Springcreek Church - Garland, TX Podcast

Send us Fan Mail FUEL YOUR PASSION BY FINDING YOUR PURPOSE Service or Serve Us - Part 2 Senior Pastor Keith Stewart September 25, 2022 Each of us was made to crave so much more than what we settle for. We were created by God in such a way that there’s a song our lungs were made to sing, a race our legs were made to run, and a purpose our lives were meant to fulfill. That’s what this message is all...

Send us Fan Mail SERVICE IN A "SERVE ME" WORLD Service or Serve Us - Part 1 Senior Pastor Keith Stewart September 18, 2022 Do you want to know the secret to a blessed life? It’s no mystery. Jesus couldn’t have been clearer. He said, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it” (Matthew 16.25). Jesus radically reorients our thinking and...

Send us Fan Mail STRENGTH IN SOLITUDE Pastor Jessica Fernandez, Ph. D September 11, 2022 There are many times in life when we experience loneliness - times when we feel alone, empty, and disconnected. On the contrary, solitude is a sense of deep connection with our God where we find a sense of belonging. Jesus often spent time in silence and solitude to encounter the Father. Loneliness is dependen...

Send us Fan Mail DEALING WITH RELATIONAL DRIFT Marriage Rescue - Part 6 Senior Pastor Keith Stewart September 4, 2022 Modern aircraft have an autopilot. It’s an excellent feature that allows pilots to complete other tasks while flying. But autopilot was never intended to be used for the entire duration of the flight. Sometimes our marriage gets put on autopilot. Maybe it’s a busy season or you’re...

Send us Fan Mail THE LONELY MARRIAGE Marriage Rescue - Part 5 Senior Pastor Keith Stewart August 28, 2022 There is no worse feeling in the world than sleeping inches away from a person with whom you feel miles apart emotionally. According to a 2018 survey by the AARP, a third of all married people over the age of 45 reports feeling lonely. It’s a reminder that being alone is not what produces lone...

Send us Fan Mail THE ENEMIES OF INTIMACY Marriage Rescue - Part 4 Senior Pastor Keith Stewart August 21, 2022 You were made to crave intimacy. We all have an insatiable desire to be known and loved at the deepest level. At the same time, our understanding of love has been distorted by our upbringing, our culture, and our experiences in relationships. In this weekend’s message, we’re going to disco...

Send us Fan Mail LEARNING TO BE GOOD AND MAD Marriage Rescue - Part 3 Senior Pastor Keith Stewart August 14, 2022 Anger is a sign that there’s a problem that needs our attention. You should know, God intends for anger to be a visitor not a resident in your life. If we can learn how to make it a visitor that comes and goes, and not allow it to live in our hearts, we’ll create a climate in our relat...

Send us Fan Mail FACING YOUR RELATIONAL BAGGAGE Marriage Rescue - Part 2 Senior Pastor Keith Stewart August 7, 2022 There are some topics churches never address or when they do, they do so poorly. Abuse, abandonment, boundary violations, rejection and hurt are a part of the life experience of so many. Those experiences load us up with baggage that we then carry into every subsequent relationship....

Send us Fan Mail TO HELL AND BACK Marriage Rescue - Part 1 Senior Pastor Keith Stewart July 31, 2022 There are few areas of life where expectations ride higher than in marriage and there are few areas of life where expectations are more routinely dashed than in marriage. Let’s face it, no one is immune to problems in relationships. It happens even in the best of marriages. But we need to understan...

Send us Fan Mail COMMUNITY IN THE CALM Called to Community - Part 4 Lead Associate Pastor Jessica Fernandez, PhD July 24, 2022 The time to build a storm shelter is not in the storm, it’s before the storm! What happens when we find security in the routine of our lives? When we become comfortable with the mundane and we find excuses not to engage in community because it doesn’t fit into our schedule...

Send us Fan Mail Wisdom in Community Called to Community - Part 3 Springcreek Church | Lead Chaplain Robin Russell Sunday, July 17, 2022 It’s always fun to hang out with folks our same age, with similar interests. There are good reasons for that. But there are great spiritual benefits in also having wiser, older friends to help deepen our faith journey. Wise people can help us grow in knowing ours...

Send us Fan Mail Finding the Right Community: This Ain’t It Called to Community - Part 2 Springcreek Church | Lead Associate Pastor Jerrid Fletcher Sunday, July 10, 2022 There are communities (ie. relationships, friendships, work environments) in our lives that once served us well, that no longer serve us. The community where we were thriving in at one time, we are no longer thriving in. Then, the...

Send us Fan Mail Community in Calamity: Called to Community - Part 1 Springcreek Church | Lead Associate Pastor Jessica Fernandez, PhD Sunday, July 3, 2022 What do you do when you’re in crisis? Do you isolate yourself? Do you hide when everything is falling apart? In the book of Ruth, Naomi finds herself in a crisis when her husband and her two sons die. Without anyone to care for her and her daug...

Send us Fan Mail The Enemy Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith Stewart Sunday, June 26, 2022 We are at war - not with a foreign invader, not with our culture, and certainly not with our neighbor. We are at war with a very real enemy whom the Bible compares to a roaring lion seeking those he can devour. In this war, an untrained soldier is just a target. This is why we simply must understand t...

Send us Fan Mail A Pilgrimage of Pain and Hope Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith Stewart Sunday, June 19, 2022 Life is a journey. So much of the language of Scripture makes use of the metaphor of walking to describe our relationship with God. We’re told to walk In newness of life, to walk by faith, to walk in the light and in the truth and in the Spirit and in love. On this long walk with G...

Send us Fan Mail Be the Church We Are the Church - Part 6 Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith Stewart Sunday, June 12, 2022 This weekend is the final installment in our series and will be unlike the others in this series because this one is intensely personal. Pastor Keith will take us on a journey from his earliest experience of church up to the present day and into the future where God is t...

Send us Fan Mail What the World Needs Now We Are the Church - Part 5 Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith Stewart Sunday, June 5, 2022 There are some Christians who see themselves in a battle for the soul of our nation and believe only one side will emerge victorious and it isn’t the side that refuses to fight. The problem with the culture-war thinking is not necessarily that these believers a...

Send us Fan Mail Outsiders Like Jesus, it’s His Followers They Can’t Stand We Are the Church - Part 4 Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith Stewart Sunday, May 29, 2022 Ask people what they think of Jesus and for the most part, their eyes will light up as they say things like, “Jesus is awesome” or “He was a very wise and loving man.” Even the most irreligious people you meet seem to have nothi...

Send us Fan Mail Are We Worshipping Worship: We Are the Church - Part 3 Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith Stewart May 22, 2022 According to the Barna Research Group, tens of millions of regular church attendees participate in worship events each and every week but actually have no idea what worship is. I mean, let’s face it, if you ask 10 different Christians to define worship for you, you’...

Send us Fan Mail Cultural Baggage We Layer onto Church: We Are the Church - Part 2 Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith Stewart May 15, 2022 Traditionalism has been called “the dead faith of the living." Traditionalism is the idea that the worship of God can be captured in a set of behavior patterns that are then passed on from generation to generation, and unless you conform to those pat...

Send us Fan Mail It's Jesus' Church: We Are the Church - Part 1 Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith Stewart May 8, 2022 Sometimes, you’ve got to get back to the basics – back to the beginning – back to the fundamentals. This is especially true when it comes down to church. You see, it doesn’t really matter what you and I think a church ought to be because it was Jesus who laid its f...

Send us Fan Mail SET A FIRE Consumed - Part 2 Springcreek Church | Lead Associate Pastor Jerrid Fletcher Sunday, May 1, 2022 The question that we must ask ourselves is not WHO is, but WHAT has become of our God? For many of us today,  not only have we created a WHO , but we have depended on the WHAT in our lives to serve as our God. We’ve become so “Self” centered that God is no longer in the cent...

Send us Fan Mail IS YOUR FIRE FADING? Consumed - Part 1 Springcreek Church | Lead Associate Pastor Jessica Fernandez, PhD Sunday, April 24, 2022 What happens when our fire for God begins to fade? When that excitement we once felt in our first love with Jesus is like a distant memory? We will discuss the symptoms of a fading fire and the atmosphere we’ve created to contribute to our dwindling flame...

Send us Fan Mail A THIRD DAY GOD Jesus on Every Page - Part 3 Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith Stewart Sunday, April 17, 2022 The Jesus’ story doesn’t begin in the New Testament. It begins in the Old. We don’t learn of Jesus first in Matthew but in Genesis. Over countless generations, God had been preparing His people for the arrival of His Son telling us what He would be like and what He...

Send us Fan Mail Easter | A Dreamer: Jesus on Every Page - Pt 2 Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith Stewart April 10, 2022 A DREAMER Typology is a major category of prophecy. They are pretty common in Scripture and often misunderstood. People, rites and ceremonies, events, objects, and offices are all used in Scripture as types. Think of them as prophetic symbols. That’s the subject of this S...