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Everyone of us knows well the battle that rages in our minds. It’s a battle where the enemy attempts to distract, derail, and destroy us through speculations and accusations. In this week’s message of our Checkmate series, Pastor Gabe teaches on the schemes of the enemy to wreak havoc in our minds and how the shield of faith is our only hope to realize the victory provided by Jesus.

Peace. Paul wrote in Romans 12:18 that as far as it depends on us, we should be at peace with all men. In week three of Checkmate, Pastor Gabe teaches on God’s goal of peace within relationships and what it means to have our feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Just as conflict in life is inevitable, resolution should be as well; however, our enemy does everything within his powe...

Have you ever looked at someone else’s situation and thought, that’s a hot mess? Or perhaps you have a hot mess of your own? Relationships, marriage, family, finances? Our enemy loves to work and create a hot mess, but this isn’t the reality that God wants us live in. In week 2 of Checkmate, Pastor Gabe teaches on the key to cleaning up and staying out of the hot messes of life.

When it comes to the game of chess, the term “checkmate” means the game is over. There are no more moves. There is no way out. This describes the spiritual war that we all find ourselves in the middle of - Jesus has already won! In week 1 of this series Pastor Gabe begins to lay out a biblical perspective on the struggle and how to live victoriously in the midst of it.

Work often leaves us disillusioned and frustrated when our current experiences don’t meet our expectations. Even when things go the way we envision they can quickly lose their luster. In this week’s message Pastor Gabe teaches on a new motivation and power for work; one greater than anything we can muster up in an of ourselves.

Regardless of your profession, we’ve all witnessed attitudes in the workplace that are toxic and destructive to the work environment. It’s an attitude easy to spot in others but very difficult to see in ourselves. In week three of our series, FOCUS, Pastor Gabe teaches on why our attitude at work is so critical and offers a solution on how to keep it in check.

Ever wake up in the morning and feel that the work you’re engaging in that day is pointless, a mistake, a waste of your life? Many experience that frustration weekly, if not daily. In week 2 of FOCUS: Your Work Matters, Pastor Gabe discusses the significance of your current place in life and how it’s probably not the mistake you think it is.

A recent Forbes article shares that 52.3% of Americans are unhappy with their work. A Gallup poll revealed that only 13% of employees world-wide are actually engaged in their jobs hoping to make their organization better. We’ve all experienced frustrations, disappointments, and exhaustion that come from the workplace. In week 1 of our series, FOCUS: Your Work Matters, Pastor Gabe shares the key to...

In this week’s message Pastor Gabe addresses a question that was asked on the Holy Spirit, and specifically, Who He is and what work does He accomplish in our lives?

In this week’s message Pastor Gabe addresses questions of pain, suffering, and brokenness in the world, especially in light of recent tragic events in our nation.

Each of us have an infinite number of voices vying for our attention. The voice of culture, the voice of career, the voice of friends, the voice of family - who and what do we give our attention to? In this week’s message Pastor Gabe concludes The Fight series and teaches from Nehemiah 6 on how to overcome the voice of distraction in the midst of the fight for family.

Guest speaker George Morris (FCA Director at UVA) shares about fighting for your family at The Point.

Most women dream of a marriage with certain goals, expectations, and desires in mind. Sometimes these are healthy and sometimes not. In week two of The Fight, Kari Turner shares what it means to influence marriage in a way that honors God - to fight for the soul of your husband, so that he, and marriage, become all that God intends.

When we hear the word “fight” in relation to family, the most obvious connection we make is fighting with family. Tensions in marriage, or with mom and dad, or your children or siblings all come to mind. Throughout this series we’re asking what does it look like to fight for your family? In this week’s message, Pastor Gabe teaches a special Father’s Day message on what it means to fight like a man...

Have you ever wondered what it'll be like to experience heaven? No one made more shocking statements about heaven than Jesus. His teachings often left his audiences amazed or dumbfounded. Join us this week as Pastor Nate shares on the topic you wanted to hear about: Christ's teachings on the afterlife. It may surprise and excite you to learn what heaven will really be like.

Throughout this series we are teaching on the questions that you have texted about. Listen to week 3 as Donald Fields teaches on the difference between testing and temptation and how to have victory in both.

Throughout this series we are teaching on the questions that you have texted about. Listen to week 2 as Pastor Gabe teaches on how to discern the will of God versus our own will.

Throughout this series we are teaching on the questions that you have texted about. Listen to week 1 as Pastor Gabe teaches on the doctrine of hell, and just as important, what do we do about it?

If there were something undermining your prayer life wouldn’t you want to know? Watch as Pastor Gabe teaches on an attitude that will undermine all our praying and what God wants to accomplish in and through our circling.

What do we do when we circle our dreams and fears in prayer, only to feel as if the situation is getting worse? Rather than the door opening, it gets shut altogether. Our child seems to drift farther from God. My spouse’s heart seems to grow even more hardened. My dream job gets handed to a coworker. The “perfect” relationship abruptly ends. We all know this kind of agony. Listen to week 3 of The...

Have you ever wondered how to pray? Maybe you’ve framed the question like this, “Am I even doing this right because I'm not getting the results I'm expecting?" Join us as we continue in our Circle Maker series by learning how to circle our greatest fears and biggest dreams in powerful prayer.

It’s hard to put into words the fear that Israel would have felt after crossing the Jordan River and laying their eyes on Jericho for the first time. Heavily fortressed, God’s people had never seen a city like it before, and now they were given a strange plan to take the city by circling it. Everyone of us has a Jericho in life. It’s that area of our lives where we find ourselves pleading with God...

Regardless on where you stand on the candidates or the issue in the current presidential election, everyone of us has had a moment, or many moments, where we think, How’s this going to turn out? There’s uncertainty, and as we’ve established, uncertainty is the birthplace of worry. Listen to week 3 of our series, Why Worry?, as Pastor Gabe teaches on the reason we have no reason to worry about the...

Oftentimes the leading survey response for what is causing us the greatest stress is money. Join us this week as Pastor Nate shows us how to diffuse financial worries using God's principles. The message promises to be a very fun and memorable lesson on money that will stay with you for the rest of your life. We have a creative surprise planned for all who attend, so it'll definitely pay to join us...

Who doesn’t struggle with worry? From finances to health, from a career change to a relationship, uncertainty becomes the birthplace of all of our worries in life. Listen to week 1 of our series, Why Worry?, as Pastor Gabe teaches on the difference between us having worry and worry having us, and what the Bible says we need to do about it.