This is the key passage in dealing with conflict.  Conflict is an opportunity to come together in a deeper way.  It's exactly what Christ has done for us.

The second in the Peacemakers series.  Before we deal with others, we deal with ourselves.

Relationships are the basic, primary stuff of life - and they're hard.  They don't always go well - not ever since Cain and Abel.  This is the beginning of a four part series on how to do relationship, especially in conflict that inevitably challenges every relationship.

The first thing we do - always do - is Glorify God.

In invite you to stream or download the sermon and start to do some good work on relationships.

The final message in the series of our dance with the Spirit that is the Christian life.  It's not just that we discern God's leading and are empowered to obediently follow, it's also that we're sensitive to the timing of God.  Always and everywhere, we are sensitive to the moments of opportunity to respond to the Spirit.

Spiritual gifts are a controversial topic in the church.  Yet, if they are truly given by God and available to the believer, then how can we operate in the Christian life to our fullest without them?  This is an overview of the gifts as they are presented in scripture and operative today.

The dance with the Spirit includes discerning when the voice is His - or when its the world, the enemy or just ourselves.  This is some good stuff on making that discernment.

God provides us with direction.  He leads us should we have the discerning ears and eyes to follow.  What a wonderful grace.

Acts 16 tells the story of Paul following the Spirit's lead.  Obedience is a fundamental element of hearing and responding to the Spirit.

We serve a God of the impossible situation.  It's a good thing, too, because we're in an impossible situation.  As individuals, we can do nothing to overcome for ourselves sin and death.  God stepped in.  He is the God of the resurrection.  As a body, our little church is in an impossible situation.  How are we going to grow.  If we don't grow, we will die.  But the motivation cannot be survival.  It can only be love - love for God and for our neighborhood.  We'll get together during the week this summer to talk with God and each other and ask for a mission to our neighbors.

Pentecost (a week late).  This is the introduction to a series on living life in step with the Spirit.  We are witnesses of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and empowered with the words to tell.