Orbiting Around God 5/25/14

When we gather together on Sundays we go through a drama of worship. We follow a drama that lets us be real with ourselves, real with what happens in this life, and real with God. If we are going to be real, then it begins with letting God be God and letting us humans be God's creation (instead of the other way around!).

We need to let ourselves be pulled by God to Himself. We must recognize the gravitational pull of God upon our lives, and orbit around Him like Earth around the Sun. The we can honest ask questions like: What does God want for me? And what's more, we can honestly hear God's answer through Scripture.

Stay in Gethsemane 5/18/2014

Working with people can be hard work. Expectations, personalities, our future, etc. all get mixed up in relationships. In this message we consider the example set for us by Christ. Are you ever challenged by working with others?

Who Are You Mothering? 5/11/2014

Did you know that God wants you to mother people?!

God told Isaiah many years ago that His plan would be to mother us. To be specific, God promised to comfort and protect us as a mother does her child.

What would it look like if a group of people following God (a church) committed to comforting and protecting others at all cost?

Together 4/27/2014

Whether we like it or not Christ has united us all. It's not up to us. It's God's will. Listen to what Paul has to say about this.

Will You Believe? 4/20/2014

Encountering a dead person resurrected from their grave must be incredibly unsettling—to say the least. Women came to Jesus' grave expecting to see a lifeless corpse that they would anoint with spices as was their custom.  

But when they arrived they were ambushed. Their world suddenly turned on his head. The marker of death, gone! And replaced with a frightening, unsettling, idea: The dead body of Jesus was no longer dead.

Christians are those who believe that the book end to our life, death itself, was unhinged by Jesus. His life which began with a virgin birth did end... but then un-ended by a resurrection from death.

For those who say, “Jesus is my one and only God who lived, died and rose from the grave for my life,” for those who willingly say, “I believe it,” for them there is no more fear in death. The entrance into Heaven itself now lies wide open for all who believe.

Would you believe? 

Self-limiting 4/13/14

Are you holding yourself back?  Towards the end of Jesus' life he entered the famous city of Jerusalem. He was so famous by then that they started a parade! And as they were on their parade route, some people began to ask what was going on. "Who is this guy?"  The paraders responded saying, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Galilee."  Prophet? If that's all they said then they had a limited answer. And if our view of Jesus is limited, your very life's story will be limited.  Do you need to enlarge your view of Jesus? A complete and full life is waiting...

God of Miracles 4/6/14

Where was the last time you said, "wow, that's a miracle!"

One of the most intriguing aspects about Christianity is the miraculous. We believe that miracles are possible and do happen. Yet we are prone to get ahead of ourselves here. As we will see in our Bible reading, God often does the miracles in spite of us rather than because of our own faith, or our power, or our etc... If we get ahead of ourselves we end up missing the miracles God is really doing all around us!