When you are spiritually lost, lots of people tell you what you need to do, but how? When you have completely messed up your life, how do you start over? How can you ever be right and whole again? How do you find your way home?

A lot of us have funny stories about running away - little kids loading their backpack and not even making it to the front door. But there are also some horribly sad and tragic stories. Maybe you did it. You left home and started running. Life on the run was filled with mistakes, failures, and regrets. It's the same whether you run from your physical home, or are running from your spiritual home - from God, and faith. Life as a runaway is not all it's cracked up to be.

There are 160 million people in our country who do not attend church. But only two percent of Christians invited an unchurched person to church last year. Something has to change!

To worship something or someone is to feel passionate about it or them, to the point it influences your behavior and choices and is obvious to others. Worship is an attitude, a mindset, and a way of life.

Sometimes, we try to face decisions, challenges, and just life in general based on our own wisdom and experience. The whole time, we have the instruction manual, our guidebook for living, the Bible, with us, and we don't read and learn from it like we should. Why is the Bible important to a life that follows Christ?

After Jesus rose from the dead, He spent 40 days with his followers. His final words to His followers were the key - what they needed to follow Him and lead the church. And His words are key to us today.

Everything affects everything. You don't, and can't, compartmentalize your life. A significant change in one area affects every other part. A relationship with Jesus will affect the way you approach your family, your job, and even your money.

Depending on your background, prayer is either something you've never done, something you do before meals and not many other times, or something you use when you are in trouble. For others, prayer is a regular, normal part of your day. What is prayer? Why is it important? How and why should we pray?

What does it really mean to be a Christian? How do you follow Jesus? How do you commit every part of your life to Him? In this message, Pastor Rod begins this new series about what it really means to be a Christ follower.

As we start a new year, Pastor Rod looks at the qualities of a healthy church - what makes a church that is effective and outward-focused?