Contending Pt 4 – Do I Have Enough Faith?
What happens when my prayers aren’t answered? Is it because I don’t have enough faith? Enter the story of Acts 12 — one filled with persecution, death, prayer, miraculous breakthrough, and even disbelief. It’s the story of people like us who are learning that prayer is where faith and real-life …
Contending Pt 3 – The Language of Prayer
For followers of Jesus, prayer isn’t just something we do occasionally when we’re especially thankful or desperate. Prayer is the primary language of our faith and our love. Do you want to grow in your faith and intimacy with Jesus? Grow in your life of prayer! CLICK HERE to download a …
Contending Pt 2 – Shaping the Future
Why pray? If God is sovereign and above all things, what difference could my prayers make? Over and over again, Scripture tells us that our prayers literally shape the future. That’s why Jesus taught us to contend in prayer for God’s will to be enacted here on earth, just as …
Contending Pt 1 – Revolutionary Prayer
Prayer is never meant to just be “nice,” or the repetition of religious words. Prayer is always meant to be revolutionary: a spiritual activity that causes radical change. As we contend in prayer, we are giving voice to our audacious hope: Jesus is Lord — He is above all things …
All In – Empowered
When Jesus gave His greatest command — to go ALL IN with our love for God and others — he knew we wouldn’t be able to do this in our own strength. All humanity has experienced pain and sin that’s left us broken. So, “He washed away our sins, giving us …
Jesus Week: Intro
Our mission as followers of Jesus is to become more and more like Him. And when Jesus gave us the Greatest Commandment, He provided a blueprint for doing that very thing: by loving God fully with our heart, soul, mind and strength, plus loving others as well. Over these next …
Surrounded by Glory
For many, Christmas has become nothing more than a tiresome ritual. Can the joy be restored? Perhaps a key is to experience the same glory of the Lord that shone around the shepherds that first Christmas night. It terrified them for a moment — but this unexpected, different and supernatural …
The Ways of Jesus Pt 20 – John 17
Our annual “Christmas Culture Sunday” where we join both our congregations together to worship in English and Spanish. John 17 was a perfect passage for this gathering as we looked at Jesus’ prayer for UNITY in His followers.
The Ways of Jesus Pt 19 – John 16
In John 16, Jesus tells His followers that it was for their best if He were to go, because then He’d send the Holy Spirit to them. It likely didn’t seem like the BEST scenario to them at that moment! But in Chapters 14, 15 and in 16, Jesus was …
The Ways of Jesus Pt 17 – John 14
John 14 begins with these profound words from Jesus: “Don’t let your hearts be troubled!” What an important message for the days in which we live. While Jesus never promises a life without trouble, He empowers us to hang a “NO TRESPASSING” sign on our hearts that declares to trouble: …