Welcome to our Monday Morning Podcast!  In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen invites us to think of people who have demonstrated characteristics of graciousness, holiness, caring, and equipping in our lives.

Welcome to the Sunday Sermon Podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Matt looks at the ways we are called and marked by God.  Salvation includes living out Jesus' instructions.  That is why there is so much time dedicated to instruction on how to live in the gospels.  Being complete in love must include giving of ourselves.  To act on our values is an active choice we make.  The thing people need from the Church and from Christians is to see Jesus.  Do you live in a way that shows Christ?

Welcome to our Monday Morning Podcast!  In this episode, Pastor Matt asks, what is the good news we proclaim as church and followers of Jesus?  Is this good news to us and to others?  Do we all need to be doing the exact same thing to be living into the "good news?"  Is the "good news" we claim reflected in how we live our lives?

Welcome to our Sunday Sermon Podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen shares we are a people of practice.  We are called to new life in Christ that is shared with others. the effect of our faith should be evident ot others.  If you are on a sports team or play an instrument and you never practice, do you get better?  We need to practice our faith and being like Jesus.

Please note, Jo Ellen's mic cuts out around the 23:11 mark.  We apologize for this inconvenience.

Welcome to our Monday podcast!  In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen encourages to think about how we will live out our practices of faith in the new year.  Jesus calls us to live into our faith that is real, vital and growing.  Discipleship takes work and preparation, it's not a passive thing.

Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Matt asks, "How are you growing like Jesus or closer to Jesus?  How are you 'growing up' in your salvation?"  Salvation is not a one and done event.  It is a lifelong journey that Jesus calls us to.

Welcome to our Monday Podcast!  In this episode, Pastor Matt share a little bit about the future of this podcast and the reason behind the change in the release date.  He asks, how can we live so that we might be most fully shaped by Jesus?  How are we following Jesus?

Welcome to our podcast!  This is our Christmas Eve service from 2025.  Pastor Matt looks at the Polar Express and ponders how hard it can be to believe.  The trouble isn't believing that Jesus was born, the trouble is believing Jesus' birth makes a livable difference in our lives.  At Christmas, God gives of God's self by giving us Jesus who is the light of the world who guides us to live in unity with God.  Belief isn't a mental exercise, it's a light that shapes our living.  Jesus, the light and life of God, persistently shows up before we feel we holy enough.  Grace comes before we are ready.  Belief isn't pretending that life is fine, it is choosing to live by the light that has already dawned.

Merry Christmas!  In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen reads the Christmas Story from Luke 2 and shares a special Christmas blessing to you and yours.

Welcome to the Sunday Sermon podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Matt looks at "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and asks if we ever feel melancholy at Christmas time?  Of if Christmas has ever felt "not like Christmas" before?  God gives of God's self in Jesus to give us courage to live in the melancholy and uncertainty of life.  We are never alone, for God is always with us.