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Ep 81Adversity: Friend or Foe

Pastor Steve concludes our series, From Here to There, with a message about adversity and how we handle it as a follower of God.

Jul 29, 201833 min

Ep 80God's Timing

Pastor Aaron bring a message exploring how to thrive in a season of waiting, when it seems like our plan for our life is on pause.

Jul 22, 201831 min

Ep 79God Doesn't Need Our Cleverness

We continue our series with a message exploring the trappings of being clever when dealing with adversity, instead of simply following God’s ways.

Jul 15, 201834 min

Ep 78Faith in Adversity

Pastor Steve begins the final leg of our “From Here to There” series. The main emphasis of these last messages will be Adversity: Friend or Foe? We will see that, instead of questioning God when facing adversity, we need to ask ourselves how it can be used to produce Christ-likeness in our lives.

Jul 8, 201835 min

Ep 77Fear to Faith

In this message, Pastor Steve addresses the question "will fear immobilize you or will you have faith that overcomes?" The people of God are to become ones who “fear not” for the Lord is with us.

Jul 1, 201832 min

Ep 76Failure to Faith

Pastor Steve brings a message about failure and how it can either derail you or it can be a tool to push you deeper into dependence on God. We look at how King David "failed forward" into faith.

Jun 24, 201834 min

Ep 75Overcoming Faith

Continuing our series, From Here to There, we take a look at 5 faith destroyers and 5 key attributes of overcoming faith from the example of Caleb in the Old Testament book Numbers.

Jun 17, 201835 min

Ep 74Piece of Cake

Jun 10, 201823 min

Ep 73There Will Be Hard Days

Pastor Steve kicks off the third leg of our series "From Here to There, looking at what it means to have a prevailing faith. In this particular message, Jeremiah is our example of what it means to stay faithful even when life is difficult.

Jun 3, 201831 min

Ep 72Bricks and Mortar

Pastor Steve brings a message identifying some bricks and mortar of a right heart. These include awareness that: God has a plan for your life, God is always with His children, and God equips you for the calling He gives you.

May 27, 201836 min

Ep 71God's Heart for People

Pastor Aaron continues our series, From Here to There, with a message looking at the mission God has called us to and how we can take steps to live it out.

May 20, 201834 min

Ep 70Getting to the Heart

Pastor Steve brings a message looking into how God wants a heart attitude in His followers that sees life as a precious gift of His grace, and to be invested wisely.

May 13, 201827 min

Ep 69A Heart for God – Part 2

Pastor Steve Norby brings the second part to last week's message, "A Heart for God,"continuing to look at King David as an example of what it means to have a heart for God.

May 6, 201831 min

Ep 68A Heart for God – Part 1

The decisions we make today radically affect our lives tomorrow. This week Pastor Steve Warner brings a message looking at the life of King David and, through David’s example, how to gain a heart rightly aligned with God.

Apr 29, 201836 min

Ep 67Radical Trust

Pastor Steve finishes the first leg of our journey through our series From Here to There, with a message encouraging us to be followers who trust God radically.

Apr 22, 201833 min

Ep 66Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Sometimes on the journey towards spiritual maturity we encounter difficult places. This week, Pastor Aaron brings a message of how to respond faithfully to God when our lives are turned upside down and we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place.

Apr 15, 201828 min

Ep 65When Your World Turns Upside Down

Pastor Steve starts our new series, From Here to There, with a message about developing the same attitude as Jesus. When your world turns upside down, let it drive you to God, seeking a deeper revelation with Him.

Apr 8, 201835 min

Ep 64The Dead Do Rise

Pastor Steve brings a message about the Resurrection and it being the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Jesus was raised from the dead as the first fruits of the harvest to come.

Apr 1, 201836 min

Ep 63Obstacle or Opportunity

Pastor Steve brings a message for Palm Sunday, looking at the cross Jesus bore. With all of the implications, if rightly embraced, is an opportunity, and if wrongly understood is an obstacle.

Mar 25, 201828 min

Ep 62Rules of Realignment

Pastor Steve wraps up our Colossians series with a message looking at how the Holy Spirit transforms us in a way that is contrary to the sin nature.

Mar 18, 201837 min

Ep 61Life Giving Raiment

Pastor Steve continues our Colossians series with a message of clothing ourselves in such a way that we look like Jesus. What God calls us to do, He will equip us to become.

Mar 11, 201835 min

Ep 60Setting the Right Trajectory

Continuing our Colossians series, Pastor Steve brings a messaging about aiming our lives right, matters. Small misdirections can result in big misses.

Mar 4, 201829 min

Ep 59Freedom From The False

Pastor Aaron continues our Colossians series with a message looking at Paul's warning to the Colossians to continue in their spiritual journey, rooted and built up in the faith they have received.

Feb 25, 201829 min

Ep 58The Supremacy of Jesus

Pastor Steve kicks off our new series Colossians with a message about the supremacy of Jesus, explaining that in all ways and for all situations Jesus is adequate and able.

Feb 18, 201832 min

Ep 57Holy Obedience

Finishing up the Intentional Life series, Pastor Steve brings a message looking at the critical link between obedience and love. Jesus told us that if we love Him we will obey His commands. The follower of Jesus should default to obedience.

Feb 11, 201834 min

Ep 56Motivation Matters

Pastor Steve continues the Intentional Life series with a message of how we as a followers of Jesus are to have a radical response of love toward others, even to those who hate us.

Feb 4, 201831 min

Ep 55Intentional Relationships

Pastor Aaron continues the Intentional Life series with a message about intentionally investing in relationships. We look at the three important relations we all need: the shepherd, the student, and the friend.

Jan 28, 201835 min

Ep 54Boldness and Risk

Pastor Steve continues our Intentional Life series with a message about taking bold, Holy Spirit-led risks, as a follower of Jesus. This is to be the normal way of life in Jesus.

Jan 21, 201831 min

Ep 53Proximity

Continuing the Intentional Life series, Pastors Steve Norby and Aaron Cloud bring a message looking into how intentionality in the follower's life begins in proximity to him or her. This involves ownership of your own spiritual well-being and ownership of the spiritual well-being of those near to you in space, time and relationship.

Jan 14, 201835 min

Ep 52Go: Live as a Sent One

Pastor Steve kicks off our new series, The Intentional Life, with a message that dives into how to be intentional and how we are called to be a part of building God's Kingdom.

Jan 7, 201825 min

Ep 51Surviving Setbacks

Pastor Aaron speaks a message of how to survive seasons of setback and failure, and how God may actually use them as seasons of formation in our lives.

Dec 31, 201735 min

Ep 50Peace on Earth

Pastor Steve closes out our Advent series with a message about the problem of anxiety. God’s people have peace available that transcends the troubles of this world.

Dec 24, 201722 min

Ep 49Joy That Sings

Continuing our Advent series, Pastor Steve Norby brings a message looking at how joy should find its way into the heart of those who understand what Jesus has done for them.

Dec 17, 201720 min

Ep 48Love

Pastor Aaron continues our Advent series, Stories of Christmas, with a message examining Mary's story and exploring how love reframes the way we think about obedience.

Dec 10, 201733 min

Ep 47A Problem or an Opportunity

Pastor Steve starts our Advent series with a look into the life message of Joseph, whose problems provided the opportunity for a new, hope-filled relationship with God.

Dec 3, 201732 min

Ep 46Thinking Temporary

Pastor Steve speaks about how this world is our temporary residence and how to live with a "heaven as home" perspective.

Nov 26, 201733 min

Ep 45Vision is Vital

Pastor Steve brings a message looking at a three level vision that is essential for our well being as followers and as a church.

Nov 19, 201736 min

Ep 44Seizing the Moment

Pastor Steve wraps up our Remnant series with a message exploring the idea that station in life is not as important as understanding the times and being willing to step out in God as you have opportunities.

Nov 12, 201737 min

Ep 43A Time to Submit, A Time to Resist

Pastor Steve continues our Remnant series with a message giving insight into the tension that God's people must deal with when it comes to resisting and submitting, and how to move beyond the confines of tension to becoming ones who lead others toward God.

Nov 5, 201730 min

Ep 42Committed to Generosity

Continuing the Remnant series, Pastor Steve brings a message about the generosity of God. In the margins, God's people bear witness to another reality when they reflect His generosity.

Oct 29, 201740 min

Ep 41Committed to Integrity

Continuing the Remnant series, guest speaker Steve DeNeff, brings a message teaching the importance integrety. A cheating culture exists when “everyone does what is right in his own eyes.” In our day, there is a sense that everyone is cheating – and justifying it – so that cheating in return is thought a matter of survival. Before the mayhem destroys us, we will need a community who live simple, transparent lives, who risk being taken advantage of because their trust is in God. Against this culture of hidden agendas and spin, the Remnant will be people of integrity.

Oct 22, 201739 min

Ep 40Called to Be Civil

Pastor Steve continues the Remnant series with a message of being civil in uncivil times, choosing to be others-oriented and show respect. This is a tangible way we can live out the command to love our neighbors.

Oct 15, 201731 min

Ep 39Restraint Among the Unrestrained

Pastor Steve continues our Remnant series with a message of how the follower must show restraint in the midst of a culture that is continually demonstrating less. As a faithful remnant showing restraint, with eyes fixed on Jesus, we have a message that is timely for our days.

Oct 8, 201738 min

Ep 38Forward to the Future

Continuing the Remnant series, Pastor Steve talks about the kind of people "Remnants" should be, forward-looking people engaged in what God is up to. They are often God’s first component of building for the future.

Oct 1, 201730 min

Ep 37A Right Relevance

Pastor Steve continues the Remnant series with a message addressing a big question that people of God face when they find themselves in remnant status, in the margins of culture: How are we to be relevant?

Sep 24, 201730 min

Ep 36Life in the Margins

Continuing the Remnant series, Pastor Steve speaks about how "out in the margins" the follower has to be concerned as much about being assimilated as eliminated. In the margins, disposition will prove to be as effective, or more effective, than having the right position in reaching those far from God.

Sep 18, 201734 min

Ep 35Remnant Status

Pastor Steve kicks off a new series entitled, The Remnant. We are called to face the times we are in squarely, with honesty and courage, trusting that the Sovereign God is in control.

Sep 10, 201735 min

Ep 34Great Faith

Finishing up our For Such a Time as This series, Pastor Aaron looks at how we, as believers, can live with great faith in these times.

Sep 3, 201732 min

Ep 33Avoiding Pitfalls

Pastor Steve continues the series, For Such a Time as This, warning followers of God to avoid pitfalls like loophole thinking, lip service or listening to the wrong sources.

Aug 27, 201734 min

Ep 32Finding Your Way Out of Civilized Christianity

Pastor Steve continues our series, For Such a Time as This, with a message of the importance to find our way out of civilized Christianity, because it is about comfort, convenience and safety. God calls His people to a walk in Him that is greater than civilized religion.

Aug 20, 201735 min