We begin a new series centered around some key choices we can make to Let Hope In. Friends, Your past isn't just in your past if it's still messing with your present. Choice one: If you don’t learn to transform your pain, you will transfer it. No one travels life and escapes emotional bruising...we all get hurt and endure setbacks in life. We need to learn to let God transform our hurts, like Joseph did, so we don't transfer them.

As a follower of Jesus we're to live with a new foundation and focus. We live for a greater story. In whatever we do, we live to promote the story of Jesus. What God has done for us, and for His glory, should lead us to place Him as the foundation of our joy and the root of our desires. What if we lived this day to make Jesus more famous?! (speaker: Lyle Thompson, Worship Director of Elements)

As we finish our Light of Christmas series, we remember that we're to marvel at Jesus. Friends, what we marvel about we will talk about. What we experience we will express. Once Jesus makes an impression within you – it will begin to find an expression out of you. The Shepherds in Luke 2 experience this wonder and can't help but begin to tell about it. (Luke 2:8-20/Matthew 5:16-18)

The Light of Christmas invites us to do more than simply glance. Jesus calls us to MARVEL in His Light and have it change and challenge us. In the land of darkness, a Light shines. In order to marvel at the Light of Christmas, we must make space in our schedule this Christmas.

As we wrap up our study of Philippians, we lean into a secret and a promise that is life-changing. The secret to contentment in life and the promise of God's provision to those that trust in Him and practice his generosity. (Philippians 4:10-19)

All of us deal with anxiety and worry from time to time. What if it was possible to live free from them? What if it was possible to replace those nervous feelings with a sense of peace? In Philippians 4:6-7, the Apostle Paul shows us how we can be free from the anxiety and worry in our life.

"Who you follow has eternal significance!" In Philippians 3:17-21, Paul lays it out what it looks like to be imitators and followers of Christ and those who follow Christ.” Paul tells us who to follow, who to flee from, and what to focus on as believers in Jesus.

We like trophies. In a lot of ways our lives are lived seeking them out. "If I improve, I advance and if I advance, I win" is the cycle in our culture. But the Apostle Paul points out the flaw in that cycle when it comes to our spiritual journey. It's ALL about living in God's grace, not performance or earning a "trophy" in order to impress God. Grace alone pardon's us and empowers us. Jesus + nothing = everything.

Stop the grumbling and complaining. Shine like stars in the the sky. In Philippians 2:12-18, Paul gives encouragement and practical steps to live out our faith.

We like to climb ladders. But, the path to greatness in God’s eyes isn't found on the accent upwards into being served; but rather the downward climb into serving. Tonight we examine one of the most beautiful and challenging Scriptures and what it means for us as followers of Jesus. Paul calls us to mimic the mindset and movement of Jesus. You may never look at a ladder the same again. Philippians 2:1-11