Valley Creek Church Weekend Messages

What if Jesus is better than we think? God wants to reveal Himself to us, and the humanity and divinity of Jesus is a pathway to knowing more about the character of God. The main reason Jesus came was to show us what the Father is really like. In Him, we see everything we would ever want to know about God. In this message, Pastor John Stickl teaches us that, by looking to Jesus, we can see what it...

Do you have room in your thoughts for God? Whatever we think about God will directly impact every area of our lives. Our thoughts about God don't change who He is; it changes how we live. The more we focus on God and His faithfulness, the more we are filled with faith! When we have a broken view of God, it creates a broken view of everything else. Spiritual warfare is breaking down arguments and o...

As a family, we've been praying, fasting, and crying out to God for an awakening. We've been asking Him to turn our hearts toward Him, because we know there is so much more of Jesus and His kingdom to experience. Fasting is how we practice denying our flesh and walking in the Spirit. Today, Pastor John Stickl walked us through praying for God to continue to awaken our hearts to Him, His love, His...

We will become that which we turn our hearts toward. Whenever God goes first and awakens our hearts to Him, it creates a choice. Are we going to chose to turn away from the world and continue to lean into Him, or are we going to choose to go back to sleep? Remember, the grace at work within us is so much stronger than the flesh at work against us! As we prepare for a week of prayer and fasting, Pa...

Who turns your heart? Whatever our heart is turned to, that's what we're awakened to. Often times, we're awakened to the wrong things (the world) and dead to the right things (the kingdom of God). And no matter how hard we try, we can't awaken our own hearts. So, it's time for an awakening! God, turn our hearts to You! In this message, Pastor John shares how Jesus came to turn our hearts to God, a...

Ephesians 4:32 tells us, "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." Forgiveness is key to living a healthy family, and the road to forgiveness is traveled through kindness and compassion. In this message, Pastor Jason Hillier wraps up our 60 Days of Family series by teaching us that, when we remember who we are and what Jesus has done for u...

What does it look like to be the greatest in the kingdom of God? It might look a little different than we think. The greatest are actually the servants, and God's heart for our families is servanthood. Serving isn't about what we do; it's about who we are. We learn what servanthood looks like by looking to Jesus because Jesus served us best when we deserved it the least. In this message, Sebastian...

Discipline in the world looks a lot different than discipline in the kingdom of God. In the world, discipline looks like punishment. But when we've put our trust in Jesus, we can look at discipline the way God intended us to – as love! In this message, Pastor Dave Scriven teaches us that, since discipline comes from God, we can trust Him to show us how it should look in our families. Healthy disci...

One of the most foundational ways to have a healthy family is by practicing healthy communication! In this message, some of our teaching team walk us through James 1:19 as we learn how to be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. This verse is a framework for how we can live like Jesus in the ways we communicate to everyone in our lives – but it's especially important to follow...

God designed us to live in the presence of the family He has given us! His heart and design is to be present with us, as our good Father, and to put us in a family to be present with one another. To be present means we are wherever we are with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, fully available to do whatever God wants to do. In this message, Eric Sommerhauser teaches us that we can be presen...

What's your vision for your family? A better question may be, what's God's vision for your family? A vision is the ability to see a preferred future. It tells you who you're becoming as a family! Proverbs 29:18 says, “Where there is no vision, the people will perish.” So, where there is vision, the people will flourish! In this message, Pastor Becca Reynolds teaches us what would it look like for...

So much of what we think about family is often defined by our own experiences and expectations, but unsurrendered expectations lead to ongoing frustrations. When we live surrendered to Jesus, it leads to victories for our family! In this message, Pastor Jason Hillier kicks off our 60 Days of Family series, where we're learning to live as a healthy family together. When we look to God's Word to see...

In this experience, we wrapped up our Hope Carrier Initiative series. The kingdom of God is a movement of hope, and God wants His kingdom to flow into every area of life, not just in the church. God has empowered us, as His children, to be the ones to carry His kingdom into the places we go every single day! Pastor John Stickl commissioned us to do just that – to be hope carriers, disciples of Jes...

What does hope carrier mean to you? The Hope Carrier Initiative is more than a series; it's a way of life. Being a hope carrier is far more about what God is doing inside of us than what He does through us, and learning to live as a hope carrier is simply learning to live like Jesus. The Kingdom of God isn't complicated or overwhelming; following Jesus is meant to be easy and light. In this experi...

How do you define success? In the kingdom of God, success is obedience not results, and obedience is proof of discipleship. So, as hope carriers, success looks different to us than it does to the world. In this message, Pastor John Stickl teaches us that hope carriers define success as doing what God asks us to do, when God asks us to do it, how God asks us to do it. We know that it doesn't matter...

Are you present in your life? Or are you just waiting for "it" (school, the semester, the commitment, the season you're in) to be over? Are you present? Or are you focused more on your feelings, circumstances, or your past than on where God's placed you today? In this message, Pastor John Stickl teaches us that being present means wherever we are, we're there with all our heart, mind, soul, and st...

The evidence of a Spirit-filled life is the ability to dream with God. In other words, a heart that is captivated by God will always be full of dreams! In this message, Pastor John Stickl reminds us that we are God's dream! And the greatest way to steward the garden He has given us is by dreaming with Him about what could happen within it. Do you spend more time pursuing a dream or pursuing God? W...

As followers of Jesus, we are ambassadors of heaven. We have been empowered and created to change our world, and the evidence of a Spirit-filled life is the ability to dream with God! In this message, Pastor John Stickl teaches us that dreaming with God is when we partner with Him to create a future that doesn't exist. It's working with God to see His kingdom come in the area of life we have been...

This is the story of Easter according to Scripture. When we begin to grasp how much Jesus did for us, it changes everything! The story of Easter is good news; the good news of who Jesus is and what Jesus did. He came to show us who the Father is and what life in the kingdom is all about. He came to show us what it looks like to be fully alive, and how to live in complete freedom. All these are wri...

Identity determines behavior; who you are determines what you do, and a changed identity changes how we live. Religion is focused on changing how people behave, but God cares about changing what people believe. In this message, Pastor John Stickl teaches us that to believe something is to act as if it were so. Our behaviors will always reveal what we truly believe. Do you just say you believe you...

Hope can't be contained, and hope is on the move! In this message, we hear stories of hope! Stories about kids, students, young adults, business leaders, parents, firefighters, and more — people of the kingdom that are carrying the hope of Jesus into every area of life. Life-change is happening, and God is working through hope carriers. We know that the church doesn't have a mission; the mission h...

When was the last time you felt at rest? When was the last time you felt at peace? In this experience, we take time to mediate on God's word, worship God, experience peace, and take communion together. Scripture is one of the ways the Father shows us who He is, how much He loves us, and how good He is to us. The "Peace (Spoken Scriptures)" track is designed to help remind you of God's truth. What...

Sometimes a moment of silence to listen to what God's saying can tell us more than 100 hours of speaking. Anyone who wants to be great at something – whether it's music, sports, or following Jesus – must first learn how to practice. In this message, Pastor John Stickl teaches us that hope carriers practice what they've been taught. Hope carriers hear and obey; they listen and respond. If we don't...

In Jesus, we receive God's grace, experience His presence, and release His kingdom. Jesus restores our identity, reconciles our relationship, and redeems our purpose. This is the gospel of the kingdom of God, and it all starts with grace. In this message, Pastor John Stickl teaches us that, through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, we are now dead to sin and alive to grace. Sin no long...

What is the normal Christian life? In Acts 3, people were astonished by the power and godliness of Peter and John as they performed miracles and carried hope in the name of Jesus. But why were the people surprised? In this message, Pastor John Stickl teaches us that when we surrender our will to Jesus, power and godliness are the result. That is the normal Christian life! When we obey God, we get...