Executive Minister René Minder kicks off our new series exploring the magnificent ways God loves us. Today we started with the other side of the equation, simple humans and our short memories. If you've seen 50 First Dates with Drew Barrymore you'll get right away the connections being made. If you haven't seen it, well, there are spoilers. Take a look at how we seem to forget all the time what a huge God truly loves us.

Following our Shock Waves sermon series, Pastor Galen and Nathan Winters discuss the parts of Jesus' teachings that comes across as the most shocking to them. This leads to a discussion on the nature of the Trinity and the trend in modern culture and Christianity to try to dilute the size of either God or Christ by oversimplifying the immense and ineffable. To catch the sermons of our Shock Waves series, subscribe to our channel and check out all of our past podcasts and services!

Eat my what now? In this final installment of our Shock Waves series exploring the way the things Jesus said would have shocked those of the culture of the time, but also the way we've heard them so many times we've forgotten how shocking they are. This week's message is presented by Karsten Sween, a new Cheyenne Hills resident taking over the leadership of the high school section of our Thrive youth program. Find out more about Thrive on our website, and if you've missed the other episodes of this sermon series, subscribe to our channel and go check them out!

Our guest speaker Cole Church — resident and head of Cheyenne Hill's new Aspire Ministry — talks today about the time Jesus shocked everyone (especially his disciples) when he told them if they weren't more like children they were not going to make it to the kingdom! See what Christ mean by this, how it must have thrown the people of the day, and why it should still surprise us into taking a closer look at ourselves to this day.

Aspire is a new ministry for people "in the gap" anywhere from age 18-30 who are looking to keep close to Jesus while figuring it all out. Find out more in our website!

Nathan and Galen take a look at items coming up in this year's Wyoming General Legislative Session of interest to the Christian electorate. If you'd like to found out more about any of these bills, go to wyomingfamily.org to get the full scoop. They also have some resources to help you write your state legislator to encourage them.

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Hate your mother... what?! Yeah, our response is probably a lot similar to that of those living in Judea when Jesus first said that. Pastor Galen walks us through the place Christ asks us to put ourselves in the larger order of importance, as well as where we're supposed to rang other things... like our stuff... and mom.

A lot of people work on their New Year's resolutions around this time of year. Well, let's be honest, most of us have given up our resolutions by this time of the year (January's already half over)! But when it comes to spiritual growth, Nathan and Galen discuss a way to approach the new year with a thematic word instead.

We start off the year with a series about the things Jesus said that sent shock waves through the culture of the time. Many of us who were raised in church are so used to hearing things like "love your enemy" we don't give it a second thought, but at the time these ideas were first introduced they shook the world. Join us in the first of this series exploring the life- and world-changing ideas given to us by Christ!

In our first podcast to kick of 2023 (still weird to say), Nathan Winters shares his experiences from his recent trip to Israel with an acclaimed archeologist and Biblical scholar as his tour guides.

The men must have been wise indeed to have traveled so far based on a star and faith that in Bethlehem they would find one who was born king. This recording opens with a drama and musical piece paralleling a modern woman and Mary in their experiences. In this Christmas Eve sermon, Galen speaks of the difference in how people like Mary and the wise men reacted to learning of Christ's arrival as opposed to others like Zechariah. How do we respond to the knowledge Jesus was born to be our prophet, priest and king?

Drama:

Modern Mother - Amanda Hamilton

Mary - Sarah Coverdale