What does is look like to live as those made alive in Christ in these days. Particularly around the issue of Covid-19. How do we handle vaccination and non-vaccination? How are we to be as the church when we don’t all agree? Paul tells us to set our hearts on things above, not on earthly […]
All that we have been learning boils down to this, “Abiding in the Vine” but being missional challenges our traditional understanding of what it means to Abide. There is pain when we fail to abide and there is even pain when we abide well. However, if we choose not to abide in the vine intentionally […]
God’s Mission needs Mission Partners—People who are all-in and following Jesus wherever He goes even if the road He travels is difficult and hard to accept. Our scripture text for Sunday shares one of those hard teachings of Jesus and how many of His fair-weather disciples, on hearing this teaching, turned away and no longer […]
The word missional has been thrown around a lot in the last several years. It’s a word that conjures up a lot of different ideas for people. In fact, there are many misconceptions about what being missional is all about. This week we are going to delve into a few of the most common Missional […]
There has been a lot of talk in the last year about being “Woke” in a social and political sense. Don’t worry, we aren’t going to talk about that, but we are going to talk about a “Woke” of a different kind. The church needs to wake up to the fact that “we aren’t in […]
You’ve heard that old dilemma question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, right? Well, have you ever asked that same question about the church and mission? Which came first, the church or the mission? Dick Wiendenhef answers like this, “God doesn’t have a mission for His Church, God has a Church for His […]
Join us on Sunday at 9:30 or 11:00AM in person or online as we worship God and share our answers to prayer. We welcome Rev. Dr. Barbara Yandel to our pulpit as one of our Missionaries to the Muslim World. Dr. Yandel founded her ministry “Hope for the Nations” 20 years ago and has been […]
Pastor Mark shares his journey of understanding and engaging God’s mission in his life and in the World. From inviting friends to church, to sharing the Good News of Jesus’ with many along the way—including his missteps. We are all on mission with God if we are believers in Jesus, but we are all at […]
Re-Engage the Mission of God Do you know the story of Nehemiah? He was the cupbearer for the Persian King. He was also a Jewish man who had been part of the exiled Israelite nation. That’s exactly where he would have remained, had he not taken initiative. He responded to some terrible news from Jerusalem […]
This Labor Day Weekend we Praise God together because He has done great things for us!! Imagine standing on the edge of the Red Sea after the parted waters closed. Looking up the shore and down and realizing that not one of your people is lost, everyone is present and accounted for, not one has […]
We are coming to the end of summer and the end of our summer sermon series, Red Sea Rules. Sunday, we unlock rule number nine. Have you ever wondered why we go through trials and must deal with one obstacle after another in this life? The simple answer is because of sin. We live in […]
Have you ever been in a tight spot and needed God to do something? Have you ever told God exactly how you thought He should deliver you from that situation? God doesn’t usually act on our timetable or in the way we expect Him to act. But He is faithful and He will deliver us […]
This week we welcome back our friend and our former pastor, Jim Lester. Pastor Jim will be sharing with us a message titled, “The Road Less Traveled By” — Exodus 3:1-5 & 10-11; Joshua 3:7-17 and Acts 3:1-12. Yogi Berra, a baseball player for the Yankees in the 50’s and 60’s, once said “when you […]
When have you truly felt the presence of God? Has it been a while? God is with us just as He was with Israel on their journey out of Egypt and now preparing to move through and beyond their greatest obstacles, The Red Sea and Pharaoh’s army. You can feel His presence on a regular […]
We continue our summer sermon series, “Red Sea Rules” with rule number six; “Step Forward in Faith” from Exodus 14:15. Moses was crying out to God for help even after God had said for Israel to be silent. Moses couldn’t see the end goal, he couldn’t see the result of God’s will, he couldn’t see […]
DOUBT: We will we ponder some questions perhaps you have had or others around you have been wondering. What does doubt look like amidst faith? Even as the disciples received the Great Commission, scripture tells us that “some doubted.”
This morning, July 11, we welcome Noah Matthyssee, who is a guest to our pulpit and recent graduate of Calvin Theological Seminary. This is part one of a two-part message on Doubt. He will be bringing part two next week Sunday, July 18. This week is about asking questions — Is it okay for us […]
Exodus 14:13-14 – Do you have trouble waiting? It’s difficult to wait upon the Lord at times. We want answers Now! We want deliverance Now! We want God to act Now! We are impatient people. It makes sense, everything in our culture tells us or caters to our desire for immediate gratification. But it’s also hard […]
Exodus 14:10 When you find yourself in an acute crisis, what’s your first reaction? Do you cry out to the Lord? That’s what the Israelites did when they saw Pharaoh’s armies marching toward them. They did most things right, except for one very important element. They didn’t really believe that God would help them. Let’s […]
“Not Today Satan, NOT Today!!!” Join us as we continue to uncover the Red Sea Rules for overcoming life’s obstacles.