Are you living like you're at war, or just killing time until heaven?

Join us as guest pastor Chris Freeland from Doxology Bible Church brings us the powerful conclusion of Ephesians 6, exploring the Armor of God and what it means to fight FOR the world, not against it.

In this message, Pastor Chris challenges us to see our everyday lives as a spiritual battleground—not to destroy the culture around us, but to bring life, light, and hope to a world that desperately needs it. Using the historical backdrop of D-Day, he reminds us that the Greatest Generation wasn't made of different stuff—they just had absolute clarity about what they were willing to trade their lives for.

What you'll discover:

🛡️ The Real Enemy – Why our struggle isn't against flesh and blood, and how to avoid fighting the wrong battle

🛡️ Weak but Willing – Why feeling under-equipped might actually make you the perfect candidate for God's mission

🛡️ Daily Readiness – How to wake up each morning dressed for battle in a world that needs what you carry

🛡️ Strength in Humility – The difference between powering up and being powered by God's might

🛡️ Living on Mission – What it looks like to trade your life for something that actually matters

This isn't a message about religious battle tactics or culture wars. It's about ordinary people in ordinary places living with extraordinary resolve to bring the gospel wherever they go—with forks and spoons at dinner tables, in neighborhoods, and in everyday conversations.

The question isn't IF you're sent. It's only WHERE and HOW.

So what are you trading your life for?

What if the key to thriving in life isn't getting your way—but learning a completely different way of relating?

College Pastor Scott Manning gets vulnerable about his own struggles as a young dad while tackling Ephesians 6:1-9—one of the Bible's most misunderstood and controversial passages. No sugarcoating, no avoiding the hard parts. Just an honest exploration of the surprising connection between flourishing and submission.

Discover:

🌱 Why submission isn't weakness—it's the secret to thriving relationships

🌱 How ancient household dynamics got flipped upside down (and what that means for us)

🌱 The hard truth about raising kids: what's actually in your control (and what isn't)

🌱 How to flourish at work when you don't control the circumstances

🌱 What makes a community worth being part of

For anyone questioning if there's a better way to do family, work, and relationships—this is worth your time.

In this powerful message, Senior Pastor Sam Weitman unpacks what marriage is really meant to be according to God's design in Ephesians 5:21-33. Using a memorable analogy about authentic hand-pulled noodles, Pastor Sam shows us how we've all experienced different versions of marriage, but God's design is the way it was truly meant to be.

Key Points:

💍 The Purpose of Marriage - It's not primarily about your happiness or fulfillment, but about displaying Christ to the world

💍 Mutual Submission - Both husband and wife submit to one another out of reverence for Christ

💍 For Wives - Submission doesn't mean inferiority - it demonstrates the humility of Christ as an equal choosing to honor her husband's God-given leadership

💍 For Husbands - Love your wife as Christ loved the church:

💍 The Secret for Men - You cannot lead your wife well if you're not radically submitted to Christ yourself

💍 The Big Picture - Marriage is a window through which the world sees Christ and the church relationship

Bottom Line: When both partners fulfill their roles, it creates a beautiful dance of mutual flourishing that points people to Jesus! ✨

What does it mean to live as God's people in a world that opposes Him? Pastor Sam Weitman unpacks Ephesians 5:15-21, revealing the paradox of Christian living: we're called to both sober-minded urgency AND undeterred praise—at the same time.

The days we live in are evil—not because of politics or culture wars, but because the god of this world, Satan, is evil and actively opposing God's kingdom. We're swimming upstream in a spiritual war, and we need the Holy Spirit's power to live effectively for Christ.

In this message, we'll explore:

⚡What it means to "make the best use of the time" when the days are short

⚡How praise overflows from a life filled by the Spirit

⚡The crucial difference between drinking from the world's well vs. Jesus' living water

⚡Why being "filled with the Spirit" is the key to everything

⚡How to simultaneously "storm the beaches AND dance in the streets"

⚡The only real application: pray for the Spirit's power

KEY TRUTH: We can't live the Christian life on our own strength. We need the Holy Spirit's power and presence to bring light into darkness, to avoid distraction, and to overflow with genuine thanksgiving in all circumstances.

This isn't about trying harder—it's about being filled with the Spirit and watching God move through desperate, bold prayers.

Join us as Senior Pastor Sam Weitman continues the "Family Matters" sermon series with a powerful message from Ephesians 5:1-14.

In this sermon, Pastor Sam challenges us to understand our identity as children of light and our calling to bring hope to a world trapped in darkness.

Pastor Sam's Key Points:

✨ God's design for intimacy reflects the gospel itself

✨ True love is self-sacrificial, not self-indulgent

✨ Walking in the light means living out who we already are in Christ

✨ We are not to condemn the world - we are to lead people to Jesus

✨ Every time we leave church, we are walking into a world that desperately needs light

This message reminds us that in the family of God, we are not to hide from the darkness nor conform to it - we are to gear up, go out, and bring people home to the light of Christ.

Senior Pastor Sam Weitman continues our series through Ephesians, exploring what it means to live as the family of God.

In Ephesians 4:17-32, we learn that generosity isn't just about money—it defines every aspect of how we relate to one another in the body of Christ.

Paul calls us to "put off the old self" and "put on the new self," not through willpower alone, but by being renewed by the Holy Spirit. As we fix our eyes on Jesus, who demonstrated ultimate generosity through the cross, we're transformed into a people marked by generosity in our truth-telling, reconciliation, resources, and words.

✨Key Points✨

→Lost people act lost—if you've been found in Christ, it's time to live like it

Join us at Countryside Church as we discover how Jesus frees us from greed and insecurity to live generously with one another.

You've been GIFTED—now what?

In this message, Equipping Pastor Bryan Intemann walks through Ephesians 4:7-13 to reveal that your unique abilities aren't meant to sit on a shelf. They're TOOLS designed to build up the body of Christ.

🎁 Grace + Gifting

🎁 Truth in Love

🎁 Everyone Plays

🎁 Your Part Matters

This isn't complicated theology. This is your invitation to get in the game. Because Christ has already given you what you need. The question is: will you use it? 💪✨

What if picking up your cross and following Jesus isn't just about spiritual disciplines, but about the hard work of staying together when it would be easier to walk away?

In this powerful message from Ephesians 4, Senior Pastor Sam Weitman unpacks why unity isn't just a nice idea—it's the first and most important value of the family of God.

After three chapters celebrating the mystery and majesty of Christ, Paul's instruction might seem underwhelming: "just put up with one another." But what Paul is calling us to is actually revolutionary.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

✨The Marriage Analogy - Just as a wedding ceremony leads to the work of building a new life together, our salvation in Christ (chapters 1-3) leads to the call of living as a united family (chapters 4-6).

✨Be EAGER for Unity - Paul doesn't say "try not to cause trouble." He commands us to actively, relentlessly, repeatedly fight for unity without stopping.

✨Taking Up Your Cross - What if this means speaking well of those who attack you? Leaning in when it's easier to leave? Going back again and again in love?

✨Jesus Modeled It First - Jesus washed Judas' feet knowing he would betray Him. When we were His enemies with nothing good in us, Christ humbled Himself to death on a cross for us.

✨Love Doesn't Just Endure—It Fights - Love isn't just gritting your teeth and enduring. Love leans in, seeks to make things better, and goes again: when you're disrespected, when you're offended, when you're betrayed—again and again.

✨We're Family - The things that unite us (one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God) are far greater than anything that could divide us. And family doesn't walk out on family.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Anyone can tear down. Anyone can walk away. But it takes someone truly dedicated to unity to build up and make things better. In the family of God, unity is of utmost importance—and that means we don't quit on each other.

This message will challenge how you think about conflict, disappointment, and the everyday frustrations of church life. Because the gospel doesn't just save us FROM something—it saves us FOR something: a family that fights for one another no matter what.

What happens when you realize Jesus doesn't want to be a guest in your heart—He wants to own it? This week we're diving into what might be the most powerful passage in all of Ephesians (3:14-21), exploring two prayers that could transform everything about how we follow Christ.

In this message, Senior Pastor Sam Weitman unpacks:

🤍 Why Jesus isn't interested in renting a room in your heart

Two prayers for our church:

1. That we'd fall so in love with Jesus that every sacrifice becomes the only reasonable response

2. That we'd be utterly convinced that God can do more than we ask, think, or imagine—and that He wants to use us to do it

Let's stop limiting God's power by what we've come to expect. The greatest stories of how God works don't have to be behind us—they can be in front of us.

Ever wonder why 7,530 believers in 100 AD grew into half the Roman Empire by 300 AD—without buildings, printing presses, or Instagram? Meanwhile, we have the biggest churches in history, yet Christianity is declining in America.

In this message, Pastor Sam explains:

🤯The shocking pattern from Genesis to Revelation that Paul couldn't stop thinking about

🤯Why the early church exploded (and what we've forgotten)

🤯The parallel between Acts 2 and the Tower of Babel that will blow your mind

🤯Whether we're repeating the same sin that got languages confused at Babel

🤯Your role in God's plan to "unbreach" the world

The hard question: When you stand before the throne with every tongue, tribe, and nation, will you say "It happened despite me" or "I gave everything for this"?

This isn't about guilt. It's about recovering the mission that turned the world upside down.