The Simple Questions of Jesus Series Continues! But Simple Doesn’t Mean Easy!
What It Takes To Follow Jesus
I want to start with a couple of questions today. Let’s start here: Are you good at following instructions? If your boss comes up to you at the beginning of the day and gives you some things to do, will you hear it and then follow through? How do you handle someone telling you what to do? Maybe you can do it, but you need to know why you have to do it. Maybe you will do it, . . . Read More »
Your Spiritual Family
The God Questions Series Continues!
The Christmas Story Reveals How We Can Experience Joy!
I’m so thankful to be here today with you all, as we come together on Christmas Eve to celebrate, and reflect on the greatest and loving gift we could have ever hoped and dreamed for, Jesus Christ, the true reason for the season! Throughout this Holiday Season, Ken and I have been talking to you about how The Christmas Story reveals and proves God’s great love for us, and I’m hopeful that you have been able to take . . . Read More »
The Choice Is Yours!
You know, you can learn a lot about someone by how they talk after something happens…good or bad. Just listen to someone after a big win or a big loss. This could be in life, in sports, or at work, but just listen, you can learn a lot about them based on the ownership or blame they speak of! Now some own the wins and not the losses, and some may do the opposite but listen because it’s important. . . . Read More »
The Thing That Leads To Your Best Life and The Thing That Leads To Destruction
This summer we are taking a Deeper Dive into Wisdom. We are circling back and working through some of the big topics that Solomon speaks of often in His Manual for Living, the book of Proverbs. This is an important way to study Proverbs because Solomon throws so many different thoughts, great one-liner statements, and important life principles at us, that we don’t want to miss out, we want to be able to process and personalize as much . . . Read More »
Relaxing in Jesus
The Success Series Continues
The Reality Test
So last week we finished up our first series here in the Fire Hall on joy, which was a lot of fun if you ask me. We spent a lot of time looking at what joy is and what joy isn’t. We looked at where joy is found and where it is not found. We had a lot of fun looking at the Christmas story maybe from a brand new perspective where we saw that this God story . . . Read More »
How to Break Depression, Sin and Control
When you give your life to God, you have spiritual strength, God places it inside you. For the Kingdom of God is not just fancy talk; it is living by God’s power. NLT 1 Corinthians 4:20 God has given you His grace to wash away all sin, guilt and shame [Galatians 3:3]. When you walk with sin and shame and guilt, it’s exhausting and defeating. But, when you bring it to God, God washes it all away to . . . Read More »
How you know your faith is dead
It’s Christmas. Christmas is a celebration of when God entered earth in the form of a baby. What is remarkable about this story is that God didn’t hit the reset button. Sin was in the world. Things were getting worse. People rebelled against God. What does God do? He doesn’t hit the reset button. He does something that no one expected. He enters earth. He becomes fully human. He gives up His life for us. God could have . . . Read More »