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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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
On Sunday, we got to hear from one our deacons, Chris Sharp. Chris continued in our Luke Series with a teaching on Luke 17v1-10.
All throughout the gospels, Jesus reveals to us that to follow Him and to live in His kingdom looks like something. This teaching in Luke highlights how radical it will be to live as a child, to offer forgiveness, and to exercise our faith.
This lifestyle of complete trust and obedience to God requires us to repent of lesser pursuits and be strengthened and comforted by His unending love and provision for us through His body and his blood.
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Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
This last Sunday we continued in our Luke series with a parable from Luke 16v19-31 about the relationship between worldly wealth and eternal wealth.
In this story, the rich man is the example of someone so consumed with lack, that they cannot use the material of their life to tell the truth of compassion and friendship.
God is, and always has been, after a people who are so aware of His love for them that they can’t help but join in and use the physical world to tell the truth of God’s love to others.
As New Covenant believers, our inheritance is Jesus! His Presence is our portion, and don’t have to settle for lesser things.
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Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
On Sunday Alex led us through Jesus’ teaching in Luke 16v14-18.
In this teaching, Jesus is highlighting the shift from the era of the law and the prophets, to the era of His kingdom. To live in His kingdom is to submit to the internal rule of God within your heart.
Jesus’s critique of the Pharisees is that they spend all their time trying to justify themselves by the law, yet their hearts grow cold to the things that God loves. This new kingdom requires radical trust and submission to Jesus.
We can only do this to the degree that we receive His overwhelming love and depend on Him for the grace needed in every situation.