Engedi Young Adults: Recent Episodes
Engedi Young Adults
Prayer does not always have to feel like such a demand or drag. God actually wants it to be a time that is delightful and life-giving. And when we pray right, it becomes a delight!
What do we do with the mystery that comes with the search for truth? Do we abandon truth altogether, do we assume what is unknown, or is there a beautiful third way to engage the areas of life that seem grey?
Failure does not need to have the final word over your life. If you have ever wondered how God feels about our failures, this message is for you!
Jesus says that he is the bread the bread of life. He's is the substance and source of what we need in our lives.
Guest Speaker, Evan Bowling shares his testimony on how Jesus has transformed his life and thinking.
Sometimes God can feel so far away. But what if it was in those times we want to turn away from that Jesus is actually teaching us the very thing we need.
The desire to do more and become greater is noble but at times can be detrimental to our health and identity. God wants us to experience the confidence and contentment of simply being his children!
Guest speaker, Emma Lord, shares her testimony and how she found peace through Jesus in her life.
The Deconstruction of Faith can be both helpful and harmful. But if we are not careful, our cynicism can lead us to callous places with our faith. When we find ourselves in that place, what we we need most is a touch!
Guest speaker, Nicole Palmatier, teaches us how to share faith with and love members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Porn is not only a sin, it is self destructive to our own minds and relationships. But God's heart is to shamelessly love us out of this epidemic and addiction that is crippling us from experiencing new life. In order for us to be fully free, we need more than confession; we need more than containing it with accountability; we need more than counseling; we need to divinize our sight and sanctify our desires!
Are our erotic desires evil? What do we do when our desires become desperate? How does Jesus body given up for us at the cross speak to how we are to rightly express our bodies desires? Come take the only drink that will refresh your souls and give life to your desires.
Guest pastor, Teagan Quinnell teaches on Matthew 6:25-33 and how to have a full life despite our circumstances.
Is there a difference between happiness and joy? How do we make the transition to letting our joy be something of chance to something we remain in? John 15 may provide the answer!
Pastor Jordan rounds out our last week of the How to Be Rich Series by asking us 3 questions while pointing us to eternity.
God will often allow us to experience discomfort and dysfunction when we are desiring something other than his direction for our life.
Guest Pastor, Roger Cruz, teaches on God's heart for the world and how his heart has always been for the world.
In week 2 of the Holy Spirit Series, Pastor Jordan leads us through 6 reasons on how to be filled with God's spirit and how the Holy Spirit wires us for spiritual success.
Guest Speaker, Zach Hayes, teaches on drug and alcohol and what the bible says about these topics.
What are our sexual desires intended for; pleasure and procreation or is there something more being pointed toward? How can we exercise healthy sexual boundaries in our relationships?
We may outwardly have Christian habits but do we inwardly have God's Spirit? Let's take a diver into 1 John to see how we can test if our Spirit is from God or not.
Guest speakers, Jacklyn Humbarger and Kelsey Pardue, talk their journey with mental health and inviting Jesus into their journey. They share their experiences and offer tips on how to be there for someone who may be struggling with mental health.
God is building a people who advocate for justice, bring dignity to the oppressed, make peace with enemies and involve themselves with the broken political structures. However, is our political involvement bent and cross shaped?
The battles we face in life are difficult. But God does spare us from the suffering, rather he provides us with his presence. And when we fight with the armor of God we are dressed for any difficulty.
Many of our Christian walks feel weak and powerless. We are always falling prey to temptation and falling short of God’s best. But the Apostle Paul tells us of the kind of strength and armor that the people of God have available that allows us to stand strong through adversity and the enemies strategies.
Guest speaker, Evan Bowling, teaches on our Transformation in Christ from Ephesians 4:17-24.
God has more love and power for us than we ever thought to ask or imagine. When we are in Christ, we can always experience His life changing power and heart melting love.
We are all called to the purpose of preaching Christ. Thankfully, God doesn’t use only the holiest people or the sinless; he uses those who surrender and are willing to point to him.
Our Heavenly Inheritance in Christ is secure because we have been sealed with His Spirit.
We are beloved by God in Christ. Any other identity comes secondary and falls short of how God sees us.
Guest speakers, Jess and Zach Hayes, answer questions concerning the topic of relationships and sex.
Guest Speaker Laurie Krieg shares her story and journey with sexual brokenness and how God is healing her and bringing her victory.
God wants us to have the best sex life but that can only be experienced in his boundaries. So when we practice S.A.F.E. sex we will have the best sex.
Pornography is the new drug of the 21st century and it is the biggest killer of relational intimacy. Jesus desires to give us freedom from this self-destructive fantasy and renew our hearts; to love as he loves and see as he see's.
How do we navigate our sexuality as a single? God reveals to us the solution in the beginning; our divine image was designed for intimacy. And you can have intimacy without sex, and you can have sex without intimacy.
Jesus rebrands sex by the giving of his body. He gives us a new definition of what sex means at the cross. The most life-giving experience of sex only happens in marriage because we share in a sacramental promise with our spouse what God shares with us; a promise of faithful, committed, self-giving love forever.
Our sexuality tells us a story about God. But which story are we listening to - the worlds or His? All of creation points to the person of Jesus Christ, especially our sexuality. It is so much more than physical, it points to a spiritual reality of God's desire to be our source of satisfaction.
Guest Speaker Jacklyn Humbarger teaches from Psalm 23 on how we can make room for rest. Our hearts can often times get so full of desires and dreams that we end up burning ourselves out. Learning to make room for rest is necessary to get where God wants you to go.
Have you ever made space to rest but still find it hard to relax? Well, Jesus's desire is to help us remove all the things that are robbing our rest, but it's up to us to release those things to him. And when we do we will experience times of refreshing in the presence of the Lord.
Have you ever struggled with fulfilling your new year's resolutions? We all have. Luckily, God gives us exactly what we need to accomplish more and it starts with doing less; by resting. When we take our sabbath rest seriously we will experience our most spiritually successful year yet!
In John 15 Jesus teaches us that he does not want us to strive in our relationship with him but to thrive! And the only way we can thrive is by abiding in his love with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Guest Speaker JP Dorsey teaches from Ephesians 1 on the topic of being "In the Holy Ghost"
What ways does God wish to empower his people? We learn from Scripture and real testimonies of how God is empowering his people supernaturally with the Holy Spirit to be his witnesses to the entire world.
God's passion is for every nation and he continues his mission to reach every tribe and tongue by the power of His Holy Spirit in us. Acts 2 is clear on how we help participate in fulfilling that mission now as Christ followers.
How do we as imperfect people do the impossible task of uniting amidst our differences? Jesus prayed in John 17:20-23 for unity among God's diverse people and sent us his Spirit to help us fulfill that divine plea. And when we walk in unity, we best reveal the love of Christ to the world around us.
What is the Holy Spirit's main role in our lives and how do we live a life completely for the glory of Jesus? We learn from John 16:14-15 that God's Spirit is set on revealing more of Jesus to us, and in turn, allows us to reveal more of Jesus through us.
How do we win in the way that Jesus defines winning? Revelation 5:5-6 has something to say about what it means to truly conquer in this life and how Jesus paved the way.
We all want to do and be more for God, but sometimes, that pressure of 'more' can become... miserable. So, what if God's definition of more truly is 'more' than what we are imagining? Come journey with us through Luke 10:38-42 as we discover what matters most.
God does not want us living busy lives, he wants us to live burdened for the broken. Jesus dedicated his life serving and loving broken people, so the question is, do our hearts break for what breaks God's?
Tired of battling Lust? Learn what Jesus has to say in Matthew 5 about how we look at the body and how we see others sacredly with a pure heart.
We all love those who love us in return. But what about our enemies? Jesus teaches how we are to respond to our enemies in Matthew 5 and wants us to get to the place in our hearts where his grace has changed us so much that we start loving our enemies like we want them to be family!
Guest Speaker Mike Kolean and Young Adult Pastor, Jordan Humbarger talk about how to discover God's purpose for us.
Young Adults Pastor, Jordan Humbarger shares a timely biblical message responding to the racial injustices in our nation. We all must ask ourselves; do we value the cries of diversity, are we loving with empathy and are we practicing advocacy?
Have you ever wondered how to follow God's plan? It can be frustrating, but James 4 teaches us 3 simple steps on how to follow God's plan for your life no matter where you are on this spiritual journey.
Have you ever said something you wish you could take back? Chances are more than once. But James 3 teaches us that if God expects us to tame our tongue, then he will empower us to do it!
It can be easy for us to think less than of others that God thinks highly about. But we learn in James 2 that people of faith do not degrade what God has made!
Just because God's word is planted in our minds does not mean it will produce. Come learn from James 1 how to put God's word into practice and receive the fullness he has for you!
How do we resist temptation? We learn in James 1 that resisting temptation is possible for those who receive God's loving desires for them.
How do we have joy in hard times? We learn in James 1 that joy is possible even when everything around you is not okay.
Reading the bible can be tough, but with these simple steps you can turn your bible reading into a meaningful and life-giving experience!
In this talk we learn some practical and real tips from our Young Adults Staff on how they navigated their relationships.
Reconciling our beliefs with our behavior is neither transactional, nor is it an exclusively theological exercise. So, how do we make sure our life reflects what we believe? The Apostle Paul has something to say about this in Romans 12.
In this talk, we learn we cannot experience the fullness of what God has for us until we embrace the whole body that God functions in.
Everybody wants a happily ever after. But are we willing to pursue the habits that produce one? In this talk, we learn our relational happiness only rises to the level of our habits and pursuits, not our hopes and potential.
Have you ever been hurt before by someone you love? Or how about being tempted to compromise your character to keep somebody you love? In this talk we learn that it is always God's desire to heal us, but it is up to us to make the decision to release and receive it.
Are they the one for me or should I be looking for another? In this talk, we learn how to discern through vision and scripture if the person we are interested in or dating is the one we should get serious with.
What if God hasn't spoke anything new because you aren't listening to the people around you? In this talk, we learn that if you want to catch Gods voice you need to be in community.
What do you do when God says no? In this talk we take a look at what Scripture says about the ways God speaks and how to respond when it feels like God is silent.
Have you ever wondered what God's voice sound like? In this talk we learn from both the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 19 and Jesus in John 10 on what God's voice sounds like and how to discern if it's him.
In this talk we learn from 1 Timothy that God is a better savior than we are sinner and that He has made us to display who he is to the world around us.
Have you ever wondered what true success looks like? In this talk we learn from Phillippians 2 that following Jesus example of serving leads to true success in life.
Engedi Kalamazoo Pastor, Jeremy Simpson, gives us an encouraging message on the power of God's touch.
Engedi Lead Pastor, Brian Aulick, shares God's heart for the nations and ways that we can practice living out the missional heart of God.
Have you ever tried to do this life solo? If so, you learn very quickly that it's hard. In this shortened talk we learn from Ephesians 4 that we cannot fulfill God's purpose for us if we do not connect to his people around us.
Have you ever felt like the way those around us live runs contrary to the way God calls us to? In this talk we take a look at 1 Corinthians 1 & 4 and ask the question, are we willing to look beyond what the world calls foolish to live out the bigger calling God has for us?
We all want to leave a legacy. But the question is, am I building a life that God calls beautiful? In this talk we uncover truths found in 1 Corinthians 3 and we learn how to build a life God calls beautiful and worthwhile.
Have you ever felt like you did not belong? Well in God's kingdom we all have a part to play. In this talk we take a look at 1 Corinthians 12 and how God designed his people to work together in order to be better.
Have you ever struggled with self-discipline? In this talk we learn from 1 Corinthians 9 and how it is only when we have a master passion like Christ that we can embody true self-discipline.
If we ever want to see God move powerfully in our lives we first must make the move. In this teaching we learn from 2 Kings 3 and how God calls us to dig the distractions out of our lives in order to make space for him to move.
There are seeds inside of you that you don’t even remember how they got there. They are dormant and they need to be watered. It’s watering season
Jesus didn't come to give you what you deserve. He came to give you what he deserves. He is your fast pass. His grace is the reason you can have peace with God and with yourself. You can skip the never-ending lines of legalism, self-effort, and dead works when you have Jesus. He's found you , he's picked you, he's called your name. Now he's standing at the door of your heat. You just have to open it.