Episodes
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God Hasn't Given Up On You
Ever feel like giving up? You try and fail. You make promises and then break them. Sometimes it seems like we’ll never “get it right.” That’s why this message is so important. Even when we feel like giving up on ourselves, God never does. He never stops calling us, searching for us, or believing…
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Deep Faith
Unshakable faith. Does that describe YOU? This message will look at how we cultivate a faith that doesn’t fail when times get tough. We’ll explore how to develop the “roots” of faith that go deep and keep us secure.
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The Rollercoaster
Many people equate emotions with spirituality or faith. But there is often a huge difference between what we FEEL and what the truth is. This message will explore the danger of following our emotions and how we can stay focused on the truth.
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When Good Is Not Good Enough
As Jeremiah points forward to Jesus, he reminds us that we cannot make ourselves right before God, no matter how hard we try. That’s why Jeremiah refers to Jesus as Yahweh Tsidkenu, “The Lord Is Our Righteousness”. This message will explore how it is Jesus who not only makes us righteous, but…
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What's the Fire in Your Bones_
What’s the “fire” God has put inside of you right now? Maybe it’s a calling to a vocation. Maybe it’s a person He wants you to talk to. Maybe it’s a role He’s challenging you to fill. When God wants to work through us, He lights a fire within us. So, what’s the fire in YOUR bones?
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El Roi, The God Who Sees Me - 9_16_26, 10.21 AM
Join us as guest speaker, Stephanie Greenwald, shares a scripture from the story of Haggai as Haggai calls the Lord, El Roi, the God who sees me.
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The Secret to the Victorious Life
Jesus concludes His prayer with a reminder that we have an Enemy who seeks to derail us. But God is our Protector and our Defender. If we lean into Him and stay close by His side, we will have the victory!
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The Keys to Your Prison Are in Your Hand
Jesus uses this part of the prayer to remind us of two of the most important truths in scripture. One is that our God is a God of Great Grace who is willing to forgive us if we confess our sins in brokenness. The second truth is that we are to pass that grace along to those who sin against us.
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It's Okay to Ask for Help
In the wilderness, the Israelites depended on God to give them manna each day for their survival. Jesus reminds us that God is still our Helper, our Provider, and the God who is responsive to the requests of His people. All we have to do is ask.
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The Battle of the Wills
Jesus reminds us that prayer is not about getting God to do what WE want, but posturing ourselves to do what HE wants. Just as Jesus surrendered to the will of the Father in Gethsemane, so we should daily surrender our lives to His will and His way.
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The Incredible Power of Praise
Praise lifts our spirits, strengthens our faith, and reminds us how AWESOME our God really is. When we remember how great God is, our problems seem small by comparison. Let’s PRAISE!
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Fruit of the Spirit - Self-Control
One of the greatest lessons of leadership is that in order to lead others, you must first be able to lead yourself. This is also the proof of God’s Spirit in our lives! Self-control is actually the yielding of our lives to God’s control. It is seeking His mind, considering His values, and making...
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Fruit of the Spirit - Gentleness
Gentleness is not weakness. It is the godly management of power! Most people with power use it for their own advantage. Some abuse it. This message will look at how we can live with the gentleness of Jesus, who used His power to honor God and help others.
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Fruit of the Spirit - Faithfulness
Can God and others count on us? That’s the heart of the question in this message. Faithfulness is the quality that means that we are going to live up to what we say we will do. This message will look at how we measure our faithfulness and how we often, without meaning to, say one thing and then…
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Fruit of the Spirit - Goodness
Goodness…what a great word! When Moses wanted to see God, the Lord said He was going to have His “goodness” pass in front of him. I wonder when we pass in front of people, do they sense His goodness as well? This message will look at what it means to be a “good” person. Someone whose presence...
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Fruit of the Spirit - Kindness
Jesus was described as one who “went around doing good”. What a great insight into the heart and spirit of God! Kindness flows from The One who sees people with caring eyes and does GOOD THINGS for them…simply because HE CAN! This message will focus on the power of kindness and look at how we can...
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Fruit of the Spirit - Patience
Patience. The word we love to hate. We all know we need it. We’re all aware we lack it. But it is one of the most beneficial of the fruits that God’s Spirit produces in us. And perhaps the greatest fruit those around us need!
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Fruit of the Spirit - Peace
There’s something powerful about a person at peace. We become immovable and unshakeable. It’s as though we live in a certainty about our future…because we DO! God’s peace guards us and steadies us.
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Fruit of the Spirit - Joy
Everyone wants to be happy. But few discover true JOY. Joy is the exhilarating feeling of well-being. But unlike simply being happy, joy is not dependent on the circumstances around us. True joy comes from WITHIN us!
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Fruit of the Spirit - Love
Jesus said that all the commandments in scripture were based on loving God and loving people. This message will focus on what that kind of love looks like…love that truly flows from the Heart of God to us, and then through us, to the world around us.
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Protect the Source
The heart is the wellspring of life. What we allow into our hearts will flow out from our hearts. This message will encourage you toward spiritual reflection, healing, and intentionality in what we allow into our hearts.
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No Half Life
This message challenges believers to stop living divided between the old life and the new life. In Jesus, we are invited to live fully surrendered, fully alive, and fully free.
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A Higher Calling
Jesus didn't perform a miracle to make Peter a better fisherman. He did it to set the stage to make Peter a "fisher of men." God has a higher calling for all of us. He wants to work through us to transform the world.
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Blessed to Brokenness
As Peter experienced the grace and power of Jesus, he made another amazing discovery. His own sinfulness. His proud and stubborn heart was broken. Humility and gratitude replaced his cocky, self-confident attitude. Broken people are pliable people. And they are EXACTLY the kind of people God can...
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Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
God’s response to Peter’s faith was not a few fish. Nor even a good catch of fish. It was a haul of fish that was more than he could have ever imagined! So many that the nets were breaking, and they needed help bringing them in. Peter discovered what we all need to discover: You can’t limit God....
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Getting Past Your Past
Peter and his brother had fished all night and caught nothing. As Jesus challenged them to go out deeper, He also challenged them to let go of their past failures, their past discouragements, and their past pain. We can’t follow God to the future while we’re staring back at where we’ve been.
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Deeper Faith=Deeper Water
A deeper walk with God requires us to take deeper steps of faith. Steps into waters we’ve never been in before. Sometimes, the greatest obstacles to the work that God wants to do in us are the comfort zones we refuse to leave. Our faith is the doorway to the deeper things God has for us.
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Making Room for God to Work
God is always taking steps in our direction to work in our lives. But WE have to welcome Him in! This message will look at how giving God time and space in our lives to work is the beginning of the “deeper” work He does. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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New Life
Easter is an empty tomb, death defeated, sin forgiven. Easter is brokenness restored, a new covenant, a promise fulfilled. Easter is our redemption, eternal life, a celebration. Easter is a Risen Savior.
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Homesick for Heaven
Jesus is coming back! Though the disciples didn’t understand what He was talking about at the time, WE DO! This promise gives us hope, no matter what the circumstances. This promise reminds us that we are living for something bigger, something greater than just the here and now. This promise…
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You Are the Key
Jesus gave his followers a mission as he prepared them for his death, "Go, make disciples." He let them know they are the ones who will take the mission forward. The path forward relies on those who trust Him and go and make those disciples. His disciples held the key to sharing the good news of...
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Pain Is Part of the Journey
The Christian life isn’t for sissies. Jesus didn’t promise an easy road for those who follow Him. He knew not only what was ahead for Himself, He knew the persecution and trouble that was ahead for those who wore His name. Pain and sacrifice were a price we would all have to pay.
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Stay Connected
Another major thought Jesus tried to communicate before He left was the importance of the disciples staying connected to Him. It’s a major mistake to believe that we can do God’s work out of our own strength. We need His Spirit. We need His Word. It is not OUR talent the world needs. It’s the...
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Your Sign from God
Throughout history, there have always been things that distinguished the people of God from the rest of the world. Festivals and feasts, holy days and sabbaths, rituals, and even dietary habits. One of the key points of Jesus’ ministry was that all those other things didn’t really matter. What…
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Serving Your Way to the Top
One of the ongoing arguments that disciples had was probably the most annoying to Jesus. They wanted to know who would be the “greatest.” Jesus called them back to reality with one of the most unbelievable acts He could have done shortly before He died. He washed their feet. That’s how a true...
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The Amazing Power of Encouragement
Barnabas is one of the quiet, unsung heroes of the early church. He wasn’t famous for much, but he had an incredible impact on untold lives simply by using his main spiritual gift. Encouragement. He was a lifter, not a leaner. His name was actually Joseph, but his helpful nature and generous…
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
This passage was a strategic shift in how the Kingdom of God would advance. The Church was growing, and the needs were growing with it. When the disciples faced the dilemma of how to keep the widows fed, they challenged the leaders to pick seven who would take on that responsibility. As those…
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From a Mess to a Messenger - 2_3_26, 12.22 PM
Many people think they can’t witness because they’re not Bible scholars or trained in evangelism. But the most powerful witness in the world is OUR STORY! When the demoniac was healed by Jesus, he wanted to hang out with Jesus and the other disciples. But Jesus picked him to go back to those who...
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It Starts With the Heart
The people thought Saul would make a great king because he was tall and strong. But God knew that it’s not what’s on the outside but what’s on the INSIDE that really matters! God picked David because of His heart, not his muscles or his smarts. When our hearts are open and submissive to God, we...
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Your Little Is God's Big Miracle
There was a huge crowd following Jesus. Over 5000 people. Maybe as many as 10,000 or 15,000. After a long day of teaching, they were hungry. The disciples had no food, nor enough money to buy food for that many. Then, a young boy offered his lunch. Jesus picked HIM to be the catalyst for a…
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Renewed Vision, Rekindled Fire
It was out of a fresh, new vision of God that Isaiah became passionate about being picked by God. When we really see God, we remember who He is and what He can do. And we renew our passion to be about His work.
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In with the New
In this message, we’ll explore what it is in this past year that we need to leave behind. Paul says that we need to “forget” the past. The word actually means to “set it aside.” This message will help identify those things in our lives that are keeping us from being all God has called us to be…
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Out with the Old
In this message, we’ll explore what it is in this past year that we need to leave behind. Paul says that we need to “forget” the past. The word actually means to “set it aside.” This message will help identify those things in our lives that are keeping us from being all God has called us to be…
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Advent Light
As we celebrate Christmas Eve, we will reflect on Jesus as our Light. He brings warmth to our lives. He brings hope to our lives. He came as the Light of God’s Welcome to us. And He stays as the Light of God’s Guidance to us. To a people who are prone to wander, He is the Light that shows the way.
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Advent Love
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love.” Truer words have never been spoken. But the love the world needs is not a love that it can create on its own. The Bible reminds us that “GOD is love.” This last Sunday before Christmas, we will celebrate that Jesus came to us as the highest…
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Advent Joy
The world can be a dark and dangerous place. Life can be hard and overwhelming. It’s easy to forget as we forge our way forward that life wasn’t meant to just be endured. It was meant to be enjoyed! This Sunday of Advent we celebrate Christ’s coming with a reminder that He came to do more than…
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Advent Peace
It almost seems funny that in the busiest season of the year, we talk about “peace.” But the peace that Christ brings isn’t the absence of chaos. It’s being anchored in the midst of the chaos. It’s the stability and security that comes when we remember who He is and whose we are. He is our…
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Advent Hope
Hope—Is there any greater need in the world than that? Hope for healing. Hope for a better tomorrow. Hope for a way out, a way through, a way forward. It was to a world that was utterly hopeless that Jesus came. And He brought to the world on Christmas what He brings to us today—Hope.
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Unshakeable
Kings come and go. Governments rise and fall. Those who are considered the wealthiest, or the most powerful, or the most invulnerable, will all fade away. But there’s one Kingdom that lasts forever. That’s the Kingdom of God. That’s why our God is our Rock, our Strong Tower, and our Foundation....
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Keep Your Eyes on Jesus
We wrap up our series on Hebrews with a great challenge to stay focused on Jesus. If we focus on ourselves, we’ll get discouraged. If we focus on others, we’ll become jealous or disillusioned. Jesus is our goal, our model, and our coach. Let’s make sure we’re keeping our eyes on Jesus!
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