Prayer is an incredible gift that the Father has given us to partner with Him in His work in the world and to build our faith through fellowship with Him. In this sermon, Bailey Hinze shares about all the benefits of prayer and invites us into deeper experiences of the Lord through a lifestyle of prayer.

One of the key ways that we get to know God is as the gardener of our lives. He is a good gardener who leans down to us to prune just what is unfruitful so that we can bear much fruit. In this sermon, Ben invites us to lean into the gardener and thus experience more of Him as He lovingly prunes us.

If you want to learn more about how suffering is an invitation to experience more of God, look no further! Jordan is bringing you short encouragements every other week to accompany Ben's sermons  that will help you take a closer look at key ways to know and experience God. Check out this first episode on suffering.

While we pursue more of God's presence in our lives, God is also pursuing us and uses an unlikely tool to do so: suffering. Trials and hardship are often the setting for some of our most significant experiences with the Father. In this message, Ben shares about his experiences with seasons of suffering and how he has experienced deeper connection with God because of it.

We all love to experience God in large worship gatherings surrounded by other believers, but there is special intimacy with God available to us privately in the secret place. This private time the Father is oftentimes where God refreshes our souls and delivers us from the situations we feel stuck in. Listen to Ben as he describes the wonders of the secret place and shares some spiritual practices to help you experience God there.

God's most valuable and most abundant resource in spreading His name around the world is His people. In this episode, Ben tells us some of the lessons he has learned  from sharing his faith with others and gives us a helpful metaphor for doing it ourselves.

When we obey God and go on mission trips, we can set unhealthy expectations for how God will move that leads to discouragement. Instead, we should have the healthy expectation that God wants to move and be open to any way that He uses! In this episode of the AFW College Podcast, student Hailey Wagener explains how this healthy faith created the right conditions for God to do a work in her when she said yes to letting God work through her.

In this sermon from our February 2022 College Night, Ben Moss stirs our faith to believe that God is still a miracle working God. Working miracles is a part of His nature, so what do miracles look like today? And how can we live a life where we see more of them? Ben answers these questions and challenges us to ask God for big things in this College Night Sermon.

In this sermon from our January 2022 College Night service, Jordan Ramirez describes the three major aspects of a disciple's life and how to we can organize our lives around them. By consistently encountering God, being discipled in Jesus' ways, and then actively seeking others to share Him with, we grow in our own relationship with Jesus and partner with Him in His redemptive plan for the entire world.