How does prayer work?

1) Prayer comes from the new man in us. The old Adam is convinced he has it all figured out. 

2) Prayer is possible only because Jesus' perfect life and innocent death torn down the barriers between Holy God and believers.

3) Prayer is prompted by the Holy Spirit working in our sanctified lives. 

4) Prayer in Jesus' name is a humble prayer, trusting God to answer for the sake of our faith and our eternity. 

5) Prayer is answered by God not because we make the request, but because He loves us. 

6) Prayer works best when we begin to listen to God and quit talking.

Take A Look Inside!  

It’s hard to look inside of ourselves. We might find something gross. But when we look inside, we can find the proper diagnosis!  

1) People often say, “That just wasn’t me.” What we do often doesn’t align with what we want to do. 

2) There’s a slave driver inside of us, preventing us from doing what we want to do. 

3) Jesus has also planted Himself inside of us and He is perfectly. He and our sinful nature are completely at odds. 

4) We get to walk with the cross of Christ. His cross crushes the old me so the new me can stand up tall. 

5) God has this way of using even our weaknesses to draw us closer. When we lean on Him in weakness, He gives us strength!  

8.8.21 Message from Cottage Grove 

Pastor Brian Klebig

You can't overcome it. 

But it can't ovecome Him.

Jesus is the NEMESIS of your NEMESIS.

8.8.21 Message from Fort Atkinson

Pastor Nate Abrahamson

Ever feel like something is fighting against you? There is.

Being connected to Christ means that you're part of a movement against the powers of darkness. Jesus teaches you what you need to know to be equipped and encouraged as you live connected to the One who is Revolutionary. 

8.1.21 Message from Fort Atkinson

Pastor Nate Abrahamson

Challenges - When living out our lives of faith (Sanctification), we face challenges both from the inside and the outside. Thankfully, God prepares us to face this challenges and even uses them for His purpose!  1) Challenges come at us from the outside because the truth of God’s Word is opposite of the ways of the world. 2) Because these challenges are going to come, Jesus tells us to be smart and pure in our thinking. 3) A cross is something we suffer because we believe the Gospel. There are various crosses we will have to bear.  4) When you face these challenges, don’t worry. God will speak in you! 5) Sometimes the crosses make us stop and listen to what God has to say to us! 6) If Jesus is leading you then all this will work out according to God’s will and plan. It’s worth the fight!

8.1.21 Message from Cottage Grove

Pastor Nathan Krause

Before & After

It’s amazing the transformation that can take place between when a project begins and when it ends. God has promised that you get to experience most incredible transformation, “Perfection.”

1) Jesus rescued us to give us eternal life and to give us our lives back!

2) Death is scary because we weren’t created to die. But God uses death to serve His purpose. When we die, the old sinful nature is stripped away.

3) We live knowing that life will not always be the difficult struggle that is today.

4) In the same way our spirits are sanctified, our bodies will be sanctified. We will have a resurrected body like Jesus’ resurrected body.

5) How would you live if you knew you couldn’t die?

7.25.21 Message from Cottage Grove

Pastor Nathan Krause

How Do You See Yourself?  

Jesus has transformed your future. That means you have a new identity, purpose and life now. You get to live with a "Victory View." 

 7.25.21 Message from Fort Atkinson 

Pastor Nate Abrahamson

Because of what Jesus did on the cross for us, we are now perfect in God's eyes. As we live our lives here on earth, however, God does not look for perfection in His broken children, but gives us the opportunity to make progress in our lives of sanctification.

7.18.21 Message from Fort Atkinson (recorded Monday night in Cottage Grove due to technical difficulties in Fort Atkinson)

Pastor Nathan Krause

Let Go! Forward!

Sometimes we cling to things that really serve no purpose anymore. Consider what you need to let go of by answering the question, “What Is The Destination?”

7.18.21 Message from Cottage Grove

Pastor Brian Klebig

Feeling Stuck or Bogged Down?  

Sometimes as we strive to live our faith we can feel stuck or get bogged down? When something similar happens with our computer or smartphone, a reboot does wonders! So, “What if you could Restart?”  

1) While God’s law is good,  it actually held us captive because it kept showing how we have failed to be what we were meant to be. 

2) When God’s law meets our sinful flesh, it actually energizes our sinful desires. This works in a variety of ways. 

               a. Magnification: 

                i. We magnify what we think about. If we think about what not to do, we magnify what not to do. 

               ii. If we focus on the law which shows how we fail, we magnify our guilt and shame.

               iii. If we focus on the law and are able to follow certain parts of it well, we are susceptible to pride. 

              b. Complication: 

               i. When we think too hard about what is meant to flow naturally, we make it complicated. Try thinking about breathing. It becomes difficult. 

3) The problem with trying to overcome what’s wrong in us by our own strength is that we’re trying to overcome our sinful flesh with our sinful flesh. 

4) But through Jesus’ death, we died to that old way of the law, of sin and trying to do it ourselves. We’ve been restarted to live a new way! 

5) We now live by the Spirit, the One who gives us faith to believe the promises of God. Believing the promises is eating the fruit that gives us a new life!  

7.4.21 Message from Cottage Grove 

Pastor Nate Abrahamson