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Years ago there was a show that thousands of people watched each week. It was called Deal or No Deal.  This simple show made the contestant decide whether to hold on to what they had or to accept what just might be a better offer. What if this is the same choice we have to make every day in our own lives... to hold onto what we want and believe to be best or to accept from God what He has to...

The fall is a topic nobody likes to talk about, where blame shifting is the norm and excuses run rampant.  But for many of us, we forget the impact that this moment in history has had on all of us.  The fall was a moment that started a landslide of events, and those events all play into why we are here in today's world. Join us as we kick off this next movement in our...

One of the most common things we ask ourselves and others is "what do you do?"  What do you do for work? What do you do for a living? What do you do..."  Here's the thing, we do this exact same thing with our faith.  What do we do with our faith?   What if that question isn't quite the right one though?  What if we're asking the wrong question, and the answer is right in s...

We continue in the third week of Pursued with David Doerner of Frontline Church talking about the temple, the meeting place between God and man, how it has changed from the Garden of Eden all the way to Jesus, and what the temple looks like for us today.

Each new year, it seems that many companies are after us to reinvent or change who we are.  Gym memberships increase, weight loss plans skyrocket, and fitness equipment flies off the shelves... all to be forgotten and idle a few weeks later.  We are pressured to see ourselves according to how the world and culture wants us to look and be perceived, but what if God has a whole differ...

From the very beginning, we have been pursued.  God has been pursuing us each and every day- showing us not just His love but also a model of how we are designed and called to live each and every day.  As we learn how to live from His model, we also learn how we are pursued and created to pursue Him. Join us as we kick off this brand new series, Pursued, and discover toget...

If you missed our special Zero Collective Virtual Service this week, you can catch the message from Brian Blum right here. Brian is the lead pastor of our sister church Frontline Community Church, and in this message he gives a recap of all the things God has been doing in our Zero Collective churches over this past year. 

Where do you turn when things seem so chaotic and dysfunctional in life, and where do you seek hope for your situation?  So many of us turn to things of the world to find hope and comfort, whether that be media, alcohol, relationships, or so many others, yet we are still left in that same chaos and dysfunction. What if the answer to the hope we seek was given many years ago? From a...

In the genealogy of Jesus, we see the names of 5 scandalous women.  From prostitutes to teenage pregnancy and more, His geneology includes these stories.  The stories of Rahab and Ruth are no exception. Join us today as we dive into the stories of these two ladies and we see God's desire to show grace and love in the midst of our lives... and how both the outsider and the...

Listen in as we continue in our discussion of the scandals in the lineage of Jesus. 

Scandals are something that we seem to encounter so often in today's world, yet we seem unaffected by them.  Scandals were something that were just as prevalent and real back in the days when Christ was born, but what if Jesus was born for a bigger reason than just "another scandalous birth"?   Jesus came into this world to invite us to become part of the family of God.  When we are...

So often we are faced with things in life and we get caught up in the chaos, the busyness and the rush of life that we neglect the very thing that we were always designed to do, be in relationship with God.  One of the biggest things that is said is that "I just don't have time to pray".     Join us today as we dig into the power of prayer and the incredible impact it has on no...

Last week we talked about the need for prayer in our lives and how we can't just have a CostCo prayer relationship with God. This week we are going a step farther and talking about the role of prayer and what happens in our lives when we pray. Listen in as our very own Zach Zwart brings the word!

Oftentimes we acknowledge that prayer is an important and integral part of our faith, but have we had the right view of it lately?  When we talk about prayer, do we see it as the same force that Jesus Himself saw it as, or have we relegated it to be simply transitional, transactional, or even just a placeholder in our lives? Jesus was very clear about the importance of prayer and th...

Our world has a view of singleness that seems to miss what God's true heart is for His kids.  Each day, we are bombarded by messages of our value being tied to marriage and relationships. From music to politics to entertainment, we see that without a significant other we are told we are "less than".   But God says otherwise.  Join us today as we dive into Paul's letters and what the...

Our world, and especially our culture, has sold the lie that marriage is in some way a construct designed to fix us, fulfill us, or satisfy us in ways that it simply never can. Far too many people enter marriage with this idea, but find themselves struggling and unhappy when they discover that their spouse doesn't "live up to the hype". This is a "cheap" view of the marriage relationship! God crea...

Have you ever wondered what Paul was really talking about when he talks about submission in marriages? So often in our world and culture, we view this as a way of holding power or authority over one another, but what if there’s more to it? What if when Paul talks about submission, he’s actually reminding the church all about Jesus Christ's sacrifice and his submission to his father. Join us as we...

Have you ever wondered what the blueprint is for our marriages in life?  Believe it or not- God designed marriage for a purpose and did it on purpose.  But for many, we get lost in the idea that our marriages must reflect the things of the world rather than the things of God.  So what if we redefine our relationships according to the Gospel instead of the world? Join us today as we...

Each and every day we choose who or what we serve.  For many of us, we may not even know that we make this choice, but we do.  It may not look like we choose to serve other "gods", but what if our perception or thoughts of what a "god" in life is is off?  Today we unpack just that as we journey through a short but incredibly powerful moment for one person and how they chose who to s...

It seems like there are so many things bombarding us each and every day from every angle- things that are demanding our time, resources, energy, money and more.  And if we are being honest, we may feel numb to it all or like we are looking at all the needs around us but yet, we dont see them really. This idea isnt new- we see many times even in scripture where there are needs among...

Have you ever felt that someone has written you off or made a quick judgement about you that wasn't accurate or even fair?  More than likely we can identify with that feeling, but what about the moments when WE have done this exact same thing? Throughout this series we have been outlining how we are passionate about seeing zero lives unchanged by the gospel, and this...

The question of calling in life is one that we ask so often, and we spend so much time trying to figure out what in the world we are doing here.  We try to find it in our relationships, in our jobs, and even in our culture,  but what if our calling has been within us all along? Take a trip with us today as we discover how God has placed a calling- His heart and desires- deep within each...

In today's world it's easy to feel like we are taking it on alone, like there isn't anyone who understands, and even like we don't matter too much.  But we were never meant to walk alone or feel that way at all.  What if I told you that we were meant to not just live and coexist with each other, but rather we were designed to do life together; to rub shoulders with each other, get messy...

In our world today everything seems to be asking for our attention.  We fight the urge to always be connected to social media, news outlets, phones or computers... We are all connected to something in our lives, but what if we are connected to all the wrong things? God desires us to be connected to Him and His heart, but so often we have connected to things outside of Him. What if w...

Have you ever imagined what it would look like to say YES to anything your kids asked for each day?  What possible things could come from that, but also what possible harm later on could come?  This essentially is the mindset of the best friend parent; the parent who wants to be liked above anything else. Join us today as we dig into how this mindset is not what God calls...