January Teaching Series!

Break Through

Entering into an Intimate Prayer Relationship with God

Beginning Sunday, January 4, 2015

The prophet Hosea says these words, "Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you. (Hos. 10:12)

Sowing or planting is a great thing to do early in a new year. With anticipation we wait until the time to reap or harvest comes later in the year. Our prayer relationship with God can be just like that. We sow prayers and hope to reap God's answer or involvement in our lives. But if you notice in this verse there is something else that often has to happen first. We break up any unplowed ground in our life. This must happen before any sowing or reaping can occur. This can be challenging.

Here is how the series will flow:

Jan 4 - Partnership - Partnering with God in prayer
Jan 11 - Passion - Prayer must become a passion for us
Jan 18 - Power - God's power in prayer is life-changing
Jan 25 - Persistence - Persisting in prayer no matter what

Join us in January as we Break Through the unplowed ground of our lives and cultivate a life-changing prayer relationship with God!

Advent Teaching Series!

Advent Teaching Series - Beginning Nov. 30 - 10:00 a.m.

Did you know that Jesus is the subject of Christmas? In our modern world many people don't know that fact. Or they choose to ignore it. 

Would you believe it if we told you that Jesus is the subject of everything? That He is at the center of our past, present and future? That He is the subject of both the Old and New Testaments in the Bible? That there is no part of time, history or creation that He is not the subject of?

When we sing Silent Night and celebrate the birth of a baby in a manger, we are celebrating the culminating event of the creation and human stories!

JESUS IS THE SUBJECT OF EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE!

Listen to these words from Colossians 1:15-20...

[15] He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. [16] For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. [17] He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. [18] And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. [19] For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, [20] and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Let's make Jesus the subject of our Christmas this year!

November Teaching Series!

Give Up

New Teaching Series Beginning November 2, 2014

Give up? Really?

That doesn't sound like something a church should be teaching about, does it? Just giving up?

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK...

Give Up represents several key questions that followers of Jesus must ask themselves from time to time:

1) Is there anything in my life I need to GIVE UP in order to GIVE TO the things that matter to God?

2) Am I willing to GIVE UP to God rather than HAND OUT my money, time and abilities to things that may not make an eternal difference?

3) Am I willing to GIVE UP or SURRENDER all that I have and all that I am so that God's will is done through me?

Here is the series at a glance:
Week 1 - The Give Up Concept
Week 2 - Give Up = Sacrifice
Week 3 - Give Up = Surrender
Week 4 - Give Up = Selfless

In Luke 14:33 Jesus says, "In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple."

Jesus is asking His followers to GIVE UP. Let's say yes.

New Teaching Series!

The Waiting Room

Beginning Oct 5 @ 10:00 a.m.

Have you ever been in a waiting room? It's a necessary place isn't it?

Waiting...waiting...waiting...to find out what's wrong, to get some answers, to see an expert, to know what you need to know?

Did you know that waiting is a spiritual discipline? It is an important biblical practice. In just the book of Psalms the idea of waiting on the Lord is spoken of 16 times. 

This important practice of waiting is also addressed in the New Testament. Read through these words in Romans 8:18-27:

[18] I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. [19] The creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. [20] For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope [21] that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.[22] We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. [23] Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons and daughters, the redemption of our bodies. [24] For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? [25] But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.[26] In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. [27] And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.

As we move from talking about God's will to doing God's will in our part of the world, we want to take the month of October to simply wait. To hear from God clearly, to pray for what He wants us to pray for. To do what He wants us to do. To follow exactly where He wants us to go.

Pray with us. Seek and find with us. Wait with us.

Experiencing God

Sundays, August 17 - September 28 - 10:00 a.m.

Knowing and doing the will of God.

Sounds short and simple doesn't it? But for many (maybe most) people, this is a very complex, difficult and sometimes frustrating thing to pursue. Knowing and doing the will of God. Wow, that is hard sometimes!

We acknowledge that there aren't simplistic answers to how you know and do the will of God. But author Henry Blackaby offers the following process that tends to be true for most people (if we're willing to fully commit and engage the process). Here it is...

1) God is always at work around you
2) God pursues a continuing love relationship with you that is real and personal
3) God invites you to become involved with Him in His work
4) God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways
5) God's invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action
6) You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing
7) You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work through you

Join us as we move through this process together as God's people...His Church!

Knowing and doing the will of God! Sounds exciting doesn't it? Let's go!

Summer Preaching Series!

Everyday Stuff:

A Summer Walk Through

The Book of James

Beginning June 8, 2014

10:00 a.m.

New Series Beginning April 27th

EPIC

Beginning April 27

Epic God

Epic Men

Epic Women

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)

Thoughts for a Snowy Sunday

We've put together a selection of worship songs and some words from Andy Stanley to encourage you during a time that we are unable to meet for our usual worship service.

2014 Mission & Vision Series!

FOLLOW ME

Beginning Feb 9

10:00 a.m.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” - Matthew 16:24

Follow me as I follow Christ - Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:1

Week 1:  Our Mission

Week 2:  Our Vision

Week 3:  Our Values

Week 4:  Who Are You Following?

Week 5:  Who's Following You?

Week 6:  GO! Sunday (A Day of Serving)