What is your response when you are overwhelmed? In this week’s staff meeting message, Pastor Josh Kelsey explores Luke 2:19 by encouraging us to treasure up and ponder the things that God is doing in our lives this Christmas season.
In a time of year that can be stressful and chaotic, the birth of Christ speaks a new way over us: a way of peace. Peace is not something we have to manufacture in our own strength, but it is made free to us because Christ came down to bring wholeness to humanity. In this week's message, Pastor Ryan Schlachter gives us three ways to accomplish peace in our daily lives this Christmas season.
When we begin to live with a revelation of Christ’s incarnation, the Word of God comes to life in us—freeing us from self-condemnation, self-absorption and self-justification. Todays message from lead Pastor Josh Kelsey reminds us the freedom Christ came to earth to bring us!
We serve a God bigger than any circumstances, anxiety or fear that we face! At our last ALLIN of the year, Pastor Josh challenged us from 2 Kings 6, the story of Elisha and his servant. When you face challenges, do you react with fear or do you see that God is for you? As we go into 2024, may we ground our hearts in the reality of his faithful love and look to Jesus our Savior.
Teaching from the wisdom of James, Pastor Josh Kelsey shares keys to living with Christ's second advent in our hearts.
What is Advent? As we begin our Christmas series, Pastor Josh Kelsey shares out of Mark 13 on the power of daily remembering not just Christ's first coming but his second. The truth is that many believers dwell on their own dreams or goals rather, thinking more about self than Christ. Our challenge as believers is to think often, think deeply and live daily from a revelation of our King’s return.
The Advent season is an invitation to take heart in the fact that Jesus has come and will come again. We are waiting for the second coming with the knowledge that Jesus was faithful when he first came to us as a child. In this staff meeting message, Lead Pastor Josh Kelsey gives us four reasons why we can take heart this Advent season.
Taking risks to share the gospel is an inherent part of an active Christian faith. Any ministry that lasts has to be rooted in love for people, and we cannot stay the status quo if God is changing us from the inside. As we conclude our All Saints series, Pastor Jon Laurenzo shares three ways to look more like Jesus and live a life on mission.
The Reformers placed the Word of God above everything else. The word of God reveals Jesus to us, and therefore the word of God should be given the highest priority. In this week’s message, Pastor Jon Laurenzo continues our All Saints series and gives us three reasons why we should build the foundation of our lives on the Word of God.
The Christian monastic movement is marked by a sacred approach to time and the balance of rhythms like prayer and work. St. Benedict famously said, "He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.” In our All Saints series, Pastor Jon explores four ways to take back your time, allowing God to invade every hour of your day in contrast to the hustle of this world.
The desert fathers and mothers teach us that we must be disciplined in order to follow God. All athletes are training for a purpose, but we train for an eternal purpose. In this Sunday’s message, David Chan teaches us what it looks like have the discipline of an athlete as we follow God.
What has your ultimate allegiance? What beliefs would you give your life for? This Sunday, we started our All Saints series as we look at followers of Jesus throughout history to learn from the past as we live out our faith today. The early Christian martyr's courage of conviction led them to lay down their lives to declare their faith in Christ - how can we daily pick up our cross and live without compromise to declare Jesus as Lord?
Everywhere we go, we are called to be founts of living water for others as Jesus is a fount for us. But unless our hearts are activated towards our city, our friends, our families, and our co-workers, we will never become the fount that Jesus invites us to be. This Sunday, Ps Jon Laurenzo closes out our Fount series with a message on what it means to partner with God in the vision of abundance he has for us.
When we are willing to be honest about what we need healing from, we have the opportunity to experience true healing from God. This Sunday, Pastor Jon preached from the gospel account of the woman at the well. Jesus will meet you in your areas of pain or shame, if only we will surrender to him.
Jesus is the only one who can satisfy us. Pastor Ryan Schlachter preaches a message from Jeremiah 2 about forsaking the fountain of living water for broken cisterns. The cycle of sin is exhausting and tiring, but the grace of God calls us out of those cycles and calls us to source of life that is Jesus Christ.
We are called to look beyond ourselves and, through partnership with the Spirit, to step out in faith for others. Whether you’re just stepping into tithing or making a pledge to go above and beyond with Vision Builders, we believe that God is going to do a new thing through us as a church.
In 1 Corinthians, Paul writes, “That Rock was Christ.” Christ is a rock in the wilderness, providing water to his people in a barren land. In this Sunday’s message, Lead Pastor Josh Kelsey explains what this passage from Exodus reveals about our human condition and the Fount of Living Water that saves us.
The kingdom of God is advancing every day, whether or not we decide to be a part of it. But God invites us to partner with him as he builds his church. In this message, Ps Jon Laurenzo walks through Joshua 3 and gives us 4 things for us to do as we are taking ground in this new season.
The blessings of this world are fleeting at best, but Jesus is the blessing that remains forever. In him, we are truly satisfied. Our hearts were made for eternity. The only thing that can satisfy an eternal longing is an unlimited resource—the living water of Jesus Christ. In this Sunday’s message, Lead Pastor Josh Kelsey walks through Ephesians 3:16-19 and reminds us that our source of life is Christ.
In this special ALLIN message, lead pastor Josh Kelsey shares the heart behind Jesus our fount—our source, wellspring, fountain. As we celebrate our 10th Anniversary as a church, we look forward to a new season and a new name, founded on God's love and mission to reach our city.
The heart of the gospel lies in the fact that God longs to dwell among his people. When tabernacles and temples were not enough, he sent his Son to be a dwelling place made flesh for us, so that all who believe might have full and complete access to God all the time. This Sunday, we begin our new series The House with a message from David Chan on how God makes his dwelling place with us, and how we can meet him there.
How do we do when it comes to maintaining godly boundaries in our lives? The overarching theme of all wisdom is that we need boundaries. God has a way He intends for us to live our lives. On Sunday, Pastor Jon preached on the ways in which God has taught us about boundaries regarding sex, money, substances, and pride.
In our Insight series, Pastor Ryan shares from Genesis 2 on God's wisdom for work. In the Garden, God commissions mankind to rule and reign, revealing that work existed before the curse as part of a divine partnership with God. May we be witnesses so that every office, studio and workplace becomes holy ground.
How you handle your money and approach your finances directly changes the quality of your life, and Scripture has so much to teach us about our money. One of the easiest ways the enemy gets ahold of our life is when our finances aren’t submitted to God. In this week’s message, pastor Jon Laurenzo gives us 3 principles to keep in mind when it comes to wisdom in our finances.
What have you exchanged faith for in your life? Pastor Dan Lian preaches a word on using time wisely reminded us to fight the good fight, finish the race and keep the faith. This week in our dinner parties and as we live out this message, may our lives reflect a wise use of our time as we rely on God’s wisdom and hold fast to our faith.