A month ago, Steve spoke on the war ON your worship. This Podcast is "the war FOR your worship." He began by establishing that the physical world is not the whole picture — there is a spiritual realm overlapping this one where a war is actively being fought over human worship. Fallen spiritual beings crave worship not because they think they deserve it, but because they've witnessed true worship in the throne room of God and want it for themselves. Their strategy isn't brute force but cultural saturation — slowly reshaping what feels normal until bowing feels natural. Worship itself is framed not merely as emotional expression but as a jurisdictional declaration, a statement of who holds ultimate authority over your life.

Two biblical stories illustrate this reality. In 2 Kings 6, Elisha's servant panics at the sight of a surrounding army, until God opens his eyes to see the hillside ablaze with the cavalry of heaven — armies that were already there the whole time. The point: the crisis surrounding you is real, but what surrounds the crisis is more real. In Daniel 3, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refuse to bow to Nebuchadnezzar's gold statue despite total cultural pressure, famously declaring "even if he doesn't" — their worship placed no conditions on God's rescue. When thrown into the furnace, a fourth figure appears with them, identified as a pre-incarnate Christ, and they emerge unsinged. Notably, the only thing the fire destroyed was the ropes binding them.

The sermon closes by connecting these stories to the cross — Jesus in Gethsemane being the ultimate "even if he doesn't," choosing the Father's will knowing exactly what it would cost. The challenge to the congregation is whether their worship is conditional, rising and falling on answered prayers and desired outcomes, or whether it's the unconditional kind that declares loyalty regardless of circumstance. Communion is framed as that same declaration — a refusal to bow to whatever has you surrounded — grounded in the assurance that the fourth man is already in the fire with you.

Johnny Harris preached a powerful sermon titled “The King’s View of Scripture,” expounding Matthew 5:17-20. He presented Jesus as the King who did not abolish the Law and the Prophets but fulfilled them completely—obeying them perfectly, teaching their heart intent, and bringing them to their prophetic goal.

Using four clear truths (the preeminence, permanence, pertinence, and purpose of God’s law), Johnny showed that the law reveals our need and points us to Christ. He closed with an urgent gospel invitation: acknowledge your shortfall, receive Christ’s perfect righteousness by faith, and let obedience flow from grace rather than striving.

A timely and edifying message that lifts up the authority of Scripture and the sufficiency of Jesus, empowered completely by the Holy Spirit.

That is not the question. Steve unpacks what he believes New Testament giving is about. It's not about arguing whether tithing is Old Testament or New. It's simply about your heart. Does God have it or not. It doesn't matter if you give a penny or a fortune. A Spirit led life is more important than any arguments on methodology.

Ben and Sarah Potter lead a night of worship and reflection around Psalm 23

Johnny Harris speaks of The King’s Call To Influence the World

Jesus calls every believer to influence the world as salt and light. 

In a morally decaying and spiritually dark world, Christians are sent to make a vital difference. 

This teaching follows the Beatitudes and applies even in the face of persecution. Believers are in the world but not of it—called to remain distinct while engaging society. 

Bek leads a night of reflection on the scriptures and worship

Bek Deal leads a worship night with some powerful scriptures sprinkled throughout.

Steve speaks about Samaria — and what it means for the places inside us we'd rather go around than through.

He opened by asking a simple question: what do you know about Samaria? And then unpacked three New Testament moments where Samaritans show up and consistently outperform the religious insiders — the Good Samaritan who stops when the priest and Levite don't, the one grateful leper who returns when nine don't, and the woman at the well who becomes one of the first evangelists in the Gospels. The pattern across all three: the outsider sees what the insider misses.

From there Steve took the congregation back into history — the death of Solomon, the kingdom splitting in 930 BC, Jeroboam's golden calves, the fall of the north to Assyria in 722 BC, and the centuries of contempt that turned Samaria into the place everyone crossed the river to avoid. Heresy, he said, is truth mixed with error — and that was Samaria to a tee.

Then he turned it personal. Because there's always a Samaria. Some area we've roped off from God. Some area we quietly worship. Some area we're afraid to surrender because we're scared of what he might ask us to do with it. We take the long way around. We add days to the journey. We do anything rather than walk straight through it.

But Jesus didn't go around Samaria. He went straight through. He met a broken woman at a well and rocked her world.

And he's standing in your Samaria right now — not to condemn, not to humiliate — just to say: this is still mine. And so are you.

Steve Deal speaks about The War for Your Worship. The core truth: worship isn't just devotion — it's a formative force. You become like what you behold. Worship an idol and you slowly become less. Worship God and you become more of who you were designed to be.

The first distracted worshipper wasn't human. Lucifer's glance at his own glory became a gaze, and a gaze became a throne. He's not just the enemy of worship — he's the first casualty of it. And he doesn't need to make you wicked. He just needs to keep the hurricane going, because you cannot hear a whisper in a hurricane.

That hurricane fits in your pocket. Your phone was engineered to hook you. Scientists call the result cognitive atrophy — and what the researchers won't say is this: the capacity for sustained attention is the capacity for worship. Joshua trusted his own intelligence at Ai — Hebrew for ruin — and got routed. Same lesson, every generation.

Psalm 46 — Be still and know that I am God — isn't a candle moment. Raphah means stand down. The nations are not God. The algorithm is not God. Your screen is not God. They will all be silenced in his presence. Don't look at the waves. Look directly at Jesus.

Bek leads us through a time of worship and waiting on God.