I Love a Parade

We all would love a parade about now…the people, the sounds, the sights…all things we’re not getting much of right now.  While we can’t go and enjoy a good parade today, it is the Sunday we pause to reflect on one.  Today is Palm Sunday, the starting point of Jesus’ final week leading to the […]

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Next Right Thing(s)

Today we explore what the “next right thing” is, to borrow a line from Frozen 2.  As we find ourselves in a world full of uncertainty, we find ourselves taking life one day at a time.  We are simply trying to figure out the next right thing to do as we walk through the day. […]

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Slowing Down & Rabbi Neal

Today, Pastor Jan shares thoughts on slowing down, being more observant, and finding peace in this season. Rabbi Neal from Chosen People Ministries also joins us to share about his ministry as well as some of the historic barriers to Jews coming to faith in Jesus their Messiah.    

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Breaking Barriers: Religion

Today, we break past formalized religion and are reminded that Jesus is calling us into something different…He’s calling us into a relationship with Him.  It is this relationship that will make all the difference! (The service starts at 3:16 of the video…feel free to skip ahead)

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Breaking Barriers: Assumptions

You take all the information you have, everything you know, and find there are still holes.  There are things you just don’t know.  So what do you do?  You make an educated guess… you make an assumption.  We all do it.  Sometimes we’re right and sometimes we’re wrong.  When it comes to sharing our faith, […]

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Breaking Barriers: Comfort

As we continue to break down our self-made barriers to fulfilling our calling, we turn our attention today to the barrier of comfort.  We naturally migrate toward things that make us more comfortable.  No one desires things that make them uncomfortable.  Yet God’s calling on our lives may lead us to places that stretch us […]

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Breaking Barriers: Fear

When it comes to sharing our faith, many Christians struggle to do so on a regular basis.  It usually goes along the lines of “I would but…” One of the reasons we struggle to fulfill our calling by Jesus to go and reach the world with His love is because we build barriers in our […]

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Enough to Go Around

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was always enough to go around?  Enough time, enough money, enough patience.  The list goes on and one.  We live in a finite world where there are limited resources on everything.  We also live in a world created by a limitless God.  A gracious, compassionate God who will always […]

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Jonah Gets a Groundhogs Day

Beep…Beep…Beep…It’s Groundhogs Day!  In the iconic 1993 movie, Bill Murray finds himself living the same day over and over again.  What would it be like if you too could relive a day?  What would you do with a fresh restart?  This is where Jonah finds himself as he steps out of the fish.  God presents […]

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When Fish Attack

Have you ever stopped to wonder how Jonah processed through his experience?  He didn’t know his own story.  He was living it as it unfolded.  What was going through his mind as the fish opened up its massive jaws? As we turn the corner into Jonah 2 this week, we receive a few more important […]

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