Fully Alive in Christ

Prayer is more than asking God for things.

In this teaching from Psalm 73, we explore prayer as a pathway into God's presence rather than a method for controlling outcomes. Asaph's journey from frustration and confusion to peace and clarity reminds us that God's presence changes our perspective, even when our circumstances remain unchanged.

Together we explore:

• Anchoring in God's goodness
• Honest prayer
• God's perspective in difficult seasons
• Abiding in Christ
• Why the nearness of God is our refuge

The goal of prayer is not perfection.

The goal of prayer is friendship with God.

"The nearness of God is good for me."

Pentecost SundayThis Pentecost Sunday message explores the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 and the ongoing invitation to live Spirit-filled lives today.

Kim shares about:
• the promise Jesus gave His disciples
• the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of believers
• and how the Spirit of God still leads, comforts, empowers, and transforms us today

The Holy Spirit is not distant, He is God with us and within us. This conversation is an invitation to cultivate a daily relationship with His presence and to live aware that God is near in every part of life.

What if prayer isn’t about saying more — but becoming more aware?

This episode explores the practice of listening to God in the middle of everyday life. Through silence, attentiveness, and continual communion with the Holy Spirit, we learn to move through life with peace instead of hurry, awareness instead of distraction, and response instead of reaction.

Prayer is not meant to be confined to a quiet room or a religious moment. It becomes a thread of communion woven throughout the day — learning to recognize the nearness of God in every moment.

Week 02 - Talking to God - The Prayer Practice

This week's community practice focuses on establishing a daily prayer rhythm, whether starting with 10-15 minutes using the Lord's Prayer or a psalm, or deepening an existing 20-30 minute practice by asking God how to integrate prayer throughout the day.

The example of Nehemiah in chapters 1 and 2 illustrates prayer as a simple, honest conversation with God about life's challenges. Faced with devastating news about Jerusalem's walls, Nehemiah's immediate response was to weep, mourn, fast, and pray, acknowledging God's greatness, confessing sin, and reminding God of His promises

In this teaching from Luke 13, we look at Jesus healing a woman who had been bent over for 18 years and what that moment reveals about the true heart of Sabbath.

Sabbath is not meant to be a religious burden. It is a gift of rest, healing, freedom, delight, and worship. Jesus restores Sabbath by bringing people into wholeness.

This episode invites us to ask what is weighing us down, what lies we may have normalized, and how Jesus is inviting us into deeper rest and freedom.

In this session, we explore the second movement of Sabbath–to rest. The idea of rest sounds wonderful, but in reality, rest is a radical, countercultural act of resistance to the powers and principalities of a world at war with God and his kingdom of peace. To practice Sabbath is to draw a line in the sand against all external (and internal) forces that would encroach upon your apprenticeship to Jesus and formation into his image. It’s to say, “This far you shall go, but no further.” It is to defy some of the most powerful forces known to humanity as an act of non-cooperation done in love for community, for the poor, for the earth, and ultimately for God himself.

Sabbath is a twenty-four hour time period set aside to stop, rest, delight, and worship. It is the best day of the week. In our era of chronic exhaustion, emotional unhealth, and spiritual stagnation, few things are more necessary than the recovery of this ancient practice.

This week at Living Waters, we explored the powerful practice of "witness" – sharing how the living Jesus shows up in our lives. We believe that because Jesus is alive, the church has a unique and vital message to share. These stories build connection, community, empathy, and hope, reminding us that we're not alone and helping us see God's faithfulness in the everyday.

We had the privilege of hearing from Aaron and Justine Brown, long-time members of our community, about their experiences with job loss and the surprising journey it led them on. Their story is a testament to the "upside down" nature of faith, where risk brings peace, turmoil brings rest, and lack brings abundance.

From the garden of Eden to the cross, Scripture tells a story of humanity’s failure and God’s relentless love. What we see on Good Friday is the full weight of sin, shame, and brokenness placed on Him. And yet, for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, scorning its shame.We walk through the biblical story—from creation, to covenant, to Christ—and see how Jesus fulfills every promise, defeats the power of sin and death, and reveals the heart of the Father. The cross is not a story of God turning away, but of God drawing near—reconciling the world to Himself through love.And in the end, we’re left with a question: Which story are you living in? The garden of shame, or the garden of resurrection?This is the good news: Shame is defeated. Love has won. And new creation has begun.