Vortex Church | Sermon Audio

Today we are sharing a few messages of hope and encouragement from our staff members from their living rooms to yours. If you're struggling during this season, we want you to know you're not alone. We are with you, but even more, God is with you! As we share some of our struggles with you today, we also want to share how we have leaned in to scripture and found hope and strength in God.

We spend a lot of time focused on our outer life: how to get in shape, what meals to prepare, and how manage our money. How much time to do you put into your inner life? During this message we’ll see that God cares about your heart, and Pastor Kevin Simmons will help us see some practical ways we can retake our hearts this week.

Today we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus! Easter is a day of VICTORY! Death and the grave thought they had won, but Jesus had other plans. Pastor Kevin Simmons shares with us a few things the resurrection gives us permission to experience even during our toughest battles.

As we enter into the week of Easter today on Palm Sunday, Pastor Kevin Simmons asks us the question, "What are you focused on?" It's easy to get caught up with TP (tunnel perspective) and lose sight of the good around us. But as we go through this week, we need to be reminded that Jesus needs to be the central focus of every part of our lives.

Have you ever wondered to yourself, “Is there more?” Maybe you’re living with a vague awareness that there’s more to life than what you’ve experienced. This message is for you! During this message Pastor Kevin Simmons shares with us how to level up our experience with the rewards of right relationship with God. Jesus died to purchase them for us. Let’s position ourselves to more fully live in what...

Did you know it was possible to reject the rewards Jesus purchased for you? We do it often, and we often don’t know we’re doing it! During this message Pastor Kevin Simmons shows us how not to disqualify ourselves from the rewards that our right relationship with Jesus offers us!

When Jesus died on the cross, He purchased for us a life we could never have afforded for ourselves. How many times have we lived as if we’ve forgotten the rewards He’s already bought for us? During this message Pastor Kevin Simmons shows us that God has predefined the rewards of our relationship with Him and challenges us to live from a place of receiving them today!

Have you endured a painful season, there was purpose in the pain. God wastes nothing, including our pain. It is possible, however, to endure the pains of life and miss out on the rewards. During this message Pastor Kevin Simmons asks us to reflect on our lives and ask, “Are we running an eternal race trying to earn a temporary prize?”

Too often we allow fights to get out of control and cross healthy boundaries. Have you ever considered that how we fight is as important as what we’re fighting for? During this message Pastor Kevin Simmons shares with us FIGHT RULES to help us better navigate conflict.

What are you fight for in life? Are you fighting for petty things? Or... Are you fighting for the most important things? During this message Pastor Kevin Simmons exposes the internal conflicts that are keeping us from fighting for the best things and shows us what we need to fight for in the middle of conflict.

Life is going to throw a sucker punch. You’re going to experience trouble that you couldn’t predict. When that sucker punch lands, how do you react? During this message Pastor Kevin Simmons shares with us how typically react and shows us how to navigate trouble in a better way.

How we handle conflict contributes to the health of our relationships. Are you running for conflict? Are you causing unhelpful conflict? As we open #FIGHTFORIT, Pastor Kevin Simmons shows us that conflict is a part of every healthy, intimate relationship and invites us to fight like a winner.

As we close out our vision series for 2020, Pastor Kevin Simmons asks us, “What good thing is standing between you and the life God wants for you?” Often we fill our lives with good things and come to find that good things are crowding out the best things. Let’s relentlessly pursue the life God’s called us to live.

Do you struggle with serving others? God calls us to serve in every area of our lives because He knows the need is great. During this message Pastor Jon Mikesell shares 3 areas we need to RELENTLESSLY SERVE...our Families, Community and Church. God has given us each the abilities and talents to meet the needs of others.

Have you ever given up on something important? Every time we give up on God, we give up what God wants for us. During this message Pastor Kevin Simmons shows us why and how we often give up, points us to our God who has never given up on us, and shows us how to get past giving up.

What have you given up on in the past? Maybe it was the pursuit of getting healthy, strengthening a relationship, or even your relationship with Jesus. Whenever we give up, we give up something. In this message Pastor Kevin Simmons shows us how to remain faithful to God’s vision for our lives when life gets glitchy.

Through the discomfort of the Christmas story, we can see that God cares more for our character than He does for our comfort. The best stories come from characters that have the greatest character. In this message Pastor Kevin Simmons focuses on the characters of the Christmas story and reveals a hidden reality in Christmas that reshapes our perspective of this moment in history! #UNCOMFORTABLEser...

The setting of a story has a lot of power over the story that emerges. The story of Christmas has a very uncomfortable setting! Often the setting for our story is a set-up from God. Maybe you feel like your setting disqualifies you from your future, but during this message from Pastor Kevin Simmons you’ll see that God is working to set you up!

What makes you uncomfortable? It might be something as simple as a word that’s spoken, a topic of conversation, or even reliving a past experience. When we look at the story of Christmas, everything about it is uncomfortable. During this message Pastor Kevin Simmons shares with us how to get comfortable being uncomfortable!

Have you ever ended up somewhere you didn’t want to be? Life can be like that! When we live without purpose, our destination drifts and we end up somewhere we never wanted to go! God has a design for you, and that plan is going to take you farther than you could ever imagine going! During this message Pastor Kevin Simmons shares with us how God’s plan for our finances helps us stay in focus and ke...

Money is a common point of stress for most of us. Jesus taught on money more than any other subject, and the Scriptures are full of wisdom to help you navigate your personal finances better. During this message, Pastor Kevin Simmons shows us that what we do with our money is more important than what we often think!

Are you holding on to a past hurt, habit, or hang-up? Have you struggled with telling others, yourself, and even God what should have happened in life? Maybe you’re struggling with bitterness! During this message Amanda Simmons is going to explore the Old Testament story of Jonah and show you how God wants to deal with our bitterness!