No one likes to be told how to behave with their finances, but we'd be remiss to ignore the importance of it in scripture. God tasks us to be faithful and obedient to His will when it comes to finances. When we focus on building God's kingdom, we find freedom, peace, security, sustenance and fulfillment. When we focus on building our own kingdom, we find fear, anxiety, insecurity, greed, and discontentment. How we spend our money reveals who's kingdom we are building, our own or God's. Check out this challenging message and ask yourself if you're really allowing God to have full control of your life, including your finances, or if you're still building your own kingdom, hoping it'll one day satisfy you.

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God is on a mission. He has been since the beginning of creation. God always intended to rescue us from our self-destruction by sending Jesus to pay for our sin and reuniting us with Him again. And God wants to allow us to participate in this mission with Him by proclaiming His good news and modeling His example.

The problem comes in when we claim we want to live for God but we stand in the way of His mission, rather than furthering it with Him. Pastor Rich lays out some practical steps and tools to help us evaluate God's Mission and participate in it, rather than running our own race and wasting precious opportunities fulfilling God's purposes.

Most of us, if we're honest, would rather have fresh food than leftovers. We may save those last few bites for later, but we don't actually want those last few bites tomorrow, we want a new, fresh meal that tastes like it was just put together. Unfortunately, we often give God exactly what we don't want, our leftovers.

Nothing says more than how we use our time everyday, and so many of us are too busy to put God first, so we put Him last, and we give Him whatever is left over from our day, or maybe our entire week. Here's the truth, though: You can't have a real relationship with someone wen you don't prioritize them.

If you choose to be a follower of Jesus, then you are choosing to spend time with Jesus, and prioritizing Him every day, above all else. If this isn't what our day to day life looks like, then we've been short-changing God and giving Him our leftovers, rather than the best we Have.

This week, we encourage you to pay close attention to how you prioritize your day, and attempt to make small decisions that make God more of a priority. Try reading your bible first, not last. Try worshiping Him with worship playlists before you jump into other artists and genres. try giving God your 10% tithes and offerings before you spend money on anything else. Try talking to God before you talk to anyone else when you wake in the morning. Try putting God first!

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Life is a series of “would you rather’s.” We all have to make decisions, and the outcome of our lives is typically the result of decisions we’ve made. You don’t produce six-pack abs by eating sugar and chocolate everyday. In the same way, you won’t produce a life of peace, freedom, gentleness, self-control and faith, when your everyday is dedicated to anxiety, fear, frustration, anger, and so on. Being set apart for god means choosing to live out God’s will and character. This is wonderfully fulfilling, but it isn’t always easy. we have to say no to things. We have to prioritize time with God and godly behavior, rather than the immediate desires of our mind and body.

Pastor Rich talks about what it really looks like to be a follower of Christ, and it requires living a life modeled after God, even when the world around us is trying to follow their own desires. We are set apart so that we an live apart, interacting with those around us in a godly manner worthy of our calling.

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What happens when you try to walk the fence between the world and God? What happens when you hold back to protect yourself instead of going all in on a new life in Christ? This sermon goes out to the fence walkers and the back smackers.

Join us as Pastor Rich teaches us how to go all in by walking us through James 4!