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This past Sunday, Pastor Tyler Hardy gave an equipping on prophesy in the church and we heard corporate encouragements and words from members of our church family. Tyler shared about the security that comes from knowing God and the clarity that comes when we wait for Him to speak.
"Wordly hope is wishful, biblical hope is certain." This past Sunday Billy Gifford shared about the hope we have in Jesus, and how we should live with hope in expectation of the coming of our King.
This Sunday Tyler Hardy shared about the lasting peace that only comes through Jesus, the Prince of Peace. Tyler shared how we can let the peace of God guard our hearts, heal our minds and mend our relationships with one another.
Ephesians 2:14-16 "For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments... that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross."
This Sunday Pastor Tyler Hardy taught on the certainty of Biblical hope, and how the hope that comes from Jesus is not merely a desire for something good to happen, but a confident expectation for the goodness of God rooted in His promises and nature.
"Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." Romans 5:3-5
This past Sunday Pastor Tyler Hardy spoke peace and clarity into the tension of our nation by sharing how our Father is the ultimate source of our peace, and how we can carry His peace everywhere we go. Tyler shared that our peace is not determined by external circumstances, but by the Holy Spirit within us.
This Sunday, Unbound Director Amanda Beunger shared about God's heart for justice. Unbound works to end human trafficking in our community, provide victim advocacy, and spread awareness through citywide outreaches. Amanda shared why Jesus calls His church to engage in pushing back forces of evil and the role we play in seeing captives set free in our city.
This Sunday Pastor Tyler Hardy continued our Own It relaunch by teaching what it means to own the price of progress. Tyler explained our call to be a people committed to a living out radical obedience and generosity and shared where this journey of owning the price of progress will take our family in the future.
We often talk about the joys about being a disciple of Jesus, but in this Sunday message, Billy Gifford shares the cost of discipleship in our lives. Listen as Billy dives into scripture to explore what it really means to take up our cross and follow Jesus, and how dying to ourselves brings the freedom to truly be a disciple of Jesus.
This Sunday, Pastor Tyler Hardy broke down intensive discipleship and it's purposes for certain seasons in our lives (like marriage discipleship/ pre-marital counseling, Antioch Discipleship School, or parenting discipleship). Tyler shared his own experience of growth through his ADS year, and how intensive discipleship brings the opportunity to press into seeking Jesus during specific seasons of our lives.
In this redemption message, Ashlee Hardy shared the power of the new life that the Gospel brings, and how it is God's heart that we would have freedom from repeated sin, suicidal thoughts, heaviness and burdens so we can share the gift of freedom with those around us through evangelistic discipleship. When our lives are transformed by the Gospel and love of Jesus, we can go out and tell people about the One who changed everything for us.
This week we continued the Made For It series with Pastor Tyler Hardy teaching on mentor discipleship. Tyler shared the role and impact of mentors in his own life, and how mentors can disciple us, provide wisdom, insight, perspective, and encouragement. Mentors are role models, Jesus is the standard. We are to imitate our mentors to the measure they imitate Christ. Mentors are a gift to help us process through pain, learn from someone in a different stage of life, and to fill in the gaps. To listen to Sunday's sermon, visit the link below, and join us this upcoming Sunday as we learn about Intensive Discipleship from Ashlee Hardy!
This week, Pastor Tyler Hardy broke down peer- to- peer discipleship and what it means to sharpen one another like iron sharpening iron. Tyler shared how peer to peer discipleship is really about championing one another toward Jesus, and how we can practice peer discipleship in our lives today.
This week we kicked off a six-week series called Made For It, diving into discipleship in a new way and exploring how and why we are all created to be in discipleship relationships. In this message, Tyler Hardy answered the questions, "What is discipleship?" and "Why is it important?" Tyler shared the Biblical foundations of discipleship, and why discipleship isn't just a thing we do, but a foundational piece of who we are as followers of Jesus.
The Christian life is about saying "yes" to Jesus. Most of the time, we say "yes" by choosing obedience in the small things. Sometimes though, God gives us the opportunity to go on an adventure with Him, and saying "yes" looks like trusting Him on the journey. Families' Pastor Chris Pletcher and Arlina Pletcher are saying "yes" to God and His invitation to join our Antioch family in Austin, TX as Chris takes on the role of Campus Pastor for Antioch Austin's north campus. In this interview- style message with the Pletchers, they share about their new season in Austin, and about how trusting our faithful and good Father in the unknown always brings us closer to Him.
In this compelling and stirring message on relational culture, some of our overseas workers share about their personal experiences on getting vulnerable with community, and how investing in the Body of Christ reaps rich rewards in our lives.
Choosing obedience to God doesn’t have to look complicated. Obedience is something we all interact with throughout our lives. We have all been told at some point we need to do something a certain way. Some of us might have some troubling thoughts or difficulty when it comes to following or not following directions. Whatever our individual experience with obedience may be, we all have a certain way we view obedience to God.
This past Sunday, our Children’s Pastor Garrett Cole shared with us that God doesn’t desire us to be obedient because He’s secretly entertained by us trying to figure out what He wants us to do. God’s heart is that we understand that we have the privilege of aligning our hearts with His by saying yes to Him every day. Garrett shared how being obedient to Him reaps fruit in our lives in the form of more of Him. By partnering with God in the little and the big, we receive more peace, more joy, more patience, and more love for Him and His creation.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." When you think of humility and brokenness, what comes to mind? In this sermon, Ashlee Hardy describes brokenness not as the quality of being crushed in spirit, but of being humble and moldable in the hands of the Lord. Ashlee powerfully shares about the humble and contrite heart, and how by choosing humility and brokenness in serving those around us, we receive treasure in heaven that far exceeds anything we could desire here on earth.
What is the most important thing in the Christian life? Operations Pastor Billy Gifford answers this question as he continues our series “We the Church” with a message on devotion to Christ. Billy reminds us that our chief purpose and calling is to be in fellowship with the Father, and shares how to stay in a lifestyle of devotion to Jesus.
In this powerful message, Pastor Tyler Hardy shares what it means to live a life of honor as God intended and exhorts us to assess our hearts as we aim to honor God in action, in speech, in thought, and in our hearts.
In this powerful message, Ashlee Hardy shares how fixing our eyes on the holiness of God brings peace and freedom in the present challenges of our world. Listen as Ashlee shares powerful testimonies from her life and be encouraged to seek the things of Heaven in life's everyday moments.
In this Father’s Day message, Pastor Tyler Hardy shares about the model of fatherhood given by our perfect Heavenly Father, and how fathers and future fathers today can become like Him.
"Prayer is the place where our hearts converge with God’s to become one."
This week in our "We the Church" series, Mobilization Director Connor Fink shared how to move from seeing prayer as a task to an encounter with the living God. The point of prayer is to draw near to God so He can draw near to us (James 4:8). Listen as Conner encourages us to draw near and abide, moment by moment.
This week, our Families and Young Adult Pastor Chris Pletcher taught on the importance of being in the Word of God daily, and how our best defense against the schemes of the enemy is found in the Word of God. Chris challenged us to recognize and repent for the areas where we fixate on what is on the news or social media over what the Lord says and what is on His heart.
On this Pentecost Sunday message, Lead Pastor Tyler Hardy shared how God chose to establish the Church in the book of Acts, on the gift of the Holy Spirit and how we are being reestablished as a church.
Don Manning talks about relationships within families and how they relate to parenting.
Mitchell and Beth Welch share about their call to Fayetteville and highlights from their time in College Station on their last official Sunday as the college pastors.
Chris Pletcher continues this series with a message on the joy and blessing of truly submitting to the authorities in our lives.
Tyler Hardy kicks off a new series with a message on Jesus and His plan for human relationships.
Chris Pletcher gives a powerful message on the redeeming power of Jesus and guides us through what it means to "renew your mind."
Guest Missionary Tim tells his story of missional living overseas and shares what it means to be faithful in the seemingly little ways of obedience to God.
This recording has been edited for the safety of Tim's family and friends.
Lead Pastor Tyler Hardy closes the Rooted series with a message on honoring God in our families.
"It explains how God relates to us and how we relate to Him."
Lead Pastor Tyler Hardy continues the Rooted series with an exploratory message on the doctrine of the Trinity.
"He is not a 'futuristic' god, He is a 'right now' God."
Church Elder Andrew Storms brings a powerful message on the reliability and validity of the Scripture and challenges us to dig deeper into the Word of God and be transformed.
Lead Pastor Tyler Hardy shares a message on the purpose of baptism and the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Families Pastor Chris Pletcher addresses the corporate identity and calling of the Church and calls us into deeper freedom as the family of God.
College Pastor Mitchell Welch takes us back to the basics and opens the Rooted series with a fresh look on receiving and sharing the Gospel.
Lead Pastor Tyler Hardy wraps up the Him & Them series with a message on living mission-ally in our city, state, nation, and the nations of the world.
Lead Pastor Tyler Hardy continues the Him & Them series with a message on the importance of vulnerability and forgiveness in building true community.
"God has pursued relationship with us. The bottom line question is 'will we pursue Him back?'"
Lead Pastor Tyler Hardy opens the conversation of what it means to abide in Christ in our daily lives and why it's vital to living in purity and growing in godly character.
"There is hope because God has a plan for you. His plan is to restore you like He was trying to restore Adam and Eve back in the garden."
Lead Pastor Tyler Hardy takes us through Genesis, the consequence of the Fall, and God's plan for restoring mankind fully to Himself through Jesus.
Tyler Hardy explores the glory of God in Scripture, and urges us to not be distracted from His glory by the chaos of the world and the busyness of life.
"God's love pushes past all of your flaws, all of your mistakes, all of your sins, all of your shortcomings. His love is more powerful and overcomes that."
College Pastor Mitchell Welch wrapped up the Father's Heart series with a message of the Father's deep love for us.
"There is freedom for those who do what is asked of them."
Elder Andrew Storms goes in depth on the freedom and purpose that comes from biblical submission to the Father.
"Jesus provided a way so that even now [we] could come together and through redemption and His righteousness, with the Spirit of God coming alongside and ushering us into the throne room, we can worship Father with pure hearts."
Missions Director Kent Forester gives a powerful message of the coming of Jesus as the High Priest.
Church elder Andrew storms reminds us that our Father God as our Shepherd, in His loving-kindness, desires to both lead and protect us.
Church elder Andrew Storms teaches with fresh revelation about both the Old and New Testament calling us to live with Jesus as our daily portion.
Family Pastor Chris Pletcher uncovers the promise inside the Davidic Covenant and invites the Church to follow David's path of seeing God establish His kingdom by being extravagant worshipers.
Tyler Hardy answers pressing questions about who the Holy Spirit is and what He does today.
Ashlee Hardy, wife of Lead Pastor Tyler Hardy, shares a powerful message on following Jesus and fulfilling the Great Commission.
Mitchell Welch gives a message on the new identity that we have been given to live through the power of the gospel and the Spirit of God.
"We become recipients of the free gift of the righteousness of God by faith, and He fundamentally alters [our] identity at the foot of the cross."
"Born again. New Creation. Saint. No longer defined by my sin and my shortcomings and my failures, but defined His righteousness."
Chris Pletcher shares a bold message of our God's merciful gift of righteous and urges us to live in our new identities, no excuses.
Tyler Hardy reminds us that the power of Jesus' life and sacrifice bought our freedom and boldly urges to live as so.
"He grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God and he landed [over here], fully convinced that God could do every thing that He said He could do."
Chris Pletcher shares an incredible message on the promises of God and our choice of believing in faith that, if God said it, He's going to do it!
Tyler Hardy continues The Gospel of Power series with an Easter Sunday message of justification.
Tyler Hardy begins our study of Romans in The Gospel of Power series with a message on the righteousness of God.
Andrew Storms continues the 2-week exploratory message on how to fruitfully read the Bible.
"Discipleship works because it is the most effective way to reach people and people's lives really get transformed."
Mitchell Welch reminds us of the importance of partnering with God to transform the lives around us through the power of discipleship.
"I would rather you be dominating the domain of darkness and fighting to stay humble than be sitting on the sidelines doing nothing, wondering if you have any value."
Chris Pletcher charges us to live partnered with the Spirit of God to see breakthrough in the lives around us "as we go" through our day.
"Be those who say, 'Whatever God's given me, I'm going to use it to the fullest measure.'"
Tyler Hardy shares a message on walking out confident "Kingdom leadership" in our unique spheres of influence.
"Thankfulness is the key to increase."
Chris Pletcher encourages us in our unique identities in Christ, urging us to reject comparison and use our God-given gifts with thankfulness.
"How do you serve Jesus? By serving someone else. The way that you demonstrate your love to Jesus is by loving people in the way that He has loved you."
Tyler Hardy shifts our perception of what it means to serve and challenges us to first truly receive the love that Jesus gave through coming to serve us.
Chris Pletcher gives a challenging and exemplary message on what it means to spend daily time with Jesus and how to do it.
"We honor because it's right to do so. And we celebrate who people are without stumbling over who they are not."
Tyler Hardy shares a message about living in community and building the household of God on a culture of honoring one another.
Chris Pletcher opens the Kingdom Culture series with a powerful message on the worthiness of Jesus to receive the praise of His people.
"Ask God, 'Where is my Jerusalem and who are the people in my life who are not satisfied, not content, who want more?'"
Missions Director Kent Forester encourages us to live faithfully as co-laborers with Christ in our "Jerusalem."
Tyler Hardy kicks off the new year urging us to make Jesus the center of our goals for 2018.
Tyler Hardy wraps up the Promise of Christmas series as we celebrate Christmas Eve together.
Andrew Storms shares a message of Jesus as the Constant One, from birth, through death and resurrection, and for eternity as the Son of God.
"Mercy is God giving us the exact opposite of what we deserve."
Mitchell Welch shares a message on the mercy of God through the birth and life of Jesus.
Tyler Hardy kicks off the Promise of Christmas series with a message about surrendering our hearts to God and His promises.
Chris Pletcher shares a message on the healing that comes when we realign our lives with our identity found in Christ.
Tyler Hardy shares a message on the true heart of thankfulness toward God and challenges us to practice identifying the blessings for which we are thankful.
"If you are being faithful, you are not missing out on your dreams. If you are being faithful, you are actually fulfilling them and being prepared for whatever else God might have for your future."
Chris Pletcher wraps up the On Mission sermon series with a message for faithfully stewarding the season that God has you in right now.
"How do we live on mission? We carry a 'yes' in our heart to the things that Jesus speaks over us."
AMI Director of Mobilization, Trey Green, commissions the Church to give our lives as a "long yes" to the purposes of Jesus.
"No matter where you live, no matter what you do, you have to understand that God has a mission for you right then in that season."
Tyler Hardy gives an empowering message to the Church to stay on the mission of living out the gospel in daily life.
"We can't go on mission with a message if we don't have conviction about the message that we're bringing."
Tyler Hardy shares a message on the Body of Christ living out the Great Commission with conviction in the power of the gospel.
"A disciple is someone who has left everything to obey the call of Jesus on his or her life."
Chris Pletcher wraps up the Passion & Purpose series and shares a powerful message on the importance of discipleship in the pursuit of becoming more like Jesus.
"Faith is not blind. It's not even a feeling. Faith is a conviction based on evidence."
This Sunday, Chris Pletcher shared a powerful message on the foundation of faith being placed in the unseen evidence of God.
Tyler Hardy shares a message on the freedom that comes from personal repentance and forgiveness towards others.
Amanda Buenger calls the Church to loving action against human injustices in our world today and Antioch launches UnBound College Station.
UnBound activates local communities to fight human trafficking.
“Serving is actually meant to not just be physical, it’s meant to be spiritual.”
Tyler Hardy shares an empowering message on how to live like Jesus by joyfully serving others.
"Keep asking. Keep seeking. Keep knocking."
Tyler Hardy shares the importance of believing that God will move through the power of prayer.
Tyler Hardy begins the Passion & Purpose series with the focus of worship. Worship is meant to be our passionate response to the deep love of God toward us.