In this exhortation, Will Stueve (Church Planting Resident) focuses in on the good challenge for us found particularly at the end of Psalm 105:4. It’s an invitation into the great joy of constant, conscious, communion with our Creator.
In this exhortation, Pastor Mike Polley reflects on the Helper that Jesus mentions in John 16:7 and how this is a greater gift even than the gift of Christian community.
In this exhortation, Ryan Griffith exhorts us to search ourselves for where worldliness has crept in. Where have we traded sola scriptura for sola cultura? What’s really shaping what we desire or approve?
In this exhortation, Pastor Jonathan Parnell asks a series of questions that highlight the many reasons we have to hope in God.
In this exhortation, Pastor Mike Schumann references a popular story’s battle scene in which the two sides should have been at peace, but rather they were distracted from their true enemy by fighting one another. As Christians, let’s follow Ephesians 6:12, and seek unity.
In this exhortation, Kevin Kleiman gives us the invitation of Psalm 46: to let go and be still. The gospel invites us to lay down our burdens, not be crushed by them; to let God be God.
In this exhortation, Pastor Mike Polley reminds us that we all have gone astray and Jesus came to bring us back to God. So, let Jesus lead you back.
In this exhortation, Will Stueve (Church Planting Resident) exhorts us from 1 John 3:8. How often do we ignore the demonic nature of practicing sin? Do we think of sin as we ought to?
In this exhortation, Pastor Mike Schumann looks at Mark 7 where Jesus provides “evil thoughts” as an example of a common sin for us. What is your thought life like? How would Jesus describe your common imaginations?
In this exhortation, Pastor Daniel Helstrom focuses in on the latter part of the Great Commission that tells us to do all that Jesus has commanded of us. How exactly are we supposed to do all that? Is it even realistic?
In this exhortation, Ryan Griffith recalls Jonathan Edwards’ remark on the prevailing presence of a censorious spirit in places such as our polarized world today, including our churches and our own hearts. This is the opposite of a Christian spirit, so let’s examine ourselves.
In this exhortation, Pastor David Mathis reflects on the blessing of meeting and ministering to other Christians in faraway places. Don’t let our many modern day comforts keep you from meeting needs here at home and maybe in faraway places as well.
In this exhortation, Pastor Jonathan Parnell shares about the ancient practice of water baptism and why it is so important for believers to be baptized today. If you are a Christian and not yet baptized, you need to get baptized.
In this exhortation, Pastor Marshall Segal encourages us to sing! As Psalm 149:1 says, “Sing to the Lord a new song.”
In this exhortation, Pastor Jonathan Parnell reflects on his grandfather’s stories of biblical faith seen through the many years at his local church. In a world where we often settle for a brand of Christianity requiring a minimum amount of faith, let’s confess how we’ve surrendered our hearts to comfort, people-pleasing, or anything other than knowing God.
In this exhortation, Pastor Mike Schumann reflects on the reality that we do not own our bodies for we were bought with a price – our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, let’s confess the ways we have used our bodies in ways that are not pleasing to God.
In this exhortation, Jon Hoglund remembers a story of some Christian men overseas being arrested for gathering together in prayer. If something similar happened among our communities, would we be more or less likely to make life group and community group meetings a priority next week?
In this exhortation, Ryan Griffith looks to Paul’s teachings on the church body and its individual members which reminds us of our need for one another. Each follower of Jesus has an indispensable gift. Let’s fully grow together as a holy community, as a field hospital for the hurting, as an outpost of kingdom-expanding mission.
In this exhortation, Pastor David Mathis addresses our 21st-century frustration with God’s sense of timing and points us toward the instruction of 1 Peter 5:6.
In this exhortation, Pastor Mike Schumann encourages us to consider how we might respond if Jesus were to interrupt our pursuits by coming back right now.