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Story of two believers Theology matters Ephesians 1:11-14 Perseverance of the saints What it is Romans 4:21 21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. Simply speaking, perseverance of the saints, is believing that God is able to do what He said He would do. It is having faith that…

MY NAME IS: ? Today we will finish the Identity series. This has been a fun series where we have studied “Identity” through the experiences of Jacob and his family. They all faced varying degrees of an identity crisis at some point in their lives just like we face an identity crisis in our lives today.…

We continue on our journey to understand our identity. The point to this is to give you an understanding of value. Not a puffed up vain sense of value that has it’s roots in the idolatrous notion of self-esteem where we look at ourselves and try to puff ourselves up. But in looking at ourselves through…

Unexpected Blessing We’ve been following Jacob in this series about identity. Jacob struggled with a bit of an identity crisis from before the time he was born. His brother, Esau, didn’t put much stock in his identity and actually sold his own birth right as first born son for a bowl of beans. Last week…

In The Middle of Nowhere The title of the message today is “In the Middle of Nowhere”. It makes me think about a story about a guy who went on a hiking trip in the mountains on his vacation… Before heading into the wilderness, he stops at a small town general store to get some supplies. After picking…

Sacrificing for Soup Before we get started I want to warn you that you might get hungry today because we will be talking about food quite a bit. Today we are continuing the “Identity” series. Last week we kicked it off by talking about the identity crisis we face on a daily basis. Every day we are faced…

I have another dad joke for you this morning to kick off today’s topic. Someone once said, “ I am very upset with my mom. When I was growing up she told me, ‘You can be whoever you want to be.’ That’s not true. Turns out Identity Theft is a crime! ” Today we are starting a new series called “Identity”.…

Issue of Identity Did you know that we’re soon set to reach a world population of 8 billion people? When I checked the world population clock this morning, we were at 7 billion, 970 million, 555 thousand, and counting. That’s getting pretty close to 8 billion! Imagine if you had that amount of money…

God cares more about who you are than about who others think you are.

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called…

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him…

Ten I am Statements 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced…

How would you define love? There was a movie made by Disney over 14 years ago, with a song called: How does she know that you love her. How does someone show love? I realize that I am late to the ball game for this sermon. Every September or October, I set aside a week to prepare my preaching calendar…

What forms our conduct? 16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. I am God’s temple. We, the church, are God’s temple. Unity as God’s temple. 1 This is…

His Kingdom Come / Sovereignty; Nationality and Political Identity / Daniel 1:1–21 Uprooted and taken away from home, Daniel and his friends enroll in Babylon University under King Nebuchadnezzar's care. During their first day of orientation, they must decide to trust God or go along with the nation. Our identity is contingent on who we let into our story. To choose God is to disown Babylon and trust God's total control of our situation.

Imagine a piece of coal, dark and lifeless, lying deep within the earth. It seems ordinary, unremarkable, and destined to remain that way forever. But then, a miraculous transformation occurs. Through intense heat and pressure, that coal is transformed into a magnificent diamond, sparkling with brilliance…

In Acts 10 the Apostle Peter was called by God to put aside the Jewish purity laws which had distinguished Jews from everyone else for fifteen hundred years! Why did God so abruptly discard such an important part of Jewish identity? What was to be gained? Nothing but the entire world. Join us as we unpack God's amazing strategy to redeem mankind as the church goes global.

Who in here wants a full, meaningful life? How does that happen? What does a human look like when they are fully alive, fully formed? Spoiler alert, we’re going to say it’s Jesus. But along the way, our psalm will teach us two practices that will give you an abundant life and form you into the complete…

How will our bodies be changed in the resurrection? Will we be the same person we were on Earth? Will we know each other in Heaven?

Pastor Don Ford dives into why one might want to become a church member, and what goes along with it.

Who is Jesus? It's one of Mark's crucial questions that he wants us to know how to answer. When Jesus calms the storm, he shows them a power that''s like nothing they've ever seen: a power like the One who made the world in the first place.