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Prayer can feel like a skill you either have or you don't — but Nehemiah's story suggests something different. Standing before a king with everything at stake, he prayed a quick, silent prayer, and it changed everything. Three words — Help, Thanks, Wow — turn out to be more than enough to stay connected to God in the middle of real life.

There's a kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix — the bone-deep weariness that comes from sustained loss, grief, or the weight of something that just won't change. Job knew it, and his words from the middle of that darkness are surprisingly honest, even raw. This week looks at what it means to absorb who God is when you've got nothing left to bring.

Job had already lost everything when his wife told him to give up on God entirely — and somehow he refused.Job had already lost everything when his wife told him to give up on God entirely — and somehow he refused. It's about a man facing the temptation to abandon everything he believed in when he had every reason to — and choosing not to. There are four practical things in this talk that come out of that story.

Bad things happen to good people, and the book of Job doesn't pretend otherwise. But through one man's catastrophic loss, something unexpected emerges — a reason to trust that holds even when everything else doesn't.

There's a daily tug-of-war most of us feel between who we want to be and what we actually do — and Robyn Schad makes the case that willpower alone isn't enough to win it. In this final message of the "Filled with the Spirit" series, she walks through three honest, practical ways to stop living on autopilot and start moving at a different pace.

God fills whatever you bring to him. Being filled with the Holy Spirit isn't a one-time event — it's something you keep coming back to. And it might be the thing that changes everything.

Jesus told the most religious man in the room that he needed to start over — and the same message might be for you. Pastor Joe Wittwer unpacks what it actually means to be spiritually alive, and why no amount of good behavior can get you there on your own.

Most of us believe in the Holy Spirit in theory — but what actually is he, and why does it matter for your everyday life? This talk digs into one of Christianity's most misunderstood ideas, and why you might be making things harder on yourself than they need to be.

The first Easter morning, two women showed up expecting a sealed tomb and found it empty. This is an honest look at why the resurrection still matters — and what it might change in you.

What if the worst day in history was actually an act of love? This week, Pastor Dave walks through the death of Jesus — what really happened on Good Friday, and why it still matters today.