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Far too often we make giving back to God an emotional thing rather than an act of obedience. We convince ourselves that we will "know" when God is asking us to give, what He wants us to give towards, or that we will begin to give when we have reached a certain threshold in our financial journey. The reality is that God is not first and foremost interested in us giving back to him out of emotion, b...

Jesus didn't leave anything to question when he talked about what we value most in our lives. He said that where we store our treasures is where our heart will be also. This means if we store up treasures in the world, our heart will remain in things of this world. As we begin this new series Pastor Kyle asks the simple yet incredibly challenging question of where are you looking for security and...

It's the final week of our series exploring the 7 churches in Revelation, and it's a challenging one! This week we look at Jesus' letter to Laodicea who He accuses of being lukewarm in their faith. Listen in as we dive into scripture and ask ourselves the question of where our own faith in Jesus may have become lukewarm.

It's week 7, and we are deep into our series on Revelation, looking this week at the church in Philadelphia! Listen in as Pastor Kyle discusses how the church in Philadelphia shows us that Jesus is our only source of stability, and that when we draw near to Him he will provide us His strength when we have no strength left on our own.

Sardis was a church that looked good from the outside. They were a fortified city, in a prominent position in society, and physically safe high up on top of a cliff... But the soul of the church didn't look the same way. Jesus criticism for the church of Sardis is that they have a reputation for being alive, but they are dead, but the glorious hope even for those in Sardis is that we serve a God w...

Thyatira is the smallest of the 7 churches in Revelation, yet it received the longest letter. Jesus had some very strong words for Thyatira, both commending them for their love and faithfulness and in no uncertain terms convicting them of the evil they were allowing in their midst. Listen in as Pastor Kyle challenges the church today to understand that God calls us to love, but that is not the sam...

This week we take a look at the church in Pergamum, a church commended for its faithfulness but also challenged for its complicity in compromising the gospel and allowing false teachings to take hold within.  We face many of the same challenges in the church today. The things of the world slowly try to creep in and take hold in our churches, and Jesus is calling the church to reject those thi...

We are continuing to exploring the 7 churches of Revelation in the series Jesus People. This week we dig in to Smyrna. Smyrna was a church that Jesus commended for its unwavering faithfulness, and is the only one of the 7 churches not criticized for the evil among them. Listen in as Pastor Kyle challenges us to be faithful for the long haul.

In the beginning of Revelation 2 we see Jesus' first of 7 letters to the church, and He has a lot of good things to say about the church in Ephesus. He commends them for their patient endurance, their discerning spirit, and their resistance of the false teachings that were prevalent in their time, but He also has one major challenge for them. He says they have lost, left, or (some translations) fo...

Over the next several weeks we will be diving into the book of Revelation. Now, most people automatically think we are headed for a hell fire and brimstone/ end of the world theme when Revelation is brought up, but that's not quite where we are heading. We will be looking at the 7 letters to the churches in Revelation. In these letters, Jesus is speaking directly to His church, commending them for...

In our final message of 2020 we have teamed up with the churches in The Zero Collective, and their teaching pastor David Doerner has a great word for us to close out 2020 as well as a look forward to 2021.

Continuing "A Weary World Rejoices" we finally see the fulfillment of the promise of God in Isaiah 61. God wrote himself into our story through the person of Jesus, and we celebrate the coming of our savior, the messiah, Jesus Christ!

We know that our world has this huge problem we call sin, and God tells us that His son, the Messiah, is the answer to that problem, but that leaves us with another question... How are we going to respond? Isaiah 61 says that God will make us like great Oaks that he has planted for his glory... that is if we are willing to surrender and allow him to do His work! Listen in as Pastor Kyle continues...

Last week we identified the problem in the world as Isaiah 61 shows us. This week we explore God's great answer to this problem in the person of Jesus Christ the Messiah.

As we walk through this holiday season, we will be focusing in on Isaiah 61 and the prophecy made over 700 years before Jesus birth. We begin with Isaiah 61:1-3 and the problem of sin in the world.

In our last installment of LifeHacks, Pastor Kyle talks about limits in life. We all must operate within our limitations, and as we see in today's scripture, even Jesus operated within certain earthly limits. We'll be looking at how Jesus worked and thrived within the limits he found around him, and how we too can experience the fullness of life within our own limits.

In our world of misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies, it can be difficult to discern what is true and what is not. But, we as Christians have the ultimate test to know if something is from God or not, and that is the scripture. If we want to understand God, be in communion with Him, and recognize the lies of the enemy as they come we must be in tune with His word.

A huge part of developing a healthy soul is being in constant communication with God... but how do we develop a listening ear to hear from Him?  Tune in as guest speaker Brian Blum, Lead Pastor of the Zero Collective, lays out the primary way that God speaks to us and how we can develop a lifestyle that is tuned to hear Him better.

As we begin this new series titled LifeHacks: 4 Secrets of a Healthy Soul, we are examining the power of words. Our words matter, and they can be used as weapons for good or weapons for evil.

Jesus knows each and every one of us by name. No matter how closely you follow him, or how far from him you may be, he knows you and he calls you by name!   In our final week of this series we are looking at a story of how Jesus called Zacchaeus by name and went to dine with him even though he was a chief tax collector. He would have been hated by his own people for working with the Roman gov...

When the crowds told a blind man to stop calling out to Jesus he did not stop. Not only this, but the scriptures tell us that his cries intensified. You see, the blind man that Jesus encounters in Luke chapter 18 understood a couple of things that we would be well served to remember ourselves... He knew that it wasn't enough to just be around the crowds surrounding Jesus, he wanted to be close to...

Borders and barriers are everywhere. Some borders help to protect us or keep us safe, but other borders only serve to separate and isolate us from others. Tune in as guest speaker Pastor David Doerner digs into a passage from the gospel of Luke where Jesus reaches beyond cultural borders to heal a group of outsiders, and the incredible life change that occurred for one of them men healed.

When a woman entered the home of a Pharisee uninvited and poured expensive perfume on Jesus' feet I bet your could have heard a pin drop. Everyone there knew who she was. She had all kinds of labels on her, and in their minds they were rightly judging her as far from worthy to sit at the feet of Jesus... But JESUS had a very different reaction. He saw through the labels, through her appearance, an...