Hope Unveiled

The Holy Spirit is not a force, a feeling, or an atmosphere. He is God, present with us, and He wants to be known.

Life in the Spirit is an eight-week series on who the Holy Spirit is and what it looks like to actually live with Him. Over eight weeks we walk through knowing Him, receiving His work, being empowered by Him, staying full, learning to hear His leading, discovering what He has given us to contribute, stepping into the supernatural, and living sent.

Every week comes back to the same question: what difference does this make? Not just in a Sunday service, but in your car, at your desk, in the middle of a hard conversation. The goal is not that you would know more about the Holy Spirit. It is that you would know Him, rely on Him, recognize His leading, and carry His presence and power everywhere you go.

The Holy Spirit is not a force, a feeling, or an atmosphere. He is God, present with us, and He wants to be known.

Life in the Spirit is an eight-week series on who the Holy Spirit is and what it looks like to actually live with Him. Over eight weeks we walk through knowing Him, receiving His work, being empowered by Him, staying full, learning to hear His leading, discovering what He has given us to contribute, stepping into the supernatural, and living sent.

Every week comes back to the same question: what difference does this make? Not just in a Sunday service, but in your car, at your desk, in the middle of a hard conversation. The goal is not that you would know more about the Holy Spirit. It is that you would know Him, rely on Him, recognize His leading, and carry His presence and power everywhere you go.

The Holy Spirit is not a force, a feeling, or an atmosphere. He is God, present with us, and He wants to be known.

Life in the Spirit is an eight-week series on who the Holy Spirit is and what it looks like to actually live with Him. Over eight weeks we walk through knowing Him, receiving His work, being empowered by Him, staying full, learning to hear His leading, discovering what He has given us to contribute, stepping into the supernatural, and living sent.

Every week comes back to the same question: what difference does this make? Not just in a Sunday service, but in your car, at your desk, in the middle of a hard conversation. The goal is not that you would know more about the Holy Spirit. It is that you would know Him, rely on Him, recognize His leading, and carry His presence and power everywhere you go.

The Holy Spirit is not a force, a feeling, or an atmosphere. He is God, present with us, and He wants to be known.

Life in the Spirit is an eight-week series on who the Holy Spirit is and what it looks like to actually live with Him. Over eight weeks we walk through knowing Him, receiving His work, being empowered by Him, staying full, learning to hear His leading, discovering what He has given us to contribute, stepping into the supernatural, and living sent.

Every week comes back to the same question: what difference does this make? Not just in a Sunday service, but in your car, at your desk, in the middle of a hard conversation. The goal is not that you would know more about the Holy Spirit. It is that you would know Him, rely on Him, recognize His leading, and carry His presence and power everywhere you go.

The Holy Spirit is not a force, a feeling, or an atmosphere. He is God, present with us, and He wants to be known.Life in the Spirit is an eight-week series on who the Holy Spirit is and what it looks like to actually live with Him. Over eight weeks we walk through knowing Him, receiving His work, being empowered by Him, staying full, learning to hear His leading, discovering what He has given us to contribute, stepping into the supernatural, and living sent.Every week comes back to the same question: what difference does this make? Not just in a Sunday service, but in your car, at your desk, in the middle of a hard conversation. The goal is not that you would know more about the Holy Spirit. It is that you would know Him, rely on Him, recognize His leading, and carry His presence and power everywhere you go.

The Holy Spirit is not a force, a feeling, or an atmosphere. He is God, present with us, and He wants to be known.Life in the Spirit is an eight-week series on who the Holy Spirit is and what it looks like to actually live with Him. Over eight weeks we walk through knowing Him, receiving His work, being empowered by Him, staying full, learning to hear His leading, discovering what He has given us to contribute, stepping into the supernatural, and living sent.Every week comes back to the same question: what difference does this make? Not just in a Sunday service, but in your car, at your desk, in the middle of a hard conversation. The goal is not that you would know more about the Holy Spirit. It is that you would know Him, rely on Him, recognize His leading, and carry His presence and power everywhere you go.

Seasons in the kingdom do not shift because a store changes its displays or a coffee shop releases a fall drink. They shift because Jesus is doing something. Preaching from 1 Chronicles 12, Pastor Chris looks at the sons of Issachar, the tribe remembered for understanding the times and knowing what Israel ought to do, and asks what it looks like to recognize a shift and move with it.

Three levels are in view: what God is doing across his global church, what he is doing at Sonrise, and what he is doing in your own faith.

Some things leave a mark. Spend enough time with a close friend and you start borrowing their expressions. Live somewhere long enough and it changes how you talk, what you eat, how you see the world. Whatever we stay near has a way of rubbing off on us.

The same is true of God.

In Acts 4, the religious leaders couldn't make sense of Peter and John. They were ordinary men with no formal training, yet there was something about them that couldn't be ignored or explained away. The only conclusion anyone could reach was that these men had been with Jesus. Time in his presence had marked them, and everyone could see it.

This summer at Sonrise Church, we're exploring what it means to live a marked life. Marked by the presence of God. Marked by prayer. Marked by consecration. Marked by mission. These aren't just sermon topics; they're the practices of a life spent close to Jesus, and they change everything they touch.

Our hope this summer is simple: that we would be a people who have so clearly been with Jesus that no other explanation makes sense.

Some things leave a mark. Spend enough time with a close friend and you start borrowing their expressions. Live somewhere long enough and it changes how you talk, what you eat, how you see the world. Whatever we stay near has a way of rubbing off on us.

The same is true of God.

In Acts 4, the religious leaders couldn't make sense of Peter and John. They were ordinary men with no formal training, yet there was something about them that couldn't be ignored or explained away. The only conclusion anyone could reach was that these men had been with Jesus. Time in his presence had marked them, and everyone could see it.

This summer at Sonrise Church, we're exploring what it means to live a marked life. Marked by the presence of God. Marked by prayer. Marked by consecration. Marked by mission. These aren't just sermon topics; they're the practices of a life spent close to Jesus, and they change everything they touch.

Our hope this summer is simple: that we would be a people who have so clearly been with Jesus that no other explanation makes sense.

Some things leave a mark. Spend enough time with a close friend and you start borrowing their expressions. Live somewhere long enough and it changes how you talk, what you eat, how you see the world. Whatever we stay near has a way of rubbing off on us.

The same is true of God.

In Acts 4, the religious leaders couldn't make sense of Peter and John. They were ordinary men with no formal training, yet there was something about them that couldn't be ignored or explained away. The only conclusion anyone could reach was that these men had been with Jesus. Time in his presence had marked them, and everyone could see it.

This summer at Sonrise Church, we're exploring what it means to live a marked life. Marked by the presence of God. Marked by prayer. Marked by consecration. Marked by mission. These aren't just sermon topics; they're the practices of a life spent close to Jesus, and they change everything they touch.

Our hope this summer is simple: that we would be a people who have so clearly been with Jesus that no other explanation makes sense.