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Life Center
by Life Center
Whether you’re looking for a sermon on forgiveness, love, or marriage, or anything else, we start by looking in the Bible. We hope you find encouragement and spiritual guidance, and most importantly that each one connects you with Jesus.
Episodes
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Politics
Which candidate would Jesus vote for? In 2004, two college students debated that question until one slapped the other to the ground. The argument hasn't cooled much since.
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Divorce
Nobody gets married hoping to get divorced, yet few topics divide people more. Michael Wittwer walks through Jesus' words in Matthew 19, looking at God's ideal for marriage, the hard questions about divorce and remarriage, and how to be a peacemaker wherever your own story has landed.
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Identity
As the Peacemakers series begins, Michael Wittwer explores the four kinds of peace Jesus offers, then takes on one of the most divisive questions of our day: how can I trust God with my sexuality and identity? It's an honest look at what Jesus said, where Christians disagree, and how we can...
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Obeying the Word
It's possible to know a lot about the Bible and still build your life on sand. In a story Jesus tells about two builders, the wise one isn't the person who knows the most, but the one who acts on what he's heard.
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The Kindness of God
In the earliest centuries, the Greek word for “kind” sounded almost identical to the word for “Christ,” and the people following him were sometimes called the kind ones, because of how they cared for the poor and welcomed orphans. Kindness does the loving thing even when it’s uncomfortable, and…
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How to build a habit
Nobody accidentally trains themselves to scroll for hours, but somehow reaching for a book on purpose feels like work. This ones about why a daily habit of time in the Bible matters more than it might seem, and offers five simple, practical steps for actually making it stick.
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What is the Bible? Why read it daily?
"None of them are like the Bible." That's the claim at the center of this conversation about the most printed, most translated, and most banned book in human history. What is the Bible? — where did it come from, who wrote it, and why over 900 English translations exist. Why does it matter if you...
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Who Is This Man?
There's a moment in the middle of a storm when fear stops being about the wind and starts being about something else entirely. Jesus speaks two words that make the sea go completely still. And the disciples don't respond with relief — but with a different kind of fear. "Who is this man?"
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Make the most of it
Peter had fished all night and caught nothing. Then a carpenter he barely knew climbed into his boat, sat down, and told him to go back out and try again in broad daylight, exactly when the fish wouldn't be there. It made no sense. He did it anyway. What happened next changed the direction of his...
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Work for the Lord
Most of us treat work as something to get through, not something with meaning. This message walks through Genesis and the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls in Nehemiah to ask three simple but pointed questions about the work in front of you — questions that hold up whether you're clocking into a…
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Work is a Blessing
Genesis says work showed up before anything ever went wrong — which changes what a hard Monday actually means. The Bible to show work as a partnership with God, not a punishment or a paycheck to chase.
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Uniting in Prayer for Community
Today we unite together in a guided prayer service to pray for Spokane and all those affected by the fires. With thousands of people evacuated and many people uncertain of their futures, we are leaning into God and praying in unity for help and healing in our community.
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Mary’s Rejoicing Prayer
"My soul glorifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior." Those words come from a teenager facing the hardest, most humiliating season of her life — pregnant, unmarried, and staring down a wave of gossip and scrutiny most of us can't imagine. And yet praise is the first thing out of...
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Jonah’s Repentance Prayer
Jonah ran, got thrown overboard, and prayed one of the most honest prayers in the Bible from inside the belly of a fish. No matter how far you've run, this is a story about a God who's never too far away. Turning back around starts with a single honest prayer.
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Hannah’s Desperation Prayer
Hannah had a husband who loved her and a home full of provision — but she also carried a grief no one else could fix. Her raw, unfiltered prayer in 1 Samuel 1 shows what happens when we stop holding it together and bring our rawest emotions to God. It's an honest look at what desperation does to…
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Solomon’s Wisdom Prayer
A teenage king is handed absolute power and one open-ended offer from God: ask for anything. He asks for a discerning heart instead of wealth or safety, and Michael Wittwer unpacks why that request changes everything, and what it looks like to pray the same way today.
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David’s Shepherd Prayer
"The Lord is my shepherd." Which means, if that's true — I'm not. David wrote Psalm 23 as a shepherd, a giant-killer, a king — and he still chose to see himself as a sheep. That choice changed how he prayed, what he feared, and how he faced the darkest valleys of his life.
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Esther’s Fasted Prayer
Esther faced a choice that could cost her life, and her first response wasn't a plan — it was a fast. Zach Lewis walks through Esther chapter 4, exploring what it means to pray with your whole body when the stakes feel impossibly high.
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Daniel’s Consistent Prayer
Most people treat prayer like a fire extinguisher — something you grab in an emergency. Daniel treated it like oxygen. Three times a day, every day, even when a law was passed making it punishable by death. What makes someone that consistent? And what happens when they are?
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Nehemiah’s Quick Prayer
Prayer can feel like a skill you either have or you don't — but Nehemiah's story suggests something different. Standing before a king with everything at stake, he prayed a quick, silent prayer, and it changed everything. Three words — Help, Thanks, Wow — turn out to be more than enough to stay...
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Where is God when I’m weary to the bone
There's a kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix — the bone-deep weariness that comes from sustained loss, grief, or the weight of something that just won't change. Job knew it, and his words from the middle of that darkness are surprisingly honest, even raw. This week looks at what it means to...
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Where is God when I’m Tempted
Job had already lost everything when his wife told him to give up on God entirely — and somehow he refused.Job had already lost everything when his wife told him to give up on God entirely — and somehow he refused. It's about a man facing the temptation to abandon everything he believed in when…
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Where is God when Disaster Strikes
Bad things happen to good people, and the book of Job doesn't pretend otherwise. But through one man's catastrophic loss, something unexpected emerges — a reason to trust that holds even when everything else doesn't.
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How do I walk in the Spirit?
There's a daily tug-of-war most of us feel between who we want to be and what we actually do — and Robyn Schad makes the case that willpower alone isn't enough to win it. In this final message of the "Filled with the Spirit" series, she walks through three honest, practical ways to stop living on...
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Is there more of the Spirit?
God fills whatever you bring to him. Being filled with the Holy Spirit isn't a one-time event — it's something you keep coming back to. And it might be the thing that changes everything.
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What does the Spirit do?
Jesus told the most religious man in the room that he needed to start over — and the same message might be for you. Pastor Joe Wittwer unpacks what it actually means to be spiritually alive, and why no amount of good behavior can get you there on your own.
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Who is the Spirit
Most of us believe in the Holy Spirit in theory — but what actually is he, and why does it matter for your everyday life? This talk digs into one of Christianity's most misunderstood ideas, and why you might be making things harder on yourself than they need to be.
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Easter
The first Easter morning, two women showed up expecting a sealed tomb and found it empty. This is an honest look at why the resurrection still matters — and what it might change in you.
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The Death of Jesus
What if the worst day in history was actually an act of love? This week, Pastor Dave walks through the death of Jesus — what really happened on Good Friday, and why it still matters today.
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The Rejection of Jesus
On the last night of Jesus' life, three people showed their true colors. One sold him out for money. A courtroom full of religious leaders bent their own rules to get rid of him. And the surprising thing they have in common: they all chose something over someone. Money. Control. Comfort. The...
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There’s a seat at the table for you
Jesus welcomed imperfect people to his table—betrayers, doubters, and failures alike. The same invitation remains today. Wherever you’re coming from, there is a seat at the table for you.
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What Matters Most
If you had one week left to live, what would matter most? During the week that changed the world—just days before the cross—Jesus was asked the most important question in all of Scripture: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment?” Jesus answered with clarity: “Love the Lord your God with all...
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Jesus is King
Jesus came to rule as King. And to purify His people. If Jesus is King… then I’m not. Every heart has a throne. Who’s sitting on yours? Let's turn to Jesus and surrender our lives to Him.
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How to Invite
Conversation is the pathway to invitation. Most of us don’t struggle with inviting… we struggle with starting a conversation. In this message, we unpack the “Bring” part of "Find, Tell, Bring" and talk about how simple, genuine curiosity opens doors for spiritual conversations. It’s helping…
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God’s Big Story
In this message, we walk through the four movements of the gospel — Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration — and discover where you fit in God’s story. You were made in His image. Sin broke what was good. Jesus came to rescue. And one day, He’s making all things new.
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Whether you’re looking for a sermon on forgiveness, love, or marriage, or anything else, we start by looking in the Bible. We hope you find encouragement and spiritual guidance, and most importantly that each one connects you with Jesus.
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