STUDIO

As we continued our series, “Live Above the Noise”, Pastor Rheva took us through the first part of Ephesians 4 and encouraged us to mature as believers in her talk, “Let’s Grow Up”. There is a lot of noise in our culture right now that is trying to divide us as the body of Christ. But Paul encourages us as followers of Jesus to, “Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allo...

On Sunday, Pastor Eric shared pt. 3 of our Live Above the Noise series, entitled "Love & Mystery". The top 2 genres in literature are Romance and Mystery. This should not surprise us as these are indicative of some of the deepest longings of the human soul. We desire to be loved and accepted. We also are curious creatures and we long to know what is beyond what we know and experience. Paul say...

Throughout our lives we are always moving in a direction. No matter what road that we find ourselves on, we are always heading in direction and the path we are on leads to somewhere. Every thought, behavior, decision, and every step moves us further in a direction. Ephesians 2 highlights how we were going in one direction, but how dramatically it shifts when Jesus enters the human story. It reveal...

This week at STUDIO, we had the honor of hearing from one of New Spring Church's Pastor, Hykeng Paul. He shared with us the importance of understanding God's heart for humanity and standing in the middle of what's separated and divided and saying "enough is enough". We are designed to be people of reconciliation. In 2 Corinthinans 5, Paul talks about reconciliation as to understand what is spiritu...

This week, Pastor Eric kicked off the series "Live Above the Noise". This message is about the fundamental key in being someone that can live above the noise: Embracing and accepting that you have been CHOSEN by God. “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight,”Ephesians 1:4 When a culture or a people believe they are chosen, they have a higher ch...

In response to Hurricane Helene hitting our region and it affecting so many. Pastor Eric shared how our Faith is Dynamic. We read in the scriptures: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, The Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourself are comfo...

This past Sunday, Pastor Candace shared with us about continuing being vigilant in uprooting those thoughts that have taken root and have caused bitterness and resentment. Throughout our lives we are constantly growing and changing. Sometimes along the journey we experience things that shut us down, stunt our growth or even trap us. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the f...

On Sunday, Pastor Eric completed the Trilogy of “Living Unoffended” with a talk titled “I’m sorry and I forgive you?!” The average human experiences 400 emotional experiences every day. That is 25 an hour for 16 hours and that equates to 2 ½ emotional experiences a minute. We are meaning making machines and we are constantly attaching meaning to each of these experiences. It’s our way of concludin...

This is a sequel to the talk " Living Unoffended". There is a field of study that takes a granular look at how sound affects matter. It’s remarkable to see how sound frequency can form a pile of sand and create shapes out of it. We see this dynamic first when God in Genesis 1:3 says “Let there be light”. This sound was the first act of our creator, his words gave matter a purpose, design and inten...

As we begin this new season we are calling Studio to a week of prayer and fasting (Sept 9 - 15). This is intentional, strategic and timely. We will bring ourselves before the Lord, seek His face together, hear His heart, and pray into what He has for us. Fasting is an important biblical and spiritual practice. It is a way that we draw near to God, offer ourselves to Him, and seek His help in times...

This past Sunday Pastor Eric did a talk on Living Unoffended. He took us on a journey of calling us higher, deeper and farther into who we are designed to be as humans. Oftentimes we have life experiences or moments with people that cause us to be offended. Jesus said in Luke 17:1 “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to happen…”. The reality is we all are going to be offended so it’s not...

On Sunday, Pastor Eric did the 4th installment of the Dual Citizen series. The Samurai have the Bushido Code. The Navy Seals have the Seal Ethos. Any elite warrior group follows a set of codes, values and ethos that informs not just how they fight but how they live and behave. In being citizens of Heaven there are 6 principles that Paul lays out in Philippians that we call the Citizen Code. Life w...

Jeremy Riddle was with us on Sunday. He brought a powerful word, “Power of Thanksgiving” and we want to encourage everyone to listen to it. Here are a few lines from his talk: “Thanksgiving is a powerful tool against deception” “It is hard to give thanks and remain proud” “Thanksgiving dethrones pride” “Thanksgiving is a small hinge that opens a big door” He shared that Thanksgiving is one of the...

This past Sunday, Pastor Candace shared with us the “Power of Proximity”. In her talk, she walked us through the story of Elisha, the Shunammite woman, and her son. He was a part of letting her know that God was going to give her a son, and he did. Many years later this son dies and Elisha’s response was to go and lay on top of the boy and in doing so the dead boy came back to life. It’s one of th...

On Sunday, Eric did the third installment for the Dual Citizen series. We have been diving into Philippians 3:20: “We are citizens of heaven…” For this talk we looked at Philippians 1:21: “To live is Christ, to die is gain” This one line gives us insight into the mind of a man who realizes his life is not his own. As much as Paul wanted to go be with Jesus in eternity, he recognizes that for him t...

On Sunday, Pastor Eric continued the conversation on Philippians 3:20: "For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ," Becoming a citizen of heaven is more than just a transfer of information, it is the transfer of essence. It is one thing to have all the information about who God is and what the Kingdom is all about, it is a whole differe...

On Sunday, Pastor Eric shared with us from Phillipians 3:20, "For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ," While Paul was imprisoned in Rome writing this letter to the church in Phillipi, he gets a revelation that as followers of Jesus we are not only citizens of a nation we are also citizens of Heaven. We are Dual Citizens. This reality...

This past Sunday, Pastor Shayna did a talk titled “When Two Worlds Collide”. She asked the question “What did it look like when Jesus walked this earth?” He was the perfect model for walking in two worlds at one time. He was the fusion of both the spiritual and physical world. It looked like - He ate with the sinners and healed the sick, He served, washed his disciples feet, fed the hungry, and th...

This past Sunday, Pastor Eric shared part of the journey of following Jesus is that we are actively engaged in a conflict of two kingdoms...good and evil, light and dark. We as humans are interconnected to the spiritual dimension and what happens there has an affect on us in the natural dimension. We are in a spiritual war. He encouraged us to first recognize that some of the gripping fear, irrati...

We know so many of you from our community sowed into this team financially and in prayer so it felt important to share about what God did through this team. Team member after team member got up and shared how special and impactful their experience in Romania was. The testimonies of friendship, bonding and team were so encouraging. One team member summed it up saying, “We’re just scratching the sur...

In life waiting is inevitable. We find ourselves waiting in many places and in many seasons of our lives. Martin Manser said waiting is “Being prepared to patiently look towards God for his guidance and accepting the timing he proposes. Waiting on God can lead to an atmosphere of expectation and confidence in God and a realization of the unreliability of one’s own judgment.” Pastor Rheva walks us...

This Sunday, Pastor Eric went through two passages in scripture, both in Acts and Luke, exploring some of the dynamics of the early church. Sometimes we fantasize how the early church grew and how it functioned and operated. What we may not realize is the same challenges we face today the early church faced as well when it came to growth and the vision that Jesus put before them and us. In a growi...

On Sunday, Candace shared that our minds are like gardens, they need tending to, they need the weeds to be pulled and they need cultivating. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” 2 Timothy 1:7 When we recognize that when we experience life it creates thoughts, feelings and behaviors. It’s in this process that we can choose which thoughts take roo...

Have you noticed God can be easy to find as well as hard to find? Following Jesus is an amalgamation of clarity and mystery. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. Proverbs 25:2 There are things we see and experience and there are things we don’t see and don’t experience, yet in order for us to realize what God intends for us, it is essential...

We had a special Sunday this past weekend, we had our dear friends, Jimmy and Genea Horner, with us, Jimmy Horner shared with us this past Sunday about the Simplicity of the Missions Lifestyle. In the talk Jimmy referenced how Jesus, in the Gospels, was given eyes to see need and He then moved towards it, allowing Himself to be the solution. Jimmy says this is all a lifestyle of missions is: havin...