Queen City Church

When we pray persistently, without losing hope, we put our trust in God. During week two of our series, Lauren Sheppard teaches on a parable where God tells us that the purpose of prayer is simply to always pray, and never give up.

The Bible says Jesus never spoke to crowds without using parables. A parable is a story, told alongside a truth, to help you understand that truth. During this new series leading up to Easter Sunday, Pastor Brian will be looking deeper into some of the parables to show us what Jesus was saying and teaching as he told these stories.

When expectations don’t meet reality, it creates distance between two people. Whether our response to this distance is positive or negative, there’s still a gap of unmet expectations. In the final week of our relationship series, Pastor Brian shows us how to “close the cap” in all of our relationships through one important principle.

Whether you are married, dating, or single, the strong temptations of sexual sin exist. Because of how destructive it can be, God commands us not to fight, but to sprint from it. During week three of our series, Pastor Brian shows what to run from , and what to run to , in order to avoid sexual sin.

God has a plan for each one of our relationships, and a specific plan for the relationship we have with our significant other. In week two of the series, Pastor Brian shows how to succeed in your relationships by understanding what the Bible says about the greatest need of the opposite sex.

Our relationships determine the quality and the direction of our lives, and The Bible has a lot to say about those relationships. Throughout this series, Pastor Brian will be teaching us what God’s word says about the best practices for relationships with others by having a personal relationship with Jesus as the foundation.

The purpose of this series is centered around the idea that sin never stays small. But if we can stop things in their infancy, they will never reach maturity. In the final week of our series, we hear from Jasmine Miller as she discusses how the Baby Monster of Greed affected Judas’ life, and how it can affect each of our’s too.

If you’ve ever found yourself feeling stuck or plateaued in your relationship with Jesus, you could be fighting the Baby Monster of “complacency”. During week three of the series, Pastor Brian discusses how we can slip into complacency, the dangers of it, and most importantly - how to avoid ever getting there.

When we live by standards that are lower than those set by God, we are allowing an unhealthy compromise, which is the quickest way to find yourself off the course of your God-given calling. In week two of this series, Pastor Brian uses the Biblical story of Sampson to show how even the strongest can fall because of compromises that are given room to grow. We can also see the steps to take in order...

Small things grow into big things. In the same way, minor challenges in life can become consuming if left unchecked. In week one of our new series, Pastor Brian shows how and why we should tame the monster of comparison.

Our God is good, strong, and always present, but we can still go through experiences where that doesn’t always feel true. This week, we are joined by Pastor Dan Lian, who leads us through a story in the Bible where Jesus went silent in the middle of a storm. Pastor Dan reminds us that we have the word of God and the Spirit of God to guide us when it feels like He has gone quiet.

Merry Christmas, Queen City Church! We are so happy to be celebrating with you! This season can be a lot of different things – great, stressful, expensive, overrated – And Christmas has a tendency to magnify those things. Today, Pastor Brian challenges us to not LET things be magnified, but to CHOOSE what is magnified. If we choose to magnify Jesus this Christmas, what would we see?

This is the third and final week of a series we are calling “Legacy”. Today also marks our once-a-year Legacy Sunday, where we receive a special offering, and give 100% of it away to individuals, organizations, local families, pastors, churches, and so much more. As Pastor Brian reminds us, we do this because we are blessed to be a blessing, representing the Father, everywhere we go.

What are you motivated by? Are you living for your time here on earth, or in eternity? The choise is yours! During week two of our Legacy series, Pastor Brian shares the proper way to store and invest your treasures.

'Legacy' means living in a way where your life outlives you. Jesus calls each of us to leave a legacy, and our response to that call will be revealed in the most important test we’re ever going to take - “The Two Question Test”.

We are joined this week by one of Queen City Church’s overseers, Jason Laird of Sozo Church in San Francisco, California! He poses this question - wouldn’t it be nice if we could reach out and ask God, “What is your will for my life?” Pastor Jason teaches how the Bible answers this question with a special message on the topic of God’s will, and God’s plan for our lives.

We have spent the past three weeks learning about the Holy Spirit, and the importance of not only knowing, but having a real relationship with Him. That relationship will provide us with amazing gifts that allow us to experience the best possible life we can. In the final week of our series, Pastor Brian teaches how we can fully access all of those benefits through “The Baptism in The Holy Spirit”...

God created us with specific abilities and desires; these are gifts from God given to each of us. But the full expression of these gifts is found through a relationship with the Holy Spirit. In week three of our series, pastor Brian walks us through this complex gift from God - “The Gifts of The Holy Spirit”.

The Holy Spirit has the power to change you, and life is so much better when the Holy Spirit is a part of our every day life. But it’s important to realize that even with Him, real change doesn’t happen overnight - it happens over time. In week two of the series, Pastor Brian continues teaching the benefits to having a relationship with the Holy Spirit as he shows us “The Fruit of The Holy Spirit”...

We are starting a new series all about the Holy Spirit, based off the book “The God I Never Knew” by Pastor Robert Morris. The Holy Spirit is many things, but altogether, He is a helper. This week, Pastor Brian teaches on “The Person of the Holy Spirit”. The God I Never Kew (Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/God-Never-Knew-Friendship-Spirit/dp/0307729729

In the Bible, we see that Jesus really liked people who were nothing like Him; and people who were nothing like Him really liked Jesus. This week, we are joined by Pastor Jordan Smucker of Ethos Church in Columbus, Ohio. He teaches us, through the story of The Good Samaritan, how Jesus gives us a vision of what He wants our church to look like.

During our final week of the series, Pastor Brian discusses why he chose the topic of “Detox” - because a detox will set you up for long term success and growth, and God wants you to grow! But real, lasting growth takes time. Join as Pastor Brian shares how we can prepare ourselves to experience real, lasting spiritual growth.

Relationships will determine the quality and direction of your life, and throughout the pandemic, we may have let some relational toxins in. During week three of the our series, Pastor Brian discusses some negative things we may need to detox from, and how to appropriately position yourself above, below, and next to the right people.

“Detox” means to remove unhealthy substances for a period of time, but emotions are not something we need to remove. Having emotions is not bad, and feeling them is not wrong, but being lead by our emotions is what leasds to problems. In week 2 of the series, Pastor Brian uses scripture to show us how to not be lead by our emotions, and in doing this, experience an “Emotional Detox”.

We are starting a new series this week designed to help all of us come out of a physical, emotional or spiritual slump we may have found ourselves in over the past 6 months. The first step in experiencing change is understanding that our lives move in the direction of our strongest thought. In week one, Pastor Brian invites us to let God transform you by changing the way that you think, and leads...