Queen City Church: Recent Episodes
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In the second week of our walk through Galatians, we ask ourselves wether the gospel has impacted us enough to be confident in who it says we are or are we still trying to fit in?
Join us for our first week in the book of Galatians as we explore the powerful message of the true gospel.
Join us as Rachel Timmons shares about the importance the Kingdom of God places on the condition of our hearts. As we mature in grace and humility, we learn to seek being made right with the Father rather than building ourselves up through the failures and shortcomings of others.
Join us as we discuss a core value that regardless of our model, we gather together to meet God.
Joseph was was able to continue to grow through his trials because he was able to forgive and let go.
Join us in experiencing the power of proclaiming God's truth even in the hardest circumstances.
Join us in our look at Joseph to see how character is displayed on the outside but is formed on the inside.
Join us in welcoming QCC friend, Darren Davis as he outlines the beauty and importance of our inheritance as son's and daughters of God!
Join us as we look at the moment of Pentecost and the reality of the indwelling of God's Spirit in our hearts.
Join us for the fourth week of our Word In The Wilderness series as we learn how we cultivate the soil of our lives so that the word bears fruit.
s lies and discover how holding onto Scripture and embracing our identity as sons and daughters of God leads us to health and purpose.
Join us as we look to the Word of God as our anchor that we can cling to in the chaos of the wilderness seasons of our lives.
Join us as Robin shares notes from over 50 years of experience on maintaining a meaningful relationship with God.
Join us in a dive into Jesus' entry in to Jerusalem and the reality that he wants to be known inside each of us.
Join us as we explore spiritual formation and sanctification, and learn how to wrestle with aligning the desire to do good with actually living it out.
Join us as we look at the story of Elijah to see the steady work of God in our lives even in our lowest moments.
Join us as Robin unlocks a path to forgiveness through lessons and insights from the life of Joseph.
Join us as we look at the need to enter conflict with self-control and humility to become the church that is known for its love.
Join us as we discuss the importance of choosing to be in relationship and embrace the necessity of conflict for personal growth and a healthy community.
Join us in a look at the three main values of church as we focus on choosing to live for the mission of Jesus.
Join us in unpacking our church values as we focus on the goal of placing our attention on Jesus until it ignites a passion within us.
Join us as Dan discusses core church values starting with the desire to build and do what Jesus wants built and accomplished.
In this message, Donna McMillan explores surrender as the path of every believer through seasons of unfulfilled hopes and hard to believe promises.
Join us as we welcome special guest, Nick Bettis, sharing a powerful message about how God makes a place for us in the messy and unpredictable ups and downs of life.
Join us as we explore the Emmaus Road encounter and discover how the story of Jesus ignites our hearts with fresh faith and hope.
Join us in a discussion about the table of Jesus as the place where lost sons and daughters are found.
Join us as Robin shares about the power of perspective and forgiveness from the life of Joseph
Join us for a special moment as we hear the heart of the Father through members of the congregation.
We were once far from God with only a set of rules to appease Him. But what if that was never His real plan? Join us to see how Jesus came to give us something better and live among us.
Join us to explore the story of Jacob's encounter with God to see how God's goodness goes beyond our expectations and challenges our understanding of our reality.
Join us as we explore the imagery from the story of Noah to understand the broken state of the world and how Jesus safely carried us through destruction into a new life.
Join us in a look at the beauty of the cross and good news of the sacrificial and transformative love of Jesus!
Join us as Robin walks us through the reality of the gospel and the promises of God through knowing and trusting His Word.
Continuing our series on change, we take a look at the reality that God can change anything at anytime and we learn to reset our expectations to keep hope alive.
Join us for week two of Change as we learn to navigate loss and find the good in a new season.
In the first installment of our series on change, Dan unpacks the difference between change and transition, and explores our natural responses to both.
Join Robin for this message on experiencing the transformative and sustaining love of our Father.
Join us as Dan shares about shifting our hearts to feel and respond to God's hearts for others.
Robin shares prophetic and life experiences around the mission of sharing Jesus with others.
Join us for a prophetic and practical message as Dan lays out the purpose of church to be transformed by Jesus message to fulfill His mission.
Join us in as we return to the foundation of the gospel and the church's call to share the richness of Jesus with a hurting world.
Join us as Dan casts a vision for a life shaped, empowered, and saturated by the presence and person of the Holy Spirit!
Join us for a special Father's Day message as Robin reflects on meaningful life lessons passed down from his father.
Join us for Week 4 of our series on soul health as we learn to challenge inner narratives to walk freedom and health.
Join us for Week 3 as Dan unpacks how anxiety isn't just something to normalize, but a signal of something else, sometimes even pointing formation issues.
Join us for Week 2 as we take a curious look at the things we've come to see as normal.
The way God designed us to experience life is better than the way life has taught us to experience it. Join us for the first part of our new series as we dive in to what it means to be well.
Join us as Robin uses the example of Mary to show the beauty of motherhood, the power of our devotion to God, and the ability we have to impact God's heart.
Special guest, Randall Worley teaches on the spiritual realities of experiencing death and resurrection in Chris through baptism, the model of Christ's obedience, and the process of finding ourselves in the embrace of the Father as Jesus did.
Join us this week as Dan discusses learning to live from a healthy place that celebrates and makes room for the miraculous while staying rooted in the practical.
Join us as Dan explores the call of the maturing church to embody love through handling conflict proactively and redemptively.
Join us as Dan looks at what scripture says about church leaders, their necessity in our lives, and the need for healthy, safe leaders.
Dan shares on the promise that we can know the voice of our Father and that we can confidently trust and follow after Him.
David Godzisz is a long time friend of Dan's and one of our ministry partners, pastoring a church in Juarez, Mexico. He shares a compelling message of making Jesus the center of our life and faith.
We look at Jesus' model and contemplate the impact of making church an environment where people come regardless of their needs or personal stories to find living water.
Join us as special guest Molly Youngquist teaches from the life of Moses on the beholding the majesty of God while also being honest about our human experience.
We look at the nature of church to be the soil that we dig roots into to grow beyond potential into full maturity.
Continuing our series on church, we're looking at how far God goes to show us His great love. We're looking at the mission of the church to be a people convinced of His love for us and an conduit of His love for others.
Join us as Robin shares from his heart on how healthy church is built through lives of devotion to Jesus above all else.
We're taking a look at some of the challenges and looking for wisdom in navigating our life of faith within a community of faith.
Join us for the beginning our of series on Church and be sure to listen to the end to hear how you can join us in our Bridges Campaign.
Prayer is the act of engaging with God. Whether we are full of faith and appreciation one day or at the end of our rope and needing to vent the next day, don't overlook the power of prayer to change not only our circumstances but ourselves as we engage in life with our Creator.
We live in a world where there is more going on than we see. Join us to discover how Jacob's life was forever changed as he met God.
One of our favorites, Randall Worley illuminates the circumstances leading to the Incarnation. Join us in removing the veil of familiarity to fully experience what is available to us in Him.
Join us for an update from one of our mission partners and stick around as Dan explains the power of leaving reaction to live from a place of gratitude.
Join us as we look at the life of King David to see how focusing on God changes our view of the world around us.
We're taking a look at Jesus' life to see how an active relationship with the Father forms and empowers us.
Listen to guest speaker, Darren Davis shares the power of living in a community of believers.
In an abbreviated service this Sunday (followed by a picnic), Dan shares areas that we are focusing on as a church, the big picture, non-negotiable callings common to all churches, and our initiatives that are specific to this current season.
Dan unpacks the shocking gift of God's grace, and the need to learn how to fully accept it.
Dan shares a practical message on living proactively by distinguishing the difference in what's truly important versus what's seems important by proximity.
Robin shares on the armor of God's ability to protect us through knowing God's acceptance beyond our performance and the power of speaking God's word over our lives.
We find comfort and wholeness in Jesus knowing that he cast off any part of himself that was inaccessible to us and we also see the necessity of vulnerability in our own lives for wholeness, growth, and the benefit of the world around us.
Dan shares a clarifying message on faith emphasizing that faith often require us acting with whatever we can before God responds as only He can.
Dan explains the need to value our character beyond our gifts and desires to realize God's ultimate goal for our lives.
David shares his heart for the culture of worship at QCC and on the beauty of pressing in to seek the Lord for a new experience.
Dan gives a powerful and clear representation of the completely scandalous and transformative nature of the Gospel.
Join special guest, Adam Russell to learn how to identify the promises of God over your life and how to steward your life through the seasons of waiting.
Finishing up our series on viewing the kingdom of God though the lens of family, Dan shares a message on the need to view the lost not as "others" but with the same compassion that Jesus had towards them as lost children of our Heavenly Father.
Join us as we look at the centrality of forgiveness in Jesus' work and the need to put it into practice in our everyday lives.
Robin walks us through experiencing freedom through knowing the truth as well as the practice and benefits of seeing the world through the lens of the gospel and the exhortation to meditate on the good things to know joy and live a fruitful life.
Church works best when it is experienced as a family but one of the biggest challenges to experiencing deep and meaningful community is a fear of necessary conflict and a lack of understanding how to walk out disagreement. Join us as Dan shares some practical insight on the need and methods of navigating the harder parts of living in relationships.
Dan shares on the need for diversity in church, the call to unify around Jesus, and the maturity that comes from laying down preferences for relationship.
We highly recommend this message on our need to know that God sees us as His children and approaches us with perfect love and unending patience.
Dan shares a practical message on our need to identify and change our outdated thinking to match our new reality as children of God.
Dan shares a practical message on setting standards in our lives to improve our outlook and outcome. Choosing to rejoice as a default helps us find true joy when it comes.
Robin shares from the story of Jacob on the challenges of adversity, how our perception of our circumstances affects our hearts, the power of forgiveness, and the need to rid ourselves of resentment.
Dan shares a practical message that asks, "Who are we allowing to speak into our lives?"
Dan preaches on the practice of stewardship as an often overlooked but indispensable key to to spiritual and physical formation.
Dan encourages us to press into the tension of transformation as we leave the rhythms of our former lives behind to catch up with the rhythms of the person God originally made us to be.
Robin looks at the life of Jesus' mother, Mary and the key choices she made as an example for all of us who host God's Spirit.
Dan demonstrates uses the life of Joseph to demonstrate how even the most tragic moments can become our most powerful paths to maturity and the deliverance those around us when we choose to do the right things and look for God's redemptive plan within.
Dan uses analogy of a car to cast a vision for our individual lives and the culture of the church that prioritizes individual's health (keeping the tank full), and clarity (having a destination and knowing the proper directions).
Dan shares the journey into spiritual maturity through living in the Spirit to develop the Fruit of the Spirit.
Robin shares about the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of God within us, our need for relationship and empowerment by Him, and a prophetic picture from Isaiah of the need to know our reality before we can fully engage it.
Dan shares the powerful message of the Gospel, retelling of Jesus' experience in the Crucifixion and the startling way that God continues to show up where He shouldn't be.
Dan discusses how shocking the Lord's plan can be for our lives can be and what it means to build healthy mindsets and rhythms by gaining His vision for our lives.
Dan discusses church vision and the importance of learning to see things the way Jesus does as we determine our goals.
Robin uses the story of Joseph to demonstrate how we can faithfully navigate the hard seasons of our lives with the knowledge that God uses them to bless and preserve those around us.
Dan takes a practical look at dealing with conflict in a healthy way and the role that conflict plays both in the growth of both individuals and a community of believers.
Long time QCC friend, Randall Worley was here with us challenging a paradigm to help us trust God wholeheartedly through humility.
Join us for another insightful word as we learn to honor our history with the Lord while pressing beyond the experiences to be formed in Jesus' likeness.
This is a special QCC family moment as John Mark and Shelly interview Dan and Kara Keistler to get to know them better and see how God is crafting them into His story at QCC.
In Dan's first sermon as Senior Pastor, we observe that even the most broken people find safety in Jesus. How do we follow His model to provide safety and connection to others while navigating the need to stand on truth?
Join us for some family business as Robin and the team share the journey for Queen City Church up to now and we celebrate Dan Keistler becoming our new senior pastor as God continues writing the story of Queen City Church.
Learn to reject the concept of an eternally angry God or that our relationship is based on our own righteousness to discover the joy and purpose of living in relationship with our loving Father.
Dan uses the story of Peter's delivery from prison to illustrate the reality of our identity as new creations, the tendency to feel like we're the old man, and the need for new patterns and rhythms to walk out our new identities.
Robin shares an insightful message about making peace with our pasts and shutting the door behind us so that we can move into the next season of grace in our lives.
Join us for this week's sermon as Dan casts a vision for discovering the purpose for our lives built around the Father's purpose.
Visiting QCC mission partners, Nelson and Rachel Carreño along with Ashley Pell, share how God is changing lives in Mexico and the Philippines. Robin shares the culture and history of generosity at QCC and Dan leads us into seeking God's heart to discover our own mission fields.
Join Dan for a look into role that compassion played in Jesus ministry and continues to empower us to change the lives of those around us.
Learning to steward the presence of God beyond just having good church to impact the world.
Discovering our identity and calling with God and learning to differentiate them from the seasons of our lives.
Dan gives an excellent explanation of the steps to spiritual maturity and poses a challenge for us to embrace maturity to be a source of blessing for others.
Last week we looked at how our actions affect our own lives. How criticism and unforgiveness close us off to grace. This week we’re looking at the unique position we are in to affect the heart of God.
Are there hindrances to our ability to obtain more and more grace? What are those hindrances and what can we do about them?Join the podcast as Robin asks these questions and helps us answer them to live better lives, experienceing more grace!
This weekend’s message was a clear and empowering presentation of the Gospel! Dan led us into looking at our adoption out of a life enslaved to sin into sonship and then at the process of maturing into full blown heirs of the Kindom of God. If you missed, it you should listen to it and if you were there, it’s worth listening to again!
Join us for another empowering message as Dan takes a look at Paul’s perspective on prayer from the position of being in Jesus Christ and in constant conversation with God.
Join us as Dan dives into the process of waiting on the Lord as an invitation into alignment with Him.
The presence of God has been a primary motivation of Robin's faith throughout his life and has been a distinguishing factor of believers throughout history. Join him as he shares his history and heart to know and experience God.
Dan preaches on our call to unity around Christ and the process of denying personal preference to connect to greater truth.
Hear Dan’s message about the foundational truth of our faith that we have been crucified with Christ and ask yourselve “am I trying to fix a dead man or am I letting Jesus to live in me?”
There are times in our lives when we must decide between trusting our own limited senses and failed experiences or trusting what God is saying. Robin is finally back and he's here with a powerful message out of Psalm 23!
Join us for this week's podcast as Thomas guides us through exploring the mystery of faith, understanding that following Jesus leads us to a deeper level of perception, which only faith can provide.
Join Dan for this week's message as we look to the story of Jesus walking on the water to understand the challenges of walking by faith and the process of leaning into Jesus' faith to endure through to the end.
We frequently perceive holiness as something removed from the world, regarding nonbelievers as outsiders or the 'other side.' However, Jesus held a unique perspective. He saw nonbelievers not as 'others,' but rather as individuals who were not yet initiated. Join us as Dan delves into Jesus' passionate desire to be in the company of sinners.
Do we believe God is a kind and loving father or are we waiting to get punished when Dad get's home? Dan walks us through the story of the prodigal to challenge our concept of God's posture toward's us.
David helps to dispel some of the legalistic and religious cultural views of spiritual hunger to help us have a more healthy and robust relationship with Jesus.
We are delighted to welcome Randall Worley again as he shares the boundless mercies of God and commends us not to allow our failings to cause us to shrink away, but to draw nearer to Jesus.
This week, we're looking at faith and works through the lens of grace.
Dan walks us through the logic of understanding faith as the state of being convinced that which is true and works as the natural response, moving the emphasis from an insecure and performative faith into holistic action formed by true conviction.
Dan was back this Sunday sharing the importance of leaning into the practice of living in the present to join in the rhythm of Jesus and experience a more empowered and connected life.
Join us for a powerful sermon this week as Dan gave one of the clearest messages on the nature and purpose of God's grace in our lives and the invitation to move past the ground level of forgiveness of sins into becoming our true selves.
Join us for this week's podcast as David shares scripture and stories from his own life to explore the benefits of a lifestyle of worship and praise and how they apply to following Jesus.
Dan is back for this week's sermon on learning to live from the position of relationship with our Father.
Join us for this Father's Day podcast as Robin shares a powerful message about the relationship that Jesus modeled for us with God as our Father.
We're excited to have Matt Peterson back with us to preach about our union with Jesus and teach on the method to experience and live from the reality of His love.
We're excited to welcome QCC member Sarah Stephens on this week's sermon podcast! Sarah's got a powerful message on looking to scripture to learn who Jesus says He is even in the face of adversity.
Join Robin for another amazing sermon from our series on following Jesus as he shares the key scriptures and personal experiences that have helped him form a trust in Jesus.
Join us for this week's podcast as David demonstrates the goodness of Jesus through stories from scripture and his own life, showing that He is worthy of being followed.
Join us for this week's podcast as Dan leads us into learning to think Jesus' thoughts.
Join us for part two of our Following Jesus series as Robin unpacks the process of discovering our true selves through knowing Jesus via the example of Peter's life.
We've got our good friend Adam Russell from Vineyard Fellowship Campbellsville starting off our new series on following Jesus with stories from his life demonstrating why he follows Jesus. This episode is a powerful and sweet testimony of the goodness of God through many seasons of life.
Catch up on our latest sermon with Dan as he invites us to broaden our vision to focus on the promises of God and the longterm goals of His Kingdom above our short term situations or individual gain.
Join us for this week's podcast! Robin shares the Easter story through the lens of Jesus' closest friends as an example of experiences we may all face and the impact that His resurrection can have even on us today. Also, Dan leads us in communion.
Join us for this week's podcast to look at the arrival of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost as Dan investigates the Holy Spirit's desire to build bridges and impact the world outside of the church walls.
Tune in for this week's podcast as David Vallier dispels fear and confusion about the person of the Holy Spirit, His nature, and who He is in us!
The scripture tells us that the goodness of God leads us to repentance. Discovering his goodness releases in us the fruit of the spirit identified as goodness.Join us for this week's podcast as we seek to experience the goodness of God in a way that changes our lives and reproduces to impact others!
We're excited to have Thomas Torrey back on the podcast as he leads us in exploring garden imagery in the Bible as a lens for Galatians 5 and life in the Spirit. Listen in to discover the relationship between our efforts and God's design in a study of culture and nature.
Join us for this week's podcast as Dan circles back to the subjects of joy and rejoicing as the model for our lives instead of a reaction to a moment.
The Spirit has been moving among our congregation in a new and unexpected way these last few weeks. Last week Robin shared a message on joy and the Spirit moved people to tears in what we believe was his process of helping people to accept and process grief as he set them onto the path of Joy.This week, the Spirit rested on us again as Robin shared testimonies of God's kindness.
We had a powerful time with the Lord this Sunday as Robin revisited joy as one of aspect of God and a fruit of His Spirit.
Dan Keistler give us a stronger context for the fruit of the Spirit by understanding that we are already made in God's Image but that it takes time and intention through relationship with Jesus to be formed into His Likeness.
David Vallier continues our fruit of the Spirit series in a look at the faithfulness of Jesus and the reality that we can embody faithfulness as a response to relationship with Him.
Our dive into the fruit of a Spirit-led life continues as Robin guides us through self control. Self control isn't only a fruit of the Spirit, but it is the culmination of many of the other fruits put to action.
Join us for this week's podcast as Robin preaches on joy as a reality of the presence of the Holy Spirit and the fruit of a life in connection to the joyful God. Robin has a gift to impart the joy of the Lord and there was a palpable presence of the Spirit this Sunday.
Join us for week 3 of "Fruit of the Spirit" as Josiah Claypool leads us into a study of the presence of peace in the life of the believer that's promised through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Dan Keistler joins us again this week to look at the fruit of love as the foundation for all other fruit of the Spirit-led life.
We're kicking the 2023 off with a study of the Fruits of the Spirit. This week Robin opens the series with the promise of grace to enable us to grow in the fruit as we deal with ourselves honestly and see Jesus as our source, being what we are not.
Thomas Torrey rounds out our Advent series with a discussion about our method's for relating to and measuring time and in turn how we relate to a God that lives outside of time.
It's the second week of our Advent series and we're welcoming Dan Keistler for the first time to the QCC pulpit as he sheds a light on how different Jesus is from our expectations and how much higher his ways are than ours.
Join Robin for the first week of our Advent series as we look at the prophetic promises of Jesus - our Prince of Peace.
We've got Randall Worley back with us this week to finish out our Month for Gratitude series with a powerful impartation to know the goodness and steadfastness of God through remembering our testimonies.
This week we welcomed David Vallier of Wild Love CLT to the pulpit to continue our Month For Gratitude series with a sermon from Psalm 100.
This week we had the privilege to hear QCC member Josiah Claypool share as we look at the renewal of our mind through thanksgiving and the power that comes through seeing the world from God's perspective.
Join us for this week's podcast as Robin kicks off “The Month of Gratitude” and we consider developing a lifestyle of thanksgiving.
When we look out into the darkness over the sea of the unknown some of us see ghosts, some see Jesus, and some of us even step out of the boat. John Mark is wrapping up our “Easy Burden” series with a talk about love, fear, and the composition of a “good life”.
Following our series theme of taking on Jesus' yoke, we're looking at Jesus as our model and learning to do things the way He did them.
This week, Robin lead us again into a study of the lifestyle and mindset of Jesus, focusing on His lifestyle of humility.
Following our series theme of taking on Jesus' yoke, we're learning to do things the way He did them.
This week, Robin leads us into a study of the lifestyle and mindset of Jesus, focusing on His consistent state of gratitude, gratefulness, and thanksgiving.
As a rare treat, we have Donna McMillan preaching this week! We're continuing our theme from Matthew 11 to discover how we can learn from Jesus' own practices to utilize devotion and intimacy with God as a stabilizing and directive force in our lives.
Robin shares five different interactions women had with Jesus showing how he both defied expectations and social norms, being consistent in his kindness and worthy of our trust. Not only is His burden easy, but Jesus is the type of person that we would hope to be yoked with.
Longtime QCC member, creative director, life coach, and host of the Call Shelly podcast, Shelly Venable picks up part three of our new series on discovering the joys and challenges of life found in Christ through the lens of Romans 8:28.
Join founding pastor of Doxa Deo and City Changers, Alan Platt as he delivers a message on identity and intimacy in part two of our series on the joys and challenges of following Jesus.
Join John Mark, Donna, and Robin as they unpack the first part of our fall series about embracing the joys and challenges of following Jesus.
Join us for the final installment of our Summer of Story series as John Mark asks "What is the invitation of Jesus for people living through a culture-wide crisis of meaning?"
Join full-time storyteller, Thomas Torrey in exploring the Cross as the meaning of our story instead of the success and failure narratives we write ourselves.
Join us for this week's podcast as Robin identifies the lies at the core of the identities of both the prodigal and responsible sons that separated them both from the love of their father.
Join special guest Ted Kim for our spiritual formation series as we embrace wisdom from the life of King David to endure the conflict of our own stories.
Ted is the senior pastor of the Evanston Vineyard in the Chicago area. He is passionate about proclaiming the beauty of Jesus and stewarding the formation of our desires toward God so that we can all flourish.
The story of finding ourselves continues in the second part of Robin's study of the prodigal son. Join us for part six of our spiritual formation series, Summer of Story!
Join John Mark McMillan in part five of Summer of Story as we explore identity, when man's story of fear, vulnerability, and mistrust, collides with God's story of grace.
Join us for this week's sermon podcast as we welcome special guest Adam Russell as he shares the story of the Kingdom of God and how it takes precedence over all other stories that define our lives.
Join us for part three of our spiritual formation series, Summer of Story as full-time storyteller, Thomas Torrey explores the meaning of story, the purpose of sacrament, and how the two cohere within a life of faith.
Robin preaches on the story of the prodigal son as Jesus' explanation of how God views each one of us. When we see the fullness of God's heart towards us — we don't just discover who God is — we also discover our true selves!
When we realize that we are a product of our influences, we become empowered to decide what and who we will allow influence in our lives.
Who will tell us what our story is? What is the impact that our lives naturally have on generations to come?
Join John Mark as he kick's off our new series on spiritual formation - Summer of Story.
Join us for a message from special guest, Randall Worley as he unpacks John the Baptist's experience for profound truth about one of God's methods to our personal growth.
The third part in Robin's series on Ruth. Ruth's story echoes God's plan for redemption in our lives.
The short book of Ruth is filled with lessons about life, devotion, and the faithfulness of God. Robin shares how Ruth's devotion to Naomi and her faith in God restored Naomi from grief to joy.
Join us as Robin examines Naomi's heartache and Ruth's example of the restorative power of a life dedicated to God and committed to relationship.
Join us this for this week's podcast as Andy speaks on the keys and necessity of living a peaceful life.
Join us this week to hear the story of God’s grace in 2 Corinthians to discover how “when we are weak, then we are strong!”
Join us this week as Robin investigates Jesus and Peter's relationship to reveal how God's friendship secures our hearts and launches us into our destinies.
Join Robin in exploring the personal nature of Jesus' ultimate sacrifice through the encounters he shared with his closest friends upon His Resurrection.
Joins us as we look at Jesus' final actions leading to his crucifixion. Andy examines the deceitfulness of human understanding, contrasting it with the pure ways of Christ to cast a vision of abandonment to self-reliance for a life in grace through depending on Jesus.
Join us as Andy preaches out of Proverbs 4 and Matthew 6 on the issues of protecting and strengthening your heart by learning to set it on the things of The Lord.
The story where Mary anoints Jesus with her costly oil, shows us what someone who has truly known Jesus looks like. She was known and loved by him in a way that caused her to disregard her own financial needs and reputation in an act of sacrifice that has been acknowledged for two thousand years for its impact it had on Jesus, himself. We need a new movement of devotion the person Christ Jesus.
Historically speaking, following Jesus has never been easy but there are challenges we face now that are unique to the times in which we live. It is important to remember why we follow Christ. According to the apostle Paul, every hardship, every difficulty was worth going through for the sake of knowing Christ! Join us this week as we discover a new vision for truly knowing Christ rather than merely knowing about him.
Special guest, Randall Worley leads us in investigating our motives during hard times to determine whether we are trusting that God supplies our every need which results in us being a redeeming force in the world or are we acting out our fear of lack agreeing with the destructive forces of the age?
We’ve been looking at how alien the ethics of Jesus can be to our human reasoning. But as Jesus presented himself in his earthly form as a man with a different ethos, God has consistently presented himself in surprising ways, showing up when least expected. This Sunday Robin is spoke out of Exodus 3 on Moses’ encounter with God in the burning bush as the God who intervenes.
Join us for this week's message as w dive into the Gospel of John for an encouraging look at the incredible truth which Jesus gave us in his words “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.” Followers of Jesus have a hope inside of them that according to Romans 5 “does not disappoint!”
This week in the second part of our series Strange Ways, we dive into the story of the woman with the alabaster jar who came to Jesus with a show of love and worship so extraordinary that it made even his disciples take exception to it. But when we find out what caused this woman to approach Jesus with such demonstrative love, we realize that it wasn't strange at all but it was totally reasonable!
What do followers of Jesus believe? How are they supposed to act? And what is it we that we hope for? If we take a look at the words of Jesus in the Gospels and the apostle Paul (in his letters in the New Testament), we can see a clear and distinct path for how to live as Christians in the modern world. Join us as we begin our new series called Strange Ways as we discover how to practice the life giving ways of Jesus.
Robin continues his series on the purpose and process of dark times through the example of David.
Robin teaches on the purpose and process of the dark seasons of our lives to reveal and produce fruit we wouldn't see otherwise.
Join this week as we explore what it means to live free from “the spirit of fear” and to live according to Christ’s wisdom and love.
Ashley Pell, an American missionary to the Philippines, illuminates Matthew 5 as an invitation to press into our weakness to inherit the Kingdom of God and fulfill Christ's mission by reclaiming our call to be light even in our own dark places.
Join us as we examine the life of Naomi and Ruth to see how the season of Advent gives us the opportunity to see the difficulties of our lives for what they really are: the places where God breaks into our reality with His plan!
The story of Christ's birth shows us a much different view of who God is and how His world works than what we have believed. Robin teaches on the lessons we can learn about the nature of God and His interaction in our lives through the passage of Luke 2:7-15.
Join us as Robin explores learning to hear God when he comes in powerful but unexpected ways.
Join us for the first part of our Advent series and learn how to find God when he comes in an unlikely fashion.
In part four of our series on the calling and life of the church, Andy preaches out of 1 Peter on the expectation of the joy that is to come even through our trials as a lifestyle, an act of worship, and a key to maintaining a life of purpose.
Peter’s relationship with Jesus reframed his very identity and set his life on a new trajectory. Robin examines Peter's story and casts a vision that the church would be a vehicle for relationships carrying that same transformative power today.
Join us as Andy continues talking about the purpose of the church and the beauty of life inside the family of God.
Join us for Part One of this series as Andy paints a picture of the church administering the gospel to transform people deformed by the world and the limits of the law into wholeness.
Prayer is a gift which God gave us meant to anchor us in him and to access supernatural help in times of need. Prayer as the practice of “deliberate togetherness with God” is essential in the life of the believer and in the life of the Church.
Join us as we continue in our series on the Joyful Life Of Prayer.
One of the greatest gifts God has given us is the gift of prayer. Prayer is not meant to be a chore but rather it is the beautiful grace of intentional togetherness with God. Join us as we examine the Gospel Of Luke and rediscover the joyful life of prayer.
Robin gives an update on QCC, Chris shares about an encounter with the Holy Spirit, and Andy sows a vision for the church.
It doesn't take a prophet to see that the world is full of heart broken people. Too often the reality of life breaks us to the point that our hearts are no longer able to be filled with hope. Sometimes heartbrokenness leads to hopelessness. But God knows that we cannot live without hope, and the good news is that heartbrokenness may be a stop on the journey but it's not the final destination. Join us as we hear the Gospel found in Isaiah 61 that Jesus truly did come to "comfort the brokenhearted!"
There are things that God has done and provided for us that we all can access but few do simply because they don't know about them. What do you think you need that you already have?
The Bible clearly describes the reality that followers of Christ will experience many various trials. But according to the writers of the New Testament, the troubles we experience are actually occasions for rejoicing! This Sunday we are going to find out how true joy empowers us to make sense of the difficulties we so often face in this life. Join us for this week's message as we find out what it means to be Discipled By Joy!
Just as Paul wrote to the church in Philemon to remind them of what God has for them, Robin shares on the things that are now ours in Christ.
Special guest, Randall Worley shares a message that crystallizes the experience of walking through disappointment into reality and encountering God in a more meaningful way.
In part three of Andy's Shelter From The Storm series, we explore the way Christians work to be a shelter for others.
In this wisdom packed sermon, Ray Hollenbach teaches on the role that divine promises have in bringing each believer into right relationship and maturation into the divine nature of Christ.
Matt Peterson shows us how God values each of our individual lives through the miracles of our existence so that we may confidently live lives of great importance.
Part One of the series, Shelter From The Storm, Andy dives in to God's desire to be our refuge.
Robin uses the examples of Mary and Martha to remind us to make our personal connection with Jesus our top priority and to explain how anxiety makes even the important things stumbling blocks in our lives.
In celebration of Father's Day and QCC's eleven year anniversary, Robin shares lessons learned from his father and retells the story of Queen City Church.
Robin takes us through Paul's prayers as a lesson in how the spiritually mature pray then leads guided prayers in a powerful activation.
Andy teaches out of 1 John 4 on love as a transforming force in our lives and also as filter to view others and the way we treat each other.
Robin continues his examination of Jacob's encounter in the land of Bethel, where the discovery of the Lord's intentions toward's him identified God's House as a dwelling among humanity and brought him to a place of worship, putting him on a path of redemption.
Jesus modeled a supernatural life of thanksgiving. Paul commended us to give ourselves to thanksgiving in all things. Longtime QCC member, Shelly Venable shares the journey of becoming a person that gives thanks through trials and all seasons of life.
Robin unpacks Jacob’s encounter with God at Bethel and the spiritual practice of looking for Jesus in all of our circumstances.
Robin preaches out of Abraham's encounter with Abimelech on the act of blessing our enemies as a key to experiencing breakthrough and walking in our destinies.
Robin explains how Jesus didn't just surrounded himself with hurt and bitter people, but He transformed them into happy, healthy people. Shelly Venable gives a testimony of Jesus freeing her of bitterness.
Robin walks us through seeking the fruit that only comes from walking with God for the long run in the age of instant gratification.
Andy discusses the formational roll of suffering in the life of believers and God's promised grace to endure through the example of Paul's life and epistles.
Robin preaches an empowering word that God, through Jesus, is personally available, interested, and involved in the lives of those he loves.
In this special Easter message, Robin highlights God's desire to make us whole through the act of remembrance and meditation on his life and sufferings.
Mike Dickerman explains his upbringing in as a missionary in South America and the process of moving past disappointment into discovering peace in God's will.
Thomas Torrey leads the church in contemplating increasing empathy as an indicator of progress in discipleship.
Andy shares about the River of God that flows through us and offers us joy and comfort in the midst of trouble.
Andy takes us for a look into the Gospel of Luke to see Jesus’ perspective on the reality of living in a turbulent and difficult world., shining a light on how the unpredictability of life is really the fertile soil that grows and strengthens our life in Christ.
Robin investigates the Jesus' parable of the sower as an invitation to cultivate our hearts towards Him and invest in understanding His Kingdom.
Robin looks at the disciple's personal invitations to follow Jesus and the circumstances following His death as models for us to live by.
In a special sit down interview, Andy asks Robin & Donna about their hearts for QCC, their approach to church in turbulent times, and the wisdom that the Lord has given them for our church to unify in divisive seasons.
The disciples were complicated, ambitious, troubled, sinful men, and had different personalities that put them at odds with each other at times. Not in spite, but because of those reasons, Jesus chose each one of them. He loved them all and knew it took all of their individual differences and quirks to express the full picture of God’s love.
Robin uses the example of Peter's life to show that God ultimate purpose for our lives goes beyond restoring our limited dreams, making us a provision those who come after us.
Special guest Paul Anleitner presents a case for a paradigm shift away from a cultural faith that relies on aggression towards outside forces and requires a defense into one that seeks to saturate culture with the love of God.
Andy shares how Jesus identified fear as an indicator of misplaced trust and that we can overcome fear while also helping others. Thomas leads us in communion.
Paul wrote the epistles to the Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians, and Philemon from prison, creating some of his most lasting impact and displaying the power of the Holy Spirit to not only encourage us during our trials but to make us an encouragement to others. Join us as Robin explores Paul's letters to show us how connect to the Lord’s perspective for our lives.
Robin asks what do you tell yourself after a year like this? Down through the ages God’s people faced similar and even more severe challenges. How did they respond and what were the tools they used to turn their affliction into perseverance, then into significance.
Robin examine’s Jesus famous words, “judge not, lest you be judged” which echoed an important principle from Esther’s story that was clarified in Psalms 9 that our own peace can be determined and hindered by our judgments against others.
Our Christmas Candlelight Service, Laura Dickerman reads a passage of the Christmas account and John Mark delivers a powerful case for the sacrificial heart of God.
Andy presents the season of Advent as a celebration of hope for the return of Jesus and examines the promises God made through Isaiah.
Robin examines the history and events surrounding the birth of John the Baptist identifying the pattern of God’s overwhelming intervention after long seasons of silence and encouraging us to view our lives through the lens of scripture to enable us to hold on to God’s promises through our hardest times.
Robin takes a look at the John's account of Jesus' final interactions with His disciples, noting that they were written so that we would believe and find life in Jesus name.
In this message Andy shines a light on how the Bible emphasizes belief as the way to not only know God but also as a way to be set free from the tyranny of the “wisdom of the world.”
In this presentation of the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price and of the Parable of Hidden Treasure, Robin invites us to focus again on Jesus as the one that gives meaning to our lives while also being the model for how to live.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Adam Fadel teaches us how to identify our underlying emotional stress using our bodies' physical cues and dealing with our mental and emotional state using honesty to move forward.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Adam Fadel helps us identify shame as a real part of each person's journey and provides some exercises to localize and eliminate it's effects in our lives.
Robin continues his study of the life of David. There are some vital lessons to learn from his encounter with Goliath that transitioned him from shepherd boy, living in obscurity, to famous warrior.
Robin uses examples from David's life to illustrate how rejection reveals our inner health and identifies where we look for validation.
Many of our hardest seasons provide our greatest encounters with God but He often comes in an unexpected manner. Robin shares some examples and secrets to finding God even in out worst seasons.
As Christ followers, we learn that we no longer bear the burden of having to solve the worlds problems with our own limited wisdom, but we have something much greater - the simple gospel of Jesus Christ.
The story of Samuel anointing David king shows that life can require us to overcome our disappointment and humble ourselves to see as the Lord does if we want to experience it in full.
Robin focuses on how our character is on trial in most of our times of struggle and the hard season is a test that we must understand enough to pass in order to fulfill our call.
Andy shares that one of the primary Christian goals is to learn to believe in Jesus, and how that is especially important to us in times as that are as tumultuous as these.
Joseph had many reasons to conclude that his dream would never come true, that he would rot in prison, or toil in slavery his whole life. But if God is faithful to fulfill the promises that He's made us and make the dreams he's placed in our hearts come to pass, then our real challenge is to not be mislead by premature conclusions.
Joseph became one of the most powerful men of his time. his betrayal, abandonment, and abuse were severe but ultimately not the end of his story. But even in the face of all his trials, the Psalms say that he was sent by God and that his dreams tested him.
Joseph endured years of slavery, false accusation, and imprisonment but he overcame each time to attain the highest levels of authority because he chose to serve and was found faithful in every situation.
Joseph was a profound prophetic type of Jesus, displaying near perfect character under the weight of extreme injustice. What was it, that enabled Joseph not only to survive horrendous hardship, but to thrive?
Jacob represents the everyman. His life was filled with success and strife, family problems, and peril. But he represents everyone because God wouldn't give up on Jacob. Jacob's life wasn't over until God worked all Jacob's problems for his benefit.
Robin's look into Jacob's life shows that our situations are more defined by whether we experience God's presence than that of difficulty and doubt.
Robin continues exploring Jacob and Joseph's lives. Jacob wrestling with the mysterious figure in the night is an image of our transformation through struggling with God until He can change us into our true selves.
The story of Joseph encourages us to resist interpreting our lives through the lens of our hardest moments.
Robin shows us the depths that God the Father has gone to, so that we may know His love.
Robin discusses the Father's heart for those lost in the world as well as those lost within the church.
Special guest, James Scott delivers a powerful message on Jesus' maturation process and challenges us to look beyond the momentum of our life or even our success to ask what Jesus wants for us.
Andy contrasts the stories of Zacchaeus and the rich young ruler as they display outward sacrifice and generosity as fruit of an internal salvation.
In light of the current chaotic season in the US, Robin reminds us that Jesus walks peacefully into our circumstances, even on the troubled waters.
Robin and Andy discuss the Pentacost and God's redemptive plan for all races and nations. Robin reveals his heartbreak over George Floyd's death.
Robin and Andy talk about living a life of great faith in the tension between the "now" and the the "not yet" of the promises of God, the strength of scripture to combat fear and temptation, and the plan to transition back to on site services in the next few weeks.
Robin and Andy discuss hitting the wall, developing healthy habits, getting back to church, and discovering the scripture as your constant in the midst of confusion.
Robin and Andy celebrate mothers, discuss QCC's next steps as NC shelter in place restrictions begin to lighten, and respond to the Ahmaud Arbery tragedy.
Andy and Adam discuss shame and it's causes and solution, aspects of relational conflict, identify what emotional health looks like, and more.
Andy interviews Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Adam Fadel about mental and emotional health and practices that help manage anxiety.
Robin and Andy discover that many are confronting unresolved issues because there's no distractions, discuss sin and full forgiveness, and reveal the freedom of understanding that hypocrisy is part of everyone's human condition.
Robin and Andy take a look at the reality of Jesus' Resurrection, his followers unbelief, and how it offers us hope and encouragement today.
Robin and Andy recall the various ways the Lord has been preparing us for this season with practical instruction for managing spiritual disorientation. Andy reads Proverbs 30 then discusses the process of focusing on the present day instead of worrying over the long term
Robin and Andy discuss receiving grace as a gift, practical faith, and dispel the idealism of perfect faith.
Robin and Donna discuss the challenges they faced throughout their lives and practical tips to overcoming fear.
In our response to the COVID-19 virus, Robin and Andy discuss fear in in light of scripture, and a long personal history with God.
Robin shares how God revealed to him an unknown baseline of shame from past hurts and embarrasments that he was removing as an example of what Jesus came to do for everyone. He came to replace our shame with his joy.
The Apostle John communicated that there is a natural progression of maturity in the Christian walk, but there are certain things that we need to remember every level of maturity.
Guest speaker Stephen Roach from the Breath and the Clay and The Makers and Mystics podcast talks about his journey of seeing God work in the mundane areas of his life and the process of learning to see from His perspective.
Jesus has become our advocate and where there was once our accuser constantly reminding God of our sins, Jesus is now eternally face to face with the Father reminding Him of His goodness. If He chooses to remind himself of his heart for us, how much must we be reminded?
Robin continues his illustration of the Bible as a primary reference point combating spiritual disorientation. His reading of First John 1's is a challenging but promising passage, insisting that correction is a needed part of living in God's light.
Robin shares from a season in his life about trusting the bible when you can't count on your own feelings.
Guest speaker, Randall Worley uses the example of Peter the Disciple to show how we try to give to God something He has already provided for us.
Andy preaches out of the first chapter of First John - that Jesus was and is a real person, that truth can be known, and that He longs for us to be honest with Him to experience His light.
Robin recap's Donna's message as a strong directive for this year and focuses on the power and necessity of commitment to reading the Bible.
Donna McMillan teaches about putting the Lord first and centering our lives around a devotion to His purposes.
Andy preaches a message on the certainty of hardship and the necessity of a hope that carries you through.
God's response to our troubles is that He would come, Himself and experience it with us.
In Robin's third sermon on gratitude as a tool to finding joy and meaning in life, he focuses on the Magi's quest for the King of the Jews.
Robin unpacks the necessity of gratitude as a key component to healthy thinking and joyful living.
Andy presents that the Gospel is not only an intellectual concept of the Kingdom of Peace, but was always intended that believers would be mobilized to perform acts of mercy to those around them.
Andy casts vision for building a spiritual legacy as part of a special service honoring Robin and Donna McMillan for their years of sacrifice and service.
Robin shares about the necessity and and practice of seeking the manifestation of the Kingdom of God in power, help, and changed lives.
The Kingdom of Heaven is available to those who are willing to recognize their need for it, but many are unwilling to become vulnerable because they haven't know God to be kind.
Jesus presented the Kingdom of Heaven in parables because it was a reality that required a humility and hunger to enter. His Parable of the Sower serves as a key to understanding the path through explaining the four different ways that we receive and process revelation.
When Jesus saw how lost the Children of Israel were, He responded by both demonstrating and teaching about the Kingdom of Heaven.
Guest speaker, Ray Hollenbach presents the mission of the church as the call to spread the good news of the Kingdom of God. This is something far deeper and nuanced than only individual salvation, but resulting in a return to right relationship, peace, and joy.
Mary anointed Jesus in an display that was both very meaningful to Him and very foolish to those around her. What kind of devotion caused her to be willing to endure scorn just to touch Jesus' heart?
The story of Jesus and Lazarus illustrates how Jesus didn't just love mankind as a whole, but is motivated by His love for each of us individually, but what does it mean to think that Jesus loves you?
Robin teaches on the lessons we can learn about our own lives from the miracle of the loaves and fishes.
Guest speaker Adam Russell explains how Jesus' life as a man provides validation, comfort, and understanding to our own lives.
It was hard in Jesus' day to believe that a man could be God, but it is still hard today to believe that that God would care for mankind the way Jesus claimed. Robin dives into the reality and nuance of what Jesus meant when He said He was The Good Shepherd.
John linked Jesus clearing the temple with turning the water to wine as examples of how Jesus tears down systems that place barriers between us and himself and sacrificially becomes our bridge to himself.
Are we followers or students of Jesus? We might think so, but Jesus described our relationship much differently. Special guest, Matt Peterson illustrates that we are meant to be bound with him as one.
Everyone experiences trouble at times of their lives. Jesus encounter with the lame man at Bethesda helps illustrate some of our hangups that prevent our receiving help as well as God's heart and ability to change our situations.
Michelle Carr shows Peter's encounter with Jesus on the shore transformed his understanding of Jesus and himself in a way that we all need, but it required him choose to connect to Jesus even in his own disappointment.
Jesus promised living water, but what does that mean? Has it been overlooked as poetic term for the Christian status quo, or can we receive it as a mystery to be unraveled and experience a more meaning relationship with him and more impactful life?
Jesus knew that Simon Bar Jonah didn't know who he really was and until he really did, he wouldn't fulfill his destiny. But when Simon saw Jesus for who he really was, he also saw his own true self, empowering him to be one of the most influential men in all of human history.
The Gospel of John sets out to declare who Jesus is. The frames its narrative int the beginning in parallel with the creation account. John the Baptist proclaims Jesus to the Jews two days in a row. But on the third day, Jesus indicates that He may be different - even better than we thought, through the extravagant, and wasteful act of turning water into wine.
Andy continues our series in the Gospel of John, focusing on Jesus' way of meeting the needs of the world very personally but not very flamboyantly. As the full manifestation of the Father on Earth, his solution to our problems was very different from what was expected. It was to choose death.
In part four of our look at the Gospel of John, Robin examines Jesus' statements about the mysterious life of those that are born of the spirit with the repeated signs and miracles that He performed as the first of His kind.
The Passion Translation of The Gospel of John says Jesus is the living expression of God who came to bring mercy and truth. Do we accept this as Jesus' purpose, or do we hold on to old concepts?
We often identify others as extensions of our own wants and needs. We want Jesus to be our victor, healer, the Lord above all others. But when He called himself the Bread of Life, Jesus identified his purpose as our providence and confronted our our expectations of the grandiose in one fell swoop.
John's Gospel proclaims that after creating all things through Himself as the word of God, Jesus then completes it and calls it good. JM asks what word is defining our life? Are we living out of shamed identity of being bad or do we believe Him when he says we're good?
The Armor of God is so widely known that it's become a cliche, but Robin unpacks how we have become to familiar with a powerful key to our existence.
Robin casts a vision for walking in holiness empowered by Paul's promises that we are accepted and empowered by being wrapped up in love with Jesus.
Guest speaker Ray Hollenbach presents the call to discipleship as more than simply being a Christian, describing the great commission within context of the first disciple's lives with Jesus.
Andy speaks an encouraging word out of Paul's experience in Acts on embracing our weakness as God's way of giving us His strength.
Robin shares the Revelation of the Book of Ephesians - that it was a mystery hidden from mankind through time and only revealed through Jesus. Paul prayed that it would be revealed to us who read it and not be a one time encounter or intellectual acknowledgment, but that it would continue to grow within our spirits.
Special guest, Stephen Roach shares on the miraculous gift of having and sharing God's perspective.
In this Easter message, Robin shares from the Emmaus road story of Jesus returning to the spiritually blind and heartbroken, highlighting both men's spiritual missteps and Jesus' great loving grace to encounter and restore.
Andy preaches a sobering message of the business of Jesus during his last days on Earth. He was welcomed as a king in the days leading to his death and set out to set certain things right before his penultimate days, suffering his way into the crucifixion.
Ephesians is full with the amazing promises and purposes of God, but Paul prayed in Ephesians that the church would be able to see them. Robin's speaks a powerful message to help see what God has made available and have the clarity to realize it.
Andy continues in Ephesians, hi-lighting the promises to believers and encouraging us from his own life to embrace the hardships that come with the process it takes for them to materialize.
Sandy Forbes speaks out of her life lessons of finding the strength to embrace pain and realize that the struggle is the vehicle of growth and source of power in our lives.
In the second part of The Book of Ephesians, Robin speaks of nine finished works that the Bible says have already happened to and for us that we only enjoy by acknowledging.
Robin opens our series on Ephesians, emphasizing it as foundational to the christian life and that if understood, it's concepts would radically change a church.
Andy continues our community series expanding on what a community centered around Jesus really is in reality versus our ideals.
Sean Feucht shares about the work his team is doing to help the Yazidi people group in Iraqi refugee camps, highlighting fear and cultural distractions that keep Americans from actively engaging in worthwhile causes.
Robin continues our series on community. Christian community can be an unending source of joy and help, but it requires of each us that we go through a process.
Andy starts our series on Community exposing the idealistic view of a perfect community as an extension of our natural attempts to control the external to soothe the inner man where, as in the life of Paul, God can do in us something so great, that we would count it joy to find fellowship with Him even in suffering.
Randall Worley preaches a life changing message on the upside down nature of the Kingdom of God, that it is built on our weakness and failures, highlighting that we limit ourselves by casting out the thing God has given us for advancement, waiting instead for the outwardly, beautiful, perfect, or successful thing.
Robin continues last week's theme on the Holy Spirit teaching on who He was in the early church as recorded in scripture and giving modern testimonies of spiritual, emotional, and physical healings through encounters with the Holy Spirit.
Continuing our series on Acts, Robin highlights our need for the miraculous ministry of the Holy Spirit, with an invitation into a deeper relationship with the Holy Spirit, praying for His power in our lives.
In this fourth part of of our series on the book of Acts, Andy shares about the reality of living a life of faith and the ebb and flow of life, disarming the ideal that one's life is either fundamentally flawed or perfect through the successes and challenges of the early church.
Robin shares the vision of QCC to be a people that loves God, loves people, and demonstrates the power of the Kingdom of God through the fruits and gifts of The Spirit.
Robin continues the subject of Jesus' act of joining us and saving us as one among us, focusing on the Lord's propensity to overwhelm us with grace in response to our sins as in the story of the women caught in adultery.
Robin's Christmas message of God entering into our mess, breaking the stigma of an angry distant God, revealing the depths of His love and understanding for us.
Andy continues the theme of God with us as he explores the phenomenon of Jesus coming and restoring us to Him.
Week 1 of three part Advent series, Andy introduces the importance of the incarnation - the fact that God the Son, Jesus chose to live with and as a man, living with the same weakness and submitting to the same suffering that we do so that we could be united with Him in love the same way He and God the Father are united, signaling that God was never a God of anger and wrath, but a loving Father longing for us to find our home in Him.
Robin continues teaching out of Acts chapter 2 on the person of the Holy Spirit as the empowering agent in Jesus's ministry and His continuing mission to set people free of bondage of all types even today.
Robin returns with a message from Acts 2 on the power of the person of the Holy Spirit.
Andy starts the series on the book of Acts, speaking about the person of the Holy Spirit and the power of prayer, reminding us that we are a people of the Spirit.
Andy walks through Jesus' resurrection through the ascension and the experiences that His followers had in the process. Like many of us they lost hope through the most disappointing circumstance, but were able to recover it when they saw that he was raised again.
Scott Volk finishes our study of the book of Mark with an incredibly hopeful word on Jesus' resurrection and the promise that God brings the dead to life.
Andy helps round out our series on the Book of Mark with Jesus' powerful demonstration of grace and mercy through the events of his persecution.
Robin uses the story of Gethsemane and other examples from Mark 14 to illustrate how Jesus actively loved those around him and also each one of us.
Robin addresses what he calls the spirit of the age which is the practice of polarizing and demonizing others and counters it with a vision for humility and unity.
Part 2 in Robin's series from his new book further unlocks the revelatory experience He had with God and releasing new hope in the process.
Robin shares an encounter he had where the Lord used wagons to show him 5 areas of hope He would restore to his people. He explains these attributes of hope through the prophetic picture in the story of Joseph in Genesis.
Continuing our series with Mark 9, guest speaker Matt Peterson focuses on our great gift and need to listen to Jesus.
Robin teaches out of Mark 8 about Jesus providing more than the crowd needs out of his compassion for them.
Andy continues our walk through the book of Mark with chapter 7. The issue of cleanliness through ceremony or an inward condition, proven through our actions.
Ray Hollenbach unpacks Mark 6 as a series examples of people's interactions with Jesus in which the outcomes were varied by their understanding of who He is. This begs us to ask what affects our own ability to process and understand Jesus, and are we receiving him fully?
Robin gives an encouraging message faith and patience as aspects fo the Christian life. Jesus' encounter with Jairus and the women with the issue of blood show us how both faith to act and patience to wait can lead to the miracles we need.
Andy preaches out of Mark 4 on the Parable Of The Sower that the little and hidden things in life tend to create the most fruit, reminding us not to be distracted by the big and the loud things that bombard us.
In Mark, chapter 3, Jesus renamed Simon Bar Jonah to Peter when he invited him to follow him, but he didn't always call him by his new name. Robin takes us through the accounts of Jesus speaking the Apostle's true name, showing the process of Peter discover his identity and divine destiny.
Robin, JM, Andy, and special guest, Adam Fadel LMFT, share a panel discussion on emotional, spiritual, and mental health in the context of Jesus' first forgiving and then healing the paraplegic man.
Robin introduces the new Series on the Gospel of Mark as having the unique point of view of Peter. The Gospel of Mark's extremely honest portrayal of Peter's growth and shortcomings points to the fact that it is true and should be received with hope.
Randall brings a powerful message of the Parable of the Good Samaritan to explain the depths of mercy that the Father shows to all of us and how it can empower us to live better, more impactful lives.
We all have an internal dialogue and we've all accepted an individual narrative for our lives. JM shares an insight out of Matthew 25:29 on the dichotomy of viewing life from a perspective of lack versus a perspective of abundance. Changing the context of the narrative that we've accepted for our life can directly change our desired outcomes.
Andy preaches about the hope and life that can be found in a foolish gospel that requires risk of trust, but promises the ultimate reward.
Mary, the mother of Jesus lived an extraordinary life. Robin teaches on key decisions in her life that enabled her to raise the Son of God.
Special guest speaker Brian Simmons, author of the Passion Translation unpacks Song of Songs, not as strange prose, but the empowering and intimate interaction between Jesus and each of his followers.
Al Sergel unpacks the parable of the wheat and the weeds explaining the process of dealing with expectations as they develop over time.
Robin continues teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus gave us the concept of the Kingdom of Heaven being practically accessible to believers and representing a new reality of God's goodness, health, supply. It represents what God wants for us in our lives but it is usually better and more readily available than we understand or believe.
Andy continues teaching on the Parable's example of the goodness of God, demonstrating His extravagant generosity.
Andy teaches on a new way of viewing the parable of the sower. God sowed Jesus into all the world with no caution and no regrets.
The story of the beginning of QCC and progression to today, the ministry that we've provided and supported, and the church's current callings and opportunities.
Following up our series on Genesis, Scott Volk shares the how the whole Bible is a recurring story of God bringing the dead to life.
A Survey of Genesis is the first series in an approach to raising Biblical literacy and a passion for God’s Word. The Bible is God’s Story and as adopted heirs it is our history.
A Survey of Genesis is the first series in an approach to raising Biblical literacy and a passion for God’s Word. The Bible is God’s Story and as adopted heirs it is our history.
A Survey of Genesis is the first series in an approach to raising Biblical literacy and a passion for God’s Word. The Bible is God’s Story and as adopted heirs it is our history.
A Survey of Genesis is the first series in an approach to raising Biblical literacy and a passion for God’s Word. The Bible is God’s Story and as adopted heirs it is our history.
A Survey of Genesis is the first series in an approach to raising Biblical literacy and a passion for God’s Word. The Bible is God’s Story and as adopted heirs it is our history.
A Survey of Genesis is the first series in an approach to raising Biblical literacy and a passion for God’s Word. The Bible is God’s Story and as adopted heirs it is our history.
Robin and JM interview Kamran and Suzy Yaraei about their journeys with the Lord and their current mission serving the Middle East.
Eric unloads some practical procedures of being thankful and shows how it enables us to live happier, more Christ-like lives.
Guest Stephen Roach explains how we are able to use our God-given creativity to prophesy hope to our cities.
Matt Peterson speaks on the importance of realizing and dealing with our innate tendency to create false images or expectations.
Hospitality is part of Jesus' strategy for taking over the world. He made room for strangers and sinners, making them into friends, saints, and even martyrs, and we are able and encouraged to do the same.
Hospitality takes time, and presence, and vulnerability, but it can affect the direction of people's lives. Relational exchanges, like Jesus and Zaccheus' literally changed people's destinies. As a church, one of our chief vocations is fellowship and fellowship requires us to make a place and time for it.
Jesus' encounter with Zaccheus shows how he valued him and all mankind. We have a hidden worth that didn't originate with His sacrifice but was revealed by the price He would pay.
The story of Zaccheus shows how an interaction with Jesus can change your, life - even your identity.
The story of Zaccheus shows that Jesus doesn't identify us by our actions, but speaks directly to who we were born to be, empowering our true self through love and restructuring our actions in response.
Jesus' interaction with Zaccheus shows He values us much better than we value ourselves and restores us to our true identities and purposes.
Psalm 23 is one of the most well known passages in the Bible. For many , it's familiarity has lessened the impact of the text. Robin illuminates and unlocks the powerful reality that this Psalm has hidden in plain sight.
Shelly and Andy both share - Shelly on healthy ways to handle emotional, mental, and spiritual breakdowns. Andy speaks on living in the eternal strength of the Lord to make all things new in a world framed by Solomon's statement that there is nothing new under the sun.
Chris McMillan encourages to not get tripped up while in transition and Eric Hurtgen continues the recent theme of kingdom basics, talking about dealing with anger from Jesus' point of view.
Pt. 6 of Knowing The Father's Love shows how Jesus as an exampel of the dueling realities we face. Jesus was identified as a root in dry ground and also as the Son that the Father loves.
Andy shares about the gifting and calling to be care takers and minsters to the souls of humanity.
Part Five of Knowing The Father's Love. focusing on Jesus as the definitive example of God's perspective towards us.
Continuing in the theme of God's love for us, Robin focuses on our value to God is expressed in Jesus' sacrifice.
Knowing the Love of God for us to the point that it shapes our identities is one of the greatest gifts in life and one of the keys to long term spiritual health.
Knowing the Love of God for us to the point that it shapes our identities is one of the greatest gifts in life and one of the keys to long term spiritual health.
Andy explains the mission of the church to confront wicked mindsets controlling the world by proclaiming God's wisdom and the Christian's path to live a free life via renewing our own minds daily in the word.
Robin Expounds on last week's message on humility as a defining part of God's personality contrasted with His omnipotence.
Robin shares about the size of nature and how God is inherently larger than it, yet how small He makes Himself to be accessible to us.