We explore why our spiritual well-being requires the same intentional care as our physical and financial health. Through Scripture and personal testimony, discover how prayer, God’s Word, the Holy Spirit, and Christian community equip us to stand firm, grow in faith, and protect the spiritual health God has given us. 

This message explores how our physical, financial and spiritual health are slowly gained, but can be quickly lost without discipline and intentional care. Through Scripture, practical application, and personal testimony, it challenges us to faithfully steward the bodies, resources and lives God has entrusted to us. 

Similar to the pattern we recognized from Chapter 4 with deliverance and healing, we see in this passage how forgiveness is also very much tethered to healing. May we all experience a measure of grace (forgiveness and healing) as we put our faith in this Word from God.

In this passage, we reflect on Christ's calling of his first disciples and the incredible cost and privilege of obedience.

This message shows how deeply Christ’s ministries of deliverance and healing were—and still are—interwoven. Through God’s Word, prayer, and the Communion sacrament, Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, provides both deliverance and healing.

This section records how Jesus and his ministry received "contempt" in his own hometown, and we talk about what it means to be on both the receiving and giving end of contempt, when God is speaking to us through a familiar vessel. 

Gabe McGinness, our Student Ministries Director, shares a message covering Psalm 23, a beloved psalm attributed to King David. This leads in to our Vacation Bible School theme for this year. Through this message, we reflect on the promises of this psalm.

In 1979, Bob Dylan released a song by this title which (through its lyrics) describes this human reality: You (and I) were created to serve and worship and "it can be the devil or it can be the Lord, but you've got to serve somebody." In this passage, we will see how Satan attempted to get Jesus to serve (and worship) him, by getting Jesus to serve himself. Selfishness is Satanism. We look at how the devil tricks us into breaking God's first command. Then we will respond by intentionally focusing our worship away from ourselves and instead upon the Father, through the Son, by the Holy Spirit.

As we read through the geneaolgy of Christ, we recognize the faith of many ancestors and how God honored and continues to honor that faith in generations up to this very day.

In this section, the prophet John came preaching the Good News that "The Kingdom of Heaven is near!" It was good news because the King was coming in peace, with love, forgiveness, kindness, and incredible generosity. To prepare the people to receive such generosity, John brought a severe message against greed.