Our lives are cluttered — so much so that we may have unintentionally crowded Jesus out of our daily lives! By embracing a lifestyle of simplicity, that is, removing anything from our lives that prevents us from pursuing the things we most value, we can create space in our lives and in our hearts for a deeper relationship with Jesus, and a better ability to see and meet the needs of others.

Following Jesus as an act of resistance to our cultural push toward hurry and hustle. We’re invited to live more into the pace of slowly following our Savior. Most of my greatest mistakes tend to come when I’m in a hurry. We’re invited into living more and more like Jesus. Adopting his rhythms and practices. As you study his life, we see that Jesus was busy, but never hurried. As His followers, we're called to walk in the way of love and one simply can not love in a hurry. Within a hurried culture - the practice of slowing helps us recenter ourselves in order to grow our connection with the Lord and to love others well.

Thank you to all who served folks somehow and in some way this Serve Weekend! I love how our church rolls up its sleeves and serves. With the Super Duper Big Game this weekend, we took a break from our normal in-person Sunday night worship services and instead took a time-out to recap our vision via an online service. Lyle and Jack unpack our vision more - with the help of a hot wings challenge...things got spicy! Check it out

If we say we follow Jesus, we have to follow the way of Jesus. From looking at the life of Jesus and the Scripture, we can see that the Jesus 'way' is to gather in order to scatter to reach people not connected to God. We are to be Jesus outside the walls of this church. Be the church that Jesus sends and that takes the love of Jesus to others.

As we pursue our vision we want to cultivate the culture of our church to focus on creating hearts that REACH, EQUIP and SEND. These values will be the flavor of how we live out the great commission and great commandment Jesus gave the church. We also want to grow our generosity in order to live into our dream for the future we believe the Lord is guiding us toward. It will take you, me and us together!

Cultivation is something we all have done, can do. But it’s also something we know takes time and effort. At the heart of cultivation is: intentionality. Friends: we want to encourage us - help us grow in cultivating our relationship with God and our relationships with others with the love of Christ.

As a church, we believe we are commissioned by the Gospel to make disciples. What is the Gospel? Why is it good news? And what role does discipleship play in all of this? Hear how truly experiencing the Gospel and the presence of God positions us to invite others to join us in experiencing the same. This is the heartbeat behind our call to not only be disciples ourselves, but to make disciples as well.

We want to live in such a way that we earn the right to invite people closer to Jesus and into next steps with Him. We want to wake up and walk through our days, continually on the look out for how we can extend an invite to folks versus keeping folks at arms length, extinguishing them and writing them off. We don’t follow ‘cancel culture’, instead, we build a grace filled one that champions people so they know God is for them and available. We invite. = This is Us.

The new year is here, so we’re kicking it off with some worship and prayer as we launch into 2023. Let’s pause, reflect and seek the Lord’s best for ourselves and our church in this new year.

Merry Christmas friends! Today as you gather with folks - we pray that you enjoy the conversations and connections. We invite you to hit pause somewhere in your day to remember once again, the reason for the season. Worship along with us from your home and listen again to the Christmas story from Luke 2 and a few thoughts from Pastor Jack. *after the devotional: pull up the David Crowder Christmas album (track 9) “Your Praise Goes On” and as a family take a moment to let your praise join in…