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Guest Speaker Jon Pemberton works as a Foster Family licenser in Spokane and he and his family have attended Summit for many years. Jon continues on in our Ephesians series and dives into a well known section of the Bible in chapter 2. We look at the reality of who we were before Jesus and who we are after we receive his grace through faith. The reality of humanity's brokenness apart from Jesus is...

Imagine driving up a mountain, it's pouring down rain and the clouds are thick and covering every space of sky. Then, you break through the clouds to the top of the mountain and there's nothing but clear sky and sun as far as the eye can see. You may be disappointed at the poor weather, then you get a new view, you see past a point at what was and now what is. The Christian life is much like this...

In this New Testament book of Ephesians, the apostle Paul was addressing an issue with the people of Ephesus very similar to a issue people still struggle with today… identity. Week 2 of this series, Brad dives further into this idea of who we are IN CHRIST as Christ followers. Ephesians is a letter written by a man who had a crazy messed up past, but his story was redeemed, he now identified as b...

Labels have unbelievable power, don't they? Isn't it amazing how labels, either ones we put on ourselves, or from others, can shape who we think we are? How we see ourselves doesn't just get us through a conversation, for many of us, it shapes our attitudes and can define our future. Brad kicks off this new series talking about the topic of personal identity and takes un into a study of the book o...

Nehemiah, an ordinary man who heard of a far off city that was in great need, was burdened by this need and decided he was the one to stand up, step in, and make a difference. He heard God's call to be the one to bring change, and in the end he helped change a nation and has lessens for us to learn today through his story centuries later. Listen along to how Brad wraps up this story and who in the...

Executive Pastor Nick Kimmet continues on in our series in Nehemiah, looking at chapter 5 on the topic of Generosity. You'd assume the message is about being generous with your money, but Nick takes us a different direction. Nehemiah  5:16 , he says,”Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall” in a city he didn't even know or from an outside perspective shouldn't have mattered to him. List...

This week in chapter 4, we see Nehemiah face something that we will all face when we behind to step out and do something for others, on behalf of God, opposition. It seems like there are times when we start do something for God, when we start to step out and live beyond ourselves, that we face opposition. Someone else talks about opposition in the Bible, Jesus, and He gives us an answer that Nehem...

A message from Summit Executive Pastor, Nick Kimmet. The resurrection of Jesus means a lot more to our lives than a ticket to heaven after we die on earth.

We live in the most ‘me-centered’ culture of all time. And let’s be honest, it’s not working. People aren’t happier, the kids aren’t better off, mom and dad aren’t getting along better. It turns out that self-centered self-improvement doesn’t actually make us better versions of our selves, and our faith grows when we start living beyond ourselves. The third question we look at in this week's messa...

A smashed lunchbox, a soccer ball to the face, and a cupbearer asking a king for time off so he can go rebuild a city he's never even seen before. These are a few of the funny and compelling stories Brad tells in this message in our current series. Nehemiah was burdened for people he didn't even know, a city he had never even visited, and he chose to move beyond his own comfort to make a differenc...

We are going to take the next few weeks and look at a story in the Old Testament about a guy named Nehemiah. Nehemiah was a very ordinary Jewish man, who did an extraordinary thing. It was so extraordinary that the Jewish people decided to include his story in the Jewish Scriptures. This is a story just jammed full of leadership lessons, life lessons, and good advice. But, more than anything, this...

Brad brings this series to a close with a look at Matthew 8 and 9 and what it is to choose the kingdom of heaven. The way of Jesus is all about us choosing a way of thinking and a way of living that is unfamiliar and unknown. Following Jesus means we are willing to take an unfamiliar path and pursue unfamiliar outcomes. Following Jesus means we are going out on a limb. Following Jesus means that t...

Lead Pastor Brad Williams teaches on this first Sunday of 2016, on what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. This series has been about what it means to experience God's kingdom here on earth as it is in Heaven, and this idea centers on the concept of being of being a disciple of Jesus and by being his apprentice, having your entire life centered around Him. It's a transformation our a Christian's...

In our study of Matthew Jesus has been welcoming, encouraging, inspiring, and now draws a hard line. Jesus now tells us we have to choose, choose who we're going to be, what we're going to believe, and we have to choose to live that way, period. We all learn from someone or something, anyone or anything could potentially be teaching us something. Who are you letting teach and influence you? But Je...

Hope, Peace, Joy, Love... all things we desire to experience in life, and all things that came to being upon the arrival of Jesus into the world. Lead Pastor Brad Williams preaches a beautiful Christmas message on the 4 themes of Advent and how these 4 words: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love all come to life in the person of Jesus Christ.  

Pastor Brad Williams continues on in the On Earth as it is in Heaven series and teaches out of the book of Matthew on the topic of Judgement, how and when we all participate in it and what the Bible says about it. 

Our study through the book of Matthew brings us to the section where we talk about everyone's favorite topic of conversation... money. Associate Pastor Nick Kimmet disarms a lot of uncomfortable ideals connected to money. Things that matter to us truly do matter to God, he understands when finances are tight and we worry there's not enough money in the bank to make it through the week. In this pas...

So, we've been talking about Jesus for a while now in this series, go figure. In studying the Lord's prayer over the course of this series, we've talked a lot about the idea of heaven invading earth. The idea of "on earth as it is in heaven" in my house as it is in heaven, in Spokane as it is in heaven, in my workplace as it is in heaven. The next section of The Lord's Prayer that we come to in th...

A city-wide power outage doesn't stop Summit Spokane from holding church services. Generator power, hot coffee, and people are all that's needed to put together a special and memorable Sunday service that will be remembered for years to come. Jesus truly meets us where we are, in the middle of our mess. And maybe after this past week, that promise has been made that much more real in our lives. Wh...

All of us, at some level, wrestle with the idea of whether or not we are living a life of significance. Every human has an innate sense of wanting their life to matter and make a difference. However, we live in a world that is obsessed with success, everything you do and are in life is measured by this one word. But, success is a poor substitute for this thing we call significance, because success...

There is an unimaginable crisis in our world today, the fact that there are children in our cities, counties, and our very own neighborhoods who are in danger in the homes where they live. What is our responsibility as Christ followers in this case? In any situation we should always turn to the Bible for guidance, and what does the scripture say about orphans? Repeated in multiple places in the Bi...

In this series so far, we've learned a lot about Jesus, and now we are taking the discussion to a new level of learning how to live "in" Him. God has come near to us in the person of Jesus Christ, God came to humanity, and how are we to respond to that? Lead Pastor Brad Williams opens up the discussion of unseeing the Bible as a book of rules and our human tendency to do and be "good," and helps u...

Last week's message was a pre-cursor to this week's message. This week we looked at the Beatitudes which is also the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. The Beatitudes can actually be quite confusing as each verse seems contradictory to what we'd put together of a list of what it looks like to be "blessed." The world tells us that you're blessed when you're self reliant, self confident wealthy,...