Shartel Church

What a great question! Where are YOU? Adam was hiding from God. Sometimes we are too! This question probes into making us look at where we are on our journey of faith. Are we still on the outside looking inside? Have we taken a step or two but gone no further? This message will challenge each of us to look at ourselves and answer before God where we are on our walk with Him.

Doctors know that optimistic people live longer and happier. Worry, fear, anxiety, and negativity all take their toll on our health and our outlook towards life. Praise is the secret of having a happy, holy heart. Praise keeps us focused on faith and not fear. Praise keeps our minds fixed on who God is and what He can do. Praise is what helps us live the VICTORIOUS Christian life! This message foc...

One of the best preventative steps in maintaining a healthy heart is getting a regular check-up. Allowing the doctor to prod and probe can uncover unhealthy symptoms we may not have noticed. So too with God! When we sit with God and invite Him to probe even into those more sensitive parts of our lives, we are giving the Great Physician a chance to uncover dangerous symptoms that may have escaped o...

All of us have habits that are harder than others. Some people exercise regularly, but they don’t eat right. Others eat right but don’t get enough sleep. One spiritual habit that is hard for most people is the habit of forgiveness. Forgiveness is allowing the grace of God to flow through us. It is the expelling of the hurts that have happened to us, much like exhaling is releasing the carbon dioxi...

The best time to confess our sins is when they are few and small. It is holding on to unconfessed sin that causes us to begin to avoid God and hide from His presence. As sin remains unconfessed, it grows and takes deeper root in our hearts and lives. This habit will remind us that sin is not to be trifled with, and confession is the habit that gets the poison out of our hearts and allows God’s hea...

Andrew Murray says that “humility is the root of all virtue and pride is the root of all sin.” I think he’s right. A healthy heart before God begins with knowing just how much we need God to live the kind of life He requires. Daily humbling ourselves before Him and acknowledging our deep need for His abiding presence is perhaps the first and most important of the healthy habits of the heart!

Pastor Salvador Hernandez from Centro Cristiano shares a message titled, "Key Practices for a Blessed Life." We look at 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 to see what these keys are!

Martha was a dutiful follower of Jesus. When Jesus came to her house, she was so busy DOING stuff for Jesus that she missed the most important thing–to just be with Jesus! This message will challenge us to make sure that while doing the good things of God, we don't miss the BEST thing of God–taking time to be WITH Him!

Martha was a dutiful follower of Jesus. When Jesus came to her house, she was so busy DOING stuff for Jesus that she missed the most important thing–to just be with Jesus! This message will challenge us to make sure that while doing the good things of God, we don't miss the BEST thing of God–taking time to be WITH Him!

You can't drive forward staring into the rearview mirror! Yet, many of us are shackled to our past. This message will look at how we can let go of some of the things behind us to grab hold of those things God has for us now. Past sorrows, as well as past successes, can become shackles we never leave. God wants to do a NEW THING in our lives, but he can't do it if we're not willing to let go of the...

When Jesus healed the blind man, the guy had no idea who he was. All he knew was that Jesus changed his life. When grilled by the religious leaders, he couldn’t debate theology. All he could give them was his personal testimony of what Jesus did in his life, and THAT is the One Thing we all need! This message will be about the One Thing, the One Person we all must know–Jesus.

A part of the Army Rangers’ creed is “I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy.” That should be our creed too! Finding freedom is never enough. We must reach out to those who are still in captivity and help them find freedom as well. This message will look at how and why we do that and why programs like Celebrate Recovery are so important to that end.

Freedom isn’t just an experience. It’s a LIFESTYLE! This message will look at what that kind of life takes. Many people taste freedom, but then go back to bondage. We’ll look at how to arm ourselves for the long haul so that we can do more than just get up from our chains; we’ll GET OUT! We don’t want freedom for a moment. We want freedom for LIFE!

We continue our discussion on the power of being bold! Today’s topic: Bold Love!

When the angel told Peter to stand up, Peter had a choice. He could lay there in his sorrow and his shame, or he could do as the angel said and stand to his feet. It was when he stood that the chains fell off! Sometimes God calls us to STAND UP too! This message looks at what it means to do our part and cooperate with God in breaking the chains and being set free!

We continue the series on “The Power of Being Bold” by talking about “Bold Faith.”

Sometimes the chains we wear seem HUGE. They are heavy. They are strong. It feels as though there is no way to break them. But we’ll discover, as Peter did, that God is bigger than any problem, stronger than any chain, and greater than any prison that holds us! Our problems may be BIG, but our God is BIGGER!

We kick off a 4 part series called, "The Power of Being BOLD!"

This message focuses on the power of community. We’ll look at why God created us to do life together and the synergy that comes when we surround ourselves with the right people. We may be bound, but we never have to be ALONE! When Peter was imprisoned, his church began to pray. Who you are walking with often determines how far and how free you walk!

We talk about how to "Wait In Hope."

We weren’t created to be alone! That truth is especially true when facing our fears and trying to break free from our chains. This message looks at why isolation is so detrimental to finding our way to freedom. We’ll explore why it happens and why we sometimes get stuck there. Though it feels brave to face life alone, it’s not. It’s a recipe for failure. Independence is not freedom. It’s a self-ma...

Are you waiting on God? This week, we discuss "When God Makes You Wait!"

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. The same is true on our journey to freedom. Finding freedom is a process, but it starts with a few crucial steps. This message looks at what those first steps are and why they are so important. We’ll look at the right actions, the right mindset, and the right attitude before God. All else depends on these!

We talk about what to do "When God Makes You Wait."

From the very beginning, God created us for freedom! The chains we wear are not chains given to us by God. They are chains we fasten upon ourselves or the chains shackled on us by the world. They not only rob us of the Abundant Life that God wants us to have, but they also rob us of our Identity in Christ. This message will look at how we can reclaim that freedom and discover that “recovery” is no...