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Strike the Rock

March 28, 2019 / / 0 Comments

I tend to drink a lot of water. I live by the philosophy that if my body is made mostly of it, then I should probably keep filling my self with it! But it’s easy to overlook the importance of water in our day to day lives! We have it everywhere yet some people around the world don’t have any access to clean water. We get it out of the tap and in bottles. We can filter and add to it. We color it and sweeten it. Some like lemons in it while others don’t. The point is water is critical to life! Without it our food doesn’t digest, our muscles don’t recover, our lungs can’t function and our brains don’t fire the same way either! So needless to say water is pretty important!

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From Exodus to Revelation

March 17, 2019 / / 0 Comments

From Exodus to Revelation is a message in our series titled the Plan, problem and promise. Throughout the story of the Israelites exodus from Egypt we can see the plan of God on full display. The plan of God never changes. It’s consistent because he is consistent. He’s never changing. The planning the garden was to be with his people and that hasn’t changed. In Genesis 3, God laid out the way in which he was going to be with his people and here in Exodus 12 it’s on full display.

Listen this week as Pastor Derrick connects the plan of God in Genesis with the demonstration of that plan in Exodus and the fulfillment of the promise in Revelation. The summary thought this week is – The blood of the Lamb turns God’s judgment into mercy.

What’s Love Got To Do With It

February 5, 2019 / / 0 Comments

This week in our message we took a simple word and realized how not so simple it really is! The word love is probably one of the most overused and yet misunderstood words in our language. I mean think about it. We can use the same word for how we feel about our spouse or significant other and for pizza, dogs, sports, cars, just about anything! Does it mean we think of them all the same? Does that mean we love our husband or wife the same way we love our car or our pets? Of course not! But how can we be a little more clear?

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Coloring Inside the Lines

January 30, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Now I’m not one who normally likes to fit the typical mould. I stand out in a crowd more often than I blend in. I’d rather make my own picture than coloring one that someone else creates for me. But there are times when it’s necessary to color inside the lines. As a parent I try to teach my children to slow down and follow the boundaries of the pictures they are coloring. I like it when I see the picture of the teddy bear with two colors of brown, a darker for the fur on the body and a lighter color for the belly. It just looks like they took more care and time with it. The same is true with life. When we carefully take the time to shade our lives and color inside the lines, we begin to see a picture far better than anything we could draw ourselves.

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Sometimes You Just Need To Speak Up

January 29, 2019 / / 1 Comment

This week in worship it was time to get real. It was time to be honest, bold and hold nothing back. Our world is trying to rip the words of the Bible out of our hands. People are redefining terms to fit their agenda. And while all of this is happening, the church is sitting idly by minding its own business. But that has to end! And it has to end now. In this week’s message I spend a little time unpacking the reality of who we are as followers of Christ and what we’re supposed to be about in this life. We’ll look at a variety of ideals and how they are all impacted by God’s Word and design for life.

Wedding, Water, Wine & Woman?

January 23, 2019 / / 1 Comment

Three pretty significant things happen in the text for this past Sunday’s message. Feel free to check that out here. The Bible story was from John 2:1-12. It’s a familiar passage commonly referred to as the Wedding at Cana or the Water into Wine Miracle. Many of us approach this passage with questions and wonder what Jesus was up to with this miracle. We ask questions like why was it at a wedding? Why did he start with water? Why did he choose to do this miracle in the first place? And why did he call his own mother – woman!?!? This post will hopefully address a few of these questions.

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What’s So Special About This First Miracle?

January 22, 2019 / / 0 Comments

This week we take another famous section of Scripture and look at it from another angle. It’s called the wedding at Cana. Jesus performs his first miracle there. Jesus’ first miracle is often talked about for its uniqueness. Why the water? Why the wine? Why the stone jars? This week we’re going to reframe this passage and focus on a part we rarely notice. Listen as Pastor Derrick shares a potentially new perspective on this familiar section!

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The UN-wisemen

January 10, 2019 / / 0 Comments
What appears to be foolish might be wisdom in disguise.

We often get so confused about some of the stories in the Bible. Throughout this year we’re going to look at some of these familiar stories in the Bible and see their meaning from a different perspective. Last Sunday was a special Sunday in the church year known as Epiphany. Now Epiphany is the day we celebrate as the twelfth day of Christmas, or the day the Magi (aka wisemen) visited Jesus. It was up to two years after his birth and definitely not in the manger!

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God With Us As Our Guide

December 25, 2018 /

When we go through life we often miss the sites along the way. We sometimes miss the highlights that are part of the journey. In life we need a guide to point out the way to where we’re going but also to help us see the important parts along the way. This Christmas we pray you find the way to Christmas Hope, Peace, Joy, Love and Life. That way was found in a manger, and his name is Jesus. May God be with you as your Guide this Christmas. 

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