Port Orchard Church of the Nazarene

This week, we were blessed to hear from Dillon Douglas. He spoke from the heart on what it means to imitate God. 1 John 2:6 says that “Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did,” and Jesus lived quite the life, so what does that mean for us?

This week, we were blessed again by our brother Jonathan Krause. Jonathan shared his heart on the value of connecting with church family, drawing from the Bible and his own testimony to illustrate.

This week, Nate Sylling returned to the pulpit to pull apart how Jesus responds to betrayal, hurts, and let-downs. Specifically, he contrasts how Jesus handles these with how the world would handle similar situations.

This week, we were blessed to receive again from one of our worship leaders, Nikki Climer. She spoke from the heart about the hope given to us in Jeremiah 29. In times of uncertainty, hope can be hard to muster up. As it turns out, the solution to this problem can be found in the present.

This week was part three in our series about common bad ideas that interfere with people knowing God. The bad idea for the week is that for some believers, the Bible takes precedent over Jesus. Many will argue that "The Bible says this" when it comes to spiritual matters. However, what ultimately matters is what Jesus says.

This week, Pastor Jerry continued discussing some bad ideas. The topic tackled this week was whether or not we need God to be good.

This week, Pastor Jerry began a new series that focuses on some common bad ideas that interfere with people knowing God. This week's bad idea is that God is male. The problem Pastor Jerry has with this idea is that it has been used throughout history to justify horrific attitudes toward feminine ideals, and even toward women themselves.

This week, Pastor Jerry finished his series on the New Covenant. In Galatians 3, the apostle Paul shares how shocked he is that the churches in Galatia have started to mix the gospel of Jesus with the Law of Moses. This led to often damaging extremes of either lawlessness or hyper

This week, Pastor Jerry continued discussing the New Covenant, focusing on the disciples. Considering that Jesus "...had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him," according to Isaiah 53:2, it seems unusual that the disciples would drop everything to follow Him. So what was it about Jesus that drew others to Him? Pastor Jerry explores it in this week's message.

This week, we were blessed to be joined again by Andre Rabe. His topics emphasized how important it is to get other perspectives when coming to conclusions about the Gospel. After all, Jesus Himself offered different views of scripture than many theologians of the day. As Jesus revealed, scripture is often more positive than it may look at first glance.