What is the Church's role, and the Christian's role, in politics? What is my role? And have I been more influenced in my beliefs and views by my party than by the word of God? Pastor Keith looks at these and other challenging questions as we continue our summer message series.

Guest speaker Norman Dunlap delivers a fresh and unique telling of Zacchaeus’ life-changing encounter with Jesus in Luke 19:1-10.

In this summer series, we will look at the “culture wars” and how to find the conviction and courage to truly be the people God intends us to be in the midst of it all – people who shine the truth and love of His kingdom in our world, in a way that draws people to Him for salvation, healing and life.

Each of Jesus’ followers is a temple for the Holy Spirit and is thus commanded to honor the Lord with his or her body. Here Pastor Derrick discusses how to keep this holy temple cleansed from things that would rob us of life, joy and fruitfulness.

In a crisis of belief, our tendency is to focus on the crisis more than the belief. God, however, wants us to focus on Him – His presence, love and goodness, no matter what our circumstances.

This week’s message focuses on the reference to Jesus as a “high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek” (Hebrew 6:20). Here we see how the Lord is both like and superior to this curious Old Testament character.

This week we look into Hebrews chapter 6, in which the pastor continues his loving charge to his distant flock to grow up and mature in the faith, lest they slip into the danger of falling away from Jesus and His gospel.

God desires us to know Him ever more deeply, and He wants to lead us into greater fullness of His kingdom and purpose … but He can only give such as we have capacity to receive it. Continuing our study of Hebrews, this week we look at the writer/pastor’s challenge to move toward spiritual maturity.

This week we looked at Hebrews 4:14-5:10, in which the writer/pastor encourages his audience – including us today – that Jesus is trustworthy because He is the great and perfect high priest who intercedes on His people’s behalf.

This week we look at Hebrews 4:1-13, in which the writer now turns to the idea of God’s “rest,” representative of our eternal destiny in heaven. He draws on two analogies as he discusses this gift worth persevering for: The rest of the Promised Land (referring back to 3:16-19) and the Sabbath rest that God modeled for us in creation.