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We desire to make God known to people in a way that the Spirit changes who they are and the world around them.
We can so easily have a gospel that is a white-washed tomb. Knowing Jesus in light of his full sacrifice is where we overcome.
In John 3, we see Nicodemus experience the wonder of the work of the blood for us. So much that he has a hard time believing it. Will we believe it?
The thief on the cross leads us in a startling approach to Jesus: in Jesus' and his own lowest moment, he requests of a favor of Jesus. What deep joy the thief must have felt, and then upon his entrance into heaven. God wants liberated disciples to go out from the church.
Jesus says his flesh is true food and his blood true drink. We can have eternal, or perpetual life, simply by experiencing this. Let us not be a people who think this is only for the forgiveness of sins!
The previous system of needing to cleaned and re-cleaned and only the High Priest entering the Holy of Holies was blown up when Jesus gave up his life. Now we are temples (1 Cor. 3:16) and we don't need a place to worship God (John 4). We may now draw near, because we are already accepted by God.
The blood of Jesus has covered a multitude of sins and wrongs in our world, and God has invited us into the place of travailing prayer with Jesus to live in it. Through our cries and longings, God gives us his heart, and our voices cry out to him in it.
Our sin has been cast away, and we no longer own it. Jesus tricked the enemy into killing him, that our blood is no longer required for the bill that needed paid - Jesus paid for it, and more. We now have so much more than we think we have, but especially the cleansing of sin.
Many of us have the challenge of moving the knowledge of Jesus uniting us into right relationship with God from our head to our hearts. When our minds have any qualifying thing for us to be acceptable to God, we are not trusting in the blood of Jesus that has made us right. Instead, quit making your salvation about yourself and approach Him via the blood, not anything I can account for.
All of us can have a deeper revelation of it. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues all throughout Scripture as an undercurrent: sin leads to death, and everything points to the blood of Jesus. His blood is meant to be experienced by us.
When the Lord frees us from sin, the power of that sin is weakened, but through spiritual warfare, the enemy will not go down without a fight. We can then walk alongside Jesus for freedom, no longer trying to walk a tightrope of obedience.
We are temples of the Holy Spirit, and God has given us everything we need to live in godliness. Jesus sets us free from our sin, spiritually and practically. Be encouraged that we don't have be in shame and condemnation with our sin, but live in joy in the freedom Jesus offers.
The endless cycle of following the rules and failing is an exhausting reality that God frees us from. Instead of that, we have been given liberty and freedom in the Spirit to not be driven by shame or glory, but rather connection to Him.
Jesus' obedience to the Father unto death gave us not only the way to be obedience, but the ability to do it, through His righteousness. Obedience by anything else other than His righteousness is simply right vs. wrong. Instead, the love of God draws us to obedience.
Obedience is often thought of in terms of right vs wrong, or doing the exact thing that God tells us. But Pastor Nick kicks off our series on obedience with an encouragement to view obedience from God's perspective: by His righteousness given to us, we now get to walk alongside Him in covenant.
Upon reflection of what the Lord has done for us and led us in in 2024, Pastor Nick gives us a word of encouragement and direction for the new year.
The third week of Advent brings us to God loving the world that He must enter into it. The early church so manifested love that it drew the poor and sick in. Christmas is a wonderful season to reflect on God's movement towards us and not based on how we're doing personally.
Jesus was "the man of sorrows" yet the source of joy and poured forth the "oil of gladness." Joy isn't just a deep contentment, but a true happiness that overflows from the reality of God. We often contend with God for His joy to come, but He has already placed His Spirit inside of us that is greater than any trial on this Earth. While we will experience the pains and sufferings of our world, our joy is not attached to it.
We see the examples set by Simeon and Anna of what it looks like to live in the middle of the promise, waiting for what the Lord has promised. Despite the middle ground of longing for more, they displayed supernatural contentment, and then get rewarded by seeing Jesus as the promised Messiah. Pastor Nick asks us if we would be content waiting our whole life to see the promise, even if it doesn’t look like what we expect.
Pastor Nick encourages our church with a timely word on following and surrendering to His Spirit. There's only so far we can go with our minds, or even, by simply reading the Bible. But through the Holy Spirit, we get lead into the truth of the Spirit. We don't control the process, we only control our surrender.
The Holy Spirit is knowable and gives us small promptings we can call “spiritual forensics.”Jesus connected with people over shared meals, deep conversations, and the exchange of stories—illustrating how divine guidance works in everyday moments. Guest Ivan Filby gives us some practical wisdom to begin prophesying in everyday moments.Join us as we pay close attention to God's subtle movements in our lives, encouraging an attitude of listening and spiritual awareness.
Joe Biddle goes through the differences of repentance and confession and how confession brings us into right alignment with Jesus, while repentance is a major turning of our sin. Confession is a gift of intimacy from the Lord.
Since Jesus has overcome, crushing the head of the serpent, the bruises of the heel from the serpent no longer have the right to stay. Elder Henrik Soderstrom leads us through different types of prayer and intercession that Scripture models for us, and we have from some in our body who have felt called to intercede often.
In Luke 22 Jesus tells Peter how he's prayed for him - for his faith to not fail him and to strengthen his brothers. But we see Peter fail; why would Jesus' request seemingly not be answered? We may not have good answers, but we can dive into this story to see how God answers this prayer for greater things and to restore us.
Stepping into spiritual warfare is not preparation for battle, it is the battle. Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson encourages us in our identity in Christ to be people who rely on the full power of God, and not a fake version of it. Power has been the downfall of man, but Jesus gives us power through surrender and humility.
Thomas Jefferson famously took out the miracles of Scripture, but what does that leave you with? A powerless “gospel” that doesn’t change lives or hearts. Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson encourages us to be adamant about the power of our prayers and what we’re called to Christians.Ephesians 2:1-7, Mark 1:21-27, and Matthew 12:22-29
Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson shares on the heart posture and effects of travailing prayer. We’ve seen great moves of God, not by creative programs, strategies, or great preaching, but by God’s people crying out for more of Him.
What we believe about God affects how we pray
Continuing our series on prayer, Joe Biddle teaches us how to incorporate scripture into our prayers. We walks us through the Lord's Prayer and highlights what Jesus was trying to accomplish with each line. We pray that as you listen to this sermon
Honest prayers are prayers of adoration because you are choosing to press in
Continuing our series on prayer, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson encourages us to utilize intimacy within our intercession. He asks us to focus our hearts on the promises of the word of God, and reminds us that there is only one wrong way to pray. That is just saying the right words for those around you to hear. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be release to expose your heart to the Lord in the secret place.
He is our shield, our glory, and the lifter of our heads
In our new sermon series about prayer, worship pastor, Tyler Dresbach preaches about how Christ is the lifter of our heads. He walks through the story of Psalm 3 and challenges us to view Jesus as our ultimate salvation. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would feel encouraged to trust the Lord with your heart and emotions.
It's time to be upset about what the spirit of fear has robbed from you.
As we begin to wrap up our Fearless and Free, Pastor Nicholas Kerton Johnson asks us which we will gaze upon: the cloud of hopelessness fighting for our attention or the Light of Christ. He unpacks David's cry in Psalm 27 and dives into the opposite of fear being perfect love. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would surrender your gaze to perfect love and remember that you are His.
Do not fear the fire
This week, Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson shares a message that weighed heavy on his heart. Starting with the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal, he challenges us to become a sacrifice that attracts the presence of God. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart would soften to the fire of God because the holy spirit is the promise of Jesus.
What environment will we create? what environment will we believe in?
This week, Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks to us the direction he feels like the Lord is calling us into as a church. He answers the quesiton - Why is service important. We serve because we have a king who modeled it for us. Service brings you greater authority. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be awakened to the biggness of God.
This week, Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson compares two stories in the Bible. The first being the Transfiguration and the second being the boy who was delivered in Mark. From these two stories, he gives us two challenges. Will we celebrate the prescence of God? Will we surrender fully to Jesus? We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart is wooed deeper into relationship with the Holy Spirit.
Why embrace suffering? What’s at stake?
This week, Tyler Dresbach unpacks for us the work of suffering. He asks us to examine how we, the church, have been handling suffering recently. How did Paul handle suffering? Why was it important for him to share it with the people he was discipling? He pray that as you listen to this sermon, you find a renewed purpose to your experience of suffering.
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You don't have what you want because you don't ask.
This week, in celebration of Pentecost, Nicholas Kerton-johnson walks us through the beauty of the Holy Spirit being poured out. We look at the Pentecost passage, as well as the story of Jesus experiencing the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Then we go to James and meditate on how jealous the Lord is for the spirit that He has placed within us. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be drawn to give Jesus what He has asked for.
If I encounter the demonic I'm not running to the smartest person I know. I'm running to the person with the most intimacy with Jesus.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson walks us through what spiritual warfare can look like for the believer. He starts by reminding us that the spiritual war is not a battle of two equals. Jesus has won. We pray that as you listen to this sermon there would be a peace in your heart and a drive to grow in intimacy and Jesus and authority.
Every miracle is the supernatural dominating the natural
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks some of the fears we tend to carry towards the Holy Spirit. He starts by highlighting that the Holy Spirit is a person, not an "it." He are able to experience Him with our 5 senses. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be introduced to the Helper in a fresh, new, way.
Sometimes He calms the storm around us. Sometimes He calms the storm in us and walks with us through the storm around us.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson speaks on the lesson of suffering. What do we do when we are faced with the filth of the world? When God calls us to surrender he calls us to fall into his presence. We pray that as your listen to this sermon you have the grace to surrender to the sovereignty of a loving Father.
In the light of Christ sin is irrelevant
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks a word the Lord has given our church for this season. He is inviting us to surrender to Him, ask for new wineskins, and bring the broken to Him. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be guided by the Holy Spirit into a deeper intimacy with Him.
The religious spirit will always produce shame and a powerless church.
This week, we celebrate Palm Sunday and dive into the Religious Spirit. Pastor Nicholas Kerton Johnson highlights the fact that the religious leaders were not seeking the will of God. They were seeking control power and a system that benefits them. We pray that as you listen to this sermon the Holy Spirit convicts you of the righteousness given to you by the blood of Jesus.
If Jesus is our model, why aren't we comfortably sleeping while the world is freaking out?
This week on our fearless and free series, Joe Biddle speaks to us about the fear of the Lord by unpacking the story of Jesus calming the seas. He points out that our level of fear is directly related to our level of faith. We fear God because He is altogether different than anything we have experienced. We pray that as you listen to this sermon your fear of God would grow so that your fear of this world can disappear.
We have a choice in what altar we build
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues our series Fearless & Free. He walks us through the life of Moses. A man who started his journey with a life built on fears and lies, and ends his life known as the man who talked with God face to face. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, the Holy Spirit would highlight to you some lies in your altars He'd like to tear down.
There is so much life when you give up control, but it's hard to give up control when you doubt God's goodness
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson lays the groundwork for our upcoming sermon series Fearless and Free. He drives home the fact that we have a God who came to set us free. From the very begining, God's desire was intimacy and freedom. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart would be awakened to the hope of living fearless and free.
Take note of the involvement of the Baker.
This week, the sermon started out with a demonstration from Rachael about the process of making sourdough. Then, Nicholas shifted us to focus on wine and wineskin. We are hungry for a move of God at Kingdom Life, but when it comes, we want to be ready. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, you would ask the Lord if there is any old wineskin in you that He is asking you to shed for this next move of God.
If we are to be the habitation of God’s presence you can expect to encounter His holiness.
Back to our Naturally Supernatural series! Nicholas Kerton-Johnson starts this sermon with a testimony from this last year and then begins to remind us that we are living stones, temples of the Holy Spirit of God. He finishes this sermon asking us if as we look towards this next year, will we be a people who trembles at the word of God? We pray that as you listen to this sermon, you would learn to crave the will of God the way that babies crave milk.
Peace is the currency of heaven.
In this Advent, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unveils for us that Christ is our peace. He encourages us to consider peace as a game-changer; something physical that we can give away. We pray that as you listen to this you would be impacted by the eternal peace of Jesus Christ.
Faith is the byproduct of knowing someone.
Continuing our naturally supernatural series, Matt Orvis preaches on healing. He challenges us to not interpret the Bible based on our experiences, or lack of experiences. Instead, receive the revelation of God’s goodness, and the revelation of our place in His plan. From there we get to spend time with Him and get filled with his presence and heart of those around us. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you are filled with faith in what the Lord can do.
We seek His voice for the delight of connection, but also for the delight of being used by Him.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson rounds out our teaching on prophecy. He teaches about the value of the prophetic, and how it sanctifies and purifies us. He emphasizes that we must believe in our hearts that He wants to speak to us. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, you would make space for the Lord to speak to you this week.
This week, Tyler Dresbach lays a theological basis for prophecy today. Then, he gives us some practical steps on how to grow in prophecy. He also shares some examples from his own life about how he stewarded prophetic words given to him. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart would cry out for the Lord’s voice.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks how we can intercede with the power and authority Christ has given us. He begins by walking through the supernatural nature of the Bible, and how Christ has said we will do even greater things than this. We pray that as you listen to this message, you would be able to pray with a new boldness.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson challenges us to consider what is going on in Israel in the context of our Naturally Supernatural series. He encourages to ask the Lord to give us His heart for Israel. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your spirit would be quickened to pray with confidence for Israel.
For our final session with Richard, he opens our eyes to the reward of living daily life with the Spirit. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart would be ignited for intimacy with the Lord.
In our second session of the day, Richard teaches us about the reality of praying for healing. He walks through stories of how Jesus healed those He encountered and shares stories from his own life in order to build our faith.
In our second session of the day, Richard teaches us about the practicalities of giving a prophetic word. He then walks us through an exercise to prophecy over each other
Richard starts off our Living Life with the Spirit Conference by sharing his testimony, and unpacking what it means to hear from God.
We are the bride. It's time to start living in the power of the name of our bride groom.
Continuing our Naturally Supernatural sermon series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks the power of the Name of Jesus. He highlights the fact that it's not just a belief in Jesus that is necessary, but the belief that He wants to delegate the power of His name to us. We pray that as you listen to this sermon your heart would come alive to the fact that He has trusted us with the power of His name.
Jesus was not begrudgingly obeying the Father. He joyfully did what the Father was doing because He loved Him.
We cannot walk in the Spirit if we are not committed to being obedient. This week, Nicholas Kerton-johnson opens our eyes to why Jesus lived His life obedient to the Father. If we see obedience as something that draws us into more of the Father than it becomes a Joy. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, His spirit would transform you and ignite your heart for obedience.
Humility is not an optional "extra" it is exactly what Jesus has called us toThis week, Nicholas Kerton-johnson wraps up our series on humility. He implores us that as we move on to our next series, to remember that humility is the soil where the fruit of the Spirit grow. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, you would remember the strength and relief that the way of humility brings.
There’s two options for rewards: reward from God and reward from man. In being righteous, giving, praying, and fasting, we can go two ways here. One is deadly.
This week, Tyler Dresbach speaks to us about the reward of humility. What does it mean to allow ourselves to be hidden in Christ? What if our reward was the love of God and not the love of man? We pray that as you listen to this sermon there would be grace on your life to embrace humility.
He’s calling us to walk a road that will include a cross in order to be free from pain eternally.
As we wrap up our humility series, Cathy Kerton-Johnson asks us to compare kingdom values to worldly values. She walks us through the human need for comfort and significance and how those needs undermine the ability to live out kingdom values. We cannot have kingdom values without dying to self. We pray that as you listen to this message you would run into the arms of the Father to discover where your significance and comfort truly come from.
He is gracious, but His standard is clear. Forgive
Continuing our humility series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks why humility requires us to walk in forgiveness. Forgiveness is transactional. We forgive and we are forgiven. We pray that as you listen to this message, there would be grace in your heart to release the power of forgiveness in your own life.
The greatest way that He could exalt us is giving us more of Himself.
On his birthday, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson dives back into our humility series. He reminds us why we are pressing into humility, to get more of Jesus. We pray that as you listen to this message, you would get a greater revelation of the worthiness of Christ.
This week, we take a break from our humility series to hear from Jonathon Forte, one of our missionaries and long-time friend. He shares from his heart and experiences what it means to minister out of the love of the father. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you are filled with the love of God and that you are inspired to follow His voice the next time He prompts you.
We follow a gospel that is deeply offensive. It offends because it is holy.
Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues our series on humility acknowledging the offensive nature of the gospel. He tells the story of how the pharisees were so offended by Jesus’s actions they wanted to kill. Furthermore, Jesus said “blessed is he who is not offended by me.” We pray that as you listen to this sermon, the Holy Spirit fills you with boldness for His message.
But if we want to go into our father's presence, if we want to be part of his kingdom, then we actually have to abide by the laws and the rules and the ways of that kingdom.
This week, Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson speaks to us about offense. Getting rid of offense in our hearts makes the pathway to the presence of the Lord clear. We pray that as you listen to this, God gives you grace to release offense you’ve been holding on to.
Will you be the servant of your brothers and sisters?
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson talks about humility in servanthood. As a church, we want to press into the whole of the kingdom of God, not just the parts that are easy, and fun for us. He tells the story of how Peter being humbled paved the way for Pentecost. If we say yes to being humbled by the Father we will see more of the Kingdom come.
It s so easy for us, for our sin in our sin to surround ourselves with people who tell us exactly what we want to hear, especially when it has to do with affirming the sin that we're living in.
This week, Joe Biddle teaches on how to be humble and weary of false teachers. He admonished us to press into the Holy Spirits’s discernment, and ground ourselves in the truth of the Gospel so that we are not swayed by the tickling of our ears. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be encouraged to examine what voices you listen to most.
This week, one of our elders, Henrik Soderstrom, shares with us the nature of being like Christ as Salt and Light in this world. He starts by magnifying the nature of Jesus and then moves on towards Jesus’s command to be salt and light and this world. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you feel the freedom to bring out the honor in those around you.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson outlines how Jesus demonstrated humility by giving up everything to come and lay down his life for us. He calls us to examine our hearts and ask ourselves what has been keeping us from submitting our pride to Christ. We pray that as you listen to this sermon there would be a grace in your heart to ask for the humility of Christ.
Really, really what humility comes down to is our willingness to say Jesus, you really are worth everything.
Continuing our humility series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson goes after religious pride and fake humility. Real humility is the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all. To illustrate this he dives into the story of David offending his wife with his worship. What if we honored God regardless of who we would offend? We pray that as you listen to this sermon, the vision of who God is to you would swallow up all else.
Pride must die in us or nothing of heaven will live in us, it must die, you know, and death.
Continuing our series on pride, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson talks about putting death to our pride and flesh. He begins by telling a story about how pride showed up in his own life recently, and how that affected the presence of God around him. Then, he talks about the freedom available to us on the other side of surrender.
The absolute beauty of our humility is that with everything that we lay down, we will become more aware of him.
This is the first week of our new series on humility. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson outlines what the Lord has been speaking to him about humility, and why we are diving into a new series. He pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be emboldened to ask the Lord for humility.
We are one with the Lord. The promise for us is the joy of knowing that we are forgiven.
This week we take a pause from our Worship series to celebrate the resurrection. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson starts with Johns account of the resurrection. In this passage, Jesus is highlighting the fact that He made a way for us to enter in and become children of God. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would come alive with the joy of knowing that He has made you new.
The closer we get to Jesus, the more we see our own deprived state, and the more we are relentlessly in love with Jesus.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson walks us through Luke 7 and John 12. We always have more of ourselves to give, and more of Jesus to love. There is both a cost and a reward to worshipping Jesus and He is worth it! We pray that as you listen to this sermon you will remember how much you have been forgiven and how much He is worthy of your love.
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Everything about sacrifice is modeling Jesus
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson highlights the worth of Christ. He is worthy of our sacrifice of praise. To be a living sacrifice is truly the way to worship Him. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, there would be an increase in the ease of worship as you come alive to His worth.
True worship is surrender.
After exploring corporate worship, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks what it means to worship the Lord in secret. First, he outlines how Jesus himself stepped away from the crowds to worship the Father alone. Then, he talks through what his own secret worship looks like and challenges us to press into the secret place for more of the Lord.
What do I expect to happen when I sing?
This week, worship pastor Tyler Dresbach walks us through the power of corporate worship. He touches on times in the bible when the people of God joined together in some. He mentions how members of our body have used worship to reflect what they Lord has done in their life. We pray that as you listen to this sermon the Lord ignites in your heart a passion for worshiping as the body of Christ.
What place does pattern and ritual have today?
This week in our worship series, Cathy Kerton-Johnson walks us through the value in the liturgy that the church has used for millennia. Without realizing it, we can build our lives on feelings and things that can crumble. When we use the word of God as the scaffolding of our lives then it becomes more than just words on a page, but a fountain that wells up inside of you in times of need.
The whole point of theology and being grounded is that our affections would be stirred to know him and to love him.
After a desperate plea for more volunteers for slides, Tyler Dresbach unpacks how the cross is the basis for all encounter. God has revealed himself to us, and the response to that revelation is worship. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, you would be awakened to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth.
What better reward is there than Him?
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks what it true worship is. We cannot fake it with God! He is asking us to bring our whole hearts to Him in worship, and in return He gives us Himself. We pray that as you listen to this sermon there would be a freedom released in your life to let Him in even deeper.
Every human worships what we find worthy of worship.
To kick off our worship series, Tyler Dresbach walks us through why worshiping the Lord is so easy. Worship flows from delight. We pray that as you listen to this sermon praise will flow from your spirit because the truth of who God is, is just that good.
We're all loved and called to a purpose and that purpose involves loving others which requires sacrifice.
For this week of Advent, Luke Smith dives into the relationship between love and sacrifice. The greatest gift ever given was the sacrifice of Jesus. Luke explains that when we respond to the love of God with sacrifice we unlock change in the atmosphere. We finish this service interceding for our loved ones that do not currently know Christ. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you are encouraged to practice the joy of sacrifice.
Blessed are those who are not offended by Me
Continuing our Advent series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson talks about the Joy that Jesus wants to bestow on us amidst trials. He challenges us to let go of what we assume the kingdom must look like and be led by Jesus into what He is doing. We finish these sermon praying as a family for those of us who were experiencing anxiety at the thought of going home for the holidays, and those who needed a fresh touch from Jesus. We pray that as you listen to this the kingdom of God would be released into your life through joy and dancing!
We simply want to know Jesus more.
In the first week of Advent, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson talks to us about how Jesus desires to be known and to satisfy us. We pray that as you listen to this sermon Jesus would become Emmanuel to you.
A man filled with the spirit is a danger to hell.
In this sermon on Acts 19, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson talks about what it means to want a new wineskin. He challenges us to remember that the book of Acts is for all of us. He urges us to become people who not only believe in Jesus, but also believe in the power of the kingdom of God. We pray that as you listen to this sermon your heart would be open to the power to God.
Let us be naturally supernatural.
What would it be like if we were expectant? To live expecting God to speak and to move? These are the questions Nicholas Kerton-Johnson asks as he looks at the stories of the life of the apostles in Acts. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would become comfortable with living in response to the Spirit everyday.
The Gospel will never by stopped by man. The Gospel should be a disruptor of the world around us.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson dives into Acts 12+14 to talk about the gospel that disrupts. Nicholas challenges us to think about what it means to follow a Lord that met opposition while he was on Earth. We pray that as you listen to this sermon there would be a yes in your heart to follow the Lord wherever he leads.
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
Continuing our Acts series, Joe Biddle outlines Paul’s Conversion. He takes a look at the landscape of the current Christian culture and compares it to Paul’s conversion. throughout this sermon, Joe teaches us that genuine fruit of the spirit can only come through an encounter with the person and lordship of Jesus, not from our good works or moral compass. We pray that as you listen to this sermon the Lordship of Jesus would become real to you.
Evangelism is not something you do for God. It is something you do with God.
This week, our friend Adam Narciso joins us to share God’s heart for evangelism. Adam uses Acts chapter 8 to outline the gameplan God uses in evangelism. He later shares some examples of his own life of how this has played out practically. We pray that as you listen to this message your heart would be lit again with the Lords passion for those that are far from Him.
Sometimes the deepest work of the spirit requires no words from us. He will just work and transform us.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues out Acts series with a look into Acts 7-8. He compares Stephen’s sacrifice with Simon the sorcerer asking to buy the power of the Holy Spirit. He prompts us to ask ourselves “where have we resisted God because of pride?” If the filling of the Holy Spirit is free, what excuse do we have to not be filled by Him?
Do we want control or to be in a place where the Spirit does what he wants to?
Continuing our Acts series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson dives in to Acts 5. Nicholas challenges our church to examine our hearts and ask ourselves “Do we actually want revival? Am I good with the things that God might do?” God will do things that rub us the wrong way. What will our response be? Will we continue to cry out for revival whole heartedly?
Silver and gold I do not have, but what I have I give to you….
This week we continue our Acts series by diving into Peters interaction with the begger at the temple in Acts 3. Nicholas KJ unpacks what it means to have faith and that “everything is possible to the one who believes.” We pray that as you listen to this sermon your heart would resolve to not be a part of a faithless generation.
The giving of the Advocate is the revelation of Jesus
This week, we continue our Acts series with a sermon on Pentecost. The most astounding miracle in the history of mankind is that the presence of God could be placed in us and that we could have communion with God. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart would grow with thankfulness over Pentecost.
What did God originally want His church to look like?
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson gives us an intro to our new series, Acts. His heart for this series is that we would look at this book like a ministry manual for how to live a spirit filled life. We pray that as you listen to this message your heart comes alive to the fact that the stories of Acts are not just for yesterday, but today.
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Tyler Dresbach finishes off our Joy of the Lord series with a message titled God is Happy. Before we existed, the trinity spent their days delighting in joy with each other. That same delight is what Jesus died to bring us into. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart is awakened to a God that is not just in a good mood, but also longs to pour His unbridled delight on you.
Joy is a great indicator for whether or not we are operating out of the flesh or out of the Spirit.
This week, co-pastor Cathy Kerton-Johnson leads us through the Joy of Service. She flips the script on the Joy of the Spirit. Challenging us to view them as encouraging indicators that we are walking in the Spirit, rather than a list of attributes to strive to produce out of our own strength.
What is the purpose of Intercession? Why is it our joy? This week, Dawn Biddle answers those questions. She starts by unpacking what the definition of intercession is and ends by challenging us to practice being a people of prayer.
This week, worship pastor Tyler Dresbach speak on the Joy of Worship. He opens by unpacking John the Baptist’s response to Jesus’ ministry. John responded in Joy at the work of Jesus redeeming the bride. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you, like John feel more free to respond to the work of Jesus in joy.
Our second week in our series on Joy is focused on the Joy of Jesus. Jesus laid His life down for the Joy set before him, and His life is full of moments where he prayed to the Father that we would have joy and have it completely. As you listen to this sermon, we pray that your expectation for joy in your life is raised to the level that Jesus desired for you.
The Joy of the Lord is Our Strength!
Cathy Kerton-Johnson kicks off our new series with a dive into Joy. Why does God encourage us to party after we repent? Because we are called to look at what He’s done instead of how we’ve failed! We pray that as you listen to this sermon it would become easy to remind yourself of the victory Jesus has given us and that joy would flow from that practice.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues our Sin series with a message on Fear. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you are encouraged and drawn closer to the heart of the Father.
Want to know how to not sin? Fall deeply in love with Jesus.
Freedom from sin is only ever in grace. Not law, or performance. To close out our Sin series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson reminds us that Jesus said “If you love me, keep my commandments.” Our love is what pulls us into his will. As we love him, we will follow him! We pray that as you listen to this sermon you fall more in love with Jesus and your need for Him.
We have an advocate with our Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
No other sin feels as obviously pervasive in our culture as the sin of Lust. This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson encourages us to set out eyes on Jesus and the victory He’s won for us.
When we forgive, the gospel is proclaimed.
What is at stake when we do not forgive? This week Joe Biddle unpacks just that. There is no sin that can be committed against that is greater than the weight of the sin that Christ took to the cross for us. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, you feel emboldened to trust the process the Holy Spirit is leading you on when it comes to forgiveness in your own life.
The devil is a legalist. When we sin, we give him a legal, real, place.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnon explains why there are some sins we just can’t shake and how we can break these sins off at the root. The glory of the gospel is that strongholds are actually really easy to dismantle all we need to do is repent and submit.
The word has to be our foundation for everything
This week Nicholas Kerton-Johnson takes a look at the phrase “speak the truth in love.” Where have we become apathetic? Scared? Where have we adopted the world’s ways?
The flesh is not neutral. Take it off life support.
We continue our series on Sin with a message from Nicholas Kerton-Johnson on the Flesh. He points out the strong language that the Bible uses when it refers to the Flesh. Often times, we believe we can manage our sin when Christ died and rose so that our sin could be put to death.
God doesn't call us saved sinners. He calls us sons and daughters.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson goes back to Genesis 1+2. He dives deep into the relationship of Adam and the Father in the garden so we can get a clear glimpse of how God responds to our sin.
Now, every sin is conquered, and we can be saved.
This week, Joe Biddle walks us through Genesis 3 in his message “Understanding Sin.” What was the first sin? What should it mean to us that Christ has conquered sin. These are areas we explored this week as we learn how to delight in Jesus more fully.
Will Kingdom Life be a place where He is adored?
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson kicks off this new sermon series on sin. He starts by explaining that it is time we bring Jesus back into the focus of the church and realize that He is the only one who could have carried the weight of all of our sin. We pray that as you listen to this that you would be brought deeper into the revelation of why Jesus died for you.
Teach me what it means to be your friend, God
In our final week of our Gifts of the Spirit series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson reminds us that every time we operate in the gifts it must come from the Spirit, in love, for the glory of God.
God's movements are crazy. Let's just accept that go after them
Week two of diving into the Gift of Miracles! This week Nicholas Kerton-Johnson challenges us to believe God at face value. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would become more expectant of the Lord wanting to move through you.
What if God is more excited about miracles than we are?
Back to our Gifts of the Spirit series! This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson challenges us to examine how our hearts respond to the idea of miracles today. We pray that as you listen to this sermon your heart would be awakened to the possibilities that come with the power of the Holy Spirit living inside us.
“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
This week, we focus our attention to Jesus in the midst of the Christmas season. We pray that as you listen you are drawn closer to the Father through the knowledge of the Son.
We cannot strive after the gift of faith, but we can cultivate it.
What is the difference between the faith of every believer and the gift of faith? This week Nicholas dives into the supernatural gift of faith that flows in the moment and partners with God. We pray that as you listen to this sermon your expectation for God to move would rise and that you would respond on your knees as you get to know Him more intimately.
God defines Himself as a few things - one of them is "I am the God who heals you"
This week, Matt Orvis dives deep into the scriptures to help us meditate on what healing meant to Jesus and how he operated in it. Jesus became like us in the way that he had the same experience of life as us. He set aside his Godliness, completely depending on the Holy Spirit in His ministry. Healing isn't about just trying to go out and pray for people. It's about knowing God more in a way where we are more intimately connected and aware of how He works and what He's doing. We pray that as you listen to this message you would let your heart be accountable to His voice and Word.
Wisdom is more than just the Proverbs, and it's more than intelligence, experience, or age.
This week we continue our spiritual gifts series with the gift of words of wisdom. Nicholas points out that
Solomon asked for wisdom and got it, but he's also a man that failed. He had a gift from God but he didn't have THE gift, the Spirit. God will also give wisdom in how to act appropriately in certain circumstances. Will we follow His Spirit even if it doesn't make sense?
Paul tells us to especially desire prophecy because it's the first open door to transformation in people.
This week, Cathy Kerton-Johnson speaks to us about the gift of Prophecy. She highlights the fact that spiritual gifts are about God wanting to bring life out of what is dying. Prophecy is speaking out of a sense of the Holy Spirit speaking - in the speaking there is power. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you'll begin to sense gaps in people and places, ask the Lord questions, pay attention to your thoughts, and respond as He directs you!
The gifts are given in love and need to be used in love. We are only ever focused on what God is doing.
This week, Nicholas opens with some instruction on how the gift of discernment tends to operate. After that, he invited Cathy and Amanda up to share what the gift of discernment looks like in their lives.
The church needs to bring the reality of the spiritual or the world will.
This week, Nicholas highlights the gift of discernment, because the enemy is still active, and God still wants to set people free. Any general will tell you that intel is central. Discernment is the Lord’s central intelligence agency. We pray that as you listen to this message you would be awakened to the fact that you don’t have to be afraid of the spiritual realm but that he equips us for every good work!
“Thanksgiving is an antidote to unforgiveness and offense”
Nicholas Kerton-Johnson opens up this week about his journey with thankfulness. He highlights thankfullness as not only what ushers us into the presence of God, but also as an act of spiritual warefare. We pray that as you listen to this sermon your heart would respond with thankfullness for all He has done for you.
“All is for His glory”
This week, Henrik Soderstrom speaks on the Father’s Heart and Childlikeness. He asks the question, what if we respond to The Father with the same trust that our earthly children respond to their earthly parents?
“I want us to be a community where we do not let offense take root and we do not make place for unforgiveness.”
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson lays out his vision for our church to become a community where freedom feels tangible. One way we see that is through forgiveness. We forgive as we were forgiveness, just as we love as we have been loved.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson spent some time reviewing what we’ve been talking about in this series, and exploring some revelations deeper.
“God wants to reveal Himself to us.”
Continuing our Abide/Activate series, Tyler Dresbach teaches us about the Gift of Discernment. He highlights the importance of us practicing the gift of discernment, the differences between discernment and intercession, and how we see discernment used in the bible. We pray that as you listen you would recognize discernment in your own life pointing you to the fact that He is the Lord.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson reminds us of our DNA as a church. We were founded on the belief that Holy Spirit is alive and moving. It is by the Holy Spirit that we are filled with the fruit of the Spirit and are reminded that we are children of God.
This week, Cathy Kerton-Johnson introduces us to the Holy Spirit as the Great Translator. She uses her experience as someone who is living outside of their native country to teach us what it is like to live fully as a child of God in the Kingdom of Heaven. This, can only be done through the filling of the Holy Spirit.
Happy Pentecost!
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson preached about the event of Pentecost, and reminds us of how desperately we need the miracle of the Holy Spirit inside us.
This week we celebrated our church family with a baptism of Liesel Dresbach! Nicholas Kerton-Johnson took this opportunity to remind us of the joy of baptism and repentance as we prepare for Pentecost next week.
No one is disqualified. We are all on a journey of knowing and experiencing Christ more.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson outlines what the gift of prophecy is, why it was given, and shares some of his favorite stories concerning prophecy.
The spirit is the life that flows through the vine into us.
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This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson moves us into the Activate season of our Abide/Activate series. He reminds us of the character of the Holy Spirit and how valuable He is to our lives. He finishes by calling us to repent for any passivity, and scoffing we have participated in when it comes to the Spirit.
This week, Tyler continues our fruit of abiding series with a look at Joy. While discerning between happiness and joy, we see that true childlike joy comes when we shift our gaze and delight from ourselves and to the Father.
This week, Nicholas Kerton Johnson walks us through horticulture 101 to explain why pruning is so important, and how the true gift of pruning is that He does it and we do not!
What is the fruit that your life can produce for those around you?
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson encourages us to think about what fruit we want to see developed in our lives and then abide in the love of Jesus and see that fruit produced.
Peace is not passive, it is fitted for battle.
This week, Jizelle Orvis talks to us about her process rediscovering biblical peace. She dives into the nature of Jesus as the Prince of Peace, how we can cultivate peace in our live, and how the Father wants us to respond to anxious thoughts.
He calls us first to fall in love…and then to obey.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues this series on Abide/Activate by talking about surrender. He draws us deeper with reasons why surrender should be our response to Jesus, what we may need to surrender, and signs that we are not as surrendered as we think we are.
Obedience is a passionate response to the love that He’s shown us.
This week, we continue our journey through John 15 with Nicholas Kerton-Johnson. He explores how Jesus set himself before us as the perfect model for obedience. As children of God, we are called first to abide, and then to obey.
This week, Luke Anspach finishes his miniseries on hearing the Lord’s voice. He walks us through a few exercises on how we can uniquely hear God’s voice for ourselves, and give us steps to try when we are seeking to partner with what the Lord has spoken to us.
We are being asked to focus on the promise.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues our Abide/Activate sermon series. He dives deep into what it means to be grafted in the life of Christ.
Why do we actively seek God’s voice?
In part two, Luke shares with us some easy ways to practice hearing God’s voice, promises to hold on to as we grow in listening, and casts vision for why this is so vital for our everyday life.
“Oh to abide in You, is to remain in Truth. We’re turning our ears to hear, the voice of the Father. We’re making out home in You, sinking down deep our roots. We’re planting our hope within the soil of Your heart.”
This week, elder, Luke Anspach continues our series on Abiding and Activating. What does it mean to Abide? Connection. Luke takes time to walk us through the story of the Father restoring connection with us, and His desire to have a thriving relationship with us built on communication.
Let us turn our affections towards Him.
Nicholas Kerton-Johnson kicks off our new sermon series Abide/Activate by diving into John 15. In this first installment, he implores us to turn our affections towards Christ regularly, and ask ourselves if there is a gift that we want to see increased in this season or abiding.
Lord, we have heard You, and we are thankful.
For the last sermon of 2020, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson dedicates the night to reminding us of the words the Lord has spoken over our church. We pray that as you listen to this your spirit is stirred to hope in the promises of God.
If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.
This week, lead pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson debunks the idea that we need to be perfect before experiencing Jesus. He calls us to seek desperately after Him and surrendering to His leadership in our sanctification.
What are we willing to sacrifice in order to experience Him?
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson describes how Paul calls us to experience the love of God.
The devil can tolerate us being good Christians. What he can’t tolerate is us being effective Christians.
This week, we move on from John 4 to John 14th. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson invites us to stop just viewing Jesus as someone who can be encountered, but someone who desperately wants to be encountered. He talks about what it can look like to be opposed by the enemy when we are pressing into the things of heaven and how we can respond to that opposition.
This week, Amanda Orvis lets us into her process with the Lord as she has learned to make Him her daily bread. She looks at how Jesus was in constant communion with the Father, and urges us to orient our lives to do the same.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues our Living Waters series by asking us what does it look like to be filled with the Spirit. He talks about what it might look like to experience the presence of the Spirit, and encourages us to step outside out comfort zone in worship to see how eager Jesus is to meet us.
He is looking eagerly for a people who will worship Him in Spirit and Truth. Once again, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson takes us through John 4 and draws us back to the truth that the Father wants to meet us.
How do we cultivate the river of life within us? Nicholas Hindes uses the book of Galatians to urge us to stay in step with the Spirit and His grace.
This week Nicholas asks us what church should really be like? At Kingdom Life we aim to be a place where Jesus is pursued, adored, and experienced.
What does it look like to operate as a warrior and still be a child of God? This week Henrik Soderstrom uses the Psalms to dive into that question.
This week, we continue our series on the Psalms by looking at what it means to engage with warfare from the place of rest.
This week, Nicholas Hindes challenges us to expand out view of praise and rejoicing! He commissions us to praise more in our walks with Christ because praise actually clarifies our vision.
Intimacy was always meant to be an ingredient in battle. This week, Cathy touches on how many of the Psalms bounce back and forth between intimacy and “smiting the enemy.” Her conclusion is that before Christ wants to take us into battle He first wants to secure us in the place of intimacy. We were meant to fight from belonging and trust.
Our humanity was God’s design.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson intros our newest series on the Psalms. He outlines Psalm 1 and 2 and dives into just how God designed out humanity to partner with his Spirit, and His word. May we all become trees firmly planted by the stream of living water.
This week, we asked Joel Olufowote to share his heart and experience with us. Joel is the Executive Director of Intercultural and Global Engagement at Indiana Wesleyan, and a valued member of our KLC family. Joel moved to the United States after growing up in Nigeria. In this message, he shares how unlearning our cultural norms can give us a clearer and fuller picture of how God is. He also talks about how living in the unity of the family of God means seeing each other in our fullness, with the Imago Dei at the forefront of our thoughts.
During Pentecost this year, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson asks us to rededicate ourselves to the Lord. He prompts us to remind ourselves of who we know the Holy Spirit to be. Then, he lead us into repentance of anything that we find in our lives that stifles the flow of the Spirit in our lives. He pray that as you listen to this message, you find revival stirring in your heart once more.
Do I need to be succeeding in my relationship with God to believe that I am His child?
This week, Cathy Kerton-Johnson speaks about what it means to live your identity in Christ free from performance. We pray that this sermon brings freedom to your heart and your walk with the Lord.
When we give up rebellion we gain the Revelation of Christ.
This week, Nicholas finishes up our sermon series on Rebellion. We focus on the fact that Obedience is not the opposite of rebellion. It is central, but it must flow our of love.
During our first week back in the building, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unwrapps Psalm 91. We dive in to what it means to make the Lord our Refuge.
Rebellion in fundamentally our decision to place ourselves above God.
Nicholas uses this week as a preamble to our series on Rebellion. He breaks down the lie that the opposite of rebellion is disobedience. Instead, he puts forth that we can only be drawn towards obedience through love and putting God at the center of our lives.
This week, Cathy come to us from her greenhouse with a message about comfort. She leads us to realize that we have replaced the idea of comfort with the idea of relief. Holy Spirit is our comforter, and we pray that as you listen to this message you feel His presence and comfort in the midst of trials.
This Easter, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson delivers simple word. We pray that as you listen to this message you encounter the presence of God and are reminded of who God is.
This week, Nicholas tackles the topic of anger. He begins by comparing Gods anger, with the anger that we experience. He points out that God experiences anger, and compassion at the same time. Often, we experience anger that is not similar to the anger that God experiences. This anger comes from injustice, rejection, or neglect. We can find freedom from this anger through forgiveness.
During our first sermon from home, Nicholas Kerton Johnson encourages KLC to have hope and seek Jesus in this time. He is the God who wants to come close, and the God who wants to be found.
The Father was pleased with the Son before He had done anything cool for him.
Adam Narciso finishes this years Catalyst conference with a charge to get back to finding our identity in Christ and pressing into the word. He implores us to ask God two questions. 1. Who do you say that I am? 2. What are you asking me to do?
It is not right for man to be alone.
Jenny Narciso kicks off our Catalyst conference with a message on God’s original design for women. She gets vulnerable with how her previous beliefs on women affected her struggle with insignificance, and leads our body into victory through connection.
Fear of man robs us of our identity in Christ
This week, Tyler Dresbach teaches on the fear of man, and getting out of the Courtroom. He walks through Pauls teaching on how the only opinion of us that matters is Christs.
Control is manipulative. It often tries to get us to act our of fear. The antidote to control is humility.
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson speaks to us about how letting go of control can lead to a greater out pouring of the Holy Spirit. He points our Peters battle with giving up control, and how Jesus confronted the Pharisees need to control their environment.
It's easy to practice the things of God and not experience him
In this message, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson exposes the religious spirit. Here are two things that we should ask ourselves about the religious practices we have set up in our lives. One, do we encounter Jesus in the midst of them. Two, are we seeing fruit from them?
There is purpose in our longing for the perfect friendship that cannot be attained.
Lisa Orvis finishes up our series on friendship with a look at how we were created. Have you ever felt lonely? How about disappointed with the relationships around you? Could it be that Jesus is inviting you to experience what perfect friendship with Him looks like? That longing in your heart for friendship echos the longing in His heart for you.
Friendship makes us safe.
Nicholas finishes this series with a sermon of how sin affects our friendship with God, and how our friendship with God affects sin. Friendship with God gains reverence, not loses it
We tried something new this week! We asked two of our congregants to share about their walk as friends with God. Listen as Emily teaches on operating as a partner with Jesus, and Henrik explains how we can treasure the extravagance of friendship with God
Friendship is what you do with the access God has given you
This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson kicks off our series on friendship with God. If we think that we can operate in the gifts of the Spirit outside of friendship with God we are wrong. This week he gives an overview of Peter’s life and why it is a gift to become friends with God.
With New Years Eve around the corner, Cathy Kerton-Johnson teaches on the importance of walking through transitions well. Listen as she reminds us that endings are always better than beginnings, and it is wiser to get with God before we try to make things happen in our own strength.
I don’t think that every person in the Bible who saw someone healed had the gift of healing. I think they were around a sick person and had Jesus inside of them.
This week, Matt Orvis uses scripture to stir up our faith for healing, and debunk the lies that we have begun to believe about the Father and healing.
If we could learn how to listen and obey then we wouldn’t need messages on faith and miracles
This week, Matt Rosenbaum teaches on the spiritual gift of faith and discernment. Matt reminds us that we cannot make anything happen that the Lord is not already causing to happen. Faith and Miracles come by waiting on the Lords and acting on His heart. Remember, that as we are yet speaking He is answering.
This week, Cathy Kerton-Johnson speaks on the Discernment of Spirits. Have you ever been overcome with an emotion when you walk in a room and have no idea where it came from? Do you feel like you suddenly get “God ideas” that don’t always feel like yours? You may have the gift of discernment. We pray that as you listen to this message you will be equipped with tools to go deeper into the heart of the Father, and how you can minister to the world around you.
If speaking in tongues is talking directly to God then surely that would be enough.
This week, Nicholas KJ dives deep into the topic of tongues. He pulls from the New Testament, and his life experience to explain why the gift of tongues is helpful in building intimacy with God.
This week, Nicholas Hindes speaks on Prophecy & Words of Knowledge. He shares stories about what makes this gift important, and gives some practical tips on how to grow in it!
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts
In this sermon, Nicholas KJ unwraps what the epistles have to say about the gifts of the Holy Spirit and how they demonstrate the gospel.
Salvation is a supernatural transaction
Cathy Kerton-Johnson kicks off our Gifts of the Spirit series with a reminder that we may see one world, but there are two Realms. We pray that as you listen to her personal testimony and the story of Job, that you would walk in a greater revelation of the closeness of the Father and his hand in our lives.
Nicholas Kerton-Johnson opens up our spiritual gifts series demystifying the gifts and pointing us back to intimacy with Jesus.
Do you feel like you need Him?
In our final sermon, Worship Pastor, Tyler Dresbach talks about how Jesus is our daily bread. His presence is what we rely on. As a church, we seek to do things that make us truly rely on Him showing up.
Nicholas Kerton-Johnson kicks off our new series on the Presence of God with a message about our birthright. As children of God, we are called to not only learn about who the Father is, but also experience who the Father is.
In the final sermon of our Father’s Heart series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson speaks on what it means to be the Father’s Beloved. Do we really know that we are loved by God? Do we live from a place of striving or from rest? These are some of the questions we pray you ponder while listening to this message.
As we wrap up our “Fathers Heart” series, Nicholas KJ explores the nature of God our Provider. We love that a good Father is aware of our needs and wants before we are. What a pleasure it is to partner with God and not strive!
To end our Father’s Heart series, Lisa Orvis talks about the vulnerability of the Father. What does it mean for God to choose to be vulnerable with us? How does that ignite trust in our hearts?
In this chapter or our Father’s Heart series, Worship Pastor, Tyler Dresbach confronts this question: How do we respond to the sacrificial love of the Trinity?
There are many times in the Bible that the Lord refers to himself as a mother. In this message, Lisa Orvis explores two of those moments. We pray that after you listen to this message you have a deeper and richer understanding of how the Lord loves you like a mother!
Holiness is a response to God’s love, not religion.
Listen as Elder Bill Heth leads us deeper into the knowledge of God’s holiness. Why do we do what we do? What is motivating us to look more like Jesus?
In this message, Senior Pastor, Nicholas KJ talks about God as our Protector. What do we do when things go wrong? How can we trust the Father as our protector in those moments?
In this sermon, Bill Heth dives deep into what it means that God is omnipresent, and how that affects our lives as His children.
“Joy is deeper than happy just like beautiful is deeper than pretty. Similarly, Hope is deeper than optimism”
Join us as Henrik talks about how Joy is an essential part of the nature of the Father.
Nicholas Kerton-Johnson elaborates on the nature of the Father and His beloved by drawing on stories from raising His own kids, and the story of the prodigal son.
In this sermon, Nicholas Hindes dives into the seemingly conflicting aspects human experience and the goodness of God. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you experience the goodness of the Father
Head pastor, Nicholas KJ, kicks off our sermon series on “The Beloved” with a deep look at the Father and how knowing we are His childeren can bring supernatural peace.
Spencer Lloyd has served faithfully as our Revival Pastor for some time now. Recently, he received a job offer from the church he grew up in. This was his last message at Kingdom Life Church. He recounts how he found himself at KLC, and shares with us where He sees the Lord calling us in the future.
Power doesn’t come from knowledge of the word, but from relationship.
Lead Pastor, Nicholas Kerton Johnson finishes our series on spiritual warfare by sharing some of his own personal stories with spiritual warfare, and how it has focused him more on intimacy with Jesus.
This week, Worship Pastor, Tyler Dresbach, teaches on how we can use worship as warfare in our everyday lives.
“Anxiety is not knowing where to turn”
Cathy Kerton-Johnson speaks on spiritual warfare and the battle field of the mind. She unpacks that anxiety is both a physical battle, and a spiritual one. She ends the sermon asking us to draw our focus to the Father, and allow Him to be the One who answers our vital questions.
We all fail in many areas, but especially with our words. Yet if we’re able to bridle the words we say we are powerful enough to control ourselves in every way, and that means our character is mature and fully developed. (James 3:2)
Blessings and Curses can come in three ways: from God, from others, and from ourselves. Listen as Spencer unpacks each and challenges us to steward our tongues well!
In the next step of our spiritual warfare series, Nicholas Hindes speaks on strongholds. Nicholas and his wife, Megan, run our Sozo Ministry. In this message, he teaches us what strongholds are, and how we can tear them down.
Pastor, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson kicks off our new spiritual warfare series with some stories from his own life, and an in-depth look into the stories of Job, Elisha, and Paul.
It’s that time of year again! Adam Narciso with Catalyst ministries came and put on a weekend long Identity Equip. Here is Session 3. This session took place on Sunday night during our normal service time.
It’s that time of year again! Adam Narciso with Catalyst ministries came and put on a weekend long Identity Equip. Here is Session 2. We were so thankful to receive a word that challenged us and lead us deeper into wholeness.
It’s that time of year again! Adam Narciso joined us for an Identity Equip. Listen to the first session here!
In part one of two, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson takes a look through the New Testament to recapture our hearts as to what the Holy Spirit can do in our lives today. Listen and be reminded that you are sealed by the Spirit of God, called a child of God, and so much more.
Elder, Bill Heth, dives into the Old Testament to show us the ways that the Holy Spirit operated even then.
As a church body, we are starting this year off by setting out hearts toward Jerusalem. To prepare us for this, Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson shares his heart and vision for a church wide January fast. Join us, and lets press in for more.