Great I am
[The below text has been machine translated and may contain errors. Please listen to audio for original and integral translation] Pretty inviting, pretty exciting. Pretty ha, fire of gone. You can’t beat it. Can’t be that. I’ll tell you. I’m just going to put that down there. I don’t need any extra juice this morning. About do anyway. Um so um you know, coming in to this side, you know, we take a month or, or a week I guess…
Prayer: Angels
This morning, we continue on our journey learning about prayer, which is simply communicating with God. Last week, we learned that because of the unchanging character and nature of God, He will essentially change His mind in response to our prayers. Our prayers affect God. This week, we’ll see how our prayers affect the heavenly realm! Acts 1:14 14 They all (about 120 v. 15) joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus,…
Prayer: Change
This morning, we’re going to begin a journey learning more about prayer. Prayer is really quite simple. Prayer is simply speaking with God. It’s how we communicate with Him. It is an incredible privilege and an awe-invoking honor to think that the God who spoke and created the vastness of the universe desires to not only personally hear us, but that He also desires to personally respond to us. Just as communication is one of the foundations of our earthly…
Voice of Truth
Happy Mother’s Day! From what I’ve observed in my last 18 years of being a dad, I’ve noticed that being a mother is no easy task. Something always amazes me about our children. Our kids were born just about as close to one another as they can be. They were raised together going through all of the same seasons of life together from learning how to crawl, walk, talk, potty-train, elementary, high school, and now moving into adulthood. They had…
Feasting
Before we continue into today’s message, I’d like to clarify something from last week’s message. I had taught that like Jesus, we have a soma (physical body) and psyche (soul consisting of our mind, will, emotions, personality, intellect, and conscience). I mentioned that I was still studying it, but hadn’t found any evidence yet that Jesus was born with a sarx (flesh, which I defined as our sinful nature), but only with the pneuma (spirit). Well, I’m not sure if…
The Battle Within
The past few weeks, God’s been helping us to better understand and work through the in-between season of God’s promise and fulfillment. The good news is that the God in whom we trust was not only there when He promised, but He’s also walking with us now. The even better news is that He has also gone ahead of us and knows exactly how and when our breakthrough is coming! He is eternal and when He spoke His promises, He…
Pray & Prepare
Last week, we learned about the in-between where our faith is put to the test. It is in that place where our faith can grow and be proven genuine. It is that certain faith which emboldens us with the courage to praise God for the coming outpouring of His promises fulfilled right in front of the very enemies standing in our way. Jesus’ disciples found themselves in that place. They left everything to follow Him and now He was crucified,…
In-Between
Last week, we celebrated the resurrection of Jesus! As He declared, “It is finished!”. The penalty of all sin has been paid in full! The Old Covenant has been fulfilled; not abolished, not pushed aside, not abandoned, but fulfilled! The foreshadowing is a shadow no longer as the light of Christ has fully illuminated it! In Christ is the fullness of our salvation! The disciples found themselves in an awkward place, though. Jesus said, “It is finished!”, but the disciples…
Resurection Sunday
Good Friday was a dark day, indeed… Jesus, sinless, innocent, God-in-the-flesh, scourged and then nailed to a cross. Even His death sentence proclaimed truth about Him! Matthew 27:37-65 37 Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews. 38 Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. 39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, “You who…
Palm Sunday
[The below text has been machine translated and may contain errors. Please listen to audio for original and integral translation] So I am definitely not pastor Steve, but for those that don’t know me. My name is Lisa. I’m one of the elders. And we have the great opportunity about once a year because there’s 6 of us to give passer Steve a break for the week. That’s not the Sunday that he does of sermon. It’s probably all week…