180 Life Church

Esau sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for a bowl of stew. He sacrificed his God-given potential and his future hopes and dreams for short-term satisfaction. In this message, we look at this cautionary story and see how easy it is for us to do the same. As we go in to 2022, we need to ask ourselves what our "bowl of stew" is. Once we have identified it, by leaning in to God's vision for our lives and focusing our eyes on Jesus as a role-model, we can avoid doing the same thing as Esau.

Pastor Bill also concludes our "Advent Conspiracy" series by talking about why and how we should "Love All" this Christmas and beyond!

Your presence is a gift that you can offer to others. In this message learn how you grow in sensing God's presence in your life and in offering the gift of presence to others.

Your spending reveals and changes your heart. In this message from Matthew 6:19-24, we consider how we can spend less thoughtlessly and more intentionally as to move our hearts closer to God's this Advent season.

In part 1 of Advent Conspiracy Pastor Bill looks at the Christmas story in Luke 2 to discuss why and how we should worship fully to enjoy this Christmas to the fullest.

In the holiday season we can become preoccupied by what we can do for people. By looking at the overarching story of the Bible, we will discover that there is another small word that is actually more powerful than “for.” God the Father does it, Jesus models it, the Holy Spirit is it, we are recipients of it, and it has the power to transform our relationships with one another.

In the final part of our Out of the Cave series Pastor Bill discusses the importance of relationships in our mental/emotional well-being and discusses three important ingredients necessary to build a healthy circle in our lives.

In this message Pastor Bill shares some very painful and redemptive parts of his story, and encourages us all to live our stories rooted in the identity and purpose in Jesus that we see in Ephesians 2:1-10.

Sometimes we think we just need a quick fix when we are depressed, anxious, or grieving. However, what we really need is much more; we need restoration. In this Sunday’s message, we see an encounter that a woman has with Jesus. What seems on the surface as a simple healing is in fact so much more for her, and the same is true for us when we open ourselves to an encounter with Jesus. He knows what we really need.

We can't always control our circumstances, but we can learn to see them in a way that will help us avoid sinking into despair or depression in difficult times. In this message from 2 Corinthians 4:7-18 Pastor Bill discusses three truths we can remember to help us develop a new view in life.