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What are the 10 Commandments? How did they come about? Did someone make them up? Join us as we dig into the 10 Commandments, where they came from, and if they still mean anything in our modern culture.
What are the 10 Commandments? How did they come about? Did someone make them up? Join us as we dig into the 10 Commandments, where they came from, and if they still mean anything in our modern culture.
What are the 10 Commandments? How did they come about? Did someone make them up? Join us as we dig into the 10 Commandments, where they came from, and if they still mean anything in our modern culture.
What are the 10 Commandments? How did they come about? Did someone make them up? Join us as we dig into the 10 Commandments, where they came from, and if they still mean anything in our modern culture.
To realign our hearts with God's, we need to understand this 2nd calling: Serving Others
To realign our hearts with God's, we need to understand this first calling: Being Loved
You will choose pain. Pain now with Discipline or Pain later over regret, which will be much greater.
In times of uncertainty and rebuilding God answer has always been to use us. How can we engage?
Transportation is filled with guardrails, protecting you from dangers that could be. What about our own lives? Do we need personal guardrails? As you set goals and think about the year ahead, finding personal areas of your heart to protect will keep you from future regrets…and help you achieve the things you plan for.
Transportation is filled with guardrails, protecting you from dangers that could be. What about our own lives? Do we need personal guardrails? As you set goals and think about the year ahead, finding personal areas of your heart to protect will keep you from future regrets…and help you achieve the things you plan for.
Transportation is filled with guardrails, protecting you from dangers that could be. What about our own lives? Do we need personal guardrails? As you set goals and think about the year ahead, finding personal areas of your heart to protect will keep you from future regrets…and help you achieve the things you plan for.
Transportation is filled with guardrails, protecting you from dangers that could be. What about our own lives? Do we need personal guardrails? As you set goals and think about the year ahead, finding personal areas of your heart to protect will keep you from future regrets…and help you achieve the things you plan for.
Transportation is filled with guardrails, protecting you from dangers that could be. What about our own lives? Do we need personal guardrails? As you set goals and think about the year ahead, finding personal areas of your heart to protect will keep you from future regrets…and help you achieve the things you plan for.
Discovering the deeper meaning of Peace helps us find peace even in tough circumstances.
We think about money in term of rich or poor, or good or bad. What if we told you God doesn't see it that way? This fact will change how you understand God and money.
God wants us to have life and be rich. Really? He's after your heart, so we should listen to the one who knows us best....and find life.
When you fill in the blank with relationships, what everyone really want to say is….? How do you have the best ____ ever? Can you say this in church? Does God actually have any decent advice? Join us for the grand finale of Best ___ Ever.
Friendships are great, as long as everyone gets along, they don’t stab you in the back, and maybe like all the things that you do as well. Is that too much to ask? Lets get real and find out how to have the Best Friendship Ever.
For most of us getting married is really about finding the right person. That’s what dating is all about right? Then, why does it seem that few are really getting it right? Lets find out how to have the Best Marriage Ever.
Perhaps no other Christmas tradition that is embraced world wide is decorating with lights in December. In a time of year where we have less light, decorating with colorful lights is a way for us to push darkness out. That is what the the symbol of lights at Christmas represents. In 2020 we have wanted more than ever to light up the darkness. All of this imagry and desires for light and truth comes from Jesus. But can we really experience that light, when there seems to be so much darkness around us?
There’s nothing better than a giant feast or a party to celebrate life with loved ones and friends. We throw caution to the wind, and eat and drink to our hearts content. We love being “filled up” with life, celebration and content. If only this could last! Did you know that Jesus said it can?
As we enter the Christmas season in 2020, for many, more than ever, we are longing for the messages of Christmas to be true. Whether we believe or not we even believe in Jesus, this year we are longing for great joy, peace, and happiness. Just like sitting on Santa’s lap, we want our dreams to come true. Can we really, actually, experience this?
No one ever said cheating was good, until now! You understand that life has limits, but defining a limit is never fun. Truth is you’re going to cheat. Come discover the best cheat you’ll ever do.
You can’t talk about peace without discussing money. Whether the future is bright, dreary, you have a lot or a little, finding the IT behind money brings peace to the day.
Laws: We’re very aware of the law of Gravity, Force, and Physics. But what about other things like how we live? Did God ordain a better way for our lives? God’s laws for life bring greater perspective on how IT plays into our lives.
If God is everlasting, then his words for us now are incredible. Jesus’ teaching gives great insight behind the motives that lead to the pressure being on or off.
I won’t measure up, be poor, be accepted, I’ll never make…it. So, define IT. The small steps we take each day are adding up to the bigger moments in our life later. But the pressure of the day tends to lead us towards the wrong small things. Let’s define the IT behind the pressure and take the pressure off the day.
Saying I DO will change your life. But what about right now? Enjoying life after I DO starts with the decisions you make today.
We’ve all dreamed of the day we fall in love…get married…and throw the biggest bachelor weekend and wedding party you’ve ever seen! What we usually leave out of those dreams are the problems we have during our marriage. Being ready for the ups and downs of married life will set you up to party on the day you say I DO.
We all just wanted somebody to love right? Sacrifice is great as long as it benefits me! If marriage is there to make me happy, does it make my spouse happy too? Understanding individual happiness in marriage is key to finding the beauty we long to see.
I’m all about a happy marriage, but can I really raise kids and be a parent? Do I want to? Raising kids is hard, but opposite points of view will make it harder. Understanding unity in parenting will define how you date now.
While most people still want marriage today, we don’t want what we’ve seen from the past. We’ll let God be part of the ceremony, but advice for the rest of it doesn’t seem to apply anymore. But out with God went the beauty as well. Let’s forget what we’ve seen and go back to what was intended.
Studies continually show that when your life is focused towards a greater purpose or goal you feel more satisfied. Even with our best intentions and best versions of ourselves we still get distracted by cultural pressures around us. Negative pressure clouds our vision and that is why we need Purpose to guide us through emotional times.
Exerting control over our lives seems to feel good. We like it when things are in order or going well. Losing control then feels the opposite. It brings fear, uncertainty and doubt. But when fear leads the way what we try to control we ultimately loose. Learning to embrace surrender over control is the answer for gaining the things we don’t want to loose.
When asked how things are going, we usually respond by saying “We’re Busy”. The urgency of our schedules and the culture around us make it hard to focus and do what matters most. Identifying the important things over the urgent is key to avoiding future regret.
The core of our Christian belief stats with God, our Messiah, born of a virgin, conceived by the holy spirit. Could this really be true? If it is, then everything in our life changes.
In our attempt to find belief we many times run away from tough questions and tough answers. The darkness and evil we see doesn’t seem to match up with a hope based message. The Christmas story embraces our doubts and helps us find light in a dark world.
We’ve all heard the words of Luke chapter two with the angels announcing the birth of Christ. But what about Matthew’s gospel account of Jesus birth? Could a boring genealogy bring about more than we thought was there?
Rest! It’s coming this summer…I hope! Finding rest in this city is hard, but possible, and not just on vacation. Join us as we look at finding time each week to disconnect and engage in our final week of Rhythms.
Giving makes us feel good. But doing it all the time? That feels exhausting! Perhaps we understood this wrong all along. What if there was a deeper joy found in a rhythm of loving others just like we do ourselves?
Prayer is either something that we offer up quickly when things aren’t going our way, or this thing we hear about people doing and wonder if it works. Let’s restart this conversation and understand it better.
Many times we view scripture as some set of rules telling us what we did wrong. What if instead we found a great story God has been engaging us with from the beginning? What if we found life, joy and real inner discovery?
You are not defined by what others think. You can listen to criticism - even seek it out. You can say NO.
Everything around us is calling out to your need and desire for comfort. Vacation, Apartments, phones, sex, food, binge watching, etc… We all need a little me time, but when is it too much? When we understand comfort we find our best life now and in the future.
Everything around us is calling out to your need and desire for comfort. Vacation, Apartments, phones, sex, food, binge watching, etc… We all need a little me time, but when is it too much? When we understand comfort we find our best life now and in the future.