Sunday was the conclusion of our series “Love Thy Neighbor!” Ephesians 4:29 teaches us to be intentional with our words, making sure our language is helpful and encouraging to those who hear us. Pastor Nate preached a message built on this text titled “It’s Always 4:29!”, challenging us to always speak blessing to the people in our lives. When God’s words are in us, blessing can come out of us. As we learn to listen and refuse to talk childishly, God uses our words to bring healing and life. Check out Sunday’s message here if you haven’t already.

On Sunday Pastor Nate preached “Who is my Neighbor?”, a powerful message on noticing the people around us and loving them as Jesus has taught us. We all have blind spots to address and overcome as we learn to care for the people in our world. When we are intentional in praying for our neighbors, we are better prepared to care for them. Let’s start being available and doing what we can! Check out Sunday’s message here if you haven’t already.

On Sunday Pastor Nate kicked off our new fall series titled “Love Thy Neighbor!” Jesus summed up the greatest commandment with these action steps: love the Lord with all of who you are and love your neighbor as yourself. We live in a day and age where division and animosity seem to be the rule. As we follow Jesus and His teaching, we learn how to love God, what it means to truly love ourselves, and how to love our neighbor well. At the end of the day, God is the one who defines the truth about love, and He can guide us in living out this reality. Check out Sunday’s message here if you haven’t already.

On Sunday Pastor Nate preached “Chosen, Authorized & Anointed!” a powerful conclusion to our series “You Have a Purpose”! Whatever our assignment and whatever the season we may find ourselves in, God has entrusted us with opportunities and responsibilities. Each of us is given something we can leverage as well as the freedom to steward His gift. The Lord will evaluate what we do with what we have received, and we will be rewarded based on our actions. When it comes to God’s part, He continues to authorize and anoint people to carry out their assignment. This holds true for each of us. We need God’s anointing on our life to live our His purpose for us! Check out Sunday’s message here if you haven’t already.

On Sunday Pastor Nate continued our series “You Have a Purpose” with a powerful message titled “Thank God It’s Monday!” Each of us has been created by God with a unique calling to live out. This impacts the assignments we carry out during our life, including work and study. Our identity is not rooted in what we do, but what we do matters. When we begin to see our “Monday responsibilities” as part of our God-given purpose, we begin to discover the potential that God has planned for us in each and every day. Check out Sunday’s message here if you haven’t already.

On Sunday we got to hear from our Pastors at each Emmanuel location. It was so good to hear inspiring and challenging messages from each of them as we get ready to head into the fall season! At Emmanuel Spring Lake Park, Pastor Nathan Grams spoke from John 21. The story of Jesus and Peter in this chapter teaches us so much about getting unstuck, about overcoming failure through God’s restoration in our life, and about embracing His unique purpose and plan for each of us. This is such a timely message for each of us as we head into a new season! If you couldn’t join on Sunday, check out Pastor Nathan Grams’ message at Emmanuel Spring Lake Park.

On Sunday Pastor Nate continued our series “I Have a Purpose” with a message titled “Grow Together.” As described in Ephesians 3, when we grow roots into God’s love, He empowers and strengthens us. Growth is central to the Lord’s plan for our life. Depth in our life, a discovery of unchartered territory, the context of God’s House, and key relationships will all be part of our growth journey. Through this message, we are challenged to consider all the relationships and connections we have in our life, and to consider how to grow together enriching each other’s lives. Check out Sunday’s message here if you haven’t already.

On Sunday Pastor preached “I Have a Purpose!”, a powerful message to kick off our new series. As we focus on Emmanuel’s “why,” “For everyone to KNOW Jesus, GROW together, and LIVE with purpose” we consider our own life and our own story. God has created each and every one of us with purpose. As we walk with Jesus, we not only get to know Him better, but we discover who we are in Him. We begin to see God’s vision for our life, His destiny for us. The enemy plans to steal, kill and destroy us, but Jesus has a meaningful and purpose-filled life prepared for each of us. Check out Sunday’s message here if you haven’t already.

On Sunday Pastor Darin concluded our “Standing Strong” series on the book of Hebrews with a powerful message titled “Unshakable Confidence.” We can live with the certainty that God will never fail us. Jesus is consistent and unchangeable. His promises, His purposes, His mission and His love remain the same. Because of Jesus, we can live full of joy and not of fear! Check out Sunday’s message here if you haven’t already.

On Sunday Pastor Nate preached “Plan on Finishing,” a powerful message based on Hebrews 12. Each of us has a race to run and we can make it to the finish line because of Jesus. We live in a day and age where it is all too easy to give up and quit, but Jesus teaches us that we can complete the race that we’ve started. As we fix our eyes and focus on Him, getting rid of the things that hinder us, we can find strength to endure. He is the initiator and completer of our faith, and He will help us at each step of the way as we plan to finish. Check out Sunday’s message here if you haven’t already.