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This week’s focus is God’s love. We work primarily from 1 John 4:8-10 to define love and look at the difference between ‘first’ and ‘second’ love. How do our human attempts to love differ from God’s? And what should be our response to this love?  

The Bible teaches that God is able to be in all places, at all times, and is holding all things together. In fact, this is a repeated theme of the Scriptures throughout both the Old and New Testaments. God is omnipresent. The Psalmist asks God, “Where can I flee from your presence?” And the resounding answer is: nowhere!  

This week we are focusing on the omnipotence of God. It’s another big word but simply means “all powerful”. We’ll see from Scripture that all power and authority belong to God. God Almighty is both sovereign and omnipotent, and because He is good, His power and sovereignty can be trusted. How can you draw strength from our God who is all powerful?    

This week we are studying the omniscience of God. Omniscience is a big word that simply means "all knowing." The Scriptures teach that God knows everything and is the source point of all truth, knowledge, and wisdom.  We hope you'll join us this week as we continue our midweek series on the Character and Attributes of God.   

“God is Immutable (He is the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever)” God doesn’t change. He never differs from Himself. He is rock solid, unchanging. And this is a very good thing, because, one of the main characteristics of God is this: God is love. And that basic truth, as with all the truths of God, never changes or shifts. Join us for this week's midweek teaching as we continue our series on...

God is the source point of all that exists and is completely sufficient within Himself.  He doesn’t need anything. And yet, from an overflow of His love He created all that exists for His glory and for relationship. Join us for this week's midweek teaching as we continue our series on the Character of God.   

God has chosen to reveal Himself through three primary forms of personal, self-revelation. God is Father. God is Son. God is Spirit. To know God is to know Him as Father, Son, and Spirit. To know God as Father, Son, and Spirit is to enter the incomprehensible mystery of God and to begin to grasp the character and nature of God through His self-revelation.  

"God Incomprehensible"  What is God like? Well...He's not exactly like anything else. He is the source point. God is the Creator of all that exists. He alone is infinite, everything and everyone else is finite. Though we can know God in the sense that we can learn about Him through His self-revelation, God is ultimately incomprehensible. Finite humans cannot fully comprehend our inf...

"Thinking About God" (How we think about God is...super important) A.W. Tozer famously wrote, "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." The implications of how we think about God have a holistic effect on our lives, ultimately giving shape to how we live. As we begin our new "Character of God" series, we start by definin...

In this week's teaching we continue the discussion on the "peace of Christ", specifically looking at a few ways that the Apostle Paul invites us to pursue the peace of Jesus dwelling in our midst. We hope you'll join us for this week's midweek teaching.  

In this week's edition of our ongoing midweek teaching series on spiritual formation we continue the conversation about pursuing the peace of Christ. We'd love to have you join us today!   

Most of us want clarity. Where should I go to school? Should I quit my job? Where should I move? Should I marry this person? We all want clarity. Alas, clarity is so very rare. This doesn't seem to necessarily be a problem with our ability to discern the specifics of the will of God (though we could all grow in this area!). Maybe it's more indicative of what the Lord actually desires to...

In the 1997 Stephen Speilberg film "Amistad" John Quincy Adams says, "In a courtroom, whoever has the best story wins." It's a great line (whether or not John Quincy Adams actually said it in real life). And, there is deep, resonating truth found in it. In our lives, the best story will win. The story that most captures our imaginations, and stirs our souls, will give dire...

What do we do with tough questions, emotions, or doubts? Should we stuff them down and ignore them? Should we "jump ship" and run from our previous faith? Or, should we listen to them, and process them with nuance and care? In this week's version of our "Reflections on Spiritual Formation" series we take a look at this tricky subject and try to address it in a thoughtful,...

It's easy to fall into ruts. We get comfortable. It's so easy to slip into patterns of life where we unintentionally stop stretching, exercising, reading, and learning. In today's midweek teaching we talk about the importance of being a life-long learner who reads broadly. What we read (and the media we consume in general) will shape and form us. So, receive this invitation to read...

Have you ever experienced someone lashing out at you in a hurtful way? Chances are that person had some unresolved pain or anger going on within their own heart that unfortunately was misdirected at you. We've all been on the receiving end of irrational anger, and, we've also all been on the giving end too. In today's teaching we explore the symbiotic relationship between love of Go...

In today's teaching we discuss the importance of learning how to do two things at a time. We need to be where we are, present to the people and the tasks in front of us. And, as followers of Christ, we also need to commune with Him throughout our day. Each day is an invitation to simultaneously live our lives while living life with Jesus  .

Last week we talked about the inevitable reality of personal failure in our spiritual formation journeys. In this week's teaching we're talking about the reality of our leaders failing us. What happens to our faith when a trusted authority is found to be abusive or dishonest? Join us as we look at Ezekiel 34 and John 10 in today's midweek teaching.  

In this week's midweek teaching we talk about the reality of failure in our spiritual journeys. What do we do when we fall flat on our faces? Join us as we look at the betrayals and failings of Peter and Judas and examine Jesus' restoration of Peter.

Do you sometimes struggle with saying "no"? Maybe you have a hard time saying no to that extra helping of ice cream? Or, maybe you have a hard time saying no to requests from people in your life and find yourself persistently overcommitted. In today's teaching we look at Jesus' example of saying "no" so that He could say "yes" to the right things.

So often we "go to God" to get our needs met. We're hurting, or tired, or angry, or sad, and so we come before God needing a spiritual fill-up. While it's absolutely imperative to learn to receive good things from the Lord, if that is the motivation for our relationship with Him, the Lord essentially becomes a divine vending machine. If, however, we can learn the joy of not onl...

“In a world filled with anxious people and anxiety inducing situations, Jesus calls us to be a "non-anxious presence". Join us for today's midweek teaching as we look at this principle in the life and ministry of Jesus.”

In so many ways our culture teaches us that life is ultimately about "me". In a hyper-consumeristic, individualistic society we can't get away from this message. But is that actually true? Is life really about me? Or, is there a better, grander, and greater story that we are each invited to be a part of? Today's midweek teaching invites us to move ourselves out of the center of...

It's being estimated that the average American in 2021 sees somewhere between 6,000 to 10,000 ads per day. Each of us are being told, thousands of times each day, that we need something "more" in order to be happy or satisfied. What are the implications of this in our spiritual formation? In today's midweek teaching we discuss how contentment in Christ can push back against thi...

Join Pastor DJay Martin in this midweek teaching titled “(Get Off) The Drug of Control by Embracing Your Limits” as he continues the series on Reflections on Spiritual Formation.