Grassroots Messages

Jonah, terrible prophet, great life lesson. This week we begin a 4-week sermon series on the Book of Jonah. Who was Jonah, what is the book of Jonah, and what can this book teach us about God's grace and mercy? These are some of the questions we will be working to answer in the next 4 weeks.

Scripture begins with a lengthy introduction to Humanity. 11 chapters to be exact. We see destruction, corruption, and significant amounts of evil in this introduction. After God creates a perfect and beautiful creation, humanity chooses their will over Gods. And right when it seems that God has about had it with humanity, along comes a man named Abraham. And the story of redemption, love, and salvation begins. 

We are all called by Christ to advance the Gospel and the Kingdom of God. Yet often we don't realize what that call truly means for our lives. We know we are called, but we don't know how to respond, or we think we are called to one thing when Christ has something even greater in store for our lives. This week new lead pastor, Evan Savage, tells his story and how he responded to God's call on his life.

As we enter into a new chapter in Grassroots' history, we take a look at our responsibilities as a church and an eclectic community of believers. With a new pastor in place (Evan Savage), Matt explains that the job of pouring into our community is not Evan's alone. It takes each and every one of us to join hand and make an impact on our mission field.

Jesus’ birth interrupted peoples’ lives.  But how people responded to that interruption varied greatly.  We will look at how God is constantly trying to interrupt our lives and how we respond.

How do we make room for others in our thoughts, conversations, families, home, and church? How do we make room for God? Understanding the significance of creating margin is often far more important than we tend to realize.

What does radical hospitality truly mean? What does it look like to believe in others when no one else will (including themselves)?

Radical Hospitality means welcoming others, being kind and generous toward them, investing in and encouraging them while shifting our focus away from our own self-centeredness and toward the needs and lives of other people.

This week we learn about believing in others as an expression of radical hospitality. Believing in people when no one else will (including themselves), or when they’re different/marginalized/etc. Believing in people under these circumstances because God believes in us and because of the goodness He has inherently created in all of us.

Tiffany Staman teaches about gratitude, and how making room to pause and reflect changes the way we view our lives.

Do you REALLY have faith? Not just "belief" in something, but faith that causes true life change. Guest speaker, Evan Savage, explores some of the common misconceptions of faith. As we dig deeper into this Evan's reflection on a few personal situations in the past few months.

Pain at times is unavoidable. We struggle through it, blame and question God, beg for answers so we can fix it. No matter why it happens, we need to keep in mind that the way we approach God in our pain matters. This week Matt Nyberg teaches about faith within pain and how pain can, more times than not, be the catalyst of movement to something greater than us.