You have not been saved by your good works but you have been saved FOR good works! Pastor Jon Hastings explains how in Christ we are given a beautiful and important purpose for our life!

Winter Retreat 2025 – In Christ: Being before Doing
An exploration into our identity we receive in Christ and how that practically affects our lives.

Now we’re going to consider if you are a son, if you are a daughter of God, that means you’re a part of the family of God. And that means that you have, things that you can expect to receive from one another now. You are all in this thing together. Like it or not, you’re a family. And it means that you actually have duties and obligations to one another as well. Pastor Jon Hastings talks about what those duties are and how it matters that as Christians we are part of the whole family of God.

Winter Retreat 2025- In Christ: Being before Doing
An exploration into our identity we receive in Christ and how that practically affects our lives.

If you are in Christ that means that you will experience the Lord removing sin from your life through discipline. Pastor Jon Hastings explains how Hebrews 12 helps us understand the Lord’s discipline and encourages us to lean into what the Lord is doing through this process bearing in mind the first two messages of this series as our foundation of understanding who God is to us!

Winter Retreat 2025 – In Christ: Being before Doing
An exploration into our identity we receive in Christ and how that practically affects our lives.

Our identity forms an obligation as well as expectations of how others will treat us. If our identity is a Son of God, how can we expect God to treat us? Pastor Jon Hastings unpacks what it means for God to be our Father and how he has a unique love for us, a constant love for us and a transformative love toward us!

Winter Retreat 2025 – In Christ: Being before Doing
An exploration into our identity we receive in Christ and how that practically affects our lives.

What you believe about your identity informs your actions, being in Christ hits on some of the most important aspects of identity. Pastor Jon Hastings explains what it means and the importance of understanding the identity that Christ has given us.

Winter Retreat 2025 theme was In Christ: Being before Doing
An exploration into our identity we receive in Christ and how that practically affects our lives.

The resurrection is assured for a Christian. Eternal life starts when you place your faith in Christ and no one can take that away. Do you believe this? Matt Heerema explains the life Christians have in Christ and why death no longer stings.

Who do you say I am? A question asked by Jesus that we all have to answer at some point in our lives.

There are a lot of things that look good on the surface but much like a bag of chips you discover it is mostly a hollow bag. When Jesus asked the rich young ruler, “Why do you call me good?” He was inviting the man to understand what true goodness is and the idols that were in his life.

Jesus asks questions intentionally and for the sake of whoever He asks the question to. Caleb Thompson goes over the first recorded question Jesus had for some of his disciples. “What are you seeking?”

Kevin grew up knowing about Christianity but none of it changed his life. God used his sophomore year in college to confront Kevin with the reality that he could follow his own plan or turn and submit to the Lord’s plan for his life.