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Have you ever been awakened suddenly? These awakenings are never pleasant or welcome, but they are necessary sometimes. One of the key ingredients to AHA is a sudden awakening - one that awakens us to where we were, where we are, and where we could be.

Aha—when your life collides with God’s grace and there is an undeniable change. This week, we go back to the parable of the prodigal son and take a look at the place where all AHA stories begin - the distant country.

The three ingredients that come together to produce an Aha moment in your life are: a sudden awakening, brutal honesty, and immediate action. An Aha moment will forever change your story. This week we start at the beginning of the story... Aha starts at home.

Waiting is never easy, especially when you're waiting on something you're excited about. It is in the waiting that hope can be lost. Can we learn to hold on to hope in difficult times? Today we discover the keys to maintaining hope are found only in relationship with God.

The end of the world is a popular topic in our movies and TV, but do we know what the Bible says about the end and when it will come? More importantly, because the Bible points to an end, what are we doing to be ready for it?

Do you feel useful or useless? Even though you may have low self-worth, you are God's masterpiece and He can always use somebody for something.

In our modern society, can a dysfunctional family really be what God had planned for us? Today we look at how a home that is a blessing to its occupants and others takes making an intentional choice. That choice will be to accept dysfunction or to drive it out of our homes by making God the centerpiece of our lives.

Walking the line is all about devotion. But what exactly is daily devotion? If we are to truly walk the line, we must have our focus on Jesus. Can we truly live a focused life with all of complexities and distractions of life? Listen to today's message from Corbin Huffman of LifeChange Church in Newark, Ohio.

With our lives overwhelmed we have a never ending chase for rest. Searching anywhere and everywhere, the chase just adds to the burden. Where can we find true rest? Maybe we need to stop looking for the where and start looking for the who.

We believe that faith is conjured up by repeating the same thing over and over to ourselves... "I do believe, I do believe...." But is this real faith? In fact, what is faith at all? And once I have it, how do I keep faith so that I don't stop believin'? Tune in to today's message to find out.

Heaven by Warrant leads us into our brand new series. Is what we believe about heaven biblically based or culture driven? Join us as we venture through the scriptures to see what heaven will really be like, what we will see there, and learn all that God has prepared for those who love Him.

Guardrails are essential to keeping you on the road so you reach your intended destination. In marriage, guardrails serve to help us reach the destination in we marriage that we set in our vows of "till death do us part." In the final week of our series on relationships and marriage, we look at some practical ways to safeguard your marriage from affairs.

Our series continues as we explore WHAT WOMEN WISH MEN KNEW ABOUT WOMEN. Guys, these simple but powerful truths can unlock the blazing hot marriage that you've always wanted. Will you be willing to become a student of your wife and her needs?

Our first day of marriage is not near as important as our last day of marriage. No one likes a bad ending. It is with this in mind that we need to be intentional about what kind of ending we want for our marriage. Understanding how we are wired will assist in our journey. Today we explore 5 things men wish women knew about men.

In week 2 we ask the question of "How do you stay in love with the person you married when they become someone else?" The answer is simple and is found in honoring marriage and staying faithful to one another. This means working at it and being committed in the same way you promised to be in your wedding vows. Also today Pastor Aaron and his wife Shanda took the stage to share their marriage strug...

This week we start a new series called Love, Marriage, Baby Carriage where we will examine love, sex, relationships, and dating through the lens of the scriptures. Today, Pastor Aaron DeLong talks to singles challenging them to stop spending their energy looking for the right person and to instead spend their energy becoming the right person for the person God will give them.

Today guest speaker and the Ohio Ministry Network's Director of Youth Services, Tom Groot challenged us with this thought - "What one generation allows the next accepts as normal. Its time we stop lowering the bar of what we accept and start raising it instead. It's time for a new normal."

Today Shandale Johnson, Executive Pastor of Real Church in Pataskala, shares a message on going out into the deep where Jesus has called us. Will you go where Jesus leads or will you let your past determine your level of obedience? Deep is calling...

Moses is one of the most popular characters of the Bible. But do you know his mother's name? Like most mothers, she is the unsung hero. One who left an incredible legacy in her children. On this special day for Mom, we look at how mother's can begin building their own legacy in their children too.

This is the final week of the series ALL IN. Today's message follows the longest act of obedience recorded in the Bible. Noah obeyed God's word for 120 years in order to build an ark, but we have trouble obeying God for two weeks. If we will choose to obey though, we discover the blessing and favor of God follows it.

In today's Easter service, we continued the ALL IN series with the story of Elisha who burned his plows in order to be all in and follow Elijah as his servant. But how do we burn our plows like Elisha? Can we really walk away from our past successes or failures? Or will we allow them to continue to define who we are today?

Today's message is a first in a new series called ALL IN that boldly states that we are only one decision away from a totally different life. But we can never have that life if we don't learn to prepare ourselves for what God wants to do in our lives.

In our final week in the series the Blessed Life, we look at the truth behind the sage saying of "It is better to give than to receive." But can we be generous or will we cover our selfishness by pointing at the blessings of others?

Tests are designed to do one thing in all of us: reveal something. In week three of the series The Blessed Life, we look at how money tests our hearts and what those test reveal about ourselves.

The second message in our series called The Blessed Life is on the powerful, life changing principal of tithing. When we put God first in our lives, it includes our finances. Our money reveals where our hearts are, so when we put God first in our finances, it shows God that He is first in our hearts.