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Vision 2024: Environment of Honor
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14 hours ago
We are defining honor as: thinking about people the way God thinks about people. The truth is, you cannot honor if you don’t understand the degree to which God honored you through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
When you begin to understand the value that God places on your life, and your righteous identity in Christ, you are then able to give value and honor away to others freely.
Listen back this teaching and follow along with the Sermon Guide to explore three ways you can apply the gospel to your relationships and honor those around you.
Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Vision 2024: The Scriptures are Authoritative
Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
The Scriptures are authoritative and tell us the truth that leads to freedom.
As we continue in our vision series we want to expand on this value in a way that will help you determine how you engage with the Scriptures.
The Bible is not a textbook for Christians, nor is it merely moral inspiration. Its complexity should not be seen as a threat, but a feature of the richness of it.
In this teaching Alex gives four tools to help us understand how to read the Bible and one key principle that guides the entire journey: relationship with Jesus.
May love be the fruit of our engagement with the Scriptures!
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Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Vision 2024: Nothing is Impossible
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
On Sunday, one of our elders, Andoni Montaño, taught on our core value: nothing is impossible.
Through Andoni’s passage from Mark 11:12-25 we see that Jesus has specific desires for His Church.
He desires for us to understand that we live between two kingdoms - heaven and earth. He desires for us to bear fruit in every season by making His house about dependence on Him for the impossible to happen. He desires for us to carry on the ministry of reconciliation as He did.
This value is one we cannot lose sight of in our time. Let our faith be unhindered and let us release forgiveness freely.
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Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
Vision 2024: We are the Righteousness of God
Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
This last Sunday we continued in our Vision Series with a teaching on our core value: We are the righteousness of God.
Alex highlighted Jesus’ parable in Luke 18v9-14 where we learn that if you can go low and recognize the truth - your need for God’s mercy - you will be made righteous. If you cannot go low and you insist on obtaining your value, meaning, and reason for life by looking to others, then you will be humbled by God.
We need to be made righteous to be made one. Jesus’ desire was union with us (John 17v24), that we could know Him and love Him, and be known by Him and loved by Him.
When this is your reality you will be able to live in confident honesty towards God and as an ambassador for Christ on earth.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Vision 2024: The Bridal Ache
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
All throughout Scripture the Bible gives us marriage as a picture of God’s desire for humanity and humanity’s need for God. The ache of the Bride is a strategic gift from the Holy Spirit to reveal our need for Jesus in a way that causes us to cry out for Him. We must empty ourselves of all other loves and illusions so that we may be filled with His love and His fire.
God goes where He’s wanted. We’re praying that this desire for Him will become a service to our town and that people will be drawn into real life with Him as a result.
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Vision 2024: The Ministry of Priests
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
This last Sunday Alex gave part one of his teaching on our fourth core value: we have the privilege of hosting the Father’s Presence.
We believe the Scriptures teach that the Church is supposed to be a home for God’s Presence, an access point between heaven and earth. (1 Pet 2v4-5, Gen 28v11-17)
The first identity that we want to take on as a church to host the Presence of God well, is the ministry of a priest.
Priests in the Old Covenant offered up physical sacrifices, but since Jesus offered himself as the ultimate physical sacrifice, our ministry as New Covenant priests is to offer up spiritual sacrifices. Like David, we are to center our entire lives around praise, thanksgiving, song, and gazing upon the Lord.
This is one of the primary ways we participate in heaven coming to earth. You are a priest!
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Saturday Oct 12, 2024
Vision 2024: Jesus is Lord
Saturday Oct 12, 2024
Saturday Oct 12, 2024
This last Sunday, Bria taught on our third core value: Jesus is Lord.
Lives that speak “Jesus is Lord” are anchored in eternity with eternal priorities. Those who are anchored in eternity fear God alone - acknowledging their need for Him and refusing to live life apart from Him. They do not live for Self, but under the leadership and authority of Jesus, they become all that God created them to be. They are marked by singular love for Jesus.
Let Him find in us a pure and spotless bride - not distracted with loves of this world, but drawn to His heart and in pursuit of His way.
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Life of the Church: People and Prayer
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
This past weekend we had our very first all church camp out at the Oregon coast. Our senior leader, Alex Rettmann, spoke from 1 Peter 4:7-11 about the two priorities we have as we live in the last days: People and Prayer.
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Vision 2024: God is Good
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
In the Old Testament, God declares that He is compassionate, forgiving, just, and patient. In the New Testament, we get the fullest representation of God through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
Though our beliefs about God don’t change who He is, they radically affect how we interact with Him and who we become in this life.
When we agree with the truth about who God is, we get to experience life the way we were designed to. It’s not a life absent of suffering, but it’s a life full of His unconditional love, His gentle leadership, and His satisfying Presence.
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
The King is Here: Full Healing
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
What we can ascertain from this story is that God’s intention behind signs and wonders is always relational. Jesus’ ultimate goal on earth was to restore connection and right relationship between God and the people He created.
Every healing, every miracle you experience in this life is designed to draw you to the feet of Jesus and bring you into deeper connection with Him.
We received our ultimate healing, salvation, and deliverance through Jesus’ perfect sacrifice on the cross. May your heart be stirred up again to respond in praise and thanksgiving for all that His blood has done for you.