In this sermon we look at what the apostle John means when he tells us to “test the spirits.” Pastor Gabe unpacks the nature of spiritual reality and how in the cross of Christ we have overcome any lies the enemy might throw at us.Av Pastor Gabe Kasper

As Pastor Gabe continues our sermon series on 1 John, 1 John 3:11-24 commands us to love one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. This is not easy. People are messy. Community is hard. But when we hear the word of Love that God has spoken over our lives in Christ, it frees us to live lives of love towards each other.…

Pastor Marcus Lane continues our sermon series BeLove(d): A Series on 1 John with a message titled Children of God. This message reminds us that "you are God’s children, so reject sin and live from your source".Av Pastor Marcus Lane

Pastor Marcus Lane continues our sermon series BeLove(d): A Series on 1 John with a message titled Walk in the Light. This message outlines how we should cling to Jesus, imitate Jesus, and love like Jesus.Av Pastor Marcus Lane

Pastor Gabe kicks of our new sermon series on the book of 1 John. As John starts his letter he presents us with the incredible scandal that God has come to us in Jesus and we are invited to find our identity as his beloved as we live in fellowship with him.Av Pastor Gabe Kasper

Pastor Marcus Lane wraps up our sermon series Intentional: Pursuing What Matters with a message on Holistic. This message covers how we should carry your cross, die to yourself, and cling to Jesus.Av Pastor Marcus Lane

As we look at the final piece of our Venn Diagram of an intentional life, Pastor Gabe invites us to pursue a life of integrity. Integrity matters. But, integrity is a struggle. In the gospel we’re set free to own our struggles with integrity and as we look to the One who had perfect integrity on our behalf, we are motivated to be people of integrit…

Pastor Marcus continues the Intentional series with his message Friend. We are sent into the world to extend love and kindness, because love and kindness is what transformed us when we received the Gospel! This kind of loving-kindness is what actually has the power to transform lives. Isn’t it exactly what transformed ours?…

Pastor Gabe continues in our series, Intentional by looking at how a life of mission and relationship necessitates a calling to be a peacemaker in our world. Peacemaking is not easy, nearly impossible, but as we look to Christ crucified we find the true wisdom to be sent into the world as peacemakers.…

Pastor Marcus Lane continues our sermon series Intentional: Pursuing What Matters with a message on Relationship. This message covers the gift, the source, and the purpose of relationships.Av Pastor Marcus Lane

As Pastor Gabe continues our series Intentional: Pursuing What Matters we look into pursuing a life of character. So often we can slip into thinking our moral choices don’t matter or into a legalism that looks to our works to save us. Instead, a life in pursuit of character recognizes that because we are already saved on account of God’s grace in C…

Pastor Marcus continues our Intentional sermon series, where life is lived at the intersection of mission, character, and relationships. This sermon focuses on Mission: Care for the world for the sake of the Gospel in pursuit of God’s kingdom.Av Pastor Marcus Lane

This week Pastor Gabe kicks of a new sermon series called Intentional: Pursuing What Matters. In this sermon we explore what it means to live a life intentionally pursuing the things of God. And as we do that we discover the joy and lightness of a life rooted in the grace of God given to us in Christ.…

Pastor Marcus Lane concludes the Do Less. Be More. Together. sermon series with his message on Together. Christ has come and given his life to destroy everything that separates you from God and one another. You have been united to one another and to God by Jesus, who shed his blood for you! When you live together as one, you reveal Christ to the wo…

Pastor Marcus continues the Do Less. Be More. Together. sermon series with his message Be More. If we want to be more, we need to remember our purpose. When we forget our purpose, we wander off and settle for distractions. We were made for love that flows from a pure heart & sincere faith! Our purpose is to reflect Jesus and his love to the world.…

As we start our new sermon series, Do Less. Be More. Together., Pastor Gabe looks at Jesus practice going off in solitude to spend time in prayer. Jesus invites us to do the same, this will involve “doing less” in the eyes of achievement society, but in doing so we find rest for our souls in the One who achieved everything for us.…

As we conclude our Summer Psalms series, we see that the Psalms end with a great climax of praise to God for his greatness. We recognize how His greatness is passed on from generation to generation as we hear from our friend Musa Jospeh of Christ’s Hope International. But, above all we see that God in his greatness chooses to pour out his grace for…

Pastor Marcus continues the Summer Psalms series with a message on Psalm 130 The Love of the Lord. God loves you. He forgives you. He is patient with you. Share this gift with the world.Av Pastor Marcus Lane

Pastor Marcus continues the Summer Psalms series with a message on The Vegeance of the Lord. God’s judgment is against the proud, to bring discipline, for the sake of the humble.Av Pastor Marcus Lane

In this sermon, Pastor Gabe walks us through Psalm 42 where we learn how to navigate times of spiritual dryness by pouring out our souls, talking to ourselves, reordering our hopes, but above all looking to Christ crucified for us.Av Pastor Gabe Kasper

Pastor Marcus continues the Summer Psalms sermon series with a message from Psalm 27. The House of the Lord. Through this message you will hear that you don’t have to be afraid, because nothing is too great for God. No enemy, no evil, no sin in your life will stop this God from bringing about his perfect plan and purpose. Simply wait on him. Be str…

In Psalm 16, David lays out some simple spiritual truths. All that is good is from God. He provides for our needs. There is joy in his presence. We can receive these truths as simple platitudes, but as we consider their depth and fulfillment in Christ, we see that these simple truths can shape our entire lives.…

Pastor Marcus continues the Summer Psalms series with a message on Psalm 6 and The Deliverance of the Lord.Av Pastor Marcus Lane

As we begin our series on the Psalms, Psalm 1 invites us to delight and meditate on God and His Word. In doing this, we discover a depth in life that is unshakeable as we cling to the deliverance won for us in Jesus Christ.Av Pastor Gabe Kasper

Pastor Marcus concludes the All Things New sermon series with a message on A New Understanding.Av Pastor Marcus Lane

On the day of Pentecost the first followers of Jesus are filled with the Holy Spirit. As they proclaim the Word of God we see that all people are invited to call upon the Lord and be saved. May we be filled with the Holy Spirit as we trust and proclaim that same message.Av Pastor Gabe Kasper

Pastor Marcus continues our series All Things New with his message A New Commandment. Jesus came into the world for you. He came to fulfill the commands you could not fulfill, live the life you could not live, graciously lay down his life, and make you a friend of God. He has set you free, filled you with his Spirit, and sent you to go and be a wit…

In Romans 12, St. Paul tells us to no longer be conformed to the broken patterns of this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. This is no small thing. All too often we conform to the patterns of this world, but according to his mercy, God in Christ empowers us to live lives continually renewed by his Spirit.…

Pastor Marcus continues the All Things New sermon series with this message, A New Heart. God has given you a new relationship with him, so you can live confident that you are his beloved child. The risen Jesus has breathed his Spirit into you and granted you a new heart.Av Pastor Marcus Lane

Pastor Marcus continutes the All Things New series with a message on A New Humanity. Paul says that those who were once divided & cut off are now brought in and made members of the same family & citizenship. What does this new humanity, built on the teaching of the apostles and lordship of Jesus do? Listen now.…

In his resurrection, Jesus is the first fruits of the new creation. In him we to are new creatures as he takes on our sin and gives us his righteousness. In him we find purpose for our lives and hope for eternity as we are reconciled to God now and forever.Av Pastor Gabe Kasper

The prophet Jeremiah promises God’s people that one day God will make a new covenant. In this new covenant they will find security, freedom, intimacy, and grace. When we look the risen Christ’s finished work we see that is exactly what we receive in the new covenant by the power of the Spirit.Av Pastor Gabe Kasper

Jesus is Risen! He is Risen indeed, Alleluia! Jesus has come, he has died, and rose again. And right now, he is calling out to you. Come, put your trust in him, and find life.Av Pastor Marcus Lane

Throughout redemptive history God has used meals to deliver his people. In the last supper Jesus institutes a meal that unites us to God’s redemptive work; past, present, and future.

After the wall around Jerusalem is completed the people of Israel gather at the city gate and hear from God’s Word. At first the law convicts them of their failure before God, but as God’s Word continues to work on their hearts they go home rejoicing in the deliverance of their God. In the same way, we don’t always receive God’s Word as we ought to…

The restoration that our world needs, that you and I need, is in this Jesus. He has come into the world for you. He went to the cross & died for you. He rose again for you. Jesus has come to restore you so that you might live with God’s help free from fear and reflect this Jesus to the world.

As Nehemiah and his crew begin rebuilding the walls of the Jerusalem they encounter opposition. But, we see in Nehemiah’s leadership that they are prepared to continue to build as they find their refuge in the Lord. In the same way we are called to defend ourselves agains the lies of the enemy and find our refuge in Christ’s ultimate victory over a…

Pastor Marcus continues our Lenten sermon series Redux with a message Retell. We all see and feel the deep cynicism of our world. The great gift of retelling the same story of God is that it invites into a different way of being shaped not by cynicism, but by joy and thanksgiving.

In Pastor Marcus' message Rebuild, mourning reminds us why we rebuild. It reminds us that things are not as they should be, and God is inviting us into more.

As a faithful remnant return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple, we are invited to live as a faithful remnant today as we build rituals in our lives that center us around God’s Word Made Flesh, the One who has brought us home to God.

We begin our Lenten sermon series Redux with an Ash Wednesday message from Pastor Marucus, Report.

Pastor Marcus concludes the Ancient/Future sermon series with this message, Yesterday/Day. You don’t have to live in your strength. You don’t have to muster up the effort to prove yourself. God is working in you and through you. There is nothing he will ask of you that he will not accomplish in you. The invitation is to surrender. Surrender your li…

As the author of Hebrews invites us to find endurance to follow Jesus in the lives of the saints who have gone before us, we have the opportunity to hear from our sister in Christ, Yarimar Cherney, share about how she follows Jesus in her role as executive director of Family Life Services. As we dig into our text and hear from Yari, we are ultimate…

Pastor Marcus continues our series on Ancient/Future with the message Drew Near/Draw Near. When God’s people meet together, something profound happens. He shows up in that place. He draws us into the truth that changes everything.

Doesn’t matter who we are or what we believe we can’t help but recognize that we live in a moral universe. This means we can’t help but have to deal with our own moral failings and feelings of guilt. The author of Hebrews recognizes this and insists that the way to deal with it is not through self-justification, but through trust in the new covenan…

We continue our Ancient/Future series with a message on Held Fast/Hold Fast from Pastor Marcus. Hold fast to him, hold fast to his grace, hold fast to his promises, because he is holding fast to you.

In the first verses of the book of Hebrews, the author of Hebrews lays out his thesis. Jesus is far superior to anything or anyone else. His message is far superior to any other message. And the message he speaks to you today is one of grace.

Pastor Marcus ends our series This Must Be the Place with his message, Welcome Home.

The Christmas story invites us to find our home in wonder at the God who became man to save us.

Our faith causes us to feel not-at-home in the world, because we are longing, not for a different place, but for this place to be healed and restored by the presence of God. Hear more from Pastor Marcus' message Searching for Home.