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Peter was the guy who denied ever knowing Jesus. He was one of Jesus' guys, his friend. Peter knew Jesus, but did he really? Peter knew the rabbi Jesus. Peter knew the political messiah Jesus. Peter knew the healer Jesus, the friend of sinners Jesus. The water into wine Jesus. But Peter didn't know Savior Jesus, King Jesus, resurrected Jesus. But what happened when he did? When he came to know Jes...

We could ask the question of everyone, "How has your summer been?" And we all would probably have similar stories to tell, "It was so busy!" Or, "Some really unexpected things happened that I was not planning for." We all do this — we have these packed, insane summers, and we look up, and suddenly it's fall. And then of course, we have a packed fall, we look up, and suddenly it's Christmas, and we...

Today we walk through a story in the life of Jesus, a story that might confront some of your ideas about Jesus. And if you're walking through circumstances that are particularly complicated, this story is for you. If you're in a position where you've got more questions than answers, this story has very real application for you. If you find yourself on the fence of Christianity, like you believe wi...

As we read the New Testament, we see a theme of transformation... of growth and change, woven throughout. A foundational truth of following Jesus, according to the Bible, is that we can't truly follow Him and remain the same, we continually transform by Christ's presence in us. But, how do we really do that every day? How do we really go after and continue to change? Listen along to this stand alo...

The Kingdom is not a far off possibility that we enter into when we've breathed our last breath, but it is an ever present reality. The Lord's Prayer says, "Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." This is how we are to pray. We are invited into being active participants in the Kingdom of God advancing on Earth.

Today's message title can be taken several different ways. It can be a response to when someone says or does something that's out of line or rude, "Who do you think you are?" But the meaning for us in today's message is more literal, it's an identity question, "WHO do you think you are?" 

Summit Teaching Team member, Jon Pemberton, teaches from John 9, the story of Jesus healing the blind man. There are many difficult things that go on in our world, we have a hard time understanding why bad and unfair things happen. The blind man didn't have all the answers, but what he did know was once he was blind but after an encounter with Jesus, he could then see. When we encounter Jesus, He...

"To follow Jesus is to invite controversy in our lives. We need the compassion of Jesus and we need to embrace the controversy." Listen along to the series conclusion of Cruciformity: The Spirituality of the Cross. This series has been dedicated to learning how to live the spirituality of Jesus. We're looked at how we understand ourselves, how we live toward God, how we live toward others, and how...

We've been talking about how the cross changes how we understand our identity in how we live toward God, others, and how we live toward creation. We're focusing on the last item in that list today, creation. How do we live toward and live IN creation? Which, for many people brings up a secondary question, that deserves to be answered. What does Cruciformity have to do with creation? Join us as we...

Do we shape the culture, or does the culture shape us? 

The direction, the flow, of culture right now is a flow toward division. Divisiveness. Do you pick up on that? We live in a divided country, divided by labels and preferences and walks of life. But Jesus and the Bible teach unity. But how can we get there? How can we flip the culture script of division to unity and peace? Join us as we open the Bible to Matthew and Corinthians to reset our thinkin...

Today we look at Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. We're digging deeper so as to not miss the whole story of the gospel in this encounter. Because this text demonstrates that when Jesus reconciles us to God, he also reconciles across every single divide that exists horizontally. Our gender differences, economic differences, our racial, our ethnic, and cultural differences. Whe...

Today we look at one of the biggest questions we ask as Christ-followers, "How do I know God's will for my life?" This question arises as we make big life decisions. Decisions about school, work, dating, marriage, where to live, what to drive, the list goes on and on. What's God's will for me? How do we find that out? Listen along as we open the Bible and talk about this big life question.

In this series we've been talking about how as followers of Jesus our lives take the shape of the cross. The cross is a symbol of submission and sacrifice - and it is the pattern, the path, the model, for how those who choose to follow Jesus live their lives. We've talked about the difference between believing and faith, serving God, serving others, hungering for God and now this week, we are goin...

We have been talking about Cruciformed faith, and today that shifts a bit. Today we'll understand that , seeking in this Cruciformed life, leads to finding, and that leads to a hunger for God. What does it really look like for us to hunger for God and how do we know if this hunger we have is REAL?

How do we live a cruciformed life to other people in the church? Today we're going to be looking at the idea of serving and how we live toward others. Jesus gave us the best example of how to do this; one example is found in Philippians chapter 2. Listen along to today's message taught by Student Ministries Associate Pastor, Kelsey Weller. 

There is a death that must happen in order for us to live. A death to our identity and a death to the labels we take on and allow society to place on us. Today we look at how we as Christ-followers can live a surrendered, Cruciformed life toward God, with Jesus being our example. When we desire to live a Cruciformed life, we desire to live a life patterned after the cross and how Jesus lived.

An authentic experience of Jesus requires that we enter into his often ignored and disregarded teaching to: deny ourselves, take up our crosses, and lay down our lives for his sake and others. The New Testament is filled with with references to 'die' to ourselves and submit our lives to the leadership of Jesus. But the story doesn't end in death, Jesus' story didn't end in death and neither does o...

In today's message, Grant Bruscoe teaches on living a transformed life when it comes to how we view our accomplishments and achievements. There's nothing wrong with performing well or being successful, but when we allow our achievements and even our downfalls to define who we are, we've greatly missed it.

Cruciformity: is crucifixion and conformity combined. It means a life that is patterned after the crucifixion. In this series we will be studying what it means to biblically live a full and happy life. We will never know who we truly are or how to live until we learn how to find our identity in what Jesus did on the cross and what that means to us every day.

God is a loving Father who initiates an outpouring of grace on us, and we receive this grace through Jesus. No one is excluded from that! North Pacific Foursquare District Supervisor, Gabe Barreiro, was with us Sunday teaching a compelling message on God's healing and plan for our lives through His grace.

A revival isn't something you do or go to, it's something that you experience, it's something that happens to you. But how do we experience this revival? In order for there to be a revival, for something to be re-vived and brought back to life... something has to die. Today, Easter Sunday we look back at the most significant death and revival of all time. But this story doesn't end in death, give...

Andre Lewis is the Director of Youth for Christ in Spokane. He and his family have attended Summit for several years and we are excited to have him preach again at Summit. Listen along to this message where Andre opens the Bible to teach about our inheritance as Christ-followers and what implications that should have on our daily lives everywhere we go.