New Life Downtown

How do we actually join God in His work? It's easy to feel like our lives are too small, too insignificant, too invisible to matter. Yet the God who saw David, sees us. Preaching from 1 Samuel 16, Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us discover how we can participate in God's purpose with God's power.

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David's Anointing

How do we actually join God in His work? It's easy to feel like our lives are too small, too insignificant, too invisible to matter. Yet the God who saw David, sees us. Preaching from 1 Samuel 16, Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us discover how we can participate in God's purpose with God's power.

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David's Anointing

Loneliness seems to be on the rise, even in our age of connectedness. But our need for a faithful friend has not changed. Preaching from 1 Samuel 14 about Jonathan's armor-bearer, Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us see our deep need for friends we can trust, friends who know us and trust us, and friends will join us in the fight. Yet friendship alone is not enough. We need friends who will move us toward friendship with Jesus.

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Jonathan's Battle

Loneliness seems to be on the rise, even in our age of connectedness. But our need for a faithful friend has not changed. Preaching from 1 Samuel 14 about Jonathan's armor-bearer, Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us see our deep need for friends we can trust, friends who know us and trust us, and friends will join us in the fight. Yet friendship alone is not enough. We need friends who will move us toward friendship with Jesus.

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Jonathan's Battle

Loneliness seems to be on the rise, even in our age of connectedness. But our need for a faithful friend has not changed. Preaching from 1 Samuel 14 about Jonathan's armor-bearer, Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us see our deep need for friends we can trust, friends who know us and trust us, and friends will join us in the fight. Yet friendship alone is not enough. We need friends who will move us toward friendship with Jesus.

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Jonathan's Battle

Power often creates problems. The culture around us wants to solve this by eliminating power and flattening out structures. In the story of Saul's failure, Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us notice the ways that Saul mismanaged his power. When we mistake our identity, we mishandle our authority. Yet the Gospel reshapes power by pointing us to its source and its purpose.

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Saul's Failure

Power often creates problems. The culture around us wants to solve this by eliminating power and flattening out structures. In the story of Saul's failure, Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us notice the ways that Saul mismanaged his power. When we mistake our identity, we mishandle our authority. Yet the Gospel reshapes power by pointing us to its source and its purpose.

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Saul's Failure

Power often creates problems. The culture around us wants to solve this by eliminating power and flattening out structures. In the story of Saul's failure, Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us notice the ways that Saul mismanaged his power. When we mistake our identity, we mishandle our authority. Yet the Gospel reshapes power by pointing us to its source and its purpose.

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Saul's Failure

Israel insists on having a king - a demand that was a rejection of God and that would not lead to their own good. Teaching from 1 Samuel 8-10, Pastor Glenn Packiam shows how God sometimes gives in to our demands to let us see where that road leads. And yet, even then, God does not give up on us. God is able to redeem even our worst mistakes and get the story back on track.

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Israel's Foolish Demand

Israel insists on having a king - a demand that was a rejection of God and that would not lead to their own good. Teaching from 1 Samuel 8-10, Pastor Glenn Packiam shows how God sometimes gives in to our demands to let us see where that road leads. And yet, even then, God does not give up on us. God is able to redeem even our worst mistakes and get the story back on track.

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Israel's Foolish Demand