Point View Church

You cannot trust what you do not rest in... We have all sorts of trust issues, leading us to self reliance, busyness, which in turn causes a hardness of heart. Psalm 95 states in this hard heart we cannot enter Gods rest. What is Gods rest? Why is it important for our lives?

An unknown author wrote, “History is crowded with men who would be gods, but only one God who would be man.” Incarnation is a central doctrine of our faith. The way that He chose to save us was to become one of us in the person of Jesus Christ. One of His names is Immanuel meaning, “With us is God.” WITH is the key word. Everything that He does FOR us is aimed at being WITH us. So how does this im...

We all experience grief & loss, from a world wide pandemic, the different transitions of life, loss of a friend, marriage or work... We are reminded of the fallen state of this world more often than we would like. Yet we do not do the work, which could bring an expansion of self & love for another. Instead we control our environment, or see it as an inconvenience to get over. How can we ap...

Part 3 Facing Yourself – We all have an image we want people to see, confident, successful, loving, reliable etc. Our emotions are driven by the success of these appearances but what happens when it comes into question? How do you respond? Would you ever consider boasting in weakness? Why is that so important?

We are all a byproduct of our generational past. We slip into patterns of our parents good and bad. Exodus 20:5-6 God speaks to this issue we face. Generational sin can be passed down and have continued consequences which wrecks havoc in our worlds, yet his heart is too bless. How do we break the past?

Your true self is made up of five aspects – Physical, Spiritual, Intellectual, social & emotional… With one breath, God made us human. Yet, somehow, today we slice out the emotional portion. Pete Scazzero says "emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.” Come join us on this journey of discovery and...

We have heard these words "It is finished", the very foundation of our faith, over and over again. The danger we face is becoming familiar with these words. But do we truly know what was finished? Do we rest in this finished work?

There are many things the cross holds, our sin, our suffering, have you ever thought about loneliness? Jesus spoke these words "my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" The cross has an answer for your loneliness.

As we finished out our series "Called Out Ones" the purpose of the church, we looked at the call of Jesus for us to be Peacemakers. Matthew 5:9 “blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called children of God.”  What does peace look like for us as Christians in a cultural moment more divided than ever?

The church must recapture its need for the presence of God. We are His temple!

One of the common images given in scripture for the church is “The Bride” (Eph 5:25-32, Rev 19:7-9). In each of these passages we see the desire of God to purify His bride (the church). Jesus taught in Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God”.  We have all sorts of baggage with this word “Pure”. Feelings of shame, not qualified, unobtainable and the world out of all t...

We kicked off our new series "Called Out Ones" this past Sunday. When Jesus first used the word "Church" in Matthew 16:18, He used the greek word Ekklesia meaning "called out ones". God is renovating the Church in this season and it is so important for us to look at its foundations. So what does it mean for the Church to be called out ones?

We all have a cynic inside of us… We never dreamt or planned it, yet we feel this jaded; keep the world at arms length mentality. It looks attractive, tough not having many hopes, wise claiming to see peoples motives and an activist raging against the systems of the world. But this self controlled shield is only a cover up to the deep trauma’s of life. Losing our anti bodies of hope to offer the w...

In an age of contempt for another which is found to be a normal view, we must create a beautiful resistance of honor.  Pastor Craig lays the issues which breed contempt, while encouraging us in a life of honor.

The teaching that brought Rome to its knees was “love your enemy” because this is the love God showed us. While we were yet sinners Christ loved us… Hate has become a description for anything that disagrees with me, while love has been reduced to what makes me feel good. Jesus calls us to a type of love which is proactive and dismantles the enemy. Today we look at how we become most like our Heave...

We live in a growing culture of exclusion... of Us & Them. We are more connected than ever in a world that has radically changed in spiritual & moral value. We long to be a culture that transforms our world, but how? In looking at the life of Jesus, we see He walked the near & far into the kingdom one meal at a time… This message looks at the power of Hospitality which must resist fear...

Baptism is the shadow of the reality of what happened to us when we met Christ. It’s an awakening to the identity of the work already done. As we celebrate Baptism Sunday we are reminded of the victory of new life in us.

Part 4 of our Beautiful Resistance series. Comfort is the great enemy of the soul. The challenge we face as Christians is living in apathy, lacking in interest or having no concern for our spiritual lives. It is not that we don’t have good intentions to be followers of Jesus! Yet these intentions often do not manifest into meaningful action. Much like a man with a dull axe trying to cut down a tre...

Part 3 of our series entitled “Beautiful Resistance”. We are filled with desires, which are great motivators but when at the steering wheel of life, we fall into chaos. “We can’t get no satisfaction” because we have infinite desires in finite bodies. Jesus lays out a way of rest which is counter culture to our world of consuming, where we find satisfaction and flourishment.

Part 2 of Beautiful Resistance - this week’s theme was “worship must resist idolatry”. We are all designed to give worth-ship, for something to have our heart. The great contention in our lives is where will it be placed. We think of idols as statues and other mythical objects yet idolatry is very much alive in western culture. How do we resist in a world that is pulling for our worship?  

We kicked off our new series "Beautiful Resistance". "This needs to be stronger than that..." The world is trying to disciple the church. It has a story it wants you to believe, it has practices it wants you follow, in which all end in emptiness… How do we as followers of Jesus practice a beautiful resistance?

To be constant in life we need to be grounded in something that is constant. To be consistent we need tools that our consistent and environments which can breed consistency. We find in life that what we thought was constant is not... and we are shaken... what can we build upon that is constant?

When a light shines on an object it helps bring clarity to what it is. We can shine light on good or bad things. It matters on what we illuminate as often we shine light on our actions rather than the root of our identity.

Pastor Craig continued our series on what it means that the light has come. Like the children of Israel we can put our confidence in so many different things but the light calls us to lean into His ways.

This Sunday we kicked off our new series "The Light Has Come" - in a season of trial and darkness we need reminded of a big God and the true reality of what the birth of Jesus brought. The light has come but what is it calling us too?