We continued our Divine Stories series by looking at one of Jesus' most challenging parables in Luke 7:31-35. Why is it so easy to become critical? Why do we pray for God to move, only to criticize the way He moves?  Through this powerful story, you'll discover how our preferences, expectations, and opinions can keep us from recognizing God's work right in front of us.

If you've ever wondered why God isn't answering your prayers the way you expected, or found yourself becoming more critical than curious, this message is for you. Follow along as we learn how to trade criticism for curiosity, surrender our expectations, and become people who recognize God's work wherever and however He chooses to move.

In this first message from our summer series, Divine Stories, Mike unpacks one of Jesus' most overlooked parables and explores the difference between grace and permission. Through the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree in Luke 13, Jesus reveals that God's patience is an incredible gift but we've got to do something with it.

If you've ever wondered why God seems patient with your failures or what repentance really looks like, this message will challenge and encourage you. Join us as we explore how Jesus' teaching in Luke 13 calls us beyond comparison and complacency into a life that bears fruit for God's Kingdom.

Glenn Derby is an author and former NFL player with a story that reminds us that God's love is greater than our greatest failures. Angry as a child, a teen alcoholic, searching for approval and acceptance Glenn took out his anger on the field and on those closest to him. Broken relationships and reckless living brought Glenn to a breaking point where he came to understand the love of Jesus.

Have you ever wondered if God can restore what you've lost? Wonder if God doesn't simply bring us back to where we were, He moves us forward into something even greater?

In Part 3 of our RE series, Mike explores the incredible promise that God makes after the years that seem wasted. If you've drifted in your faith, settled for an ordinary life that doesn't revolve around God, or wondered whether it's too late to come back, this message is for you. God isn't finished with your story. He doesn't just restore what was lost, He renews, empowers, and propels you into the life He created you to live.

"God isn't asking for a performance, He's asking for your heart."

Most of us can point to the best days of our lives, a graduation, wedding, new job, championship victory, or major milestone. But given enough time, even those moments begin to fade. The people of God discover that the things they depended on can disappear overnight. Joel issues a powerful invitation: return to the Lord with all your heart.

In this message, Mike Francisco explore's how repentance is more than religious activity or outward performance; it’s a change at our core. God isn't asking for a performance, He's asking for your heart. Listen in as we discover how lasting joy is found not in changing circumstances, but in a relationship with the God who never changes.

"You can't experience renewal if you refuse to remember."

Wonder if today is the most important day of your life? In this message from Joel 1, Pastor Mike Francisco explores God's invitation to remember what has been broken, lost, or neglected; not so we remain stuck in the past, but so we can experience true healing and renewal. Through the biblical practice of lament, we learn how bringing our pain, grief, disappointment, and unanswered questions to God can become the first step toward restoration.

Pastor Ed Cook, of Revive LTC in Milwaukee, shares a powerful message about "the drift" that happens in the life of a Christian. He calls us to be changed and transformed through the Spiritual Factory Reset of being reborn again.

"If you live for their approval, you'll die by their opinion."

Living for people’s approval is exhausting but living with God’s approval is freeing. Pastor Mike Francisco reminded us that you don’t have to earn what God has already given. In fact, God doesn't see things the way you see them, God looks at the heart.

"Offense is an event but bitterness is a decision"

Offense can be unavoidable… but staying offended is choice that ultimately determines our trajectory and health. On Mother’s Day Colleen explored the power of forgiveness and how holding onto hurt only holds us back. Freedom begins when we choose to release what we’ve been carrying.

"Control is a cheap substitute for trust."

Mike talked about worry, while exploring Jesus' words from Matthew 6, and our natural response to try and control outcomes. We saw that surrender isn’t losing it’s learning to trust God with what we were never meant to carry. The tighter we grip, the more we miss what God is doing.