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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 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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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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"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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"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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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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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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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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