it true worship is. We cannot fake it with God! He is asking us to bring our whole hearts to Him in worship, and in return He gives us Himself. We pray that as you listen to this sermon there would be a freedom released in your life to let Him in even deeper.

Every human worships what we find worthy of worship. To kick off our worship series, Tyler Dresbach walks us through why worshiping the Lord is so easy. Worship flows from delight. We pray that as you listen to this sermon praise will flow from your spirit because the truth of who God is, is just that good.

We're all loved and called to a purpose and that purpose involves loving others which requires sacrifice. For this week of Advent, Luke Smith dives into the relationship between love and sacrifice. The greatest gift ever given was the sacrifice of Jesus. Luke explains that when we respond to the love of God with sacrifice we unlock change in the atmosphere. We finish this service interceding for o...

Blessed are those who are not offended by Me Continuing our Advent series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson talks about the Joy that Jesus wants to bestow on us amidst trials. He challenges us to let go of what we assume the kingdom must look like and be led by Jesus into what He is doing. We finish these sermon praying as a family for those of us who were experiencing anxiety at the thought of going home...

We simply want to know Jesus more. In the first week of Advent, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson talks to us about how Jesus desires to be known and to satisfy us. We pray that as you listen to this sermon Jesus would become Emmanuel to you.