Port Orchard Church of the Nazarene

During our Global Legacy Northwest conference, we had the honor of hosting Paul Manwaring from Bethel Church. In his message, Paul emphasized the meaning of culture, including how it works and how what we believe can impact our culture for better or for worse.

During our recent Global Legacy Pacific Northwest Regional Conference, we were happy to welcome back Rod Williams. Rod spoke about his life and the ultimate goal of Christianity, which is not just to come into a greater awareness of our relationship with God, but to see Him more clearly. After all, he says, were originally created in God’s image; we just forgot somewhere along the way, which is why Jesus came along to remind us. Rod does warn us, however, that as we get a clearer view of the Father, we just might start seeing more signs, wonders, and miracles along the way!

Everyone has relationships. Pastor Jerry shared some ideas today for a practical guide to relating like Jesus. He pointed out that good communication is rewarded with more Righteousness, Peace & Joy

Continuing with the series called Smart Hearts, Pastor Jerry spoke about emotional intelligence in relationships. He shared the idea of how to reign over your brain, how to control what goes on in your brain - to think responsibly!

Pastor Jerry began a new series this week on emotional intelligence and the role it plays in our relationships. He spoke about the role Jesus plays in our relationships and the importance of resourcing from Him to meet our need for love. Here’s the truth: we are designed for union with God.

Pastor Jerry shared his thoughts on how two scriptures have been misinterpreted and misapplied, causing immeasurable harm to God's kingdom and His reputation! This has helped create one of the biggest idols in American culture and the Christian church - violence. In Jesus kingdom there is NO off button to the love button. God loves like the sun shines and the rain falls. The kingdom is who we are.

We've been talking about faith and doubt. Many friends misunderstand faith as 100% certainty. It misconstrues Salvation as requiring you to make yourself more certain than you really can be.To actually believe in something, we must wrestle with whether it is true or not. It's always important to read every passage in the context of the whole bible. Faith starts where belief ends.

The topic of faith and doubt is one every Christian should revisit from time to time. There is a common view of faith that we believe is unhealthy. We call this view of faith the Strength-Tester model of faith. It resembles the carnival game where a person swings a big mallet and hits the target to make the puck fly up a pole toward the top to ring a bell. True faith isn’t trying to convince yourself you’re right. Truth means to uncover. The more we uncover ourselves to God the more He unveils himself to us!

In this message, Pastor Jerry talks about the wonder of life and how it relates to Heaven. As Jesus explains in Matthew 18, those who are childlike will be the ones to enter the Kingdom. While there are many aspects of children that adults could learn from, Pastor Jerry focused in on their sense of wonder. After all, children are born wondering, yet by the time they finish high school that sense of wonder seems to be gone from most of them.

This week, Pastor Jerry continued on with the 'Twisted Scripture' series. He focused in specifically on the Book of Job. As Pastor Jerry points out, the Book of Job may have questionable historical roots, but regardless of whether it's historical or strictly poetic, plenty of things could be misinterpreted depending on how well you keep things in context.