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Week four of A Reason For Hope focuses on the topic of Peace.
As a peacemaker, you have been given the raw materials to make something new. Because of our hope in Jesus, you can go and make peace by sowing and cultivating peace in your life.

What about the moments where peace feels miles away and everything in your life feels like it's in turmoil and chaos? Today we see that, while you're longing for change and peace in your circumstances, "peace isn't the absence of something. It's the presence of someone".

Go ahead and watch today's teaching to hear how Jesus can provide you with the ultimate hope of peace, even amongst the chaos. 

For our 3rd week of our Advent series, A Reason For Hope, we discuss the Hope of Joy that is given through Jesus. The things that happen around you shouldn't dictate the joy that you have. Because of the birth and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus, we can have great joy no matter the circumstances that we face.

Joy starts internally and translates externally. When you walk with the spirit of God, joy can't help but to abound in all that you do. Tune in today to hear more about how you can have the ultimate joy, even amongst the chaos of your circumstances.

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In week two of our Advent series, A Reason For Hope, we lean into the period of waiting that took place while anticipating the arrival of Jesus. In today's teaching, we turn to the Bible to see how waiting is actually an act of love that God has given to us.

Waiting is never void of tension and we live in a culture that tells us that the act of hurrying and receiving instant results are far better than waiting. But what if the tension of waiting is actually designed by God, out of love, to give you a fresh experience and perspective while you're in the waiting. Check out today's message to hear how you can be confident that God is up to something, while you're in the waiting.

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A Reason for Hope - Week 1

This week we launch our new series, "A Reason For Hope". In this series, we focus on the season of advent; looking both behind us and in front of us with anticipation of the arrival of Jesus. In this season, we have a reason for the hope that we have.

Today we are focusing on having gratitude in the present and hope for the future because of the truth from the past. Watch today's teaching to hear about the ways that both gratitude and thanksgiving through prayer can help us in this season of advent and preparation.

In a culture that is surrounded by noise, we are invited to make it our ambition to lead a quiet soul, which is the result of a quiet life. How is it that we are to enter into a tranquil, calm, quiet life? That is exactly what Pastor Ron talks about in his teaching titled, "A Quiet Life".

In this season of life, it's easy to find ourselves busy and distracted from the things that God has placed before us. This week we identify the reason why God has called us to live a life void of busyness and the ways that we can stay on the path that has been placed before us. Tune in today to hear how you can take action and make it your ambition to live a quiet life.

We are greatly encouraged today as we face our fears and run towards them, knowing that God is with us and that God is for us. Today Pastor John walks us through the character and nature of God. As we read about who God says that he is, we can better understand the God who is walking with us, even as we face our fears.

Because of the character of God and because he is the foundation of our faith, we can confidently walk forward knowing that God by our side. This is the God that you can run towards your fears with. 

In today's message, we turn our focus towards recognizing our sin and creating a space to allow for intentional time with God. 

Pastor John dives into the book of Exodus to walk through the life of Moses. We find that even when he was deep into the wilderness, God showed up and God found him right where he was at, despite the battles that he has faced or the bondages he was enslaved to. 

To hear more about how you can find the presence of God where you're at and to be intentional in your time with him, check out this week's message. 

In today's teaching we ask the question, "If we were to take our cues from Jesus, then how would we disciple someone else?". This is exactly what Pastor Ron discusses as he wraps up our current teaching series, The Way of the Apprentice. We are challenged and inspired by this timely and practical message that walks us through John 13 & John 14. As we analyze the actions and words of Jesus, we see ways that we can be imitators of Christ and how we can disciple others around us.

Pastor Ron then opened a conversation around what his steps following Jesus are looking like right now and going forward. Pastor Mike also shared about how God is stirring him toward stepping out in obedience. Our time together today was huge in the life of our church. Pastor John and the Elders joined the stage as Pastor's Ron and Mike shared about where God is leading. To watch our family update and to hear about whats coming next for Pastor Ron and Mike, check out the video below!

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In the second to last week of the series, The Ways of the Apprentice, Pastor John leads us through a conversation that addresses our inclination of viewing people through a lense that chategorizes us from them. We begin to transition our mindset from having a divided mentality to seeing the humanity in people the way that God sees the humanity in people. 

We are challenged this week to set our heart on things above and to gain a heavenly perspective. In doing so, we begin to change our mindset from viewing people as being against us to being collectively for God. We as a people exist to encounter Jesus, to engage in our faith with Jesus and to empower other people to go and do the same.

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"One of the core essential things about being disciples of Jesus is that they GO they make other disciples".

We have made it to week seven of the series, The Ways of the Apprentice, and we are LOVING this series. We've spent the last six weeks discussing different perspectives of being an apprentice of Jesus and now it's time to help others be discipled within their relation with Christ. 

Pastor Ron discusses 3 practical ways that we can be makers of disciples. In these steps we see the importance of sharing the truth and hope of Jesus to those around us in our everyday lives. Today we are commissioned to GO and are left with the question, "who are you discipling and who is discipling you?".