Terraforma Church

1985 brought us the iconic movie "The Breakfast Club" about a group of 5 teenagers enduring a Saturday morning in detention. Their assignment is to write an essay on "Who do you think you are?" One of the big themes of the movie is about re-evaluation of labels, both the labels we place upon ourselves and the labels that we place upon others. This morning we look at the story of Nathaniel. When Na...

The Resurrection of Jesus is the ultimate comeback story. What if this year was the year of your comeback? What if this was the year you discovered the source of unending and unquenchable hope?

When religion runs wild it creates a system of laws and loopholes which can leave you feeling far from God. The way of Jesus lets love run wild with completely different results.

In Christ, you have been set free. So what are we to do with our freedom? Paul argues that we are to use our freedom to follow the Spirit into a story of selfless love instead of using our freedom to indulge our selfish desires. The obligation of love might be easy to understand, but it can be difficult to follow! We explore the three dimensions of morality that flow from a Kingdom understanding.

We don't love the word discipline, but when it is rightly understood, it actually produces true freedom. Jeremiah Holthus explores the tension between discipline and freedom, and how to use one to unlock the other.

The two trees mentioned in the Garden of Eden represent the dichotomy of choice. Created in the image of God, we have been entrusted with the incredible power to choose our course and shape the future. You are free to make a choice, so what will you choose? Your choices can either create chaos or build beauty. Choose life.

When we enjoy a sense of secure attachment to God and to one another, these relationships becomes a key that unlocks all kinds of great things for you in adulthood: the ability to form healthy friendships, intimate and fulfilling romantic relationships, resiliency for life‚as difficulties, and even things like the ability to take healthy risks. Look with us at the story of a father and his two los...

Boundaries are the rules of engagement for all of our relationships. Boundaries help us to stay healthy as they provide structure that protects balance. The only way for unhealthy people to have healthy relationships is by establishing and maintaining boundaries.

The primary relationship in your home, the one that will impact all the others, is the relationship you have with your spouse. Learn with us about three streams of love that happy couples learn to enjoy. Grow in friendship, commitment, and passion - and begin to build the marriage you wish you had.

There is one specific skill that make the difference between healthy relationships and struggling relationships. Mature and balanced couples, families, and friendships can do this. Selfish and unbalanced relationships struggle to do this. It is assertive communication, and if you learn this skill your relationships will thrive.

We all have to deal with the fact that sometimes our momentary appetites can interfere with our ultimate desires. Focus can protect your progress. Focus can keep you from wandering off course. This is because as your focus becomes clearer, the distractions of momentary appetites decrease in power and pull.

Our stories suffer from a lack of focus. This is especially true when we see the world through the distorted lenses of fear and hate. This morning, we are talking about regaining our focus by seeing our stories through the lens of faith, where we allow the perspective of eternity to frame our beliefs and behaviors.

Every single one of us has limits. When we live up to and even try to live beyond our limits, our lives are frantic, anxious, and stressed. God invites us to recognize our limits and then take a step back from them so we can live with margin. He invites us to put some space between your load and your limit. We talk in this message about three ancient practices to help us structure our lives with m...

Jesus talked about the danger of living for the approval and admiration of other people and giving other people power over your life and sense of worth and identity. Theologians call the opposite of this living “Coram Deo,” living “before God.” TThis means living for a singular audience; to live for the approval and for the glory of God alone.

God is still moving near to us, how are we to respond? Ancient philosophers called Magi found a map to a worshipful response written upon the night sky. Maybe star-gazing can awaken our wonder and move us beyond our resistance to the Divine?

God is moving near to us in the person of Jesus, and we are invited to respond and draw near to Him. Almost right away, when people searched for the right word to express this sense of the nearness of God, they used the word “rest.” Listen to how the story of weary travelers offers us rest in a season of strife.

This Christmas story begins when hope breaks into a hopeless season in unexpected ways. Still, the first people to receive this hope have to wait. They have to live through a season of tension, anticipation, and expectation that everything is going to change.

Being an ambassador of the Tangible Kingdom means you accept the mission of God as your own. It means that you shift your attitude from "someone should" to "I will" when you are faced with the problems of our world. It means we are co-hosts of heaven on earth as sons and daughters of God. We embody our "sentness" through beneficial presence and sacrificial generosity.

As ambassadors of the Kingdom Tangible, you are called to live WITH others. You are called to be a beneficial presence in your neighborhood as the embodiment of the new creation.

Religion has historically been focused on holy spaces, temples and altars where the thought is that at these holy spaces, heaven and earth intersect. Yet Jesus taught something different. He taught that the Tangible Kingdom is the intersection of heaven and earth in the temple of a believer. You are the temple of God. The Kingdom is WITHIN YOU. You are the tangible kingdom, the way you live, love,...

The first place the Kingdom of God becomes Tangible in SO MANY stories is not the church. It is the table. If you were to read the Gospel accounts and the book of Acts, you would find that every time the Gospel goes into a new culture – the leading edge of that mission is a tangible expression of hospitality. If you look at the way the Kingdom breaks into new neighborhoods, new cities, and new c...

The Kingdom is something we can inhabit today, here and now. It is something we are invited to establish, to set up, right where we live, work, learn, and play. It was the compelling vision Jesus had for what the world could be. And this is what we are going to explore – how are we to experience the Kingdom of God today? What does it actually look like?

We have all been given ample opportunity from a God that created us to create, a God that sows generously and universally the seed of possibility. How can you take advantage of such grace to grow, thrive, and transform? Pete breaks it down with some practical steps.

What do you do when you aren't sure what to do? Guests Chris and Megan Rea share a powerful story of struggle and heartache, and the choices they have made to flourish even after their plans were changed.

What do we do when a stop-over becomes a stay-over? How are we to handle major disruption to our plans? David Mazzella encourages us from Jeremiah 29 that we can decide to thrive anyway. We must get moving, producing, building, and living.