Pastor Symps explains the Biblical role that the family of God has in accomplishing His healing touch in all our lives.

Pastor Ryan gives several Biblical examples showing us that pain is an inevitable reality in the believer's life, indeed, in all our lives. We discuss why it happens, and how to surrender it to God to reveal His Glory, and through Him, how to face our pain Pastor Ash graces the sermon with a testimony of pain and how Jesus carried him through it.

Romans 5 and II Cor. 5 is our Scripture (among others) for today.

Christ came to heal, and indeed He does! We look at Biblical accounts of Jesus' healing power, revealing the Good News to the downcast and broken-hearted, and we keep an eye on the ultimate expression of healing work done on the cross, where Christ healed us of our sins, and killed the power that sin and death had on us. Being honest means we confess we "are more sinful than we ever dare imagine" and healing includes the startling realization that God "loves us more than we dare hope".

Genesis 2 and Psalm 51 are our Scripture focus for today.

Pastor Ryan introduces us to our semester of concentrating on our Key trait of "Healing Community". Today, our first sermon on the subject, we learn the deeper meaning of the blessing, having "God's sorrow and His joy" in our lives.

Jesus asked the paralytic at the pool, "do you want to be healed?" An astounding question to ask, but do we? Do we wish to go through the pain and tough work it takes to be healed, to accept the responsibility of being a beacon and comfort of Jesus to others also in need of healing?

John 5: 1-16, among others, is our Scripture for today.

After a short, targeted devotional from Colossians 1:15-20, Pastor Ryan prepares us for our upcoming series, "Healing Community" - we prepare, as we should, through *prayer*! Prayers are offered for the healing of unity in the Body, for our marriages, for our small groups and their role in healing our community, and for our youth and youth workers. CoVid and great unrest threaten all of us, but as God says in Colossians, "all things are held together by Jesus"!

Pastor Ryan continues in Colossians, emphasizing the longings God has placed in our heart that are being frustrated by our current state. Today we focus on the desire for relationship, and the curse of loneliness that is the result of relationship's neglect.

Pastor Ryan focuses on the enemy's tactics, using loneliness to weaken Jesus' Church, and also strategies that we can adopt to make sure God continues to rule in our hearts, and that the Church thrives in spite of these current trials.

Col. 1:13-23 is our Scripture text for today

Pastor Ryan continues to lead us in an exploration of Colossians and the exhortation towards right, Christly thinking that this book provides. Today we focus on the God-given desire of freedom. Pastor Ryan uses Col. 1: 9-14 to help us understand the type of Godly freedom that He provides, freedom with boundaries that protects us from sin, and protects us from mistaking worldly freedom and license for God's righteous liberty!

Pastor Ryan begins a short series in Colossians. In this letter we have the very model of a Church confronted with determining the Lordship of Christ and the unity in the Holy Spirit in difficult times. Today we concentrate in chap. 1: 3-14.

Pastor Symps finished his triptych series on the Holy Spirit, emphasizing what it means to walk in the Spirit and to demonstrate the fruit thereof. What individual attributes are demonstrated when one walks in His Spirit? What benefits to the Body are manifested when WE walk in His Spirit? Pastor Symps guides us through Galatians 5: 16-26 and Ephesians 4:1-32 for answers to this fundamental command from our Lord Jesus.

Pastor Symps, in his second of three sermons on the Holy Spirit, concentrates on Jesus' promise of the Gift of the Holy Spirit, given to all who have "repented and been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ". We look at Acts 1 and 2 (and other verses) that reveal the Holy Spirit's work in our lives - to convict and draw us to the father, to indwell in us, and to empower us to do the will of the Father. Pastor Symps exhorts us all to be "soaked" in His baptism, for every aspect of our lives to reflect the permeation of the Holy Spirit's presence!