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Sunday Nov 02, 2014
Sunday Nov 02, 2014
Our guest speaker this weekend, Dr. Joe Grana (Bible Professor and Dean of Ministry/Biblical Studies at Hope International University), delivers a powerful message about grace. The radical reality is that there's nothing you can do to make God love you any more and there's nothing you can do to make God love you any less. Living in those profound truths will help our lives explode with thanksgiving living out of a gratefulness of God's gift in our lives. This is truly amazing grace.
Sunday Oct 26, 2014
Sunday Oct 26, 2014
On the final week of our ABC's series Pastor Ken unleashes a message our memories won't soon let go of! When all is said and done what will separate a nice thought from a Kingdom advancing initiative is our power to decide to act on our convictions. We can decide to spend our resources on ourselves or decide to give it all back to our Source. The great news is that the gifts we give should be moments of great joy and celebration when done out of a heart to see God's will be done on earth. Decide today to join in His movement, get on His agenda, and just see if the floodgates don't open in your life!
Sunday Oct 19, 2014
Sunday Oct 19, 2014
Pastor Ken in week 3 of our ABC's series brings an honest and powerful message about tithing. A solidly Biblical virtue in both the Old and New Testaments, Ken encourages us to be faithful to God's word and see if tithing won't continue to open up the floodgates of God's blessing in our lives. Let's be faithful and make the choice to give!
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
In week 2 of our ABC's of Financial Freedom series Pastor Ken delivers a powerful message about the bondage we're in as American's to financial debt. Finding freedom to fulfill God's plan for our lives and to build the Kingdom requires us to find freedom from this debt. There's hope for your finances if you trust God and give him authority over every area of your lives.
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
In week 1 of our new message series, ABC's of Financial Freedom, Pastor Ken delivers a touching message on the need to hand over everything we have to the One who gave it to us in the first place. God's not some greedy dictator who just wants our money, in fact, He's a gracious God who wants to bless us abundantly so that we can leverage all he's given us to build the Kingdom!
Sunday Sep 28, 2014
Sunday Sep 28, 2014
This week Pastor Ken delivers an explosive message about the potency that exists in the name that is above every name, Jesus Christ. Many times we're temped to carry names that don't belong to us, names that weigh us down and seek to diminish the saving work of Jesus in our lives. But what if we took on His name instead? What if we accepted our position as children of the One true King?
Sunday Sep 14, 2014
Sunday Sep 14, 2014
Pastor Jim delivers the message this week with a challenge to view the apostle Paul first and foremost as a follower of Christ. Now, this may seem obvious to us, but Paul literally patterned his life around Jesus' constantly. The way Paul prayed, preached, and planned was just as Jesus did. What if our lives were patterned the same way?
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
This week Pastor Ken nears the end of our series on Romans with a practical message about our need to consider others above ourselves in regards to disputable matters. Romans 14 reminds us that, though there's much freedom in Christ, we ought never abuse this freedom and cause another to stumble.
Sunday Aug 31, 2014
Sunday Aug 31, 2014
Romans chapter 13 can be a hard chapter to swallow but Pastor Ken does a great job at breaking down our need to pray for those in authority over us. God has placed those above us in our lives for a purpose yet, ultimately, His Kingdom always comes first. Sometimes taking a stand for our faith will result in suffering but the Lord is faithful to those who trust in Him.
Sunday Aug 24, 2014
Sunday Aug 24, 2014
This week pastor Devan brings a word challenging us to reconsider what true Biblical worship really is. Leaning on the story of Abraham and Isaac as a foreshadowing to what Paul will later identify as our "living sacrifice" in Romans 12, Devan argues that the best way to practice Biblical worship may not being singing, shouting, clapping, dancing, or praising, but it may just be turning our entire lives over to the merciful plans of our Father and using what God's placed in our hands to further His Kingdom on this earth.