ZAO Church Message Series

In week three of What Grows Here, we come to the third fruit of the Spirit: peace. We are living in one of the most anxious moments in modern history, and most of us go looking for peace in a method, a technique, or a better routine, but those things only manage the absence of [...]

In week two of What Grows Here, we come to the second fruit of the Spirit: joy. In this message Associate Pastor Mark Urquhart draws the line between happiness and joy, because happiness rides on circumstances and comes and goes, but joy is rooted in Christ and remains. It is not something that happens to [...]

In week one of What Grows Here, we begin a walk through the Fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5, starting where the whole list starts: love. "Love Lives Here" reframes what Christianity actually is, not behavior modification but spiritual formation, because you cannot learn fruit, you can only bear it. The fruit reveals the [...]

There is a million dollar account with your name on it, fully funded and ready to withdraw, but it does you no good if you never go to the bank. "Walk In It" picks up where Executive Pastor Dustin Sample left off, moving from surrender to identity to action, and confronts a gap a lot [...]

Most Christians, even saved and church-going ones, have no idea who they actually are, because we have been looking in the wrong mirror, letting our bodies, our bank accounts, and our emotions tell us our identity. In "The Whole You", Executive Pastor Dustin Dample opens up what Scripture says you really are, a three-part being [...]

In 1 Kings 18, Elijah stands alone on Mount Carmel against 450 prophets of Baal and stakes everything on one truth: the God who answers by fire, He is God. In "The God of Fire", Executive Pastor Dustin Sample walks through what happens before the fire ever falls, as Elijah repairs the broken altar, brings [...]

In week three of Misquoted, we close the series with a phrase people offer as comfort and treat like Scripture: God will never give you more than you can handle. But God never said that. "God Will Never Give You More Than You Can Handle" traces the verse back to where it actually lives, a [...]

In week two of Misquoted, we take on a phrase our whole culture believes and treats like Scripture: God just wants me happy. But God never said that. "God Just Wants Me Happy" exposes what happens when happiness becomes the goal, because then God becomes the means to get there, and the moment following Jesus [...]

In week one of Misquoted, we take on a phrase a lot of people grew up hearing and treat as Scripture: you have to be baptized to be saved. But God never said that. This message shows that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus, and that baptism is not the requirement of [...]

This Easter, the risen Jesus appears to John on the island of Patmos and declares, "I hold the keys of death and the grave." That is not poetry, it is a declaration of authority. "He Holds The Keys" reminds us that when Jesus walked out of the tomb He did not come back empty handed, [...]