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Fixate PHX episodes

  • Intention of Creation: Stiff Neck Syndrome
    Have you ever woken up with a stiff neck and struggled all day due to it? Yeah, we've been there too, and although it feels pretty terrible, there is a "stiff neck syndrome" that affects us far worse than a common kink in the neck. The term "stiff necked" is used in the Bible (OT and NT) to describe a people, or oxen, that instead of living, bowing or moving in submission, reverence or response to direction, are one who hold a rigid pride and stand unwilling to bow or surrender. Psalm 18:30 reminds us that God's way is perfect, but for some reason both historically in the Bible and today, we as people have a difficult time bowing in submission to the commands and call of God, leading us to have stiff necks toward Him, others and our purpose. Listen to hear how you can ensure you live free from what we are calling "Stiff Neck Syndrome"
    42 min
  • Intention of Creation: Ruling or Riches

    Creation was intended to rule, reign and have dominion with God. Yet, throughout time we have begun to desire earthly treasure over heavenly obedience, allowing the treasures of the world to usurp Lordship.

    What is the treasure, foundation and focus of your life/being? Let us go back to the intended purpose of Creation of Him being THE treasure of our lives. What you're willing to leave or sacrifice show more about where your riches are than anything else. Which kingdom are you building? Yours or His?

    37 min
  • Intention of Creation: The Right Sustenance

    What is sustaining you? What do you put into your heart and soul that strengthens you to run the race in front of you?

    We have to find the nourishment in which the spiritual practical needs we have are assessed in the personhood of Christ.

    What you consume is what sustains. Be proactive in knowing what you are consuming.

    38 min
  • Intention of Creation: Redeemed Creation

    Let's face it, we have good intentions, yet they can somehow still result in bad outcomes. We must renew our mind and commune with the Father daily or we will do and become the very things we hate. What are you doing to have good intentions and good outcomes? How do you live out God's intent for you?

    If you don't know where to start, you're listening to the right thing :)

    41 min
  • Wholistic Habits: Repentance

    Repentance at it's core is you saying that the Gospel is worth the behavior being changed. Repentance is a habit of commitment to your mind being changed.

    When you change your mind of living in this world you start to see a world that is not of it. Repentance is a gift of awareness.

    WORSHIP. PRAYER. REPENTANCE. REDUNDANTLY.

    39 min
  • Wholistic Habits: Messengers of the Good News

    Do you have a habit of sharing your faith in your day to day life?

    We need to make sure that the great commission is not the great omission in our walk with Him. The crowd/society will always be an obstacle that will validate why you think you can't. We have a great opportunity for the purity of the Gospel to shine through.

    Community is the mission. The mission is community.

    46 min
  • Wholistic Habits: Pruning

    Due to technical difficulties the first few minutes of the message are not included.

    When God comes to prune our lives, it is intentional. He invites us to greater fruit by the removal of the things that don't produce it.

    Wounded sons and daughters make bitter mothers and fathers. Fight for healing.

    We were born again, not born against. Fight for peace.

    The cross comes before the crown. Fight against unmet expectations.

    31 min
  • Wholistic Habits: Studying Scripture

    There are things in your life you will sacrifice anything for, is scripture one of them? Are you willing to change your behaviors, do you change your theology so your behavior feels better?

    When we do not understand or teach the Bible FULLY we allow culture to fill in the gaps, creating room for people to create offshoot religions and speculations of what the Bible really says. We will be people who believe, pursue, read and stand on the Word of God and transform ourselves through His word!

    37 min
  • Wholistic Habits: A New Age of Biblical Awareness

    When the whole of us, is consumed with the whole of Him, we can become holy as He is holy.

    May we read the Bible hungry to rid ourselves of the spiritual ignorance that robs us of deeper intimacy in Him. We choose the Bible, for it is the way forward and it points to Him. May His words be the words we speak, know, become and utter when there are no words left to say.

    There are so many competing voices, so many denominations, so many distractions, that if we don't have the understanding of Scripture for ourselves, we won't have it long. Join us as we look through the lens of 2 Kings, to gain greater understanding of what it means to hear the word and do. We will be a people of biblical literacy.

    Wholistic Habits Resources

    fixatephx.com/habits

    32 min
  • Wholistic Habits: Developing a Non-Passive Prayer Life

    "Speak, your servant is listening"

    May our prayer life not be one that only consists of emergency, consumeristic, comfort driven prayers, but prayers of practicality, power and communion with the Father.

    We look through the lens of 1 Samuel 3:1-20, as we go deeper into what it means to walk in the wholisitc habit of prayer. The enemy is okay with you praying comfortable prayers, but if your prayers are only ever comfortable, you are missing out on the fullness of communion we can have with the Lord.

    Let us together develop a listening rhythm and lifestyle.

    38 min

About Fixate PHX

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We believe in a church that is fixed on Jesus with unwavering attention and focus, that in a day in an age of distraction we fight back with devotion, that a life holistically following the ways of our Creator opens us up to be formed by Him and Him alone. A life of depth that produces fruit that remains, a life of discipline that builds everything we exist to do off of the Cornerstone, a life of sacrifice that shows the greatest love to a world so devoid of it, and a sustainable rhythm that keeps us walking with Him always.