In this second message in the series Pastor Fran talks about how beginning in childhood the wounds inflicted by others steal our joy, making the world feel unsafe and getting us to believe lies about ourselves, and shares some clues about how we can find the road to healing and joy.

Pastor Fran begins a new series about seeing over overcoming the obstacles to our joy. In this message, he explores what the New Testament says about joy and how it compares to our cultural notions of happiness.

Today David Larson teaches the good news of God's disposition toward us through the story of the Prodigal Son.

This is the audio version of the information and vision shared at LifeSpring Church on February 27th.

Today Pastor Fran teaches from Luke 5 where Jesus tells us that putting his new wine into our old wineskins will never work. To go with Jesus into his new way of seeing, being, living, and loving we'll have to question some of our assumptions and perspectives, but the result will be the best "wine" we've had in our hearts and lives yet.

This morning Pastor Fran teaches from Luke 4 where Jesus reads from Isaiah in the synagogue in his home town, and speaks about how easy it is to give lip service to love, yet regard people as "the unacceptable other" and disdain them.  Christians do it all the time, considering ourselves righteous but never recognizing our failure to see the image of God in all people.

Pastor Fran Teaches about the temptations Jesus was offered in the wilderness, and how these same ideas become the distortions that lead us into a shallow Christian faith... and how the real salvation is something deeper, more transforming, and more life-giving.

David Larson explores the beautiful mystery of the Holy Spirit, and how the Spirit dwells in us and works in us.

In this sermon, Pastor Fran deconstructs a lot of our ideas about the church and illuminates a more New Testament, Jesus-centered picture of what the church community really is.

This morning Pastor Fran explores the mystery of suffering, how none of us escapes it, where God is in it, and where hope lies in the midst of it.