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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 life. What would it look like to actually trust Jesus with your job?

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 job you love or one you can barely stand.

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.

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.

"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 her mouth. 

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.

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 a person, and where it might be leading you.

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.

"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.

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.

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?

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 connected to God in the middle of real life.

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 absorb who God is when you've got nothing left to bring.

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 he had every reason to — and choosing not to. There are four practical things in this talk that come out of that story.

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.

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 autopilot and start moving at a different pace.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 uncomfortable part? Their reasons aren't that different from ours.

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.

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 your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind… and love your neighbor as yourself.” — Matthew 22:37–39

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.

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 someone take one step closer to Jesus.

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.