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When Love Shows up, forgiveness is always close at hand. When sin entered the world, people started hiding from God. Because of sin, Shame and fear control much of our life. We medicate to forget and get by, give ourselves to work, hoping to be distracted and seek value, and turn on the TV to forget. What if we could stop hiding from God and live in the forgiveness he offers to all who put their f...

What does it mean to be loved? How do you know you are loved? These are questions that we will wrestle with over the next few weeks. As we enter this Christmas season, let us not get so distracted that we miss the beauty of what we are celebrating. Jesus's birth answers those two questions. Love showed up in a manger over two thousand years ago, and God made it clear how much he loves his people....

Who are you? How you answer this question will shape the way you live. Many of you, just like me at times, live with a lower view of yourself. Knowing your purpose and identity will shape your future. Today, Peter will give every child of God a title that will surprise you. I want to spend our time cultivating the soil around this truth this morning so we can grow up into it. If you are willing, t...

Life is exhausting!! Does anyone else feel that way? Do you know what else is exhausting living for Jesus? Why do you think that is? I think it’s because everything in us believes we are smarter and know better than God. We may not say it with our words, but we say it every day (and sometimes loudly) with our actions. Today, we will look at the book of Hebrews and its one central point. Jesus is G...

Veterans Day message by Terry Mcdowell Numbers 8:23-26 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 Proverbs 21:20 Proverbs 6:6-11 Luke 12:16-21

What is the greatest thing we can leave our kids? It is an inheritance that will last forever. Last week, we dedicated kids here at Reach. We committed with the parents to do everything we could to plant a seed of faith in them. Salvation is a gift from the Lord. It is not something that we can hand over to our young ones. But it is our responsibility to share, teach, and live the gospel in front...

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As we enter the last few months of the year, I have a question for you. How disciplined is your life? How vested are you in becoming a better you? I know you think it's a trick question, but it's not. Everyone in this is training for something. This means everyone in this room is investing their time, effort, and energy into what they are becoming. The real question is, do you know what that is? I...

Prayer is power. Hopefully, you are feeling an increased desire for God to move in power. With everything going on in our world, you should also grow in your understanding that you are not in control. And where we are not in control, we get to turn to our Father and ask for help. This can cover your anxiety, relationships, kids, and what is happening in Israel. The bad news is I don’t have all the...

Where does life come from? I mean the life we long to live. The one with purpose, joy, and meaning. The one that doesn’t just benefit us but also those around us. That life happens as we walk with God, are rooted and built up in Christ. Today, we look for that wisdom in the second chapter of Colossians. Lord, help us pursue life in Christ.

We need each other. It isn't easy to live life without the assistance of other people. Even if you live alone, you are benefiting from the work of others. If you consume anything made or grown, you have benefitted from the work of others. Life is better when we know we are not in this alone. This life is also complicated because of other people, but today, we will focus on the idea and benefits of...

Is faith in Jesus enough? This is a question worth wrestling with. It isn't easy in our culture to think we will ever get anything we have not worked for. I am not a good gift receiver. It always feels weird. I'm not saying I don't like getting things; I'm saying I feel like I should give them something back to make it even. We can do this with God, also. Many of you have grown up believing or thi...

Sometimes, pain is useful. We live in a pain-avoidant culture, and I understand why. Pain isn’t fun, but sometimes it is useful. I want to spend some time on the second letter to the Corinthians this morning. The real question is, are you willing to allow Paul to help you see that sometimes pain can lead to something much greater?

When spending time talking about serving and being the church God has called us to be, you must look at the right source. The great thing about Jesus is that he almost always demonstrated what he was teaching. There was no do what I say and not what I do. Come on, parents.....(Noah asking about my driving practices) The short of today's message is "go low", and I’m not talking about fighting dirty...

Do you understand the Grace of God in redeeming you? The length he went to show you his LOVE? This truth is a prerequisite for what are going to talk about today. And if you don’t understand it you won’t be very interested in sacrificing to make sure others have an opportunity to hear. Because God has not done that work just for you, He has done it also for his other children in this city. His Fut...

Focusing on the right stuff matters!! It's easy in our day-to-day lives to let our focus drift to things that don't matter, like things that seem important but, in the long view of eternity, don't. When lived and applied to our lives, God's word will always point us in the right direction. Today's text will help us clarify what matters most.

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You are not in control, and when you live like you are, you make a mess of everything. Today James drops more wisdom to live by. Hearing more wisdom won’t help you without a willingness to live it out. Hopefully, over the last few weeks, as we have journeyed through James, you have put into practice some wisdom already. Are you ready?

What a ride this has been. James is a butt-kicker, and he is done yet. Do you want to know where most of the trouble you get into comes from? The fights, the arguments, and the “discussions.” They come from the war within you. You can’t blame the world or others for what comes out of your mouth or how you behave. After taming, the tongue is going to double down, fixing the problem, and the problem...

Today, we turn our attention to James 3:1-18, a passage that delves into the power of our words and the importance of controlling our speech. We all know the impact that words can have—their ability to build up or tear down, to encourage or discourage, to heal or wound. Our words have the power to shape our relationships, influence our decisions, and leave lasting impressions. James, in his straig...

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Today we continue our journey through James. Each week James will confront us with the practicality of walking out our faith. Remember this line. We only believe as much of the Bible as we practice. James is a book meant to remind us to practice what we preach. Today's verses of James 2 will remind us that judging people by what we see is not the way of a follower of Jesus. Jesus lived this for us...

Today we continue our journey through the book of James. The book focuses on what it looks like to walk out of our faith. We as a people tend to talk much and act little. This section of James will confront that inconstancy directly. It is one thing to be inconstant with people, saying one thing and doing another. It is quite different to do that in our relationship with God. As goes our relations...

Today we begin a walk through the book of James. It will take us the next eight Sundays. The book of James was written by the half-brother of Jesus. The letter was written early, sometime between AD 45-62, most likely before 49. This is known because the letter is written solely to Jewish Christians and speaks nothing about Gentiles. Around AD 49 was the Jerusalem Council, which dealt with includi...

No matter what our background, where we're from, or how we've started, we have a God in Heaven that wants to give you life. Life now, and life eternal, but will you choose life? God has made the way to life through Jesus, but the next move is yours.