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In this message, Pastor Zach Daniel teaches that wherever followers of Jesus find themselves, they are not there by accident but on assignment from God. He teaches from Acts when Paul and Silas were beaten and thrown into a Philippian jail, yet as they worshiped and prayed at midnight, God shook the prison open and the jailer and his whole household came to faith, so that what looked like an obstacle became the birthplace of the church at Philippi.

Zach invites us to see our classrooms, job sites, offices, teams, kitchens and neighborhoods as spheres of influence where we let our light shine through good work, bathe that work in prayer and invest in others through holistic discipleship. For anyone who feels unqualified, he offers two encouragements: God has surprising joy for us as we step out, and Jesus Himself is the great evangelist who is already at work in the people around us. Our part is to ask the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to where He is moving and to partner with Him in what He’s already doing.

In the final message in the God Will Provide series, Jimmy Seibert teaches on the joy and freedom of generosity. Jimmy reminds us that giving is first about seeking Jesus and His kingdom, and that God shows up when we let go. He describes three ways to give. We give joyfully, because God loves a cheerful giver and is able to make all grace abound to us. We give obediently and consistently, bringing the first fruits of the tithe to the local church and adding offerings for missions and the poor. We give sacrificially, like the widow who gave all she had and the Macedonian churches who gave beyond their ability because they had first given themselves to the Lord. Through stories of God multiplying small gifts, Jimmy calls the church to radical generosity again, trusting the Holy Spirit to multiply.

This message teaches that from the very beginning in Genesis, God created every person in His image and placed us in the garden to cultivate it and keep it, inviting us to be His fellow workers in whatever domain He has given us, whether we make a little or a lot. Pastor Jimmy Seibert shows that God’s sovereignty and our effort are not in competition. Like Paul, we are what we are by the grace of God, and that grace empowers us to work hard under God’s leadership. He calls us to be faithful and diligent in the work in front of us, to examine whether fear, lifestyle or the need to feel valuable is driving us to overwork, to reject laziness and get-rich-quick schemes, to order the gaps in our days with purpose and to embrace a biblical rhythm of work and rest. The goal is not wealth but contentment and rest in God, sowing faithfully for His glory and storing up treasure in heaven.

In this message, Jimmy Seibert teaches that God is our provider and that money is ultimately a heart issue, not a lifestyle issue. Whether we have a little or a lot, we tend to grip what we have, but God invites us to open our hands: to receive freely from Him so that we can freely give. Living simply practically means living out of a place of peace, avoiding unneeded debt, enjoying what God has given without longing for more and staying attentive to the needs of others. The purpose is not simply to get out of debt or be a better Christian, but to be free to love God with all our heart, love our neighbor as ourselves and give our lives to making disciples.

In our new sermon series, God Will Provide, Pastor Jimmy Seibert teaches that learning to trust God with our daily bread is how we learn to trust Him with our hearts. Whether we have a little or a lot, the issue is not a dollar figure but a heart posture, moving from clenched hands to surrendered hands that receive from God in order to give to others. Jimmy lays out a rhythm of grace for the series: live simply by finding contentment in what God has provided, work diligently by partnering with God through the work of our hands and give generously by giving obediently, joyfully and sacrificially. He invites each of us to open our hands and trust God as our provider.

Pastor Vincent Carpenter invites the church to see prayer and fasting not as a list of rules but as an invitation to experience God. Drawing from Matthew 4:1-11, he looks at Jesus' forty days in the wilderness and the three temptations He faced: to turn stones into bread, to throw Himself from the highest point of the temple and to receive all the kingdoms of the world in exchange for worship. In each one, Satan's aim was not simply to lead Jesus into sin but to distort the character of God, question Jesus' identity and offer an alternative to the Father's plan. With encouragement from key Scriptures, Pastor Vincent reminds us that God listens, cares and comforts, that we are His unique creation and that He calls us beyond ourselves to partner with Him for our city, our nation and the nations of the earth.

In "Fall Like Rain," the last of our Overwhelming Grace series, Pastor Jimmy Seibert walks through his top 10 grace scriptures. Grace is the overwhelming love, pleasure and favor of God toward undeserving people and the power of God to do the will of God. Grace is attached to a person, the grace of the Lord Jesus, the love of the Father and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. He shares through these Scriptures that the throne of grace is always open and humility is how we access more of it. Grace strengthens the heart against strange teachings, abounds as we sow it into others, breaks the power of besetting sin and gives us a place to stand. He ends by encouraging us with a passage from Zechariah with Jesus speaking 'grace, grace' over every mountain we face and of God's grace falling like rain, coming toward us before we ever reach for it.

This message continues our series on “Overwhelming Grace” with Pastor Jimmy Seibert unpacking Hebrews 4:12–16 to show that grace is not distant but present and available right now. He identifies four tools for laying hold of grace: the Word of God, which washes and renews the mind; the fear of God, which grows with respect and trust; the compassion of Jesus, who was tempted in every way yet without sin and meets us with understanding rather than judgment; and confidence in His care, which allows believers to draw near to the throne of grace rather than run from it. Pastor Jimmy Seibert calls the church to stop running for acceptance and instead run from a place of acceptance already secured in Christ, trusting that help is not on its way but already here.

Mick Murray continues a sermon series on grace, preaching from Romans 6:1-4 and 11-14. Mick explains that grace does not give believers a license to keep sinning freely, but ushers them into an entirely new identity. Drawing on Paul's use of baptism as a picture of dying and rising with Christ, and the exodus story of Israel walking through the Red Sea out of slavery in Egypt, Mick shows that everyone who trusts in Jesus has been moved out of sin's dominion and into a new life under grace.

Mick unpacks three practices from Romans 6:11-14: considering ourselves dead to sin, resisting sin from that renewed identity rather than to earn God's favor and presenting ourselves to God as instruments of righteousness. Mick shares his own story of addiction to pornography, reminding us that we do not need to acquire more grace or freedom, but sin no longer has dominion over those who are under grace.

This week's message continues our series in Overwhelming Grace and traces grace all the way back to the beginning in Genesis when God created the heavens and the earth; He formed men and women in His own image, blessed them and gave them purpose, all out of grace. He gave Adam and Eve real freedom, including the freedom to love Him or turn away, because love that is forced is not love at all.

Then came the serpent's question, "Has God really said?" and the fall in Genesis 3, where Adam and Eve chose their own way, their eyes were opened to good and evil, and they hid from God in shame. God did not change; He came looking for them anyway, calling out "Where are you?" not in anger but in compassion, already moving toward them in compassion and rescue.

Every one of us faces the same pattern of the fall and need to be careful what we hear, what we see, what we feel, and who we blame for these things keep us from experiencing grace. The good news is that God never stopped pursuing us. He clothed Adam and Eve with the skin of a sacrifice, pointing forward to Jesus, the Lamb who was pierced for our transgressions, so that through one act of righteousness, all who receive God's abundant grace can reign in life through Him.