Pastor Micah shared a message entitled "Hide & Seek" this week to help remind each of us why the Bible is so important to us today! He pulled out a few key words from 2 Timothy 3:16-17; profitable, complete, and equipped that help us understand the importance of God's Word! Only through spending time in God's Word can we truly grow into the man or woman of God that He is calling us to be. Spending time in His Word and allowing the Holy Spirit to work in our lives is how we become most ful...

Pastor Micah shared a message this week titled "The Meaning Of Pentecost!" The Day of Pentecost is a historic event that took place as God poured the Holy Spirit upon the Early Church to empower, equip, and enable us to reach the world for Christ! Pastor Micah approached this message with a 30,000 foot view looking at the connection between the Passover and Pentecost Festivals. We know that the Holy Spirit has been actively involved since the Creation story back in Genesis chapter 1. The Prop...

Pastor Micah finished up our current series this past Sunday called "Taking the NEXT Step!" Throughout this series we are focusing on the topic of stewardship and looking specifically at the Biblical principles of tithing, offerings, and trusting the Lord with everything He has placed in your hands!In the first week of the series we looked at the Biblical principle laid out for tithing. The second week Pastor Micah shared a tool called the ‘giving ladder’ that helps each of us to see where we...

We celebrated all of the great moms, grandmothers, step mothers, foster moms, and mother figures God has blessed our great church and community with! Pastor Micah shared a message called "A Mother's Heart" which focused on how mothers experience the greatest of joys, but likewise experience the deepest of pains. By looking at 3 lesser known moms from scripture we walked away with 3 questions:Jochebed (Exodus 2): Where do you need to surrender control to God?Zarephath (1 Kings 17): Where do yo...

Pastor Micah picked back up our current series this past Sunday called "Taking the NEXT Step!" Throughout this series we are focusing on the topic of stewardship and looking specifically at the Biblical principles of tithing, offerings, and trusting the Lord with everything He has placed in your hands!In the first week of the series we looked at the Biblical principle laid out for tithing. This week Pastor Micah shared a tool called the ‘giving ladder’ that helps each of us to see where we’re...

Pastor Laura shared a message this week called "A New Thing" focusing on how after Jesus went back up to Heaven he commanded the Apostles to go to Jerusalem and wait for the Holy Spirit to come. In Acts chapters 1-3 we read about how even though God was doing a new thing it's not always easy as wait for the new thing to take place. Here are 3 things we can learn from the Apostles as they waited on the new thing to take place:The Story Ended (or sho they thought)They Began To PrepareThe S...

Pastor Bethani shared a message titled "Please Pass The Faith" which focused on the importance of passing on our faith to the next generation. In particular as Pastors Bethani and Sarah wrote this message it was focused on passing down the faith to Generations Z and Alpha (those born since 1996). Here are a few highlights for you:Passing on the faith to the next generation is the responsibility of the entire church.Passing on the faith means we talk about what God has done in our lives with t...

Pastor Bethani shared a message titled "Promise In The Valley" which focuses on Genesis 15 and relates it to the mountain highs and valley lows we experience in life. The point is that every mountain is followed by a valley but we always have a mountain of a promise in Jesus. This message offers hope to everyone in their low times in life and helps those in the high times of their lives that the lows will come but the promise we have in Jesus remains the same.Bottom Line: Jesus' valley low wa...

Pastor Micah started a new series this week called "Taking the NEXT Step!" Throughout this series we will focus on the topic of stewardship and looking specifically at the Biblical principles of tithing, offerings, and trusting the Lord with everything He has placed in your hands!This week we looked at the Biblical principle laid out for tithing. The second part of this series I will share with you a tool called the ‘giving ladder’ that helps each of us to see where we’re at when it comes to ...

Pastor Micah wrapped up our 2024 Easter series this year, "Empty." As Easter has been approaching we've focused on how through an empty tomb we find the ultimate fulfillment in our lives through Christ! This series unpacks the idea of emptiness by following people connected to the death of Jesus and showing that only at the empty tomb will we be made full.As we celebrated Easter this week we looked at the story of Mary and her experience at the tomb following Jesus' resurrection. Mary had com...

Pastor Micah continued our 2024 Easter series this year, "Empty." As Easter approaches we're focusing on how through an empty tomb we find the ultimate fulfillment in our lives through Christ! This series unpacks the idea of emptiness by following people connected to the death of Jesus and showing that only at the empty tomb will we be made full.This week we looked at the story involving Pilate and the crowd as Jesus is put on trial. Pilate mentions multiple times that Jesus is innocent and h...

Pastor Laura started our 2024 Easter series this year, "Empty." As Easter approaches we're focusing on how through an empty tomb we find the ultimate fulfillment in our lives through Christ! This series unpacks the idea of emptiness by following people connected to the death of Jesus and showing that only at the empty tomb will we be made full.This week we looked at two different examples of people trying to find fulfillmentin different ways. First, we see the Pharisees tried to find fulfillm...

Pastor Micah and the members of the Mexico Mission's Trip team took time to share about their recent amazing mission's trip to serve in Aguascalientes and Central Mexico February 20-26th!

Pastor Micah wrapped our series this week called "I'll Be There For You!" This series focuses on the topic of friendship. Each week will will look at a different friendship from scripture along with a specific important characteristic of friendship. In scripture we see many examples of Godly friendship and how important it is to our walk with the Lord. This week we looked at the relationship between King David and one his closest friends, adviser, and prophet, Nathan. The characteristic ...

Pastor Brad shared a message this week called "Vessels" which focused on how we're all called to be God's vessels to the world around us. His main passage of scripture was from 1 Corinthians 12:27. In order to be effective vessels there are 4 main points that he pointed out in this message:Effective vessels are WILLING to be used!Effective vessels know the Father's Voice (Shepherd's) to HEAR how to be used!Effective vessels are intentionally POURING out onto others!Effective vessels accept th...

Pastor Sarah Tillotson shared a message this week called "Adoption: Forever Home" focusing on the Biblical concept of adoption into the family of God, and how that relates to adoption in our world today! By looking at Paul's letter in Galatians 4:1-7 we pull out these 6 truths:We are Redeemed!We are Adopted!The Holy Spirit now lives within us!We call God Father!We are now God's Children!We are the Heirs of God!Bottom Line: God intentionally chooses to adopt us and is always longing to add mor...

Pastor Micah continued our series this week called "I'll Be There For You!" This series focuses on the topic of friendship. Each week will will look at a different friendship from scripture along with a specific important characteristic of friendship. In scripture we see many examples of Godly friendship and how important it is to our walk with the Lord. This week we look at the friendship between Ruth and Naomi and the characteristics of loyalty and care in friendship. Naomi lost her hu...

Pastor Micah started a new series this week called "I'll Be There For You!" This series focuses on the topic of friendship. Each week will will look at a different friendship from scripture along with a specific important characteristic of friendship. In scripture we see many examples of Godly friendship and how important it is to our walk with the Lord. This week we look at the friendship between Jonathan and David and the characteristic of trust in friendship. Jonathan, the son of King...

Pastor Micah shared a message entitled "The Potter" for our 2024 Vision Sunday! God uses the language of creation to describe His ongoing interest in our lives throughout all of scripture. By focusing on Isaiah 64:8 and Jeremiah 18:2-6 we learn that God is the sovereign creator and He molds us in the palm os His hand. Here are a few keypoints and questions for us to takeaway from this week's message:You are created in the image of God!Are you allowing the Artist to work?You are God's ma...

Pastor Micah shared a message this week called "I Want To See!" to help set the stage for next week's Vision Sunday! By looking at the interaction between the blind man Bartimaeus and Jesus in Mark 10 we can learn 4 key things:Cry Out (He had nothing left to lose. He was not going to be timid.)Press In (He refused to be deterred by distractions, discouragement, or doubt.)Toss Aside Your Cloak (He believed that Jesus was going to heal him before it happened.)Say It (He had the faith to be real...