The Summit Church

You are either a sheep or a goat. You are either committed to the mission, all-in for Jesus, using your resources for the Kingdom, or you are not. You are either praised for your commitment and welcomed into the kingdom or condemned and left out of it. No middle-ground. And that puts the lukewarm Christian in a very precarious position.

So much of our soul unrest comes from having a 'contract' mentality with God.

The value you place on something is shown by what you’ll give up for it. When Jesus talked about finding the Kingdom, he used terms like that. He taught that finding the Kingdom was like finding something of such incredible value that you’d gladly leave everything else behind to get it.

This weekend is going to answer a lot of questions for you. It’s going to explain the dynamics of what is going on in your heart when the Word of God is being taught and why some people, even though they are really smart, can’t seem to grasp the truth and don’t believe. It will explain why so many well-meaning people interpret the Bible in different ways and why sometimes the Bible feels so hard t...

When it comes to racial reconciliation, none of us are where we should be. But we can all walk forward together.

Each person has been uniquely assigned a role in bringing glory to God. Comparing roles only leads to discord; our call is to hear the words of Christ – “Follow me.”

If the resurrection happened, it's 'game on' for all things Christian. If it didn't, then it's game over!

This week we’ll walk through the actual moments of the crucifixion and see the clues the writers put in there to explain why it happened. And then, we’ll do what we’ve done the previous weeks of our series, “Instead of Me”—we’ll see how the responses of the people surrounding the events are supposed to give us pictures of us.

In "Accused for Me" we’ll look at how the four primary characters surrounding Jesus’ trial represent us and give a glimpse into four potential ways we can respond to Jesus.

As we continue our series, “Instead of Me,” we’ll look at just why Jesus endured the rejection and abandonment of his loving Father and why it makes all the difference for our lives.

You can tell whether you are a “Judas” or a “Mary” by how you respond when life disappoints you. Do you get angry, like Judas, because God doesn’t seem to keep up his end of the deal, or do you, like Mary, consider Jesus a better treasure than an easy life? Which one do you relate to more?

Moses, the good-looking, adopted son of Pharaoh, actually starts Exodus 3 as a pretty insecure guy after a string of setbacks. We’ll see this weekend through his story that confidence comes not from discovering greater things about yourself or tapping into your potential but rather from seeing how big and powerful God is, discovering his purposes for your life, and getting swept up in them.

Many people think the second commandment (don’t make carved images) is just a restatement of the first commandment (don’t have other gods before God). They’re actually quite different. The first is about worshipping other gods instead of God; the second is about worshipping the right God in the wrong way. We may not think we can relate much to this commandment because we don’t have any gold statue...

This weekend, we’ll start our series “Not God Enough” and tackle the conception that God is just a slightly bigger, slightly smarter version of us and how it creates so many problems in our lives. There’s a man in the Bible who had more questions for God than anyone else I know of, and his story gives us some wisdom to apply to our questions about the universal problem of suffering.

Our prayer life, the content of our prayers or our lack of prayer, reveals the condition of our hearts.

When it comes to prayer, there are a lot of stories from the Bible and truths that just hurt your mind when you try to understand them. One of those is the indication from Scripture that God knows the end from the beginning and will accomplish his fixed and eternal plan. So why pray? Does that mean that prayer is less a way of changing God’s mind and more a way of changing us?

Aren’t you glad there’s a story in the Bible where Jesus explains to his disciples how to pray? He even gives us a model prayer to follow. This week Pastor J.D. walked us through the Lord’s Prayer and shared some practical suggestions for how to either start a daily prayer time or jump-start your prayer time if you’ve gotten into a rut.

The first week of our new series, “Ask,” will not just be an attempt to get you to make a New Year’s resolution about your prayer life. Together we’ll look at Jesus’ example and see that his whole life was saturated with prayer and that the main way we access his power is by praying in four specific ways.

For all that I need, all that I lack, all that I could never be in myself, Jesus is the great I AM.

There is freedom in not having to worry whether you will face adversity or prosperity today when you are in and with the Prince of Peace!

You’ve got to stop viewing your Heavenly Father through the lens of your earthly one. Reverse the order: Understand your earthly father through the lens of your Heavenly one.

What is the best thing God can do for you in the midst of any given problem? Do you trust him as Wonderful Counselor, and are you ready to do whatever he says?

Waiting can be hard, because in waiting, what we want to happen just hasn't happened yet. And waiting can especially be hard at Christmas. In Luke chapter two, there's a Christmas story for those who wait. It's not the Christmas story most of us are familiar with.