In this week’s Your Questions Answered, Todd and Pastor Steve discuss what the Bible teachers about church services – what should they look like? What should we do in a church service, Biblically speaking?
2/23/2025 | Relationship Based Church – Part 7: A Christ-Centered Gathering of His Tabernacle | Sunday Service
Pastor Steve revisits the tabernacle in this week’s sermon. As we walk through the tabernacle, we’re reminded of the simplicity of what God calls us: to be with Him, to love Him, and to be loved by Him. We also are now been given the ministry of priests in the Kingdom of God. We do what the Old Testament priests …
YQA: Sacrifice in the New Covenant
Pastor Steve and Todd talk how Jesus connects us with the sacrifices mentioned in the Old Covenant. We also talk about why God setup a system of sacrifice in the Old Covenant instead of just skipping to Jesus and the New Covenant. We talk about The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis, as well as refer to passages …
2/16/2025 | Relationship Based Church – Part 6: Two Kinds of Tabernacle | Sunday Service
In this week’s message, Pastor Steve continues his Relationship-Based Church series with Part 6, where the emphasis is learning the connection from Israel’s tabernacle as the shadow for what has come in the new covenant. Has the imagery of Exodus’s tabernacle construction been a loss to you? You’ll want to listen to this message and discover what the tabernacle says …
1/5/2025 | Relationship Based Church | Sunday Service
The Kingdom of God is expanding all around us. This week, Pastor Steve challenges us to participate in the Kingdom in order to truly experience and enjoy all of what God has for us. In order to do that, we must live in relationship, and one the primary ways we live in relationship is through church that is centered and …
12/22/2024 | Draw Near | Sunday Service
Pastor Steve shares a word from James 4:8, where “Draw Near to me and I will draw near to you” is both a command a promise. It’s a promise, because the Christmas story is Jesus coming to earth to make a way for us to be near to Him. It’s Love manifest in human form. It’s Jesus making room for …
12/15/2024 | No Outsiders – Table Experience | Sunday Service
This Sunday’s service was a bit different, and the podcast will reflect that. Instead of chairs facing forwards, we had groups split up into separate tables, with 4-8 people at each table. Each table discussed questions and experiencedcommunion as a small group. If you’re listening to this later on, we highly encourage you to experience communion as you’re able – …
12/1/2024 | The Space In Between… | Sunday Service
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 …