99 CHURCH

A beloved member of 99, Kevin Libertino, shares a story about what God's been doing in his life this new year.

We conclude our Fake Love collection with a panel discussion featuring Pastors Mark and Gail Smallcombe. Our community submitted questions and we asked them. Mark and Gail have been married for over 40 years and pour out their wisdom, their insights, and their experiences to us this week.

What should you be looking for in your future spouse? Pastors Christa and Mickey answer this question as they draw from the studies of relationship experts, the Word of God, and their own experiences being married.

So much of what we know about love has been shaped by the movies we watch, the tv shows we binge, and the music we listen to. But what does God have to say about love? If we hope to have healthy relationships, we have to have a healthy view of love. If we want to understand what true love is, we have to look to the source.

The key to a fruitful life is abiding in Christ. But how do we abide in Christ when our lives are so busy, so hurried, and so noisy? A rule of life is a schedule and a set of practices and rhythms that help us create space in our busy lives to abide in Christ. Learn how this tool could help us intentionally abide in Christ this year and live fruitful lives.

We are constantly surrounded by noise and distraction. We find that the noise of the world makes us deaf to the voice of God. How do we silence the noise around us and within us to hear His divine whisper?

We cannot live in the Kingdom of God with a hurried soul. Our world pushes us to move faster and produce more, but Jesus' invitation is different. He invites us to slow down and rest, to move in step with Him. Sabbath is a rhythm Jesus gives us to help us slow down, rest, and delight in all of God's goodness. What would it look like to live from this place?

God's greatest gifts often come in the most unexpected ways. What if even the most unexpected, difficult, and painful things we experience in life are actually God's gifts in disguise?

Jesus came to a world that had said "no vacancy." But there were those who were willing to make room for the coming Messiah. This Advent, in the midst of all the business that come during the holiday season, will you make room to receive Him?

ADVENT SERIES — What God does in us while we wait is as important as what it is we are waiting for. In Part 2 of our Advent Series, Pastor Mickey shares about how God calls us to posture ourselves in our seasons of waiting. It's in the in-between where God does some of His most important work in our lives. — Passage: Romans 8:18-25