After two weather-influenced Sundays (one canceled and one we made do!), it was so good to be together again in our usual rhythm. Pastor Matt Ruckel brings a word to shed light on the hardships and breakdowns of last season and the great potential of breakthrough in the power of Holy Spirit for the days ahead. May you be infused with courage and revived with the strength of the love of God!

Big House Church is cultivating a community of passionate worshippers who partner with Jesus to create a kingdom culture on earth as it is in heaven. We regularly meet on Sundays @ 9 & 11 AM at the Zeider Theater in Town Center Virginia Beach.

Learn more at www.bighousechurch.com.

Our worship director, Olivia Dyer, brings an inspirational message about creativity and expression. The first thing we read about God in the Bible is that He created and that we are created in his likeness. If we are created in His likeness, then even if you don't believe you are a creative person, He has made you to create. May you be encouraged this week to approach creativity in worship as we finish our 21 day fast!

Book references from sermon:

"Naming the Animals" by Stephen Roach

"The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry

In addition to this message, we encourage you to look at our 21 Day Fast website at www.bighousechurch.com/fast26 for more details, instructions, and especially to view our "Ways to Worship" PDF, which provides daily prompts on a weekly basis, which were intentionally crafted to partner with each week's message. Be blessed in your fasting and worship!

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Big House Church is cultivating a community of passionate worshippers who partner with Jesus to create a kingdom culture on earth as it is in heaven. We regularly meet on Sundays @ 9 & 11 AM at the Zeider Theater in Town Center Virginia Beach.

Learn more at www.bighousechurch.com.

Pastor Matt continues into our second week of fasting by teaching on the infinite ways to worship God through spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines can sound like mere religious practices, or even a means for us to get God to do what we want. But they are actually tools to increase our hunger and desire for deeper measures of the Lord.

In addition to this message, we encourage you to look at our 21 Day Fast website at www.bighousechurch.com/fast26 for more details, instructions, and especially to view our "Ways to Worship" PDF, which provides daily prompts on a weekly basis, which were intentionally crafted to partner with each week's message. Be blessed in your fasting and worship!

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Big House Church is cultivating a community of passionate worshippers who partner with Jesus to create a kingdom culture on earth as it is in heaven. We regularly meet on Sundays @ 9 & 11 AM at the Zeider Theater in Town Center Virginia Beach.

Learn more at www.bighousechurch.com.

Pastor Ian Thornton shares an inaugural teaching on the theme and vision of this year's 21 day church wide fast "Infinite Worship." Giving applicable steps to consecrate every day life, our hope for this month and this week is that we would explore the infinite ways to worship an infinite God - even in the finite moments.

In addition with this message, we encourage you to look at our 21 Day Fast website at www.bighousechurch.com/fast26 for more details, instructions, and especially to view our "Ways to Worship" PDF which provides daily prompts on a weekly basis, which were intentionally crafted to partner with each week's message. Be blessed in your fasting and worship!

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Big House Church is cultivating a community of passionate worshippers who partner with Jesus to create a kingdom culture on earth as it is in heaven. We regularly meet on Sundays @ 9 & 11 AM at the Zeider Theater in Town Center Virginia Beach.

Learn more at www.bighousechurch.com.

As we enter the new year and our annual fast, Pastors Matt Ruckel, Ian Thornton, and Jacob Dyer share their hearts and expectations for the coming year. Moving into our own building will be one of the biggest transitions we will face as a congregation, and our leadership team desires for our hearts and spirits to be prepared and fully engaged with what the Lord is doing through it. Join us as we enter 2026 with great anticipation for God to move in a mighty way in our church and in our region!

Big House Church is cultivating a community of passionate worshippers who partner with Jesus to create a kingdom culture on earth as it is in heaven. We regularly meet on Sundays @ 9 & 11 AM at the Zeider Theater in Town Center Virginia Beach.

Learn more at www.bighousechurch.com.

As we celebrate the birth of our Lord, Pastor Matt brings our Make Room sermon series to a close as he teaches on the almost natural reaction to worship the Lord, with awe, fear, and wonder like the shepherds on a hillside in response to the glory of God and the heavenly display of angels. May our hearts expand with a desire to worship Christ the King - our long expected hope of glory.'

Big House Church is cultivating a community of passionate worshippers who partner with Jesus to create a kingdom culture on earth as it is in heaven. We regularly meet on Sundays @ 9 & 11 AM at the Zeider Theater in Town Center Virginia Beach.

Learn more at www.bighousechurch.com.

Kristi Ruckel, director of Harbor (our women's ministry), shares some powerful perspective on the silence of Zechariah when he is muted in doubt and restored with faith. If you're in a season of silence, be encouraged that can God can form you for the moment He will speak again - and when He does, your voice can carry a new anointing that will prepare the way of the King. Don't be afraid to make room for Jesus in the silence.

Big House Church is cultivating a community of passionate worshippers who partner with Jesus to create a kingdom culture on earth as it is in heaven. We regularly meet on Sundays @ 9 & 11 AM at the Zeider Theater in Town Center Virginia Beach.

Learn more at www.bighousechurch.com.

Matt Ruckel takes us deeper into the story behind Christmas and focuses on the joyful receiving heart and life of Elizabeth, Mary's cousin, who would give birth to John the Baptist in her old age - a glorious promise fulfilled! Through waiting, suffering, and with rebellious hope - Elizabeth shows us the supernatural and proven joy of the Lord and how it centers us on the things and really, the One that matters most.

We make room for the King of Glory with joy!

Big House Church is cultivating a community of passionate worshippers who partner with Jesus to create a kingdom culture on earth as it is in heaven. We regularly meet on Sundays @ 9 & 11 AM at the Zeider Theater in Town Center Virginia Beach.

Learn more at www.bighousechurch.com.

For the first week of our advent sermon series, Ian Thornton takes us into the story of Mary, mother of Jesus, and her "Yes" to God. Her obedience even without fully understanding God's will shows us the beautiful way of fearing God and loving Him, expressed through trust. Our desire is to give the same prayer of Mary, "Lord, I am your servant. Let it be done unto me according to Your will."

We make room for the King of Glory through obedience.

Big House Church is cultivating a community of passionate worshippers who partner with Jesus to create a kingdom culture on earth as it is in heaven. We regularly meet on Sundays @ 9 & 11 AM at the Zeider Theater in Town Center Virginia Beach.

Learn more at www.bighousechurch.com.

Ian Thornton shares a powerful message on one of our core values which is to live a life of worship that the Father is seeking - in Spirit and in truth. We dive directly into John 4 and explore the beautiful desire and longing of God to receive us through the power of Holy Spirit and with total honesty with nothing hidden. It's time to put away performance and the tendency for hiding the ugly parts from God, when all he has asked is that we come before Him with all that we are.

Big House Church is cultivating a community of passionate worshippers who partner with Jesus to create a kingdom culture on earth as it is in heaven. We regularly meet on Sundays @ 9 & 11 AM at the Zeider Theater in Town Center Virginia Beach.

Learn more at www.bighousechurch.com.