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Everyone loves a good LOVE story right? However, anyone who has been in a relationship for more than 5 minutes knows that is not the way they usually work! The truth is, life doesn’t resolve itself in 90 minutes. A healthy marriage takes work. A healthy and God-honoring relationship takes work. It takes selflessness and it takes a serious commitment to unity.

You may not have it all together, but at least pastors have it all together, right? In this message, Chris & Kim Edmondson talk openly about the struggles and tough seasons they’ve come through in their marriage. Things haven’t been nearly as easy as they thought they would be, but they’ve been worth it.

We have all been to High School or college where teachers and professors have dismantled our faith and discounted the Bible. They were smarter than you, had more degrees than you, so you just left God and the church. Now when someone brings up the Bible? Or says, “You should read it!” You just ignore what they say, because you remember some claims that a professor made years ago that you never inv...

From the Christian down the road who never practices what he preaches, to witch hunts, to the crusades, what is the deal with Christians who look nothing like Jesus? You told us that the hypocrisy of Christians is one of the top problems you have with God. So let’s go there.

Here’s the question millions of people have asked: if God is good and if God is all-powerful, why is there suffering? Every world religion and world view (including atheism and agnosticism) has to answer that question. Christianity has an unbelievably different kind of answer that almost everyone misses.

So many people believe there’s an irreconcilable tension between science and Christianity. If you become a Christian, you can’t embrace science. If you embrace science, you can’t have faith. What if faith and reason aren’t enemies, but friends?

So maybe you think that to believe in God requires a giant leap of faith. And maybe you think that essentially, there’s zero evidence for God’s existence apart from the Bible. Is that true? Is there any evidence for God outside of scripture or blind belief? We’ll explore those questions in part one of The Problem of God.

Have you ever met someone that later you wish you’d never met? Is there a person you wish your husband, wife, son, or daughter had never met? Sometimes people are our greatest regrets because they influence us to ignore what we know to be true, and eventually, we become just like them.

In this session, we are talking about redeeming our regrets. Redemption is what happens when unexpected good comes out of a situation that you could only expect to result in something bad. We could call this the long view of our mistakes. God wants to take our biggest mistakes; he wants to buy them back and redeem them. We’re not just talking about getting over regret, and we’re certainly not talk...

When we have done something wrong or when something undeserved has happened to us, we can easily get hung up in guilt, blame, and grudge holding. The questions and emotions inside us can prevent us from moving past our regrets in a new direction. Once we recognize our regrets, it’s time to begin to release them. This is a critical step that often demands that we forgive or seek forgiveness moving...

Learning to recognize your regrets seems simple enough, doesn’t it? Maybe too simple? Yet the human mind has some reflexive responses to powerful emotions – such as regret - that can make it hard to honestly face reality. One unhealthy way of relating to your regrets is to dwell on them and play them over and over again in your mind. Another detrimental way of responding to your regrets is to hide...

In our culture we often hear the idea of ‘have no regrets’. The problem is we all fall short sometimes— mistakes, bad choices, and hard lessons learned are part of what it means to be an imperfect human. Our regrets may entail something we wish we hadn’t done or a missed opportunity we didn’t take action on. Our regrets might even entail details that are outside our control. Going even further, by...

Maybe you wandered away from the church. Maybe the church pushed you away. You lost interest. You got busy. You got hurt. You thought you were done with God forever. But then you started to miss the peace. Despite everything you had experienced, you sensed a light out there. The doubt, the anger, the disappointment with God, the sin, and the shame didn’t put out the light. And here you are in chur...

In the vast darkness. Deep in a cloud of gas and dust, a sovereign work begins. Within this distant nebula, gravity causes collisions of hydrogen molecules and atoms begin bouncing off one another. As the collection of molecules grows the temperature begins to rise. When this sphere of super-heated matter reaches seventy centimeters in diameter, the temperature climbs to ten million degrees. At th...

According to modest estimates, there are about 100 billion observable stars. Each of them powerful and potentially life-giving in their own right. And yet, for all of their power, might, heat, and light, the only thing that is comparable to the power of a star is its converse...darkness. Darkness is cold and uninviting. Darkness can be dangerous. It is the absence of light. Can you imagine a darkn...

The average American keeps over $8500 in credit card debt and when you count school loans, mortgages, etc. that goes up even higher. What if there was a way to enjoy a life that did not include being a slave to debt? What if money wasn’t the biggest thing keeping us from getting out of debt?

Is it possible to “have it all” without all of the “stuff”? We crave more money and more stuff because of what they seem to give us. Having lots of money in the bank gives us a sense of security. Having stuff available gives us a sense of peace. However, if we aren’t careful, our stuff can have us.

If the church were to disappear from Clarksville tomorrow what would be the response of the people? The truth is some would grieve, some would celebrate, and a larger number of people wouldn’t care. It is easy for us to categorize people as friends or enemies based on how they would respond. The danger of this is we typically allow the category to determine how we respond to them. There is an us a...

When the church does good, God’s name is made great. This year, we want to continue the wave of good deeds Be Rich has unleashed over the past decade. We want to show people in our communities that God loves them. And we don’t want you to miss this opportunity to be extraordinarily generous.

At the heart of the Christian faith is this idea: in Jesus, God became one of us and dwelt among us. When it comes to those around us who are hurting and in need, the God who dwelt among us calls his followers to be hands on.

The number one reason couples get a divorce isn’t adultery or abuse—it’s debt! At one time, 54 percent of the divorces in the U.S. were related to financial pressures. That shouldn’t surprise us. The Bible makes it clear that it’s just plain foolishness not to manage your money well. And foolishness never ends well. So often our culture convinces us to buy now and pay later. The average American p...

We all hold a scorecard. It’s where we’ve scribbled down who has hurt us and what they have done to us. This scorecard shapes and influences the way we see the world, how we view ourselves, and sometimes, our perspective of God himself. Everything is framed by these mental notes. Each tally mark has us seething with anger. We want people to pay. We hope others understand the pain they’ve caused. W...

Have you ever got a warm, fresh chocolate chip cookie and poured yourself what you thought was a cold, refreshing glass of milk? You dip the cookie in the milk, take a bite, and you want to throw up. Curdled, rancid, sour milk! You look at the expiration date on the milk and it went bad 2 weeks ago. GROSS! Nothing is nastier than sour milk past the expiration date. Are you keeping anger past the e...