So you’ve received a call from the Lord, but it hasn’t yet come to pass? What do you between the time of your call to the time it manifests? In this week’s message, Pastor Steve tells us about a percussionist, the dreams of Joseph, and Pauls’ thorn in the flesh. Through those stories, Pastor Steve shows us how to experience …
11/24/2024 | Pruning – Joanna Hextall | Sunday Service
Joanna Hextall shares a word about the necessity of pruning in our lives. Pruning looks brutal and feels like a loss in the short term, but the ultimate goal of God’s pruning our lives is fruitfulness in the long term. Joanna goes on to encourage us in the proper and healthy response to God’s pruning, which is ultimately to stay …
11/17/2024 | Blessed Are Those Who Mourn – Brian Diffenderfer | Sunday Service
Brian Diffenderfer shares a message today on not just how to mourn, but why it is vital to mourn and involve Jesus in the process. Using vignettes from his own story, Brian tells of the importance of being honest with Jesus – and being willing to explore the depths of our own souls (the good and the bad) with the …
11/10/2024 | Freedom From the Religious Spirit – Part 7 | Sunday Service
As Pastor Steve continues the series on Freedom From the Religious Spirit, he explores what to do when discovering someone else has sinned. Do we overlook it? Do we confront? If we confront, how do we go about doing confrontation? These questions and others are explored in today’s message.
11/2/2024 – Freedom From The Religious Spirit – Part 6: Forgiving From The Heart
Pastor Steve continues his sermon series on Freedom From The Religious Spirit with Part 6. This week, Pastor Steve talks about the process of forgiveness, and learning to shift our thinking from law and punishment to grace, kindness, and love. As we start to engage in conflict resolution, there are things that can be roadblocks to seeing clearly, but ultimately, …
10/27/2024 | Freedom From The Religious Spirit – Part 5 | Sunday Service
Pastor Steve continues with Part 5 of his series on Freedom From the Religious Spirit. This week, he talks about having a posture of forgiveness and openness to reconciliation. Forgiveness from the heart can only truly happen if we’ve first recognized and experienced forgiveness from our Father in heaven.
10/20/2024 – Freedom from the Religious Spirit – Part 4: Forgiveness: Receive it so you can give it
Pastor Steve continues with part 4 of his series Freedom From the Religious Spirit. In today’s sermon, Pastor Steve talks about the power of forgiveness, which comes down to making our hearts more available to love. If you’ve ever struggled to forgive or be forgiven, consider that forgiveness is not something we do, but an outcome of what we have …
9/29/2024 | Freedom From the Religious Spirit – Part 3 | Sunday Service
When we replace relationship with rules, we’re not only eating from the wrong tree, but becoming something worse: Pharisees. In this week’s sermon, Pastor Steve talks about the symptoms of a religious spirit, with a goal of not just identification of the religious spirit, but of complete eradication.
9/22/2024 | Freedom From the Religious Spirit – Part 2 | Sunday Service
In Part 2 of “Freedom From the Religious Spirit”, Pastor Steve teaches more on the religious spirit – how it operates and what it does to our relationship with God. Most importantly, Pastor Steve shares the beautiful nature of the Gospel, which is the good news of freedom from the religious spirit, and a restoration of relationship with the Father …
9/15/2024 | Freedom From The Religious Spirit – Part 1: The Religious Spirit Ruins Everything | Sunday Service
Pastor Steve takes us into the book of Genesis as he starts a series on Freedom From The Religious Spirit. In this message, we learn about the spirit of religion: -It questions God, and it seeks to undermine His words. -It adds more burdens and more commands to what God has said -It makes us work for something we get …