Did you eat your fill on Thanksgiving -- and then some? This Sunday we will examine the Gospel passage where Jesus fed 5,000. The text tells us that the people ate their fill, with leftovers to boot. We'll compare Jesus' attitude toward the hungry crowds to the attitude of his disciples and, in the process, learn important […]
As we move through life, we often find ourselves feeling like we don’t have enough of what we need to meet the challenges before us. Maybe it’s a death or divorce or illness or financial stress or tension at work or conflict with family, etc., etc. How should we respond when it feels like there […]
What are you most afraid of? What causes the most fear in your life? Fear is one of the biggest barriers to living a life that’s full and free. So how do we overcome fear? How do we become courageous people? Those are the questions we’ll grapple with this Sunday as we explore the intersection […]
Imagine Jesus walking up to you and saying, "I need your help. Will you partner with me?" What would it look like? What would it entail? Actually, partnering with God is less about what we do than how we do it. This week we'll explore what that means, as we continue our study of Second […]
Did you know that everything we can see was made from what we cannot see? If you knew how to tap this unseen realm to produce more goodness in life, would you do it? On Sunday, we will explore a special miracle story of Jesus which provides some practical application for better aligning our own […]
As we move toward Thanksgiving, we’ll continue to explore how we can grow our sense of gratitude. This week we’ll study the amazing spiritual and scientific connection between gratitude and generosity – and how these two impulses can powerfully reinforce each other. Learn something important!
Where in your life are you experiencing scarcity? How would you finish this sentence, “I don’t have enough _______.” Not enough time? Not enough money? Not enough love? Not enough patience? This Sunday we’ll examine an epic Bible story that shows us how to transform scarcity into sufficiency.
This week we continue our sermon series based on Brené Brown’s bestselling book The Gifts of Imperfection by exploring Guidepost No. 4 – Cultivating joy and gratitude . . . by letting go of fear. We’ll learn about the single most important thing – according to Brown’s research and the Bible – that anyone can do to cultivate a “good […]
From time to time, we all get to the place where we’re completely spent – nothing left to give; we’ve run dry. What then? This Sunday, we’ll explore a Gospel passage offers a powerful formula for how to respond in times when you feel completely depleted.
Do you long for a more measured pace in life? Join us on New Year’s Day for “Un-Resolution Sunday.” Instead of asking what we need to do more of, we’ll consider what we need to do less of, so as to create some healthy breathing room in our lives.
This Sunday we resume our sermon series called “If we knew now what they knew then . . . , 7 Steps to living with spiritual power!” We’ll look to the example of the Macedonian Christians to learn how we can harness more of the transformative power of joy in our lives. Start off the […]
Scarcity is a fact of life. Every time we turn around, it seems like we’re lacking something – not enough time, money, energy, love, opportunity, etc., etc. This week we’ll learn how to turn scarcity into abundance. This is the third step in our ongoing sermon series called, “If we knew now what they knew […]
