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"Our loyalty to Jesus and our love for Jesus is going to be tested and how we respond to the test reveals the depth of our love and loyalty for Jesus." Listen along as Pastor Chris teaches on this invitation to grow in courage through the passage Luke 12:1-12.De către Chris Rattay
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When we are filled with the Holy Spirit we are able to operate in our identity, who we were meant to be, and who God created us to be. Are you operating in God’s identity of you? Listen along as we worship and hear from Emily Howard, a member of our preaching team, teach from Luke 1:59-80.De către Emily Howard
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Listen with us as Pastor Chris shares with us about the character of the Holy Spirit through the foretelling of the birth of John the Baptist.De către Chris Rattay
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In our powerlessness over our storms, when we feel like we’re perishing, are our eyes just stuck on the storm? Listen along as Pastor Kathryn asks us to consider the postures of our hearts when we are in the midst of our storms and reminds us that Jesus has power over our chaos and over the storms.De către Kathryn Cheng
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We think about building for the future, building into our careers, building into the security of our children - are we building into Jesus, into what is actually going to last forever? Listen along as Pastor Chris reminds us to refocus and start living for heaven.De către Chris Rattay
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We need God’s words and we need a move of God, a supernatural work of Jesus to open our minds to understand his words so that things click into place. When things click into place, we are transformed. Listen as we explore how things start clicking for the disciples in Luke 24: 44-53.De către Quen Cheng
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Let us be a people of deep and consistent prayer, praying in faith the power of Jesus over every aspect of our lives. Listen as we explore what it means to experience His life in our bodies.De către Chris Rattay
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Jesus is alive and present—walking with us, listening to our struggles. Even if he feels like a stranger at times, we can open ourselves to him—to feed us with his Word at his table. He wants to dine with us if we would open wide the door of our hearts to see him—the risen Christ, our ever-present companion. Listen along as we enter the passage of …
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Jesus is alive and it changes us. Jesus brings us out of the dead, making us fully alive in him which compels us to go with him to bring others out of the dead, in any way possible. Join us as we celebrate our living God!De către Chris Rattay
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Jesus calls us to be his disciples, but before we answer the call, we must count the cost. Following Jesus requires us to give up everything we have and reconstruct our identity. Therefore, let us again evaluate the cost, allow God to demolish our old self and its attachments, and let Him reconstruct our identity according to His will, centered on …
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You have been invited to the Heavenly Banquet. But are there any flimsy excuses you are using? Watch along as we look deeper at the Parable of the Great Banquet and the invitation that is open to all. We apologize as a few words at the beginning of the sermon were cut off. Emily Howard, a member of our preaching team, started her message with shari…
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Jesus calls us to follow Him. To receive His Spirit that helps us endure suffering and not compromise. Listen as Pastor Chris preaches on Luke 9:51-62 and what it means to put your hand to the plow and endure.De către Chris Rattay
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The mantra of our generation is to "live life to the fullest," but how do you define a full life? Listen along as Pastor Chris teaches on what it means to pick up your cross daily and to become a disciple of Christ.De către Chris Rattay
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Waking up to the Glory of Jesus
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"It is in prayer that we gain spiritual sight. As we pray, we wake up to see the spiritual reality of Jesus’ glory." Listen along as Pastor Kathryn encourages us to wake up to the glory of Jesus.De către Kathryn Cheng
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The way that Jesus loves people takes sacrifice, it takes courage, it takes great commitment. Listen as Pastor Chris preaches on the compassion of Jesus in Luke 5:12-16.De către Chris Rattay
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Do we truly believe and submit to the authority of Jesus even things don’t make sense? Listen as we look at the compassionate and final authority of Jesus in Luke 4, and how we, as believers, are to respond in submission to Jesus’ authority in our lives – and the ways that we can trust that authority to be good.…
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The mission of Jesus is to set captives free who are oppressed in all ways. Listen as Pastor Chris discusses ways we can partner with Jesus to fulfill this mission.De către Chris Rattay
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Through the temptations in the wilderness, we see Jesus rise into his identity as the Son of God, and we too as sons and daughters of God, can face temptations not as an offer to fall, but to rise. Listen as we study the temptations of Jesus in Luke 4.De către Kathryn Cheng
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Baptism of Jesus: Jesus the Son of God
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We make real changes to receive people into our homes. It is time to make real changes to receive Jesus deeper Into our lives. Join us as we continue to study the Gospel of Luke with our new sermon series "Epiphany."De către Chris Rattay
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Our God sees the lowly. Listen as Pastor Chris teaches on Luke 1:46-55.De către Chris Rattay
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Life in Jesus is a life of growing revelation of the majesty of God. Join us as celebrate the start of Advent through the study of Revelation 5:6-14.De către Chris Rattay
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Join us as we spend time together in Psalm 50 through a corporate bible study.De către Quen Cheng
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This Sunday, we praised God for being a God of loyal love. Listen as Pastor Kathryn takes us through Exodus 34:5-10.De către Kathryn Cheng
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Listen as we kick off our new 3 week mini-series "On the Altar of Gratitude and Praise." In this sermon, Pastor Kathryn discusses how God is a God of Wonders as we look at Psalm 145:1-13.De către Kathryn Cheng
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Celebrate Our 10 Year Anniversary!
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Listen as we share testimonies from the last 10 years and dream for the future!De către Chris Rattay, Quen Cheng, Kathryn Cheng
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Listen as guest speaker, Chris Lindley, shares his experiences from India and Indonesia and the incredible similarities from his experiences and the Biblical life.De către Chris Lindley
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If we worship Jesus we are ambassadors of Jesus. If we receive the love of Jesus, then we always receive more to give away If we believe that Jesus is King of Kings, the leader of leaders, the only one to trust our lives to, then we proclaim and demonstrate his goodness to others. Listen as Pastor Chris explains the invitation that Christ has given…
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Listen to a special Testimony Sunday panel on the call to live missionally and what it looks and feels like in a modern context. The panel dives into the worries and fears they have as a Christian, the ways they’ve been impacted, the hurt they’ve faced, wrestling with interpersonal relationships, and the victories they’ve seen through Christ.…
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Last week we looked at being on mission in our blood families, and today, we’ll look at being on mission in friendships—how we are the aroma of Christ, through our life and through our words. Listen as Kathryn Cheng explores the idea of what it means to be the aroma of Christ through 2 Corinthians 2:12-17.…
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"Deep in our soul we desperately want to only live for God, we want to have that kind of security that says, God first and God only. He calls us to go, be his ambassador so that we can grow into that security. And then he calls us to go so that we can see things that prophets and kings longed to see." Listen as Pastor Chris Rattay expands on the id…
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What does it mean to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God? Contrary to popular belief: isn’t some nice safe thing - it is a dangerous and revolutionary thing, but it IS good. The Kingdom of God is not like the kingdom of the world, it doesn’t force its will but wins people over. It doesn’t oppress but it uplifts. It doesn’t make false promi…
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What does it mean to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God? Contrary to popular belief: isn’t some nice safe thing - it is a dangerous and revolutionary thing, but it IS good. The Kingdom of God is not like the kingdom of the world, it doesn’t force its will but wins people over. It doesn’t oppress but it uplifts. It doesn’t make false promi…
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In our new series, "Sent: A Call to Missional Living", we are going to delve deeper into what it means to live missionally through Acts and other passages. The beginning of the book of Acts is a big picture, priority-setting text in our Bibles with our section today ending with Jesus calling the first disciples and thus every disciple, Jesus callin…
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An Exhortation & Study on Philippians 2
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"We know from both Scripture and our own lived experience, that we can’t make it on this journey alone; we need each other. The community of faith – the people of God, the Church – is essential. To live out that value of community, today we are going to be looking at a passage that has given us the key for friendships in the Church." Listen as gues…
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“Hospitality at its heart is welcoming and receiving someone into your heart, into your literal house, into your life... It [hospitality] goes beyond being generous with people you like, and chooses to be generous with people that are difficult to like.” Listen as Pastor Chris delves deeper into the characteristics of hospitality and how we are mea…
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In our series on Friendships, we’ve talked about cultivating friendships through generosity, intentionality, empathy & hope. Today we will look at what happens when those friendships we’ve been cultivating go wrong and how we as children of God in his kingdom, can live into who we are as meek, merciful peacemakers. Listen as guest speaker, Kathryn …
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If you are suffering today and you need a friend, this is Jesus’ response to you. He comes to you. He shows up in your moment of need. He comes and he empathizes, he weeps with you and shares your grief. As he grieves with you, he gets angry for you. He wants to assert his power, he wants to give you hope, and he wants to bring supernatural healing…
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Generosity & Choosing into Friendship
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A generous friend is not just someone who shares his material wealth with their friends (that is obviously a part of it), but it is also someone who will share their time that is set aside for themselves, will give up their comforts, will give up their need to be respected all the time, will give up their desire to be loved all the time in their lo…
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As we live in his Spirit and engage in the war between his Spirit and our sinful nature, that war that happens when His Spirit starts to move in and take over territory in our hearts and minds and souls - when we finally decide to stand up and participate and engage in this war, over time, we are regenerated, we are transformed. How will you choose…
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If you want God to dream his dreams through you–which fundamentally will be about regenerating you into his likeness, then you will commit deeply to winning the war between the sinful nature and the Spirit–as you endure with people. Listen as Pastor Chris Rattay speaks on the fruits of the spirit and how it plays into relationships and building rel…
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We are so consumed with the idolatry of the individual that we have found all kinds of ways to live out this worship of the self. We are in so deep, the words here we read from the Scriptures are hard for us to hear as we really let them mean what they mean. Paul explains more – “just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special functi…
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If you put all the most excellent moments in every phase of our lives together, you still can’t match what we celebrate today. This is the day that we remember and celebrate the most glorious, victorious, stupendous, drop down on your knees, lift your hands, worship-worthy, praise-worthy, the reality of all realities: Jesus Christ has risen from th…
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"Jesus is speaking all the time if we will just want to listen and obey. We’ve explored different avenues of thinning the veil, that film that builds up around the eyes of our hearts, that blocks us from seeing, sensing, knowing the presence and activity of God in and around us." Listen as a member of our congregation, Kathryn Cheng, speaks about h…
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How do you know that God is with you? What reminders or actions do you take to enforce and then reinforce what you know to be true? Listen as Pastor Chris walks through Ephesians 3:16-19 and gives practical examples of how to remind ourselves that Jesus's pursuit of ourselves should never be a one-way street.…
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When we surrender our dreams, we find that we are fully satisfied with God. We allow the Holy Spirit to catch us when we declare, “There is nothing on earth I desire other than you” (Psalm 73:25). Listen as elder Quen Cheng leads a teaching on Psalm 73 and how to apply it to our lives.De către Quen Cheng
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Tongues - what is it? Listen as Pastor Chris breaks down the prayer language and its history and challenges us to strengthen the skill of tongues in a way that is accessible, practical, and vital for the health of our spiritual growth, even for the most grounded of us. CCLI Copyright License: 11144395 CCLI Streaming License: 20028159…
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Solitude and silence are probably the most needed of all spiritual activities for us to be restored, but it is probably the most uncomfortable for many of us – right next to fasting from food. Most of us can’t sit and be still without something engaging our minds like music, movies, news, or social media. It is hard to hear the voice of God and to …
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Persistently, Ardently, Endlessly
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The Spirit pursues us, the Spirit wants to catch us - we are not chasing the Spirit. What does it feel to be in a place where we are persistently, ardently, and endlessly pursued? What does it feel like? What do we do when we get caught? Listen as Pastor Chris lays out the foundation for the series, 'The Pursuit' and how he talks about the differen…
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How do we measure your intake of the Bible? Is it a regular practice with regular times set aside for reading or is it reserved for the hard moments in your life? What happens when day to day, week to week, we don't take in enough of God's word? Listen as Pastor Chris Rattay speaks on how the ingestion and digestion of the Bible is meant to be and …
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What does it look like to be in the word together? When we build relationships around it and have it be the center of our life, how can it change us? Listen as Pastor Chris Rattay leads us through a passage, contextualizes our journey of faith, and invites Jesus to speak into it and see how the effects can change our lives.…
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