The Christian church needs to wake up to the challenges it’s facing in the world today. It’s not all roses and candy. We’re called to live differently than society. But for some reason, we find ourselves just floating down the lazy river of culture. This week Pastor Derrick shares about the value of marriage and how God designed marriage for a specific purpose.
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In a day and age riddled with personal agenda and opinion, it’s easy to miss the point. Our culture would have us believe that life is a matter of choice or decision. But where else in our life is anything a real matter of choice? Listen this week as Pastor Derrick shares why life matters, and for that matter…whose life matters.
Today Pastor Derrick discusses a topic that we’ve all had a problem with at one point. Listen as we learn about the negative effects of stress and the counter cultural way to live in the face of stress.
We all know what we do. We know where to go and what to do in most every situation. The problem is we rarely know WHY we do what we do. Listen as Pastor Derrick gets real about worship and why we do it.
Pastor Derrick just returned from the National Youth Gathering with several of our youth. This week he shares their experience and reminds us that In Christ Alone we are rooted and built up for the life God has in store for us.
With violence and atrocity all around how are we as followers of Jesus to respond? What are we to say? How are we to act? What are we to do? Listen as Pastor Derrick shares how we can learn from Jesus how best to respond in times of violence.
Have you ever done the trust fall? You know the fall where you face away from someone and then fall backward trusting that they’ll be there to catch you? If you’ve ever done this you know that it is way harder than you think at first. I remember doing this one time and thinking that I’d be able to do this with no problem. I knew the guys behind me, and I was confident that they’d catch me. But when it came down to actually falling blindly into their arms, I just couldn’t do it. Continue reading
No one likes to talk about the cost especially when you’re trying to gather followers to do something new. But Jesus tells us right away – even before we begin to follow we know the cost. In this first message in our Discipleship 101 series, listen as Pastor Derrick shares the cost of following Christ.
In our final message in the Jesus _____ series, we find ourselves asking a peculiar question: Why don’t you just leave me alone? This question can be posed in two ways. The first is a request for Jesus to go away. While the second is a humble plea for help from a person who is undeserving. Listen this week as Pastor Derrick invites us to ask the question and see how Jesus answered it for us.
Early on Sunday morning while many of us were asleep a tragedy struck a nightclub in Orlando. You’ve undoubtedly heard of the happenings so we won’t dwell on that too much. You’ve also most assuredly heard the spin that’s happening in the news media and all over social networks. The big question people are asking is who’s to blame? Continue reading
