Central Youth leader Carson Springer delivers the Christmas message.

Griffen Molenburg challenges us from James 5.

Youth student Charlie Goemaat shares from James 4.

For many of us, life is most enjoyable when it's easy. James assures us that when we do face trials, we can count it as a joy because it builds our character, and Jesus considered the cross before him as a joy as well. Griffen Molenburg opens up this series with a dialed-in look of the words of James 1 and how our faith in Jesus is supposed to be active, not because our works save us, but because our faithful action is a response to us being saved by grace.

Paul spent a lot of his life building up his Jewish reputation: circumcised, a teacher of the Law, and righteous in the eyes of those who knew him. But when he came to know Jesus, every gain that Paul had acquired became meaningless to him because the greatest gain was knowing Jesus and the power of His resurrection. For the things that we gain in this life, do we consider them to be loss because knowing Christ is the greatest treasure?

In this sermon, Griffen Molenburg leads us through Philippians 2, a word from Paul that points us to Jesus Christ, our chief example of humility, and how we are to embrace that humility as we become lights in this world for His glory.

Central Youth student Cam Williams speaks on the Christmas story of the birth of Jesus and the life that our King lived, from His birth all the way to His resurrection.

Central Youth leader Carson Doak shares a message from 1 John 3

Alex Foley gives a message from 1 John 2

In 1 John 1, the apostle John assures us of this Word that was from the very beginning, this word that contained true life. With this light, we are to walk alongside and have fellowship with it. Central Youth director Griffen Molenburg looks at three main points we can gather from these 10 verses:

•God is light

•You can't fake fellowship

•Confession brings cleansing