First Love Revolution

What's a weapon of spiritual warfare that blesses us as much as it blesses the one who receives it?  In our continuation of the Soldiers and Citizens series, Pastor Trent reveals the reasons we need to forgive, the benefits to us and those around us, and how forgiveness brings the Kingdom to earth. 

Jesus commanded us to first love God with our heart, soul, mind, and strength, but how can we do that practically?  Pastor Moses shares one of the key practices to maintaining complete dependence on God by examining the lives of Samson and David and helping us utilize the secret place of prayer to bring the Kingdom to earth... beginning with our whole selves. 

When you're fighting a battle of any kind, undoing the work of your adversary can be your most effective weapon.  Pastor Shane examines the spirit of division that seeks to come against the church and presents key questions that can serve as weapons against this deceptive attack. 

Pastor Shane continues our examination of Caleb's lifelong, wholehearted devotion to God by sharing the roles that humility and purpose play in preserving our love.  We take a fresh look at Jesus' temptation in the wilderness to see how His commitment to His purpose helped sustain His love for the Father despite temptations to self-reliance, self-righteousness, and self-preservation.

Our series, Soldiers and Citizens, continues as Pastor Shane shares how Abraham, Joshua, David, and Paul in the Bible left everything and gave everything to follow God. There was nothing they were unwilling to do for Him. They lived out Acts 20:24 "But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God." Until Jesus becomes our life…He will be continually competing with our life. Until Jesus becomes our life…He will be continually contending with our life. When He is our life…What He wants is what we want. His will is what we want. Learn in this message how you can become a versatile tool that God can use over and over.

When Caleb returned from spying in Canaan, Israel rejected his report of milk and honey, opting instead to wander in the desert for forty years.  When the nation finally crossed the Jordan, we find Caleb's strength and devotion to God unaffected by time and age.  But how?  Pastor Shane shares two vital characteristics of a heart that perseveres in the face of obstacles and reminds us of the importance of finishing strong in our day.

We all know the importance of perspective, but how can seeing things in the natural (as they appear in our understanding) actually inhibit our ability to see what God is doing?  Pastor Moses uses Jesus' rebuke of Peter in Mark 8:31-33 to remind us of the importance of seeing everything around us with the perspective of Heaven.

Every encounter with the miraculous is an opportunity for us to respond, but one response can stifle future miracles, while the other actually increases the likelihood of more.  In today's continuation of The Greatest Commandment series, Pastor Shane reveals how we can love God with all of our minds by fostering a sense of awe in what He does. 

In Psalm 73, Aspah the Levite admits his temptation to go after the things of this world, leaving the path of God, but something keeps him going and prevents him from betraying a generation of Israelites.  What was it?  Pastor Rebekah shows us our vulnerability to leaving the straight and narrow and how our words can be the difference between life and death for us and for those around us.

This Easter weekend we revisit a familiar passage of Scripture, John chapter 11 and the death of Lazarus.  But this time, Pastor Shane turns our attention to a less obvious resurrection: Mary's.  Learn how her questioning of Jesus kept her from going to Him, and how our own doubts can be what's keeping us from a resurrection of our own.