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The power of belief. Have you ever had someone of influence believe in you? It changes your view of your potential. When you have that person in your life, it lifts you higher than you hoped. If the encouragement of a flawed person could do that much for you, imagine what the words and prayers of Jesus could do if you believed them. Today we are in the 17th chapter of John and looking at the High...

Our text this morning starts with this phrase. Let not your hearts be troubled. We will spend most of our time seeing why we can trust Jesus even when our world is out of control. You can not fix everything. Truth is you can not fix most things, but you can trust everything to Jesus. Your faith, joy, and peace are not determined by what you can control. Your faith, joy, and peace come from the Fat...

Sight is pretty essential. You don’t understand how important it is until you start losing it. I have had great eyesight most of my life. When I hit 45, something changed. I looked down at my phone one day, and it was not as clear as it used to be. Anyone else? Do you know what I did? I will be at the store and purchased my first pair of reading glasses. It was humbling and one step closer to bein...

Most likely, just being in the room puts you at least interested in the idea of being born again. So there is a lot at stake in understanding the concept. And sad, it has become a confusing or at least misunderstood idea. • According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, 70.6% of the adult population identified themselves as Christians, • In 2020, Christians made up 64% of the U.S. populatio...

What is the responsibility for the believer when it comes to growing in Christ? Is it more God’s responsibility or is it more of our responsibility? In this sermon we will be exploring how both of those things are essential to our spiritual growth. “Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fea...

Did anyone else love climbing trees when they were young? I used to love climbing things. I remember riding by trees and thinking that would be a great climbing tree. As a child, everything seemed possible. Somewhere along the way, we have lost that child-like idea. Sometimes for a good reason falling out of trees is painful. This morning I wanted to tap into this idea of...” is it still possible....

We are a people that forget. If we remembered the things we had forgotten, we would get in less trouble and live with less stress. Recently I have been challenged by the fact that I don’t live historically. What does that mean? It means I often forget that God loves me and has historically taken care of me. Looking at my life in decades, not days, I see His redeeming grace all the time. The proble...

HE HAS RISEN!!!! A lot can change in three days.

Today we are still making our way to the cross. Next week we will talk about the empty tomb. Most of the people following Jesus at the time wanted an earthly Kingdom. They were not expecting their king to go to the cross. Our expectations get in the way of most of what God wants to do in our lives. We think it would be best if God did what we think he should do instead of doing what he knows to be...

Everyone likes to pass a test. For some of us, just the word test gets us anxious. Does anyone still have nightmares about walking a class to find out you have a test you didn’t know about? I have had those, but my more current “test” nightmare is finding out I am preaching, but I wasn’t aware of it. The truth is every one of us has failed the test. For all have fallen short. This failure has been...

Can we talk about a topic that most in the room won’t like? Well, we are, anyway!! I don’t like it either, but just because we don’t like something doesn’t mean we don’t need to talk about it. The topic is waiting. How many patient people by practice and lifestyle do we have in the room? You can raise your hand if you want, but I wouldn’t. Some of us are better than others in this area, but no one...

When you hear the phrase, God sees everything, what do you think? Maybe you don’t think about it at all, or perhaps you have a large amount of anxiety because of it. If God sees everything, there isn’t much need to pretend or hide from him. The truth is He doesn’t just see the outward things you are doing. He sees through all that straight to the heart behind every action or word that comes out of...

Today we touch on a topic that everyone in the room has dealt with in one way or another. Doubt. Life is hard, and it throws lots of curve balls at you. It is easy to struggle with doubt when you are in the middle of one of those curve balls. Thomas doubted even when all the other disciples told him that Jesus had risen just like he said he would. He told them that unless he saw, He would not beli...

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How much does God love you? Does anyone else in here struggle with this? Today we will let the word tell us. Love is not just words. Love always works its way into action. The life of Jesus was God's love letter to you and me. He didn't go halfway in showing his love for us when in walked this world, and He will not go halfway now. The question today is will you listen and believe? This is critica...

Today we continue with Living Jesus is Greater, our non-series series, where I preach from what we read in the One Year Bible during the last week. (Guest table is restocked if you didn’t get one last week) Jesus was a master communicator. Sometimes he spoke plainly, and sometimes he spoke in parables. Jesus’ parables were stories that were “cast alongside” a truth in order to illustrate that trut...

Today we step back into Living Jesus is Greater, our non-series series, where I preach from what you read in the One Year Bible during the last week. (If you want one, there are some of the guest table.) Today we will take some lessons from Exodus on how we live victoriously. Do you feel victorious today? If you don’t, today is just for you. Our biggest problem we have with walking in victory is t...

I have one question for those who participated in the 21 days of prayer and fasting. Do you want more? Ask, seek and knock, and the door will be opened. Keep going!! Today we wrap up Follow: The Art of Discipleship. Remember: Jesus didn't come to live a sinless life and willingly went to the cross so that we could identify as Christians. He did all of that so we could have a relationship with our...

Welcome to week three of Follow: The Art of Discipleship. Over the last two weeks, we have been looking at what it means to follow Jesus. First and foremost, he calls his Disciples to follow him. To be conformed to his image, to become more and more like him. Last week we saw that we should bear fruit when we abide/spend time with Jesus. People should see Jesus in us through what we do and say. To...

How was week one? If you missed last week, we started our annual 21 days of prayer and fasting. It is when we put some things away to be more intentional with our relationship with God. So how was week one? Don’t be discouraged; nothing worth having is easy. My encouragement is to keep going when you find your rhythm, and you will be unstoppable. Today we pick back up on the idea of following God....

Welcome to 2023!! Ready or not, it is here. Maybe this is your first January at Reach, or perhaps it is your 10th. We have always started every new year with 21 days of Prayer and Fasting. I know it sounds scary hang in there; I will talk more about it at the end. The key is to change a few things to make room for Jesus. Side note that's why we are here. JESUS. Today we start a new series called F...

Today starts our new series, UNTO US. Isaiah 9:6 "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." And 700 years later, God turns his word into flesh. God shows us to what lengths he will go to right the wrong of sin and restore to himself a people sepa...

"It was great to have Josh Torbich, Executive Director of the Christian Recovery Center, here at Reach the Sunday. Christian Recovery Center is one of the local ministries that Reach supports. Josh's message from Mark 2, titled "Don't be a skeptic," encourages us to keep pushing forward for the redemption and restoration that Jesus offers. Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it will n...

The serpent did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, or to kill, or consider false idols. He simply tempted them…. to question God’s Word.

The church should have the greatest reason for Thanksgiving. We have been offered abundant life now and for eternity. Let us remember to Give Thanks. Psalm 136:1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.