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Send us Fan Mail It's so easy to be judgmental.  People can get on our nerves.  People can frustrate us with their behavior, even brothers and sisters in Christ.  So we judge them.  We can do this all the time.  But is this really the best way to live? We can see other people's issues as HUGE and ours as SMALL when in reality Jesus says it's just the opposite.  How close are we to p...

Send us Fan Mail We value what we trust in.  Which is why we can't help but worry when we're valuing anything more than God. God loves us and cares for us more than we will ever realize.  And God proved this once for all by sending His Son to show us what LOVE IS (1 John 3:16). But how does knowing this help us in our everyday lives when we do find ourselves loving things more than God&a...

Send us Fan Mail What are the purposes that drive us and guide us in our lives?  How can we make sure that developing a CLOSER RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD is one purpose we keep as the highest priority in our lives? Have you thought about FASTING?  In the podcast today, Jason and Ryan talk through how developing a deeper relationship with God can be developed through seeking God in prayer and fasting. M...

Send us Fan Mail God wants to use us to build relationships with people so that we can share His love through our actions, words, and especially with His Word. But how could we partner with God to reach people in our daily lives?   Listen in to Greg's story as he and Ryan talk about how God called Greg to serve using his skills, abilities, and interests to reach people with the Good News of J...

Send us Fan Mail Prayer is essential for our life of faith.  Prayer isn't so much a public performance or a mechanical practice...PRAYER IS A RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN. But how can we avoid the dangers of performing or mechanically just saying a bunch of words or only praying at meals and at bedtime?  How can we GROW in our RELATIONSHIP with God through prayer?  And how can we ma...

Send us Fan Mail There is a deceptive danger hidden in doing good deeds: that we would be doing them for the APPROVAL of others rather than for God's ATTENTION. Why is doing things for others such a trap and a danger?  Discover why this is true and what Jesus has to say about HOW and WHY we should give to the poor in today's podcast with Joel and Ryan.  Joel and Ryan will be discussing M...

Send us Fan Mail God doesn't want us to live our lives doing the bare minimum in our relationships.  God wants us to be like Him in our integrity and keeping our word. But we struggle in relationships and in saying we will do something and then not follow through. Jesus lays out God's heart for relationships with others in marriage, in dating, in work, and in life.  Jesus' way looks...

Send us Fan Mail It's SO EASY to be angry.  Every person in our world can struggle with sinful anger. Living in our culture is a fight to remain pure in our thoughts and actions.  We need to live intentionally by relying on God's Spirit so that we can put to death unbiblical anger and lust to death.  But how can we put these sins to death consistently? Joel and Ryan talk about Jesus&apos...

Send us Fan Mail What can you do when you realize that you're living under the heaviness of GUILT?  Is there a way out?  How can we stop pounding ourselves for failing to live up to God's standard?  How can we live a life of obedience in gratitude to God? The solution can be found in the podcast today as Don, Jason and Ryan discuss Matt. 5:17-20.  In the podcast you will discover how foc...

Send us Fan Mail We are all an influence on the World around us.  But what kind of influence are we? Jesus says we are SALT and LIGHT if we are in His Kingdom through faith in Him. In our discussion today, Dwight, Jason, and Ryan work through challenges we face to being Salt and Light:  Bitterness, Burn out, Lacking concern for others, and serving for others to NOTICE US rather than serving for Go...

Send us Fan Mail There are many traps that can SNAG us in life.  Living trapped by GUILT, by BLAMING others, or trying to PAY BACK our bad decisions and actions through PERFORMANCE.  Jesus gives us another way to live, and it's KINGDOM LIVING.  Jason, Joel, and Ryan talk through the BEATITUDES and what it really means to be living like someone who is in God's Kingdom through faith in Jes...

Send us Fan Mail Of all the things we can do in our lives, FOCUSING ON JESUS is most important. Jesus isn't about lots and lots of rules.  He's the ONE who loves us MOST and wants what is BEST for us all day every day. But sometimes we struggle with that.  We can drift away from church.  We can become bitter because of bad experiences with churches or other Christians.  We think we know...

Send us Fan Mail A real relationship with God isn't about the rules as much as it is about our every continuing and growing RELATIONSHIP with Him. Sometimes we can place an unhealthy performance standard on ourselves or other people in our lives may try to do that to us as well.  But God, the Father, loves us as His children who are trusting in Jesus, just as we are.   And there are always gr...

Send us Fan Mail Just because someone looks good on the outside doesn't mean that they have a relationship with God or have God's NEW LIFE living in them. Jesus told Nicodemus that, "You must be born again or he wouldn't see the Kingdom of God!"  So what does it mean to have NEW LIFE given to you by God and what does that look like in real life in 2022? Do I have to totall...

Send us Fan Mail Is life transformation actually possible?  Can people really change? The answers to those questions are YES and YES. As Jody, Dar, and Ryan discuss today, Zacchaeus' life was transformed by meeting Jesus.   It can be the same for each one of us. Zach's story is filled with grace, no judgment, hope, joy, and Jesus. How can we learn to help people who are hurting and searc...

Send us Fan Mail "Good Teacher, What must I DO to inherit Eternal Life?"  Wow.  What a question! How can doing GOOD be a problem for us to truly inherit eternal life? Trudie, Gary, and Ryan talk through the Mark 10 passage about the Rich Young Ruler in today's podcast.  In the discussion we will discover Jesus' heart for all of us and how we can navigate through trying to EARN...

Send us Fan Mail One of the greatest moments of life is when we MEET JESUS!  Knowing Jesus absolutely changes EVERYTHING! Anna, Garrick, and Ryan talk about one woman met Jesus and He not only changed her life, but the lives of almost EVERYONE in her village. There is so much to learn in developing a greater love for people and sharing the Gospel, learning how to listen, dealing with sin without c...

Send us Fan Mail It's easy to get into a rut.  It's easy to get stuck living the same old same old. SO...when was the last time you stepped out of your comfort zone to serve? And why is stepping out to serve God and show His love to others so good? Listen to April, Jason, and Ryan talk about a recent trip to Honduras taken by a team of 11 people and hear how God worked in their lives thr...

Send us Fan Mail Does it really matter if a church is led by a team of leaders that are called by God, identified as men with godly character, serving as a team, with people they know well, and are leading by example? YES!  IT REALLY MATTERS!  This is why God lays out His Leadership Plan for His church through Elders who  lead His Church by PRAYING, teaching God's Word, shepherding, protectin...

Send us Fan Mail It's good to take a RE-FRESHING LOOK at the DIRECTION we believe that God is leading us as His Body. Without time spent refocusing on our Vision we can drift.  We can become cold.  We can realize that we need to be RE-IGNITED in our relationship WITH JESUS. But how is God leading us to RE-IGNITE?  Through PRAYER.  Through Preaching (actively engaging in God's Word.  And...

Send us Fan Mail How often are you connecting with the Church? You know: Engaging in Worship Together?  Actively participating in a Life Group with a few other people?  And finding a place to SERVE together with others using your spiritual gift(s) to build up the body? During this season of life, we may have slipped away from CONSISTENTLY CONNECTING with Christ's Church...with our BROTHERS AN...

Send us Fan Mail Do you want your church to multiply disciples greatly?  If we say, "YES," we need to use God's plan to multiply disciples.  And what is God's plan to lead us to multiply? A UNIFIED TEAM of SHEPHERDS (Elders) and SERVANTS (Deacons and Deaconesses) is what we need.  Joel and Ryan talk today about how God's called church leadership team is the tool God uses t...

Send us Fan Mail Satan, our enemy, wants to shut us up all the time.  But, God has called us to be HIS WITNESSES and to ALWAYS BE READY to share the reason for the HOPE we have in Jesus Christ with anyone we meet. Jerry, Carol, and Ryan, talk through the process that has called ALL as believers in Jesus Christ, to pursue and obey: to SHARE JESUS with people so that OUTSIDERS will become INSIDERS a...

Send us Fan Mail We are not all the same.  We are all quite different.   Yet in Christ's Church we are to be unified and not remain divided into our own little sub-groups. The World System forces UNIFORMITY, requiring everyone to think the same and be the same.  You can't have a view that's different from THE NARRATIVE.   The World System also focuses too much on all our differences...

Send us Fan Mail Church discipline is not meant to be scary, negative, or go nuclear.   Biblical discipline is directed by the Scriptures and is meant to restore relationships with God and with our brothers and sisters in Christ.  It's really incredible when God gives us His grace to restore relationships.  This is what Joel and Ryan are talking about on today's podcast. Discipline is no...