This Sunday we turned 5! We took time to PAUSE and PRAISE God as we heard some powerful parts of our story, some big wins from this last year, and some fresh vision for the future.

After years of disobedience, the Israelites get an opportunity to right the wrongs of the past by obeying God’s voice to experience breakthrough. To experience God’s breakthrough in our lives, we learned that we need to exercise a real faith. This Sunday we wrapped up our series with a message titled, “Faith Is”.

This Sunday we continued our series “Take The Land” and talked about how to lay down our side missions, be on God’s side not ours, and lay aside every heavy weight in life that Jesus never gave us in a message titled, “Which Side Are You On?”

In Joshua 4, the people of Israel have crossed the Jordan river on dry ground and Joshua instructs them to set up a memorial to the mighty way that God had moved. This weekend we learned that often the strength to press forward comes from remembering to look back in a message titled, “Looking Ahead. Remembering What’s Behind.”

Preparation plays a big part in our lives. We have to get ourselves ready daily to do things like go to work, but we also have to prepare for bigger things in life like having a baby. Preparation in these arenas is key and it’s no different in our spiritual lives. The problem is we often find ourselves in the middle of spiritual battles without the preparation needed to win the fight. This weekend we learned that most spiritual battles are won before you get to the battle field, where we first let God do his desired work in us in a message titled, “Battle Ready.”

Even though God has called and destined us to do great works with him, sometimes we doubt that. When we doubt, it’s not that we don’t believe in God, but we rather don’t believe in ourselves and sometimes even feel like we are in the wrong place to be able to serve God. In the second week of our series we learned that what was the wrong place without Jesus can quickly turn into the right place with Jesus in a message titled, “Wrong Place. Right God.”

What's fascinating about God is that he rarely does anything alone. God doesn't need us and yet he loves to include us. God loves having a "+1" in whatever he does in and through our lives. This week we opened our new series through the book of Joshua by unpacking Joshua’s blueprint of how to be a great “+1” to God.

There are many metaphors that God uses to describe His role in the universe. God calls Himself Father, Shepherd, Friend, Groom, King, and many others. Some of God’s titles are harder to understand, but there is one role that is easy to understand, and yet is very hard to accept. This week we looked at the challenge and comfort of God being our General.

Both comforter and provider are parts of God's person that are likely easy to understand and accept, but often we lack the practical tools it takes to experience these sides of God and the breakthrough that comes with allowing Him to take these roles in our lives. This week we continued our series by discussing what it means for God to be our comforter and our provider.

We all have misconceptions about God. Our experiences create biases in us that we often use (intentionally or not) to inform our view of God. If we want to see God clearly, with unveiled faces, it requires breaking down these ideas and learning who God truly is. This week we opened up the conversation by exploring what it means for God to be our father in a message titled, “The Prodigal Father”.