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Acts: The Church on MissionCR Ministry Lead Blake AppletonSunday August 2, 2026Acts 6:1-7Serenity prayerPeople Matter to GodGospel growth always brings blessings, problems and opportunities L.E.A.DL-Legitimate problems are acknowledged Philippians 2:4 More opportunities to love othersE-Equipped servants are selectedActs 6:3 Character comes before position. God develops something in us before He entrusts something to us1 Peter 4:10 use your good name to serve othersCharacter determines what we can faithfully carry. A-Apostles stay focusedThere are times when you have to leave the crowd to follow where God is leading you D-Dynamic Growth is ReleasedActs 6:7 needs were met and the Gospel kept advancingA healthy check isn't one without problems, it's one that faithfully meet them with God Mark 10:45

Acts: The Church on MissionElder Jeff KirkSunday July 26, 2026Acts 5:1-11Acts 4:32-36 Are we all one in heart and mind? God requires us to be people of honesty and integrity.It involves matching your words to your actions...1 Samuel 16:7Hebrews 4:13Psalm 139:1-4Ephesians 4:25Matthew 7:12A lie of omission is still a lie. God knows your heart, stop lying to him. Rationalizing and Minimalizing1 John 1:8-10Ephesians 4:222 Timothy 2:22James 4:17We diminish our own value-it's a lie that Satan tells us. We are ALL worthy of God's love. JOHN 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."Romans 5:8We are ALL worthy of God's love

Acts: The Church on MissionPastor Ray PeoplesSunday July 19, 2026Acts 4:13When were your bold in a decision? What was true in that moment? The power is never in the person, the power is in GOD. Boldness is the evidence of time spent with Jesus. Boldness begins....Acts 3:1-8Boldness follows intimacy.Acts 3:11-12Bold people know they aren't the hero BUT they are deeply connected to the hero.Acts 3:6-10Boldness is rooted in conviction.Acts 4:12 (Strong conviction)Boldness fears God more than peopleActs 4:19-20Matthew 10:28Boldness is the mission of EVERY believer Acts 4:29-31Boldness requires continual dependence on the Holy Spirit and we are are called to boldness! Where are you going with boldness? Spread that boldness wherever you go! Where is my ordinary place I can take Jesus? Every part of this city needs ordinary people to be bold in their faith.The disciples were ordinary people that let the Holy Spirit fill and drive their lives.Acts 4:13. Not achievement but boldness in the Spirit 

Acts: The Church on MissionTeacher Micah FrySunday July 12, 2026Acts 2:42-47The church is POWERED by the Holy Spirit.Devoted to:Apostle's Doctrine ("teaching" Acts 2:42)Dining Table (communion and meals Acts 2:42)Desperate Prayer (communal prayer Acts 2:42) "deeply personal and it usually requires one of us to be vulnerable"Deep Fellowship (Acts 2:44) familial? communityJohn 13:34-35Bringing Unity to the Body 

Elder Jeff KirkSunday July 5, 2026Acts 

Acts: The Church on MissionPastor Ray Peoples Sunday June 28, 2026Acts 1:1-14Apologies for all of the slips and pauses. Several technical difficulties struck on this day.

Elder Jeff KirkSunday June 21, 2026Luke 24:13-34

Pastor Ray Peoples Sunday June 14, 2026Luke 22:14-23IF I HAD 10 MORE MINUTES:There is one disciple that I unintentionally skipped over, and honestly, I am glad we have a chance to come back to him because his story adds something beautiful to the picture of the table.I skipped the Apostle John.Throughout Scripture, John is often referred to as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (John 13:23; John 21:20). Now, that doesn't mean Jesus loved John more than the others. Rather, it reveals how deeply John understood and experienced the love of Christ. John's identity was not primarily found in what he did for Jesus, but in the fact that he was loved by Jesus.When you read John's writings, that theme is impossible to miss.The Gospel of John continually points us to the love of God displayed in Christ. Then you come to 1 John, 2 John, and 3 John, and they are saturated with the language of love.1 John 4:7-8 says,"Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love."A few verses later John writes,"We love because He first loved us." (1 John 4:19)John understood something that every believer needs to understand: the Christian life begins with receiving the love of Christ before it ever moves into extending the love of Christ.And when you look around the table of the disciples, that truth becomes even more powerful.At that table sat fishermen and tax collectors.At that table sat Peter, who would deny Jesus.At that table sat Thomas, who would doubt.At that table sat Matthew, who had a complicated and sinful past.At that table sat Simon the Zealot, a political revolutionary.At that table sat Judas, who would betray Jesus.Different personalities.Different backgrounds.Different stories.Different failures.Yet they all had a seat at the table.The beauty of the gospel is that Jesus does not gather people because they are alike. He gathers people because they all need Him.And the same is true today.Some of us come to the table carrying shame.Some come carrying pride.Some come carrying doubt.Some come carrying wounds.Some come carrying questions.Some come carrying a long history of mistakes.Yet the invitation of Jesus remains the same.The table is not filled with people who have it all together. The table is filled with people who have found grace.That is why communion is so significant. Every time we gather around the Lord's Table, we are reminded that our hope is not in our goodness, our performance, our church attendance, or our spiritual resume.Our hope is in Christ.The bread reminds us of His body that was broken.The cup reminds us of His blood that was shed.As Jesus said in Matthew 26:28,"For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."His body was broken.His blood was shed.Not merely for one type of person, but for people from every tribe, every tongue, every background, every story, and every failure.The cross is the great equalizer.At the foot of the cross, Peter and John stand on the same ground.Matthew and Simon stand on the same ground.The faithful and the broken stand on the same ground.And so do we.The table reminds us that while our stories may be different, our Savior is the same.The invitation is the same.The grace is the same.And the love that John wrote about so often is available to every person who comes to Jesus in faith.Because in the end, the greatest thing about John was not that he was the disciple who loved Jesus.The greatest thing about John was that he understood he was loved by Jesus.And that is the invitation for every one of us today. Not simply to know facts about Christ, but to sit at His table, receive His grace, and rest in the overwhelming reality that we are deeply loved by Him.

Elder Matt MannSunday June 7, 2026Luke 19:1-10

Elder Jeff KirkSunday May 31, 2026Luke 15:11-32

Pastor Ray PeoplesSunday May 24, 2026Luke 14:15-24

Pastor Ray PeoplesSunday May 17, 2026Luke 10:38-42

Pastor Ray PeoplesSunday May 10.2026Luke 10:25-37

May 3, 2026Jeff KirkBook of Luke

Pastor Ray PeoplesSunday April 26, 2026Luke 7:36-50

Elder Jeff Kirk kicks off our series in Luke 

Neighborhoods Pastor Steven Daniel joins us to teach about starting to share Jesus with those around you 

Genesis 21:1-7Luke 24:1-12 Romans 4:18-25

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