This Tuesday, Pastor Derek kicked off the school year preaching over the parable of the prodigal son. Through this series we're going to be looking at our birthright as a son or daughter of our King.

For our last Tuesday of the 2021-2022 school year, Pastor Derek sent our students off with vision for their lives and this coming school year. We got to spend time before the sermon to celebrate our 19 students that are graduating, most of them moving into the workplace mission field. The rest of our students are coming back next with a vision to make disciples who make disciples who live a life of real devotion, real community, and real responsibility.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek spoke on our third life within our sermon series, the life of Daniel. Going through the book of Daniel, Pastor Derek showed us how Daniel remained firm in the Lord while the culture around him was shifting away from God. We can look to Daniel's and the three brother's faith as a model for resisting ungodly culture when we are away from our community on the campus.

This week, Victor continued our newest series, where we are walking through the lives of people in the Bible. We looked at the life of King David and how even though he made critical mistakes, he got to experience God's grace. Through humbling ourselves, we have the opportunity to accept God's grace as well.

This week, Pastor Derek started our last sermon series of the school year, where we'll be walking through the lives of people in the Bible. We started off by looking at Joshua's life and how he consecrated himself for the Lord. Remaining reliant and obedient to the Lord, Joshua saw victory over Jericho.

This Tuesday, Pastor Katie finished up our sermon series over prayer with a timeless message over intercessory prayer. She spoke over Moses interceding for the Israelites in Exodus 32, and we learned that we engage in intercessory prayer because we want to see God move in the lives around us. Our prayer is that we wouldn't sit around worrying about things instead of praying for them.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek taught us how to pray like Jesus through dissecting the Lord's Prayer and applying the P.R.A.Y. acronym to it. The main idea for this sermon was praying like Jesus means connecting to our Father. This looks like pausing and silencing our thoughts, rejoicing in what the Lord is doing in your life, asking him for your needs and the needs of others, and yielding to his will over your life.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek started a new sermon series titled Pray Like This, with the first sermon teaching us how to pray like children. We went through Mark 10 to see how Jesus responds to children and then looked at how children act today. They’re honest, they ask, and they’re talkative and we applied these to our prayer lives to grow in praying like children.

This Tuesday we ended our love series by having pastor Jon and KC take us through the topic of marriage. We looked at the first marriage relationship in Genesis 2 with Adam and Eve, and we talked about the four purposes of marriage taken from John Mark Comer's book Loveology; Friendship, Gardening, Sex, and Family.

This week, Pastor Derek took us through Judges 14 where it tells the story of Samson and the lion. We learned that we need to run away from "the cliff of sex" and run towards Jesus. Pastor Derek taught us that we must trust the creator of sex over the creation that is sex.