Morning Star Church Messages (Video)

Oftentimes, we feel hopeless when we don't see the fruit or positive outcomes from when we serve and love God with all we have. We feel like God has forgotten us or abandoned us, but in reality, God is doing something that goes beyond our dreams or hopes. He comes through. This Christmas season, what negative perspectives about your situation is God asking you to exchange for hopeful ones?

Many of us have settled for religious traditions rather than experiencing a real relationship with Jesus Christ. We care more about our external appearance than our inward transformation. This leads to us living less than our purpose. Jesus wants to us to experience Him for ourselves. Because once we experience Him, truth becomes reality, and as truth becomes reality to us, we naturally live out t...

God is more concerned with our ability to advance the kingdom and have long term happiness than to have temporary happiness. If we want to become the people God’s created us and called us to be we must be in His Word, allowing it to change us from the inside out, know what we believe and why we believe it, and answer the call of God.

Rich Lorenzo encourages us to continue to stand firm and fight for truth. It isn't enough to be right, we are called to defend our faith and pass it on to the next generation. Where are you feeling pressure to shrink back or be passive, that God is calling you to continue to press into in faith?

It is natural for us to fear God and to desire separation for God. But Jesus came so that we could see God as He truly is. When we choose to join Jesus and we enter His kingdom, we may have pieces of us shaken off and we may lose things, perspectives, old ways of thinking and living, but for everything we lose, we gain a deeper, unshakable foundation and a consuming passion that comes from God.

We are to be people who live consistent lives in every area of our lives! In the final part of his letter, James challenges us to represent God in how we view and use our money and possessions, in our perseverance, the integrity of our words, and the way we love the people in our community. What area do you feel God is calling you to live with more integrity this week?

Valuing the things of this world divides us from who God wants us to be. Quarrels, jealousy, and hard hearts are a direct result of how much we choose to be in allegiance with Christ. When we partner with God in humility He gives us the grace to overcome and obey His call for us.

Our words direct our lives. And likewise, what’s in our heart is manifested in what we say and don’t say. It doesn’t matter how we say it, or if we feel justified in our motives. If our hearts are selfish, bitter, competitive, or prideful, it will be displayed in what we say and don’t say. What are your words highlighting about what you truly believe in your heart?

It’s easy to feel pressured to defer to people who have power and fame, who are celebrated or who can give us something. But in the kingdom, we are called to show no partiality but to live in mercy. Mercy, real mercy is the act of acknowledging the law and holding people to it while also having faith that they can be transformed.

Is your faith in Jesus Christ growing or are you getting your needs met from other people? We don’t know how deeply Jesus can meet our deepest needs. So when we go to people instead of Jesus we are getting our needs met through that person instead of Jesus. When we do this we can not live completely in the truth. James needed God to redefine His relationship with Jesus, and we need to go to God to...

The church is not meant to make people comfortable, but bring wisdom to individual hearts that there would be individual inward transformation; so that there would be individual outward transformation which leads to the transformation of families, workplaces, neighborhoods, and local communities, until the whole world is transformed to reflect God’s character and bring human flourishing to everyon...

It is so easy to overthink or assume things about sharing the gospel with someone. Our job is not to say “no” for others or to change people’s hearts. It is Jesus’s job to draw people to Himself and change their hearts. Our job is to share our own experience with Jesus and invite people to encounter the Living God.

How much do we love the Truth; even when it asks us to change how we are living or thinking? God has revealed the Truth to every one of us, but when we reject God and His Truth for lesser things He gives lets us have our way and allow us to meet the destruction that comes when we choose to reject the Truth. The solution to the world’s problems are not to pendulum swing to the other side. The solut...

The Church was created to be a team of people who join in on the adventure of following Jesus and advancing His kingdom together. Each one of us as something to give to our family or believers. As we serve and invest in our church family and community, we will grow more into the fullness of who we were created to be, and as we grow and change, our community will too!

The kingdom of God is the remedy to the thorns. Aligning our hearts to the kingdom of God allows us to leave the worries and anxieties we carry behind to focus on the life and opportunities God has for us, and we receive the great wealth of following Jesus and be a part of what He is doing in the world. Are you going to allow the values and priorities of the kingdom take root in your heart and cho...

The seeds that fell on the rocky ground didn’t have enough soil and had no roots and so it didn’t hold up for long. This is similar to when we focus more on how we are looking like a good Christian on the outside than about actually internally growing individually in our relationship with Jesus and knowing what’s true. We have to continually exchange the way we have viewed things and situations an...

Christians go to heaven. Disciples bring heaven to the earth. This parable describes different types of hearts that we can all experience at different points of our lives and journeys as followers of Jesus. But we have to decide do we want to settle for just going to eternity in heaven or do we want to take part in changing the world

Jesus warned his disciples to watch out for the teachings of the cultural leaders of the day. We are to do the same. By knowing the Truth and also how it is being attacked by the culture we are living in now. But it is not enough for us to just know what is true, but we need to be able to live it out in our lives and talk to others about it. The more we are able to practically live out the truth,...

Rich, Lindsey, and Cheh shared a few incredible stories about what happened when their team of people from all four churches that went to Poland to help with a Josiah Ventures camp where there were 110 young people, 30 of which are Ukrainian refugees in attendance.

Isaiah 59:19 says “when the enemy comes in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.” We are in a flood today. Many of us have bought into the lie that it is noble to be neutrals and to withdraw God from the conversation to keep people comfortable. How do we stand for God’s laws without acknowledging God’s existence and participation in the world and humanity? What w...

In order to bring positive world change, we need to know who our enemy actually us and how to know what is true so that we do not get distracted by the smoke and mirrors. This week we dive into what it looks like practically to see the time others, ourselves, and the rest of the world and news clearly as God does. We need to be willing to lean in and be challenged and offended and grow in our unde...

Abraham was called by God to partner with the Most High God to build a new kingdom separate from the world. We are called to the same. Just as Abraham needed only to align himself with God and to choose to believe and live that what God says is true, that is all that we need to do. We are called to approach today’s problems with God’s Spirit and understanding. Have you fully brought your whole wor...

Kris Kobach takes us through the historical context leading up to the Declaration of Independence, and the values that it was based on. He also unpacks for us how the authority the Declaration of Independence was written under was God’s Law, which was a revolutionary idea. How are we going to live in and defend the liberty that we have been given?

We continue the story of Gideon. God found the men who were awake to the reality of what was happening around them who were not afraid. These 300 men were selected to be used to cause the enemy to fall into confusion and defeat themselves. Even though the enemy seems like a giant, but God gives victory to the few that seek Him and His will, who are awake to the reality of the day, if only we would...

Hiding is NOT NORMAL! God is calling us to rise up with intense courage, stand on His side and fight for our destiny as individuals, as a church, and as a world.