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When Nemo disobeys his father and gets swept away far from his home, his father Marlin travels thousands of miles in order to find and bring his son back home. Finding Nemo is all about the great lengths a Father will go to rescue his missing son. We all have times when we feel far from our Heavenly Father. Some of us walked away, while others of us drifted without even realizing it. How we got th...

One of the biggest things I love about our church is that we are a church for messy people. Here’s some trivia—our first preview service was July 15th 2007 in this movie theater. We started having services 9 years ago this weekend! And here’s the thing—when we started oneChurch 9 years ago? We wanted to start a different kind of church. A church for messy people. A church for people who weren’t pe...

How should you respond when others face bottom-of-the-ninth moments? What do you say in the face of people’s loss and pain? What can you do to try to ease their suffering? How can you offer hope? It’s not about saying something or doing something. It’s about being someone.

In the game of life, it’s easy to and yourself down and heading into the bottom of the ninth. Sometimes you make a comeback. But sometimes life doesn’t work out as you hoped or planned. You lose—and loss hurts. Where can you and hope when hope disappears?

Have you ever felt behind financially, relationally, or emotionally? Have you ever felt so behind that you didn’t know how to start catching up? The more time went by, the more you lost hope. These are bottom-of-the-ninth moments. But when you feel down, don’t lose hope. You’re never out. You can still turn the game around. All of us experience bottom-of-the-ninth moments when our problems become...

Have you ever felt behind financially, relationally, or emotionally? Have you ever felt so behind that you didn’t know how to start catching up? The more time went by, the more you lost hope. These are bottom-of-the-ninth moments. But when you feel down, don’t lose hope. You’re never out. You can still turn the game around.

A panel of your oneChurch.tv staff answering questions that you ask about faith, church, the Bible, and God.

A panel of your oneChurch.tv staff answering questions that you ask about faith, church, the Bible, and God.

Who are some people that you think that God would or could never use? The type of person that, because of their label, would make God look bad? Murders? Adulterers? Child molesters? Terrorists? Traitors? Prostitutes? Whores? The answer may not only surprise you, but give you hope that God can use you, no matter what label you may wear.

Eve’s home was no less than the Garden of Eden. God gave her everything, unblemished and perfectly balanced. God gave her everything—unblemished and perfectly balanced. But when the Tempter suggested that she lacked one particular (but forbidden) fruit, Eve elected to ignore what was right in favor of what was appealing. She allowed the Deceiver to think for her. The distorted echoes of Eve’s will...

Dishonesty always reaps distress. Mistakes made by mothers seem to be particularly deadly, because they are trusted so instinctively. Mothers are meant to be the guardians and restorers of relationships within a family. Rebekah abdicated that responsibility by setting deceitful havoc in motion, forcing circumstances to fit her wishes. Her entire family suffered the ill effects, and Rebekah lost mu...

John 3:16, love is: God so loved the world (unconditional) That He gave His only Son (sacrificial) That whoever believes in Him should not perish , but have eternal life. (forgiving) Does your love reflect these things???

In the fourth chapter of Joshua, God instructs the Israelites to halt on the shores of the Promised Land and take the time to erect a memorial using 12 stones from the Jordan River. By doing this, we learn a valuable lesson: Monuments drive the movement. As a church, we should intentionally take time to remember and celebrate God’s faithfulness. Our past victories are vital for future success, and...

We want God to do it all. We want God to do it all so that we won’t have to do nothing. But God will only move in harmony with how we obey. God doesn’t speak until we start moving to obey. God doesn’t show us our next step to take until we step out and obey. We want God to show up and move for us. We want Him to obey for us. But that would alleviate our part in this process, because God only hits...

There are many formative moments in the faith journey. At times, God calls us to be steady and patient, and at others, to take a major life-changing step. After the death of Moses, God appoints Joshua as the new leader of the Israelites and tells him to step in and take hold of the Promised Land. It is a major turning point in Joshua’s journey. It can be a turning point in your story as well.

Do unto others. Love is patient, love is kind. Turn the other cheek. It’s easy to appreciate Jesus’ teachings until the Bible writers tell us that he rose from the dead. For some, the idea of a person rising from the dead is so hard to believe that they cherry-pick the teachings and refute the resurrection. In this message, Pastor Chris recounts the truth about Jesus’ life and death that the apost...

Paul wrote about what is the core and center of our faith in 1 Corinthians 15. Tonight—as well as on Sunday morning—we’re going to be looking at the same passage of scripture in which Paul says, “This is the essence—the core of our Christian faith.”

There tends to be a lot of confusion surrounding baptism. And while the topic often evokes strong emotions, it is not a subject in which people have much to draw from, other than their own experience. For this reason we will spend some time exploring what the Bible has to say about baptism and how this informs our understanding of this universal Christian practice.

Politics isn’t an emotionally neutral topic. It has the power to divide us instead of bring us together. Politics can so color the way we see the world that we’re left wondering if someone could hold political beliefs different from our own and still follow Jesus. How would our outlooks change if we filtered our politics through our faith rather than filtering our faith through our politics?

A Hill to Die On is used to refer to an issue or belief held to be so important that it is worth fighting for at all costs. Most Christians are known for what their against, not what they’re for and they seem to fight about almost everything. To most Christians, they have hundreds—if not thousands—of hills they would die on. But if everything is important, then nothing is important.

No one plans on ending up in divorce court. No one plans to end up getting a divorce. Yet for 50% of the couples that get married, that is exactly what happens. What happened to the love? Life is not about finding someone to love you with their love, but finding someone to love with God’s love. Loving each other with God’s kind of love means never giving up, always persevering, and therefore never...