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This week, Haley talks about what life can look like when we take our focus away from the "gods" in our lives and instead focus on Jesus
How do you see Jesus? This week, Elizabeth Hamill talks to us about seeing Jesus for who he REALLY is!
How would you describe the goal of Christianity? Man would say it's to get to heaven, but what if Jesus tells us it's something different?
This week we look at Matthew 5 and see how Jesus calls us to influence the world around us!
In week two of our series "First and Foremost," Will looks in to not only what it means follow Jesus totally, but also what it costs.
As we kick off 2024, we are answering the question: how can I make this year matter? Most of us are spending our time creating, planning, and dreaming up well intended New Year Resolutions...and yet most of us will get to February and forget our resolutions altogether. How can we break this cycle and make this year count? What does the bible tell us about how to have a year full of real, lasting transformation?
Listen as Haley dives into scripture to see what Jesus has to say about the new year!
This week, Haley Sloan takes on one of the hard topics of the Christian faith and answers the question: What actually is sin?
Are you stuck in the past or worried about the future? This week, Haley walks through what it looks like to be an "in-between people" and how to enjoy the here and now!
This week, Student Intern Alex Romig shares a message with us about what it looks like to have a relationship with Jesus.
On night two of Fall Retreat, Haley follows the question "what is love?" up with a charge for us to be the community of love.
On night one of Fall Retreat, Haley answered the question: What Is Love, and How Do We Become People Who Love?
In our third week of our series "The Way", Haley talked to us about the importance of Sabbath. She explains that a true 24 hour Sabbath brings transformation as you are intentionally taking the time to stop and delight in the Lord. What is holding you back from a day of Sabbath? If it is because you are "too busy", then this episode is especially for you!
This week, Will talked to us about the importance of practicing silence and solitude. Focusing on the text of Mark 1:12-13, Will highlights Jesus practicing this very thing and he invites us to join him in the silence. So what is distracting you from embracing the silence? Are you willing to accept Jesus' invitation and rest in the silence and solitude?
This week we kicked off the Fall Semester with our new sermon series: The Way. Using Matthew 11:28-30, Haley calls each of us out for falling into the trap of busyness. Are you unable to slow down? Are you leaning into the busyness rather than taking time for true rest? Is there actually a different way to live other than in busyness? I guess you'll have to tune in to find out.
This week Elizabeth wraps up our sermon series in James. She dives into how our biblical faith is not blind, and how it is important for us to realize that. Our faith is built around trusting evidence of God's faithfulness and knowing the promise Jesus represents. Where have you seen God's goodness in your life? Do you seek Jesus or what He does for you? Is there an area in your life where others might think it is crazy that you are being so patient and radically trusting God?
This week we continue our sermon series in James, Haley walks us through the fourth chapter. Peace is something that we truly desire in our lives, so what are the 3 keys for finding peace in our lives? What steals our ability to find peace? What makes it hard to hold onto peace? What is something in our lives that we need to surrender to God to allow us to find peace?
This week, we continue our study of James. Haley looks at the third chapter of James, where he speaks about the taming of the tongue. The tongue contains a lot of power in our everyday lives. How do the things we speak impact others? Our words are direct reflections of our heart so what do they show the people around us? Why should we care about the words we speak? What are our words creating?
As we continue to work our way through the Letter of James, Elizabeth jumps into Chapter 2. James challenges us to show our faith through our works because faith without works is dead. Elizabeth gives us an amazing understanding of this chapter as well as the biblical view that faith and obedience are essentially unified. What would someone say you are passionate about looking at your life from the outside? What do your choices say about what you believe?
This week we start a new sermon series in the Letter of James. Haley dives in giving us an outline of what direction we will be going down over the next few weeks. What are some takeaways from this letter, as we look inward and at our own hearts? How can we transition to being contributors rather than just consumers? How are we going to allow the Letter of James to transform us into new followers of Jesus?
Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection and beating yourself up for your flaws? We can relate. In this sermon, our special student guest, Kaleigh Martin, recaps what we learned about the Shema (Deut. 6:4-5) at Spring Retreat and reflects on the powerful truth that God has shown us grace upon grace. What would it look like to rest in that abundant grace and allow God to shape you?
When asked what the very greatest commandment was, Jesus answered: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ Sound familiar? He’s quoting the Shema! To close out our weekend of reflection on this prayer, Haley shows us what the greatest commandment means for believers today. The truth is that everything we do, everything we think, and everything we say is shaped by some sort of lens. What's your lens? Jesus wants it to be love!
Imagine you are about to enter a room, and inside it you will see the thing you want most in the whole world. What would be inside? In our morning devotional from Spring Retreat, Elizabeth continues to lead us through the Shema (Deut. 6:4-5) and reflects on the fact that God says His most important commandment is to love Him with our entire being. The truth is that what God wants most in the whole world is your heart, and the journey of discipleship involves surrendering more and more of ourselves to Him.
So the question is: what do you love most...and is it God?
For thousands of years, Jewish people have prayed these words every morning and every evening: “Hear O Israel, the LORD is our God, the LORD is one, and as for you, you shall love the LORD your God with all of your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” This prayer is called the “Shema.” To begin our Spring Retreat, Haley encourages us to reflect on the very first word, which is Shema! In Hebrew, “shema” means more than just hearing; in order to truly “shema,” we must listen, respond, and obey. What would it look like for you to truly “shema” to what God has to say to you?
What is God up to? As we wrap up our sermon series through the Covenants we look at the Davidic covenant and the new covenant. God has been planning to restore humanity and their hearts made of stone. After countless failures, and broken covenants God reacts in a way we never thought God would. What are these covenants and how do they affect our lives today? When the Israelites break the covenants, how does God react? What does it mean to you to have a heart of flesh? What does the New Covenant mean for us?
This is the third week of our covenant series, and this week Elizabeth goes over the Mosaic covenant. The Israelites have just been freed from slavery in Egypt and are on their journey through the wilderness. During this, Moses and God make a covenant covering the Israelites in God’s glory and His promise. What does God ask for in us? Where do we find ourselves freed and healed through God? What are some ways that God is trying to transform you currently?
This week we continued our series on the different covenants God makes with us in the Bible. We focus on the Abrahamic covenant that God makes, the promise of his family becoming as numerous as the stars, and God’s blessing on Abraham and his family. What happens with this covenant, and what can we learn from Abraham in this story? What do we learn about God’s character through this covenant he makes with Abraham? Where are you still waiting on God in your life?
This is the final week in our sermon series, The Other Side of Grace. As we wrap up our study in Matthew 23, how might we grow deeper in our faith? Jesus has been calling out and exposing the Pharisees of the wrong they have been doing, although they may be living and doing the required tasks, they're missing the point. God cares about your heart, soul, and mind more than what we produce. How might we make sure that the inside is clean before we clean the outside? How might we change to produce a more fruitful and Godly life? How is God working in our lives to allow beautiful things to sprout in us?
This week we continue our sermon series in Matthew 23. As we continue to dive into Matthew 23, we look at the Woes. Jesus is calling out the people with how they are acting. How might He be calling you out? Jesus sees the potential we carry and knows that we are better than we are acting. How might we show that we are someone who lives with integrity? How might we live into being people who invite others to experience what we're experiencing?
This week we dive into our new sermon series, The Other Side of Grace. The past few weeks we have been in Hosea and we have looked at the kind of grace that God shows us when we sin. Now as we dive into Matthew we are beginning to see a different side of grace from God. How would you describe grace? What if we were people who decided to be the same on the outside as we are on the inside and allowed grace to change the inside if it wasn't worth sharing?
Are you in a season of increased stress, exhaustion and overall just feel tired? We know that most of us are, but why is that? This week we see a major problem not only that the ancient Israelite community deals with but also something we deal with in our lives today. This problem has, luckily for us, a powerful solution.
This week, we look at Hosea Chapters 4-11. We will discover a troubling problem that the Israelites have. We will spend time discussing how they have this problem in the first place and the solution to their problem. Listen until the end because we read through some of the most beautiful scripture in the entire Bible! What we find is that God, who is rich in mercy, yearns for His people.
This week we kick off our new sermon series in Hosea!! Hosea is a crazy story with an unexpected ending, we ask you to put aside your understanding of God, not neglecting it just placing it to the side to look at the story from a new perspective. This is not only a story about how the Israelites fell short, but also how we fall short everyday. What is preventing you from living a spiritually "alive" life? Why is it hard to believe that God is pursuing you all the time? What does restoration mean to you?
Join us this week as we take a dive into Matthew 7:6-29, where we look at value, righteousness, and if we're living on a path that leads to life, or a path that leads to destruction. Are you persistently listening and seeking God's voice? Are there distractions hindering your ability to seek God? What are you going to put your energy into this year?
Join us this week as we walk through Jonah chapters 3 and 4. Where we talk about God's grace, judgment and how it is all a part of God's love. As well as how he works through Nineveh and Jonah through their redemptive process. What are some misconceptions you may have about the old testament? What is your own personal view on God's judgement? How do you feel about God loving your enemy as much as He loves you?
This week we dive into Jonah, and look into the preconceived notions we had about this book as children. What is our Ninevah, what are we running from that God is calling us towards? Where has God brought life when we surrender to Him in our own lives? What kind of mission is God inviting you on to help grow His glory?
This week John takes a look at passion. What kind of passions do we have, are those things Godly or Worldly? are they more Addiction or Devotion? How do we develop a passion that is centered around God and our faith?
This week in 1 Peter we dive into the second section, last week we learned that we are claimed as children of God. This new title leads us to becoming living stones. In this next section we take the last verse of section 1, which challenges us to live counter-culturally, and ask ourselves does this apply to me? If so, in which circumstances? What we find is that we are to be people who values conviction over convenience.
This week we are starting a new sermon series in 1 Peter. This sermon goes over the "Who am I" question as well as diving deeper into what shaped you to become who you are.
This week we have a shorter sermon finishing up Malachi, where we look at what needs refining in our own lives.
This week we are in Malachi again as Haley goes over, instant gratification, refinement and where we may be settling. As we look to continue to grow in our faith, where are we giving minimal effort to achieve maximal gain?
This week we wrap up our sermon series over Haggai. What are you building, and what are your intentions?
We wrap up our series on suffering. Join us this week as we look into how God answer jobs questions and frustrations. We find God has a few questions for us that help us shape and understand pain and suffering!
Job experienced unfathomable suffering and pain! We kick off our first week on Job! Join us for our prelude to our sermon series on Job!
We will dive into a passage that oftentimes is misunderstood. This week we will learn the final element of being an adult.
Last week we talked about boundaries. We learned boundaries are not about keeping 'bad' things out but rather keeping the things God intended for us in! Join us for week 2 as we learn our second essential to becoming an adult.
Follow us along as we give you three essentials to becoming adult! Haley Sloan leads us through a topic that makes many of us turn a blind eye.
How do we do the right thing in face of a society lacking conviction? Are you someone who lives by conviction or convenience? Listen to Haley's sermon today it's a banger!
As we start our semester we want to go back to the basics. What does a commitment to faith look like? We will start our Journey into the book of Acts over the next few weeks!
How do we know where we are headed is where we will end up! Haley Sloan attends to let you know!
Join us for week one of our Abide series. This week we will talk about internal spiritual disciplines!
Have you ever gotten it wrong? There have been times in our lives where we think we know the exact thing to do but still just get it wrong! In this episode, Haley walks us through convictions. What are convictions, how do we find them, and how do we know we are right? Lastly, what does it look like if we ignore our convictions?
Have you ever felt 'eh.' I don't know about you but 'meh' has been the epitome of the last year. What leads us to this feeling? And, when we feel apathetic, what do we do about it?
Our first two challenges for community are to unify around a common purpose despite our differences in preferences AND staying proactive in keeping our fellow Christians accountable. How do we know that we are doing well? What is the third step to healthy community? Turn your volume up and join us for week three of our series 'We Are.'