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When we follow God’s leading the journey of our lives will always speak of the goodness of God. But just as God’s plan speaks of His goodness, our enemy is scheming to undermine that plan with his own purposes. In week three of our series, If These Walls Could Talk, Pastor Gabe teaches on the courage of Esther and Mordecai to trust God and take a great risk even in the face of fear.

As much as we dread feelings and seasons of uncertainty, they do serve a purpose. Many times their purpose is to awaken purpose in our own hearts that over the course of time has died off. In week two of "If These Walls Could Talk", Pastor Gabe teaches from the book of Esther on the awakening of purpose in the life of Esther, and the great risk that her purpose caused her to embrace.

We all love to remind others that God is sovereign and in control, and we all love to look back on a season and be reminded of His faithfulness, but usually never do we like to be in the middle of a season where we need that reminder. In week one of our series, If These Walls Could Talk, Pastor Gabe teaches on the sovereignty of God in the book of Esther and the reminder that regardless of how unc...

We’ve all felt the flesh scream for gratification and suggest that once you fulfill the desire you’ll feel much better. So, we post the reply to Facebook, we send the email, we speak our mind, we lose our temper... and the only thing we experience is the prison of regret. In week 4 of our Feel Free series, Pastor Gabe teaches a message called “Don’t Do It” and speaks to the power to not follow thr...

Everyone of us struggles at some point with impulsive thoughts and desires, and in Galatians 5 Paul explains that those little thoughts unguarded and unchecked will eventually lead to destructive habits. In week three of our series, Feel Free, Pastor Gabe teaches on the correlation between our freedom and our thoughts, and how God intends for us to gain control of our minds.

We are all familiar with turning to someone or something for validation and assurance. Yet too often we become slaves to the very thing we seek for comfort. In week two of Feel Free Pastor Gabe teaches from Galatians 5 how Christ gave Himself for our sins that we might experience His rescue and the life of freedom He desires for us.

When you remove God from any equation, what you get is deep potential for absolute wickedness and sin. When you remove God from the equation of creation, you forget that all of mankind was made in the image of God. Watch as Pastor Gabe Turner shares from Ephesians 2 what our response should be when the unthinkable happens in our city.

So often freedom is perceived as an external or emotionally satisfying experience. We must have the “right” circumstances, be married to the “right” person, have the “right” job, be at the “right” place in life in general, or whatever our idea of “right” is. In Galatians Paul is writing from prison and still experiencing freedom. In week one of our series, Feel Free, Pastor Gabe teaches from Galat...

In week two of "A Stirring," Pastor Dave walks through the list of spiritual gifts from Romans 12. The Apostle Paul instructed Timothy to "stir up the gifts." What does that mean for us?

Have you ever experienced a stirring? In week 1 of the new series, A Stirring, Pastor Gabe teaches from the book of Haggai how God personally & corporately encourages us. Too often we desire a meaningful life, yet experience less than due to fear and misaligned priorities. Instead of allowing opposition and discouragement to direct our path, God stirs us to action for our good and His glory.

Each of us were designed on purpose and with purpose. In week 4 of our series, Most of Your Moments, Pastor Gabe teaches from Ecclesiastes 12 on how God wants to make the most of the moments of our lifetime.

Moments come and go in a flash. In this week three of our series we discover that we never make the most of our moments unless we're pursuing true connectivity. It's true of parents with children, and it's true of every area where we experience a relational intersection in life.

Our enemy loves to accuse us in the spheres of influence that God has given us. He accuses us in the areas of our job performance and our leadership, in our parenting and our calling as a spouse. The accusations leave us wounded and stuck, and thoughts like, “I’m a failure,” “I can’t,” “I’ll never,” “I’m not smart enough,” "I'm not good enough," consume our minds. In week 2 of our series Most of Y...

So often our external image management outweighs our private life, and we find ourselves on the verge of empty. In week one of The Most of Your Moments, Pastor Gabe teaches from Mark 3 and the appointment Jesus has given us to lead lives of exceptional impact. Only a private life with Jesus produces a public life of greatness.

The nature of a reach is that it requires a stretch; going beyond what we perceive as our capacity. Unless someone is calling it out of us, very rarely will we truly go for it. In this week's message Pastor Gabe continues to teach from Acts 1 on the potential that God has put in us and is calling out of us.

None of us are exempt from the stretch that God allows in our lives. We don't always appreciate it, but if we lean in and embrace the moment it could lead to our greatest season of fulfillment. In this week's message Pastor Gabe continues our REACH Series as he teaches on the stretch of the early church and what it means for our lives.

There is a long list of things that can take our eyes off the finish line. With all of the barriers and obstacles to living a godly life, its easy to live in the here & now and focus on finishing our own race well. But what about those behind us? How will we reach the generations after us? In week two of our REACH Series, Next Generation Pastor, Tim Thorn talks about how we can live a life that ex...

In week one of REACH, Tony Wolf of Compassion International shares the need for the church to partner together to eliminate child poverty around the world.

There’s a certain set of equipment related to every sport and you don’t mix the equipment if you want to be successful and play the game the right way - the way it was designed. The same is true with life and all of it's transitions. In the final week of our Transitions Series Pastor Gabe teaches that life will never be all that God intends for us unless we're living according to His divine design...

There are a lot of voices at every basketball game - from the fans, to the refs, to the opposition, to your own coach or teammate. Each one has potential to or would like to be able to influence the direction of the game. In week 3 of our Transitions Series, Pastor Gabe teaches from Genesis 50 that not everyone who shows up at the game should be in your huddle.

In seasons of God's apparent silence it's always easy to conclude that He's absent or uninvolved in our lives. In week 2 of our Transitions series, Pastor Gabe teaches from Genesis 50 that it's God's responsibility to be sovereign and our responsibility to be obedient. If we confuse the two, we'll quickly find ourselves out of bounds.

Life is much like the game of basketball - full of transitions. Occasionally we have a season or a window of time to run a "set play," but mostly we're rushing in the frantic pace of major transitions. Unfortunately there's so much under the surface of our lives that we never deal with in the transitions, and we push through wounds, through pain, through fears, rather than facing up to the deep wo...

Uncertainty about circumstances, life, or even about who Jesus is isn't new to our day and age. Even the earliest followers of Jesus were skeptical, and the gospel writers weren't hesitant to record their doubts. In this Easter message Pastor Gabe teaches from the gospel of Luke on the clarity that Jesus' resurrection provided for the first century disciples and for those who follow Jesus in our d...

In this week's message Pastor Gabe teaches from John 12 on the significance of Palm Sunday and the necessity of Jesus to cross the line in certain areas of our lives. It's the line where He goes a little further than what we're comfortable with. Where He touches attitudes and egos, shame and victimhood, areas that we assume He affirms, but in reality He wants to bring about radical transformation.

In the final week of our series, When God Answers, Pastor Gabe teaches on the dynamics of when our faith and confidence get shaken as we wait on God to answer our prayers.