SUNDAY SERVICE 9 AM | JULY 25. How shall we respond when life doesn’t go according to our plan? While on earth Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit in ways that were often unexpected. The Spirit led Jesus to be tempted by Satan in the wilderness and into Jerusalem to be crucified. The disciples were often confused by the mysterious steps…
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SUNDAY SERVICE 9 AM | JULY 18. Do you feel successful in life? Do you feel that you’ve accomplished everything you’ve set out to do? Today we often measure our success in having a spouse, kids, property, money, recognition, or fame. Yet, Jesus didn’t have any of these things – and still said at the end of His life that He accomplished…
SUNDAY SERVICE 9 AM | JULY 11. Is there a recipe for walking closely with God in today’s world? Jesus mastered walking with His Father and He seeks to teach His disciples to do the same. What He taught was relatively simple: You stay close when you obey and do what Jesus, Our King, commands. Jesus has and will command many things,…
SUNDAY SERVICE 9 AM | JULY 4. God created us to walk with Him. Yet, who would do so if we think God is angry or against us? This Sunday, we discover what the 1st followers of Jesus sought to know; how can we most accurately get to know this God who invites us to live with Him in all of life?…
SUNDAY SERVICE 9 AM | JUNE 27. As Jesus walked with God and with people, God instructed Him in what to say to people so that they would be illuminated to the realities of God’s nature and God’s plan for saving the world. As we walk with God, let us, like Jesus, receive and radiate God’s light so that truth is illuminated and…
God our Father As we move toward a day set aside for celebrating fatherhood, we encourage you to consider what a grand, privileged opportunity we have to live our whole lives in the position of “child” with the perfect Father. A father who not only protects and guides and arranges the details of our lives, but offers us a gift of resting…
SUNDAY SERVICE 9 AM | JUNE 13. When was the last time you were surprised? What does it take to astonish you? To marvel is to live with surprise, wonder and amazed curiosity. God made you to live with an ever-expanding amazed curiosity and in this message, Jesus will show you how to do so. Join us in person or online (live and…
Let Everything that Has Breath Praise the Lord! Just as we have cultivated a preaching team to equip more faithful heralds to declare that Jesus is Lord, we have recently taken steps to do the same to encourage and train more leaders of worship. A key part of the vision for having Seth Slay at the helm of our worship ministry is…
Chris and Beth Steiner | Word of Life Ministries | June 20 Visit! Chris and Beth Steiner, Hope partners, have served in country with Word of Life Ministries (WOL) in South Korea, Taiwan, and Nicaragua. Now based in the U.S., Chris is a manager of personnel and training, and he equips and supports WOL ministry teams worldwide. During the pandemic he has…
As we prepare for this Sunday’s 9 a.m. worship service, please read and meditate on the passage that we will focus on in Pastor’s Dean sermon. We build upon the examples we’ve studied in the Old Testament and now begin to look at how Jesus walked so beautifully and closely with God His (and our) Father. John 1:1-18 1 In the beginning…