As a children of God, what do we have the right to expect from God in terms of the quality of our life? Most of us would hope for a long life filled with blessings with minimal suffering. But then along comes Jesus, saying, “Take up your cross and follow me.” What does that mean? […]
Join us for our Easter Sunday celebration as we dig deep into Jesus’ resurrection encounter with Simon Peter and draw from it a powerful two-part formula for how we, like Christ, can rise from our deepest pain. Because as followers of Jesus, Easter is not just a miracle that took place 2000 years ago; it’s […]
Sometimes life can careen from the greatest heights to the lowest lows in a whipstitch. The pain and whiplash can be devastating. How well do you deal with your pain? This Sunday, Palm Sunday, we’ll mark the beginning of Holy Week with a sermon that focuses on the epic events of the last week of Jesus’ […]
This week we continue our sermon series based on Brené Brown’s bestselling book The Gifts of Imperfection by exploring Guidepost No. 3 – Cultivating a resilient spirit . . . by letting go of powerlessness. We’ll study three key spiritual principles that can help us respond to adversity with much greater power.
This Sunday Pastor Jeff will launch a December sermon series that invites us to dig deeper into the meaning of the biblical Christmas story. We’ll get started this week by looking at all the pathos implicit in the Christmas story, asking what we can learn from how Mary and Jesus responded.
Do you know what it is? If not, you can’t protect your soul from it and might fall prey to it. This Sunday we’ll expose that fallacy and explore its opposite life-giving truth, as we wrap up our sermon series called, “Reflections On The Cross.”
This Sunday we’ll continue seeking insight for how to handle stress and distress in our own lives by looking at how Jesus handled the most stressful and distressing experience of his life – the Cross. This Sunday we’ll focus on one particular fact – what happened to Jesus’ clothes when he was executed – and discover a wonderful […]
There are a million things that can cause pain in life – divorce, loss of a job, emotional abuse, a devastating diagnosis, chronic illness, betrayal, loss of a loved one, etc. Pain is a fact of life. So this Sunday, we’re going to talk about three powerful principles for triumphing over pain. This will be the […]
