Arise Church Denver Weekly Messages

According to a 2017 Barna study, prayer is the most common spiritual practice in the United States with over 79% of adults saying that they have prayed in the past three months. And yet despite its common practice, so many of us struggle with what to say, what to pray for, and how to make prayer a consistent part of our lives. Listen to this message that unpacks the radical life of prayer that Jesus is calling us too.

2020 upended the lives we knew. Our work, our school, our church, our country, our entire culture got shaken up like a snow-globe. The “experts” are predicting what the changes mean longterm, but no one really knows. That means we have an incredible opportunity now to shift our priorities for the future. Learn this week how Jesus calls us to radical priorities.

Used to describe hospitals, heroes on the local news, and the people who stop to help you change a tire, most people, even many non-Christians, are familiar with and even use the phrase - Good Samaritan. If everyone is aware of the story, what does it still have to teach us? How can it call us into the broad and radical idea of love that Jesus is speaking about? Can we move beyond religious obligation and allowed ourselves to live a life of radical love? Hear about to make this radical love a part of your life.

The radical life of following Jesus starts with putting him first, but it certainly doesn't end there. Listen to this message to hear about the mission that God is calling us to and the radical joy that can be found even in the difficulties of being sent out by Jesus.

“Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.” - David Platt // Listen in to hear about the radical life that Jesus is calling us to.

Are we in the End Times? It is a question that people have been asking for generations, but 2020 has certainly made it feel that way - disease, separation, racial injustice, war, protests, murder hornets. Could we really be in the end times? Listen in as we seek to find our bearings and focus on the implications that end times have on our lives right now.

We like to believe that we are in control of who we are, but honestly, we are shaped by so many different things. Our identity is a mix of the people we surround ourselves with, the shows we watch, the groups we are a part of, the job we hold, the environments we are regularly in. BUT, what if our identity could be molded by God, molded to live extraordinarily, molded to mold others? Listen in as we continue our series, No Ordinary People, looking at the extraordinary life of Daniel.

Jonah. A fish story. A whale of a tale. The reluctant prophet who gets swallowed by a giant fish. It’s one for the kid’s, right? Actually, Jonah is a profound drama that should impact all of us--if we only we examined the real reason for Jonah’s reluctance. The implications for our own lives and how we treat others are not to be missed. Sermon Notes: https://my.bible.com/events/23714421

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. No flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love. You have never talked to a mere mortal." Join us as we kickoff our new series and discover what the imago dei means for us today.

Our lives have a lot of ups and down. It seems everything is going fine until you get that bad news out of nowhere. If we are honest, it often feels like life has a lot more valleys than it does mountaintops. Join us this Sunday to hear about how our faith can be more than the mountaintop.

It’s rare to find someone who doesn’t like Jesus. Even atheists admire him. But most people see him as one among many great historical figures. Is that enough, or is Jesus something more? Join us this Sunday either online or outdoors to find out. Sermon Notes Available at: https://my.bible.com/events/19593417

Our society is so competitive. We all know the sayings: "If you aren't first, then you're last.", "Second place is the first loser." "Winning is everything." And yet in order to be a follower and disciple of Jesus, he calls us to a very different kind of winning. In fact, in order to WIN we are going to have to lose. Sermon Notes available: http://bible.com/events/18886301

E pluribus unum. Latin for “out of many one," it is the unofficial motto of the United States. It is on our money and monuments. A lasting reminder of many races, cultures, peoples, languages that make up our nation. But our country right now is anything but one... In a special message responding to situation of racial tensions and injustice, listen to how the Gospel can help each of us respond and bring about the "oneness" that our nation's motto calls us too. Sermon notes available at: http://bible.com/events/16766698

As followers of Jesus, each one of us are called to serve others, but few of us actually feel qualified with enough energy to do so. Where do you turn when you feel like you have nothing to offer or nothing left to give? Join us this weekend for a walk with Jesus' disciples as they wrestle with what it means to follow Jesus and serve others. 

“Waiting is the hardest part.” Tom Petty was right. Waiting is difficult. Whether we’re waiting for marriage, or kids, or a job or just for this pandemic to be over, waiting is difficult. So how do we make it thorough? Discover in this message.

If you interviewed 100 people, you would likely get 100 different answers on who Jesus is, ranging from the religious to the radical, the reverent to outright rejection. In this first message of the JESUS IS series, learn how the ultimate authority of Jesus calls us to see Jesus for who he really is.

“He loves, he loves me not.” Like the child pulling petals off the flower, we often doubt God’s love for us. When things are going badly in our life or when we feel guilty because of sin, we wonder…have I fallen out of God’s love? In our series finale be assured of God’s unending love. Sermon Notes: http://bible.com/events/11896339

A pandemic, missed major events, isolation, job loss, sickness, bankruptcy, suffering, death. How do we have victory over the worst things our world is throwing at us right now? Discover in Sunday’s message how God’s still working.

The world tells us that if you have confidence in yourself, you can do just about anything. Although having a good self-image is important, is it enough? When the problems come, when the diagnosis isn't what you wanted to hear, when the relationship falls apart, when you are at the end of your rope...is your belief in yourself enough to get you through? In this message, hear about how to find true confidence that can weather any storm. Sermon Notes available at: http://bible.com/events/7206950