Pastor Justin Simmons begins a new series on moving from death to life in Crossing Over. Sin brings death to everything it touches from relationships and marriages to national unity and politics. While death is a part of our everyday life, we were never made for it. We were made to live in [...]

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Pastor Brenda Sandquist, founder of Xquisite Ministries, shares a prophetically charged word with Arena Christian Center about surrender and obedience. Two words in the Christian language, which are never easy to digest. We must remain motivated to see surrender as a way to greater freedom and obedience towards blessing. Surrender and obedience will [...]

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Pastor Melanie Simmons shares about remaining focused on God's goodness even when what's going on around us is less than good. Sometimes we have to put on our God's goodness glasses and choose to see the junk in our lives through the lens of who He is - always good!

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In our final message on Jesus's parables we explore Matthew 25:14-30, the Parable of the Talents. This parable is a source of encouragement to take risks with the life God has given us. Our faithfulness brings reward when we are willing to spend our lives on things of Kingdom significance. If we are [...]

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We continue our series of parables with a conversation about what it means to be prosperous. Every follower of Jesus is invited to receive the prosperity God offers in His Kingdom, yet Kingdom prosperity looks different than Hollywood and Wallstreet reveal. It is the way of selling all to gain the one thing [...]

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In week three of our series on Jesus' parables, we look at the parables of the mustard seeds and leaven. These parables are a source of encouragement to the church because they speak to a continual forward movement unto completion. Every tree has its beginning in a seed. What God has said He [...]

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Pastor Justin Simmons teaches from Matthew 13 about aligning our perception with God's reality. Perceptions have the power to create the reality we live in and in order to live in the fullness God has made available to us then we must align our perception to God's established reality.

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Pastor Justin Simmons shares how God desires His people to be expectant of new things. We cannot afford to grow comfortable in our past successes. What was good for yesterday may not be what is good for tomorrow. In the parable of the wineskins we find a tension of the past and the [...]

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Pastor Justin Simmons continues this short series about evangelism with practical tools to point people towards Jesus. The kindness of God is to lead us towards repentance as Paul wrote in Romans. Why then to do we so often point people to repentance first? People can't pass over the threshold of repentance until [...]

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Pastor Justin Simmons asks the question "What should evangelism look like in 2019?" It's a question each of us should be wrestling with as culture continues changing at a rapid pace. Our truths will never change, but methodology should adapt accordingly. People of Peace are those who recognize how they see God is [...]

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