Real Life Church Podcast

Failure is a part of our everyday lives. We don't do the things we want to do for God and instead do the things we hate. Our plan is work harder to, "do the right thing." But God's plan is for us to surrender so that He can work the right things in us.

For love to function as God intended it must be a full, well-rounded love. If it's just one type or form of love it's not enough to sustain a lasting relationship as marriage was intended to be. So we've got to learn how to love in every form within marriage, not just, the ones that come easiest. In this message Corey relates the different types of love within a marriage to the different rooms wit...

From the very beginning God's plan for marriage has been consistent and clear - one man, one woman, one sexual partner for one lifetime. It doesn't always work out that way but it is The Way.

Last week we started a working definition for love. In this message we'll fill it out and begin to see that the kind of love (Agapao) that Jesus spoke about only comes from God and for love to measure up it must be motivated by God, have movement toward another person and be expressed in a material way if they are going to understand it as love.

We love everything. From pizza to puppies and our children we love it all. But how do we distinguish between the love we have for football and the love we have for friends? Surely they are not the same... In this message we'll look at what love is and is not as we lay a groundwork for the rest of the series as we discover the different facets of love and the greatest relationship example of love.

Mark's Gospel is really Jesus' Gospel and Mark leads us directly to a hinge moment that is a critical moment in time where your decision will have serious repercussions on your life. For Mark, it all comes down to this, who is Jesus? And if He's God's King, what are you going to do about it? Will you repent, believe and follow? Or will you reject Him?

Do you know any rule followers? They may make good referees but they can be terrible at relationships because they have little grace. When Jesus came His greatest struggles with the rule following religious leaders who thought as long as they were good, all was good. Jesus showed over and over that relationships trump rules. The religious leaders hated Him because He broke the rules, the people lo...

Before Jesus came to earth religious people were obsessed with being "clean." They sacrificed and avoided things, and prayed and dressed and washed all in an effort to avoid anything unclean so that they could stay clean. In contrast, Jesus spent all his time ritually dirty. If you're trying to look like Jesus you're not going to do without getting dirty. Welcome to discipleship.

Mark starts his discipleship Gospel cleverly laying out so much of what we need to know about being a disciple or follower of Jesus. Mark uses John the baptizer as an example of a messenger and preparer who both understands their purpose and their place - to look like Jesus knowing we're not, like, Jesus.

Our Christmas Eve Candlelight service takes a look at the angelic visit with the shepherds and the Good News of Great Joy that was proclaimed for all people.

This is the only non-physical angelic visit in the Christmas story and yet it is packed with more detail and nuggets of truth to be uncovered than all the others. First we're told that this Jesus Mary is carrying will have the title Immanuel - God with us and that one fact changes our entire history and future. But another big surprise happens when Joseph actually changes his mind and obeys the wo...

Mary was a nobody from no where who was favored by God, not because of what she had done but because she was devoted to God.

After 400 years of silence God finally speaks through the Angel Gabriel to a handful of individuals. They are all shocked and terrified. Some probably had began to think maybe their great-grandparents stories were wrong and God was fictional. And so some respond in faith and some respond with fear. Zechariah is an example of what happens when you give up on your prayer before God has and he learns...

Life is full of ups and downs and for many followers of Jesus we feel like we're doing good in our spiritual journey when things are good and we feel like we're being punished for something when things are going wrong. But what happens when we do everything right and everything wrong continues to happen? Does God actually cause bad things to happen? Is our faith strong enough to accept both good a...

For many disciples suffering is a part of life that we would rather avoid but if we were honest with ourselves we probably cause the vast majority (if not all) of our own suffering. But that was not the case for Daniel, he's like the one guy who did everything right and still he suffered. But Daniel teaches us some valuable lessons about how to manage the valleys and peaks. Through Daniel's story...

Life is a rollercoaster of valleys and peaks, circumstances and events that we perceive as either bad or good and then we react to them. The Apostle Paul had it worse than any other follower of Jesus and yet he claims to have found the secret to being content regardless of the circumstances of his life. Paul has discovered what the writer of Proverbs 30 might call the middle ground between being c...

When we're faced with spiritual times of torment, maybe physically, mentally or financially, it's easy to blame God and retreat to relying on our own abilities. But it's in those times we spend in the spiritual desert that we discover God is just as powerful in the times of torment as He is in the times of triumph and He can be trusted in both. Don't let the struggles go to waste use them to draw...

The Exodus is a HUGE story but it's actually even bigger than Israel's freedom from slavery, it's a paints a picture of a loving and powerful God interested in a relationship with his unloveable and helpless creation. The Exodus is a picture of relationship that points us to Jesus' sacrifice on the cross - killed as the passover lamb for humanity and instituting a new covenant relationship not bas...

God is very consistent, from the garden to Abraham, then Moses and to Israel then to Jesus and ultimately leading to the marriage between the Kingdom of Heaven and the kingdom of earth God's desired one singular thing, a personal relationship with all people. The story of the Exodus is a picture of how God ultimately works in every individual life to lead them out of their slavering to sin and int...

The Israelites know where they've been, slaves to Egypt, and they know where they're going God's promised land - Canaan but their GPS (God's positioning System ) appears to be broken. Because instead of taking them on the shortest and easiest route, he takes them on a long and difficult journey. The destination is the same, but the journey has a much greater purpose.

As Israel prepares to leave Egypt God is at work on multiple levels to prove He is the One True God. Of course He wants the people of Israel to see Him as their God, protector and deliverer. But He also wants the Egyptian people to see that He is more powerful than the numerous false gods they currently follow and finally He wants Pharaoh to come to grips with his own mortality and weakness. All o...

When Moses came to the Israelites with God's plan to rescue them they immediately worshiped Him. When Moses went to Pharaoh with God's command to "let my people go" Pharaoh flatly refused. Pharaoh was more concerned about what he thought he'd miss and who he thought he was than God's command. Pharaoh's pride nearly destroyed the nation of Egypt, slashed their population and nearly wiped out their...

How does introduce Himself to someone who has only heard stories about Him? Stories, old stories, legends can get blown out of proportion as time goes on. Moses grew up hearing the stories of the God of the Hebrews from his mother, but being raised in Pharoah's house, Moses had about as much personal knowledge of God as he did Ra the Egyptian sun god or Anubis the god of death. So God takes Moses...

The Israelites knew of God, but after 200+ years in Egypt they didn't really know God, because they didn't really need God. Life was good. They had space, freedom, health, happiness, everything seemed to be perfect, a blessing from God? But then, things changed, as they always do. The once friendly Egyptians became skeptical of Israel's intentions toward them and eventually Egypt forced Israel int...

When You're Looking For Security Pastor Corey, his wife Andrea and son Trent all got COVID last week so our good friend Terry Deaver came and filled in. Terry shared a great and timely message from the life of Elijah in 1 Kings 17:1-16