Simple Church

A maturing relationship is one that develops a deeper love through selflessness. Whether you are married, in a relationship, looking for love, or recently exiting a relationship, these principles can be learned and applied to deepen the love in all of our relationships, but not without God's help.

Conflict arises in every relationship. Especially in a marriage relationship. How you handle it is important, because if you win the fight, you lose the relationship. We need to learn to fight in a way that leads to healthy resolution, but we can't do that when we don't tap into Godly principles.

This week we continue following our love story as we take a look at what great sex should be like within the bonds of marriage.

In each of our dating relationships, there are different seasons that we must honor so that we can give ourselves completely to each other in marriage.

In this series on the greatest love song ever, the Song of Songs, we will be following the love relationship of Solomon and the Shunamite woman. Every relationship begins with attraction, but our relationships need to begin with attraction according to God's design, not the culture's.

As we wrap up our study of the book of Daniel, we take a look at the prophetic part of this book and discuss the end times. Regardless of where you land on the subject, there are several things we can all agree on to make our days on earth count.

In Daniel 5 we read about how Daniel set himself apart by his exceptional qualities. Today we dig deeper into what qualities God defines as exceptional and how we can learn to be a little more like Daniel.

As we continue to study the book of Daniel, we talk about how we can learn from the mistakes of King Belshazzar and heed the warnings that are right in front of us.

As we continue in our study of Daniel, we take a look at culture's greatest sin and its ability to drive us insane. In the fight for our sanity, we learn 3 things that will keep us from the consequences of the sin of pride in our lives.

Culture is constantly pressuring us - go here, do this, be that, join this club... Where it crosses the line is when it demands that we do what they are doing or to stop doing what we are doing - especially when it involves our worship. As creatures who were created to worship God, we need to make sure He is getting our highest praise and adoration.

We are in the midst of our culture changing. Some say that the Bible doesn't apply to today's world. However, with this message, we find out that God's way speaks truth in today's chaos and warns what the world says about us.

It's rather surprising that when Jesus, the king of kings and lord of lords, comes to Earth in the form of a baby, He didn't receive a royal welcome. Instead, what that humble, dirty, unassuming first Christmas teaches us is that Jesus is for all people.

The King lowered Himself and came to Earth to give a gift to His people. But the gift is not something we can hold in ours hands--it is Christ in us. What Jesus Offers Us is Himself.

Jesus is one of the most influential people in all of history. No one is loved and hated, debated, or has had more impact on this world than Jesus. So who is Jesus? Does who we say Jesus is align with who God says he is?

In years gone by, we've heard the Christmas story from the side of Joseph, Mary, the shepherds, wise men, and even the inn keeper. But this year we are going to pull back the veil and peer into the Creator's workshop to see Christmas from Heaven's perspective. This first week we explore why Jesus came.

We like the new shiny... the new gadget, the new trendy clothes, the hip new coffee house. We pursue the shiny. When we look at scripture, we begin to see that we are supposed to be the shiny - that special something that draws people in to relationship with God. Learning to live a life of shiny is a mandate we all have as Christians.

Parenting is chock full of questions that range from how to handle shared parenting when mom and dad aren't together to when to have the "sex talk" with your kids. While the answers may be simply spoken, they are not simple to live out. Join us as our pastors take the stage to answer parenting questions from the congregation.

Kids need so much from their parents to help them develop into adults who are healthy mentally and physically and growing spiritually and relationally. But what do the parents need to be able to help them do this? There are 5 things every parent needs to be able to parent their children from a place of wholeness.

Since service has been cancelled for today to prepare for the transition to the new building, our Pastor has recorded a short devotional on 1 John 3:11-18. In this devo, he shares how when you love God, your love for people will abound with the natural result being that we serve the world.

We don't know much about Jesus as a child, but we do know from Luke 2:52 that he grew mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially. As parents we couldn't pray for anything greater for our kids than that. But after we pray, what else are we responsible to provide our children? Today we will discuss the 5 things every kid needs.

Because parenting is so stressful, it is hard to resist the temptation to respond emotionally to our children when they misbehave. Is it possible to achieve scream-free parenting? It is when you realize you cannot control your kids, but you can control yourself.

Parenting is one of the most frustrating roles in life. It is one that is rife with many questions and very few answers. Can we successfully put together the puzzle pieces of our kid's lives that will help them become a healthy, mature individual? The answer is yes, but we must start with firm relational foundations.

AHA happens when we are suddenly awakened to our sin, we become brutally honest about how we got into that sin, and then we take steps of repentance towards the Father's house. But does your AHA story end there? If it does you are missing out on the greatest part of God's story for you - the celebration!

In the past few weeks we have talked about a sudden awakening and brutal honesty, but AHA only happens when the third element of immediate action is present. This is the part of AHA we all struggle with the most. We don't mind the awakening and it may hurt to be honest, but to get up and do something is what we refuse. Getting up and doing something immediately is the only response that will bring...

Most of us have an easy time being honest with others about their issues, but can we be honest with ourselves? It does us no good to be awakened to our circumstances if we can't be honest with ourselves about how we got ourselves into them. The second step of any AHA experience will require brutal honesty with yourself.