Date: Sunday November 30, 2025

Scripture: Luke 1:26-38

Speaker: Mike Mileski

Series: A Divine Disruption: Jesus Changes Everything

Mary of Nazareth's life was unfolding as she expected it to, and in the same way she'd seen a hundred times before in the lives of a hundred other women in her village. The angel's visit changed everything - and when Mary learned of her place in God's plan, she embraced it, saying "Behold, I am the Lord's servant - let it be to me according to His word." 

All of us will face similar moments - God will interrupt our plans, and we'll have to choose whether to embrace His will, or resist it. Which it will be depends on whom we trust to lead our lives: God, or ourselves.

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Date: Sunday November 23, 2025

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26

Speaker: Mike Mileski

Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

In this last message, we consider the one fruit in the list that we can't learn by looking at God's example - since He has no evil impulses that need to be restrained.

Instead, self-control is what the Spirit produces in us as we learn delayed gratification - saying no to something now, in order to experience something a hundred times better later, in the Kingdom. That's not a con; it's a promise from the Lord Jesus Himself. 

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Date: Sunday November 16, 2025

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26

Speaker: Nathan Tomes

Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

In our culture, those who are gentle and meek are often seen as weak. They're not. For those who all God to live His life through them, He will produce in them the super-power that is gentleness.

That gentleness is beautifully illustrated in the parable of the prodigal son, and embodied in Jesus Himself.

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Date: Sunday November 9, 2025

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26

Speaker: Mike Mileski

Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

Many of us crave affirmation, praise, or to be known as 'the best' at whatever we do. God's metric is different. He praises people not for their performance or success, but their faithfulness with what He has entrusted to them.

In other words, faithfulness isn't about us or our great faith in God; faithfulness is a measure of how much God can trust us.

#HolySpirit #fruit #Jesus #FruitoftheSpirit #love #joy #peace #patience #kindness #goodness #faithfulness #gentleness #self-control #fairness #trust

Date: Sunday November 2, 2025

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26

Speaker: Mike Mileski

Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

Goodness may well be the hardest of all the fruit to practice, because goodness isn't "fair". God hasn't always given us what we felt we'd earned or deserved, but God has always been good to us. In the same way, He calls us to treat each other according to His goodness - not merit.

This message is a challenge to treat one another - and ourselves - with goodness, since it's goodness - not fairness - that's a fruit of the Spirit.

#HolySpirit #fruit #Jesus #FruitoftheSpirit #love #joy #peace #patience #kindness #goodness #faithfulness #gentleness #self-control #fairness

Date: Sunday October 26, 2025

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26

Speaker: Lane Fusilier

Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

We struggle to treat each other with kindness because revenge and 'payback' come so much more easily in this culture. How do we become kind?

In this message, our friend Lane Fusilier walks us through the Scripture - and his own life - to show that kindness is the fruit of believing that despite what we deserve, God has been kind to us. As He is allowed to live His life through us, God produces in us a supernatural kindness. 

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Date: Sunday October 19, 2025

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26

Speaker: Sarah Robinson

Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

Patience may seem like a strange thing to include alongside love, joy, and peace, as the fruit of the Spirit, but patience is a super important part of a healthy, holy life.

In this message, our friend Sarah Robinson walks through the life of Jesus, showing how He perfectly illustrates patience with Himself, with others, and even with God.

#HolySpirit #fruit #Jesus #FruitoftheSpirit #peace

Date: Sunday October 12, 2025

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26

Speaker: Mike Mileski

Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

God's peace is far more than just the absence of war or violence. Peace is the opposite of worry, fear, and anxiety. In our anxious world, we are desperate for peace, and God offers peace by His Spirit as He is allowed to live His life through us.

In this message we get to see several pictures of what it looks like when God's people learn to trust God to run the universe, and so, find peace.

#HolySpirit #fruit #Jesus #FruitoftheSpirit #peace

Date: Sunday October 5, 2025

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26

Speaker: Mike Mileski

Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

Do you remember what joy feels like? Many of us think God is indifferent as to whether we enjoy Him or not. As though all He cares about is being obeyed.

In this message, we're introduced (or re-introduced) to the God of joy, and invited to find in Jesus an all-satisfying treasure, greater than anything else the world has to offer.

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Date: Sunday September 28, 2025

Scripture: Galatians 5:13-26

Speaker: Mike Mileski

Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

This message is the first in a nine-part study of the fruit of the Spirit. Here, we're introduced to the Spirit and His fruit, and invited to consider the first fruit in the list: love.

What happens when we compare the ways the world understands love with the love that is revealed to us in God? We see a love that He'll produce in us when He is allowed to live His life through us!

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