Sauk Valley Community Church Recorded Messages: Recent Episodes
Sauk Valley Community Church
Today, Steve and Mary Westergrem visited us and shared about where and how their ministry began in 1986 and how it has transitioned over the years.Today's Music: Act Justly Love Mercy Walk Humbly, No Not One, Worthy Of It All, and Alabaster Jar
Bill Gallentine shares about how we can understand the kindness of God and then be able to apply it in our lives. We then broke into smaller discussion groups and shared our summaries at the end of the service. Today's Music: God So Loved, Lord I Need You, Goodness Of God, and You Are Good.
Listen as Delbert Talks to us about when kindness is broken. With all that is going on, how can God be good? Where is God when bad things happen? Today’s music:10,000 Reasons, Tremble, Good Good Father, and How He Loves
Andy Minch explores God’s goodness and kindness and how it is revealed in the Sermon on the Mount. God is love, and love is kind. And as God’s people, His loving kindness should flow out of us. Today’s Music: Wide Open Space, Jesus Does, Ever Be, and 10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)
Today's Music: All Hail the Power Of Jesus Name, Only A Holy God, I Exalt Thee, and Arms Open Wide
Kayleigh Johnson shares today on how we can apply the concepts of community so the world will know who we belong to. We can care for one another and begin the work of Jesus as we work toward being even more of a community of believers. Today's Music: My Lighthouse, Holy Forever, No Sweeter Name, and Wonderful Merciful Savior
John Novak shares on how the community of Christians sadly is broken because we tend to get caught up in all the little differences rather than loving one another as scripture admonishes us to do. We then broke into small discussions and after, shared summaries of our discussions. Today's Music: My Jesus, I Speak Jesus, Nothing But the Blood, and Abide.
Chris McClure shares about how God is a communal God, and how He wants us to commune with him and live in community with one another as well. Jesus can be our friend, teacher, mentor, and our all-in-all. Today's Music: Jesus Does, Jesus Strong and Kind, Only a Holy God, and Firm Foundation (He Won't)
Today Trent talked about applying God's redemption to our lives. Then, we broke into table discussions and shared our thoughts.Today's music : Glorious Day, Jesus Changed My Life, Jesus Does, O Praise the Name
Join us listening in as Bill Gallentine shares from his heart regarding times when redemtpion may seem broken. Such as when we feel we aren't worthy of being redeemed, or when friends or family make us feel like we aren't worthy of redemption, or when we may feel other people might not be worthy of redemption. We then broke into small group discussions and shared our discussion summaries. Today's Music: Living Hope, Made For More Wonderful Merciful Savior, and Forever Reign
Joanna Glenn shares today how God not only provides us His redemption, but he also restores us as well. Joanna has Andy come and give some examples of what this means. Joanna continues with her teaching as she shows how no matter what, God does not see us as a throwaway. He wants to redeem each and every person. Redemption is making something back to what it is meant to be, which includes every person. Today's Music: Only a Holy God, Death Was Arrested, I Speak Jesus, and Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
Shari Blanchette shares today on how we can take what we have leaned about the holiness of God and apply it to our lives. We then broke into small groups to discuss what we learned.Today's Music: Holy Holy Holy, Reign On Me, Only A Holy God, and Revelation Song
Chris McClure teaches on the holiness of God and how we are holy, or set apart for Him, once we became his children. God is holy, and we can trust Him in all ways.Today's Music: Holy Is the Lord, Stand in Your Love, Holy Forever, and To You.
Sue German teaches about the patience of God and how we can apply His patience in our lives and show patience to those around us. We then broke into small discussion groups and shared our summaries at the end of the service.Today's Music: Graves Into Gardens, Death Was Arrested, Goodness Of God, and "Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus
Today, we hear from Andy Minch as he speaks about the Sermon on the Mount with an emphasis on the beatitudes. Today's Music: God of Wonders, Teach Us Your Ways, From The Inside Out, Like Incense
Today we had a few people share their testimonies of what God is doing in them and through them. Then we broke into small groups to share with one another what God is doing in our livesToday's Music: Here I Am To Worship, He Is Yahweh, Graves Into Gardens, and You Are the One
Today, we watched a video on how to prepare ourselves to be able to correctly engage with others around us whether it be a cultural or political engagement. We then wrote down some thoughts regarding the different political sides such as 3 things we dislike about the who we support and 3 things we like about the other candidate/party then reviewed those in a panel type setting.Today's Music: Wonderful Merciful Savior, Jesus At the Center, Center Of My Joy, and Jesua Loves Me
Bill Gallentine shares today about how we can apply God's peace in our daily lives to help us make peace with others around us. We then broke into small discussion groups to dive deeper into the teaching. Then we came together to share our discussions with the larger group.Today's Music: The Love Of the Father, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Never Once, Good Good Father, and Every Mother Every Father (special by Kayleigh and Joanna)
Sue German looks at how things are in our world and she shares about maintaining peace despite what is going on in the world around us and globally. We then broke into small group discussions regarding peace.Today's Music: Hallelujah Your Love Is Amazing, Holy Forever, Goodness of God, How Great Is Our God, and There Was Jesus (Brian Boyd special)
Kayleigh Johnson introduces the next series called "God Is Peaceful" by sharing from the Beattitudes showing the many ways that God is peaceful.Today's Music: My Lighthouse, I Speak Jesus, Stand In Your Love, and Abide
John Novak shares today by continuing on from last week's teaching about what truth is and how we can take the truth and apply it in our lives. We then broke into small discussion groups and shared our summaries at the end of the service.Today's Music: Glorious Day, Worship the Great I Am, Knowing You, and Wonderful Merciful Savior
John Novak shares on how truths can be objective, subjective (which is the only type that takes faith), or normative truth which is where you beleive in a certain truth as a group of people. How do we know what is truth vs what is not?Today's Music: Living Hope, Holy Holy Holy (Savior King), Here In Your Presence, and Made For More
Trent Johnson shares on what truth is and how, even if we don't understand the truth of God, we can trust in the faithfulness of God. All of God's promises about the death and resurrection of Jesus are all fulfilled and this truth is what keeps us on our feet and in His truth.Today's Music: The Blessimg, Because He Lives, Goodness Of God, and Great Are You Lord
Today, Ron Jullian shares about where he and his wife have been working as missionaries to many countries in Africa where he has retired from the field missions. Now he works with recruitment in many ways for local workers. Interested in ministry and international missions. Ron shares about how how we can focus on going to the hard places and what that means to each of us.Today's Music: All Hail the Power of Jesus Name, Isn't the Name, Firm Foundation, and I Exalt Thee.
Shannon Gallentine shares today on how we should apply the forgiveness and grace that God has given us and how we can share that forgiveness and grace with those around us.Today's Music: My Jesus, Your Grace Is Enough, Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), and I Speak Jesus
Shari Blanchette shares on the differences between mercy and grace and unforgiveness. We then did small group breakouts to discuss how we deal with difficult times of forgiving others. Today's Music: My Lighthouse, Holy Forever, You Are My Strength, Abide, and Sing Over Me (special by Kayleigh Johnson)
Chris McClure opens our next short series by talking about how God is forgiving, gracious, and merciful. Giving examples from his life, showing how God forgives us and is gracious to us, and is so merciful to us no matter what we have done.Today's Music: Blessed Be Your Name, Rescue, At the Cross (Love Ran Red), and I Surrender All
Sue German speaks on the topic of how we are free in Christ and no longer under condemnation and how we can apply His sacrifice in our lives. We then broke into smaller groups for further discussions and shared some of the discussion points with the rest of the congregation. Today's Music: Glorious Day, Living Hope, Made For More, and To Be Like Jesus
Andy shares on how the Resurrection is so much more than the disciples understood and means so much to us today.Today's Music: Christ the Lord is Risen Today, Death Was Arrested, Made For More, Living Hope, and King Of Kings.
Shari Blanchette shares about how it can be a struggle to make sacrifices in our lives.Today's Music: Stand In Your Love, Holy Forever, How Great Thou Art, Made For More, I Have Decided To Follow Jesus, and Living Hope.
Andy shares about the reality of what Jesus went through and what he sacrificed for us by selflessly giving his life for us so we may be saved.Today's Music: My Jesus, Made For More, O Praise the Name (Anastasis), and That's Why We Praise Him
Shannon Gallentine shares today about how we can apply the generosity that we have been learning about by looking at the motives of our hearts. We then broke into small group discussions and shared our summaries. Today's Music: Jesus Changed My Life, Made For More, Reckless Love, and The Love Of God
Shannon Gallentine speaks on when generosity is broken. We often rely on ourselves instead of the resources and provisions that God has given to us to be generous to others. We then broke into small discussion groups and shared summaries with each other. Today's Music: From the Day, The Love Of the Father, Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me, and It Is Well With My Soul
John Novak shares on the righteousness of God and how that is also defined as generosity. He then shares on how we can apply His generosity to our lives. Today's Music: Firm Foundation (He Won't), King Of Kings, Isn't the Name, What A Beautiful Name, Take My Life And Let It Be, and Grace Like Rain (special by Brian Boyd)
Chris McClure shares on how the focus of God's justice is to create shalom (peace and wholeness). We then broke into small groups to discuss and then shared our thoughts with each other.Today's Music: Stand In Your Love, Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), Holy Forever, and Abide
Chris McClure shares from Matthew chapter 5 on how we are to be the salt of the earth which is one thing needed to be a missionary church. Today's Music: My Jesus, Act Justly Love Mercy Walk Humbly, The Solid Rock, Build My Life, and Homesick (a special by Brian Boyd)
Andy shares about the mission of the church an how the church at large has had some things in the past that were incorrect or had the wrong reasons and/or motives. We are to follow the correct mission as we share with others what Jesus has done in our lives. Today's Music: Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me), Great Are You Lord, Jesus At the Center, and Center Of My Joy.
Shari Blanchette looks at the different ways that the fellowship of believers at Sauk Valley Community Church are being equipped for service and ministry. We then broke into discussion groups to review how this training applies to our lives when we are around other people in our lives.
Today's Music: King of Kings, I Exalt Thee, Lord From Sorrows Deep I Call, and Firm Foundation (He Won't).
Sue German shares different aspects of what actually makes up the church and then we broke into smaller groups to discuss and share our thoughts. Then we had an installation of Chris McClure and Trent Johnson as new elders for the church.
Today's Music: Because He Lives, I Speak Jesus, Goodness of God, and 'Tis So Sweet To Trust in Jesus
Trent Johnson shares the first message in the new series about the church to discuss what the church is not. By chipping away at what the church is not about, we can start to realize the truth about what the church really is without our preconceived ideas on what it is.
Today's music: Never Once, Good Good Father, Rescue, and The Blessing.
Trent Johnson shares on how we can read the Bible so we do not take scripture out of context and meaning. We then did some small group discussion and reconvened into athe larger group to share our thoughts.
Today's Music: From the Day, Worship the Great I Am, Glory and Wonder, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, and Jesus Strong and Kind
Shannon shares about what the big picture of the Bible is all about as we kick off the new "What Is the Bible?" series. After she shares, we break into small groups to discuss and then share our thoughts with each other.
Today's Music: Glorious Day, From the Inside Out, It Is Well With My Soul, and O Praise the Name (Anastasis)
Chris McClure shared about how the Holy Spirit is who we can look to for guidance in our individual lives as well as our lives as a church body. We then broke into smaller discussion groups and did a summary at the end of the service.
Today's Music: Never Gonna Stop Singing, My Jesus, The Change In Me, and I Love You Lord
Today, John Novak shares more on the Holy Spirit as we look at who the Holy Spirit is. We then broke into small groups to discuss and come back together to summarize what was discussed.
Today's Music: The Love Of the Father, The Love Of God, Here In Your Presence, and then a special by Bryan Boyd.
Today, Audrey continues with our series on the Holy Spirit followed by breaking out into small group discussions to continue seeing what God is speaking to us and then summarize our discussion points at the end.
Today's Music: Here I Am To Worship, Holy Spirit, Give Us Clean Hands, and Breathe On Me.
Today we continue with our "Who Is the Holy Spirit" series as Andy looks at how spiritual work that we are to do will require spiritual power. God has given us His Holy Spirit to empower us to do the work we have been called to do.Today's Music: Lord From Sorrows Deep I Call, Blessed Be the Name, Firm Foundation (He Won't), and The Solid Rock.
Today we watched a video that kicks off the series where we look at who the Holy Spirit is. Today's Music: Jesus Changed My Life, Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), When I Think About the Lord, Gratitude, and Act Justly Love Mercy Walk Humbly
Today we watched our final video of reviewing Alpha Ministry looking toward potentially adopting this ministry for reaching out to those around us in a real way. Today's video looks at asking the question of "Is the Lord Speaking to you?".Today's Music: Desert Song, Ever Be, 10000 Reasons (Bless the Lord), Lord From Sorrows Deep I Call, and I Exalt Thee
Today, we celebrate and appreciate the mothers in our lives and also continue with our Alpha series as we watch a video and have some table discussions afterward. Today, we review how we can have faith.Today's Music: From the Inside Out, Blessed Be Your Name, Revelation Song, and It Is Well With My Soul.
Today we watched another Alpha video discussing sharing our faith with others. Then we broke into table discussions regarding the video we watched. Then Chris McClure shared a little more about Alpha and what to expect in these ministry sessions as we explore the possibilities of engaging this ministry. Today's Music: My Jesus, Jesus At the Center, Goodness of God, and You Are Good.
Today we watched an introductory video and a fun skit introducing Alpha Ministry which is starting up today at Sauk Church. Then Chris McClure shared about Alpha and what to expect in these ministry sessions. Today's Music: God So Loved, Who You Say I Am, Great Are You Lord, and How Great Thou Art
Joanna shares about ministry and living in a self-sacrificial way as we minister to others. We then hear from many people in the church who are involved in a lot of different ministries.Today's Music: Take My Life and Let It Be, All I Am, I Speak Jesus, and The Blessing
Today we heard from Hannah Hwang who is serving as a missionary to Taiwan. Hannah shares about Taiwan and the people there and what God is doing in the mission field in Taiwan with their Table Of The Lord ministry.Today's Music: Fairest Lord Jesus, What A Beautiful Name, Here I Am To Worship, and He Is Yahweh
Andy teaches about life and how we can rejoice in what the resurrection means to us. The true life that we received from Jesus needs to be something that shines to everyone around us .Today's Music: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, Glorious Day, O Praise the Name, Jesus Changed My Life,
Marc Helf shares about the resurrection of Jesus and how He gave us so many wonderful things through his resurrection.Today's Music: All Hail the Power of Jesus Name, Isn't the Name, Blessed Be the Name, You Are My King (Amazing Love), and I'd Rather Have Jesus medley (Joanna Glenn special)
John Novak shares about who Jesus is and how He has given us the victory over sin and death through Him. Salvation is so much more than just a ticket to heaven. Today's Music: Now I'm Free, No Longer Slaves, and Firm Foundation.
Shannon Gallentine shares on how Jesus is the exact representation of the Father in so many ways. We then broke into table discussions and shared our summaries of what we discussed.Today's Music: Hallelujah Your Love Is Amazing, Death Was Arrested, I Speak Jesus, and Amazing Grace (Jerry Schnake special)
Kayleigh Johnson shares about Jesus coming to earth, being tempted and yet remained sinless followed by table discussions. Today's Music: Child Of Love, Stand In Your Love, Build My Life, I Speak Jesus, and Untitled Hymn: Come To Jesus (Marc Helf special)
Chris McClure talks today about the Trinity and how Jesus, The Father, and the Holy Spirit works through us and how we interact with God.Today's Music: My Jesus, Alabaster Jar, Gratitude, O For a Thousand Tongues, and The Blessing.
God showed him how much He cares for Trent by sending people to show His caring for Trent. Caring for someone is an active thing where caring about someone is more passive. We are called to care for others that God brings into our lives. We then broke into table discussions and a time of sharing what was discussed.Today's Music:. The Love Of The Father, Firm Foundation, 10000 Reasons (Bless the Lord), and Revelation Song
Shari Blanchette continues the Essentials Of Faith series as she shares on how God loves us so much that he will never forsake us and will always welcome us into His loving arms. We then broke into table discussions to talk about how God cares for us and loves us and how that affects how we are to others.Today's Music: Now I'm Free, Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), Cry Of My Heart, Firm Foundation (He Won't), and Through It All.
John Novak continues the Essentials Of Faith series by taking an interesting approach using logic, observation and physics to explain God and his eternal nature so we can have faith in Him and His Word.Today's Music: What A Mighty God We Serve, How Great Is Our God, Great Are You Lord, and Breathe.
Andy shares how we need to be on a journey together to trust Him deeper and deeper. We need to understand His mission. He wants us to trust him in that mission to redeem mankind and to he wants to be glorified in our worship.Today's Music: Your Grace Is Enough, God of Wonders, How Great Thou Art, and You Are My Strength
Marc shares on how we need to get back to the essentials of our faith and how we have so many traditions that do not pertain to the essentials.Today's Music:. It Is You, Come Thou Fount, Act Justly Love Mercy Walk Humbly, Mighty To Save, and He Reigns.
Tom Wadsworth shares on what worship really is from a scriptural perspective and challenges us to look at how worship is done in the church overall.Today's Music: Goodness of God, From the Day, Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me, and Glorious Day.
Andy Shares on New Year's Resolutions and what if God chose our New Year's Resolutions instead of us? We are not called to follow resolutions, but rather to follow a way of life in Christ.Today's Music: King of Kings, Isn't the Name, Teach Us Your Ways, Child of Love, and Fear Is a Liar (special by Brian Boyd)
Today, we had Wes German join us on the piano for worship and a few special songs as well. We gather to worship together and share what God is doing in our lives through sharing with each other.Today's Music: Take My Life and Let It Be, Act Justly Love Mercy Walk Humbly, The Blessing, The Tribute (Wes German and John Novak special), Joy To the World (Wes special), Jesus' Blood, Jailbreak (I'm Going Free), Stand In Your Love, and What A Beautiful Name (Wes special)
Andy shares about how Christmas means so much more than our traditions we hold dear or customs that we follow. Today's Music:. Joy To the World, Sing Sing Sing, King of Kings, and Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Jerry Schnake and Shannon Gallantine special)
Andy takes a look at the time around the birth of Jesus and what God is wanting to say to us regarding this.Today's Music: Hark the Herald Angels Sing, My Jesus, I Love You Lord, Death Was Arrested, and Silent Night (special by Marc Helf)
John looks at Romans 12:2 in the light of what it means to be transformed into a new creation.Today's Music:. O Come All Ye Faithful, Wide Open Space, What a Beautiful Name, Gratitude, and Little Drummer Boy
Today, we had a celebration Sunday where we expressed in many ways our gratitude for what God and others have meant to us in our lives.Today's Music: Now I'm Free, Cry Of My Heart, Ever Be, Love Will Never Fail, My Jesus I Love Thee, Gratitude, and The Blessing.
Andy shares a brief message for the children as well as to the adults. Then we had a panel of three couples discuss marriage and what has worked or hasn't worked and what they have used to overcome difficulties in their relationships.
Today's Music: Desert Song, Isn't the Name, When I Survey, and At the Cross.
Marc Helf shares how feelings shouldn't dictate how we love. Agape love is an intentional action to decide to love unconditionally. We then broke into table discussions with a summary at the end.
Today's Music: Stand In Your Love, No Sweeter Name, You Are My Strength, and It Is Well.
Kayleigh Johnson shares on Relational Discipleship and how we are to make disciples by having a true and working relationship with others. This will allow us to love and care for others and help disciple them to follow Christ.
Today's Music: Now I'm Free, Cry Of My Heart, King of Kings, and Because He Lives (special with Marc Helf and his sister)
Trent Johnson: Today we watched a video from RightNow Media regarding relationships and the differences on how we react to situations within a relationship. We then had table discussions and a time of summaries.
Today's Music: Now I'm Free, Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), No Longer Slaves, and You Are My King (Amazing Love)
Andy Minch: Andy shares some time with the children as he shares the importance of how our words have life or death, good or bad. Then we watched a video where pastor Matt Chandler speaks on one aspect of love and the deliberate and strong commitment that is spoken of in the Song of Solomon chapter 8.
Today's Music: Act Justly Love Mercy Walk Humbly, All I Am, My Jesus, Hallelujah, and My Jesus I Love Thee
Due to technological issues, we only have a partial recording of today's service.
Today, we watched a short video from RightNow Media regarding communicating with our spouses and others that we come in contact with in our lives. After that, we did breakout sessions and discussed some topics and questions related to the video. Then we did breakout session summaries which is where the recording starts.
Listen in as Chris McClure shares on the importance of displaying kindness and offering forgiveness to members of our family. We then broke into table discussions followed by a summary of what was discussed.
Today's Music: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), Ancient of Days, Thy Word, Mighty To Save, and It Is Well With My Soul.
John Novak: John shares on mutual submission to one another and how we show each other love by doing this.
Today's Music: Who You Say I Am, Goodness of God, You Are Good, and How Great Thou Art
Andy Minch: Andy shares about loving your spouse and family and how a healthy marriage reflects the kingdom of God.
Today's music: One Thing Remains, Child Of Love, Love On The Line and Jesus' Blood
Andy Minch: Today was Celebration Sunday! We worshipped through song, listened to God Sighting Stories, and spent time in prayer on several topics.
Music: Cry Of My Heart, Isn't The Name, I Exalt Thee, Jailbreak, O For A Thousand Tongues and Boldly I Approach.
Andy Minch: Today, we watched a video with some pastors discussing handling disagreements about theology among fellow believers. Then, Andy shares a better way (1 Corinthians 12:31) regarding how we should show love and disciple others rather than viewing people as the enemy. Then we did a brief table discussions and a summary at the end.
Today's Music: Act Justly Love Mercy Walk Humbly, Stand In Your Love, Graves Into Gardens, and More Precious Than Silver.
Listen as Sue German shares looking at the question of "When have we loved enough?". We then, broke into table discussions and shared summaries of what we learned.
Today's Music: Here I Am to Worship, It Is You, Cry Of My Heart, There's Something About That Name, and Oh Lord You're Beautiful.
John Novak: Continuing with our Loving Each Other series, John shares about being right versus showing love. We then broke into table discussions to review how recent events have affected the church and how we have reacted to them.
Today's Music: Wide Open Space, Arms Open Wide, Isn't the Name, and 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord).
Listen in as Chris McClure shares on how we should handle situations when Christians disagree with one another.
Today's Music: All Hail the Power of Jesus Name, King of Kings, Blessed Be the Name, and What A Beautiful Name.
Today, we wrapped up our Loving Each Other series by watching a very good video from Paul Tripp titled Parenting Is Gospel Ministry. You can watch the video on YouTube by going to this URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FwbLGjCelM
Today's Music: My Tribute, Jesus At the Center, You Are Good, Breathe, and Shout To the Lord.
Today, Mark T. shares about his missionary work and experiences for our Missions Conference weekend.
Due to many musicians being gone, we did not have live music this morning.
Andy Minch: Today's message is Love One Another. This was the second message in a two week series, Loving Each Other.
Today's music: Death Was Arrested, Hungry, Cornerstone and I exalt Thee.
Andy Minch: Today, Andy started a 2 week series on Loving Each Other Deeply. Listen as he talks about the different kinds of love.
Today's music: Child Of Love, How Great Is Our God, Awesome God and Revelation Song.
Andy Minch: Andy speaks on baptism and living for Jesus and we had a baby dedication for Eleanor,and four people get baptized at church today!
Today's Music: O Praise the Name (Anastasis), Glorious Day, Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, and Death Was Arrested
Marc Helf looks at what causes mercy to be needed or required, and shows how we can apply the teachings on mercy within Scripture. We also have a sad farewell as we lovingly send Betty Love into the next phase of her ministry which takes her out west.
Today's Music: Child Of Love, Stand In Your Love, and It Is well With My Soul, followed by a special Peace Medley by Joanna Glenn and also a recording of an original song of Betty's titled "Can You Hear".
Trent shared about keeping God's commandments as we continue our learning and discussions in our Loving God series. We then broke into separate table discussion groups and did table summaries and communion.
Today's Music: He Is Yahweh, Graves Into Gardens, You Are the One, and Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.
Today, Mark Helf gave the message reviewing what 2 John and 3 John has to say about love and truth. After table summaries, Chris McLure gave a final summary.
Today's music: Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me), Scandel Of Grace, Jesus At The Center, Just To Be Close To You and My Romance.
Today, Sue German brought us a message on 1 John 5 as we continue our Loving God series. We then had summaries from the table discussions followed by an overall summary from Andy Minch.
Today's music: Child of God, Stand In Your Love, Build My Life and 'Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus.
Today, Marc Helf shares about who we belong to and knowing what that means. We then broke into table discussions and had summaries at the end of the service.
Today's Music: Wide Open Space, Isn't the Name, Revelation Song, and Oh Lord You're Beautiful.
John Novak: Today, as we continued our Loving God series, John Novak talks to us about how God relates to us and how God and how God wants us to relate to Him. Music: Great Is Thy Faithfulness, The Love Of The Father, Here In Your Presence and Man Of Sorrows.
Today, we continued our Loving God series. Shari Blanchette shared from 1 John 3 about Our Identity and knowing who we are and who we are becoming in Christ. We then broke into table discussions with summaries at the end. Today's music: Jailbreak, Graves Into Gardens, Whole Heart (Hold Me Now), Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, and Brian Boyd sang Scars (by I Am They) as a special.
Today, Shari Blanchette led us through looking at 1 John chapter 2 and who God is and how we love him. We talked about Where our focus is and where should our focus be. We then broke into table discussions with Trent Johns giving a summary.
Music for today: Child Of Love, Love On The Line, Amazing Grace, and Your Grace Is Enough.
Today, Shari Blanchette shares from 1 John chapter 1 regarding fellowship and light that we are to strive for and shine forth. We then broke into table discussions with summaries at the end of the service.
Today's Music: Act Justly Love Mercy Walk Humbly, All I Am, I Love You Lord, and O For a Thousand Tongues.
Andy Minch: Andy looks at different books of the Bible to look at the story of Jesus' glory, showing us the reason we worship Him.
Today's Music: Hallelujah Your Love Is Amazing, Stand In Your Love, Jesus Lover Of My Soul, and When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.
Andy Minch: Today, Andy led the church in a concert of prayer for others in the area and in the world.
Today's Music: He (Marc Helf special), The Love Of the Father, From the Day, From the Inside Out, and Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me.
Today, we had a service where we focused on Sanctity of Life, from the unborn, to those that are incarcerated in prisons across the state and those that are caught in sex trafficking as we prayed for them and heard from Cliff and Sue Parrish who have been ministering across multiple prisons in the state.
Today's Music: Never Gonna Stop Singing, Act Justly Love Mercy, Alabaster Jar, Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), and Graves Into Gardens.
John Novak: John speaks on prayer to reveal how we too often have the wrong perspective on what prayer is supposed to be.
Today's Music: Happy Day, Jesus At the Center, Great Are You Lord, You Are Good, and How Great Thou Art.
Andy Minch: Andy shares about what prayer is and how we can give God glory through our prayers.
Today's Music: O Praise the Name, Here In Your Presence, Be Thou My Vision, and More Precious Than Silver.
Andy Minch: Today, we watched a video summarizing the 17 released hostages from Haiti and what they had experienced. Then we had different people come up and reflect on the life and influence that John Hess had in our lives. He will be greatly missed by us all.
Today's Music: Here I Am To Worship, You Are the One, Anchor, In Christ Alone, and The Solid Rock.
Andy Minch: Andy shares about the wonderous story of peace and joy that we were given so we can share the true shalom (peace and completeness) that God offers to us all.
Today's Music: O Holy Night, O Praise the Name, and Isn't the Name.
Andy Minch: Andy shares on how we can share with others the completeness (shalom) that we have in our lives because of what Christ has done for us.
Today's Music: Joy To the World, Wide Open Space, Arms Open Wide, King of King, and Welcome To Our World (special song by Brian Boyd).
Today, Shari Blanchette shares about the armor of God from Ephesians 6:10-20 and then we broke into table discussions where each table discussed a single piece of God's armor. Then Trent Johnson facilitated the table summaries toward the end of the service to share the insights and discussions we had regarding the different pieces of armor that we read about in Ephesians.
Today's Music: O Come All Ye Faithful, Child of Love, Stand In Your Love, and You Are My Strength.
Listen in as Kayleigh Johnson shares from Ephesians 5:22 - 6:9 regarding how we can get back to the Gospel by thinking more of others rather than ourselves. We then broke into table discussions and had a time of summaries toward the end of the service.
Today's Music: That's Why We Praise Him, Tremble, Glory and Wonder, and Great Is Thy Faithfulness.
Trent Johnson: Trent shares from Ephesians 5:1-21 regarding being Christ-like and not like others around us, or even some person in our lives that we look up to.
Today's Music: Hallelujah Your Love Is Amazing, Stand In Your Love, Build My Life, and 'Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus.
Trent Johnson: Trent shares from Ephesians 4:17-32 as he explains how we are to be transformed into the likeness of Christ rather than picking and choosing little parts of God to incorporate into our lives.
Today's Music: The Rock Won't Move, I Exalt Thee, You Are My King (Amazing Love), and 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord).
Sue German shares from Ephesians 4:1-16 about the importance of unity with our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ and
Today's Music: From the Day, Glorious Day, Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me, and Worship the Great I Am.
Andy Minch: Andy shares from Ephesians on how we can pray and have peace despite what situations we may be faced with in our lives. We can then be a light shining in the darkness to those around us. We then broke into table discussions regarding the reading and had summarizations at the end.
Today's Music: God So Loved, Glorious Day, You Are Good, and Goodness Of God.
Andy Minch: Today, Andy shares from Ephesians chapter 2 regarding God's amazing, majestic, and glorious power. We then broke into table discussions with summarizations at the end.
Today's Music: Graves into Gardens, Good Grace, You Are the One, and Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.
Today, we continue our series on peace and living the simple life by reading through Ephesians 2:1-10 and hearing a brief teaching from John Novak. We then broke into table groups and discussed the topic of peace as we see it within these verses.
Today's Music: Child of Love, Boldly I Approach, Here In Your Presence, and It Is Well With My Soul.
Today, we continue our series on peace and living the simple life by reading through Ephesians and hearing a brief teaching from Andy. We then broke into table groups and discussed the topic of peace as we see it within these verses.
Today's Music: Jailbreak, Graves Into Gardens, More Precious Than Silver, and I Love You Lord.
Today, we read through Ephesians 1:3-14 as we broke into table groups and discussed the topic of peace as we see it within these verses.
Today's Music: Never Gonna Stop Singing, Act Justly Love Mercy, No Not One, and This Is Love.
Today, we watched a video by Tim Mackey from The Bible Project where he broke down Psalm chapter 3. Looking at how David prays regarding his fears when he was being chased by thousands of people who wanted to kill him.
Today's Music: Child Of Love, Death Was Arrested, and No Sweeter Name, followed by There Was Jesus (special by Brian Boyd).
We watched 2 episodes of the "Woven" series on RightNow Media that pertains to different aspects of discipleship. We then had some open floor discussions regarding insights to what we have learned through this series.
Today's Music: All Because of Jesus, Jesus At the Center, Great Are You Lord, and How Great Thou Art.
Today we look at the 4th chapter in Philippians as we continue in our series on discipleship and break into table discussions with the summaries at the end.
Today's Music: Only Your Love, Scandal of Grace, and Isn't the Name.
John Novak: We continue to discuss the topic of discipleship and watched the 11th video from the Woven series on RightNow Media. Also, John Novak taught about what expectations Jesus' disciples may have had when they started following Him vs. the reality of why they really were following Him. We then broke into table discussions and had a time to give our summaries from our tables.
Today's Music: He Is Yahweh, Here I Am to Worship, and Upper Room.
Today, we reviewed some scripture from Philippians 3 and then had table discussions related to our focus as followers of Christ and what is in our hearts.
Today's Music: Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me, Wide Open Space, I Could Sing of Your Love Forever, and King of Kings.
Today we continued with our discussion in Philippians as we look at chapter 3 where Paul gave his credentials and talked about the circumcision contrasted with faith in Christ Jesus, then we had discussions around our individual tables.
Today's Music: God So Loved, Isn't the Name, Jesus' Blood, Boldly I Approach, and Child of Love.
John Novak: Today, Andy briefly shares some time with the children talking about the currency of heaven. Then, John speaks on the topic of sin and forgiveness and how these pertain to what Christ did on the cross.
Today's Music: Act Justly Love Mercy Walk Humbly, Alabaster Jar, and And Can It Be.