Words carry the power of life and death—and most of us are still carrying both: the sentence that built us up years ago, and the one that still stings. In this Father's Day message, Pastor Chad makes the case that most father wounds are actually word wounds—something that was said, or something that was never said. Through the ache of Esau's stolen blessing in Genesis 27 and the voice that tore heaven open over Jesus before He had done a single thing (Mark 1), we meet a Father who chose us before the world was made and still speaks a better word over our lives than anything ever spoken against us. You'll leave with a simple, Spirit-empowered tool—the ABC Test—for making sure the words you pour out bring life instead of taking it. Because the words that may have broken you don't have to be the last word.

Discussion Questions:

1. The message opened with two questions: a word someone spoke that built you up and that you still carry, and a word that stung and is honestly still in there. Which one came to mind faster for you—and why do you think that is
2. We looked at two sons: Esau, who showed up and the blessing simply wasn't there, and Jesus, who received the Father's blessing before He had done anything to earn it. Be honest—which story are you living out of more right now: Esau's (earning, proving, performing) or Jesus' (already chosen, already loved)?
3. Pastor Chad said most father wounds are word wounds. What's a word you've spent years trying to outrun or prove wrong—or a word you've been quietly waiting most of your life to hear?
4. We were given the ABC Test (Affirming, Biblical, Christlike) and a charge: go home and say the thing. Who is the one person the Holy Spirit is highlighting for you—and what is the specific sentence you've been holding back that you're willing to speak this week?

Our human condition gives us the tendency to live our lives according to what’s best for ourselves.  When we become Christians, the Holy Spirit turns us outward and empowers us to live lives marked by loving service to one another. Spirit-empowered service is the natural overflow of a life increasingly surrendered to the Spirit, who is himself always moving outward, always giving, always other-centered, and who is forming that same character within us. The Holy Spirit gives us spiritual gifts to serve our church community and these gifts are meant to benefit others, not ourselves. Our role as Christians is to choose to serve others with the gifts that the Spirit has given to us for the sake of the common good.  When this happens, the entire church community is loved and cared for

Discussion Questions: 

1. What are your spiritual gifts?  If you are not sure what they are, we encourage you to take the spiritual gifts assessment on the Ediphy app.
2. Are you using your gifts to serve others?  If yes, share.  If no, what is holding you back?
3. Share how you have blessed others through serving.
4. Share how God has blessed you as you served others.
5. What have you learned about yourself by serving others?

In a world that never stops pressing, most of us quietly wonder if we're spiritual enough — and many of us have already decided we're not. In this message, Pastor Shea explores what it actually means to be filled with the Spirit in the ordinary, depleted, demanding seasons of real life. Drawing from Ephesians 5 and Acts 4, he reframes Spirit-filled living not as a mountain top moment to achieve but as a source to keep returning to — like a sponge that is always releasing and always going back to the water. The early church didn't pray in Acts 4 because it was a special occasion; prayer and bold action were their daily rhythm. And when fear stands between us and our assignment, the answer isn't a guaranteed outcome — it's being so saturated in who God is that the impulse to love becomes louder than the fear. Whatever your season, whatever your assignment, the one non-negotiable stays the same: you were never meant to run on yesterday's filling.

Discussion Questions: 

1. 1. Where are you currently getting your strength from? What are the substitutes — obvious or subtle — that you reach for before you reach for God?
2. What does Spirit-filled life look like in your current season? How is it different from a previous season, and does that difference feel like growth or failure?
3. What fear is keeping you from taking one step further than you're comfortable with? What would it look like to show up in your assignment this week with the love louder than the fear?

In this message from our Poured Out series, we dig into Galatians 5 to wrestle with one of the most honest questions the Christian life raises: how do you actually love people who are genuinely hard to love? Pastor Ryan walks through Paul's letter to a church that was biting and devouring each other — and shows why the answer isn't more effort, more guilt, or more rules. The breakthrough comes from understanding what freedom is actually for, what the flesh actually is, and why the Holy Spirit doesn't ask you to manufacture love you don't have — He pours in what you're missing. If you've ever felt like you're running on empty when it comes to loving a difficult person, this message is for you.

Discussion Questions: 

1. Who is someone in your life — past or present — that you'd describe as genuinely hard to love? Without naming them, what is it about them that makes loving them feel costly?
2. Paul says the "works of the flesh" — hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage — are the natural output of self-directed living. Where do you most recognize that pattern showing up in your own relationships right now?
3. The sermon drew a contrast between works (human striving) and fruit (divine growing). Be honest: in your most difficult relationship, are you mostly trying to manufacture love through willpower, or are you actually staying connected to the One who grows it? What does that difference look like practically for you?
4. Which of the three applications feels hardest for you personally — naming the person and praying specifically for them, following the Spirit's nudges even when it's inconvenient, or asking to be filled daily? What is it about that one that creates the most resistance in you?

Poured Out: The Holy Spirit is our “Down Payment” of the Future
The Holy Spirit was poured out, so that we can pour ourselves out in love and service to others. On this Pentecost Sunday, we explore and celebrate how the Spirit is our “down payment” of our future inheritance (Ephesians 1:13-14), given to us now so that we can live like God intends us to live.

Discussion Questions: 

1. Can you think of an example of something you have “marked” with your own name to make sure people know it belongs to you? (Like writing your name inside your book or on the tag of a family jacket.) Has your ownership of that item ever been an important issue?
2. Have you ever thought of yourself as being “marked” as belonging to God because of the Holy Spirit living within you? How does that change your perspective?
3. When you think about your ultimate future — what Ephesians 1:14 calls “our inheritance,” what do you think of? What are you looking forward to?
4. Read Romans 8:10-11. If the sentence in your translation sounds confusing, try the New Living Translation. How does the promise of verse 11 make you feel? Does it give you hope? Is it hard to believe?
5. Do you feel like the Holy Spirit is active in your life? Why or why not? If not, what might your next step be?

Every one of us will face crossroads — moments where we need more than information; we need wisdom. The good news? You don't have to chase wisdom down. She's already calling out to you.

In this message, Pastor Wayne unpacks how to grow from knowing right and wrong into walking in the power of God, why obedience (not just agreement) is what unlocks the blessing, and how the friends waiting for you in Scripture can save your marriage, your ministry, and your life.

Life rarely turns out exactly the way we imagined, and the gap between what we hoped for and what actually happened is often where our deepest pain lives. In this Mother's Day message, we dive into the story of Hannah from 1 Samuel 1–2, a woman who faced years of heartbreak, provocation, and unanswered prayer, and whose response to all of it became one of the most powerful pictures of faith in all of Scripture. Through Hannah's story, we discover a pattern God keeps repeating throughout the Bible: appointed, tested, and surrendered, a pattern that runs from Hannah all the way to Jesus, and straight into the middle of your life. Whether you're a mom carrying more than you can say out loud, someone whose prayers feel like they've gone unanswered for too long, or anyone living in a season that doesn't look the way you planned, this message is for you. Because the key to living from victory in Christ isn't getting everything you prayed for. It's learning to pray honestly, and surrender fully.

Discussion Questions:

1. When you think about the gap between what you expected your life to look like and what it actually looks like right now, where do you feel that gap most? What's one area where life hasn't gone the way you planned?
2. Hannah kept showing up to the house of the Lord year after year, even though that was the very place her pain got reopened. Is there a place, a season, or a rhythm in your life that you've started avoiding because it's become associated with pain? What would it look like to keep showing up anyway?
3. The sermon drew a contrast between Peninnah and Hannah. Same circumstances, completely different posture. Peninnah had the blessing and used it as a weapon. Hannah had nothing and used her pain as a doorway to God. Honestly, when you're struggling, which posture do you tend toward, and what does that usually look like for you?
4. Hannah prayed so raw and honestly that the priest thought she was drunk. Most of us have been taught, directly or indirectly, to clean up our prayers before we bring them to God. What would it look like for you to actually pour out your soul to God this week? What's the version of your prayer you haven't let yourself pray yet?
5. The little robe Hannah made every year is one of the most quietly powerful images in the story: faithful, loving action in a situation that was complicated, painful, and not what she planned. What is the "little robe" in your life right now? What is the small, faithful thing God might be inviting you to keep doing, not because the circumstances are resolved, but because He is still worth showing up for?

In this sermon, Pastor Chad tackles one of the most honest tensions in the Christian faith: if Jesus really defeated death, why does it still feel like our bodies are losing? Drawing from 2 Corinthians 4, he walks through Paul's raw, unfiltered confession that "outwardly we are wasting away" and shows why that's not a crisis of faith, but actually the very place where resurrection power becomes most visible. Whether you're facing a diagnosis, watching someone you love decline, or just feeling the quiet weight of your own mortality, this message offers a grounded, hope-filled anchor: because Jesus already won, your healing is already secured, even if it hasn't fully arrived yet.

Discussion Questions: 

1. Pastor Chad mentioned that aging or physical decline has a way of surfacing things we don't want to think about. What's one way your body has reminded you lately that it's "wasting away" — whether through aging, illness, or just the wear of life? How do you typically respond to those reminders?
2. Paul describes us as "jars of clay", fragile and ordinary containers holding something precious. Where in your life have you felt pressure (from culture, church, or yourself) to appear stronger or healthier than you actually are? What has that cost you?
3. The sermon continued on the "Already / Not Yet" tension; that Jesus has already won, but full healing hasn't fully arrived. Have you ever felt like unanswered prayer for healing meant something was wrong with your faith? How does the idea that healing is "secured but not yet arrived" either help or challenge that feeling?
4. Joni Eareckson Tada said, "He has chosen not to hold me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace." Is that sentence easy or hard for you to believe right now, and why? What would it take for you to move toward that kind of trust in a season of physical suffering?
5. Pastor Chad said "your cracked jar is not your embarrassment, it's your testimony." What is one area of brokenness, illness, or physical limitation in your life that you've been hiding rather than allowing God to use? What would it look like to let that become a place where His light shines through instead?

Jesus conquered death, and yet we still die and we still grieve loved ones. Because Jesus rose as the “firstfruits,” death is not the final word, and we can grieve with real and certain hope for bodily resurrection. 

In this sermon we will #1. Recognize our time on earth is temporary, #2.Answer the question How can we live in Jesus’ victory over death when we & our loved ones die?” #3. If we are not the person going through grief right now, How can we represent Jesus to someone whose world is falling apart?

Discussion Questions: 

1. Why do you think the Psalmist says “Teach us to number our days?”
2. What potential (Latent, inherent abilities ,possibilities that exist but are not yet realized.) are in you, that need to be released.
3. Who do you know right now that is walking through a season of grief? How can you come along side to lighten their load? 
4. If you are the one walking through a grief season how can your community support you?
5. Read 1 Corinthians 15:54-55. Put it in your own words.

Jesus conquered sin, and yet we still experience temptation and choose to sin. But sin no longer owns us! Jesus broke its power, and by His Spirit you can walk in real freedom today.

But maybe even as a Christian you might say, “I’m a believer but sin still has got a hold on me.” OR “I don’t feel so victorious.” “I understand that Jesus paid it all – but I feel stuck in sin. So what does it mean to LIVE in Jesus’ victory over sin when sin is a reality for us? 

We must understand that Jesus’s victory was sufficient for our sin, ALL OF IT but reality is our flesh still wrestles with sin. THERE is a real conflict between our 2 natures, our spiritual nature and our flesh. We’re invited today to wrestle with confessing the sin that tries to enslave and hold us back from living the will of the Lord. 

The encouragement for us - confess and get free because unconfessed sin gives the enemy legal right to wreak havoc in your life. But confession breaks that agreement so we can live fully free in Christ and experience the fullness of His healing power.

Discussion Questions: 

1. Where in your life are you resisting the work of the Spirit? 
2. Do you have any unconfessed sin?
3. Do you choose Jesus everyday? Why or why not?